That's right guys. 12 days, 12 one-shots. From today until Christmas day you'll get a new Snowbunny drabble. Figured this would be a good way to get the ball rolling on here, plus this ship really needs more content. Happy holidays everyone and hope you enjoy this ~
"Are you sure about this?" Ice Queen inquired nervously, staring at the wooden floorboards of her somewhat-former enemy's tree house. "It's not too late for you to just go by yourself. I don't mind spending the evening at my castle tonight." To be perfectly honest, she much rather preferred the idea of sitting on a crystal couch with one of her penguins and watching movies instead of going to this party. "Never thought I'd hear myself say that," the normally attention-starved woman chuckled lightly.
"No way, dude. We totes need to do this!" A young voice called from the nearby bathroom, where Fionna the Human Adventuress was getting ready "I'm not gonna chicken out now when so much rides on the success of this dance, and I don't want you to either."
Ice Queen sighed, knowing Fionna was going to say something like that. Prince Gumball's Bi-Annual Gumball Ball was in a few hours. Normally such a thing would delight her; her slushy blood would buzz with excitement as she came up with new ways to crash the party and maybe even take home a nice prince as a souvenir.
But that was then. Before things changed. Before she lost interest in kidnapping attractive male royals. Before Fionna started messing everything up.
"No, she made everything better," she scolded herself. Fionna was the thorn in her side that eventually grew to fill the hole that had been in her heart for centuries. The rival who became a companion, as cliché as it sounded. The girl she had been half-secretly dating for the past few months. Of course, most of Fionna's friends were already aware of her relationship with the Ice Queen; but none of them had really seen the two of them together (not to mention they didn't really seem to like the idea). The sole exception was Cake, who was just barely beginning to warm up to the icy woman's presence.
Until tonight, anyway.
Now the Ice Queen was being brought as Fionna's date to one of the most important social events of the year. If things went well, everyone would see that the Ice Queen really wasn't someone to be feared. If not, Fionna would probably never speak to her again.
Ice Queen tried not to think too much about that possibility.
"Well, how do I look?" The young voice brought her back to reality. Looking up she saw her girlfriend standing in front of her, slowly swishing a familiar dress back and forth.
"Hey didn't you wear that when…" Ice Queen trailed off, not really wanting to mention a moment she wasn't exactly proud of.
Fionna blushed, "Yea, I did. Cake fixed it up again. It's kinda the only dress I own…" That wasn't very surprising.
"It really is beautiful," Ice Queen lightly trailed a blue finger down the pure white folds of the dress, twirling the light pink ribbon in the back with another. It was hard to believe that six months ago she had torn this dress apart while trying to teach the Fionna a lesson for standing in between her and her "precious" Gumball, after probably breaking the poor girl's heart as well. "No, you're not allowed to think about that right now!"
She looked up at Fionna's reddening face, wondering just how much deeper she could force that blush to go. "Just like you," Apparently quite deeper indeed. The dark color contrasted with the wispy golden curls that hung in front to frame the human's face in a way that the Ice Queen found enticing. She wished Fionna would take that silly old bunny hat off so that she could more of the hair she'd grown to love, but she knew better than to suggest that. Yet.
Instead. "There's just one more thing you need. Close your eyes." Calling upon the familiar power in her golden tiara, the wizard's hands started flashing blue as she summoned the tiniest of icicles to weave together into a delicate little string of magnified snowflake patterns. Getting up from Fionna's bed, she gently clasped the new necklace around Fionna's neck, smiling when she gasped at the contact. "There, now you're perfect."
Fionna opened her eyes as Ice Queen conjured a block of ice to use as a mirror. Biting her lip, she studied her reflection. "It's so cutesy and girly-looking," she lightly touched the icy new addition. Ice Queen mentally cursed; she should've known her little tomboy wasn't one to appreciate jewelry. Then Fionna gave a little laugh and surprised her, "I kinda like it, actually." Then she frowned, "Is that what you're wearing?"
Ice Queen looked down at her own ensemble. Most of it was part of her normal outfit: Large blue gown, with crystal heels hiding underneath, and of course her golden tiara and choker. There were a couple of new additions as well, like the blue band that held back the top half of her thick curly white hair to reveal slanted ears adorned with icy drop earrings.
"What's wrong with this?" She asked, "It's formal enough, and I cleaned the dress this morning."
"No it's fine, I guess," Fionna assured her. "It's just what you always wear. I wanna see you switch it up every now and then, y'know?"
"And I'm supposed to be the woman in this relationship," Ice Queen rolled her eyes, "Maybe another time, dear." She patted the heroine's shoulder and left a soft cool kiss on her forehead. "Come on, we'd better get going and get this night over with,"
"Don't worry," Fionna laughed as she followed Ice Queen down the ladder, "I'm sure everything will work out okay," and then –not quite out of Ice Queen's earshot as she would've liked– added under her breath, "I hope."