Ooo, a land that somehow contained continual peace and yet also dangers around each and every corner. It was here in this strange domain where the very hero who protected it resided, Finn the human.
At present, the hero Finn was lounging outside of his literal treehouse. He had brought out a foldable chair and was simply sitting out and taking in the sunlight. Recently, Finn had just gotten back from a long adventure and only wished to use his time to relax a little and destress himself. What Finn did not realize, however, was that he was being watched.
At a fair distance away from the iconic hero of Ooo lay Princess Bubblegum, the self-proclaimed (and sometimes dictator-like) monarch of the Candy Kingdom. Through a pair of large binoculars, PB was indulging in her favorite pastime, staring at Finn. As she stared, heavy breaths escaped from her mouth and her normally light pink cheeks were overtaken by a passionate blush.
"Oh Finn" PB whispered longingly to herself, "Why won't you realize how much I love you?"
Wallowing in her overwhelming feelings of affection, the sugary princess then recalled the first time she had first experienced such feelings towards the human boy.
It had all started when she had temporarily turned thirteen 4 years ago, she was the same age as Finn at the time and felt connected to him, and before she knew it she was madly in love with him. She wished that she could stay thirteen forever, that she could stay with Finn forever, but she had no choice but to return to being eighteen thanks to the actions of the rancid and screechy Lemongrab. However, even after reverting to her eighteen-year-old state PB's love for Finn never went away, and, in truth, it only got stronger as time went on.
At first, PB denied her feelings, telling herself "It's only cause being thirteen is still fresh in my mind" and "It's impossible for an eighteen-year-old to have such illogical feelings for someone younger.", but she still found herself gazing at Finn whenever he was around, wishing for him to compliment her, to get closer to her.
As time went on PB saw Finn grow from naive and young to mature and heroic, and this only made her subconscious affection towards him even stronger. It eventually got to the point where the princess was no longer denying her feelings but instead concealing them, now fully accepting that she was indeed lovesick. As for the reason Bubblegum chose to conceal her feelings, it was simply because she knew not only her very own people wouldn't accept it, but the other princesses and maybe even Jake as well. Most importantly, however, she feared how Finn would react.
All this time, PB had repressed her love and treated Finn as nothing more than a friend or personal knight. She knew that in the past he had feelings for her, and yet she painfully ignored those feelings and sometimes just flat out rejected him in order to keep the status quo. Every time Finn sought to get closer to her she had to push him away, as painful as it was to do so. When she found herself doing this to him she was always suffering on the inside, silently yelling to herself "if only I could be honest with him, if only I could openly express all this love I have for him that is pent up inside my heart". Then, before she knew it, it was too late and Finn had moved on, determined to no longer torment himself with (what he thought were) his unrequited feelings for her.
It was then that Princess Bubblegum realized that now if she were to tell Finn of her intense feelings for him it would only be cruel, as it would only make him tormented all over again. She further began to fear that Finn would also react to her confession by getting angry that it had come too late, and eventually growing to resent her. To her, the thought of the man she loved so deeply growing to hate her was so terrifying that it was often a subject of her nightmares.
And so that was why the princess spent her time loving Finn from afar. Simply watching him was a great delight to her, seeing how he acted under the impression that nobody was watching him made her feel like she was connected to a special side of him that he only showed her. Needless to say, she had now (to an almost insane degree) become obsessed with him.
So there was Princess Bubblegum, still lustfully staring at Finn. As she watched him lounging in his chair, her heavy breathing and blush were eventually accompanied by an increased heart rate. At the same time, she was fantasizing about him, about hugging him tightly and never letting go. When she got like this, she had to control herself with all her might so that she didn't act on her urges and fantasies, because she knew the repercussions that would come with giving in to them. However, for the most part, she was content with just being relatively near him, she thought that as long as she could do just that she would be happy and not need anything more.
But that's not how things would turn out…
As PB lay there gazing at the human hero she noticed that he had fallen asleep. It was then that a sudden and great urge washed over her. This urge was far stronger than any other she had previously experienced. It was as if she had become possessed by all of her held back emotions at once.
In an almost trance-like state, the candy monarch got up from her viewing spot, dropped her binoculars to the ground, and began to fumble towards the treehouse, all the while her eyes remained glued on the unconscious Finn.
Finally, she reached him, and the peaceful sight of the human sleeping up close gave her immense excitement. She was now breathing much heavier than before, almost as if her body was sucking in air in order to cool her off from the intense emotions heating up her body. As she panted, a small trickle of drool exited from the right side of her mouth.
"M-my sweet Finn" she half-whispered, reaching her hand out to touch him. She then began to gently caress his left cheek. The moderate physical contact between her soft, semi-sticky candy hand and the hero of Ooo's skin—which had grown mostly rough due to the countless battles and injuries it had endured—was enough to drive her insane with infatuation. The princess then took it further by starting to trace around his lips with her index finger. She was beginning to lose herself to her emotions, to her urges, as she now acted without any fear of consequences or getting caught; something she had never done before.
Though it happened subconsciously, Princess Bubblegum's passion for Finn had grown immensely through her actions. Now she was too far gone, like how a drug addict constantly looks for a new high, PB continuously wanted to reach a new "level" of her love. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore, right then and there she wanted to express all her love in one grand gesture, a kiss.
She placed both her hands on the sleeping human's cheeks, and gradually began to lower her face towards his. She closed her eyes while she did so, eagerly anticipating the moment when their lips would meet.
"I can't hold back anymore, Finn. I so desperately need this." is what she was thinking in this moment of anticipation.
However, suddenly it all came to a sudden halt. The sound of distant, yet hastily approaching voices broke PB's magic moment and allowed her to come to her senses once more. She swiftly stepped back from the asleep Finn and looked off towards the direction of the voices.
The progenitors of these voices were Jake and BMO, who were returning from what seemed to be a grocery shopping trip. Princess Bubblegum frantically scrambled away, almost tripping on her vibrant pink dress in the process.
As she ran away she thought "Tch, not enough. Just you wait my sweet, I'll be back soon enough to finish what I started." and quietly chuckled to herself in a nearly manic way.
Although her indulgence had been thwarted at the very last second, Princess Bubblegum was still happy with herself, knowing she got just a little closer to Finn. The new kind of urge that had temporarily plagued her seemed to pass over and as she headed back to the Candy Kingdom she thought that for now, she would have to be content with what she got.
For now, that is...