It was already passed midnight in the land of Aaa. Everyone was asleep by now, and that was perfect for Fionna the human. The last thing she needed was Cake to be awake only to find her sneaking into their tree house from a day of 'strangling pixies' with her vampire best friend, Marshall Lee. She could already imagine the look on her feline sister's face after finding out where she was coming from and who she was with, even though Cake can probably already guess. Recently, Fionna and Marshall Lee have been seen hanging out together often and have also even bonded throughout their adventures with heart to heart talks in between fighting why-wolves and garbage pirates. Some who have seen those two together would assume something was going on between them with the way they sort of acted towards each other, but once confronted about it, it was heavily denied. Although she doesn't want to admit it out loud, she's starting to develop a little crush on the Vampire King. If he ever were to find out about her feelings towards him though, then she'd never hear the end of it. Not only that, but she was afraid of what he might say if he didn't return her feelings. The thought devastated her.
Pushing the thought of rejection from her mind, she quickly climbed up the ladder and crept through the kitchen, she was almost home free when suddenly the lights flickered on.
"Where in Glob's name have you been, Fi?!" A certain sassy cat asked incredulously behind Fionna from the couch, making her almost die of fright. "I was worried about your little tush that I decided to sleep on the couch until you came back! It's so unlike you to come home this late from an adventure without me!" Cake the cat stretched over to her blonde companion and grabbed her by the shoulders with an extremely concerned look on her face, tail frazzled and cat pupils wide. The blonde heroin felt extremely guilty for making her furry best friend so worried about her that she tried to think of a fib to not make her as angry,
"Uh... Gumball needed me to do this thing... So I uh... Did the thing," Fionna struggled, trying to sound nonchalant, all the while playing with her adventure back pack straps. The cat didn't buy it of course, and she tapped her foot impatiently until she fessed up.
"Oh all right..." She sighed, her posture sagged under the weight of her guilt, "I was out with Marshall. He wanted to watch Heat Signature 3 at his place and then crash another of LSP's parties".
The cream and white colored cat sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Well you could have, you know, told me, instead of just walking out. What if I wanted to come too?" Cake lectured, feeling a little snubbed. She sat back down on the couch and gestured towards her friend to join her.
"My bad..." Fionna apolozied glumly as she sat down. "Guess I got a little too excited."
"...It's all right," Cake replied warily while patting her on the head reassuringly, "I'm just glad that you're okay. I don't want to go on adventures without my sis by side."
The sentiment made them both smile at each other and hug,
"So we're cool?" Fionna asked, fighting back a yawn but failing. She didn't realize how tired she was until she sat down on the couch. Her legs were killing her from all the crazy dancing she was forced to do at the party, not to mention also her throat was sore from all the screaming while Marshall Lee performed on his ax guitar.
"We're cool." Cake reassured her again, as she got up and stretched towards the bed room, "You better tell me the juicy details between you and Marshall Lee tomorrow morning, Fi!"
"Ugh, good night, Cake!" Fionna yelled back, with a flustered expression. She could hear the cat cackle as she disappeared into her room.
Turning towards the kitchen, she figured that she'd get a glass of water before heading off to bed. After getting herself a glass, she turned off the faucet and was about to leave when she heard a tapping on one of the windows. Turning quickly and getting herself into a battle stance, she instantly calmed down when her blue eyes met with a familiar pair of pitch black eyes through the window.
"I thought she'd never leave," Marshall sighed as he flew through the window after she opened it. He sat on the sink and smirked as he could see a slight blush on her cheeks in the moonlight as she saw him float through the air.
"You know how she is. She was just worried about me," The human stated as she stood next to him and leaned against the countertop. He nodded in understanding and chuckled to himself.
"Glad to know that you have people who care for you, Fi. Especially me," He said, quietly admitting the second part as he kissed her on the forehead before heading out the window. "I'm also glad to know that you got home safe, so I'll let you sleep, 'kay Dollface?"
She was stunned by the forehead kiss that she has just received that it barely registered to her that he asked her a question. All she could manage was a nod of her head before turning a deep shade of red, making the vampire chuckle out loud at her reaction before flying off into the night.
For the rest of the night, she was sleepless after that forehead kiss. Her heart raced as she could remember feeling his cold lips brush against her warm skin.
Does he like me? Or is it just that our friendship is a really close one and that's how he shows it?
Her thoughts were running a mile a minute, but eventually she fell asleep due to exhaustion caused by her outing. All she could dream about were those pitch black eyes and his fanged smile.