I did not know Fan-Fiction did not do paragraph indents! That's messed up FF, that's messed up something fierce! Either way I made a silent deal with myself that if this story got at least 3 reviews and 3 favorites I would update it and give you what you people wanted, the second half from Fionna's point of view. Weird how that works right? Seriously my mused is messed up I was leaving work today when Cascade's "Listen To Your Heart" came on and BAM the idea for this sprung up and wouldn't leave me alone till I wrote it out. I also read the new Adventure Time Graphic Novel called "Playing With Fire" if you have not read or heard of this go find it immediately, it's so flipping AWESOME! Almost as awesome as I am! All editing done by my friend KJDufman91 a Soulless Canadian. So now its 3am over here and I am tired, evil and tired. Great King of the Undead OUT. PEACE! Also enjoy!
With movie night a complete success, Cake and myself decided to clean the living room real quick before going to sleep. Once the trash is out and the house is tidy, we head up the ladder to finally go to sleep. Cake climbs into her box "Night baby!" she says as she lays her head on her pillow and then covers herself. I had quickly changed into my red pajama gown and climbed into my animal pelt bed and sleeping bag. As I was completely snuggled in, I shut my eyes and drifted off into a nice deep sleep.
I am in a dark void like room, no walls or doors, just endless dark "Hello?" I call out into the void, only for my voice to echo and fade. Silence is all I am met with, I wonder where I am and why it's so dark. When suddenly a light appears off in the distance, I run towards it. When I get closer to it, I am blinded by it, I shield my eyes from the intensity with my arms and when I open my arms to try and see past the light, I notice that the light is gone and I am standing in a grassy field staring at myself. Except instead of my normal adventure cloths, I am wearing a white flowing gown and my hair is down with a flower tucked off behind my ear.
"Uh.. Hello." I say to myself, my other self looks at me and then speaks.
"Hello Fionna" she smiles.
"So, how's it going me?" I ask feeling a bit weird doing this.
"You're doing pretty well, except there is something bothering you."
I'm taken back by this, what does she mean something is bothering me? Before I went to sleep I was doing just fine. She seems to pick up on the confusion I have to what she said and starts to say.
"I see what I said has you confused, let me explain. You're worried about Marshall Lee." my other self calmly states.
"Marshall Lee? What? I'm not worried about Marshall."
"In so much denial I see."
"I am not 'in denial' about anything" I say and cross my arms.
I don't get what she means, Marshall was fine when he left after the movie today.
"You caught him staring at you, did you not?"
"Well yeah, but he was not staring, when the movie ended and the lights came on he was just looking in my direction" I say matter-o-factly.
"Didn't you feel a bit odd during the movie, as if someone was watching you the entire time?" she replies still smiling at me.
Well I'm not going to lie but I did feel a bit off, as if someone was watching me for almost the entire movie. But I mean, come on, what would Marshall be doing watching me?
"It could have been any number of reasons as to why I felt like that, I mean, we still have that wall goblin problem!"
"You're still going to deny the truth are you? Perhaps you need a bit more convincing."
My other self waved her hand in the field and it started to change shape and form. Next thing I know the world melts and reshapes, in an instant we are inside the tree fort and I can see everyone shuffling in.
"Okay, I don't understand, why are you showing me this? I was there."
"Because sometimes, we miss what is right in front of us, look."
She points into the group of friends and I see Marshall coming inside as he normally does, flying above the rest. Except this time I notice something I didn't see before, Marshall looks a bit flustered and he is looking at me, with a look I have never seen on his face before. Right now I am starting to worry, maybe my other self noticed something about Marshall I didn't, maybe that's why I am here inside my brain having this chat to help him out of whatever trouble he is in.
"Okay, now I am starting to worry, I have never seen Marshy act like this before. What's wrong with him?"
"Not what Fionna but who."
"I-I don't understand, what do you mean by who?"
"Just watch."
I watch intently as Cake and I stand to give our little intro speech we do every movie night. But the other Fionna moves my head towards Marshy, I can see his face now and he is smiling but it's different from his normal one. This one, instead of being cool and confident, is more shy and a bit goofy, I can see he is also looking directly at my face. I notice that when I move my eyes toward him his expression changes greatly and it goes back to the same Marshy I know with a confident smirk. I can feel my cheeks turn just a light shade of bright pink, I push this feeling down and ask myself.
"What does this mean?"
"Are you going to deny this still?"
"I-I'm not denying anything, it's just I.. don't understand what's going on." The other Fionna lets out a sigh "Then perhaps this will show you what I mean."
It's dark inside the tree fort but I can see everything as though we were outside during the day. I can see Marshy staring at me with a slight blush on his face, it's kind of cute how flustered he looks right now... I didn't just think that, did I? "You did Fionna." I jumped a little bit, I forgot she was here. "Continue to watch, what happens next may come as a surprise to you." Curious as to what she meant I continued to watch, I saw myself on the couch looking in Marshy's direction and I saw his head snap back to the movie. What made me blush about this moment is how I am watching myself, stare at Marshall! I had almost the same face he had earlier, I have a small smile and I am blushing.
"I thought I was only looking at him for a second!" I say a bit panicked
"Sometimes, a moment lasts longer then we think." she says calmly
"I-I still don't know what you wa-want me to see here, s-s-so I'm taking just a tiny bit longer to-to look away from him."
"My, my more stubborn than I thought, will you still deny how you feel about him?"
I literally jumped back from what she had just said to me. How I feel about him? I don't feel anything towards him. So I was staring at him for a bit, not a big deal. This. Proves. Nothing!
"Very well, one last push, you're starting to break." she said sweetly.
Again she waved her hand the lights came on, the movie was over and everyone was getting up to leave. Except Marshy he was staring at me and he seemed to be lost in thought about something. Then I noticed it, as everyone made their way to the front door, Marshall and me seemed frozen in time staring at each other and blushing profusely. I watched as we stayed like this for some time, surprisingly nobody else noticed or seemed to care. It wasn't until the vision of me spoke and asked Marshall if he was alright that they snapped out of it. The other Fionna swept her hand across the vision and everything faded away. Now we were both standing in the field of grass once more, my face was red from having to watch that "So will you deny it now?" the other Fionna asked me.
"I-I-I..." I stayed quite, my hands clenching into fist and tears threatening to fall from the corner of my eyes.
"I know why you are silent. I know why you won't say what you see before you is true. You. Are. Afraid."
And there it was, my real reason for pretending not to notice or see anything going on. My other self was right, I was afraid. Not of how Marshall would react but of how far a relationship between us could go. So many questions popped into my mind, such as would it be fair to just love him and then one day die, leaving him alone? Or what would happen if we broke up? another was, what if we got serious and he turned me, what would Cake think. There are so many questions and plenty of reasons to have doubt, that was until other Fionna spoke a simple phrase that put my fears to rest.
"Love conquers all..."
"Y-you're right and I do love him. I have loved him for a long time, I've just been too afraid to tell him how I feel." I raise my fist into the air and shout "I AM FIONNA THE HUMAN AND I LOVE MARSHALL LEE THE VAMPIRE KING!"
I laugh as tears stream down my face, don't be confused, I'm not sad, these are tears of joy. After so long this weight is finally lifted from my shoulders, I turn to the other Fionna and ask her.
"What are you? A dream or part of my subconscious?"
"You have not figured that out either? I'm your love for Marshy, I was tired of being force down or to the side of your mind. So, today I took the chance to make myself known to you. I hope you are not disappointed"
"Nope, not in the least!" I say with a smile wiping away a few remaining tears of joy.
"Then please, take my hand and ignore me no more."
She extends her hand out for a handshake but I just rush right up to her and give her a hug, she hugs me back. Next thing I know we are both engulfed in another bright light. I awake from my dream and it's still fresh in my mind.
"Today, I tell him how I feel!" I say as I jump out of bed, wash up real fast, and dress in my normal adventure outfit. I look out the bathroom window to see that the sun has begun to rise, I make my way downstairs and yell to Cake in the kitchen that I have something to do this morning. Before I can reach the door I hear three quick knocks.