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Counseling

Finn opened his eyes the next day and his mother told him to take a shower then get ready for church. Finn did as instructed and his mother spent a half hour showing him what not to wear, including what he had on. Finally she handed him a suit and told him to change and when she was done she told him to get in the car so that they could go to church, "for Christ All Mighty's sake". Of course, that was the last straw.

"No," Finn finally said.

"Excuse me?" his mother asked.

"No," Finn repeated. "I'm not going to church. I refuse to worship some deity that people were only creative enough to call God and his suicidal son that people worship just for dying."

"Don't you dare disrespect our Lord and Savior," his mother said.

"Don't you dare try to tell me who I can and can't worship," Finn said.

"That is the last straw," his mother said. "I don't care what you dreamed in your coma. You are getting counseling until you start to be HUMAN again!"

With that, she dragged him to the car and then drove to the church. She called a psychiatrist on the way and scheduled an appointment for that day after church. Finn sat in silence in his seat all the way through church until his mother dragged him back out to the car then drove to the psychiatrist's office. Finn was escorted in and sat on the big couch perfectly comfortable and impatient to leave.

"Hello Finn," the psychiatrist said walking in.

She was tall, in her mid twenties, had long hair, a gold metal head band, and a white lab coat.

"Look," Finn said. "I know you're going to ask about my dream, I'll tell you all about it then you'll say I need medicine for my schizophrenia or whatever it is you're going to say I have. How about we just skip to the end."

"Try me," the psychiatrist.

Finn stared at her for a while then sighed and nodded.

"How long do I have Miss?" Finn asked.

"As long as it takes," the psychiatrists said. "And my name is Bonnie."

Finn smirked to himself then nodded again.

"Alright," Finn said. "Where should I begin?"

"The beginning," Bonnie said.

"Alright," Finn said. "For starters, this isn't my life. I don't belong here. I belong in Ooo with Jake, and Billy, and Marceline...*sigh*When I was about three months old, I was abandoned and found by my adoptive parents, who were talking dogs. I became their son and my two brothers, Jermaine and Jake raised me after my mom and dad died. Eventually me and Jake moved out and into a massive tree house and became adventurer heroes. We went around the Land of Ooo fighting criminals, dragons, why-wolves, snow golems, you name it."

"Why-wolves?" Bonnie asked.

"Werewolves that spend their time in glasses and scientist coats and trying to solve the mysteries of the universe," Finn said. "Anyway, eventually we went to the Candy Kingdom where everything, the people, the ground, the buildings, and the animals are all made out of candy."

"Do you like candy?" Bonnie asked and instantly regretted it, knowing it was a mistake.

"...Do I like candy?" Finn asked incredulously. "I knew it. You don't believe a word I've said do you?"

"I believe that you believe it," Bonnie said.

"In other words, no," Finn said. "I knew you wouldn't. You're just like everyone else in this fucking shit hole. Excuse my French."

Bonnie sighed then remembered how he had brightened when he had mentioned Marceline. She also remembered an obituary recently for a girl by the same name.

"Tell me about Marceline," Bonnie said.

"Mine or the one from this world that apparently died?" Finn asked staring into the distance without seeing anything except memories.

"Yours," Bonnie said.

"She's...complicated," Finn said smiling at one memory or another.

"How so?" Bonnie asked.

"Well, she's half demon and a vampire," Finn said.

"It's okay," Bonnie said. "You can tell me absolutely anything. I promise I'll try to take everything you say as the truth."

"Alright," Finn said. "The first time we met, she kicked me and Jake out of our tree house which, as it turned out, had been hers at one time. We spent a few days trying to find somewhere we could live instead with Jake giving me some God awful speech about how home is where people care about you and how you don't need a roof over your head as long as you with people that you consider friends and family. Eventually we found a cave that we liked and cleaned it up and made it homey. Then, just as we thought we could relax again, Marceline showed up and showed us that the cave was hers too. I fought her for the right to have one of the houses back and managed to hold my own until she showcased her ability to transform, in this case into a giant bat. We kept fighting but she easily beat me. Jake tried to help me but she caught him and seemed to suck his insides out. Luckily for me, he moved everything inside of himself into his thumb and shrunk it down before she could bite him then played dead. Anyway, I fought her again but this time it wasn't about a house, it was for my brother. In the end, she still beat me but as thanks for showing her our idea of a good time, she kissed me on the cheek and gave us back our tree house."

"Your idea of a good time is fighting to the death?" Bonnie asked.

"We like a good fight and neither of us had fought anything as challenging as each other for a long time," Finn explained. "Anyway, I didn't See her again for a while. Every once in a while I'd see her at a party but for the most part we didn't really know each other. Then one day, she tricked me into becoming her henchman and made me do things that, at first, seemed to be horrible awful things like helping her feed and leading an army of the undead against a kingdom but then I'd find out that they were really just pranks on me. For example, she only eats the color red and the army of undead were her undead band. When I told her I had figured it out, she admitted that it had been her plan from the beginning. From then on, we were friends and began hanging out more and more often. Most of the time we would have jam sessions and others we would play basketball or watch movies. Eventually me and Jake made the mistake of mentioning that we wanted to be vampires in front of three of her ghost friends. She pretended to bite us at their urging and made us believe we had vampire powers. Then the ghosts tried to eat our souls. Marceline wanted to help but couldn't because Vampires couldn't kill ghosts. She did manage to convince them not to eat us by telling them what movie we brought with us that, by coincidence, they hadn't seen and wanted to. They let us keep our souls then left and Marceline apologized and promised not to ever let them near us again."

"I think I probably would have cut ties," Bonnie said.

"I considered it," Finn admitted. "But, I couldn't. Later on, She told me that she wanted to see her dad and told me how to summon him. Of course, when I did, thinking I was helping, she decided to tell me he would suck the souls out of everyone in Ooo if he rose. Of course, by then it was too late. He arrived and took the axe-base that she loved so much...um, it was a base guitar that was also a battleaxe. Anyway, she and I chased him for the entire night trying to stop him from eating everyone's soul. Finally we caught him but Marceline was so angry at him that she just took her axe back and left him to pillage and eat at will. Finally I played the song I had recorded Marceline singing that said how much she cared about him but how hurt she had been by him doing one thing or another. He apologized and they made up then I stabbed him and freed all of the souls he had taken then sent him back to the Nightosphere. Marceline was mad at me for a couple minutes then thanked me and apologized for being no help."

"And yet, I'm guessing you were still friends with her," Bonnie said.

"Of course," Finn said. "Anyway, I had a crush on Princess Bubblegum, the ruler of the Candy Kingdom and eventually Jake talked me into taking her to the movies as a friend. I asked but she assumed it was a date and said she had to get ready for some royal even that in all honesty she really did have but I thought she was just being nice about rejecting me, mostly because Jake said so. Marceline and Jake both began to help me try to convince her to go with me. It was hilarious because their ideas were polar opposites. Jake's were embarrassing and required a lot of thought while Marceline's were all fun but wound up getting me in trouble. Eventually she apologized for not helping much and said that she had a lot of fun and would love to go with me. I asked her a bit later but she also assumed I meant as a date and refused telling me how I didn't want to go down that road with her. I understood what she meant after a minute and clarified and she agreed. As it turned out, it was a bad idea since the movie was a sappy romance anyway and we wound up going out to look for a fight instead."

"Sounds like your plan backfired and Jake knew it would," Bonnie said.

"He did," Finn said. "Anyway, A while after that, I fought a massive skeleton named the Lich King and eventually managed to destroy him only to have him return later. But I'm skipping. Sorry, I have a lot of memories of her."

"That's okay," Bonnie said. "Take your time."

"Alright," Finn said. "Before the Lich, some wizard tricked me and Jake into taking a memory from Marceline by telling us that she was in danger and couldn't wake up unless we did it. Then he woke her up and destroyed the memory explaining that he was her abusive douche bag ex-boyfriend and the memory was their breakup. Jake and I eventually managed to show her my memory of her memory of the breakup. Then we beat Ash up for tricking her into dating him again. That was actually more fun than it should have been. Anyway, then we fought the Lich, Marceline didn't though. After we fought the Lich, Marceline took us to the Nightosphere to visit her father but we didn't remember. We woke up inside with no memory of going there. We had Jake's camera but we didn't get far before the battery died. We broke out and began trying to escape. We wound up fighting what we thought was Hunson Abadeer, her father, but when we finally got out, we found out that it was Marceline. We watched the video and saw that we had gone with her and she had seemed to convince her father not to make her take over the Nightosphere then he gave her an amulet as a present. When she put it on, she turned into his evil demon form and locked us up taking over the Nightosphere. We went back after her and tried to convince Abadeer to save her but he refused so we tried. Eventually I managed to get the amulet off but the residents of the Nightosphere attacked all three of us. Out of desperation, I put the amulet on and became a demon myself sending Marceline and Jake out of the Nightosphere and incapacitating the demons before losing myself completely to its evil. Then Abadeer rescued me and sent me back finally accepting that Marceline was happier not being in control of the Nightosphere."

"She must have been happy," Bonnie said.

"She said I had finally made up for my biggest mistake," Finn said. "Did I mention that one?"

"I don't think so," Bonnie said.

"Jake and I were playing hide and seek waiting for her to get home for a jam session," Finn said. "Jake hid inside the house which she had told us not to do so I went after him. Of course, before we could get out, she got home so we hid in her closet. We got stuck in the throughout the entire day waiting for her to fall asleep so we could sneak out of the house. Most of the time she sang songs written from her diary, which she would kill me for ever saying. Then she...um..."

"Yes?" Bonnie asked smirking and waiting for him to say something humiliating to have to watch.

"She...got in the shower and I tried to sneak to the door but somehow wound up in the bathroom just as she was getting in," Finn said blushing. "I went back to the closet and we waited until she fell asleep then began to sneak out but Jake started quietly screaming at me and she caught us. She said she wasn't mad and said that she hid in our tree house all the time then let us leave."

"I see," Bonnie said stifling a laugh with her hand. "So you were just friends?"

"Yes," Finn said. "But, when the Lich King came back for the last time, he started by capturing Marceline. He was going to kill her by bleeding her out, which apparently vampires can still die from, but I killed him by throwing him into his own well which absorbs the life force of anything that goes into it. Marceline was already nearly dead and was still bleeding out. She was too weak to heal but there was nothing even remotely red anywhere near us. I couldn't let her die so I let her do what she swore to never do."

"You let her take your blood," Bonnie said.

"Yeah," Finn said. "She needed blood to live and I was the only one there. So, yes, I let her drink my blood. It nearly killed me but she survived. As thanks for saving her life for really only the first time, she kissed me. She had done it on the cheek before all the time, like when we fought the first time. But...this time she kissed me for real. Then, she left me at the hospital to get home before the sun rose. The next day, I went to talk to her but a pack of why-wolves took Jake and we had to chase them. When we caught them, something hit me and I fell into a coma waking up here."

"That...would be terrible," Bonnie said. "I'm sorry."

"Yeah," Finn said. "So, what's your diagnosis? Am I crazy?"

Bonnie sighed and stared down at her blank notepad.

"I think that I have no idea," Bonnie said. "To me, it seems like you dreamed a new reality for yourself for whatever reason while you were in your coma. But...you believe every word you've said and honestly, I just don't know. I can't imagine what you would be feeling and I have no idea what to believe."

Finn nodded and they left to meet his mother. She instantly looked to Bonnie for a diagnosis.

"My official diagnosis is that his mind rejected his reality and fabricated a new one," Bonnie said. "I don't know why and I'm probably destroying whatever trust I have with him saying this but I can see real life things that could have influenced his dream."

"So he's crazy," Finn's mother said.

"Not necessarily," Bonnie said. "At the same time as I can see how it would just have been a dream, I don't really know for sure what to believe."

"Excuse me?" Finn's mother asked.

"I don't know what it is about him, but I know that he honestly believe this isn't real," Bonnie said. "He honestly believes that he belongs with the friends he had in this other reality. He believes we are a dream."

"If we were a dream he would have the perfect life," his mother said.

"Unless the dream was created by his mind to be rejected so that he could wake up," Bonnie said.

Finn's mother scoffed at the idea and turned to Finn.

"Come on, we're going home," she said.

"No," Finn said. "I'm not going anywhere with you. You're a bitch. And I'm done with this place."

"You're what?" his mother asked.

"I'm done," Finn said. "I'm going to the train tracks so I can go home."

"Absolutely not," Finn's mother said grabbing his hand and dragging him to the car. "You are going home and staying there."

His mother threw him into the car then drove them home. Then she marched him to his room.

"Alright," Finn said wrenching his arm free. "Just tell me one thing."

"What?" his mother asked.

"What happened to Marceline?" Finn asked.

"She was dying of some brain disease then all of a sudden you were found beside her dead body with the bloody knife in your hand," his mother said.

"Do you believe I did it?" Finn asked.

"I don't know and I don't care," she said. "I'm glad she's gone."

Finn glared at her then climbed into bed and his mother left locking the door.

THE END

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