Simon… Was not really doing to good. His and Marcelines little music sessions seemed to have taken the rest of the energy out of him.
Now he was laying in bed, having trouble controlling the cold and continually grabbed his head as he hissed. "What is this?" he asked.

"What do you mean Simon?" Marceline asked.

"There was a light, a boom…. Outside there was no one, the city it's all empty, everyone is gone." Simon hissed. "I.. I took prisoners but I couldn't have, why would I do that?!" he gasped. "Screams, urgh." he crumbled together. "It doesn't make sense, it's all floating together! I don't even know what's real and what isn't." then he snickered into his pillow as his voice changed. "Hahaha, is that a pretty princess watching over me?" and his eyes widened. "Wha-what? Did I just say something."

"It's okay, try to see if you can sleep a bit." Marceline asked putting a hand on his head, then she released soft waves to make the body relax. "Relax, empty your mind."

"Urgh." Simon hissed. "There's… Something I need to do, something important." he groaned. "I need to… Need to safe her. Who?" he asked squinting his eyes closed. "A pretty little princess maybe?" he grinned showcasing his sharp teethes. "A pretty princess for the king of snow and ice. Hehehe." he chuckled in a much more smuck voice.

Marceline wrinkled her face in dismay, but continued with the waves allowing Simons body to relax and finally he fell back to sleep. Just in time for Princess bubblegum and Finn to come, both were kind of guilty looking.

"Whassup guys?" Marceline asked as she turned to him.

"Urhm… Marceline." Finn swallowed then looked down.

"What?" Marceline asked.

"There's… Something we probably need to tell you." Finn said. "Just, try to calm down. This is not permanent just."

"What are you talking about?" Marceline asked.

"I have to stop my examination of the crown for now." Bubblegum stated. "There are other matters I must tend to."

"WHAT?!" Marceline shouted as she stood up, the chair falling down under her.

"Betty is way out of control, she is stealing life force away from the land itself and she is headed this way, I have to concentrate my affords on protecting my people." Bubblegum informed.

Marceline hissed, suddenly she grew as she changed form, her eyes turning big and red and her body that of a huge bat. "Oh so that is your excuse?!" she asked. "If the crown isn't fixed he'll die, you would like that wouldn't you Princess?"

"It's not like that!" Bubblegum exclaimed.

"Isn't it?!" Marceline exclaimed. "Just say it! YOU HATE HIM! You're fine with letting him die!" she seethed.

"Oh man, I knew she would get angry." Finn swallowed.

"Marceline listen to me!" Bubblegum exclaimed. "Right now my kingdom is in a crisis and I have to spend my time on either saving one life or several thousand, it's a simple matter of schematics."

"SCHEMATICS!" Marceline roared as she grew even bigger. "So that's what people are to you, schematics! He's not a schematic he's Simon! Don't you dare forget princess!" she hissed reaching for her.

"MARCELINE STOP!" Finn shouted spreading his arms in front of Bubblegum to protect her. "Listen to us, The princess is stuck on the crown anyhow what we need is Betty's help. So right now we are going to try and find a way to stop her and get her back here where she can help. That's what Simon would want to right?" he asked.

"Oh you always know how to make it sound so nice don't you Finn?" Marceline seethed.

"It's the truth!" Finn exclaimed. "Princess tell her!"

Bubblegum looked down. "Marceline it's true… I don't like the Ice king, I don't like him at all. He's creepy and he's annoying." she said. "I don't know this Simon Petrikov, I don't have an obligation to him, but I do have a obligation to my people. I'm sorry Marceline, this is not what I wanted."

And Marceline hissed only kept back by Finns sword protecting Bubblegum.

"He's not dead yet though." Bubblegum said. "Here's the deal, Simon is connected to the crown. If he doesn't move, the crown wont degenerate further for now. So just make sure he doesn't overstrain himself and doesn't use his magic! If you do that he should be fine for a long while still, enough time to get Betty here at least so she can fix the crown! I have not given this up yet so neither should you Marceline!"

Marcaline blinked, then her form changed until she was back to be her own vampire self, embarrassed scratching her arm. Then looked at the now sleeping Simon with the ice predictable spreading from his body and over the bed. "Doesn't this count for using magic?" she asked.

"Well, not to much I don't think so." Bubblegum shook her head. "Just… Make sure he doesn't overdo it okay?" she asked. "There is only that much magic left in him and the crown, if he use it all up there'll be nothing I can do, do you understand that?" she asked seriously.

Marceline nodded. "I… I understand." she said.

"Good, if you need anything call for a banana guard, I need to get an overview of this situation and quick!" Bubblegum stated as she headed out.

Finn swallowed. "Marceline." he said.

"What?" Marceline asked annoyed.

"Well, if there's something I think I realised about Simon, the real one. It is that he prefers honesty, he can tell when you aren't being honest so… When you tell him why he can't use his powers. Just be honest with him kay?" Finn asked.

"Huh, so that's how you got to him. By being honest?" Marceline asked.

"Yeah, so just be honest with him." Finn grinned.

"Why should I? He was never honest with me." Marceline muttered turning away as she crossed her arms. "He promised me he wouldn't leave, he promised me he wouldn't put the crown on again and he promised me he wouldn't forget me! FAT LOT OF GOOD THOSE PROMISES WERE!" She seethed as her eyes grew big and red and her fangs visible. "He lied and he knew it!" she seethed. "He always lied to me! Just like everyone else!" then she squinted her eyes and looked out the window growing back to her usual form. "He's not even allowing me to move on, that bastard." she muttered then glanced down.

Finn swallowed then exhaled deeply. "He'll be okay, I promise i'll get to Betty. Somehow." he said.

Marceline didn't answer but stood there with her back to Finn.

"Marceline?" Finn asked as he blinked.

"You know.." Marceline breathed. "If it wasn't for Simon, I highly doubt you would even like me."

"What!" Finn exclaimed. "How ridicules is that? You're one of the coolest people I know!"

"No you don't understand." Marceline turned her head to Finn. "Simon, he's the one whom taught me right from wrong, he taught me why killing other beings is bad and why I shouldn't hate the world even if it sucks. If it wasn't for him, I would have become the exact kind of daughter my dad would want. I would have said yes to become Demon Queen without a second thought. If it wasn't for Simon I wouldn't be the same person at all. I would have been a real demon."

"Then i'm sure glad you met him." Finn smiled. "Cause I really like you as you are now, you're the coolest person I know! And Simon really must be an incredible guy… When he's himself." he blinked. "I kind of liked hanging out with him when he was more like his true self, he seemed chill." he grinned. "I'm going to help fix this just you wait, you keep an eye on Simon." Finn blinked and he was on his way out as well.

Marceline looked down at Simon whom was fast asleep but his sleep didn't look peaceful at all, he murmured and hissed, it really looked like faint memories were still bothering him.

"You're the biggest bother in the world and I hate you." Marceline muttered as she picked the chair back up. "No I don't." she then groaned deeply and sang a few soft tones.

"I never asked you to give up your sanity up for me.
I never wanted you to disappear from me.
I never wished that you would be hurt for the sake of me.
I never liked that you would hide your pain away from me.

You bloody liar.
Liars should die in a fire.
And I hate you. But I really don't…. You idiot."

And Marceline looked down at the blue skinned man whom still didn't look peaceful at all. "Please... I need to protect her." he muttered. "I need to safe her."

"I'm plenty strong enough to take care of myself now you old fool." Marceline rolled her eyes. "You did it, you saved me." she said.

"Magic has kept you alive, but it drow you crazy.
And you really did safe me, but didn't allow anyone to safe you.
I will forgive you, for what ever you'll do. Just let me safe you too."

"I'm sorry." Simon swallowed in his sleep. "I'm so... So sorry."

"No, Simon." Marceline breathed taking his hands. "If it wasn't for you, I would either be dead or be my fathers little demon. I don't even know which one is worse. You did it, you saved me. Just like you wanted. You can rest easy." she assured.

And finally, Simon seemed to relax in his deep slumber.

Authors Note:

Heh, I guess I went a bit crazy with the lyric writing here. It's something I usually don't do in my fictions as I feel like lyrics in written form is just a bit to corny.

But well, I kind of figured music is such a big part of Adventure Time, and it's such a big part of Marcelines character. Also of course, the big emotional episode "Remember me." the entire thing was told nearly only through music. It was probably way more effective there than here as they had actual music to accompany the lyrics, done so by the wonderful Rebecca Sugar who reall knows how to give you the feels with relative simple music. (If you havn't checked out her own show Steven Universe I highly recommend it.) But well, if the lyric writing is to cringy and annoying please tell me and i'll put an afford into stopping it.

Other than that, I also just want to say thank you for all the reviews! I don't respond to all of them but I read all of them and I deeply appreciate them.

There seems to be an issue with the fanfiction mailing service though, so if anyone is confused that the story has jumped some paces it make be because the e-mail server didn't actually update you guys on the progress so well... Thanks again though, you guys rock! :)