Ch9
"I love you but is that enough? What will happen tonight when I turn back? Will it be like my parents? You'll die and I'll be left behind to mourn over your death…" He thought as he looked up to the ceiling of Fionna and Cake's room. Both girls had slept with him on Fionna's bed. He turned to his right side to the red clad shoulder of the sleeping blond girl and to his left to see the snoozing cat girl. "What will we do? Turn you into a vampire? Can I really expect you to give up your life to be with me?" Marshall sighed and tried to gently rise off the bed. "You can't help you fall in love with."
"Hey Marshall are you staying up?" Cake asked yawning
"Yeah."
"Hungry?" She asked as she lowered her self from the bed.
"Starving"
Cake smiled at the shirtless boy in front of her and picked up his gray shirt to throw in the wash. "Here." She passed him his black and red plaid shirt Fionna had borrowed the night of the dagger storm. She had come home in it.
"I thought I would never get this back!" Marshall exclaimed
Cake laughed as they exited the room "She hid the blanket though…"
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"Less than 24 hours to go." Cake reassured as she sipped her coffee and Marshall nodded as he scarf fed down his pancakes.
"Hey guys. Morning" Fionna smiled walking into the kitchen
"Hey baby you hungry?" Cake asked
"No. I was actually heading out." She smiled
"Where?" Cake asked confused
"You know… out" Fionna smiled
"Hopefully no more dragon slaying." Marshall smirked
"Oh shut up. I was going to the Candy Kingdome." Fionna stated
"Why?" Marshall asked confusion and disgust in his tone
"I want PG to answer why he didn't tell you guys about the person imitating Marshall."
"I'll go with you." Marshall stated getting up
"Uh… no. I am sure you'd kick his butt." Fionna joked
"You know me too well." He smiled
"Okay baby but hurry back and don't do anything stupid." Cake warned. Fionna laughed and left. "Should we have let her go?" Cake asked
"You heard the ghost queen; she's the only one they can't touch. Right now she's safer than all of us combined."
"What about PG's possession?" She asked worried
"That's the thing… before I felt that weird vive coming from just him… now I feel it from everything. Like its everywhere or like its following me… I feel like I'm being watched." Marshall confessed as he furrowed his brows.
"This just keeps getting better and better." Cake rolled her eyes.
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"Marshall is beginning to feel the spy." The wizard smiled
"Yes… We might not be able to continue to watch if the spy gets caught." The Queen thought aloud "I must distract him."
"This just means Marshall is returning to normal and is getting his vampire senses back... nothing serious." The wizard stated. The queen nodded lost in thought.
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"S-stop! Prince Gumball don't make me hurt you!" Fionna called out as the prince pulled her by the waist. Her sword was in her reach yet she refused to hurt the candy prince. "This isn't like you!" Fionna added pushing the prince's candy lips from her neck.
"You don't like me as me so maybe I should be someone else." He growled huskily in to her ear. The prince had backed her into the wall of his tearoom after locking the door. Fionna, not wanting to hurt the prince, backed away and now she was trapped.
If Marshall had been this close to her, her knees would have gone weak and she would view his touch on her soft skin as a delight. Prince Gumball's touch felt wrong and uncomfortable, although he was soft and smelled of candy. Prince Gumball kissed her face as she tried to push him away but for some reason he was able to restrain her. "Prince Gumball STOP!" Fionna screamed before shutting her eyes tight.
"Why don't you love me?" He yelled as he pushed himself from her "Why don't you? I've tried all I know, it didn't work, and I try to be like Marshall Lee… Barbaric, violent, and atavistic… yet you refuse me… Why?" His voice no longer had that sharp angry tone, it was now a sad and reluctant tone "You loved me before…What changed?"
Fionna picked up her backpack from where it had been tossed and sighed. She looked in pity at the pink prince and walked towards the door, unlocking it. Before exiting and with out turning to face him she mumbled, yet loud enough he could hear "I guess I out grew you."
Fionna left the candy prince's tearoom and headed back home.
~ "Why didn't you tell them about the double ganger? You let them be clueless and you let me think Marshall was a jerk who didn't care about me… Why didn't you say anything PG?" She asked hurt her friend could do such a thing
The candy prince put his teacup down and walked towards the door behind the girl. He locked the door and walked towards her watching as she moved back "Because…Fionna I love you." ~
The candy prince sat on his chair and continued to sip his tea. He waited for what he knew would come.
A shadow over took the floor of his room and out from it came the angry expression of the evil queen. "Is that how you make a woman fall in love with you?" She growled
"I was only acting the way I thought I should."
"She loved you for your simple sweet nature… not this animalistic pervert!"
The candy minion shook his head at his queen, resonant and uncaring if she decided to end his life "If she loved me, she would have not fallen for Marshall Lee." He looked into the angry red eyes of the queen and added "Like she said…she out grew me."
The queen's anger disappeared and her face now showed only calmness "You are no longer useful to me." At the moment, the words left her undead lips Gumball fell of his chair screaming in pain. His face distorted as a small black spider came from his belly button. The candy prince fell silent as the small spider crawled to the woman's hand. "Bad baby!" She scolded the spider "You lost control of him." The small spider bowed his head in head in shame. The queen rubbed the spider's thorax carefully and looked into empty space "I guess I'll just have to do this myself." She mumbled before crushing the spider with her bare fingers "Ew."
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"Less than nine hours until midnight." Cake informed as she walked out the tree house with a tray of lemonade.
Marshall strummed his bass and looked up to the blinding turquoise sky as he felt the soft green grass touch his bare feet. "Thanks." He mumbled before gulping the lemonade down. He would miss being human more than he let on but he was so used to immortal life and would definitely miss many of the benefits that came with it.
"Marshall Lee how about doing the one thing you always wished you could have done in the day time? I mean there's has to be something you wished you could have done but couldn't do with out an umbrella or something." Fionna smiled
"Umm… actually we're doing it." He smiled softly back
"What do you mean?" Asked Cake
"I always wished to be able to just sit under the sunlight and drink lemonade and just hangout with you guys…" He stated with a hand behind his head a blush spreading
"That's offly specific." Cake teased
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"Do you see?" The wizard pointed to the giant screen across from the queen's throne. They saw as Marshall chased Cake around laughing.
"Yes… I see the so called vampire king running around and acting like…like…"
"A kid?" He offered
"A kid." She repeated disgusted "He's over a thousand years old; he's had time to mature."
"I don't think so." He stated looking back at the screen "seems to me he's happy… Do you still doubt he loves her?"
"She admitted her love yet he ignored it." She pointed out
"That wasn't my question. Do you doubt his love for the human?"
"No." She sighed, "That doesn't mean you win! He still hasn't admitted it." She said crossing her arms.
The wizard rolled his eyes and stared back at the screen. He saw as Marshall tackled Fionna to the ground landing on her. He saw how both teens blushed at the closeness. Marshall smiled and pulled her up only to be tackled by the girl this time. Cake stood in the sidelines cheering for her Fionna as the two teens wrestled on the soft grass. "There has to be something I can do to help." The wizard thought to himself turning to look at the distant expression on his queen's face.
A/A/N
Sorry i havent updated in a while... writters block... umm so here's 3 chaps for you... the story is almost done... like 2-3 chaps... i think... i hope.
