Alone
Chapter 3
The Interview Part 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake. I do own the story/plot line because I made that all up with me, myself and I.
"So Fionna, how's your relationship with Prince Gumball here. It is known that you have a huge crush on him." she asked smiling. I blushed a little and so did Gumball.
I giggle, "Had. Had a crush on Prince Gumball." I corrected.
"Oh, why the change in heart?" she asked.
I sighed, "Well it's kinda depressing. *Sigh* I was like majorly crushing on him ever since I was 12. The stupid crush never went away until last year when I got a dose of reality. I now know why a crush is called a crush, you fall head-over-heals for a guy, he doesn't feel the same way, heart break number 1. Your still head-over-heals for the dude, he tells you your too young for him, heart break number 2. Your still freaking head-over-heals for him, you start to change yourself to fit his standards only to find out he still doesn't see you as anything more than a friend, heart break number 3. After you try to get over heart break 3, your still head-over-heals so you try to get him to let him want you the way you want him, even if it meant wearing dresses everyday! But he just plainly ignores you, heart break number 4. Even after the first 4 heart breaks you still can't get over him, you start to think what's wrong with me? Why am I not good enough? Maybe if I were a princess it would be different. Why doesn't he feel the same way about me that I feel about him? Is it because I'm fat? Oh my glob I really am, fat! So you go through a bulimic stage and cutting stage, heart break number 4."
After my short pause and shaky breath, I continue.
"After heart break number 5, your best friend finds you practically dead, just a walking skeleton and knocks some sense into you, you start to get better by eating normally, showering, just taking care of yourself like you should be and be you again. And the guy you did this because of, hasn't even noticed. Which brings about heart break number 6. Then you get to the point where your done. So, yeah, I had a major crush on Prince Gumball." I said.
It's silent for the longest time possible. Well only a minute or two but it felt like forever. I cleared my throat, "Next question please." I say.
Sally clears her throat, "Yes, um, Marshall Lee. Your relationship with the Vampire King." she said.
"Hmm... where to start?" I ask myself.
"How about when you two met." she said.
I smiled and so did Marshall, "He kicked me out." I said.
"I'm sorry what?" Sally said.
I giggled, "It was when I was 12. Cake and I came across some tree house but as we soon found out the tree house wasn't just some random old tree house deserted by whoever owned it as Cake and I first thought. It belonged to Marshall Lee. So when I met him, I thought he was some creep burglar. But he said he owned the tree house for over like 100 years or something like that. Pointing to the initials ML in the tree trunk, so he kicked us out. It was so hard trying to find a new house, eventually Cake and I camped out in the open. Which wasn't the smartest of ideas, there was a troll-goblin-slime monster attacking Cake and I. We almost defeated it but we didn't, it knocked Cake out and was going to do the same with me but a figure of a giant bat appeared, we fought the thing off together. He gave us back the tree house, so we don't get killed out there. After that we became friends." I said.
"That's sweet. So how about your brief relationship with Flame Prince?" Sally asked, I blushed.
"Ah, Flame Prince. That butt."
*Shakes Head* "We, we...uh... it was interesting for sure. The first time I met him I was crying, shouting "Why can't I just like a guy?!" while Cake splashed water on him because he was burning down a village. He looked at me confused, then touched my cheek. He pulled away when he made contact with my tears, and slapped me for hurting him. I stared wide-eyed looking after the trail of burnt grass as I think 'Oh my glob, I think I have a crush.' Anyway he came back around and we started hanging out more, he even went on a couple of adventures with me. We became friends and we had fun being around each other. But let's just say he has anger issues..."
I trailed off a little, took a sip of my drink, cleared my throat and continued.
"One day his mom ticked him off about something about him being a menace and danger, I tried to calm him down and reassure him other wise but he rubbed me off. We got in an argument, and he lashed out on me. I had a burn on my back for weeks, it was really nasty. He apologized latter on and I forgave him, it's not his fault for lashing out, well okay it kinda is, but he was born that way. Fire can be used in two ways, a good and a bad way. The good being used for light and warmth, the bad way being used for destruction and out-of-control, kinda chaotic stuff. Were stlll bros though, but we don't see each other much lately." I said.
Sally stared at me in wonder and amazement. "Wow. I must ask, you go through pain everyday whither it be from, Prince Gumball's rejection or facing down Flame Prince's rage or battling monsters beyond the point of exhaustion. How is it that you still stay the same optimistic, forgiving, kind-heart, valiant, and tactful girl." she asked.
I think for a long moment, "Hmm... I really don't know. I'm just being me, that's the only answer I can give you." I said.
She smiled at me, "Well, that's answer enough." she said.
I smiled and blushed a little. "So, Fionna how is your relationship with the sassy Lumpy Space Prince?" she asked.
I laughed, "LSP, is like my best girl-friend. I'm serious! He is really fun to hang out with and not just because I can laugh at everything he says. What can I say a girl likes it when a guy makes her laugh." I said.
She smirks a little, "So, have you guys ever dated?" she asked, my jaw drops in shock.
Why would she even ask that? "What?! No, glob just friends." I said giggling at the idea.
I stood up now and sat on the window seat looking across the Candy Courtyard, as I waited for Sally's next question.
She sighed, "Fionna, what I'm about to ask you you don't have to answer if you don't want to. I'm only asking out of curiosity, you don't have to answer if your uncomfortable." she said.
I looked at her confused my brow furrowed looking at her hesitant milky chocolate face. "Do you ever wish things were different? Like, do you wish you could have your parents with you right now seeing the brave, valiant woman your becoming?"
My jaw dropped, I started tearing up from the first question, do you ever wish things were different? I struggled to control my crying, adventuresses don't cry.
"Why'd you even ask that? Of course I wish my parents were still with me, what orphan wouldn't? But I'm glad to think, no I know that they are proud of me. Their proud of me because I'm proud of me, I'm sure they wouldn't expect anymore from me. And no, I wouldn't wish things to be different even if I were given the chance to change the past. I'd miss out on meeting all my friends, and feeling the accomplishment that I can do something right with every monster I take down." I said angry for her asking.
It's making my heart guts act up. "Okay, tell me about your mom, your birth mom." she said. Is she trying to see me cry?
"I barely remember her. And I miss her so much, what girl goes into womanhood without the guidance of her mother? Well, I did. And I think I turned out alright." I said standing up now arms crossed over my chest.
"And your birth father. What do you remember of him?" she asked.
I sigh, "I barely remember him to. The only thing I remember is him telling me bed time stories, I'd even join in making them up. One was about a prince and a princess. I hated the natural idea of the prince rescuing the princess, so I decided that the princess would save the prince for once. I remember him and my mother talking about me once, my mother said I was becoming to much like my father because he's the fighter and my mom is graceful, he only chuckled and said 'Well she is my daughter' they giggled and so did I, they caught me eavesdropping. Father scooped me up in his arms and spun me around, making me laugh. That's the last memory before everything changed." I said tears brimming my eyes some falling freely.
It was silent, Marshall looked at me concerned knowing these questions are to hard for me to answer but he also knows that I'm stubborn. I won't let these questions get to me.
"How did your birth parents die?" she asked. I uncrossed my arms, my hands are shaking.
"We were traveling at night, we had to if we wanted to get to the closest village in time before winter came. We decided to camp because we were to exhausted to move any further. Father told my mom and I to get some rest, he's stay up watching if any monsters or beasts came. He said he'd wake my mom up when it was her shift. My mother may have been graceful but she was a fighter, just like my father, just like me. But he didn't get the chance to, we woke to my father's screams of agony. My mother hid me in the bushes and went to kill the monster before her tearing my father apart. I think both my mother and I knew that my father was dead. The creature was midnight black, it had row upon row incisors as teeth, and it was completely horrific. It smelled bad like sulfur, rotten eggs, sweaty old gym socks and a sweet-sickly smell of pipe tobacco. I can still smell it sometimes. My mother killed it in a manner of minutes, but she didn't see the partner it brought with it."
"There was another one and it was behind me breathing in my sent, I shivered. My mother immediately blind sided him and ran. But it out smarted her, it managed to some how bite her, it being a demon, the poison spread through her. She had to think fast, she had to protect me. She kissed my forehead crying, and said to me, "Don't forget us." She ran me back to where my father's body lie, he smelled of death. His arm was torn from him and thrown to the side somewhere, his back looked raw and open, you could see the muscle and bone and all the blood. There was so much blood, it was like a river of red pooled all around him. I understood what my mother was doing, she curled me under her, shielding me from view, as the smell of death masked my sent. The demon came back and acknowledged the dead humans, it walked away, I'm guessing it lost interest in us."
"I knew she would die soon too, the poison had spread, she looked so pale and exhausted. She sang me a lullaby as she slipped away. I wriggled out of her grasp the next morning, I didn't cry. I was afraid that if I started that I wouldn't be able to stop, so I never cried. I decided to wonder around looking for anyone, that's when Cake's parents found me. " I said then sighed.
Sally, Gumball, and even Marshall were crying.
"D-Did you ever go back to the final place of your parents?" she asked more like croaked out.
I nodded. "After my adoptive parents died, Cake and I traveled. I wanted to go to one place first though. I'll never forget what I found. My parents remains, they had claw marks on their skin showing scavengers helped themselves to the dead. Cake and I buried them. I then went back to the old house where I spent most my childhood, I found a few things in the rubble that I kept. Then Cake and I came here, found the tree house, meet Prince Gumball, then meet Marshall Lee, saved and helped many people, and well you know the rest." I said.