Chapter 54:
Cherry stared down at the paper in front of her–the results of an hour of negotiations. The old bitch was quite the schemer, and it took all that the master attorney and crime-boss had in her to see through every trick. Bonnibel Bubblegum had a hundred ways of making this agreement pay off for her in the end, and given her obvious immortality, she had plenty of time to wait Cherry out. Staring down at the paper, she still wasn't sure she'd thought her way through all the permutations. There were a lot of ways for the fallen princess to twist their little agreement to her own ends. But I'll be watching her, thought the crime boss. I'll have her under constant watch, and I can kill her as easily as I smashed the robot. "Alright," rumbled Cherry. "Sign it."
Bonnibel Bubblegum sighed heavily. She was trading her freedom for some dubious guarantee of safety from a woman who might very well have murdered her entire family. As they stared at each other, Cherry's confidence began to grow. The hesitation and fear in those blue eyes told her that Bonnie Bubblegum feared that the few concessions she'd won weren't nearly enough. "You can sign, or you can die," growled Cherry. "There're no better deals coming." Swallowing her objections, Bonnie reached for the pen.
Just as she was putting pen to paper, a terrific commotion arose above their heads. They could both hear the sound of a helicopter. Bonnie knew that besides Nadia and Truth Field Princess, she was the only person on Ooo who had the knowledge to build such machines. That meant that Finn's troops were landing on the roof. Cherry looked up at the ceiling with a frown. She knew as well as Bonnie who that machine must belong to. Why was Finn here? She'd told him to go to work as normal.
Or there was the other possibility.
She'd made a gross assumption without following up on it. She'd given Penny the location of Bubba Bubblegum and friends and just assumed nature would take its course. As obsessed as the little cunt was with Fionna Mertens, Cherry had imagined she would collapse the cave on top of them. It seemed a foregone conclusion that she'd kill the prince right alongside his former beloved. But you didn't follow up, thought the crime-boss. She'd made the dreadful mistake of assuming that a henchman got the job done–something she'd never done before. All through this process, she'd had eyes on every hand that was involved in a critical job, and sometimes she'd put eyes on the eyes. She'd just assumed that the Thief King would take care of business. But she fucked up at the hotel, thought Cherry. Hell, she fucked up in her own palace! And now, it seemed that Cherry had fucked up in trusting her.
Gunshots rang out. She could hear people moving in the facility above her head. They both could. Sounds of pitched battle rang out, telling her that her men were losing the battle. Who do I call, she thought? Junior was tieing up loose ends at the treehouse. Did she dare call Finn? What if Fionna was there? What would she do then? Muttering curses, Cherry got up from the table and strode towards the door. Halfway there, she stopped. What was she going to do if she did meet up with the people breaking into the safehouse?
The crime boss wasn't the only person dealing with failure. Miles away, Jake Junior went tearing through the early-morning darkness, driving like all the demons of the Night-O-Sphere were in hot pursuit. She'd failed. She'd utterly failed to kill her aunts. Worse than that, she feared that Simon had seen her. If he'd gotten a good look at her face, it was a certainty that Billy would know in short order. Once that happened, her happy life was gone–shredded. Wiping at the bitter tears of her failed and ugly life, the shapechanger drove on through the early-morning darkness. She had to get away from here. This wasn't how she meant to do it, but she had to get away. Maybe someday she would see Billy again, but she had to get out of the Candy Kingdom or find herself under the jail.
She blamed Cherry for this. She blamed that stupid bitch for stirring up all this shit for her stupid revenge. What had it gotten them? They'd had everything! They had all the money they could ever have wanted. They had power that rivaled Princess Bubblegum's. And Junior had her happy home-life. With Billy. Now she had nothing. Neither of them had anything. It was a safe bet that once Billy knew that his wife had tried to kill his mothers, Finn would know it. Once Finn knew that Cherry had broken their little deal, then the bitch was as good as dead. I gotta' get out of here, Junior thought. It was like a litany in her mind. She had to get the house packed up. She had to go.
Back at the old casket factory, Finn the human came storming down through the place like a demon given life. His men had never seen anything like this before, and many of them had been running with the Hero of Ooo for a long time. Twisting and turning like a dervish, he dodged a knife-attack and blocked the heavy club of a massive thug who'd tried to brain him. Thrusting with the blade, he severed the hands of the knife-wielder. On the return-stroke, he smashed the jaw of the thug with the club. Savagely, the big man chopped the arm off another gangster at the shoulder before kicking the screaming man in the head hard enough that it snapped his head around and sent him crashing into darkness. The whirling, dancing blade that was the Finn-sword turned clouds of steel darts, sending some back at their owners and covering the wall with others. Heart full of desperate fear that the woman he had somehow come to love was doing in the great love of his life, Finn drove Cherry's thugs before him as he fought his way ever downward.
Cherry, meanwhile, was beside herself. She seethed with the terror of the moment. Had she really come so far only to fall down on the details at the end? Had she really allowed Penny to wreck her plans? And what was she to do now? Run? Could she run? Her eyes fell on Bonnibel Bubblegum. This woman would pursue her. She'd be pursued to the ends of Ooo if she fled now. Unless I kill her, thought the crime lord. She would only have inept Boniface Bubblegum to deal with then. Question was, did she have it in her to kill? She'd given the orders. She'd done that so many times, she'd lost track of the number. Her eyes went to the knife that her guest had been eating with.
Bonnibel's eyes met hers, and she spoke for the first time since the assault had started, "I can give you the same as you gave me. A cell. A quiet life locked away..." The smug little bitch. "Oh," growled Cherry, as she strode towards her nemsis. "You think you can just turn things around on me? Is that it? You think I'd accept that from you?" Bonnie sighed and said, "I'm sorry for what happened to you. I'm sorry for the loss of your husband. Rootbeer was a good man and a loyal citizen." "Don't you mention his name, you fucking cunt," howled Cherry! "Don't fucking speak his name, because you're not worthy of it!" Striding over, her eyes blazing, the little soda-girl grabbed the knife and looked for all the world like she would plunge it into the princess's heart.
Calm in the face of her rage, Bonnie softly replied, "I made a mistake, Miss Soda. I made the mistake of saving James. You're right, there. I opened Pandora's box with that... I realized it when James kept dieing on me. I couldn't keep my people going down that road. I had to draw the line. I... I wish I could have..." "You fucking whore," snarled Cherry! "You killed my husband!"
"Sorry to interrupt," announced Finn the Human.
Both those beautiful faces turned to regard the fierce visage of the Captain of the Guard, standing in the door. They greeted him with identical looks of fear edging towards hope. Shooting to her feet, Bonnie welcomed him with, "Finn! So good to see you, my champion!" Cherry growled, "not so fast, bitch! Finn's mine!" Turning to her man, the crime boss turned those winsome eyes on him. Finn felt his face go hot. Dropping her hand to her side, she said, "honey... Remember what we talked about... She's just a user... She just wants to go on using you..."
Shaking himself, Finn stepped fully into the room, striding toward the little woman he'd come to love these last few months. Eyes hard, he said, "it's over, Cherry. All your operations are shut down. My guys are raiding the other three warehouses right now..." "I see," muttered Cherry. "It was all lies." That stung him far more than he'd expected it to. This day had been coming since the first, and he'd been dreading this moment almost from the day he'd walked out of her house. "Some of it," Finn admitted with a heavy-hearted sigh.
The little woman sighed heavily, and her face was deeply troubled. How had she gone so wrong? What hadn't she seen? Bonnie stepped away from her–out of reach of that knife. The bitch was still dangerous. "Finn," she crowed, "do your duty!" "PB," muttered Finn. "This isn't helping." Bonnie blinked. Those words took her aback. Was there truth to what this bitch had said? Had Finn sold out to her in truth? Sensing an opening, Cherry pushed back. "So what're you going to do," demanded Cherry? "Kill me?" Finn's eyes burned into hers, suggesting that he'd do just that. She was a threat to Bonnibel Bubblegum as long as she was alive. "Don't make this worse," he replied. She laughed in his face. Shaking her head, she just laughed. "I'm pregnant," she told him. "It's yours." Finn's heart sank. It was worse.
Seeing the way he took that and seeing him wavering, Bonnie shouted, "Finn! She's probably lieing! Hasn't she lied about everything?! If she is pregnant, it was probably one of her gangsters..." "I learned to lie from a master," retorted Cherry, with a snort of disgust. "And who else would have been the father of my child? Even if I wanted another man, nobody else's dick touches the sides anymore..." Finn blushed at those damning words. Looking her erstwhile boyfriend square in the eye, she demanded, "you going to kill your own baby?"
"No," Finn murmured. "This was never about killing you or anybody else. This is about justice. I'm... I'm'a take you to prison..." By now the Heavy Boys had secured the building and three of them now stood in the hall. "Don't give them trouble, Cherry," he said. "Please don't." Turning to the leader of the Heavy Boys, he said, "take her away." As the Banana Guards dragged her out of there, Cherry shouted, "we could have had everything!" Steeling his heart, Finn ignored her. He made himself turn away. Turning to Bonnie, he said, "you're safe Peebles..." His expression was bleak, and Bonnie was astonished to realize that at least some of what that bitch said was true. Finn did have feelings for her. Seeming to guess what she was thinking, Finn said, "she was a friend, PB. I... We didn't take care of her like we should have. We... made her this way."
Shaking that off, Finn asked, "are you ok? Did they hurt you?" Bonnie ran across the room and threw herself on him. Wrapping him in her arms, the candy monarch hugged him tight. Finn held her and rocked with her as she sobbed into his shoulder. Softly, Finn said, "Bon and Shoko are ok. Shoko's... Shoko's hurt, PB, but she's going to recover." Bonnie nodded. She'd been terrified that the bitch would murder her precious children, but Finn had taken care of them. Just like always. Now she had something she could do for him.
"I'll take care of it," sighed Bonnie after a while. It took a moment for him to understand what she meant. "I don't want you to have to face Simone and Huntress with this," she said, as she straightened. It was bad enough she'd kind of raped him to get Boniface. She knew they were still a little angry about that.
"No," said Finn. "I did this... I have to take responsibility for it..." Shaking his head, he added, "I already told them. They... understood." He'd had to lie like a dog to get through all of this and keep Cherry from hurting his family. He wasn't real good with that, and it had been hard sometimes to remember exactly what the truth was. The certain knowledge that Cherry Cream Soda could sic her army of former clients on them and their kids had made it easy for Emeraude and Simone to accept that Finn had to sleep with that bitch. "We're going to take care of him or her, whatever it is," said Finn. Bonnie murmured, "will you tell the child about...?" Nodding, Finn said, "yeah. I'll make sure he sees her. So he knows why his mom's in jail."
Frowning, Bonnie asked, "you're not going to let me execute her, are you?" "Nope," said Finn. His eyes were hard, and she knew she'd lose him if she went ahead and did it anyway. She was stuck with Cherry Cream Soda until the treacherous bitch passed away. It was a safe bet she wasn't getting cloned back to life! In the right now, though, she wanted to celebrate being alive and having gotten through all of this.
Smiling at Finn, she reached out, took his face in her hands, and said, "one last thing, hero... Just for old times sake." Leaning in, she kissed him. Finn drew her into his arms–much more than he'd ever done in those 'old times' and caressed her soft body, holding her curves to him as that kiss went on and on. Both of them were a little breathless when they broke the kiss. Staring into his blue, blue eyes, Bonnie felt all the old hunger come back, full force.
The beautiful Princess threw herself on her hero, thrusting her tongue into his mouth. Finn caught a handful of her big, round ass–a butt he'd admired many a time–and gave it a squeeze. Bonnie moaned into his mouth, feeling his hard dong against her thigh as she remembered riding it all those years ago. She knew Cherry was right. She'd had to buy an extra-large vibrator after riding Finn's big dick all those years ago.
Overwrought as his mind was after all he'd been through, Finn found himself getting carried away. His hands slid down her thighs, stroking the firm flesh through the rough material of her dress. Grabbing the sides of her skirt, he slowly started pulling the hem up her legs, baring the firm, lean thighs to the cool air. At the same time, he nibbled at her throat. Simone had admitted that he had given her so many hickies, she had a permanent mark on her neck. The thought of him marking her as his woman made her hot.
When he had her skirt up around her waist, Finn slipped one hand down the back of her panties. With the other he began stroking her plump boobies. Bonnie closed her eyes and let the feeling sweep her away. He was good. He touched her so nice. "Mmm," moaned Bonnie as Finn kissed her again. Their tongues dueled, and she ran her hands up and down his sides. They were both getting carried away, but she didn't care. She wanted him. After spending the last seventeen years seeing him every day and knowing he was the father of her kids, she had a thirst for him.
Breaking that steamy kiss, she breathily asked him, "are you gonna' do it t'me, Finn?" "Yeah, Peebles," he whispered. Shucking the silk panties she was wearing, the beautiful Princess climbed up on the table where she'd been shackled the last few months and opened her thighs wide. Finn fished his dong out of his pants and stepped up between those long, beautiful legs. Bonnie licked her lips in hunger as she watched him jack on the shaft of his fat log. Pressing the knob against her opening he pushed. "Ooooaaaah," howled Bonnie, as she wrapped her legs around him and pulled him closer. Her hands pawed at him as he began to move, sliding the thick pecker back and forth in her hot pussy. Hot girl-cream drooled out of her.
"Shiiit," howled the beautiful woman as she went over the edge. Finn opened up the front of her dress and jerked the bra up over her big knobs. As he kissed her again, his hands caressed her round boobies. He ran his palms all over her creamy, pink flesh. Bonnie remembered his evil father asking how many times Finn had fucked her. Ironically, the answer at the time was zero. Now, he'd done it to her twice–once without even knowing it. Breaking that kiss, Finn pressed his face into her boobs and rubbed his stubbly chin against her tender flesh. She was so soft, and she smelled like a strange combination of sweet sugar and citrus. He inhaled deeply of her subtly strange scent, and then took an experimental swipe with his tongue.
"Mmmm," moaned Bonnie as his rod slid in and out of her hot snatch. It was so big! It was driving her crazy. Her fingers pinched his shoulders, and clenched at his hair as she went over the edge again. It had been a long while since she'd had it this good. She wished they had the time to do everything. She wished she could suck him. She wished he could lick her snatch the way Marcy said he did it to Simone.
Finn's roaming hands squeezed her big, beautiful bottom, feeling the muscle flex as her butt rose off the table to meet his hips as they began to go faster and faster. He'd had so many hangups about this–about her–but this was so natural. She was a beautiful woman, and he wanted her. She wanted him back, and they were doing this. And it just felt good. Bonnie pressed her face against his neck and screamed, her hands clawing his back, and her legs squeezing him hard enough to hurt. Finn pinched that big bottom as he shot his stuff in her.
The handsome hero collapsed against his beloved Princess. Breath coming out in pants and gasps, Bonnie ran her fingers through his long blond hair–just like she'd always wanted to do it. "Shit, that was good," sighed Bonnie. She knew they couldn't ever do this again. She wouldn't do that to Simone or Huntress. At the same time, she was happy this had finally happened. The hero finally got the girl. Kissing his sweet lips, Bonnie said, "don't ever forget this, hero." "Believe me, I won't," chuckled Finn. Stroking her soft hair, he said, "I love you Bonnibel Bubblegum." "I love you, Finn the Human Boy," sighed Bonnie.
Finn drew back and pulled up his pants, hastily pulling himself back together. Bonnie was a little slower, letting Finn enjoy the show a little longer before she pulled her clothes back on. Together they headed outside to find the Heavy Boys packing the survivors of Cherry's gang into a couple of paddy-wagons. Bonnie got pride of place in one of the cars, and, with Finn sitting beside her, they set out for Banana Guard headquarters.
They found the place looking a little crazy when the car pulled up. The city was in a state of turmoil, and there was an undercurrent of fear to the scene as the car pulled into the garage beneath the headquarters. Bonnie found herself sandwiched by Finn's troops as they marched upstairs to the offices. The squad room was strangely empty when they came through the door. Instead of the hurly-burly that she was accustomed to, there were only members of Finn's elite strike team working there, fielding phone-calls and dispatching others of their kind. "Had to lock the other dudes up," said Finn. "I didn't know who I could trust. Spike was dirty, Peebles. He was workin' for Cherry the whole time." Bonnie flushed. She'd suggested Finn recruit the detective when she'd learned of all the crimes he had solved. "She sure had us fooled," sighed Bonnie. "Me most of all."
As they reached the center of the squad room, the door to Finn's office came open, and her son came out with his older brother right on his tail. "Mom," breathed Boniface Bubblegum. The tall candy-person came rushing across the room. Throwing his long arms around his mother's shoulders, he hugged her hard as he could. Billy came up alongside them, and his eyes were haunted as he looked his father in the eye. "Dad," he burbled. "Dad, JJ tried to kill mom..." Finn could hear the heartbreak in his voice. Turning to the leader of the Heavy Boys, he said, "put together a team to go arrest Jake Junior..." Billy shoved past him, saying, "I'm'a do that myself."
Finn caught him by the arm and stopped him. "Billy," he said, "this can't end well. Don't do this. Let somebody without emotional attachment do it." Billy shoved his hands away, snarling, "like you did?" Star had told him all about Cherry and exactly what had been going on with his father these last few months–why he was never home. He'd been with her. "Yeah," said Finn, "I'm not saying I did the right thing, Bill, but I'm offering you a chance to get it right." Billy kept walking. When Star would have followed, Finn stopped her. Billy needed to do this his way, and it would only make him resent her if she interfered. Let it just be me, thought the big man. Glob let him just hate me and no-one else.
Not long after Billy had gone, four familiar faces came rushing through the door. Simone and Huntress almost tackled Finn there in the middle of the squad room, wrapping their arms around him and squeezing him tight. As Bonnie watched, a little saddened that it wasn't her getting to do that, her son slipped his arms around her shoulder and hugged her.
I still have our kids, thought the Princess. Things were better than they'd ever been. They were out of the closet, with nothing to hide. Boniface and Shoko were getting to know their dad–really know him–and their brothers and sisters. She had finally achieved a kind of closure with Finn, letting them both move on with their lives, and even if there was somebody else sharing his bed, Bonnie was content. She now no longer had to carry everything herself. She had Shoko and Boniface to help her and, if something ever happened to her, she had somebody who could carry on her work. Things were going to be tough with the Spoon of Plenty out of commission, but she thought she could swing this.
