Chapter 6

Marshall tried to sleep but every time he did he just saw Fiona's smiling, sweet, face staring straight back at him. He even wrote in his entire song book, which is now all about Fiona. He took the note book and went upstairs, entered his closet and put it in a box titled "Music" and set atop of the many notebooks already there. "Wonder if she'll ever hear these." He said aloud as he closed the closet door.

After a while he got hungry again, there wasn't any food in his cellar nor his fridge. His stomach growled and his eyes turned to a darker shade of red, claws out he grabbed an umbrella and went out to hunt for some red.

"Fiona? Wake up sweetie." Cake said taping her lightly.

"No I don't want that dead guy's pie." She said maneuvering herself under the furs."Marshall I said NO!" she said again waking up.

"What was that about? And when'd you get home?"

"What? But didn't you…Marshall…" She said with an unnamed look on her face as she whispered incoherently to herself.

"You seem to have recovered nicely." Cake said walking into the kitchen.

"Whad'ya mean jelly bean?"

"Well you're not dreaming 'bout Gumball anymore." Cake said putting a bowl of beans on the table.

"Oh yea? So what am I cured of?"

"Y-o-u loves a certain vampire." Cake said with a certain confidence as she digs into the beans.

"I already knew that, since yesterday." Fiona said taking off her hat to reveal short golden locks. She set the hat on the table and grabbed a black ribbon from her pocket to tie her hair back."When we almost kissed."

Cake nearly did a spit take of her beans, "What?! S-so I was right?" she said as Fiona sat next to her peeling a banana.

There was a loud noise at the door.

"I'll scope it out Cake you deal with yer beans." Fiona said grabbing her sword. When she opened the door she found Marshall carrying something under a sheet, and red liquid dripping from one side of his mouth."What's that?"

"Ugh…I lost control and-and ended up sucking the life outta this r-random dude. Came here to ask if you knew what to do with him..." He said entering the forye.

"…YOU WHAT?!" She screamed staring at the sheet. "How could you just eat some random guy?!"

"There was no food left! I was really hungry, not my fault. Besides it was bound to happen soon, I can live off red but not for very long, you know." Fiona grabbed at the corpse and set it on the floor. Marshall just noticed her hat was off and got that weird blushing feeling again."Hey, where's your hat?"

"Oh I took it off, but really dude what should we do about this guy?" She said starting to lower the sheet. He put his hand on hers to stop her.

"You really shouldn't, I get kind of animal-ish when I feed, not a very pretty sight."

'You mean the dudes gray?" she said facing him.

"No its different, you see," he thought of how to tell her."I end up eating EVERYTHING including the blood, and they usually end up with this weird hollowed out facial expression of being surprised."

"Dude I think I can handle seeing that." Fio said with her usual hero like confidence. Marshall looked up to the ceiling weighing his options and knowing that she'll see it one way or another, no matter what he tells her.

"Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you." He moved his hands back as she lowered the sheet more. when Fiona saw the face her hands stopped, she stared for a second then turned around to cower into Marshall's shirt. She was utterly terrified.

"I warned you." He said recovering the horrific gray, eyeless, wrinkled, face with the sheet as he pet her quivering head. Her quiet tears wetting his shirt

Marshall lowered their bodies to the floor protectively wrapping his arms around her in a hug as he did so. Fiona shook uncontrollably and lowered her head to his head not wanting to see the horrible thing in front of her.

After gaining a bit of her confidence Fiona asked Cake if she could help Marshall dispose of the body. Marshall wrapped her in one of the blankets provided at the house and left her on the couch. Seeing the sheet on the floor made her slightly afraid again. Carefully Marsh picked up the guy and walked to the door waiting with the horrible dead guy over his shoulder.

As Fio waited for the cat and vampire to return her brain drifted off to her feelings, to distract her of the scene she had just witnessed. "Do I still love him? Gummy hasn't called or came over with an answer…and Marshall is my friend...who I almost kissed and love to smell his scent of strawberries and death." She said shaking slowly. "But then how could I love someone who's supposed to be so evil?"

"Hey Cake, what's with Fiona's weird scent fetish?" Marshall asked as they threw the dude's body into a ditch.

"She's like a dog dude; she incorporates everyone with their smell, that way if there's a doppelganger she can tell if it's you or not." Cake replied wiping her hands from the disgusting body weirdness."At least that's what she told me. Hey can you keep an eye on Fiona? I'm gonna be spending more time with Mocro and I don't want her causing trouble in the tree house since she doesn't know how to cook and stuff."

"Sure Cake." He said knowing she had ulterior motives for asking her number one fear to watch over her number one and only person she really cares about.

When they arrived at the house Fiona was found sleeping soundly on the couch waiting for them to return. And from the look on her face the sound of them coming back had woken her. Cake lightly kissed her forehead before going upstairs. After talking she said he could stay and talk with Fiona about their plan with everything.

Marshall sat near her feet on the couch. She rubbed the sleep away and sat up.

"We need to talk." He said serious but still with a friendly smile on his face.

"Sure dude, 'bout what?"

"Cake and I were talking and she said she's going to be spending more time at L.M's and won't be here as much. She basically wants me to babysit you when she's not here so you won't end up burning the tree house down." She looked quizzically at him.

"Okay, no offense but why'd she choose you?"He scooted closer to her raising his arm around her shoulders, causing that sound from her throbbing heart to drown out all noise.

"Maybe she just trusts me more than she used to." He said with a wink.

"Marshall?" She looked up at him slowly.

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Why do you take so much joy in seeing me vulnerable?"

Marshall was caught off guard, he had no idea where she came up with asking him that and had no idea what to say. So like an idiot he just looked back and said, "I have no idea." of course he knew the answer was that he loved the fact she let her guard down around him, she could be her true self; instead of Adventuress Fiona, she's Cute Human Fiona. He loved that no one but he has seen that side and he loves it."But what I do know is that only I've seen you vulnerable, and that's what makes me want to see all the more."

Fiona blushed her deep red and turned away 'He always does this, why do I have to leave an opening for him to do that! Maybe its because...I like this feeling...' she turned back to Marshall

"Marshall…" She stops to look back at him. His eyes staring into hers "I think I-I like y-you..." He closed in to her face staring into her eyes directly.

"And I think," Marshall paused to smirk at her slightly miffed face "I love you." He said as he came closer, their lips almost touching.

The anticipation was killing Fiona and she couldn't take it as she grabbed a hold of his shirt and pulled him into a kiss, her first kiss. They closed their eyes and were draped in each other's arms as the long awaited kiss took place. She started to giggle as Marshall unknowingly sneaked his snake like tongue passed her lips. Fiona was surprised but only for a short moment when she returned the favor. She unclenched her fists and rested her palms on his chest through his black v-neck. She pulled away for a second to catch her breath, Marshall just smiled down at her.

"I never would have expected YOU of all people to pull me into a kiss."

"Oh shut up," She said, hitting him lightly "I just wanted to get it over with. You kept on procrastinating so I just hit fast forward." She said stubbornly. Marshall pulled her into another kiss raising his hands to the tied ponytail and let her hair fall as he entwined his sharp nails into the luxurious short golden curls.

"You cut your hair." He said playing with the strands in his hand. Fiona panted slowly.

"Why do you keep getting side tracked, and from hair of all things." Marshall raised an eyebrow, hand still in her hair.

"Well someone's anxious to kiss me."

"Whatever, you're just being an idiot. I love you so why wouldn't I want to kiss you?" She said trying to pull him into another kiss. He stopped short of her lips and lowered his face."W-what are you doing?" She said as he closed his cold lips around her neck. She shivered from the sudden touch.

Marshall smiled against the skin of her neck and moved his hand onto her hips. He moved his face back to hers, She smiled eyes closed lips pursed into an infinite, passionate long kiss.

"I love you." Marshall said mid kiss.

"I love you more." She said back, not wanting to kiss just to hold him close to her, he did the same. Not saying a word staying in each other's embrace.