Kept making the mistake of calling Prince Gumball Prince Bubblegum. Think I corrected most of them so if you see it in there, you know why.

Marshall had gotten home quickly; ready to get some sleep before tonight. He chuckled as he remember the rage on Fionna's face today. It was so easy to tease her. He had to admit he may have been a bit of a jerk, but it was only a bit of fun. It had not just been teasing though. At first he had just wanted to annoy her but after seeing her huge opponent he felt he couldn't let her try to take him down. Now Marshall knew Fionna was very capable of looking after herself but something had stirred in his chest at the thought of her going after that ogre alone. He couldn't have fought with her without stepping out of the shadows and burning in the sunlight but he could stop her going out there and getting seriously beat up...or worse. He slapped his forehead and sighed, he was getting way too soft. He was bad, evil even and he needed to start acting like it. Marshall shrugged, he'd start tomorrow. Or the day after. Whatever, he had pretty much all of eternity to get back his reputation; tonight however, he had a certain bunny to apologize to. Well 'apologize' is a strong word and it really wasn't his style. Instead he was going to make her see his side of the story so that she stopped being so mad at him then they could play BMO or something. Marshall was sure it would work, no one could resist his charm and she'd be begging him to hang out with her by the end of the night. Well, at least he hoped she would. With a smirk he floated over to his bed and closed his eyes.

When Marshall woke, he was greeted by the cool breeze of the night sky and the eerie silence it brought. These were things he had grown to love much more than the warmth of the sun or the busy noises that accompanied the daytime. Stretching, he showered and chucked on whatever he found in his drawer before running a hand through his untidy hair and declaring himself ready to leave.

It was the perfect night; calm, cool and dark. Floating towards Fionna and Cake's Tree House he strummed on his axe guitar and hummed to himself. He was halfway there when he heard commotion below him and glanced down to see a flash of blue and pink disappearing into the shadows. There was only one pretentious, royal; gum-butt that he knew would be wearing enough pink for him to be able to see it from the sky. He wondered if he should help then decided he'd run it by Fionna first, after all she was probably in the right frame of mind to kick some serious buns. He just hoped it wouldn't be his, Glob she could throw a punch! His fingers shot up to his nose as he remembered how hard she had hit him. Marshall started to wonder if visiting had been such a good idea after all. Wow, first he had turned soft and now he was scared of a girl. Quickly checking to see that Prince Gumball and who he presumed to be the Ice Queen really had vanished, Marshall sped up towards the nearing Tree House, Fionna would not be happy that her precious pink pal had been kidnapped. Again.

She had opened the door to see a very calm and collected Marshall floating outside, his head rested on his pale, slender arms.

"What's up?" He smirked.

If she hadn't been so tired Fionna would have done some serious damage but she was too frustrated with Marshall and just shut the door on him instead. A moment later he knocked. Then knocked again. Then again. Fionna's head was banging and she wanted to scream. It was silent for a moment then the door creaked open and Marshall drifted in.

"...you left the door unlocked" He said and sat down on the nearby couch.

Fionna just stared at him for a moment. He wasn't at all bothered by how angry he had made her and she was starting to get really tired of him. Marshall was great for a jam sesh or pranks or just hanging out with from time to time and he and Fionna had really started to become good friends. Fionna didn't want to admit it but when people told her to stay away from him maybe she should have listened and saved herself from...well from all this!

"Marshall, I don't want to speak to you right now so please...just go"

Marshall frowned at her defeated attitude. This wasn't like Fionna at all.

"Look" Marshall said, "I know you're angry and all but come on! It was just a laugh."

"It might have been funny for you" Fionna growled "But I was not laughing."

She looked kind of cute when she was angry Marshall thought and he couldn't help but giggle. Big mistake. Fionna grabbed him by the collar, kicked the door open and shoved Marshall out. He was amazed by her sudden strength and was about to respect her wishes and leave her to cool off when he remembered Gumball.

"Well..." Marshall called out loud enough so that Fionna could hear him, "We'll just have to see if Prince Gum-butt can manage to escape from the Ice Queen himself this time"

It was silent, Marshall wasn't sure if Fionna had heard him and was about to repeat himself when he heard footsteps stomping up the stairs, drawers being opened and shut, stuff being thrown about the room and then the same stomping coming back down the stairs. Fionna, now changed into her adventure clothes and wearing her green backpack, walked out the door and slammed it behind her, glaring viciously at Marshall the whole time.

"Take me to Gumball" She grumbled and without letting her see his smile, Marshall put her on his back and together they flew off towards the Ice Kingdom.

On their way to the Ice Kingdom, Fionna tried to ignore how surprisingly warm and cosy she felt against Marshall and focused on how much of an idiot he was. As she did this, her grip tightened around his chest and her nails started to dig into him.

"Uh...Fionna?"

She glared and the vampire in response.

"That kinda hurts..."

Once again all he received in response was a glare but she released her grip slightly, seeing that they were almost there.

Marshall let Fionna slid of his back once they had reached the entrance to the Ice Queen's lair. As she landed on the ice, Fionna felt her foot slip out from beneath her and before she could fall Marshall reached out and grabbed her. Fionna could feel her heart beating against his chest and looked up at him. Marshall was staring back at her with an expression that Fionna couldn't read. She realised how long they had been standing like that and she quickly shoved him away and headed off to find Gumball. Marshall was still for a moment then turned and followed after her, the bunny ears on her hat flopping adorably. Seriously, Marshall thought to himself. Get. A. Grip.

Once they were inside, Fionna focussed her determination on finding Gumball and bringing him back to the Candy Kingdom safely. She knew Marshall didn't get why she was such good friends with him so she was curious as to why he had come to her for help saving Gumball when he clearly disliked him. She sighed, boys were so annoying sometimes. Marshall was annoying for the obvious reasons but Gumball...well he was a different case all together. Sometimes Fionna was sure he liked her. They would have deep conversations and get really close and Fionna would get butterflies in her stomach. Then out of nowhere he seemed to realise something and his eyes became distant and he looked...well he looked defeated. Then he'd make up excuses for not seeing her for about a week then the whole thing would start again! Fionna noticed Marshall was floating next to her; she must have had a puzzled look on her face because he was staring at her curiously. Fionna stopped walking, crossed her arms in front of her chest and stared at him. She saw him start to squirm, he looked uncomfortable and as if there was something he needed to say. Then he bottled it up and put on his flirtatious front as usual.

"See something you like?" He winked.

Fionna shook her head and carried on walking, missing the look of disappointment and regret on Marshall's face. In the distant a mumbled voice called out.

"ICE QUEEN...I demand...right now...so help me I-" then the sound of a blast of ice coming into contact with something could be heard.

"Prince Gumball!" Fionna shouted and dashed off towards the noise.

Fionna rounded the corner, drawing out her sword as she stared at the scene that lay before her. Gumball's hands and feet were frozen together with ice and the Ice Queen was trying to tape a black suit and tie to his body. She herself was wearing an extremely frilly and quite frankly hideous wedding dress. Fionna stood there, dazed by the weirdness of the situation. Marshall quickly joined her side, laughing out loud when he saw what was happening. He was met with glares from everyone in the room and he put his hands up in defence.

"Well this is...romantic" He grinned and floated over towards Prince Gumball.

"Black suits you." He said and the Prince just rolled his eyes at him.

Fionna raised her sword to the Ice Queen who snarled at her and raised her hands ready to blast the human girl with her ice powers.

"How many times Ice Queen?" Fionna sighed, "Prince Gumball does NOT want to marry you!"

She sliced her sword through the air, not meaning to hit the deranged Queen but just to force her further back away from the Prince.

"He does!" The Queen cried out, "We're in love you see! Prince Gumball really likes my hot bod"

Marshall snickered and Gumball groaned.

"Ew." Fionna replied and turned to Marshall,

"Break the ice will you? I'll deal with this butt-faced pig!"

She drew her attention to the angered Queen, ignoring Marshall's groaning. She kicked the Ice Queen, narrowly dodging a blast of ice. Whilst the Queen was on the floor, Fionna kicked off her crown which rolled towards the other end of the icy room and made a loud clattering noise as it came to rest on the floor.

"No! My crown!" The Ice Queen shouted and went to retrieve it.

As she did this, Fionna looked to see that Marshall had freed Prince Gumball and she shouted at them to follow her. Once they had gotten far enough away they all stopped to catch their breath. Well, apart from Marshall of course.

"Thank-huh-you-huh-Fionna-huh-once-huh-again-" Gumball puffed between breaths.

Not wanting to sound silly trying to talk out of breath, Fionna smiled and nodded at the Prince who smiled back. After they had regained themselves, Prince Gumball offered Fionna a ride home which she gladly accepted. When Lord Monochromicorn arrived, the Prince gracefully stepped onto his back and like the gentleman he was, offered Fionna his hand which she took whilst blushing.

Marshall, who had been watching the whole thing felt something kick in his gut and he frowned. Awkwardly the two remembered he was still standing there and turned to face him, still holding hands.

"Uh...Would you like to join us Marshall?" The Prince asked, rubbing his arm.

Marshall grinned, "Nah, I have much better things to be doing." And with that he disappeared into the night.