Thirteen Days Remaining
I slowly opened my eyes. Marceline was laying with me underneath the fur blankets. We were.. indecent. I felt my cheeks flame up with embarrassment. I shifted my eyes away from her naked form as I moved around awkwardly.
As I shifted, I heard a small giggle. I looked at Marceline and saw her smiling.
"After all this time and you still get embarrassed." She said as she pinned herself against me, causing me to shiver.
"Uhh.."
"Shhh." She silenced me as she placed her index finger over my lips
She pecked me on the lips and rose out of the bed. She didn't even bother covering herself as she walked around. I sat up in the bed and looked at her. Then looking turned into staring.
"Are you gonna just lay down and stare at me all day or are you gonna get out of bed?" She said as she turned around and looked me in my eyes.
I got off my bed slowly. When I stood up, I covered myself with my fur blankets.
"Aww, don't be such a party pooper." Marceline pouted
I felt my face turned red once again. She floated up to me and pressed herself against me.
"Your cheeks look delicious." She whispered into my ear as her hands caressed my chest
I let go of the blanket and kissed her quickly before running out of the room.
"That's so not cool, Finn!" She shouted
I snickered as I jumped down the ladder. I started walking to the kitchen but an unexpected voice stopped me.
"Why are you naked, Finn?"
"AAAH!"
Beemo stood right before me and was staring at my nakedness.
"Beemo, don't look!" I yelled as I quickly covered it's eyes
Marceline floated on down fully clothed, laughing. How she put her clothes on so fast I'll never know.
"You might wanna get dressed, lover boy."
I let go of Beemo as I ran and climbed back up the ladder.
I came back down a couple of minutes later with clothes on.
"So what you wanna do today?" I asked as I slumped down on my couch
Marceline floated on over to me and landed in my lap. She leaned herself on to me and moved her mouth to my ear.
"I was thinking that I could have you for all myself today." She whispered seductively
"That sounds nice." I replied. "But what about Beemo?"
Marceline had an empty expression on her face. Then her face lit up as she got an idea.
"We could let Simon watch Beemo."
"Ice King? How is that ol' geezer?"
"He's still the same." She replied
"Is he still bummed out about what happened?" I asked
"You'd think that after eighty seven years he'd get over it, but he kinda hasn't. He's a lot more cheerful now but if you mention Bonnie around him he gets really depressed."
"Maybe we should visit him. Hang out with him for a while." I suggested
"I don't know, Finn.."
"Come on, Marcy. He's probably been alone for who knows how long!"
"I guess we can go visit Simon," She said as she floated off of me and grabbed an umbrella. "But you owe me."
"That's fine by me." I said as I got up "Beemo!"
I heard a little footsteps as Beemo ran up to me.
"Yes?"
"You wanna go with us to visit the Ice King?"
"I don't know, Finn. That doesn't sound fun."
"Come on, I'm sure it'll be fun."
"Okay!"
I picked up Beemo and placed him on the back of my neck and went out the door.
When I stepped outside the sun was shining brightly. Marceline came from behind with her sun protection clothing. She was wearing her old yellow sunhat and gloves. While I was glancing at her, I saw the ring I had gotten her all those years ago on her finger. I grinned stupidly at her.
"What's so funny?" Marceline asked as she cocked an eyebrow at me
"You still have the ring I gave you."
She instantly started blushing a dark shade of red. She brought her hand up and started playing with her hair.
"Well.. yeah. I couldn't just.. throw it away, ya know?" She said.
She flew closer to me and noticed that I didn't have a ring on my finger.
"Where's yours?" She asked worriedly
I pulled up the string necklace on my neck and showed her the ring on it.
"I didn't forget about it, if that's what you're thinking."
"Good."
She smiled as she floated towards me. I gave her a quick peck on the lips.
"You ready to go" I asked
"Yeah. Let's go."
She wrapped her arms around me and flew into the air.
The landscape looked absolutely gorgeous. The rolling green plains looked so calm and serene. The wind against my skin felt incredible. Marceline looked at me and smiled. She knew that I never really got used to the feeling of flying and probably knew just how much I missed it because she was taking her sweet time flying to the Ice Kingdom.
After half an hour of flying we finally landed in the Ice Kingdom.
Honestly, I don't know what to expect from Ice King. Maybe he'll be the same old guy from before but something in my mind is telling me differently.
"Hey, Simon." Marceline said casually as we flew in through the window
Beemo hopped off my neck and scurried away. I could hear 'wenk' sounds come from down the hall as well as laughter.
"Marceline, what are you doing here? Who's your new friend?"
"Wow. I thought you would've remembered me, Ice King." I said while fixing my hair out of my face. "Especially after all the times me and Jake beat the snot out of you."
"Finn! Oh Finn, my bosom! My friend!" Ice King yelled out as he flew over and hugged me tightly
"You're.. suffocating me!" I said as Ice King squeezed the air out of my lungs
Marceline started laughing at me as I continued to squirm in the Ice King's iron grip.
"I thought you were dead! Eighty seven years and no calls!"
"Ice King I was dead. Wait, you remembered how long I was gone?"
"Pssh! Of course I remember! That was when Princess.." He trailed off
Ice King's facial expression changed quickly.
"Ice King, you alright, man?" I asked
He didn't answer me back. Marceline quickly flew over to him and started talking to him.
"Simon." She called out to him
He stood silently
"Simon, I need you to look at me."
Ice King didn't respond. He just stood there with a distant look in his eyes.
"Simon, it's over. Listen to me. Bonnie will come back, Simon. She just had to leave for a while. She'll be back."
Ice King looked at Marceline.
"I'm sorry. I must've spaced out again. I really need to stop doing that."
"It's okay, Simon." She told him reassuringly
"Finn, you remember what happened all those years ago, don't you?" Ice King asked me
"Yeah, I remember."
"Never thought that all of that would happen, right?"
The wind howled outside as the temperature got even colder within the room. The Ice King continued,
"Why'd Princess Bubblegum have to leave us, Finn?"
"I.. I don't know, but look. We're.. well you two, are still alive and you have each other. It's been like this for a long time, Simon. Whether you believe it or not. Princess Bubblegum may not be here now but I'm sure she wouldn't have wanted too see you or any of us like this."
Ice King's face seemed to lighten up a bit as he made eye contact with me.
"You're right. You're completely right."
Gunter and Beemo came waddling into the room, making all kinds of sounds. (Well except Gunter since he only makes one sound) I couldn't help but laugh. Ice King even giggled a little. Gunter waddled up to Ice King and hugged him. He smiled and hugged him or.. her.. uh.. it back. I still can't tell if Gunter's a girl or not.
"How about we catch up a bit and play some Card Wars?" Ice King suggested
"I'm game." I replied
"I play winner." Marceline said as she floated over to Beemo and picked him up and started to start up a racing game. (Beemo told me on the way over here that he wants to be a real boy, so I'm just going with it)
"Prepare to lose!" Ice King shouted confidently
"Whatever, dude." I said as I jokingly rolled my eyes
"My ice ninja skills are too much for your puny weak human skills! Bwahahahah!"
"Lame!" I shouted back at him and laughed
I'm really glad that we got out of that.. uh.. situation. The past's the past and sometimes it should stay dead. No need to bring up things that we can't change.
I still miss Princess Bubblegum though. I wish that things could've ended different for us. I wish I could change all of those things that happened to us. I wish I could take those years of pain away from Marceline.
I wish that we could've had our happily ever after.
Hello there again! I've been terribly busy for quite a while (I helped another writer, Neo-Dracula, with his story Criminals. Go check that chapter out!) and didn't have enough time to post this earlier, but now I finally had the time to and so I did!
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-Samuel The Raconteur
