"Fionna. Please. Get. Out." Cake said between pushes as she tried to get Fionna out of the house.
"I'm going, I'm going! Have fun." once Fionna finished her last word Cake closed the door to return to her datenight.
Fionna rolled her eyes and started walking. She was headed for the strawberry fields to meet up with Marshall. She shouldn't be doing this when she could be hanging out with her boyfriend and not Marshall Lee of all people. Although, she doesn't have feelings for him anymore so maybe it is ok to hang out with him for one night. Besides, Marshall probably knows she's dating Gumball and maintaining a happy relationship. Yeah, yeah a happy relationship. Before she knew it, the strawberry fields were only a few yards away and she saw Marshall and a blanket.
"Hello." Fionna said as she walked up to the small set-up.
"I thought we should watch the stars tonight since I never finished teaching you all of the constellations." he smiled and motioned for her to sit down on the dark blanket surrounded by dim-lit candles.
"Sounds good to me!" Fionna walked over and laid down next to Marshall.
Before Marshall began his astronomical lesson, they just watched. The night skies of Aaa were so clear you would swear the stars were brighter than the moon. Fionna loved space. The fact that there is an extensive amount of no sound or even light for infinite amounts of time. It kept her up at night, thinking of something so big and wide. Even if there was another being out there or even a parallel universe intrigued Fionna. She absolutely loved it. She put her hands on her abdomen and held her wrists. Her fingers lightly massaged her scar on her left wrist. This had become a bad habit of hers but for some reason when she touched the two faint white bite marks on her skin, it would send a pleasure-like feeling through her body. It was quite strange considering the way it happened. Fionna closed her eyes and remembered.
Flashback
"Marshall?" Fionna shook Marshall awake trying to get him to not fall asleep. If he did, he may not wake up. "Marshall please don't sleep!" she said with tears beginning to form in her eyes.
He had been cut by a poisoned thorn in a wicked forest and the poison stopped his vampire healing all-together. As they were trying to escape the forest before the cut, there was no red anywhere and he was hungry and wouldn't survive long without something red...or blood.
"Fuuuck!" Fionna whispered to herself as he laid on the ground with his head in her lap, slowly shutting his eyes as he grew more tired.
Suddenly an idea popped into Fionna's brain. She shook Marshall awake and held her breath for her next move. She opened his mouth and with trepidation, put her wrist into his mouth. She waited for the agonizing pain to occur but Marshall only sat up and took her wrist out of his mouth.
"Fionna, you don't need to do that." his voice was hoarse and his eyelids looked sunken in.
"Yes I do. Either I lose a little bit of blood or you die." she desperately pleaded with her eyes.
Marshall was going to try and argue her out this but he wouldn't have been able to successfully. He slowly moved closer to her, and she offered him her wrist once more. He wrapped both of his hands around her forearm and hand, waiting for her to give him permission; she slowly nodded and Marshall brought her wrist to his mouth. She watched as his fangs grew even longer before insertion. The pain stung like a cut being drenched in acid.
"Ahhnngh" Fionna quietly groaned in pain.
Marshall didn't stop and rolled his eyes back in pleasure. The taste of human blood, fresh from the vein, created a slow and steady heartbeat of his own. His senses felt alive and on fire. He loved it.
"Maa-Marsshhall…" Fionna said slowly as she blinked slow.
She could feel the strangest feeling of blood being sucked through her body. It escaped her at a slow and heavy rate with no stopping. Marshall hadn't realized how much blood he had taken and wouldn't stop. His ecstasy from her blood was almost orgasmically strong. He moaned into her wrist as he lapped up the bite marks in her skin. Fionna felt his tongue make luscious figure eights on her skin.
"Fi? Fi!…" his words faded away before he could finish his sentence as she saw nothing but black blotches in her eyes, and she passed out.
Fionna hated the memory but it always lingered in her mind what that strange feeling is. She continued to touch the scar, feeling it tingle under her touch. Suddenly she sat up on the blanket and looked at Marshall.
"I have a question." Marshall sat up with her and looked her in the eyes.
"Spill the beans." he said with a shy smile.
"Whenever I touch my scar, it-it feels weird." Fionna held up her wrist.
"What do you mean weird?" Marshall asked, grazing his finger along the rough scar.
Fionna swallowed hard, feeling that strange pleasure-like feeling through her blood. "Um, it uh, it feels good in a way." she felt awkward discussing this with him but had always wanted to know.
Marshall smirked at her.
"Right, see vampires have venom in their fangs. There are thousands of microscopic pore-like "holes" in my fangs that automatically mist out my venom once it hits blood. And...that venom has certain chemicals that heighten all of your senses. You may not remember but I licked the wound so the small amount of venom that is also in my saliva would heal the bite marks quicker than your usual heal time. What I'm guessing happened was that since there's a scar, some of my venom may have gotten trapped in your new skin and is just sitting in there, causing the pleasurable feelings when your fingers lightly touch the skin. Its highly sensitive." he finished talking and waited for a reaction.
"No way." Fionna smiled and looked at him like he was crazy.
"I'm not kidding. The same thing happens with my bite marks on my neck." he pointed toward the almost matching bite marks to her wrist on his neck.
"Really?" with curiosity she reached out trying to touch them. Marshall caught her hand before it felt his scars and he shook his head.
"Not tonight bunny." he chuckled at her.
She looked at him quizzically. Not tonight? What was that supposed to mean? Marshall stood up and extended his hand to hers. Fionna looked up at him, confused.
"Remember Lake Ooo? We used to swim there when you were younger." Marshall asked.
Fionna thought for a few seconds than the memories flooded back to her. She grinned at him as if she were a child and she took his hand. "Yes! How long has it been?"
"Almost 5 years at least. I have a little three person boat and we can take it out there if you want."
"Yes! Eee! I'm so excited!" she squealed with a smile.
He chuckled at her reaction and picked her up so they could fly towards his house. Lake Ooo wasn't far from his cave.
"Ugghh! Phew, alright. You ready?" Marshall said after placing the boat down on a narrow wooden dock.
Fionna nodded and helped him push it into the water. Marshall got in first with the ore and got situated in the front of the boat on a little bench that could only fit him. Fionna carefully stepped in as the small 7 foot boat wobbled in the water. She could barely see in the darkness around her but eventually found her way onto the slightly bigger bench behind Marshall. She held the two towels Marshall told her to bring close to her chest. As Marshall began to paddle into the small lake, Fionna looked around at the empty fields around them. Lake Ooo was more secluded than she remembered. No houses, no trees, just grassy fields.
"Why did we bring towels again?" Fionna questioned as she set them down beside her.
"I thought maybe we could go for a swim?" Marshall briefly looked over his shoulder at her but turned back around to paddle.
Fionna smiled to herself. Just like when we were younger. She thought. "Ok." her voice changed as her mouth was in a smile.
The quiet summer night had a cold breeze that was brushing against Fionna's bare arms and legs. She unfolded a towel and laid it across her legs. Frogs and insects around them made harmonious tunes in the water. A small distraction from the ominous darkness.
"Ok, we're just about in the middle of the lake. Want to get in?" Marshall stayed looking out to the water in front of him.
"Sure." Fionna said quietly.
Marshall paddled a little bit more and stopped to pull off his t-shirt. Fionna watched as he did so. As his arms brought up the shirt, his shoulder muscles flexed in such a beautiful way. He stood up and started to undo his belt but stopped and looked at Fionna who was watching him.
"Taking in the view?" he laughed as he looked down at her.
Fionna snapped out of her trance and hit him with a towel. "Shut up!"
She stood up and easily slipped off her shirt, not minding what he thought of her in her underwear. She continued on and took off her shorts and shoes. They both stood in the boat, only in underwear as if waiting for the other to jump in. Fionna turned her back to Marshall to feel the water.
"I hope the water is warm because it's kind of cold toNIGAAHH!" Fionna squealed as Marshall picked her up by her hips and threw her into the water.
Marshall laughed as her splash flew water onto him and he waited for her to surface. Once she came up she couldn't stop laughing and had to hang onto the side of the boat to stop her from swallowing water. Marshall flew into the air and did a cannon ball next to her, drenching her with more water. Marshall came up into the air and shook his hair like a wet dog.
"Uggh! Haha gross!" Fionna put a hand up to stop the water from getting into her eyes.
"Yeah actually, this lake is kind of gross." he swam around to the other side of the boat.
They both put their arms on the opposite sides of the boat and put their chins on their hands. Fionna watched Marshall as he watched her. It had been awhile since she's had this much fun, and this was only the first night Marshall had been back. Maybe she hadn't realized how much she really did miss his presence.
"AhH! Marshall, stop!" Fionna kicked his foot from underwater as he was trying to scare her.
"Haha! Pheww..lets start swimming with the boat back to the dock." Marshall said as he started to kick his legs underwater.
Fionna began to kick as well. The two managed to make it back to the dock without any sea life encounters. The small boat bumped into the side of the dock with a quiet thud and they both got out.
"I'll take the boat up and you can start heading back to the cave to take a shower if you'd like? I have an outdoor shower that I'll use so we can both get clean. Sound good?" Marshall asked assuming she'd say yes.
"Sure!" Fionna wrapped a towel around her bare body and collected her clothes.
Fionna sat on the side of Marshall's bed, waiting for him to get back from his shower. As she eyed his room mindlessly, she smiled at the pictures he had on his wall. Although his room was empty with decor, he had a small area on his wall with miscellaneous papers and pictures. Fionna had a polaroid and Marshall kept a few she took of him and herself. There were various concert tickets and fortune cookie fortunes around the pictures.
"I. Am. Tired." Marshall flew into the room and dove onto the bed muffling the end of his sentence.
Fionna wobbled on the bed after he had belly flopped onto his comforters and pillows. She stood up and looked down at him. He only had a white towel around his waist, his hair and back still wet. He laid there, motionless with no breathing. It was quite strange seeing someone not have to breathe.
"I'll be on the couch." she said quietly as she began to walk away.
"Ah ah aahh!" Marshall grabbed her wrist and pulled her down onto his bed and tickled her.
"AaaHHhh!" Fionna squealed and laughed as she couldn't move.
Marshall took both of her wrists in one hand and held them above her head, resting them on a pillow. He stopped tickling her and leaned in. "You get my bed." he winked at her and hopped off the bed and walked over to a dresser.
Fionna watched as he grabbed some clothes and flew towards his ladder. Before going down, he quietly told her goodnight and turned off the light. Fionna crawled under his covers, taking in his scent which was dusted on his blankets and pillows. It was a sweetness with dark undertones. Almost like strawberries and death, quite the harmonious elixor. A few minutes later, sleep fell upon her and Marshall's house became quiet.
Authors Note: Woot woot! If you check my bio I've added a little thing about how I'm updating every weekend. Cheers for consistency! Anyway, the reviews lately have been amazing. Thank you all so much for letting me know how my writing is. I never even thought people would read my stories let alone follow and review. :) Super cool! I may cheat and update in the week because I'm ending school this week and will be able to write a lot more! Whenever it may be, see you guys in the next chapter!
~OAT