Fubblegum: The Gained Years
Chapter 1: Breaking Free, Part 2
I do not happen to own Adventure Time. If I did, canon PB would be killed off.
Princess Bubblegum and Finn were sitting in the Princess's tower room, where the wall had recently been smashed by a yellow dog. After an awkward silence due to some even more awkward, circumstances, which also caused Finn to get as close to fainting as consciousness would allow, Princess Bubblegum realised that they had overlooked the fact that Jake was probably dead, and tried in vain to wake Finn from his semi-conscious sitting position. Eventually, she just decided to slap him across the face.
"Ow! What the… P-Bubs!"
"You wouldn't wake up."
"Oh. Wait, what happened to Jake?"
"I don't know. I'll check."
Princess Bubblegum looked through the window, and saw a large yellow puddle oozing its way out of the kingdom.
"He's alive, but not in very good shape."
"We've got to get him!"
"No. He's too powerful. He can use his powers at any time."
"We'll need to track him down. He was always a loose cannon."
"How?"
"We were always on the line between good and evil. He was about as close to evil on the good side as anyone could be."
"In the end, good and evil are just subjective opinions, but you're right." She heaved a sigh. "You know, he seemed really unstable recently."
"I know. He had settled own with LR, and now he's paranoid about you killing me."
"The Tree Fort isn't the safest place to go right now. Either we both go now and take whatever we want to back here, or we wait until tomorrow morning. Jake's stupid, but not that stupid. He knows you'll probably be here, but he'll target the Tree Fort first in case we decide to split up."
"Alright. We'd better go now. Going tomorrow'll just give him time to get there first."
"Okay. You can stay in my room tonight. There's a spare bed."
"You didn't really care about that bed earlier when…"
"Okay, fine. I have something that should be useful if we run into Jake."
And with that, the two got a grappling hook, and slid down the tower through the hole. On the way down, both of them looked at each other with just one thought: Boy, am I lucky to have such an awesome boy/girlfriend. As they approached the bottom, they both leaned closer to each other, but suddenly jerked apart as the rope went taut. The two let go and sprinted to the Tree Fort at full speed, urgently trying to get there before Jake.
4 minutes later…
Finn and Princess Bubblegum arrived at the Tree Fort, Finn with his sword at the ready, and Princess Bubblegum with a device containing quick-drying glue contained in weak shells, designed to function as a kind of grenade launcher specifically designed for if and when Jake became a threat.
Finn counted to three, then kicked down the door, lingering in the doorway with an overhead ready stance until he finished scanning the interior. Behind him, Princess Bubblegum knelt down, facing the opposite direction with gun shouldered, prepared to fire off an immobilising round at anyone who came into range.
"Coast clear, P-Bubs. You can come in now."
"Okay. I'll grab my swords, the Cyclops tears, the maps, my crossbow, and some other stuff."
"Roger that. I'll keep watch."
At that point, a feminine robotic voice rung through the room.
"Hi, Finn!"
"P-Bubs, take BMO too. We don't want any witnesses."
"Okay. BMO, I know this'll be hard for you to take, but Jake is trying to kill me, and probably Finn too."
The small blue robot promptly fainted.
2 minutes later…
Finn rushed downstairs with about two dozen swords, a crossbow and bolts, a bottle of Cyclops tears, a few maps, as well as an assortment of bottles containing various liquids and pill-like items, but the one that caught her eye was a jar containing a small but right fire, still burning despite the fact that it should have been snuffed out.
"Flammam aeterne. Where did you get that?"
"All I'm telling you is that Flame King is going to pay."
"Flame Princess?"
Finn's eyes welled up with tears upon hearing the name, and he merely responded with a grunt and ran back to the Candy Castle.
"Touchy subject."
4 minutes later…
Finn hurled himself up the stairs, and threw himself onto the spare bed, sobbing quietly into the pillow. Princess Bubblegum followed at a slower pace, and sat on the bed, slowly rubbing Finn's back whilst remaining silent, knowing that even though her death was two years ago, he still had feelings for her.
After a few minute of crying, Finn was calmed down enough to be able to talk comprehensibly.
"I guess you want to know about me and FP, right?"
"Only if you want to talk about it."
"Can you keep a secret?"
"You can tell me anything, Finn."
"There's a secret that only her and me knew about. About who our parents were. I know this'll be hard for you to take, but Flame King is my… he's my biological dad."
Princess Bubblegum began feeling uneasy. She had known that he was half Fire Elemental, and that he was probably Furnius and Torcho's brother, but his father actually being the king of the Fire Kingdom was new.
"My mother was human. She died in childbirth, and when Flame King realised I wasn't a Fire Elemental, he disowned me and dumped me on Boom Boom Mountain. Then he locked up my twin for no reason."
"Flame Princess was your twin?"
"We found out shortly after we met. We hadn't started dating then, so at least it saved us a lot of awkwardness."
"What about the fire that you keep in the jar?"
"When she… she was killed, she compressed her fire into the jar, and told me too open it only in an extreme emergency."
"Oh… I think you should have something to eat. You skipped lunch, after all."
"I'm not hungry."
"I'll bring something in case you regret making that statement later."
"I probably won't for a few days."
Princess Bubblegum sighed exasperatedly. Not long afterwards, she came up carrying a tray with two forks and a large, round plate piled high with spaghetti. Finn was sitting on the floor, and his head was stooped so low that it would have dropped off were it not for his spine.
"Are you sure that you don't want to eat?"
"Yes."
The candy princess slowly moved the spaghetti tower closer to Finn letting the smell waft over to him so that he would be convinced otherwise.
"Still don't want it?" said Princess Bubblegum childishly.
A small grunt was the only reply.
"Well, all the more for me, then!"
The princess began ravenously devouring the spaghetti, eating slightly messily to make the mound of steaming, stringy pasta seem more appealing. Finn looked up, and immediately started drooling. He twitched a bit, resisting the urge to wolf down the entire thing at once.
"I made this myself, you know."
Finn, knowing how much his girlfriend's cooking had improved over the last few years (especially since she was relatively good to start with), failed to resist the urge to eat, and took the second fork, saliva dripping over his shirt, and pulled large swathes of hot spaghetti out of the pile, stuffing himself with as much as his mouth would hold in one go.
When there was only a semi-small clump of edibly warm spaghetti left, Princess Bubblegum came up with an idea for what they could do with it.
"Whoever eats the last strand of spaghetti gets to choose breakfast!"
Finn stopped eating.