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Ch 10 kick to the curb

~ 5-year summary ~

As the years went on Finn and Huntress's friendship deepen to the point where Finn started to see Huntress more like a sister too much of Huntress's disapproval of, but she did not want to voice this opinion of hers in fear that it would ruin a very good friendship she had with Finn. She just hoped when they got older would they be more than just friends.

With Huntress now part of the team, they became a great team in hunting down criminals because of her old life as an info runner she knew many places that the criminals used as meet up spots and safe houses. With this knowledge Finn, Jake, Huntress and Jermaine raided them and found my criminals and low life's that were wanted in many different kingdoms earning them a great deal of fame and gold.

Finn didn't really want the gold him being the very basic kind of guy so he either saved the gold he earned or he gave it away to the less fortune than himself, Huntress was much the same but she instead gave her money to her family, Jake was a little more flamboyant with his share of the gold spending it on rare food ingredients in his ever growing quest to make the perfect sandwiches and on more questionable ventures. Jermaine on the other hand, had used his earning to fund his research he would be doing in his academic studies later on in his life.

It don't take Margaret and Joshua long to find out that Huntress knew about Finn being the last known human in all of OOO but they could care less about that because they could tell that Huntress was a good and loyal friend to Finn, they even have a bet with each other along with Huntress's parents on when Huntress would confess her feelings for Finn.

It was both a sad and joyous day that Jermaine finally left to go to the University of Magical Arts and Advancements or UMAA for short as they had lost an important member of the team and family but all wished Jermaine the best of luck in his new independent life.

As the years went on Finn had a change of his look, he now wore a long form fitting white hooded trench coat with blue outlining with leather straps and pouches all over him (looks like the front cover of this story) which made his look more mysterious than before causing many people to question what Finn was underneath. This also caught the eye of many older woman who did not know Finn's age, which made Huntress to becoming Finn's self-proclaimed 'purity protector'.

The job just mostly involved Huntress showing away any women and oddly enough some men that got to uncomfortably flirty with Finn. The major offender and by far the worst was lumpy space princess, she would not take no for an answer when Finn rejected her advances. It would take her a few magical arrows shoot at the inter-dimensional space tumor to get the message that her company was not wanted.

A common saying she would say to herself in her mind and never out loud after she got rid of any woman and a few men whose curiosity got the better of them was "none shall lay a hand on a soul so pure! Except for me!"

In those long five years Huntress had only seen Finn's face for a total of 47 times, and every time she saw his face, Finn's beauty only seem to grow every time see saw it. Be it covered in blood, cuts and bruises it did not matter to her it was always a great privilege to see it. And being one of the only few people able and allowed to see it made it her secret pleasure to always see it whenever she got the chance.

~present time~

After a hard day adventuring Finn, Huntress and Jake came into their main place of operations, Finn's and Jake's parents' house. All covered in slime carrying the loot and reward they took from the slime monsters they slew in glorious battle, all to save the engagement ring kingdom from being overrun by slime monsters.

When they got home they were all in a pretty good mood, after all, they saved a kingdom, saved lot of innocent people and above all, they had an epic monster battle, the only person that was in a slightly less happy mode was Huntress. The reason being that when they were getting their reward from Engagement Ring princes she offered Finn and only Finn, a ring as a bonus reward for saving her kingdom.

Huntress knew a bit about the engagement ring kingdoms customs that if any person accepts a ring given to them, they are considered to be engaged and would have been fully married shortly after. Huntress could see why Engagement Ring princess used such an underhanded trick to get with Finn. Everyone that knew Finn the bounty hunter knew him as a person with a good and caring heart of gold that inspired the people around him and to top it all off he was an accomplished warrior.

All these traits and qualities that make Finn a desirable husband to have by your side when you are trying to rule a kingdom. Plus the mentality that people thought of people like Finn was that anyone as pure as Finn had to be just as handsome, "oh they have no idea of the truth behind that statement"

Luckily for Huntress, both she and Jake were able to somehow convince Engagement Ring princes that Finn was a girl and not a boy under his hoody which caused Engagement Ring princes to withdraw the bonus reward without a seconds notice. She and Jake both had a good laugh at this somewhat small lie but in all seriousness, they both vowed to never tell Finn that they managed to convince a princess that he was really a she instead of a he.

As they were wiping the slime off their bodies with towels that they usually use to wipe off blood from them Finn and Jake's parents started to walk towards them. As they were coming closer and closer all three of them could see the expressions on their faces where Joshua had a big happy go lucky smile plastered on his face as if he had just won the lottery, while Margaret and a very sad expression with a handkerchief in hand wiping away her tears giving the feeling that someone had died.

These conflicting expressions confused Finn, Jake, and Huntress, should they be worried or should they be excited?

"Boys and girl you're back now good, I have some great news to tell you" Joshua called out to them only to be both interrupted and reminded by the weeping of his wife.

"And I've got bad news!" Joshua added "good news is me and Margaret are going on a grand vacation all cross OOO, all the way from backing in the sun in the Summer Beach kingdom to rekindling with old long lost friends and maybe a little investigation case or two.

"That's sounds great dad, you two deserve a good vacation"

"Thanks, Finn but the bad news is…" Joshua hesitates to say it but he takes a deep breath and just says it outright and to not sugar coat it "when we leave for our vacation we want you to move out, and before you say anything yes we are kicking you out of this house"

"WHAT!" both Jake and Finn yell out in surprise.

"Look here's the thing, me and your mother both expected you and Jermaine to leave the house then you both turned 18 or 20 but look at you now, 23 and still living with your parents"

"Whit! That doesn't explain why you're kicking Finn out, he's only 13 years old?"

"True, the reason is also very simple Finn here needs to keep up his rep as a famous bounty hunter, I mean come on who would take a bounty hunter seriously if they knew he still lived with their parents"

"That is so true"

"And Finn don't you want to be a hero of OOO?"

"Of course, I do dad, you know that already"

"Do you know any heroes that live with their parent?"

Finn paused to think about and thought of no hero's that he knew lived with their family.

"No, none of them do"

"See what I mean, just think of this as me trying to give you a leg up in life son"

"But what if people find out I'm Human when you're not around me to help me?"

"Finn you kept the fact you're human from people for over 13 years now I'm sure you can keep it hidden for another 13 years without your mother's constant worrying, in fact, I think you will do even better without your mother"

"Joshua!"

"What? It's the truth, remember that time when Finn was 7 and you took him to fun land, do you remember what you did"

"I don't recall me doing anything that out of the ordinary"

"Really now?"

~Flashback 6 years ago~

"Finn keep your hood on at all times! Don't look into people's eyes! Don't talk to people you don't know! Don't run too fast! Hold onto my hand!"

"Mommy, can I go on that ride?" Finn asked

Margaret looked at the ride Finn was pointing at and saw a roller-coaster ride that had high drops, more loop de loops then she could count. She could even hear the screams of the people on the ride, a sound of both fear and excitement mixed into one form. As Margaret was looking over the distance she started to note her hand felt lighter than it should be.

Looking down to her hands she noticed that her hand was not holding her child's hand, she looks around herself in the hopes of finding him but to no prevail. Margaret begins to panic and hyperventilates rapidly as she now is running around the park trying to find Finn as she was calling his name.

"Finn! Finn! Where are you Finn?" she calls out hoping Finn could hear her "you there sir!" She reaches out and grabs a random man that was walking by "Have you seen my baby boy" she desperately asked as she pulled out her wallet to show him a photo of Finn, giving a general idea of what the missing boy looked like because in the photo it showed two dogs and a heavily clothed little boy"

"I'm sorry mama I haven't seen him"

"Have you seen my baby? She asked another random stranger.

"No, I'm sorry"

Margaret asks more and more people and the more times she calls out to people the more attention she gets from the crowds of people just walking.

To Margaret, it had felt like she hands been searching for hours and not able to cope with the stress of losing her baby boy she falls to her knees and started to cry her eyes out. As she kneeled there feeling like a failure as a mother the people around her formed a circle around her. No one had the courage to try and comfort her or to try and ease her pain.

However, there was one person that pushed his way through the crowd of people and started to walk right in front of her. She did not see this happening because of her tears and her hands were blocking her view.

"Mum are you alright?"

"Wh-what?" Margaret said as she recognized the voice, as she wiped away her tears she saw Finn standing right in front of her.

"Finn my baby! Margaret called out loudly as she jumped up to her feet and hung Finn in a vice like a grip.

The people that were standing around and that were feeling sorry for Margaret now cheered as she had now had found her son.

"Finn where were you! I was worried sick!"

"I went to the bathroom over there" Finn points to the bathroom he had used that was only 10 feet away from where they were standing.

"Sweet pea why didn't you tell me?"

"I did, but you just kept staring at the roller-coaster and I really needed to pee, plus I was only gone for like 5 minutes mum" Finn explained causing the crowd to have a giggle fit as they laughed at the explanation

Margaret was so very much embarrassed by the fact so many people were hearing all of this, she silently prayed to glob that something would happen to stop this.

"So mum can we go on the roller-coaster now?"

Margaret wasn't too sure about going on that roller-coaster, it looked far too dangerous for her sweet little boy. If it was any other day she would have just said 'no', but with all the people looking at them she really needed an excuse to get away from them.

"Sure sweaty, let's go to the roller-coaster"

"Alright!" Finn cheered.

As both Margaret and Finn got on the ride and as they went up high in the sky and as they were about to do a full free-fall! The first this that came to Margaret's mind was.

"I regret my decision!"

~Present~

"I rest my case"

Margaret looked away angrily in defeat seeing the reason why Finn was better off being on his own or with any other member of the family decides her. Even when she now agreed that it was the best course of action that did not mean she had to like it at all.

"Whelp looks like I won this argument boys, say does anyone knows what day it is today?"

"Today's Friday dad" Jake answered him.

"That's great to hear son! You can start moving out now"

"What!?" both Finn and Jake called out and even Huntress was taken back by this.

"But where will we go?"

"Finn, Jake look around you and tell me what you see"

Both Finn and Jake look around the house and saw piles upon piles of gold surrounding the living room mostly belonging to Finn.

"My gold?"

"That's right my boy, just flash this in someone's face and boom you got yourself a new home!"

"Dad, it's not that quick to get a house like that, we need to find a good location to live in, also the house has to be homey and big enough to hold mine and Finn's loot inside and not only that we would need to find people that are willing to even sell us their house"

Joshua was dumbstruck at the sudden counter argument from Jake, most of the time Joshua was ashamed to think of this but he mostly saw Jake as being a… well not a complete idiot but something slightly higher in intelligence? Slow maybe?

"Actually I may have a good idea where you can live Finn" Huntress spoke out

"See you already have a place to live at and it hasn't even been 5 minutes or even flash some cash in someone's face!"

"Where?" Jake asked.

"Well Finn can stay over in my place of course"

"Sorry Huntress I'm not living with your parents, not after they tried to snare me in roots and tree branches the first, second and third time I came to your place for a visit"

Huntress giggles a bit remembering those times as some of the best times she had spent with Jake and even remembering to reason why her parents tried to snare Jake in place. They simply wanted Huntress to have some 'alone time' with Finn and that meant taking the meddlesome brother out of the picture for a while and she had to admit those were some of hers and hopefully Finn's best moments together.

Just sitting down and talking with one another about life and if they were lucky enough see Jake get hunted down by her parents as they ate snakes and laughed at Jake. All the while Jake was screaming things to them, usually.

"This isn't funny guys help me out here! Huntress your parents are bat shite crazy! Why do they do this every time I come over, it's because I'm an animal isn't it?! Stop sitting there and laughing at me!"

"Good times"

After that trip down memory lane and rejoin the conversation she saw Finn look at Jake in disappointment, even when she couldn't see his face she had learned to read Finn's moods as they spent more time together.

"Jake, are you serious about this?"

"About what?"

"You seriously don't remember? Huntress had been talking about it for a week now"

"Talking about what!?"

"She's moving into her own house soon"

"To be fair on Jake I never really told him about it"

"What! Why"

Huntress merely shrugs at this conveying to Finn that even she herself doesn't know why but truth be told she actually did know why but thought it best not to get into detail about how she and Jake have this mutual understanding with each other. Just to put it in lemans terms you stay out of my business I'll stay out of yours.

"That cool, we'll get packed and then head over your place them"

"What do you mean by we'll pack?"

"Well, I and Finn" Jake didn't even get to finish his sentence Huntress had cut him off.

"I only said Finn could come and live with me, I never said anything about you"

"How come?"

"Well first off I still need to make the down payment but with Finn we can split it 50-50 putting both of our names on the lease, second I know you don't have any money left to help pay for the down payment or pay any rent for the next three months and thirdly the contract states no pets allowed"

"You can't be serious?"

"Oh no I'm for reals, says right here on the contract" Huntress reaches into her satchel to pull out the contract and gently tosses it onto Jake's hand "second-page fourth paragraph," she said in a smug tone of voice.

"That's not what I meant and you know that I'm no pet! I'm the big responsible brother"

"Oh what really? Jermaine is back, where is he? I don't see him anywhere"

"Hey I'm hella responsible I'll have you know"

"Really Jake? The main reason you are in debt is because you bought some extremely expensive old smelly cheese to put on a sandwich, a flipping sandwich!"

"This is better than any TV drama ever"

"I know right"

"I didn't hear you or Finn complain when you got to eat some"

"Your right, it was one of your best sandwiches you have ever made but that thing is that it was your money and not mine" Huntress explained countering Jake argument "and even if you weren't in debt now you would undoubtedly get into more debt than now because of your severe lack of financial management"

"What I'm plenty good at managing my money, name me one time I'm not"

"Okay I'll start off easy, you spend way too much money on food"

"You and I both know you love the food that I make with those expensive ingredients"

"You gamble heavily"

"I haven't gambled in 6 months going strong"

Huntress starts smiling wickedly as she had saved the best for last. Jake seeing this starts to get some bad feelings about where this is heading now"

"I also happen to know that sometimes late at night you go to the 'Stallions Gentleman's club' when you think no one notices and is also from what I heard you're a very generous with his tips"

It took Jake a total of 3 seconds to even react to this sudden reveal of very personal information in front of his brother, father and even worse his mother. He looks over to his parents who are just as surprised if not more so than he was.

"Wow! As a father, I have an obligation to never know that"

"That explains so much"

"How?" was all Jake could say, he just wanted to know how she could have found out about his little dark secret that he managed to hide from his family for 2 years"

"You left your membership card laying around and I saw it and got a little bit curious, let's just say I wasn't disappointed with what I found"

Jake was so fully of rage that he looked back in his memory to find something to use against Huntress and make her regret messing with him and he did find the perfect one to use.

"You think I have secrets? Well, at least I don't sneak a peek and per-"then all of a sudden Huntress covers his mouth and drags him to the other room and slams the door behind her where she knows no one can hear their conversation.

"What in globs name do you think you're doing, saying stuff like that your family?"

"Fighting fire with fire after all, what did you expect to happen when you tell people about my shameful self, it only seems fair that I tell them about your shameful self, after all, what did you expect to happen when you spy on someone's brother while he's bathing?"

"I expected you to never speak about it, after I paid you off to never utter a word of that, twice in fact!"

"Yes, but you also said that it was a onetime thing and I caught you twice, and I can still tell you still take a peak whenever the opportunity presents itself, I just haven't caught you doing it yet"

Huntress had gone dead silent unable to say anything of value to defend herself and lowered her head in defeat.

"What do you want Jake?" she asked begrudgingly

"Well I am somewhat now homeless with mum and dad kicking me to the curb so let me come with Finn and live in the house you found rent free"

Huntress did like it but she had no other choice and agreed to Jake's demands, under some conditions.

"Okay you can come and live with Finn but under some conditions"

"Do you want some designated peep time? Because I'm cool with that if you are? Just no touching yourself when doing it, also no filming it"

Huntress blushed deeply at the thought of Jakes offer and for a split second she would have taken it, but her common sense and self-respect kicked in to fight the urge to say yes.

"Wh-what n-no nothing like that Jake!" she stuttered as well as shock her head in an attempt to clear her mind of impure thoughts from her mind "I'm just going to lay down some ground rules if you want to live with me and Finn, first you are going to do all the cooking and cleaning"

"I do that all the time here, so it won't be that different"

"And last but also more importantly" Jake suddenly feels Huntress grab at his throat and pulls him closer to her face, her eyes were fixed on him with a hate-filled glare, she silently waits for a second for Jake to try to understand the gravity of the last condition.

"If you ever tell Finn I peeped on him when he was bathing I'll be taking more than my money back from you, so just remember if you tell there will be a lot of lonely Mares on those long cold night with no fuzzy big strong dog next to them, you understand fur noodle?"

"Yes"

"You sure because if you don't I'll neuter you" Huntress threatened Jake as she levitated an arrow with her magic right next to his junk.

"Yep! That's crystal clear" Jake yelped as he eyed the arrow that was pointed to his junk.

"That's good to hear that you understand I was afraid that I would have to neuter you for reals if you didn't, okay let's go back and for your safety don't tell anybody about this conversation"

When they returned to the lounge Finn, Margaret and Joshua all stared at the both of them in a suspicious way as they were trying to figure out what they were talking about.

"So what happened there?"

"Oh, nothing we were just talking about a living arrangement because you know I know that Jake over here can't pay rent so he'll be… we'll basically he'll be a live-in maid"

"Not funny!"

"Come on bro you got to admit it would be funny to see you dressing up like a maid"

"Specking of dress ups Huntress my dear I was going through some the old photos and found the baby pictures of Finn and Jake dressed up in cute girl clothes, would you like to go see them with me while the boys pack up their stuff to move out?"

When Huntress heard baby pictures of Finn she imminently perked up and delight at the prospect of seeing them and also the good laugh she'll get when she sees Jakes photos.

"NOOOOO!" both Finn and Jake call out not as they both tried to stop them but before they could their father grabbed them by the shoulder and pulled them back.

"Now you two behave and harry and pack your things so you can leave the first thing tomorrow morning"

"But, but mum is going to"

"I don't want to hear it, get packing so that you can move out of my house"

And begrudgingly they both did what they were told and started to pack their things as they were getting ready to move to their new home.

Down the hall, Margaret and Huntress were walking to the master bedroom to see the baby photo's until Margaret stopped in her tracks which made Huntress stop as well. When Huntress stopped she looked down at Margaret to see if anything was wrong with her only to see her looking at her straight in the eye and not moving or even blinking.

"I have a feeling we're not going to be looking at baby photos are we?"

"That's for later dearie, I just wanted to say both me and Joshua both heard the conversation you had with Jake and don't worry Finn didn't hear anything, after all, there was no room for him to put his ear to the door"

Huntress's once green complication now turned red as she looks down herself at the thought that both Margaret and Joshua now know what she had been doing while she thought no one was looking.

"Well, guess I'll have to neuter your son now since you and Joshua know my closely guarded and paid for secret" huntress said as she pulled out a dagger from under her cloak.

"Oh please Huntress stop being so mellow dramatic, I already knew you had a crush on my boy and I know it's in your kinds nature to stalk majestic creatures like Finn, after all, I still get starry-eyed every time I see my baby boys true face and your also a growing girl there is nothing to be ashamed of it's normal"

"How long have you know that I had a crush on Finn?"

"I've seen the way you look at my son when you think no one is looking, those love struck eyes are as clear as day and also your mum told me when we went out for girls night out all the time"

"Glob dammit mom"

"Hehehe but in all seriousness Huntress my dear I know Finn sees you kind of like a sister and all but given time Finn will grow up from the boy he is now to a man that can see what's right in front of him, and he'll curse himself for not seeing it sooner"

"You really think so?"

"Dearie I know so, now why don't we go see those baby photos now?"

"Definitely"