The next morning I awoke with the most dreadful headache. My throat was dry, I felt sore in unusual places, and for some reason I felt very warm. Had I left the cooking fire going? I noticed there was an arm wrapped around my chest and another arm that came from under my waist to hold me back against a body. These weren't snow golem arms or a snow golem body as they were warmer than my body, rather than colder. I felt warm bare flesh against my own bare skin from my neck all the way down to our entangled legs.

I blinked and saw my room. Somehow I was lying in my bed without my nightclothes on and there was somebody holding me to their own naked form. I wriggled my way out of their grasp and gathered the blanket around my naked body, then I looked back at them.

I saw a person lying on my bed. He had pale pinkish skin, in contrast to my pale blue skin. And he had gold hair, instead of the white hair that me and father had. His hair matched both thickly on top and then sparsely down below, around that thing which wasn't like anything attached to my body.

How had we gotten like this? Had he done something? No, I had. I had undressed before him. I had undressed him. Oh my Glob, we had kissed, like the married people did in the books that Father had brought me. We had done things that weren't in those books. Did married people do those things? Was I married to this boy now? Was he a prince?

He stirred and put a hand to his head. "Ow! What hit me?" He looked around for a moment then his eyes focused on my face. "Who are you?"

"I'm Lumikki. Your name is Finn, right?" I couldn't stop staring at his body.

"Yeah, uh. What happened?" He followed my gaze down to his body. Then he wrapped his arms around himself. "What the lumps? I'm freezing!"

"Oh sorry. You're a warm-folk. You suffer from the cold more than I do. Here." I handed him the blanket as I got out of bed. I went to the fireplace and started a cooking fire. Once this was well established I stood and turned back to him.

He had wrapped the blanket around his body and was staring at me.

I looked down at myself. I was still naked, but now my body was lit by the flickering fire, in addition to the predawn twilight that came through the windows. "Eek!" I covered my body with my hands and knelt down again.

"Oh sorry!" He looked around the room and then back to me. "Uh, where's the bathroom? I gotta go real bad."

"That way." I pointed, then quickly moved my hand back as I saw that his gaze had been drawn back to my body.

He gathered the blanket around his body and went to my bathroom.

As I heard his tinkling I wondered for a moment how he did that with his different equipment. Then I shook my head, picked out a bathrobe from my closet and put that on.

"How do you wash up?" He asked from the bathroom.

"There should still be some snow in the bucket." I answered.

"You want me to rub snow on those parts in this cold?" He walked back to my room and stood there with the blanket open in front.

I stared at his nakedness.

"Oh, sorry." He wrapped the blanket around himself.

I snapped out of it and looked away from him, towards the fire. "I could heat up some water for you."

"Oh, fire!" He ran over, hunched down in front of the fireplace and rubbed his hands in front of the fire.

I handed him a pot full of snow and he hung that above the fire. Then he rubbed his head for a minute.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"I will be." He looked up at my face. "We were naked in bed together, right?"

I nodded.

"Did we kiss last night and stuff?"

I nodded.

"Did I put my, uh thing, in you?"

I nodded.

"Does that mean we're married?"

I nodded.

"Oh my Glob. Sorry, your uh highness. Your dad's the Ice King, isn't he?"

I nodded.

"Uh, do you mind about all that?"

I thought for a moment. "I don't know. I've never been married before. Some of the things we did hurt a bit, but the rest felt really good."

"Uh, yeah. Me too." He blushed.

I fidgeted my fingers, looked down and blushed. "I uh, wouldn't mind trying it again, with you."

"Yeah, me too. Let's stay married. Okay Lumikki?"

I nodded.

He rose, lifted my chin gently with one finger and kissed me.

I pressed my body against his as our tongues sought each other out.

As he wrapped his arms around me I realized something and pushed away from him.

"Lumikki, what is it?" He looked at me.

I stopped for a moment. Even my father had never looked at me with such concern in his eyes. Then I remembered what I needed. "Uh, I gotta go too."

"Oh." He looked so relieved. "Uh, sure. It's going to take a while for the water to warm up anyway."

I used the facilities then rubbed my body with the snow to clean it. When I returned I filled another pot with snow and placed that next to the first one over the fire.

"Is that for breakfast?" Finn asked.

"Later. Now I want enough water to fill up the tub for both of us, together. But first your thing." I pointed at how it was sticking out of the blanket.

"Oh. Sorry, your highness." He covered it with the blanket.

"No, Finn. I want to try the married thing again. If you don't mind?" I unwrapped and opened my bathrobe.

"Sure, Lumikki. Anything you want." He spread the blanket before the fire and lay down on it.

I bent over to kiss him. Then worked my hands down his body. I knelt on top of him and he helped ease me down around his member. This time there was no pain, just a gentle enjoyment. I lay down on top of him and we moved slowly at first. Then I felt an urgency and sped up my tempo until I froze with my breath caught in my chest. Finn rolled over on top of me and moved slowly as I recovered. Then as I moved to match his thrusts, he sped up and grabbed my breasts in his hands. He released his warmth inside me again and I felt dazed as the sensation flooded through me. He lay down on top of me and rubbed his softening member inside me as we kissed again.

After a few minutes he got up and helped me to my unsteady feet. Then he grabbed both pots and carried them to my bathroom. He dumped these in the bathtub and mixed in snow until he had the temperature to his liking. He sat down in the tub and motioned for me to join him.

I found the water to be warmer than I was used to, but I quickly forgot about that as we busied ourselves with washing each other. We explored every part of each other's bodies then we kissed and snuggled, until he complained about the water growing cold. We got out of the tub and toweled each other off. Then we put on fresh bathrobes.

He gathered the two pots and we returned to the fireplace where I prepared porridge and spiced cider for us.

We had just finished breakfast, and I was licking a bit of porridge off Finn's chin, when we heard a knock at my door.

"Finn, are you done having fun in there? It's freezing out here." It was that wolf of Finn's.

"Oh, sorry Jake." Finn went and opened the door.

"The wolf walked in and hugged Finn. "Congratulations, buddy. So you've chosen your princess at long last."

"Uh." Finn disentangled himself.

"Come on buddy. My sense of smell is like a thousand times more sensitive than yours. I know exactly what you've been doing in here."

I blushed and turned away. "Yes, we are married."

"Is that all it takes in the Ice Kingdom?" Jake asked. "Most places it's much more elaborate than that."

Finn knelt down, grabbed my hand and looked up at me. "Lumikki, princess of the Ice Kingdom, will you marry me?"

"Yes, Finn. But aren't you supposed to have a ring or something?" I tried to remember all the tales of princes and princesses from the books.

"My buddy Finn has dozens and hundreds of rings." Jake patted him on the back. "Heck the treehouse is buried in treasure."

"Yes, that's right." Finn stood. "Let's get back to my house and we can pick out the very best things for you. For my wife." We kissed.

"Shouldn't you two kids get dressed first?" Jake looked at our bathrobes.

"Oh, sorry." Finn started to pick his clothes off the floor.

I searched through the presents my father had brought me yesterday and picked out some underwear. Then I stopped and looked at Jake.

"Don't mind me, your highness. I'm just a dog. A very cold dog." He sat down in front of the fire and stared into it.

"And Finn has seen everything already." I stripped out of the bathrobe and put on the panties.

"More than seen, if my ears can be trusted." Jake continued to look into the flames.

"Yes." I blushed and put the bra on. Then I put on some stockings, a blouse, skirt and jacket. "How do I look, Finn?"

"Almost like a princess." He handed me my gold tiara and I put that on.

"Are we ready to go?" Jake asked.

"Go?" I looked at him.

"Can you go outside the Ice Kingdom?" Finn finished dressing by putting on his hat. He put his backpack on and strapped his sword to that.

"I don't know. I've never tried."

"Okay, princess. But if you suffer any ill effects I'm taking you right back here, no matter what Finn says."

I turned from Jake to Finn. "My prince, what if I can't leave?"

"I will always be here for you, Lumikki." He gathered me in his arms and we kissed again.

I threw some snow on the fire to extinguish it, and then we walked out into my village as dawn broke over it.

"Finn, why are you abducting my daughter?" Father sat in a chair in front of the large table, surrounded by the snow golems.

"Ice King!" Finn reached for his sword.

"Wait!" I stepped up and grabbed Finn's other hand. "Father, I shall marry Finn. This is no abduction."

"You would marry my sworn enemy? What has he done to you, Child?"

"What enemy, Father?" I looked around and saw no penguins. Father only visited without them when he didn't want to risk their voices alerting me to his presence. "You yourself introduced Finn as a great hero only yesterday. Was that a lie?"

"Well Child, you see -"

I released Finn's hand as I cut Father off and stood before him. "Are you such a villain to be the enemy of a great hero, Father?"

"Well Child, it's complicated."

"Then let's make it simple. I shall marry the great hero Finn and there shall be peace between my husband and my father. Is there any objection?"

Father turned away from my direct gaze. "I suppose I'm willing to let bygones be bygones. I'm too old to waste my last few years on silly feuds."

"And you, Finn?" I turned back to my love with fire in my eyes.

"As long as the old frea-, as long as your father behaves himself. I'll forgive his past, for your sake, Lumikki." Finn put his sword back, walked up, put his arm around my waist and pulled me to him, to place a kiss on my cheek.

My father stood from the table. "Are you two kids determined to see this through?"

I looked at Finn, and we nodded together. Then we turned back to father.

"Very well. Lumikki, you will hold hands with Finn and touch my crown with your other hand while saying: I Lumikki pledge my heart and soul to Finn. I accept him as my husband and will love him above all others, so long as both shall live. And you Finn, will do and say the same, only with the names reversed and with her and wife in the proper spots of course. Then you kiss and the deal is settled."

Finn turned his head as he thought. "That's not the same as the last time you had a wedding in the Ice Kingdom."

"Well, do you have a beard, boy?" Father's eyes narrowed.

"I have no complaint." I turned to Finn. "Do you?"

"No, I guess that's okay."

We did as Father bid and as we finished the incantation together I felt a spark from Father's crown and jerked my finger back from it. Then I turned to Finn.

Finn looked at me startled and then his expression changed. I could feel it also. It was like the entire world had vanished and only Finn remained. No, not just Finn, but my Finn. He was mine, all mine and nothing else mattered. I threw myself at him as he threw himself back at me. We kissed gently for a moment then threw our mouths open wide as we entwined our tongues. We pressed so tightly against each other and wrapped our arms so tightly around each other that I could not draw breath. But what was mere air, when I had my Finn?

At last overcome by dizziness. I pulled back a few centimeters from Finn so I could breathe. We panted in each other's faces for perhaps half a minute. Then we could resist no longer and lunged forwards to kiss each other again. Our embrace was nowhere near as tight this time, simply because we were running our hands all over each other's bodies. I had to touch every part of Finn and in turn have my love, my one and only, touch every part of me.

"That's enough, you two lovebirds."

I broke the kiss and looked up at father. I noticed that I had dropped with Finn down onto our knees in the snow. So the Ice Kingdom and most likely all of Ooo still existed? It did not matter, so long as I held my Finn.

Father reached out with both of his hands and I reluctantly took one as Finn took the other. With his help we returned to our feet. Each of us kept one arm wrapped around the other.

Father sat down again. "Well, that's all I can do for you here. There's just not that many people in the Ice Kingdom. Finn, why don't you go to Princess Bubblegum and have her arrange a big ceremony for you two?"

"You know Princess Bubblegum?" I turned back to Finn and studied his face. I marveled at how perfect it was, even with a drop of our commingled drool dripping from the corner of his lips.

"Yeah, I've saved her lots of times..." Finn glanced at Father and then his attention was drawn back to my face. "... From stuff."

"So Finn and Lumikki, we'd best start off now, if we're going to get there today."

I turned to Jake the dog as he said this and then my attention was drawn to Father's crown as it sparked in the morning sun. A new emotion faintly echoed in my chest. It was like a hunger of some sort, but not like the ordinary hunger I had for food or the all-consuming hunger I had for Finn. I stood there puzzled for a moment.

"Yeah, let's get going." Finn picked me up in his arms and my attention returned to him.

I hardly noticed when Jake stretched under Finn's legs or when he expanded under us to become bigger than a woolly mammoth. Even the gentle rhythm of his stride only registered in so far as it caused me to rub against Finn.

Hours later I was finally able to take my eyes off Finn, so that I could see the landmarks he named as we passed them. I rode just ahead of Finn on top of Jake, with Finn's arms around me and my fingers intertwined with his. His breath was hot on my cheek as I leaned back against him.

Then Finn looked up. "Uh Jake, this is the treehouse?"

"Yeah, you two look like you need another night together, before we go see her royal highness."

"Uh sure, whatever." Finn picked me up into his arms again as Jake shrank away from us. "Lumikki, this is our house."

"Yours and Jake's?" I looked at the house built into and around a tree.

"No, ours. Yours, mine and Jake's." He bent his head down and we kissed again. I had lost track of the number of times we had done so on the trip over here.

Then he carried me inside and gently lowered me to my feet. I looked around at the piles of gold and gems near the door and suddenly I had an image of Father's crown again. I shook that out of my head and looked back at Finn. "Is this all?"

"No, let me show you upstairs." He motioned for me to climb the ladder and followed after me. He showed me the few rooms upstairs. "And this is my, I mean our bed."

"Let's try it out." I started to unfasten his clothes.

He froze for just a moment then followed my example. A few minutes later we fell into the bed and ran our hands all over each other's naked bodies. Twice more he pumped his warmth into my body and then we went to the bathroom and he did it again in the shower. I was bent over and braced against the wall as he held me by the hips to push me back and forth on his thing.

We washed each other and then toweled each other off. When we returned to the bedroom, Finn noticed something new there. "Jake, did you put this box up here?"

"Yeah." Jake's voice sounded from downstairs. "It's Lumikki's clothes. I gathered them up while you two were getting married."

We playfully dressed each other and my hands were just about to reach out and undress Finn again, when I stopped. "What's that delicious smell?"

Finn reluctantly pulled his hands away from my body. "It's Jake. He's fixed dinner. Shall we take a dinner break?"

"Only if you promise that you'll be ready for more afterwards." I playfully patted Finn below the belt.

"For you?" Finn grabbed my backside with both hands and ground his body against me. "Anytime. Lumikki, my love."

We kissed again, then he released me and followed me down the ladder.

We took turns feeding each other and then returned to the bed and made love slowly as Jake played his stringed instrument on the floor below us. Finally I collapsed next to Finn with just barely enough strength left to snuggle against him with my head on his muscular chest and his arm around me. I drifted off to sleep to the sound of the music in one ear and Finn's heartbeat in the other.

[Raise your hand if you think this is going to have a happy ending, and then slap yourself silly for being distracted by the porn from the ominous foreshadowing. -HJC]