Marceline cautiously hovered over to Finn, she gently poked him at his head, he didn't even moan or acknowledge that she poked him. "Finn." Marceline spoke softly half scared, she saw Finn's ears slightly twitch at her voice.
"Marceline?" He asked questionably.
"Yeah." She answered, as Finn got up from the couch.
"I thought Jake said he never got up." Marceline thought to herself while Finn looked at her.
"What's up Mar-Mar." Finn asked, Marceline's skin crawled and felt like a chill ran up her spine, Finn took notice. "Oh, sorry I forgot that's what that bastard called you." Finn said referring to Ash.
"No, no it's all right if you call me that." Marceline said to him.
"Well what's wrong." Finn asked, Marceline looked at him dumbfounded.
"What do you mean?" Marceline asked.
"You said my name a while back and you sounded scared, anything a matter." Finn asked, Marceline began to worry.
"I just thought you died or something." Marceline said, she floated away, while Finn laughed a little.
"Come on Marceline, nothing's going to kill me." Finn affirmed her.
"I hope not." Marceline whispered to herself.
"What was that." Finn asked.
"Nothing." Marceline said quickly, as she heard, 'hmm.' "Finn I said nothing really." She said as she ate some more pancakes nervously.
"Not that. Marceline did you bring any clothing with you when I brought you from Ash's house." Finn said as he was next to Marceline.
"No why." She asked trying to keep her voice normal.
"Cause the clothing you are wearing is filthy." Finn told, she looked at her clothing, her once white shirt was now covered with dirt and muck. Her pants were torn and with stains on them, her face flustered with embarrassment considering she has been with Finn the whole time looking like this. "Come on Marcy." Finn said, Marceline looked around to see Finn tossing her a jacket, she caught it.
"Uh? Where are we going?" Marceline asked.
"To the nearest Kingdom to buy you clothes." Finn told her, Marceline panicked.
"Finn you don't have to do that, really." She said, she didn't want to be a bother, in the past she would have accepted it and most likely half robbed Finn's lute at the process. But now she really didn't want Finn to be wasteful on her, especially all he's done for her.
"Nonsense, I can't just let you be in dirty clothing while you're here." Finn said grabbing a handful of gold from the pile, he placed the gold inside his pack.
"Finn, come on, we can simply just go to my house for my clothes." Marceline tried to negotiate, Finn stopped what he was doing and seemed to be thinking about it.
"All right, it could be simpler, and it will be easier to protect you in a closed location then a whole Kingdom." Finn said, Marceline felt a little raged.
"Finn I don't need protecting all the time." She told him, she was about to touch his shoulder, he grabbed her hand. He moved faster then she could follow, he had her hand behind her back, a knife on her throat.
"I know, but I still say you need back up." Finn told her, he let her go and took the knife off her throat, she was amazed to say the least. "Now then ready." Finn asked, opening the door letting the cold air come in. She placed the black jacket on and followed, she closed the door behind her, feeling the cool air touch her face and it felt nice, she looked towards Finn who was already walking towards her place, she got an idea. Finn was walking till he was picked up by the head, Marceline has turned to her giant bat form and had Finn between her fingertips.
"This shall be a lot faster." Marceline said placing Finn on her back. "Hold on Finn." Marceline said flying past the forest, the river, getting to her cave in simple minutes, she reached inside she looked at her house, seeing how much time has passed. Her once pink house has lost much of it's color, the pink was crackling and shipping off, the grass was now dull and dead along with her windows cracked. Marceline morphed back to her normal form quickly noticing Finn was still clinging to her back. "Uh Finn we're here."
"Sorry Marceline, you were just so soft, and warm." Finn said causing Marceline's face to instantly flush and blush a deep red. "Marceline you all right, you seem a little red?" Finn asked looking at her, she hid her face with her hair.
"I'm just a little sick." She said finding a lame excuse for her blushing.
"Then let's head inside." Finn said, Marceline flew straight towards the door to get away from Finn. She stopped when she touched the door knob, she realized this will be the first inside her house she didn't want to know how badly it looked inside. She slowly opened the door to see her home, better? Her couch was there except it looked better, her floor looked clean, the kitchen seemed spotless, and all the utensils and fine china in it's place.
"Something a matter." Finn asked seeing Marceline just floating in one spot.
"Finn, who else has been in my house." She asked looking around.
"You mean who did all this, I did." Finn said closing the door, Marceline looked at him in disbelief.
"Why?" She asked.
"Well, I didn't want you thinking no one cared while you were gone, so I fix the place once per month." Finn told her like it was nothing, Marceline couldn't stop herself from embraced him.
"Thanks Finn, you're a great guy." Marceline said, enjoying the moment.
"No prop, what are friends for." Finn said, Marceline's happiness died when he said 'friends', she let go of him.
"Yeah, let's go get my clothes." Marceline said holding back tears, she floated up the stairs going inside the bathroom, locked the door turned on the shower, and let her tears fall while silently crying.
"Marcy, are you in there." Finn asked knocking the door.
"Yeah Finn I'm in here I thought I'll take a shower first." She said while tears went down her cheeks.
"Oh, I'll wait out here then." Finn said.
"Yeah." She said, taking of her clothes and stepped into the shower, letting the warmth of the water relax her. As the word 'friends' continued to echo through her head, letting the running water cover the sound of her crying. After some time she got it out of her system, she looked herself in the mirror, she tied her hair in a ponytail, making sure any evidence she was crying not noticeable, she went towards her closet in the bathroom, for some clothes she kept in there. She opened her closet to find 2 boxes on the top, but these boxes were wrapped in black wrapping paper, tied in a red ribbon ending on a bow on the end. She picked one up carefully she looked at the paper on the present. To: Marceline, From: Finn, hope this gets to you soon, Love, you know who.
Marceline read the labeling as she was filled with joy, she walked out of the bathroom, present in hand. "Finn, thank you."
Finn looked towards Marceline, then saw that he had the gift he was planning to give to her, and forgot he left them in case she came here, and he wasn't around to give it her personally. "Oh my glob Marceline you weren't suppose to see them till-" Finn stopped his face turned red as a tomato, his mouth hung wide open he turned around without a single word.
"Finn, is it because I found the gift, I didn't see inside if that's okay." Marceline told him, thinking he didn't want to see her for discovering the gifts.
"Marceline, you're uh, you're not wearing any clothes." Finn said, still facing the opposite direction of her. Marceline looked at herself seeing she didn't cover herself with a simple towel, she gasped and covered herself with her hands but let go of the present. Finn turned around to see the gifts falling he jumped to grab them, he caught them, but now was seeing Marceline in all her glory, both their faces turned redder.
"Sorry." They both said, Marceline ran inside the bathroom, Finn turned around whistling to himself as he tried to place what he just saw in his vault. Marceline was inside repeatedly face palming herself for her stupidity, she grabbed a towel that was nearby and tore it to shreds with her mouth. After some awkward 10 minutes later, Marceline came out of the bathroom, this time wearing a magenta sweater and a pair of new jeans, her face still showed embarrassment.
"I packed your clothes except for your uh, underwear." Finn said showing that he placed her clothes inside a duffel bag. She could tell he tried to make the least eye contact as possible.
"Thanks." She said, not trying to make eye contact either.
"I'll be waiting for you downstairs, call if you need something." Finn affirmed her stepping down the ladder, Marceline walked over to her drawer opening it to have a cloud of dust come out of it. In a way she was glad and thankful for that, meaning Finn hasn't opened this, ever, till she remembered that Finn has just seen her fully naked no more then 13 minutes ago. Marceline grabbed her underwear and forcibly threw them into duffel bag. Once she got all her clothing, she threw the duffel bag on her back, grabbed the two gifts from Finn, and carried them carefully to the ladder, where she floated down to see Finn laying on the sofa.
"Isn't that couch suppose to be uncomfortable for you." Marceline asked, Finn now aware of her presence.
"It would be, if this was your couch. I replaced yours with this new comfy one if you don't mind." Finn told her.
"Not at all, at least you'll have some place to sit during Jam sessions." Marceline told him, while he chuckled.
"Yeah, so you ready to go." Finn asked, Marceline shook her head with a smile, the moment that happened a few minutes ago, seemed to be over. Finn opened the door then Finn was blasted backwards into the house, he hit the wall causing a gaping hole appeared where he hit. Marceline gasped in surprise, she floated towards Finn, carefully placing the presents on the floor. She picked him up while he rubbed his head in pain.
"So here's where you are." A voice was heard, the two looked towards the door to see Ash at the door, his face was half covered with bandages, as it seemed some blood has leaked out and soiled the bandages. He had his wand in hand pointing it towards the two. "Surprised to see me."
"Actually yes, considering I like the new look you did to your face. It's quite the improvement if you ask me." Finn joked, Ash's face showed rage, well whatever portion of his face that wasn't raised his wand and pointed it towards the two.
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