Sorry for the interrupting of my last fiction with the Lemongrabs and PB (Grown Up). As usual a very little idea popped up my head and i have to write it down before it vanished again :D.

This story is playing shortly after Lemonhope Part 1 and 2 after LG got sewn back together by PB. LG 3 is all alone and frightened, kept in prison in his own castly by Princess Bubblegum. For his own safety the princess said but everyone knew that there was a totally different reason for this, sadly LG3s current mentally state didnt allowed him to understand anything of this. So in the beliefe his mother/creator means the best for him he stay put, waiting for things to happen. He is putted under heavy narcotics and gots secured in his bed at night with handcuffs.

But one faithful day the banana guards who now patrolled around Castle Lemongrab were unattentive and so LG3 was able to escape. As he strived through Ooo he soon met a certain little yellow elephant and for the first time in his newly sewn together life he maybe found a place where he could be himself, happy and not restrained and holded back like a chained dog.

Will have multiple chapters i think.

Rated T for really emotional and heavy stuff. R and R as always folks and no worry, the next part of my fiction comes soon :3

Being Myself!

Chapter 1

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A few weeks after Lemonhope had free his people from the iron grip of Fat Lemongrab everything in Ooo was going its usual way, well nearly everything...The castle where the final battle was fought is now under heavy security. An order from Princess Bubblegum to avoid any further problems. From the sadistic, fat and cruel Lemongrab was not much left however, sewn together from pieces of his twin brother and several other lemon people he was in a horrendous state, mentally as well physically. His mind was currently pretty child-like and he was confused nearly all the time, about his situation and just everything that surrounded him. In the first days he tried to cling up to Bubblegum like a frightened puppy, not leaving her side when she was visiting him bringing his medication and books. The princess was fully aware of his desperate state now and decided to take this in her favour.

At the beginning he cried a lot and Bubblegum had to console him more then one time, on her own way of course, with narcotics and heavy sedativa, a common treatment for mentally ill people as the princess described her failed creation. Left alone at night he would scream himself to sleep and when he woke up the next morning he desperately searched for a sign of his creator, his beloved mother princess. But her visits were rare and short-lifed. He was always told it was his own fault that he suffered like that and in his naive state he believed every word of it.

One night were his nightmares became too overbearing for him he ripped himself off the restrains and runned for his dear life only to get greeted by the Banana Guards who quickly sedated him again, pinning him down in his bed again.

This was basically his life and it was horrible.

After another fit two days ago Bubblegum doubled the dosis of the sedativa and injected it LG3 in a very cruel manner, making him scream in pain. Of course soon it was over and the screams toned down followed by a defeated sigh, he slipped into a comatous state again, slumping down on a hover chair like device. It had cuffs on each arm side to held him secure.

Watching her creation like that made PB cringe innerly but she knew it was all just for his best, or at least she thought so. As the princess cleaned up the drool that came out of LGs mouth after sedating him she patted his head softly, kissing his forehead slightly. A rare sight for sure, too bad he will never knew it.

"Guards, take a close eye on him now and put him in bed, i will send over Nurse pound-cake for his I.V. line. Watch that he is not able to escape his restrainments, you hear me?" The princess left the castle in a hurry, she had two meetings to attend today and time was precious for the kingdom and herself.

Listening to their masters orders the guards brought LG3 in his room, securing him on his arms and legs and put on safety rails at each side of the bed for maximum security as Bubblegum wanted it. A glimpse of pity was seen in their faces but they were not able to ignore PBs orders or else their own life would be done for.

Two days later:

Lemongrab 3 sat on a bench outside of his castle under the carefully eyes of the Banana Guards. He was watching some birds playing in the air happily flapping with their wings in such a manner that it totally fascinated him. The voices he heard inside his head also stopped for a while by now which made him happy too. He hated this voices because they said such awful things to him, it frightened him.

Today were also two new guards in service and their shift would begin any minute. They were new and pretty naive too, much too friendly someone would say...The first look they got on LG3 was pretty nice though, they could not imagine him being dangerous at all but didnt said it out loud of course, glob knows what would happen if something like this slipped off their lips.

Taking over the shift from two other guards they smiled at Lemongrab and patted his shoulder reassuring. He also smiled and hugged both creatures in return. They started a friendly conversation and soon the theme of freedom came to speak. Lemongrab told them about his many dreams and sufferings he had to indure all the time and how much he wished for something like happiness for once. Banana Guard 1 was touched by his genuine words and started to wonder if he really is that dangerous. His only wish was to be happy and free for a while! Who would not want this?

Banana Guard 2 was also touched and in his banana shaped head an idea forms.

""What about we say someone sneaked inside the castle and kidnapped you Lemongrab!? It sure would be a start in your freedom attitude!."

"Yeah how about it? We really like you and don't think you're that dangerous anyway. We will cover you, promised!"

"Y...you would do this for me?" In Lemongrabs eyes a spark of hope came up and happily he agreed to their plan. Soon it was in motion and the guards freed LG3 from his restrains wishing him good luck.

Waving towards the guards LG smiled all the way and soon he left the candy woods, striving through the backland of Ooo.

"What are we doing if anyone comes behind this whole scheme? We are dead for sure..."

"Come on, we promised him to keep this a secret, no one has to know the truth, got me?"

"Alright, lets just keep calm...until the next shift arrives..."

"Easier said as done dude.."

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Lemongrab listened to all the birds and surroundings, it was all new to him and at the same time eerily familiar...ignoring the feeling of confusion once again he would cost out every minute he got in freedom. He only hoped Princess Bubblegum would be not that mad with him...

Half an hour later he came to a little house which had a wonderful apple garden in front of it. Out of the chimney cames a smell so wonderful Lemongrab nearly lost his mind. It smelled after apples and pies, an applepie!

Curiously nearing the house in awe he jumped up high as out of sudden the door was opened and two individuals came out of the house laughing and their cheeks full of delicious gooey applepie. Quickly LG hid behind some rose bushes on the left side, sighing in relief. Those two...LG knew them, the boy with the white hat is called Finn and was a good friend of his creator/mother. Watching them for a while his growling stomach reminded him on something.

Peeking over the window a bit he saw a little yellow elephant cutting some apples into little slices. It was very small but yet he could not help himself in feeling somewhat secure around this creature. Out of sudden the animal turned around and faced Lemongrab right in the face. A loud shriek later and both were laying on the ground breathing heavily. Tree Trunks first gained back her control and stand up, curiously walking up to the window. Looking down on Lemongrab her smile came back and she greeted him politely.

"Ohh , its nice to see you!"

"M...my name is Lemongrab little elephant! And...do i know you? I just wonder...how do you know my name?"

"You don't remember me? I am Tree Trunks, we met each other in this mystery dungeon a while ago!"

"This must be from my brothers memory because i certainly can't remember you, but thank you for introducing yourself to me!" LG3 dusted himself off accepting TTs helping hand.

"Come on in, you can have one of my delicious pies! I just put another one in the oven. I do certainly remember you liked my pies a lot isn`t that right?"

"I...i guess i do...the smell is wonderful in either way!"

So LG joined in TT's invite. They had a good chat and were on the same wire pretty fast. In the meanwhile said pie was finished and eagerly LG3 ate it, all alone. Tree Trunks smiled and put the dishes in the sink. Turning around again she saw that Lemongrab had tears in his eyes and her smile vanished in a worried look.

"Dear glob, whats the matter young'un?" carefully she put her trunk on his shoulder, patting it softly. Soon he regained his state and sniffed sadly.

"I am sorry...its ...its just...i don`t know..."

"Its okay, don`t cry, everything is just fine...shhh..." Tree Trunks was shocked on how desperate this guy seemed to be to break down like this...Something really hard must have happened with him. Not further questioning him TT gave Lemongrab a glass of orange juice and decided to phone Princess Bubblegum, she would know what to do with him.

"I will call the princess, she will surely come to bring you back to your home!"

"NOOOOOOO, DONT CALL HER! PLEASE DONT!" his eyes grew wide like saucers and a panicked expression hit him like a thunderstorm..."Mother will punish me for breaking out! Nghhhhhh stop the calling! STOP IT!"

"What are you talking about?"

Lemongrab jumped up off the chair and was running to the exit door. He stopped in his tracks as Tree Trunks put the phone back on its shelf. Afraid of his reaction towards calling Bubblegum, TT slowly got a drift on what happened with Lemongrab...she must have treated him horrible and now he was afraid to go back...poor thing.

"Now you have to tell me...what does Bubblegum has done to you? Tell me or i will call her..."

"I...oh...mhhh alright. Just don't call her please..." sighing defeated Lemongrab sat down on a chair again and began to tell TT all what happened to him so far. TreeTrunks was shocked and out of her mind as LG finished his speak. After the first shock TT got mad because she could not believe what her ears just heard...She already knew Bubblegum could be kind of mean and controlling, but this?

Lemongrab rubbed his arm in uncomfort and let his head hung low. He was despised of himself out of sudden...what if he just don't grasp his mothers worry for his well being? What if he simply is too dumb to see what really was going on? Maybe his fleeing was a bad deed afterall which justified a hard punishment from the princess...he was no longer sure of himself. Clutching his head in despair he wailed out and trashed out of TT's house right into a bunch of rose bushes which stopped his sudden burstout in a second.

"Mhhhh i am UNACCEPTABLE! All my fault...its all my..FAULT NGHHHHHHH MY FAULT!" he started to beat himself up until TreeTrunks stopped him.

"Stop hitting yourself Lemongrab, stop and listen to me boy!" shaking Lemongrab kind of roughly she slapped his cheek firmly to calm him down. Big eyes met TT's as the lemondude stared at TreeTrunks flabbergasted out of the sudden force of the slap.

From behind the bushes Finn and Jake appeared out of sudden, they originally only returned for another pie but got distracted by godawful screams coming from the little Elephants house...

"Finn, Jake! My, my what gives me another pleasure to meet you boys?" she smiled friendly but returned her attention back to Lemongrab quickly.

"Yo TT we heard some totes' weird sounds and screamings so we came back to look after you girl! And now i see where this screamings came from. What you are doing here Lemongrab? Isn't Bubblegum caring for you in your castle?"

"Mhhh...i was a bad lemon...i ran away from the needles and the prodding...am i bad?" Lemongrabs look shot up to Finn who sweatdropped at the miserable lemon in front of him.

"Dunno man, we just should call Bubblegum, what do you think Jake?"

"Pretty dang yes man, he obviously need help bro!" looking into Lemongrabs eye with pity his stomach turned over in thought of this guys destiny.

"No need in calling me...i already knew he ran away!"

Everyone turned around to see Princess Bubblegum standing between two giant candy trees, her face was unreadable at the moment which made her even more frightening. Lemongrab began to tremble at her sight, he tried to hide his face in shame and despair, hiding behind Finn, Jake and TreeTrunks...

"My poor little Lemongrab, come back to me...come on..." Bubblegum slowly walked up to the group, eyeing Lemongrab constantly, a smile was on her face. She bend down to her creations current height and caressed his head. Stunned about the sudden affectionated behaviour of Bubblegum, Lemongrab shortly began to relax, he not dared to look into her eyes...

"Thank you TreeTrunks for watching over him so far...i am happy he is not hurt from what i can tell, Lemongrab was so confused and all helpless...i was afraid."

TreeTrunks watched the princess with a mixture of distrust and confusion, her look remained cautious even as Bubblegum started to grab Lemongrabs hand softly, standing him up and dusting the lemon off carefully.

"A...are you mad at me?"

"No i am not, actually i am surprised you came so far...the guards seems to make a horrible job in babysitting i guess...*sigh*. But this matters not now, we will go home now Lemongrab, say goodbye to Finn and the others, you need your medicine and a good night sleep soon!"

"B...but i would..uhm i would like to stay with TT for a while m..mother..." not looking Bubblegum in her eyes Lemongrab avoided every look of the princess as good as possible. He felt so bad for asking her this question.

"Dear, its too dangerous for you to stay outside yet, you still need recovery and peace and your medicine of course...come on now..." Bubblegum grabbed Lemongrabs hand and wanted to drag him further in direction of his castle but Lemongrab refused and stemmed himself against the princess.

"I don't want to leave here !Please let me stay for a while mother plEASEEE!" his voice grew louder and louder by any minute and his desperate struggle hit a nerve in Bubblegums brain. Her voice raised up and lost all her kindness out of sudden growing into a threatening scowl. She yanked Lemongrab away from TT and the others using all force she could afford and dragged him back into the woods.

Finn and Jake watched them horrified unable to do anything. They never saw Bubblegum so angry before... Lemongrabs screams echoed through the whole forest and made TT shiver. He reached a hand out to TT desperately but was dragged away without any mercy. Shortly before Bubblegum vanished deeper in the woods, she turned around to TreeTrunks and hissed:

"Hereby goes my order...you are not allowed to cross the grounds of Castle Lemongrab or the Candy Kingdom at all, and furthermore you are not allowed to see Lemongrab in any way ever again!"

"Nghhhhhh"

"Stop struggeling already, just wait until we are back in the castle..."

"*sob* i...am sorry..."

"You will be sorry soon, believe me..." and with these final words both vanished in the woods leaving behind a very worried TT.

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to be continued.