Finn and Marceline were arriving near the Tree house. "It really is good to have you back Marceline." Finn said opening the door to have him be grabbed by a huge pair of orange hands and dragged inside.
"Finn do you know what time it is? Do you know how worried I was? Why are you Jacked up? What took you so long?" Jake yelled at Finn with question after question.
"Jake, Jake, JAKE." Finn yelled at his brother who was still asking questions.
"What." Jake yelled.
"There's an old friend here." Finn said pointing at the door to see Marceline slowly walk inside, she slightly waved and showed a smile. Jake let Finn fall to the ground.
"Marceline." Jake asked unsure, she nodded a response. "MARCY." Jake's hands reached out towards her, too slow to react she was grabbed and pulled into a bear hug, she was thankful she didn't need to breathe. "Oh Marcy we missed you, why did you leave, wait you must be hungry you want me to..." Jake stopped mid-sentence, he looked at Marceline closer to see a bloodied jacket on her, returning his attention towards Finn who was slowly sneaking away towards the upstairs bedroom. "Finn why is the jacket I gave you bloody, and why are you jacked up." Jake asked sounding much like an angered mother, Finn stayed there, back turned, then suddenly raced towards upstairs. "FINN." Jake yelled following Finn upstairs, Marceline stayed downstairs picked up the bloodied jacket and placed it back on she didn't know why she just did it, but it felt nice. She remembered the good times she had with these guys the movie nights, playing BMO, even when she kicked them out of her home when she came back here.
"Those were good times." Marceline said to herself.
"What were good times, Marceline." Jake said surprising Marceline in the process causing her to scream, scaring Jake as well.
"Jake, don't scare me like that." Marceline said picking herself off the ground, dusting herself off.
"Wait, I scared you? Ha, I scared Marceline." Jake gloated till Marceline growled at him making him stop immediately. "Sorry but still why were you gone for so long, and how did Finn find you, or did you find him." Jake asked.
"Uh, I think it's best to wait for him so we can tell you together also where is he." Marceline asked trying not to sound too eager.
"Oh he's upstairs, AND HE BETTER BE TAKING A SHOWER." Jake yelled so Finn could hear. "Still you hungry, I made some food." Jake asked Marceline, before she could answer her stomach did for her letting out a giant growl. "I'll take that as a yes."
For the next few minutes Marceline ate the food that Jake layed in front of her, except the spaghetti and garlic bread for obvious reasons. She would have been all right with just red stuff, but Ash practically starved her so she ate as much as Jake would give her.
"Someone has an appetite." Marceline turned around her eyes widened and her mouth hung open, she saw Finn wearing black colored shorts, him shirtless, able to see his pecks, abs and muscles, he dried his wet hair, he seemed to be completely healed of all his wounds and bruises.
"Finn put a shirt on Marceline's within the room." Jake yelled, Marceline looked down to cover her blush for the 4th time that night. "And don't tell me you took a bath with a healing potion."
"Yup." Finn answered still drying his hair.
"At least go put on a shirt." Jake said.
"Finn, you can put this on if you like." Marceline said handing him his jacket, Finn took it and zipped himself up.
"Thanks Marcy, also Jake, you were asking why the jacket was bloody and why I was jacked up right." Finn asked reaching for an apple to have his hand swatted by Jake, who still had an angered face.
"Yeah." Jake pressured on.
"Well then I have to tell you what I got you for your present." Finn said with a smile, Jake gasped.
"You wouldn't." Jake said.
"Well you wanted-" Finn was stopped by Jake's hand muffling his mouth.
"Fine you can skip the blood part, just tell me about you finding Marceline." Jake told him, while Marceline's worry grew, afraid that Finn will tell that she has been held prisoner by Ash.
"She found me." Finn answered catching Marceline by surprise. "I was pretty jacked up, she happened to be around, and she helped me get back home and the reason she had to leave is cause of her own biz, so yeah." Finn said, Jake just looked at him then shrugged.
"All right then, in that case I'm going to bed, eating meat man makes a man tired, good night you two." Jake said stretching his body up the ladder, Marceline looked at Finn in disbelief.
"What?" Finn asked.
"Finn, why did you lie." Marceline asked for she never heard him tell I lie, not even a white lie.
"Well not really lying, I mean you did find me, I was really beaten up, you were around, and you were there getting me home, and what ever happened during the time with Ash, is your business, but if you want to talk about it, I'm right here." Finn told her, she felt a sense of compassion and kindness towards the adventurer as well as a new respect to tell a lie but make it so it wasn't.
"Man I was gone for a long time, well I like the new attitude you have." Marceline told him with a sly smile.
"Thanks, also where will you like to sleep, on the sofa or with me." Finn asked, Marceline starred at him for what he asked then had a smile on her face.
"Oh so you want me to sleep with you." Marceline said suggestively.
"Yes just sleep Marceline, not what you're trying to imply." Finn told her, Marceline's face turned red.
"Y-you knew what I was suggesting." Marceline asked worriedly.
"Marceline, I'm 18 so yes I now know how your mind works. So where the couch or the bed." Finn asked her.
"I will take the sofa." Marceline answered already embarrassed for the fact Finn now has the knowledge he didn't have before.
"Well I'll bring you some blankets, be right back." Finn said leaving to the upstairs room, Marceline mentally kicked herself for saying that. She sat on the couch waiting for Finn to return, and he did with some pillows and some blankets, it looked like he took the whole bed with him.
"Thanks." She said taking some of the pillows and blankets and prepared herself for sleep.
"No problem, if you need anything you know where to find me." Finn said making his way upstairs as Marceline continued to prepare for sleep.
Time passed she was slowly drifting to sleep, till lightning striked, and the sound caused her to flinch, in the past she wouldn't but after some time with Ash that changed. Her punishment if she disobeyed, she would be tied up and forced to watch as Ash used Hambo as a target for his lightning attacks, he would attack near Hambo looking like it was close to be blown to bits, all she could do was just watch. Each thunder sound and flash of light caused her to relive those moments, unknown to her a shadowy figure was approaching her, it placed a hand on her shoulder, she reacted in fear swiping her hand towards her attacker.
"OW." The person said, Marceline's eyes widened at the sound.
"Finn." Marceline asked, the lightning striked again lightning the room for a while to show it was Finn, she immediately turned the lights on to show Finn with three claw marks on his cheek. "Oh my glob Finn, I'm sorry I didn't know it was you." Marceline apologized looking at the injury in Finn's face.
"Nah, I should be the one sorry, I was coming down here for some water, then I heard you muttering something, I should have said your name first." Finn said hissing a bit when he touched his wound.
"Sorry, I was just scared." Marceline said still looking at his cheek, Finn stopped and looked at her.
"Did you attack me cause you thought I was Ash." Finn asked her, she could just lower her head in response. Finn looked towards her then at the couch he walked past Marceline and grabbed Hambo, then went towards her and picked her bridal style, she let out a small shocked gasp.
"Finn what are you doing." She asked, Finn remained silent continuing to carry her upstairs, he laid on the bed while still holding her. "F-finn why am I in your bed?" Marceline asked nervously.
"You're too scared to sleep by yourself so you're going to sleep with me." Finn told her placing the blanket over the two.
"I'm not scared." Marceline countered.
"My cheek begs to differ, please Marceline just relax, nothing bad is going to happen while I'm here." Finn said handing her Hambo and closed his eyes. Marceline was about to leave the bed till another thunder was heard and she went back inside the bed, she looked at Finn still with his eyes closed. She stayed there for some time just listening around, then slowly concentrated on Finn's breathing as it seemed to soothe her, she laid her head on his chest listening to his heart constantly beating at a steady beat, like a lullaby, she fell to a deep sleep.
Marceline woke up to find herself to be still on the bed, but hugging Finn, she slowly let go of him getting out of bed trying not to wake him up. As she got out of bed she decided to see if any food was leftover, she floated towards the kitchen to see Jake already cooking breakfast.
"Hey, Marceline you're right in time." Jake said placing a stack of red pancakes on a plate, her mouth watered and floated towards the food, she helped herself. "Good now I have some questions."
"Shoot dog." Marceline said mouth full of strawberry pancakes.
"Good why was Finn lying to me yesterday." Jake asked in a serious tone, Marceline stopped chewing and swallowed the food.
"W-what do you mean Jake." Marceline asked nervously.
"I've seen the signs as well as I know why you haven't been around here lately." Jake said, Marceline gulped.
"Y-you do." Marceline asked again more nervous then before.
"Yeah, you and Finn have been secretly dating for the past 2 years haven't you and you've been keeping it a secret. Confess." Jake yelled.
"What? Where did you get that from." Marceline yelled.
"Don't lie I've seen how you've been acting lately, since you came to the tree house, Finn's jacket on you, you blushing unusually, but the biggest one of all is this." Jake yelled as he pulled out his phone then placed it in front of her face.
"What am I suppose to be seeing." Marceline growled.
"What?" Jake asked as he looked at the phone to see it was a picture of him swallowing a mouth full of pies. "Oh wait give me a minute and, uh, ha, this." Jake showed the phone to see a video of Marceline cuddling to Finn, she moved her head purring in her sleep, 'I love you Finn.' She said in the video, the video came to an end.
"Delete that now." Marceline growled, she was about to pounce on Jake.
"Confess you're dating Finn then I'll delete it." Jake offered.
"We're not dating." Marceline growled, Jake's smile turned to a wild grin.
"Oh so you're not dating him which means, you have a liking to my brother don't you, confess." Jake yelled Marceline's hair spun wildly in the air, her eyes turned red, and her fangs extended she was about to attack Jake.
"Any closer and I'll send this video to LSP." Jake warned, Marceline stopped in her tracks. "Good, now then I have some more questions."