"Dad?" Finn walked over towards him along with Marceline. "Can we ask you something?"

"Sure thing, bud." He answered with a smile, showing the tip of his fangs. "About what?"

The two looked at each other, elbowing back and forth. Their dad huffed. "Come on you two. Spill it out." He crossed his arms together. Finn and Marceline just kept quiet instead. "Hey, I can't answer if you don't ask." He said, as he floated back a little and rested his head on his arms. "Mushroom war? Land of Aaa before it became the land of Ooo? The Night-o-sphere? Your uncle Petrikov's sudden madness outbreak? BMO?" He asked. They both shook no. What could it be that these kids want? "Then what?"

" About mom..." Marceline finally let out, after mustering up the courage to say it.

"Dad," Finn added, "we know it's not really a good topic for us to be asking you out of the blue, but-"

"I know," he said as his smile faded. After a little while, he wasn't even floating anymore. "It's okay.." he took a deep breath. Marshall had always hated talking about this, about her, and his kids knew he did. But they just had to ask. No matter how painful it may be for their dad.

He closed his eyes. Come on, it's already been years since then and not once have they asked, nor have I mentioned anything about their mom. He opened his eyes again, looking at both Marceline and Finn. They've surely been holding it back for all this time.. It's about time I've told them what they deserve to know.

"Alright." He looked down, "What do you wanna know about her?" They sat down along with him, "Everything."

He sighed. "I'll start from the beginning then." He stood up and floated into the couch, gesturing the two to follow, and so they did. Marshall held their shoulders, they could see the pain in his eyes. He smiled and gripped tighter.

"You know, when you two were born, me and your mom were so happy." He giggled and looked at Marceline. "When you came out your mother took you into her arms and kept raising you up, shouting 'Sweet crinckles.. THIS IS AMAAAAZING! Look Marshall! She's so marshy! Mar..shy? Marcy..?' Then she looked back at me with her teary, snotty face." Marshall sneered. "And that's how we got your name.. Marceline." He pulled them closer, "Man.. you guys are teenagers already.." he sighed.

"You see, by the time I was your age I'd give anything to fall in love truly. It was all I could think. Back then, I was a bad boy. The meanest of the mean. I had a girlfriend at that time, quite older than me. Ashley was her name, she was much worse of a bad girl."

Ashley and Marshall were out messing with some fluffy people. It was always fun for them, bullying and all. Seeing how superior you were.

Marshall smiled. "That's when I met your mother, Fionna."

Wearing a white bunny hoodie, topped with a blue, longsleeve shirt. A cat was sitting beside her. Ashley approached them quietly, and took off Fionna's hood. Marshall followed her.

"Hey!" The cat shouted. The two simply laughed. Fionna placed her hood back and fixed her things into her bag and nodded to the cat.

"It's fine, Cake. Let's just go." She said, standing up.

"But Fionna-" the cat argued. The girl looked back at her and smiled, then started walking. The cat, or Cake, stood up as well and started to follow her.

Ashley floated over to them. "Where you going, chickidy?" Fionna ignored her and kept walking. Ashley floated back to Marshall and whispered "This is gonna be fun." Before anything else, she took off and grabbed Cake.

"Cake!" Fionna shouted.

"Whatcha gonna do about it?" Ashley grinned mischievously.

Fionna almost jumped to get Cake back, but Marshall held onto her bag and took it from her. He laughed and threw the bag to Ashley, while Cake was dropped for him to catch.

"Let's see what's in the bag.." she opened it and threw everything out. "LAME!" She laughed. "Nothing but garbage, babe!"

"Hahaha! Guess we'll just have to go with her kitty-cat." He teasingly spoke.

Cake squirmed and stretched, "Oh get your dirty hands off me!" Finally getting half of her body free, she shouts to Fionna. "I'm okay, baby!"

Marshall laughs some more and changes his form into a demon, increasing his size. He hugs Cake tightly with an evil smirk.

Fionna runs towards them, "Cake! Hold on, I'm coming!" She cries out.

Marshall paused and gave out a smile to his kids "Fionna was the girl of my dreams. The most beautiful woman that I'd ever seen. I could even still remember the time she said 'Marshall, can I tell you a wonderful thing? I can't help but notice you staring at me. I know I shouldn't say this, but I really believe, I can tell by your eyes that you're inlove with me.' That was a while before I.." His eyes showed off the sadness he was feeling, "... proposed."

"How sweet, dad" Marceline sarcastically said, trying not to laugh. "How did the story even end up from you and your ex bullying mom to cheesy-weesy-mom&dad-lovey-dovey?" She bursted.

"Also, if mom was so important to you, why were you being mean to her?" Finn questioned him with a tone. "In fact, why are you ruining our image of your younger self for us, dad?"

Marceline laughed. "I don't know, Finn. Dad's younger self still seems pretty cool for me." She winks.

"Well, what could you do? I was a bad boy." He laughed and looked back at Finn. "Now son, I'm only telling you this because life can do terrible things."

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disclaimer. Ok, so I based the story from the song "Terrible Things by Mayday Parade" and yes, most of the lines were taken from the lyrics. You gotta admit, that song was damn heart breaking. I totally don't own the story. I merely expressed the story from my point of view using Adventure Time characters. Thanks for reading! Please look forward for chapter 2 ^^