A/N: Can Marceline even sleep? I was wondering about this, but let's just assume that she can, and does, sleep. I liked writing this too much for her to be an insomniac! Also, there's a part two on the way, for Bubblegum :)

Chapter Rating: K+

Warnings: LSP wanting Marceline to "lump her," whatever you want to take that to mean.

Thank you to everyone who has reviewed...keep it coming! It makes me super happy.

Dream I

"Come on, Marmalade!" the Princess called, running into a sunny field. "Come get me!"

"I can't," Marceline yelled back, staying in to cool shade of a tree. "I don't have my hat with me or anything…I'll get burned!"

"No you won't," Bubblegum said, coming back and tugging on her arm. "Just trust me!"

"Bonnie, this is crazy!" she dug her heels into the ground, struggling against the pull of the other girl. "I can't go into the sun—Bonnie—!" She tripped, and tumbled into the sunlit field.

The vampire cringed, expecting intense pain. But it didn't come. She slowly opened her eyes and blinked, looking around herself. She was definitely sitting in full sunlight—there was no doubt about it. Everything was bright, and much better than she remembered. But why wasn't her skin burning off? She held out a pale arm, and looked at it. Everything seemed to be fine, miraculously. She floated off of the ground, and turned to face Bubblegum.

"What did you do…? I can go out in the sun now!"

"It's wonderful, isn't it?" She replied, taking Marceline's hand.

She nodded, drinking in her surroundings. Everything was dazzling, vibrant, surreal. "I haven't been out in the sun in over a thousand years…since before the great Mushroom War!"

"I know," Bubblegum replied, and kissed her cheek.

Marceline closed her eyes and leaned in for a kiss, but when she opened them, she was sitting alone on her living room couch, and there was someone banging on the front door.

"What?" She hollered, getting up to open in.

She found Finn and Jake on her doorstep, looking frantic.

"Marceline, we need your help!" Finn cried. "Ice King kidnapped PB again, and we can't get her back!"

Marceline huffed. She was sick of Ice King abducting her girlfriend all the time. "Let's go then," she followed them out of the door.

They flew, all three of them flew, to the Ice Kingdom, and crashed through the door of the Mountain-Castle.

"Give back the Princess, Ice King!" Finn exclaimed, drawing his sword. "We called in back-up, so we can totally kick your butt!"

"Why do you guys always have to stop me from taking Princesses?" The Ice King complained. He looked only at Finn and Jake, taking no notice of Marceline. She used this as a chance to go rescue Bubblegum.

She sprinted across the room, and knelt down beside her.

"Bonnie, Bonnie, it's me!" Marceline exclaimed, and picked her up. "Now let's get you out of here!"

The Princess didn't respond, but Marceline wasn't too concerned. She flew down a hallway and opened the first door that she came to, only to be looking back out onto a sunlit field, where none other than Princess Bubblegum herself was standing with her back to the vampire.

Marceline was confused. She had the Princess in her arms right now, didn't she…?

She looked down, but it wasn't into the beautiful face of Princes Bubblegum. The purple lumps, the golden star on the forehead…it was all too familiar. Marceline screamed, and Lumpy Space Princess' eyes snapped open.

"Glob," She said, realizing whose arms she was in. "I—I didn't think I was into this sort of thing, but…I think I like it. Lump me, Marceline! Lump me!"

She reached her thin purple arms out to the Vampire Queen, and puckered her lips. Marceline dropped her in horror, and ran to the figure of the only Princess whom she could ever love.

She flung her arms around Bubblegum, and held onto her as tightly as she could.

"Bonnie, you'll never believe what happened…" She began to explain, but stopped, sensing that something wasn't right.

The Princess turned to face her, but the face wasn't that of her beloved Bubblegum. Instead, it was her heir, Lemongrab. Marceline gasped, and backed away.

"The Princess was waiting for you, Marceline!" He said, in his grating voice. "But you left her! You left her without saying a proper good-bye! That sort of behavior...is…UNACCEPTABLE!" He drew out the last word in a high, long, earsplitting note. As it rattled Marceline's delicate eardrums, she could also begin to feel the infernal sun burning her at last. She backed away further, into the shade, but her foot hit a tree root and she tumbled down, down…

Marceline woke up with a gasp, sweating and panting. She sat up shakily, and took a deep breath. It was just a dream. She told herself. Just a dream. She had been having the nightmare for a few weeks now, and it was always the same. She knew that it made no sense, and absolutely was not real, but nonetheless, she looked over to assure herself that the Princess was still, in fact, fast asleep beside her. She pushed back a lock of pink hair to make sure that the face held no traces of lemon-yellow. After confirming these things, she sank back under the blankets, and snaked her arms around her lover before falling asleep again.