[Stan brings him in and Dipper just throws his arms around him and lets it all out, burying his face in his coat. It's a way more cathartic cry this time than the one he had when he saw Stan again.]
[Nothing was going to change the past, and he can't undo what he's already done. He isn't so sure if he would if given the option, because in spite of everything, it had been the right action to take, that he still believes, but ...]
[But for this moment, where it's just them and the world is frozen around him, he can grieve and be unhappy about the situation. He can be upset that he had to make the choice, and he can acknowledge how unfair it was, and that Stan is there to agree with him, and lay it out in front of him as a matter of course. It hadn't been fair, but life wasn't fair. That doesn't mean Dipper has to carry on like there's nothing he can do about it. He doesn't have to accept that he should just get used to it. All of this is proof that he doesn't want to become that sort of person, and that maybe he's still too young to even worry about that at all.]
[Stan's here now, so maybe he doesn't have to keep trying so hard to be an adult. He can put it off just a little bit longer.]
That's why...
[He pulls away, finally, voice hoarse and shaky.]
S'why I asked for PV to teach me healing magic. I didn't want this to happen again.
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[Nothing was going to change the past, and he can't undo what he's already done. He isn't so sure if he would if given the option, because in spite of everything, it had been the right action to take, that he still believes, but ...]
[But for this moment, where it's just them and the world is frozen around him, he can grieve and be unhappy about the situation. He can be upset that he had to make the choice, and he can acknowledge how unfair it was, and that Stan is there to agree with him, and lay it out in front of him as a matter of course. It hadn't been fair, but life wasn't fair. That doesn't mean Dipper has to carry on like there's nothing he can do about it. He doesn't have to accept that he should just get used to it. All of this is proof that he doesn't want to become that sort of person, and that maybe he's still too young to even worry about that at all.]
[Stan's here now, so maybe he doesn't have to keep trying so hard to be an adult. He can put it off just a little bit longer.]
That's why...
[He pulls away, finally, voice hoarse and shaky.]
S'why I asked for PV to teach me healing magic. I didn't want this to happen again.