Marceline flew across the grasslands holding her newborn girl. She and Finn had decided to have her named Eona. Of course Neko insisted they call her Bobbet or Finnceline. He was such an idiot sometimes. Finn was all in with letting Neko off. She took a while but he kind of grew on her. Sure he was a dick most of the time but he had his moments. Jake still was pretty hesitant about trusting him at all, probably the only smart one out of them. When she arrived home, put the baby to sleep, and done everything she needed to take care of she crawled into bed on top of her sleeping husband. She straddled him, and suddenly felt a pair of hands grab her. She needed this...with Finn being off 'adventuring' most of the time. They made love into the night to the sounds of crickets chirping in the branches of the treehouse. After a while they fell back onto the bed, breathless.
"Marcy"
"Yeah?"
"What is it your hiding?"
He caught her off guard. How long had he known? Dear Glob, she hoped he didn't actually know somehow. Everything would be gone for her. She couldn't lose him again.
"What do you mean?"
"I dunno. You seem...distant. Like, you look all, upset recently. Are you okay Marcy?"
"Finn your'e just being a dweeb over nothing. I'm cool." She blinked back tears, unseen by the cover of dark
"Alrighgt. You know I'm here for you, whatever you need."
"I know Finn."
"I love you."
"Goodnight." She waited until he was asleep, then snuck out of his arms onto the roof. She stared at the sky, pondering what to do. Could she just tell him? How would she even begin. It was going to happen to him in a couple of weeks. She would be alone. She broke into tears, panicking at the fact she was going to lose Finn to that damn crown. But it needed to happen, and she promised she wouldn't stop it. She needed something. Something to just change fate. Make things work out. She needed someone who could change time. She couldn't think of any wizards...and Simon wasn't in the...right mind to rebuild his time machine. Bonnibel couldn't know about this. She had no way out. Except. He had been talking about time travelling. He didn't say much, but she listened to him when he was behind a locked door. He knew about this. She stood up, wiping away her tears. She jumped and flew to the one person she hoped could help.
Neko's sleep was interrupted by a knocking at the door to his room. Who would be there...he didn't know anyone that well in the castle. And only a few people even had access to his room. He brought out a knife. Approaching the door, he readied himself to gut whatever could be there. He opened the door.
"Marceline? Its the damn middle of the night. What is it you could possinly want?"
"I need your help to prevent Finn from becoming the Lich."
"Okay, could ya run that by me again? Coz I've been reading up on Oooian history, and isn't that guys super evil or whatevs? Finn doesn't exactly-"
"He gets sent back in time by a wizard. He goes on some stupid adventure and-" She broke into tears, making whatever she said sound more like snorts and sniffles than words.
"Woah woah woah okay um, sit down, will ya? What happens?"
"He *sniff* goes off fighting some evil wizard. And yknow I didn't care I think. Since he does it so often. But he gets sent back a thousand years. To the wreckage of the mushrrom war. And he, ran into me and Simon. And I didn't know him yet, so he had to pretty much raise me when Simon went crazy and then he got hurt one day and before he went crazy Simon found another magic crown and it saved him and now he became the Lich because crown of death and he fell into the toxic wastre and...and...I'll never see him again because he becomes the Lich and he kills himself."
Neko stayed silent for a couple moments. He wasn't very great with people...so he just sat there akwardly next to the crying vampire.
"So basically...Finn gets sent back in time to where you and Simon are...gets hurt...so Simon finds him a magic crown to save him? And the crown turns him into the Lich...you came to me why?"
"You know why."
"Sorry, don't know how much ya heard, but I can't travel like that anymore."
"You have to know something. You didn't just show up with no plans on getting back."
"Nope. Sure didn't."
"So how were you going to travel back?"
"I ain't going to say shit, even if ya were my friend, Marcy."
"Please."
Neko looked at Marceline's face. The desperation and sorrow in her eyes made him look away. He wanted to help her, but he had no way of doing it now. The only way there was would be impposible for anything that wasn't a dæmon. He might be part dæmon, but that would keep him alive only long enough to pull it off. He wasn't risking his life to help anyone.
"No."
You bastard!" Neko allowed her to hit him hard on the cheek, knowing it wouldn't hurt. She wiped the forming tears, picking herself up and left for the exit.
"I don't know what you really are, Neko, but whatever it is you want, just take it and go."
Neko didn't care. He made friends before, and now he was stuck here because of it. He layed and the strange marshmellow-like bed in his little prison and just stared at the ceiling. He put some music on, and just sat there, reviewing what he had done in his life. Not a big story really. He was born to a dæmon who had fallen in love with a human. His father had been killed for what he did, and his mother slain. He grew up, and did what it took to survive. He found a great power, making himself practically immortal. Now he just roamed around. Whatever he felt like doing, he did.
Marceline spent the next couple days doing whatever Finn wanted, making his last days with her as best as she could. He got called out on the mission, leaving her forever. She kept to herself, only acting herself for her daughters sake. When Finn was declared missing, she refused to see anyone.
Neko sat on a branch of the tree fort. He watched Marceline through the window, along with the girl who he presumed was her daughter. A smile snuck onto his face as he remembered the suggestion of naming her Finnceline. It faded as quickly as it showed up when he remembered he was watching to make sure she didn't do anything stupid. He didn't know why he was doing this. He'd finally been let out of the candy dungeons, and was now wasting his time watching some stupid vampire chick. He should be trying to find a way at least to the sacred river.
She grabbed a knife, making Neko get ready to jump in, only to make something to eat for the kid. He cussed himself out for worrying over something and someone so trivial. He made his way to the ground, barely making each branch on the way down. He didn't have much to do. And he was free. He could finally leave. He ran for hours, until he had reached the top of a huge mountain. It was deep in the night by the time he got there. He could see everything from here. He took in the view of the Candy Kingdom, the tree fort far in the distance, the little shack the belonged to the elephant lady. Those pies were enough to tempt him to stay, but he shrugged off such a silly notion immediatly. He looked around, knowing this could very well be the last time he saw any of these places. He took a last look, and walked down the other side of the mountain. He had gotten out, and now he could forget these people. He left, and as far as he was concerned, never to return.
