Ch14

"So… how have you been?" Marshall Lee asked the sickly looking queen as she laid back.

"How do you think?" She smirked

"Hey, you're a queen. Life can't be so bad." He teased

"How have you been?" She asked curiously

"Very well." He sighed with a smile.

"Any girls?" The queen grinned

"Umm… I don't even know what to call her…" Marshall looked at his hands

"That doesn't sound good." The queen teased

"Well… I left for two years… all because I was afraid of being hurt again and now I think she hates me…" Marshall continued to look at his hands

"Yeah Nina told me." The queen sighed. Marshall looked at her questioningly "What? You think Nina can keep you a secret. The woman was happily dancing around here and walking into your old room all the time… I thought she was hiding you in there." The queen grinned "When she came in here one day I confronted her and made her tell me what had her so happy. She told me how her old nursemaid friends thought they found you. A day later she came in crying how you had left because they had found you… she made a comment about a girl whose heart you broke."

"Fionna." Marshall sighed

"Prince- I mean Queen Fionna?" She asked confused

"Yeah…"

"How did… you know what I am not even going ask… I might not like the answer…" She smirked "I've been hearing some things about you." She poked his nose "…breaking and entering… theft…" She sighed. Marshall blushed. For the first time feeling shame for what he had done. "Have you talked to her?" The queen asked.

Marshall Lee looked up and nodded. "I was at her party tonight. She heard a song I composed her… I hugged her… and… we…" He trailed off embarrassed

"Kissed?" The queen guessed and laughed at his embarrassment "I was young." She teased. "…but did you talk?" She asked. Her tone serious.

"Well… she yelled…my words got stuck… so I just…" He trailed off again

"Showed her." The queen laughed. "Wait. If you were at her party tonight… all the way in her Kingdome… how did you get here?" She asked confused

"A horse." He replied

"Yours?" She lifted an eyebrow

"No." He said

"Stolen?" She asked

"Borrowed." He stated

"Borrowed?" She asked teasingly

"Don't look into it." He smirked

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Bubba opened the door to Fionna's room and entered with the ice cream. "Okay. I got bubblegum for me, cookie dough for Cake and chocolate for you." He said as he closed the door behind him. As the door shut, Fionna could hear the loud thumping music and the excited yells of the partygoers.

"Yummy." Fionna stated as she picked up her ice cream from Bubba. He set Cake's in her food bowl and put it on the floor next to the bed. The two royals, Fionna and Bubba, sat next to the cat on the floor. "How's the party?" She asked stuffing her mouth

"Do you really think I would go near all those people in my pajamas?" The king asked with an eyebrow raised, "I took the back way around." He stated as he scooped some bubblegum flavored ice cream in his mouth.

"Of course not. Why do I ask?" She smiled. The boy was dressed in his favorite pink and purple pajamas and on his feet, ice cream cone shaped slippers. The party was supposed to last until the morning so Bubba had planned to sleep over… until Marshall Lee ruined Fionna's good mood…

"Fionna… do you really want to talk to Marshall Lee?" Bubba asked. Surprising the girl and making her choke on the ice cream.

"What?" She choked out

"Do you?" He asked curiously

"I mean… I want to… ask…" She mumbled

"Well I have an idea." He grinned

"Huh?" She asked before shoving another spoonful of ice cream in her mouth.

"When I was going to get the ice cream I went the back way, but when I was coming back it was too long a walk with these cartons so I came from the main stair way." He grinned, "No one could've seen me, but I caught a glimpse of the door to the ball room."

"Uh-huh…" She motion for him to continue

"That girl that was on stage with Marshall Lee, the blond one, she's still here." Bubba smiled

"So… you think he still is?" Fionna asked gulping

"No. By the crushed end of the world expression on him I saw when I was pushing to the bathroom, I can tell he's long gone. But my point is that if that girl and Marshall Lee do know each other than maybe she knows where he lives."

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"Marshall Lee… you told me you don't know why you came…" They queen said as the boy came back into the room with the glass of water she had asked for.

"No. I was at Fionna's party… just coming down the stairs from talking to her when my friend… well best friend, Susan, told me that Fionna had a right to be mad. That if I can't kick it I run away… She's right. I needed to stop running." He said as he resumed sitting next to the queen on the edge of the bed.

"If you can't kick it you run away." The queen repeated before laughing lightly.

"That's not funny." He said

"It kind of is." She smiled and drank from the glass.

"Okay… it is." He grinned

"Marshall Lee… I need a favor from you." She smiled softly and passed him the glass to put on the table.

"What is it?" He asked looking at her weakened body

"I… I know I don't have much time." She sighed

"Don't say that…" Marshall grabbed her hand "You've lasted longer than anyone else… you'll beat this thing." He smiled

"Marshall Lee the only reason I lasted this long was because I refused to die without seeing you one last time." She smirked "Marshall… it hurts. Everything hurts… I can hardly eat or sleep… I can't even hug you because if I move more than this I pass out from fatigue… I can't tell you everything that I want to tell you because it hurts to talk… it hurts to keep my eyes open…" He furrowed his brows in concern "No… Marshall Lee, I don't want you to worry. We all know it will come. I… I just need a favor from you."

"Anything." He said squeezing her hand

"Take the crown." She said lightly

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"Bubba are you insane? You're going to pull a random girl out of a party to ask her about Marshall Lee?" Fionna laughed

"Hey, you want to know right?" Bubba grinned as he put his shoes back on. He was dressed again.

"Yeah but that's just crazy." Fionna laughed tucking the strands of her bangs, that aren't long enough to fit her ponytail, behind her ear.

"Oh, hush." Bubba walked out of the room.

"…and he calls me stubborn." Fionna grinned as she wiped the chocolate of her face with her napkin.

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"Hi." The strawberry blond king said as he walked over to the crowd by the door. The group hushed and stared. Bubba looked directly at the green-eyed blond girl in the green dress "Can I talk to you?"

"You are talking to me." She responded teasingly and a couple of people snickered

"I mean privately." He continued to smile

"Faggot." A cough came from one of the boys in the group.

Bubba's smile dropped "Jerk." He coughed. He looked back to the blond girl who was smiling. "It's about Marshall Lee."

Susan's smile dropped "What did he do?" She sighed shaking her head.

Bubba signal for her to follow him, so she did.

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"That's not a favor." Marshall pointed out "A favor would be, go get me a glass of water or go and buy me a candy bar…"

"Marshall Lee, please. You did say anything." She said

Marshall Lee sighed, "You're really making this hard for me."

"That's what girls do." She grinned

"You have no idea." He stated grimly

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Susan walked up the stairs with the king and followed him to Fionna's door. "Are you going to tell me about Marshall or what?" She said stopping a few feet from the door, her hands at her hips.

"C'mon." He said as he grabbed the doorknob

"I am not moving an inch until you tell me." She said

"Fionna wants to ask you something." He sighed as he turned the knob.

Susan's eyebrows shot up and her hands dropped to her side. She followed the prince into the room. When she walked in she was meet by the young queen sitting on her bed with her cat on her lap. Now she knew the beautiful blue eyes Marshall Lee was referring to. Except these beautiful blue eyes were giving her a death glare.

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Almost done! Whoo! Yeah…