After a few hours of resting, Finn woke up feeling refreshed and comfortably warm. He grinned, listening to Jace's soft breathing, and carefully rolled over onto his side so he could see his partner. Jace was laying on his back, his chest slowly rising and falling and his warm glow pulsing with each breath.

After a while, Finn began to feel butterflies in his stomach, and a strange tightness in his throat. The lure of Jace's skin was intoxicating, and Finn gently lifted Jace's shirt, sliding his hand across the flame boy's stomach as lightly as possible. After double checking that Jace was still asleep, he began to get less light with his touch, exploring his abs and belly. Jace had a well-defined six pack, and a small trail of fire-hair leading down from his bellybutton to his shorts. His heartbeat quickening, Finn worked his hand lower, sliding back and forth across Jace's hot skin until he was right on the waistline of the black shorts Jace was wearing as pajamas.

Finn swallowed. He knew what he was doing was wrong and inappropriate, but his body seemed to be acting on its own, slipping one finger under the waistband, then two, as Finn explored Jace's hips and upper thighs. His hand worked its way deeper into Jace's shorts, until Finn found Jace's… oh, it's really big! thought Finn, his hand sliding gently over Jace's thick shaft. He gently slid one finger along the length, from bottom to tip, feeling Jace harden and grow beneath his hand.

Suddenly the full realization of what he was doing hit Finn, and he gently pulled his hand out, silently cursing himself. If Jace knew what I was doing, he'd never speak to me again!

"Don't stop," said Jace softly, making Finn jump.

"Jace, uh… h-how long have you b-been awake?" Finn hid his head in Jace's chest, not wanting to look him in the eyes.

"Um… since you started rubbing my belly. But don't stop, what you were just doing felt really really good."

Finn looked up at Jace, his face flushed with embarrassment. "B-but that's your… y'know, your stuff. Your personal man-biz."

Jace smiled. "So? If we're going to be together, we share our biz."

"Are you sure?" Finn asked, caressing Jace's cheek.

Jace nodded, and gently grabbed Finn's hand and pulled it down toward his groin. "What you were doing… It felt right. Like… like this is how it's supposed to work with guys and guys."

Finn grinned, his face still bright red, and slipped his hand into Jace's shorts again, wrapping his fingers around his length.

"Mmm… I like it when you squeeze." Finn gave Jace a firm squeeze, feeling him get bigger and harder in his hand. He slid his hand up and down Jace's length, rubbing his thumb over the tip and making Jace shiver in excitement. "Hold on, this will make it easier…" Jace quickly slid his shorts off, then pulled off his shirt. Finn involuntarily gasped. Seeing Jace completely naked filled his head with an exciting buzz and blotting out logic and sense.

"But now we're not equal…" Jace observed, indicating to Finn that he should remove his pajamas as well.

"B-but… I'm not as pretty as you. I-I mean, handsome. I'm all lumpy and fat." Finn frowned, letting go of Jace and curling into himself.

Jace rolled closer to Finn, gently kissing him on the lips. "I think you're beautiful. And you're not fat."

"Y-you… really?" Jace nodded, and Finn, his whole body pumping with endorphins and hormones, pulled off his pajamas, still keeping his underwear on. He could see in the soft glow of Jace's body that he was also was hard and stiff, the elastic of his underwear stretched taught.

Jace breathed in deeply, wrapping his hand around Finn through his underwear and tugging gently. "Nnn…" Finn moaned, squirming with excitement and pleasure. He rocked his hips into Jace's hand, causing friction and eliciting a moan from Jace. "Oh glob…" He closed his eyes, focusing on Jace's touch and motion. A euphoric, ballooning sensation spread through his chest, causing him to gasp and reach out for Jace's body.

Finn rolled over and climbed on top of Jace, straddling his legs so their hips rubbed together, Jace against Finn through his underwear. Closing his eyes and breathing in deeply, Jace rocked his hips forward, sliding against Finn and making them both gasp and moan. Finn leaned down and kissed Jace, hard and deep. Jace moaned, opening his mouth and inviting Finn's tongue in.

Finn had never used his tongue in a kiss before, so at first he was a little unsure, confused. Quickly, though, he warmed up to the motion, gently exploring Jace's mouth and caressing his partner's tongue. He rocked his hips hard against Jace as he began exploring more of the other with his tongue. First his lips, then his chin, and further down along his neck. "Finn… Haaaahhh…. Gnnngg" Jace moaned, his hips rocking in time with Finn's. He tilted his head backward and arched his back, inviting Finn to explore more with his tongue.

Laying down wet and sloppy kisses, Finn worked his way down along his partner's chest. Tiny flames danced across Jace's chest, forming a small patch of fire hair between his pectorals. Finn spent some time kissing up and down Jace's sternum, Jace moaning as Finn's wet kisses left temporary small, sizzling patches of darker, grayer skin.

"Doesn't that hurt?" asked Finn, noticing the pale patches where his lips and tongue had cooled off Jace's skin.

"N-no… Well, yes, but g-good hurt. Mmmm…" Jace's body spasmed slightly as Finn resumed kissing, their hips still rocking in sync. "L-like when you… O-oh! When you stretch your muscles, and it hurts, but in a g-good feeling way… Nnnnn!" Finn continued exploring his way down Jace's body, now working his way across his belly. Jace's skin was glowing brighter than ever, and Finn could feel heat radiating from his body, although he didn't feel his skin burning where they touched.

"Umm… Can I…?" Finn looked up at Jace, unsure. He had reached Jace's erection, and was licking around its base, but the large shaft rubbing against his face seemed to be begging to be in his mouth, twitching slightly at every touch.

Jace nodded, unable to speak. His eyes were ablaze with passion and arousal, and his whole body was squirming and spasming, yearning to climax. Finn grinned, licking up and down Jace before bringing his mouth down over his entire length. Jace was hot in his mouth, the tip rubbing against the back of Finn's throat. He tried not to gag as he slid up and down, instinctively sucking slightly. Finn could feel his body preparing to climax, a sensation he'd never felt before but was primally familiar with. He began moving faster, careful to avoid hitting anything with his teeth, as Jace's breathing became ragged and shallow, his own body preparing to climax as well.

Suddenly Finn felt strong arms on his shoulders. Jace lifted him with surprising strength so that he was now sitting on Jace's lap, his erection pressed firmly against Jace's. The fire boy carefully burned a hole in Finn's underwear, pulling him out so that their full lengths were touching, skin against fiery skin. The two boys wrapped their hands around both of their shafts, squeezing them together, Finn's fingers intertwined with Jace's. With his free hand, Jace ran his fingers through Finn's hair, pulling him close into a strong and deep kiss. Slowly at first, then faster, they moved up and down along their erections, squeezing them together as hard as they could.

"I'm… I'm… I'm gonna… gonna… Oohhhhohhhhoooohhhhh!" Finn climaxed first, sending his fluid all over their chests, causing small sizzling grey spots to appear on Jace. A moment later, Jace climaxed as well, bright orange liquid spraying high between them, covering their chests and chins. As he climaxed, all of the candles in the room burst into flame, illuminating the two boys with warm, soft light.

For a moment, they just sat there, Finn on Jace's lap, both breathing heavily. Jace wrapped both of his arms around Finn, pulling him close and burying his head in Finn's shoulder. Finn could feel Jace's body cooling down, his glow returning to its normal brightness as the candles in the room slowly went out.

"Finn…" Jace murmured into his shoulder, still breathing heavily. "That was… absolutely amazing. I don't know why it took me so long to see it…" He lifted his head and looked deep into Finn's bright blue eyes. "I love you."

"I-I love you too, Jace. I wanna be with you… Please stay here. In Ooo." Jace nodded, kissing Finn gently on his nose.

"There's nowhere else I'd rather be." He pulled Finn with him as he lay down in the bed. Finn rolled over so he was spooning with Jace, his back against the other's chest.

"Mmm… I like this. We fit together." Finn wiggled his butt a little against Jace, who pressed his face against Finn's shoulder in return. They both breathed deeply, Finn noticing that Jace's scent had changed slightly from his arousal, now a little sweeter and saltier.

"Yeah, we sure do." Jace yawned. "Ugh, I'm all wound up now. There's no way I'm getting back to sleep. I blame you," he said, tapping Finn on the arm.

"Hey, no fair!" whined Finn, smiling. "I know, I'll sing you to sleep."

"You'll what?"

Finn began humming, then sang,

Don't be weepy sleepy puppies.

Slip your slippers on your footies.

In the morning you'll get goodies;

Puppy hats and puppy hoodies.

Jace yawned, curling his legs against Finn's.

No stripes or polk-a-dots;

Heather grey and feather soft,

Baby pink or baby blue...

Finn wrapped one of his legs around Jace's, and sighed contently.

All the draw strings you can chew.

The two boys nodded off to sleep together, Finn curled securely against Jace.

Princess Bubblegum rubbed her eyes. It was nearly three in the morning, and she had just completed the formula for Flame Prince's stabilizing serum. She absentmindedly stroked her pet candy corn rat Science.

"This ought to force mitosis in his hemo-ganoids, at least for a little while." She yawned, stretching her arms. "C'mon, Science. Time for us both to get some sleeps." She picked up Science and carried him to his cupboard. "Nighty night!" After changing into her pajamas, she picked up the taliform stone and carried it over to her bed. "No place safer in all the Candy Kingdom than right here, with me." She placed it under her pillow, then curled up and tried to fall asleep. The delicious scent of Marceline's old band t-shirt lulled her toward slumber, and her mind drifted back to the day when she had gotten the shirt, a replacement for a similar shirt she had sold to Maja, the sky witch. No matter how much she wore this shirt, nor how many times she washed it, it always seemed to have Marceline's scent. She sighed contently, enjoying the musty, savory smell.

Suddenly, a loud POP jolted her awake. "Whoa, what!?" She sat up and looked around. Her royal bedchamber had disappeared, and been replaced by a dark cave. Marceline's cave, from the looks of it.

Princess Bubblegum stood and paced back and forth a few times on the wooden dock, shivering in the damp of the cave. Finally succumbing to her frustration, she pocketed the small stone she held in her hand and knocked on the pale purple door. This house has always looked out of place here, she thought to herself.

"Who is it?" said a grumpy voice from behind the door.

"It's Princess Bubblegum, open up please!"

The door opened, and Marceline, the vampire queen, stepped out, leaning against the door jamb. "Bonnibel?"

"I hope I didn't wake you up. I know you don't really have a set sleep schedule."

Marceline shrugged. "No probs, I was just noodling around on my bass."

Princess Bubblegum smiled faintly. She knew that Marceline's tussled hair, squinty eyes, and pajamas meant she had indeed just woken up, but the unflusterable vampire queen would never admit that. "Could you do me a favor?"

Marceline smirked. "Of course, Bonbons. What up?"

Princess Bubblegum frowned, crossing her arms. "Don't call me Bonbons."

"Why? You don't like it? Hmm? Bonbons? You don't like it when I call you Bonbons?" Marceline poked Princess Bubblegum in the belly teasingly, tickling her. "Bonnie bon bon bons bonnie bons!"

Laughing and gasping for air, Princess Bubblegum gave in. "Ok, Ok, call me Bonbons! Just stop… ahaha… stop tickling me." She gently pushed Marceline away.

"Fine. What's up?"

"Marceline, I need you to fly me back to the Candy Kingdom."

"What? But you just got here!"

"I know, but it was an accident. I didn't meant to."

"So… you accidentally, without meaning to, travelled half-way across Ooo in the middle of the night and climbed the forty foot cliff to get into the cave?"

Princess Bubblegum sighed. "Not exactly." She pulled out the small stone and showed it to Marceline. "Do you know what this is?"

"It's a rock… and it's not pink. Oh Bonnie, I'm glad to see you branching out to new color palettes!"

"No, it's a taliform." Marceline gasped. "So you know what that is?"

Marceline sighed. "Come on in, we're gonna need to talk." Princess Bubblegum followed Marceline into the house, a little confused. "So… before you say anything, I didn't know how it worked at your party. I totes didn't mean to use it."

"What?"

"Remember, your five hundredth birthday party? I kinda crashed the party in the middle of the toast?"

"Oh yeah…!"

"That was the Taliform. I didn't realize how it worked back then, I was just playing with it and writing in my journal and BLAM-O, there I was in the middle of your party. I'm supes sorry I never told you about that."

"Uh… Marcy? This isn't your Taliform."

"Bonbons, there's only one Taliform that survived the Great Mushroom War. I got it from pops, it's how he met my mom, a long time ago. I didn't think I'd ever see it again, though, not after Ash hocked it for some lame-o cookbook."

"Marcy…" Princess Bubblegum rubbed her tired eyes. "This is a taliform from another universe, from Ice King's fictional alternate dimension."

"Say what now?" Princess Bubblegum sat next to Marceline on her uncomfortable couch and proceeded to explain the events of the past few days.

"…Then, once I finished the serum formula, I went to bed and ended up here. There must be some sort of trans-dimensional instability in the taliform's magic manifold."

Marceline giggled. "Or you were thinking about me in your sleep and transported here…" She stuck out her fangs and wiggled her eyebrows. "To your true love."

"Can it, Marceline. It was a bug, a fluke of dimension hopping. There's no such thing as true love, at least not in this dimension."

"What!?" Marceline floated up off of the couch and moved to be face to face with Princess Bubblegum. "But… but I'm your… then why'd it work for me on your 500th birthday party?"

"I dunno, you said you just writing and it… BLAM-Oed, and there you were. Sounds pretty non-true-love-ish to me."

"Bonnie, I was writing about you! About… about how I felt about you." She blushed, an impressive accomplishment for someone with no blood flow. "How I still do." She grabbed Princess Bubblegum's hand and placed it on her chest, right over her unbeating heart. "So, Ms. Logic, I was thinking about you, and BLAM, I was at your party. You were sleeping, probably thinking about me, and ZAP, here you are. And what about that Flame Prince dude? Sounds pretty true-love-ish to me."

"Marcy, he was transported to a random spot in the grass lands."

"Nope, he was transported to a very specific spot. The Tree Fort, isn't that what you said? Ever wonder why Finn has so much trouble with girls?"

Princess Bubblegum gasped. "You mean…!?"

Marceline squeezed Bubblegum's hand. "Just sayin', all the facts seem to point to true love."

"Fine, whatever." Princess Bubblegum stood, pushing past Marceline. "Please take me back to the Candy Kingdom."

Marceline sighed. "Bonbons, please. Remember when we messed around in the past? How good that felt?" She floated close to Princess Bubblegum, wrapping her pale arms around Bubblegum's waist. "I've never felt that way about anyone else. Ever. Like, in my entire life-ish thing. Please… at least stay the night. I can take you back to the Candy Kingdom in the morning."

Princess Bubblegum turned around, placing her arms around Marceline's neck and pulling her into a hug, surprising her. Marceline patted her back, pulling her close as she felt tears drip onto her shoulder. "I'm sorry, Marcy. Sometimes I get so caught up in being a princess that I forget to be a friend."

"I totes understand," she said softly. "Hold on!" She wrapped her arms tightly around Princess Bubblegum and flew up through the hole in the ceiling to her bedroom.

"Weee!" squealed Bubblegum. "I forget how much fun flying can be, at least without a giant rainicorn beneath me."

"Bombs away!" said Marceline, dropping Bubblegum a few feet onto her bed. "Incoming!" She drifted down until she was hovering inches from Bubblegum's face. "Now, gimme some sugar…" She puckered her lips and closed her eyes, waiting. Nothing. She opened her eyes.

"OK, I'm not kissing you until you come up with a better line. For reals. You've been using that one for the past three hundred and fifty years."

"Ugh, fine. Umm… Hmm… Nope, I've got nothing."

Princess Bubblegum giggled. "Oh, alright. C'mere." She wrapped her arms around Marceline's neck and pulled her closer, kissing her on the lips. "You know I love you, right?" she asked, pulling back.

Marceline smiled. "Only as much as I love you. My heart may not beat, but you make me feel alive." She pecked Princess Bubblegum on the nose.

"You're a cheese queen," muttered Bubblegum. The two of them undressed down to their panties and curled up in the bed, Marceline floating a few inches above Princess Bubblegum, her hair pulled back into a pony tail. "Good night, my love."

"Good night, Bonbons." Marceline ran her fingers across Bubblegum's chest, and dropped a few inches lower, laying lightly on top of her friend.