Sweet Dreams

Marshall Lee drifted through the night sky, feeling the air pass over him as he flew through the clouds. He had no control over where he was going, but he had no desire to. He just moved. He began to descend, falling towards a familiar building. The Candy Palace. He got inside the doors, invisible to all the guests. He saw himself sucking the red out of the fruit punch. Then Fionna arrived. She was wearing a stunning white dress. He remembered how his long dead heart had jumped at seeing her.

But then he remembered how he saw Gumball stop talking to some of the guests so that he could make his way over to Fionna. She didn't see Gumball yet, and passed her eyes right over Marshall, searching for Gumwad. Marshall had tried to gather the courage to go ask her to dance, to come with him up to the roof, to do anything that got her away from Gumball.

But that courage came too late, because he just made a rock annd roll sign, and glided right on by. Then she spoke to Gumball. Marshall hoped that she would get irritated, talk to someone else, something to get her away from him. But instead, Gumball invited her upstairs. To his bedroom. Marshall had turned away, wanting to be alone. He floated outside, head down.

It had turned out that it was really Simo-... The Ice Queen, but it crushed Marshall to think that she had wanted to go with him. She was willingly led to Gumwad's bedroom alone.

Marshall imagined himself in Gumball's place. Of him leading Fionna upstairs. Of him wrapping his arms around her, kissing her first on the ear, then the cheek, then on her soft lips. Of her saying his name. Tangling her fingers in his hair...

The palace disappeared, giving way to a clearing, the very one where Lumpy Space Prince had a party. That party...

That was the party he first tried to show Fionna how much he loved her. He sang a song he had spent weeks trying to get just perfect. For her. He saw candy people in the clearing. Then he realized, the party was happening beneath him. He saw himself enter with Fionna, her hair ruffled from the flight there. LSP screamed when they arrived, announcing that Marshall was going to sing. He started singing his song, the underlying theme describing to Fionna how he thought they were perfect together, because they were so different. But she brushed off the song as nothing more than a playful joke between friends.

Marshall started trying to get out of the dream, he couldn't handle the pain of reliving it. He couldn't breathe. He tried to fight back from whatever it was that was trying to suffocate him. It felt like pressure was building on his head, crushing him, cracking his skull, then he heard a loud pounding. Marshall woke up, and fell off the couch, the blanket he had been using wrapped around his head. He got it off, and realized the pounding was someone knocking on the door.

Marshall opened the door. It was Fionna. She looked at him, then had a look of shock on her face.

"Fionna, what's up?" Marshall said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Um, Marshall?" Fionna said with concern.

"Yea?" He replied.

"You're not wearing any pants." She said pointing downward.

Marshall took a second to register that, then looked down at his boxers. His eyes grew wide and he slammed the door closed. As fast as he could, he found a pair of clean jeans and pulled them on.


A/N: Wow, I can't believe the first chapter got 15 views in the first two hours. Review, tell me what you want me to add, what you didn't like, because I still have no idea where this plot is going. Thanks! -CaptainStormChaser