I don't own Adventure Time. But Adventure Time owns me. Any day.

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Chapter 4 - Start of a Circle

Marceline stared towards the ceiling. She had been awake for an hour now, shocked and confused on how he got the Candy Kingdom's hospital. The steady noise of the heart monitor annoys her to no end. Whoever thought plugging in a heart monitor on a thousand year old vampire have poo for brains. More minutes passed, with nothing exciting happening.

"Oh you're awake, Marceline!"

She looked at the direction of the voice she all knew too well, Princess Bubblegum. She seemed to be happy with relief and blushing for a reason she all knew too well too. "Hey, Bonnie...Uh. What am I doing here?"

"So you don't remember anything?" The princess looked at her with a frown. Marceline quickly amended her statement.

"No, I remember helping you out with that time machine...but I don't really remember much what happened after that. And why do I have an urge to hurl pancakes at your face?"

The princess paused for a few seconds, seemingly lost in thoughts, then started scribbling on her anoying pink notebook. Marceline was getting impatient, she had been in this room for so long now. A vampire's gotta stretch.

"The time machine failed, Marceline."

"Oh my Glob! With me inside?"

"...Yeeeeaaaahh." The princess looked away, much to her disbelief.

"What do you mean 'Yeeeeeaaaahh'?" My dear, the suspense is killing her.

"The time machine was supposed to send you approximately 1000 years back in time, but instead..." The princess is the ever master of unnecessary suspense.

"Bonnie?!"

"...instead it reversed your anatomy to become approximately 1000 years younger. In Finn's terms, you became a cute little grey baby."

She let out a whistle. It seemed to be the stetch of craziness and nonsensical of it all that is pretty normal for a mad scientist like Bonnie. Marceline, the half demon half Vampire Queen, turned into a baby? Yeah right. But wait...This is not right.

"I think I believe you, Bonnie."

The princess blushed even harder. This is probably one of the moments where the candy monarch is not pulling her leg. It's not that Marceline stopped believing the princess, but sometimes even friends, friends, can be hard to read at times. And Bonnie is no shallow water.

"Yeah, I definitely believe you."

"You seem complacent today, Marceline." She wished that the princess stop blushing. It made things more awkward for them.

" I believe you, the time machine, and whatever. How else could I have a memory of being in a bathtub with Finn? And it felt wonderful."

The princess let out a small 'eep' and blushed even harder. Marceline thought she looked like a pretty stawberry. She slowly sat upright and was a bit shocked that she wore nothing under the hospital blankets. Her smooth skin instantly exposed to the air conditioned room. She looked up at Bonnie. Her half-open mouth suddenly felt very inviting.

You're ever so inviting.

"What? As if you haven't seen my awesome body before, you egg. I bet you had a wonderland on my bod while I was knocked out." Marceline let out one of her signature laughs. The monarch got even redder, if that was possible.

"I...I did it for research!" The cute princess furrowed her brows, or tried to anyway.

Marceline levitated herself off the bed, the blanket slid down to the cold tiled floor. She hovered closer to the flustered sentient bubblegum. "Well...maybe I should do my own research."

Marceline enclosed her in an embrace and then cupped her face. The princess automatically closed her eyes and leaned in to her, as if expecting something to happen. Oh no, Bonniebel. The vampire inhaled in her intoxicating scent, the ever prevalent sweet smell of the candy royalty waffing off her like crazy, and subsequently sucked the red of her cheeks The fangs lightly punctured her skin, not too deep, but deep enough to siphon the color red.

"Marceline! How many times do I have to tell you that that is too distasteful?!"

"What? No! You're so delightfully delicious, Bonnibel. Pure grade red!"

"Ugh!" The princess went over to the bedside table and took out a strip of bandage and stuck it to her right cheek. Marceline made sure she did not bled, but it would take a lot of explaining if people found out she have two vampire fangs size hole in her cheek.

The vampire queen chortled without care, slapping her forehead in laughter and seemingly have forgotten about her predicament. It had been a while since she had drinked the red from her face. The last time was the night before she left to travel Ooo for Glob knows how many years, only to come back inside her tree house and see two squatters inside. She was kinda hoping it was Bonnie who will welcome her back.

Marceline turned back her gaze to Bonnie, who looked positively hurt. Not physically, no. "Oh you're expecting something instead of that bite, huh! Did I disappointed you?"

"NO! Marceline, stop it!" The princess started to blush again.

"Hmmm...looks like more dinner." She pointed at the blushing monarch's cheek.

"Knock it off...So, how are you feeling? Do you feel anything unusual?"

"Oh we're doing that nurse-patient thing again? Oh, Bonnie, you sly you..."

The princess just looked at her incredulously, hands on her hips and her left foot tapping the floor rythmically. I may have taken the joke too far...Taking a hint that play time's over, she immediately jumped into much needed answers.

"Okay, my head kinda hurts but aside from that, nothing. I think I'm fine, Bonnibel." Marceline ruffled her hair absentmindedly. "I'm going to be okay, right?"

"Yes, yes, you're going to be alright. I double-checked my calculations before using the time machine again on you." Bonnibel walked closer to the bed and bent over to pick up the blanket from the floor. Marceline wasted no time in slapping her exposed rear.

"Hey!" She shouted at her indignantly.

"That always gets your rig digging, ain't it." She winked at the monarch.

Bonnie just held out the blanket to her and sighed defeatedly. "Just get back to the bed and - No, No, No, No, I meant nothing with that. Sheesh! Really, Marceline?"

The vampire held back her laughter and obeyed the highness' order. She'll have plenty of fun in annoying the the walking cute bubblegum. Even this drab hospital won't stop her from having the time of her life. Well, undead life. Wait, that doesn't make sense now, does it?

"Make yourself comfortable while I get you something red to eat. What do you want?"

"An apple is okay, I guess."

"Alright, one apple coming up."

"Or I could just make you blush again. It'd be more fun, anyway."

"MARCELINE!"

This night will only get better.

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...Why are you holding back my power?

"Sorry Flanna, but I can't. I just can't ice the world over. My princess would be hurt!" The Ice Prince could feel a resemblance of sanity slowly coming back to him. But that's it. Memories were still hazy, and he was still crazy. That much he knew.

She's nothing but a mere copy, a faulty creation of your own desire to see me again.

"I...that's not true." He hung his head in defeat. He knew Flanna was right. Everything was just because of his stupid dream to have his happy ending.

You won't have it. Not if you don't do what I say, my love. Let me repay you, for everything you did for me.

"The people of this land no longer sees me as a menace. I...changed and they changed."

But you wouldn't be like this if not because of them. Remember who you are before, and see yourself now. You look pitiful. For a royalty, you sure don't look the -

"The what?" He took off his bear hat and closed his eyes, his long silver hair flowing freely. Flanna came into view instantly. Her red locks and green eyes looked more vivid and vibrant than before. It seemed as though she is slowly being pieced back together, forming a cohesive image.

Flanna smiled at her, her face beaming with radiant smile unlike anything he had seen before. Well, except Flame Princess. But that is because they are one and the same. The major difference is that Flanna doesn't burn him when he tries to touch her. "Forget it."

He did.

"Why can't I see you while my eyes are open?" The Ice Prince longed to be with her for a thousand years, and all these time she was just here in his mind. His tiny fragile mind couldn't have been better.

Flanna did not replied but embrace him dearly instead, caressing his unkempt hair. Her touch feels warm, but not scorching like his princess.

"I'm your princess, you dummy." She let out a laugh and slapped his mechanical arm.

The Ice Prince felt some part of him died a bit. He despised all those cheesy and over romantisized books he often accidentally read in the library, but this feels different. For a second there, he was the humble peasant again. The boy he knew Flanna dearly loved a millenium ago.

"I still love you, dummy. Stop thinking like that."

"What? Oh yeah."

"We can be united again in the real world, Mertens."

Mertens. Finn Mertens. Suddenly, he now know his true name. The thing he had been thinking about for hundreds of years now. All along the answer is within himself. Not that it really mattered; he is the Ice Prince for the longer part of his life.

"How, Flanna? Tell me."

"Turn this world into a giant ice block."

"You know I can't do that."

"We can. Just let me open the Vault in your mind." The Ice Prince had enough for now and opened his eyes. Flanna instantly dissolved from view, replaced by the window of his ice lair. It offered a clear spectacle of the Candy Kingdom from afar. The sugary structures annoyed him before, but now, not so much.

It does annoy me. C'mon let's pay that princess a visit.

"But I promised her she'll never see my face again." He had doubts in this. That Joshua the Dog seemed nice to him enough, but still. How would he react if he saw him lurking around the princess?

We'll take care of that mutt.

Something tells the Ice Prince that Flanna, his princess, have been always like this; a reckless ball of energy.

...Yes, your princess.

A smile crept up his face.

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Does this feel like rushed or something? It's supposed to be a Ice Prince only chapter, but I don't want to spoil too much about him. And oh yeah, if things are confusing, the Marceline and Bonnie part is in the main universe, while the Ice Prince and Flanna is on the AU. Hey guys, what do you notice about the chapter titles? Yep. They don't make sense, and are very misleading. Hehe.

Ooobserver: I think I'll just tone down the darker stuff from now on. I really don't want to give it an M rating. Thanks for the reviews dude!

I wonder how would SCIK1012 would react on this? I hope I did her characters justice.

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