Chapter 9: The Truth

Lucia had finished her ritual and walked back to her room, it was then she saw Finn put his clothes on. Stretching and yawning, Finn turns his head to Lucia and smiled.

"Lucia can I ask you something?" Finn wanted to take her somewhere but wanted to ask her first.

"Sure Finn, what's on your mind?" She smiled at him. After having Finn around her, she felt as if he made her a new life. Giving her a chance to start over.

"I promised Jake I would visit him at least a couple times. I was wondering if you like to come along, I really want to introduce you to him. Finn wanted to visit him, and he wanted to see his brother get along with his new lover.

"Aww sure, it'll be fun, at least we can do something else besides training." Lucia hugged his arm and they began to walk toward the tree fort.

Once they arrived, Finn had knocked on the door, once it was answered, they looked at a healthy Jake smiling at them.

"Finn, it's good to see you again, and who might this be?" Jake said in a friendly tone.

"Jake this is Lucia, she is the friend I was staying with for awhile. Lucia this is my brother Jake.

"Well I must say its nice to meet you Jake." Lucia held out her hand.

"The pleasures all mine Lucia, won't you come in?" Jake motioned both Finn and Lucia to come in.

"I don't mind at all thank you Jake." Both of them entered the tree fort and sat down. Jake made some tea for the three of them.

"Listen I wanna thank you for taking care of him, he's been going through a rough moment and he needed someone to get him back on his feet." Jake said. He was really grateful that someone, a stranger would help Finn.

"You're welcome Jake, and it was actually nice, him and I are getting along well." She said while smiling at Finn and holding his hand.

Jake had then asked a question. "So how're you holding up man?"

"I'm all right, I moved on now."Finn answered. Finn didn't want Jake to know about how he moved on, or what happened when Marcy and Bubblegum.

"Oh that's good, there was something I want to say but I don't think you would want to go." Jake scratched the back of his head.

"What is it?" Finn asked. Deep down he had a feeling that he knew what it was, but he wanted to confirm it by listening to him."

"There's a party at the Candy Kingdom and I was wondering if you would come over."

"A party at the Candy Kingdom? Forget it, after what happened, I don't wanna see them." Finn crossed his arms, indicating he's sticking with his statement.

"I'll talk to him, maybe I can persuade him." Lucia whispered to Jake, he nodded in agreement as he went to the Candy Kingdom.

"Finn, I know you really hate her for what happened, but I always wanted to go to a formal party. Finn, please go with me." She pleaded. It was true what she said. In her youth, she was barely allowed to go out of the house, much less go to a formal, her sister however, was the opposite of her.

"Lucia, I'll go. But I'm only doing this for you and only you." He looked at her right in the eye and said those words.

Finn went to his closet and took out a black suit and tie. He puts them on and walks downstairs.

Lucia was covered in yellow smoke as a purple dress appeared on her body.

He took her hand. "Shall we go?" Finn said this in a cheerful and happy tone. He didn't want his grudge to mess up their night, he loved her and he was going to put all that aside just for tonight.

And so they rode Jake to the Candy Kingdom. Once they entered the castle, the place was filled with pink decorations and a table of refreshments on the left.

They saw either candy people or people from other kingdoms with their dates. Finn and Lucia had started to slowly dance together.

After five slow songs, they snuck their way to the balcony, unaware that a certain princess was spying on them.

Bubblegum got on her phone and called Marceline.

"Marceline Finn is at the kingdom, but he's with someone else."

"What do you mean? Tell me exactly what you know." Marcy wanted to know every detail, no one gets between her and Finn.

"I see them dancing together, they're laughing, having a good time." Bubblegum was concerned with Marceline. She never lost her cool like that before, even from a long distance, she could feel her fuming with rage.

"Which part of the castle are they in now?!" Marcy was yelling at this point.

"I don't know but maybe the balcony would be a..." Her sentence wasn't finished, Marceline hung up the phone and flew as fast as she could to the kingdom. Her plan never even happened. The traps she set in the forest were now wasted, capture and restraining the hero was out of the picture, she now has to restrain him herself.

Finn and Lucia were at the balcony gazing at the full moon and the glittering stars surrounded the nocturnal sky.

"I'm glad you came with me Finn, I'm having the best time with you." Lucia and Finn held hands and looked at each other as the moon made their eyes glisten.

"Lucia I'm really happen you came into my life, I never thought I'd smile like this again but you helped me through it, I love you so much Lucia."

"I love you too Finn." They leaned forward to kiss each other, but as soon as their lips were inches from the kiss Marcy flew forward and tackled Finn, and flew him toward the forest. Lucia, knowing full well the situation, she goes to the crash site and see what will this encounter turn into.

Disoriented by the crash, both Marcy and Finn got up from the crash and looked at each other, tension and hostility can be sensed whenever those two meet. Like oil and water, they don't mix.

"You again?! I thought you learned your lesson from last time, I don't ever wanna see you!" Finn's lovely evening turned into dust.

"Finn I want to tell you the truth, it's not what you think!" Marcy was trying to reason with him but she still couldn't budge through.

"I should've killed you when I had the chance, I'd be better off knowing that you're dead!"

"But you couldn't do it could you?! You made up this whole criminal and killing thing up! If you wanted to kill me, you would've done it at that night. So why didn't you?!"

"I don't owe you an explanation! As if what you're saying really matters!"

"Finn I just want to talk to you, I want to tell you what really happened, but you've been disappearing on me!"

"Maybe it's because I don't wanna see you and that I hate you more than anything!"

"If you hate me, then try to kill me here and now, or are you too scared?!"

"You don't know how long I wanted to do this!" Finn and Marcy ran at each other.

Marcy flew over Finn's head and grabbed his hair ,Finn jumped to give her a head butt it hit her right in the nose, she lost grip of his hair and covers her nose. Finn then punched her in the stomach a few times, Marcy was able to counter a fist and threw him to the tree. It was then tree roots emerged from the ground and wrapped itself on his body, arms, and legs. He struggles to break free but fails.

"Finn please, listen to me, I need to tell you this, and then if you want, I'll leave you alone, I promise." Marcy said this in a desperate attempt to listen to her. In a shocking surprise, Finn stopped resisting, he wanted Marcy to disappear from his life.

"Fine, but make this quick." Finn said in a serious tone.

Marceline took a deep breath, and with that, she finally spoke.

"When you were on an adventure with Jake, Bonnie called and she was sad about something. I invited her to my home and talked for awhile. She explained about a guy named Braco and how she couldn't be with him because of her responsibilities. She remembered how you tried to win her for two years. All of her royal duties kept pressuring her and eventually piled up to a point where she couldn't take it anymore, she needed to get away. We talked about our love life and then we remembered how we were in love. But we called it off because of our responsibilities on ruling our kingdoms. We just kissed and things got out of hand. I never wanted it to go that far. It was wrong and I wish I could've prevented it, but I couldn't. I want us to start over, I... I want to be with you again, I want to be with the man I truly love, please, I'm... I'm so sorry Finn. I was a horrible person to you and I deserved everything that happened to me. And I'm asking if you would find it in your heart to forgive me, Finn I need you."

Finn had to take a minute to take all of this in. She actually confessed that she needed him in his life. He couldn't believe what she said, he wanted to say that she was lying but after the threats he made and the fighting they got into, she was actually determined to talk to him, even if it cost her a lot of things, including her life. He just remained where he was.

"I don't know if I can. I needed someone after Bubblegum constantly rejected me, and you went behind my back, I don't wanna make that same mistake again, and I met this girl Lucia and I love her. She trusts me, she loves me for who I am, she helped me up when I was down, and she understands me better than you ever did. And I feel the same way about her."

Marcy was beginning to cry "What's so different about her than us?"

"She never tried to hurt me. She is faithful to our relationship and we share a special bond." Lucia then came out of hiding.

"Finn do you really mean all that?" She said coming out of the shadows.

She broke Finn out of his restraints and hugged him.

"I meant every word of it Lucia, I can't imagine life without you."

With that said Lucia teleported her and Finn back to the Tree Fort and went to the bedroom and slept in each others arms.