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After a few weeks at the Mystery Shack, Danny was comfortably settled in, even working shifts in the giftshop. He heard a few stray whispers about him, but rumors were bound to happen, and he knew if he kicked up a fuss it would only make things worse - he’d been down that path before.
He went ‘adventuring’ with Dipper - partially for his hero complex, partially to learn more about the specific supernatural entities of the town - checking up on friends, making diplomatic decisions, gathering supplies for spells or potions, those sort of things. He particularly liked Dipper’s visits to Multibear, they were a lot more calm then some of the situations they found themselves in.
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"Jesus, Dipper!" Yelled Danny as he leapt over another root, "What did you do to piss the gnomes off this much?!"
"They kidnapped my sister!" The human cried back incredulously.
"That doesn't answer my question!" The halfa called back, a bit irritated at having to run for his life on a 'routine ingredient run.' They had managed to keep the little men from forming the not-so-little creature Dipper had dubbed 'Gnomezilla' by running through the thick forest, but that didn't stop, or even slow, the angry horde of forest gnomes.
"They kidnapped my sister, I saved her, they tried to kill us. They probably want to finish the job!"
Danny slowed to a stop at that, startling the creatures chasing them into stopping as well.
"Let's get this straight," the half-ghost spoke loud enough for the gnomes behind him to hear, turning around and releasing a wave of energy that chilled all that felt it in fear and awe, "you don't touch this human. Am I clear?"
The tiny bearded men shifted in discomfort, a few of the more cowardly ones scurrying away.
"I said," another wave of energy, "are we clear?" and all of the forest creatures bolted in the opposite direction.
Danny turned back towards Dipper just in time to see the human flinch, and his face softened, the electric green glow in his eyes fading.
"What the fuck was that?" Dipper practically breathed.
"What do you mean?"
"It was like, you sent out this wave, and you forced me to feel fear, and awe." Danny perked up.
"That sounds like a Haunting Aura, but only the strongest of-" suddenly the hybrid groaned, "of freaking corse."
"What?" The brunette asked.
"Nothing, would give it away."
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Dipper was getting closer to figuring out what Danny’s other half was, asking questions constantly. As time wore on, Danny was finding he was getting more and more amused by the human’s questions. It was hard to get exasperated with that face.
One morning in particular, with the three of them watching TV while eating breakfast, Dipper whispering questions to him every commercial break, showed just how settled in Danny had become, and Bill… Well, Bill had this way of cutting through the bullshit. The other two liked to think it was his way of spending as much time doing fun things with them as possible, a sort of ‘We only have so much time together!’ but in reality it was probably because he cared little about others feelings, and would cut straight to the point where he benefited. It was a demon thing. So when Bill blurted something it didn’t surprise Danny much, he just mentally strapped on his seatbelt and got ready for change.
“It’s just as we’ve always wanted, Pine Tree!” Dipper looked confused for a moment before facepalming, “No, no Bill, we aren’t- we aren’t actually-”
“What does he mean by that?” Danny decided to ask, because when Dipper got this exasperated with Bill it was best to get context so he could act as mediator.
“We’ve been looking for a good person to complete a triad, but - Bill, we aren’t actually dating Danny,”
“Why not?” the halfa interrupted, earning a very intelligent sounding ‘huh?’ from the brunette, “I’m willing to try dating you two… my, other species, have never been much for monogamy anyway. Besides, if we’re being honest to ourselves, we pretty much act like we’re dating anyway.”
“... I’m never getting normal boyfriends, am I?”
“Was that something you wanted?”
“... Would have been boring anyway.”
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“You’re half-werewolf, aren't you?”
“Nope, Although funny you would say that, I once had a friend that was a werewolf, he only spoke Esperanto…”
“... I’d ask, but… I’m not sure if I want to know.”
“Vi vere ne.”