"Are you ready?" Marceline called through the glass barrier. "C'mon Marcey, I'm reeeaady, you've asked me that like ten times already!" Princess Bubblegum grunted. She giggled at the nerve-wrought look on the vampire's face. The princess was standing casually in her dress, one hand hanging off to her side, the other pressed against her hip.

There was a large contrast between the two of them. Princess Bubblegum was bright pink, middle-aged, and wearing an elegant dress. While Marceline still had the appearance of an 18 year old grey-skinned girl with long black hair, and right now she, in her words "looked like a wreak" after stressing about this moment for weeks, losing plenty of sleep, and focus. Bubblegum looked at the tired, nervous Marceline with an expression that reflected both impatience and admiration, with a gentle smirk to top it off. Bubblegum was standing in center the small enclosed room she had designed. Marceline hovered her hand over the lever nervously, and looked at the princess. "A-are you sure this is the safest way? We could wait a couple more years and..." Marceline's voice was filled with worry, she paused for a moment then continued "what if too much of the chemical is released or something, and... and..." Bubblegum interrupted her nervous ranting with a quiet laugh, "It's perfectly safe, trust me." Marceline accepted defeat and with a sigh "Ok... but the moment you panic I'm turning into the most freighting monster you ever seen, and busting this thing apart." Princess Bubblegum loved how protective Marceline was being.

Marceline cringed as she slowly pulled the lever, a green gas filled the glass chamber. Marceline suddenly lost sight of her and eagerly waited for a glimpse, or sound, or any sign that her princess was alive. Suddenly she heard a dim and high-pitched cry. Marceline's eyes dimmed black with red fiery pupils forming in the center. Her hair started standing up on end, and flowing wildly as she yelled "Bubblegum!" Scanning the glass for only a moment, her hands formed into sharp claws. She launched her arm back and prepared to swing at the glass before, "wait!" a small voice yelled out. "I'm ok." A much younger, brighter Princess Bubblegum opened the glass door and walked out, the gas following dissipating only moments after it was released through the opening. Leaning her hand on the door she said "hey Marceline" with a smirk.

Marceline let out a sigh. Bubblegum said teasingly "see, I'm fine you big baby." The vampire queen was certainly out of practice when it came to being mocked by a 15 year old. Bubblegum manned the control panel, pressing buttons and flipping switches. The sounds of machines clicking and powering down filled the room. The glass door shut, and the remainder of the chemical was sucked into vacuums on the wall. "Well you are certainly are younger then I thought you'd be." Marceline said raising an eyebrow and chuckling, still out of breath. "Yeah I guess you were right in saying I put a bit too much of that chemical in there. Well I could use some candy biomass to make me a little older, but it seems like a waste of..." Marceline interrupted with a smile "No, no. You're cute like this PB, it takes me back." Bubblegum blushed and smiled in return.

It's been almost 40 years that the Princess of the Candy Kingdom first started "being with" the dreaded Vampire Queen, and it was about 30 years ago they finally got around to making the royal announcement declaring so. Begrudgingly, in the case of Bubblegum. Fearing greatly the disapproval of her peers, and subjects. In the end the Princess gave in to the constant pleads of her undead girlfriend. Marceline just wanted to be able to seen in public with the girl she'd spent almost a decade with, and as a consolation prize, (though she didn't mention this part to the Princess) she was able to get the word out that Bubblegum was dating a powerful demon that would beat the tar out of anyone foolish enough to try to make a move on her princess.

The Princess was declared to be ruler for life before she was born, and for the subjects of the candy kingdom they were more than happy to have her life last an eternity. Last time she had her age decreased she lost her rule to Lemongrab due to the strange arcane laws that were in place, forcing her to regain her former age. That was unnecessary now as the princess was able to ratify changes in most of those laws. One of which declared that should the princess ever die/become unfit to rule, Marceline, not Lemongrab would be her successor. Marceline didn't like to think about that, and didn't see it as a possibility under her watch.

While the "pretty (now) little princess" had only been alive for a little more than 50 years, the vampire had been alive for more then a thousand. (Technically Marceline had been only alive for a couple years, and has been undead ever since.) Unlike Bubblegum's title of princess, Marceline's "Vampire Queen" title was a pretty meaningless self-declared one she adopted centuries ago. She called herself that after killing the self-declared "Vampire King" who was enslaving mortals to build his own kingdom of evil. She didn't expect to use the title for very long, but it caught on and she ended up kind of liking it. Though the title itself was pretty meaningless most everyone treated her like royalty in one way or another. More recently with some respect by the citizens of the candy kingdom, but by many hatred, and fear, and from the princess alone, admiration, wanting, and love.

NOTE: Ok finished for today. Hope you like it. As you can no doubt tell, my grammar/punctuation/spelling is terrible. I'll edit this soon and try to fix some of that.

(I'm about to monologue, feel free to skip to the next chapter. In fact any time I write in these bold words at the end of any of my chapters It's just going to be my random rambling, feel free to skip.)

First off, I'm inspired heavily by Our Perfect Disease by JupiterDelphinus.

If Jupiter ever reads this, the fanfic writer in me would like to say: "You're... my... Glob! You're my Glob!"

I read Our Perfect Disease, Oh Marceline!, and Love Me Dead, and was sure I wanted to do something similar character-wise. Probably wouldn't be doing this if it weren't for them so... Read them, they're better than this trash.

Note to Authors: If anything I write seems like a copy of something you did, (like my number one fear) just PM me and I'll change it.

The lighthearted name of the story is kind of a play on this story planning to be a little more positive for then others. (Spoiler Alert!) In Jupiter's version Princess Bubblegum accepts death and dies when she gets old! Sure, it turns kinda ok in the end with Marceline being able to visit the dead PB who still remembers her, but still! Jupiter's amazing sad writing just stung my heart guts. I almost cried! And I'm not one to cry easily, I never do man. It took me days to get over that though. (Read it, it's great.)

As long as I'm mentioning what I thought of similar FanFics, I loved the concept of Love Me Dead's intro. I loved the bat stuff, I liked the prison thing. It was really cool. GlisteningShadow did a good job on that. I mentioned Oh Marceline! I liked it (little too much man parts for my taste, lol.) I liked how much of a creeper Marceline was in that one, lol.

I'll never be a good as writer as most of the more prominent stuff on this site, but maybe this can be mildly entertaining, lol. I'm going to try to go in an interesting direction with this that you might not be expecting? I don't know. I don't want to make this a fanfic of a fanfic. I want to make it original. NOT AS SAD AS OUR PERFECT DISEASE THAT'S FOR SURE!

P.S. PB and Marcy have amazing chemistry!