Fionna couldn't help but feel guilty of what she just let happen. She walked through the gold coins and treasures around her and up the ladder to see who was home. Putting on a straight face and wiping her bottom lip, she entered the living room area to find none other than Gumball. Her cheeks flushed and her heart began to pound as if he had just caught her.
"Fionna! Glad you're back! I wanted to speak with you and Cake about the wedding. So what I was thinking was that I know you are very taken back by the idea of marriage in not much more than a month so I'm changing the date. We shall have a winter wedding! How cute, right?!" Gumball was sitting with Cake and clapping his hands with excitement.
"Actually, that does sound a lot better. I think I'll have more time to find a dress and plan for how everything will look and such. Of course we will plan everything together." she forced a smile to seem as if she hadn't been kissing someone other than her fiancé.
"Oh, Fionna. Ha ha, no need for planning and worrying. I have everything in the works and will be finding a dress for you. Since this is a royal wedding, there is a very tight schedule and look to the wedding that it would be nearly impossible to change anything. But I'd be happy to take suggestions!" Gumball smiled back at her.
Happy to take suggestions...sounds like he's a store clerk asking if I need anything else. Fionna tried her best to nod. "I think I'm going to head upstairs, I didn't realize how late it was." she started to walk towards the stairs.
Gumball walked over to her and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. Without knowing he would act upon her, she didn't move with him in the kiss but just stood there, awkwardly standing with her lips to his. He came away from her face and smiled. Soon he had left and Fionna was walking up the stairs again.
"Fi?" Cake said from the bottom of the stairs.
Fionna stopped ascending and rolled her eyes, angry that everyone was interrupting her time to sleep. "What?" she asked with a bitter tone.
"I can smell him on you. When you walked in I thought it was Marshall who was with you but it was just you. I hope you're making the right decisions." Cake finished and walked back to the kitchen as if to finish the conversation without letting Fionna have a say.
Fionna grew angrier. What the fuck was that?! She trudged back up to their room and threw herself onto her bed. Sleep, she needed sleep. It was probably around 4 am which was strange for Gumball to be up this early. Fionna wondered how much he really did care for her. Did she even feel the same way or was it just a feeling she made up to keep from doing things with some other guy. Her point may have just been proven due to the fact of previously making out with someone other than her fiancé. Why do things have to be so fucking complicated right now?! Fionna stuffed her face into her pillow and tried to fall asleep. Only thing keeping her awake was the thought of feeling Marshall's lips one more time...
Fionna groggily squeezed her eyes shut to the noise of her phone ringing. It's incessant buzzing on the wooden floor by her bed created an obnoxious noise. She continued to try and ignore it but the noise continued to buzz into her ear. She groaned loudly and blindly reached for the floor to grab her phone. She opened one eye to tap the green phone icon and put rolled onto her side while closing her eyes again.
"Hello?" Fionna asked with a sleepy tone.
"Did I wake you?" a familiar voice spoke to her humorously.
It took her a few seconds to register who she was speaking to. "Wha-what time is it?" she said while stretching.
"Almost 1. Ha ha, Fionna I've got to say I think this is the latest I've known you to get up."
"Sorry, I was too busy running around at parties and doing things I shouldn't have been doing." Fionna argued.
"Really? Because I had a particularly amazing night last night."
Fionna blushed and didn't say anything. She just thought about last night and the perks rather than the negatives. "Marshall, we really can't continue this.."thing" we have. It's weird and unless I break up with Gumball, which is nearly impossible at this point. I hate to say it but, I'd love to continue this but I can't." Fionna clenched her jaw at the realization of her words.
"Will you come see me sometime soon? We can jam like we used to or go to another party and not happen to make out with each other." Marshall laughed a little.
"Deal. But no funny business. And if there is an incident then I will have to eradicate any and all of our hang outs, and I think you know I wouldn't want to do that." Fionna spoke seriously.
"Deal...want to come over today if you're not doing anything?" Marshall asked with anticipation.
Fionna thought in her head. I could go hang out with Marshall and enjoy myself with the company of just a friend...or I could plan the wedding I'm not excited about for 4 hours. "I'll get dressed and be over." Fionna smiled and said her goodbyes while getting up to get changed.
"Uggghhh...Marshall you said this was going to be fun!" Fionna said as she flopped onto Marshall's bed onto her back.
Marshall didn't respond but continued to write down notes to a song he had been writing for the last couple of days. Fionna looked over at him but only had the view of his back. He was wearing a white t-shirt and tight ripped black jeans with no socks or shoes. His shirt was a thinner than a cotton t-shirt and showed the indentation of his back muscles when he moved to write another note down.
"Why don't we fight a swamp monster or go explore an ice capped mountain in the Ice Kingdom. Something other than sitting here and doing nothing!" Fionna rolled her eyes closed.
With Marshall continuing to not answer her, Fionna bent her back over the side of Marshall's bed and felt the blood rush to her head. She looked at his room upside down and touched her finger tips to the dark wooden floor. She continued to lay there, curved over the bed, waiting for Marshall to suggest something.
"I have a question." Fionna said while undoing her hair tie, letting her hair overflow onto the floor.
"Mhm." Marshall hummed with a pencil in between his teeth.
"Since you're dead and all," Marshall furrowed his brows, confused, and stopped writing. "and your blood and such doesn't flow, nothing would happen or feel weird when you go upside down right? Gravity doesn't effect you as much as it does to me?" Fionna questioned while touching her warm cheeks that were probably red due to her position.
"I still have blood it just lacks so much oxygen that it doesn't flow and make a continuous heart rate like yours." he put his papers and bass down on the floor and walked on his knees over to her across the bed. "If I go upside down my gross, black, thick blood would go to my head but it may take awhile. But its nothing like the flow of a human's..." as he spoke he looked at her bare abdomen that her shirt had revealed.
Without thinking, he wrapped a hand around her ribs and dragged his thumb along the middle of her ribs where there were no visible bones. Fionna flinched at his touch but didn't try and stop him. He continued to feel her curved abdomen stretch skin with every inhale and exhale. He was sitting up on his knees but then sat onto his calves and heels. Her skin was addicting to touch. The only thing he could relate it to was a peach. Short blonde hairs were adorned around her belly button and stood up with goosebumps that were soon spreading across her whole stomach as Marshall continued to graze both hands across her skin.
"Do you miss being human?" she spoke still upside down.
Marshall didn't want to think about the question. She was so intoxicatingly perfect right now that he wanted her so much. His hands wrapped around her hips and lifted her up off the side of the bed and into his lap. Her hair went to one side of her face and she had her legs straddling his hips. She had brought her hands to his hair and shoulder, while their noses occasionally brushed against each other. He looked into her eyes with want.
"I feel human when I'm with you. Your skin, your warmth, it all helps me remember rather than miss." he finished speaking with his mouth at her ear.
Forgetting about their talk on the phone, he kissed her jaw line and continued to leave sweet kisses along her neck. She had uneven breathing as he continued to attack her neck with gentle kisses and light nips with his fangs. Realizing this was the exact thing she was trying to avoid at the moment, she moved her hands to his jaw and slowly pulled him away from her.
"Marshall..." she spoke quietly to get him to understand this wasn't right for them to be doing.
"Fi, you don't know how hard it is for me to hold back." his words sounded like groans and his eyes scanned her face multiple times before he brought his hands to her hair and cheek.
"...but..Gumball...and Cake.." Fionna couldn't look into his eyes because it was too much of an incentive for her to forget about Gumball.
"Cake?" Marshall asked, surprised.
"She is starting to smell you on me, big time. She basically knows what's up and is making me choose between you and Gumball. Before you say its an easy pick, I'm in deep with Gumball and things can't just end." she let her hands fall to his shoulders.
"Then if you can't end things why are you sitting on me, in my bed, in my house..." he knew she wouldn't have an explanation.
Fionna realized he was right and got off of him and off of the bed. She stood and looked at the sheets on his bed while biting her nails, a bad habit she had been trying to stop. While she stood there and thought, Marshall got off the bed and walked behind her.
"How bout this: you can choose who you want to stay with. Me: fun loving vampire with killer looks..literally or, Gumball: fluffy pink man-boy. You can come over here every other night or whatever and we can do what we, you, or I want to do that night. Do it for a month and I think you should have a clear choice on who you want." Marshall proposed his idea to her.
"A month?! No, I'm not doing it for a month and I'm also not going to choose my partner through a silly game of playful sex between two men." Fionna turned to face him with a disgusted face.
"Sex? Fuck Fi, I was thinking of something milder but...that sounds fucking amazing." he crossed his arms and gave her a sexy smirk.
"MARSHALL!" Fionna's face was instantly red with flattery and embarrassment.
"Ok, ok. Lets get serious. So, no to a month...what about a week? But everyday with me. It doesn't have to be just at night and it doesn't have to be for hours at a time. I can surprisingly be very quick." he smiled at her again and gave her a quick wink.
If possible her blush darkened and she punched his arm to stop his jokes. She crossed her arms and thought. Maybe a week of vacation to Marshall Lee Island was a good thing...or a very, very horrible thing that would ultimately ruin her and Gumball's relationship.
"I don't know...this...it seems really, really bad probably because it is." without realizing, she was backing up into a desk behind her while talking.
Her hip bumped against the edge of the desk, letting loose papers slide off the desk and slowly float down onto the floor. Fionna began to bend down to pick them up.
"No, no, I got it." Marshall insisted after walking over to pick them up.
"It's fine, I already have..most...of...them..." Fionna slowly stopped talking as she turned over some of the papers.
At first she thought they were just little doodles and sketches but after turning a few over she recognized the portraits on the paper. Beautiful lines of charcoal and dark pencil were sketched into shadows and lines of a face. Though it wasn't a strangers face on the pages, it was her own. Marshall watched as her mouth began to part at his drawings so he tried to take them from her as quick as possible.
"Here, uh, let me take those." he tried to take them from her hands but she snatched them from his reach.
"Holy shit, Marshall..." she kept going through pages of drawings of her.
Her cheeks were dusted with a light shade of blush and she couldn't help but smile. She even recognized a few drawings that were of just her features like her mouth or eyes. Fionna had never known Marshall still drew and she definitely had no idea he was this good.
"Fi..." Marshall sat on the ground and rubbed at his eyes, guilty of his drawings.
She looked up at his embarrassed face and smiled. He couldn't bare to look up at her without wanting to hide.
"When did you do these?" she set the hand that was holding them down on her thigh as she sat on her heels.
"Awhile ago." he quickly answered.
"Really? How long?" she asked with curiosity.
"Awhile before I left..." he said while resting his head against the edge of the mattress behind him.
Fionna giddily smiled and bit her lip. She thought about how maybe it wasn't her imagination that he had liked her back before he had left. It probably wasn't true and it was just him using her as his muse. She set the drawings on the desk and walked on her knees over to him.
"I'll do it."
Marshall turned his head over to look at her with confusion. "Do what?"
"A week, of you and me. Depending on my schedule, we will start tomorrow night." she smiled at him.
Marshall sat up, surprised. "Uhh, um ok!" he smiled.
"I'm going to go now. See you tomorrow...late." she stood up and winked at him.
Marshall still sat there, surprised. He had never thought his secret drawings would have won over a girl.
Fionna had walked home while thinking of all of the reasons why she just fucked up big time. Gumball was at the treehouse talking to Cake once more.
"Hey PG!" Fionna said before giving him a quick peck on the lips and sitting down.
"You're in a good mood." Gumball said with a smile.
"Well you're here." she gave him a wink.
Fionna smiled and looked over at Cake who had a very disturbed and angry look on her face. Cake shook her head, making sure Gumball didn't see. Fionna knew she could smell Marshall on her and she swallowed hard. Trying to shake the thought away she put on a smile and looked over at Gumball.
"So I've made the invitations and set the date! I had a little help with them and I think you'll like them. We also need to go over the guest list today but here's what they look like." Gumball handed her a crisp, cream colored envelope.
On the outside was a soft gold design of a knot. Fionna smiled at the wedding pun 'tying the knot'. She opened the envelope and unfolded the white card and read through the gold and pale blue lettering that gave information about the wedding. Once she had finished reading, she managed to find the date.
"Christmas?" she lit up and smiled.
"I thought since it was a winter wedding why not make it a Christmas ball type of get-together." Gumball smiled back.
"I love it and this invitation is beautiful. I can't even imagine how gorgeous this whole wedding will turn out to be!" Fionna giggled with excitement.
"I'm glad you're excited, now let's discuss who is coming. Now I have made this list so just go through and circle anyone that you might not want to have there." Gumball opened a pink folder and handed her a packet of papers that had hundreds of names on them.
Fionna began reading and decided to skim through since she didn't know a majority of the people listed. Since they were in chronological order, she managed to get to the 'M' section quickly. Marshall's name wasn't listed and she thought about whether she should put it down or keep him off the list.
"What about Marshall Lee? He isn't listed." Fionna finally spoke up.
"Marshall?...I wouldn't have thought you'd want him there but I can add him if you'd like?" Gumball spoke uncomfortably.
"Babes, are you sure you'd want him there? You have a past." Cake directed to her.
"Why not? He's a good friend of mine." she smiled to try and lighten up the mood.
"Alright.." he motioned his hand for the papers and Fionna gave them back to him. "Maarrshalll Leee Aabbaaddeeeer. Done." Gumball spoke as he wrote his name in the margin.
"When are you sending out invitations?" Fionna asked.
"Tomorrow. I was going to get Peppermint Maid to help me so you can just relax tomorrow." Gumball spoke after collecting all of the envelopes and papers on the table.
"Tomorrow? I think Marshall wanted to jam tomorrow night, I could bring his invitation to him to make it easier." Fionna spoke, thinking she would want to wait to take the invitation to him rather than telling him the news right as they began their time alone.
"Sure. Well I'm off to the kingdom, here's an invitation." Gumball handed her an envelope and kissed her cheek before hugging Cake and leaving the tree house.
"Fionna...girl I am angry at you. Do you think I can't smell him on you? You're not even trying to hide it?" Cake crossed her arms and pouted.
"Cake, let me figure this out on my own, ok? I'm an adult and will be out of your house in less than a year. Please let me live my life the way I want without silly interruptions. I'm going to lay down." Fionna rolled her eyes and went upstairs.
Authors Note: DUN DUN DUN! Things are getting interesting...Fionna is cheating, Cake is starting to figure it out. My oh my, what a twisted mind I have. Sorry about the long time no update again...I'm on vacation and wifi was pretty limited so I had to go outside to post this chapter to get service. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Be looking forward to some smut in the next chapter. Things are going to be taken to a new level. ;)
~OAT