Ch3- Between you and me.
"Sometimes I need what only you can provide—your absence." –Ashleigh Brilliant
"It had only been two weeks of their marriage." The woman said, her voice growing warmer. "The sister, Cake, had left to the crystal dimension with her own husband and left the new king and queen to enjoy their honeymoon right after the wedding. The vampire king had not been seen since the wedding, yet the newly queen was too busy trying to forget him to have him on her mind. Countless times, she would throw herself onto her husband to forget the vampire, she would adventure harder than she had ever and she had turned into something that was so out of her character, that she was unrecognizable to herself. Not on the outside." The woman said, as the tapped the crystal ball lightly, with one finely manicured nail "No. But on the inside. She had become saddened, depressed, and often had to force herself to be able to kiss her husband. She angered easily and searched for trouble, fighting more monsters than before. Hardly spending anytime in the candy Kingdome because the sight of its sugary king made her feel even more like a liar and a user. The king seemed not to notice, or to want to notice. This was all only in that two week period. Eventually, her sister came back to visit."
~ "Fionna, baby, are you in here?" Cake called out into the room, Fionna, and Gumball's chambers.
"Cake?" Fionna grinned as she walked out of the bathroom in a blue bathrobe and towel drying her hair.
"Hey, baby!" Cake rushed over to her sister "How was the honeymoon?"
"It was okay." Fionna smiled
"I heard you had to cut it short because of a science convention." Cake frowned sadly
"Its totes okay Cake. I went adventuring." Fionna said approaching the bed, where her outfit was laid out.
"Why didn't you call me? I could've gone with you." Cake said walking over to start the fireplace.
"Cake, it was totally okay. I re-did mom's dungeon and helped a bunch of peeps." Fionna smiled as she walked behind the changing screen.
"Well… I probably wouldn't have been able to come. Lord M. and I where with his parents. Long story short, they want grandchildren." Cake muttered.
Fionna laughed amused as her sister ranted about how she's too young to be having children and how she and Lord M. want to wait and junk. "Relax, Cake." Fionna laughed
"Yeah, you're right." Cake sighed
"Although it would be cool to have little you and little Mo-chro's around." Fionna grinned and watched Cake fur frizz. "Relax. You wanna go have some cake?"
"You guys still have cake left?" Cake asked as they walked out the door
"Of course! Didn't you see the size of the thing?" Fionna laughed again
"Yeah… you'd probably have cake till your anniversary!" Cake exclaimed and walked in front of Fionna, completely oblivious of the fact that Fionna's smile was forced.
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"How's being married to someone that doesn't love you?" Lord Monochromicorn stomped, sarcastically, to Gumball who laughed in response
"Very well." Gumball replied sipping his tea
"How so?" Mo-chro stomped, confused.
Gumball grinned at his friend's surprised expression "She spends a lot of her time adventuring so I can work on my experiments and go to conferences without worry. And we haven't had one problem."
"What bout Marshall Lee?" Mo-chro asked
"Haven't heard from him." Gumball sipped
"What if Fionna sees him again?" Mo-chro asked
"We are already wedded; I don't think I have anything to worry about." Gumball smiled triumphantly
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"Have you seen Marshall Lee?" Cake asked Fionna as they ate their slices of cake. The two had been chatting over little things, trying to ignore the elephant in the room. Finally, Cake brought it up.
"No." Fionna replied truthfully. After a long pause, she asked "Why?"
"Oh, because no one has seen him in a while. Almost two weeks now." Cake responded looking up to Fionna nonchalant face
"Well, disappearing for periods of time is his specialty." Fionna laughed sarcastically, put her plate down on the candy table, and walked towards the door.
"Fionna…" Cake rushed after her, her plate still in hand.
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Marshall Lee lazily strummed his bass… his depressing tune, sounding nothing like himself. His house was trashed… as he lay on his bed, feeling like knots were constricting his throat. "I wonder… how I'm supposed to feel… because you're not here." He sighed "Cause I burned down every bridge I ever built… when you where here." He looked at the picture of him and Fionna making faces at the camera, across his bed, and his mood sunk deeper. "I still try… holding on to silly things… man, I never learn." Again, he sighed sadly. He picked up the tempo "Oh, well… I guess that's what you get when you let your heart win… Whoa… that's what you get when you let your heart win… whoa." Marshall Lee choked back a sob "I drowned out my sense with the sound of your beating… and that's what you get when you let your heart win…Whoa…"
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"Hey." Fionna smiled when she saw Lord M. and Gumball. She had turned the corner of the castle, followed by Cake and they had run into the two.
"Hello." Gumball smiled
"Where were you going?" Fionna asked
"Actually, I was going to look for you. Lord Monochromicorn and I have to go to the crystal dimension to help settle the dispute between the cloud Kingdome and the frostbite Kingdome. All of Aaa royalty is required to go. I thought I told you."
"You did… I must've forgotten." Fionna sighed, "Do I have to?"
"Only if you want to. Everyone is already aware of your title as adventuress, no one expects you to drop it for queen." Gumball smiled
"Okay. Then I'm gonna go and adventure with Cake." Fionna smiled at him
"Oh, sorry baby. I have plans with Lord M.'s parents… if you wanna come?" Cake smiled empathically
"No… its cool. Go ahead, I'll go and help peppermint maid or something." Fionna smiled weakly
"Very well." Gumball said as he kissed her cheek. Lord M. stomped a goodbye and Cake hugged her sister before following. ~
"True to her word, the young adventuress went to the kitchen to see if she could help peppermint." The pixie woman smiled "What she didn't expect was for the maid to ask her to go buy some berries in town for a pie. The adventuress protested that fresh berries are better and she would go and find the best in all of Aaa. Turning berry picking into an adventure she left the castle, without the guards- after having a long discussion she could do without them, and worked her way to the woods where she encountered an ogre.."
~ "Evil forest, ha!" Fionna mocked as she worked herself out of under the ogre corpse. "Back when I was younger, you monster were tougher!" She laughed as she worked her way into the cave. Unconsciously, she had taken the back way around to Marshall Lee's cave. It wasn't until she was right in front of the cave entrance that she realized what she was doing.
"What are you doing here?" His voice was heard from behind her. Fionna turned sharply to face the vampire, his red axe-bass around his back and his purple umbrella with the spiky tip on the top. The tip was similar to a dagger. "Huh? Are you deaf?" He waved in front of her face
"I was berry picking and I just…." She trailed off
"Right. What do you want? Shouldn't you be with your husband?" He asked, his fangs pressing on his bottom lip. Marshall Lee didn't look well. His dark eyes seemed darker, his pale skin paler and his hair a little messier than usual, he was floating low almost touching the ground…as if he didn't have enough energy to go any higher.
"Are you okay?" She asked walking closer
"I'm fine." He said floating past her
"Marshall Lee… have you been eating?" Fionna followed him
"Leave, Fionna." He responded
"Marshall Lee, I'm asking you a question!" Fionna yelled, not stopping her following
Marshall turned and glared sharply "Don't raise your voice at me! You have no right to hound me! I'm not the one you married." Fionna stared as he floated to her, mere inches from her "And no, I haven't been eating. So I suggest you leave before I make a meal out of you, Blondie."
Fionna stared dumbstruck. Was he threatening her? "Here." She said producing the cherries and other red berries, she had picked along the way.
"I don't need your charity." He narrowed his eyes and turned to go home.
"Its not charity." She yanked him back to her "Please." Again, she propped up the fruit. He grabbed one strawberry and forcefully sank a fang into it, draining the color so profoundly that instead of gray it was plain white.
"Happy?" He asked sarcastically as he turned to float away.
"No." She muttered. The two headed in the direction of his house. At the door, he turned back to her and saw she closed it behind her. He then rolled his eyes and floated towards his kitchen after dropping his bass and umbrella by the amplifier. "What happened in here?" She asked as she passed the broken pieces of furniture and pieces of his songbook ripped up. Claws marks on the wall and junk.
"Wont Gumball be looking for you?" Marshall asked, from the kitchen, ignoring her question. When Fionna entered the kitchen, she saw it wasn't only his living room that was a mess.
"No." Fionna answered as she passed the broken plates, glasses, and scattered silverware.
"What are you doing here?" He asked her as he approached her.
"I don't know. I was picking berries and I ended up here." She replied truthfully.
"What do you want from me?" He asked hopelessly, he was mere inches from her now. "Why are you doing this to me Fionna?" In his tone she could pick up anger mixed with confusion.
"I-I… Marsh-" but she was cut off… cut off by the vampire king's lips crushing desperately against her own.
A/N
Oooooh…. That's not good.
Notalivezombie, I kinda had a feeling you would enjoy this. I hope that you like the ending too.
MissCriticalKakesz This story is based on reality. Not my reality… but realities…enjoy the story. Tragedies in literacy are something to enjoy.