Okay so I needed a bit of practice before I come back into writing Fan Fictions again. And this was a request given to me a while ago from someone dear to me, so today while working inspiration finally hit me and I started planning this out. Now as I sit here drinking my hazelnut coffee and as I listen to some music I will start to write what hopefully will be a lovely one-shot story about Marshall Lee coming to terms with his feelings. I hope you enjoy.

Its movie night at Fionna and Cakes once again, everyone is huddled around BMO watching some action movie that I have seen over a thousand years ago. Wonder why I'm not watching it with the same undivided attention as everyone else. Well I would like to watch it, really I would but for some reason I cant help but steal glances at Fionna every few minutes. I don't know whats up with me today. I mean its not like she looks any different then she does any other day. Same white bunny hat, blue shirt, blue skirt with white socks and black shoes, I mean she DOES NOT look any different and yet...

"Marshy is something wrong?"

I was knocked out of my thoughts as the realization hit me, the movie was now starting to wrap up and Fionna was looking dead at me with those vibrant blue eyes, oh man better think of something fast!

"Nothing! I was just, you know, looking around..."

Smooth man, real smooth. But I guess it worked since she bought it. Fionna just shrugged it off and stood up along with Cake to thank everyone for coming out tonight. As they did their dumb little after show rap up I decided to pretend to be interested like everyone else and clap, while trying my best not to look directly at Fionna. Live for over a thousand years and you too can have awesome acting skills like me. As soon as the front door was opened by Cake to let us out, I casually made my way to the door just like everyone else who attended did. Maybe some sleep will clear my head of this mess, well that was what I was hoping for. That was until Prince Gum-wad called out to me, well more of shouted, because once I was past that door I may have bolted.

"MARSHALL! MARSHALL LEE!" shouted Gumball

I could see him just a short distance away from the tree fort running after me. It was kind of funny, he had barely ran for half a block and was getting winded. Figured I best go back and see what king sweet-pop wanted before he passed out. "Wait! Marshall!" Gumball repeated, trying to keep up. "Alright, alright, calm down before you pass out and I have to carry you back to the candy kingdom." He caught his breath before he spoke but I was not expecting what came out of his mouth next.

"Marshall, do you like Fionna?" Gumball asked

"W-what?" Needless to say I answered him pretty well.

"I was just wondering if you like Fionna, I mean I saw you watching her more than the movie." he said with a little smirk forming on his stupid pink face.

"What? Me! Like Fionna? No, no, I mean not that shes bad looking or anything. Just, well, I mean I already seen the movie like a dozen times and was just a bit bored!" I may have said that a bit to fast.

"I was just asking Marshall, no reason to get defensive about it. Well see you around." Gumball said while walking towards his home, whistling innocently.

Needless to say that my flight home was not a peaceful one, all the way I couldn't get his words out of my head. "Marshall do you like Fionna?" it just repeated itself over and over again in my mind, even now as I let myself into my house and laid in my bed, the words are still repeating themselves. I didn't even sleep I just stared at the ceiling, hearing his voice in my head and wondering myself...

"Do I like Fionna?" I asked aloud to the empty room.

Then I started thinking about it, "I mean I have known her since she was fourteen. We've gone on so many adventures together, from fighting bad dudes and rescuing the princes from the Ice Queen, to exploring dungeons that would have killed normal mortals."

At this point I stopped floating and was pacing back and forth in my room, "she's even saved me! ME! Marshall Lee the Vampire King! I mean yeah I'm grateful to her that she saved me but I'm me. awesome. strong. handsome. Never needed anyone's help before, then out of nowhere I almost bite the dust when her sister nearly kills me for pulling a simple prank of making Fionna my henchwoman."

But now I was getting off topic, let me break down what I know about her.

Shes my best bud
She knows how to kick butt
She isn't afraid to speak her mind
She has a sister who is a cat named Cake
When she lets her hair down its beautiful...

As I listed off the fifth item in my mind I stopped and just let my mind go blank as I slowly say it out loud "When her hair is down... its beautiful. its beautiful? its... beautiful!"

Images of all the times I have seen her with her hair down flash into my mind. "NO! Nonononnononononononono!" I grip the sides of my head and try to shake the images out. Its no use as more images flood my mind, images of her eyes, her piercing blue gaze that could make even my undead heart beat. Which if I recall properly it may just have "NO! STOP IT BRAIN!" I can feel a blush starting on my checks as I think about her more. Lets not forget her smile, its so warm and friendly, inviting and comforting, I could literally lose myself in her smile.

"NO BRAIN! PLEASE STOP THIS!" I shout as I am rolling on the floor trying to stop this dam in my mind from breaking any further. My brain however had other plans, such as reminding me that her laugh which radiated the warmth of the sun to me and her singing voice, no matter how hard I try I will never hear anything else as wonderful as it! At this point I am no longer rolling around, I'm just lying face down on the cold floor and just hoping that it was finally over but no! My mind has one more sucker punch to deliver to me as it shows me all these wonderful images put together to make one perfect image of her face, all wrapped up in a nice bunny hat bow.

"I give! I GIVE! ALRIGHT I LIKE HER! NO! I LOVE HER!"

Right now in my room, in my house, in a cave, I stand heaving and face completely red from just admitting to myself that I Marshall Lee The Vampire King am in love with Fionna the Human. And now I am just trying to cope, I'm evil, son of a deathless demon and king of the vampires. I mean nothing about me is remotely good and yet here I am, in love with her the exact opposite of myself. And no matter how many times I run it through my mind it still makes no sense, I mean she even goes as far as to say that I am not evil. She's even given me a pet name 'Marshy' A PET NAME! I remember trying to get her to stop but she said it was what she was going to call me. As I look out of my window I see that the sun is beginning to rise,

"I've literally been up all night thinking about this." I say again to this empty room. And then it hits me, what I need to do. "I need to tell her..."

I go down stairs to grab my umbrella and make my way out of the house. Once I am out the cave I pop my umbrella open and speed off towards her, towards Fionna, to the girl I love. It doesn't take me long to reach the tree fort of course but when I do reach it, I hesitate.

"What if she doesn't feel the same way? What if I was just reading to much into it, what if she was just being friendly towards me?" I didn't realize it at the time but I had somehow ended up at the front door

"Well its now or never"

Knock, knock, knock.