A lot of you saw that coming. Yeah, I know. A little cliche but we shall see how things turn out in this installment. What is Fionna's initial reaction to this and did she or did she not actually want to lock lips with this British boy?

As usual, I am still accepting song requests. I hope you're coming up with some!

A few more fun facts about Charlie: He was originally going to be the bad guy who would eventually turn on Fionna but I decided against it. He wasn't going to be the only human and the duo was going to be joined up with two others that were actually similar in personality of Cake and Marshall (but I decided against it).

Rest assured, Charlie is NOT a baddie. He's as good as good can be. :)

By the way, there's new poll on my profile where you deicide who Fionna ends up with at the end. That choice decides the ENTIRE ending of the story so choose wisely... no pressure though.

And one last thing: if any of you want to draw fan art for this story, I would love it. You can always send me a link or something through a PM and I'll check it out. It might even become the cover for the story. :) It would be amazing if you did.

Disclaimer: Pen Ward is the Glob of Adventure Time.

The sun was beating down on their heads as they kissed. Charlie's hands were cradling Fionna's face and her hands were cupping his neck. It was so odd, so surreal that they were actually sharing human affection with someone that was actually human. But Fionna was the one who was blown away by her advance towards the boy before her. It wasn't a sweet and gummy kiss like she had shared with Gumball. It wasn't a hot and burning kiss she had experienced with Flame Prince. And it certainly wasn't a cold and fanged kiss she had done with Marshall Lee. Even though she still had feelings for Marshall, kissing Charlie felt so right and just humane. Like she was acting like a normal teenage girl. This town, these feelings, this kiss. All of it shared with a normal teenage boy.

It was as if life for them was starting to feel humanely normal. Flesh touching flesh. It wasn't sticky or burn inducing or cold to the touch. It was tingly and even a little scary for Fionna. And that's why she pulled away first, her hands sliding down his neck and into her lap, averting her eyes from his and biting her lip nervously. Charlie removed his hands from her face and realized what had just happened, his mind chugging back into motion as if he couldn't just believe what he and Fionna had done.

"I'm sorry," they both said in unison. They both started to laugh a little awkwardly.

"You go first," Charlie said.

"Charlie, I like you a lot and I'm not saying that I didn't want to kiss you but..."

"You're in love with Marshall?"

"That's not it," she said, shaking her head. "The thing is, I've never kissed a human... duh. So I'm not really all that accustomed to not feeling something other than surreal kisses. Y'know, like a kiss from a candy prince or something."

"Right. Go on."

"And I still have feelings for Marshall Lee but out here, I can hardly remember his face. My friends... their faces too." She hugged her knees again and rested her chin on top of them. "I almost feel obligated to be with you because we're the last humans."

"You don't have to," Charlie assured. "Fionna, I'm sorry for doing that. I shouldn't have kiss you."

"We did it at the same time," she corrected.

"Whatever the case, I'm not trying to push you into it."

"I know you're not. Just give me a little time to clear my head."

"Of course," he said. "I guess I need some time too, yeah?"

She smiled at him. "For what it's worth, you're a good kisser."

Charlie's ears turned red. "Oh! Thanks... you too."

Fionna laughed at him, slugging him in the arm. He grinned at her and they scooted a little closer to one another and watched the horizon again.

The trio stayed a couple of days in the town, relaxing and rejuvenating. Fionna and Charlie hadn't spoken of the kiss since it happened but simply didn't have the time. They were having too much fun acting like normal humans. The kiss, however, had ignited something in the both of them, wanting them to experience everything human that the town had to offer. They both found a camera that still worked with film inside of it that ejected Polaroid pictures. They also found a few other rolls of film they could use for it. They spent an hour taking pictures of one another and still had a lot of film left. Fionna even grabbed a bunch of fake people and stuck them in the backyard of the house she and her two friends inhabited. They hosted a pool party and joked around with one another by "talking to the neighbors".

"Charlie, c'mere!" Fionna called during one of the parties.

"Yes?" he said, striding over.

"Bob was just telling me about his business trip to the Candy Kingdom," she said, cracking a grin.

"Oh was he now?" he said.

They both looked at one another, agreed that they were acting insane, and burst out laughing. They had figured out how to work some of the appliances and made actual meals and slept in cozy beds at night. It was a paradise that they knew could never last. They had to keep going to find the crater. Adam even reminded them after they hit a week of inhabiting the town. Fionna didn't want to leave. She felt so normal doing stuff that her people used to but Charlie agreed with Adam. They had a mission and Fionna wasn't one to give up on one of those. They all decided to stay for another day before they trooped off.

One the day of their leaving, they packed the old and empty containers up with leftover foods and filled canteens from cabinets with water and other beverages and hooked them onto their bags. Fionna collected a few blankets and soon, they were hanging items off of their bags and looked like rustic travelers. Adam was waiting for them near the exit where the road would lead them out and towards their destination. They wandered over to him and then turned towards the town, feeling an ache in their chests that they were leaving something they called normal. Charlie was the first to turn away. But Fionna was rooted to the spot.

"Fi?" he said softly. "Let's go. C'mon, it'll be okay."

She didn't say anything. She simply turned around and faced him. To his surprise, Fionna gave him a tender kiss on the lips before walking past him and over to Adam. Charlie was frozen for a second before he smiled a little and followed his friends out of the town of normalcy.

The road was becoming thiner and ruins were becoming not. There wasn't any to be found for miles and Fionna was getting a feeling her gut that she and Charlie were getting closer to their goal. The crater was caused by a nuclear blast, the big Mushroom Bomb that ended the war and spread radioactivity so far that the entire world was a wasteland for years on end. The bomb that helped create Aaa and other lands like it. That made those horrid monsters in the cities. That terrified Fionna to the core.

Her hand, that was intertwined with Charlie's, tensed and he glanced down at their fingers. Then back up at Fionna, who wasn't looking at him but he could see the fear in her eyes.

"Hey, it'll be fine. We'll just poke around and then leave. Then it's straight back to Aaa," he promised. "It's no big deal. Besides, according to my calculations, we still have two weeks until we actually reach the place so... we have time to prepare."

"For what?" she questioned, looking at him finally.

He drew a blank. "I have no idea."

"That's what scares me," she admitted. "The unknown."

"If I may, Miss Fionna," Adam spoke from above, making the couple turn their heads to look at the bird.

"You may," Fionna said, smirking and nodding.

"The crater isn't all bad. I flew over it once and it's just a big hole. But t has a massive amount of lava in the middle," Adam said. "I don't know why that is but it's there."

"It's the core," Charlie answered. "It's the molten inside of the earth itself. We won't be heading near it. It would burn us on the spot."

"Good 'cause I want to be alive when we go home," Fionna said, smiling at Charlie.

"Home... I like that," he said.

She sent him an affectionate smile. The two of them were easing themselves into a newfound affection. They took to holding hands and sharing feather light kisses. Otherwise, they both agreed they weren't and "exclusive" couple.

They kept on walking down the path, the sky was a pearly grey and the clouds hung low. Fog was rolling by and giving the area both a foreboding and mysterious feeling. Fionna tugged on her like-like sweater and Charlie pulled on his sweatshirt. Then they shyly returned to holding hands.

"Should we stop and rest?" Adam asked. "It's almost noon and I think we're all due for lunch."

"Sure," the two of them said in unison. Adam happily flew off in search of a rat lunch and the two humans set up camp near the side of the road.

Fionna built a small fire out of some wood lying around and Charlie took out some leftover food from the town. They sat close together and took little bites of the meal, wanting to save as much food as possible. They watched Adam in the distance as he tackled a rat to the ground, his big wings flapping in the breeze.

"Do you think we can ever go back?" Fionna asked Charlie.

"To Aaa?"

"No... to the town."

"Fionna, I know that you liked a little normalcy there but it's not where we belong," Charlie said, seeing that they were both finished with their meal and covered it up. He placed it back in the bag and went on. "We belong in Aaa. Together. With all of our friends, right?"

"Right but... what if we find humans?" Fionna said. "They can't possibly all go to Aaa. I'm afraid that they'll become ruthless again and start a war so that town would be the only thing they'd be able to understand. Aaa is a land full of imaginable things that humans never even heard of. Humans are prone to fear and then... the next thing we know, the Candy Kingdom will be in pieces, Lumpy Space will be bombed, and another war will suddenly tear us all apart."

"What makes you think that I will understand Aaa?" he said. "That I'll be able to understand everything crazy and mythological in the place."

She smiled and answered it as if it were the simplest question in the world. "Because you have me, silly."

Charlie was so surprised by that response. She was giggling at him as if he asked something ridiculous. He smiled too as she kept on laughing.

"You're something else, Fionna," he said.

"Aw, thanks," she teased, giving him a kiss on the cheek. She then turned his face a little more so she met his lips. Another humane feeling flowed through their bodies as they continued the kiss. Suddenly, a humming noise came from across the flame and and turned to find Adam grinning at them.

"So... should we move on?" he said.

Fionna's face turned red. "Y-yeah. Sorry, Charlie. I got carried away." She stood up quickly, put out the fire and started on the path.

Charlie sighed and followed her, not bothering to glare at Adam. He didn't want to seem like a pig and snap that he wanted to spend some alone time with Fionna. That would seem selfish in his eyes. He caught up with Fionna, Adam flying overhead.

"You don't have to apologize, Fi," Charlie said to her, grabbing her hand gently. "I really don't mind if you kiss me." He grimaced. "Eugh, I sound like a pervert."

She laughed. "Not at all. I just thought, since we're technically not a couple, it was wrong for me to kiss you like that."

"You're only human, y'know? Seventeen was known to be in the awkward ages of puberty where humans have... you know what? Never mind," he said, his face burning. "I'll loan you the book sometime."

Fionna suddenly understood what he was talking about so she turned pink too. "Uh... no need. I've already had this discussion with Cake except it was about tiers and well... she just said to stay away from tier fifteen."

"I see," he replied, laughing. "Let's just forget about what I just said."

"Agreed," she said, sending him a wink. "Still I do wish we can become a little more."

He halted their walk and took her other hand in his. "Then what's stopping you?"

"That's the thing," she said gently, not looking at him. "I don't know."

He lifted his right hand and took her chin between his fingers. He then guided her head to face him and was looking her in the eye. His moss green eyes enchanted her blue ones and she felt herself smile. "I'm willing to let you deicide," he told her. "And whenever you're really ready, I'll be happy for you; whatever you decide to do."

"Thank you, Charlie," she said.

He slipped his hand out of hers and dropped his other hand, walking on, behind the gigantic bird. Fionna caught her breath and then she grinned. She ran after her friends and punched Charlie in the arm.

"Let's go, dude!" she cried. "That crater is waiting for us!"

She ran a little ahead of Charlie and Adam, the two boys staring after her with raised eyebrows. Then Charlie grinned too and followed her, Adam flying after the two of them.

"Feeling better?" Marshall asked Ice Queen, hovering over her. She was lying in her leopard print bed, her tiara off and a warm washcloth on her forehead.

"A little," Ice Queen rasped. "I barely get sick. I dunno what's going on."

"Perhaps it's all the pressure we're causing her," Gumball suggested from the wall he and Cake were leaning against.

"I don't think that's it," Cake said, shaking her head.

Marshall didn't say anything. He flew over to Ice Queen's kitchen and searched through the cabinets. He found what he was looking for and started to prepare his friend a meal. He came back inside and smiled at her.

"A-after you eat this," he began, his hands shaking, remembering the words she once spoke to him many years ago, "you'll f-feel awesome." He placed the tray on her bedside table. "You had some chicken soup in there so I thought that you deserved a little something to eat, Simone."

"Thank you, Marshall Lee," she said gently, her voice sounding less of Ice Queen, to everyone's surprise. She reached over and took a bite of the soup. Then she smiled at him. "I fell awesome now."

Marshall started laughing and he looped his arm around her neck. "I'm glad."

As they made their way home, Gumball questioned Marshall about his little interaction between he and Ice Queen. Marshall and Cake both explained the little adventure of Simone and Marshy, making Gumball smile. The king put his hands behind his head as they all walked towards the Candy Kingdom.

"You know what?" he said.

The two others looked at him, their eyebrows raised. "What?" they both demanded simultaneously.

"I have a feeling that life for all of us is going to get a lot better really soon," Gumball said with a wink to his friends.

"You think Fionna's coming back?" Cake said.

"Maybe. But it's just a feeling," Gumball said with a shrug. "Let's feed off of it though, before it ends."

"Yeah..." Marshall Lee said, grinning up at the cloudy sky.

A little bit of a filler and short but it was nice, right? Again, go and vote and that will determine the ending. Both ideas for the end, by the way, are both options that I've been deciding on and I've been having conflicting emotions about each of them. So the choices are already made up and it won't be random. Just an FYI.

And my heart goes out to all of those in Boston who experienced the bombings during the Marathon. Stand strong and be safe. Everyone is standing behind you, remember that.

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See you next time!