[Gravity Falls] the same lie I tell myself (Gideon gen)

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Title: the same lie I tell myself
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Length: 220 words
Prompt: Gravity Falls fic battle: Gideon, in the beginning
Pairing: Gideon gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: His dad tied his first bolero tie. By the time he was seven, Gideon was running the business himself.

Gideon was five when his dad told him he was psychic. Gideon had a lisp, which made pronouncing psychic difficult.

"What does that mean?" he asked his dad, who grinned.

"Means you know everything," his dad answered. "Don't worry, I'll tell you what to say. You're just too cute for us to miss this opportunity!"

His dad tied his first bolero tie. By the time he was seven, Gideon was running the business himself.

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He found the journal a few months before the Pine children arrived, and at first he didn't understand it at all. He'd been looking for his Christmas presents and found it in the top of his parents' closet underneath his baby photos.

It was old and dusty and filled with weird diagrams. But the more Gideon read, the more intrigued he became, especially when he started trying spells, and they worked. Then he found the amulet, and it worked even better.

He installed cameras all across Gravity Falls, telling Bud that it was to help his psychic act. Really, it was to find the other journals. He didn't have #1, so there must be at least one other. He wanted it, he wanted it more than anything in the world.

And whatever Gideon wanted, he was getting. He also got his Christmas presents two weeks early.