Chapter 2: Promises and Broken hearts
Flame Princess just sat there, empty of all expression, she was confused, Finn still loved her? She though he had moved on with her, although Finn's song clearly did not express that opinion. She didn't know what to say, would she ignore Finn and dismiss him? Would she embrace him and take him back? Or would she react with outrage, that Finn didn't understand her current occupation and that her kingdom came before her friends, or love interests?
With hesitance, she drew a shallow breathe. "Finn..." She scrambled for words, being careful not to hurt his feelings. "I just... don't feel that way anymore. I can't trust you, not after what you did." Flame Princess sat on her throne, patiently awaiting a response, but none came for some time. Finn was trying to register the rejection for the third and final time, as his heart slowly crumbled with his hopes, he whispered something quiet, something he would never repeat. Finn picked up his guitar and headed for the door with his head hung low. As the guards opened the door, Flame Princess quickly shouted with haste and annoyance that he hadn't responded. "So you come all the way here to serenade me and all, to show your 'feelings', and you don't even respond to me?! What are you hiding from me! Ugh!" Flame Princess's eyes turned a deadly orange hue as she grew in size.
Finn turned around to see his ex's eyes full of hate, or were they? Finn was picked up by her as she grew to the roof of the castle, knocking the lantern her Dad was in while doing so. "When I get out of here..." Muttered the Flame King as he watched his daughter consume half the castle. "Flame Princess..." Finn was in shock of her sudden rage. "What do you want from me?!" Flame Princess yelled as Finn tried to calm her down. "I wanted to show you how I truly felt; I didn't want to live with the guilt!" Finn exasperated as she burned through his flame shield. "What guilt?!" FP was starting to shrink, not because of Finn, but because of herself. Finn let it all spill, he was done hiding, no more questions.
"I couldn't live with the guilt that I betrayed you!" Finn was now on the ground, he had been dropped by the Princess as she had shrunk. "You were my everything! And I treated you like dirt for my own benefit." Finn sighed as he got back up, but a look of concern spread on his face when he saw FP on her knees, sobbing. As her went over to her, she began to speak. "Finn, I understand now. I forgive you." FP wiped her eyes as she got up. "I'm so glad you feel that way, because now, I can have closure too." Finn tried his best to form a crooked smile. "Thanks FP; maybe someday we will see each other again as something more?" Finn had one last spark of hope, and he was hoping she wouldn't dash it. "Well Finn it all depends, like on how this kingdom does, on how we turn out later in life, but yeah. It could happen, just not now." Flame Princess smiled, and punched Finn on the shoulder playfully. "Ya, someday." Finn smiled on the outside, on the inside however, he didn't feel like she was telling the absolute truth. Finn exited the Fire Kingdom and headed for the Tree House, what was he going to tell Jake? Finn recited the words he had muttered back at the castle. 'Only one love' was what he had said.
Finn walked home that day a little more complete than he had been before, he had new hope, a new cause, and a good one at that. And with FP's words, Finn rode off into a new period of his life, this one, hopefully, would lack disappointment.
Author's Notes: Well that was a fun (And emotional) ride. Even though Flamin in its canon form is dead, I and others will continue to bear the Flamin torch. We aren't dead yet, and remember, if you remember love, love will remember you. For definitely not the last time, I shall say, Peace!
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