The phone rang shrilly, cutting through the stillness of the living room and right into Bonnibeaux's head. He started awake, this wasn't his bedroom! He looked around for a panicked second and his eyes came to rest on the warm lump cuddled up to his side. 'Oh that's right' he thought, ' I fell asleep at Fionna's.' The phone rang again, breaking the haze around his head and as she stirred and pressed her face to his side trying to block out the urgent call of her phone he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
As the girl smushed her face into the warm body next to her trying to ignore the evil contraption ripping her from slumber, a thought kicked her brain in the butt. 'Pillows aren't warm.' She sat up gently removing Gumball's arm from around her and blushing a bit, glad he was still asleep. When had she fallen asleep? When had she fallen asleep on Gumball? Noise rang through the room again and she winced, quickly moving to the phone and picking up.
"Hello?" she whispered.
"Fionna, what the hell did you do to my house?" A deep voice asked in a mixture of anger and amusement.
"O-oh, uh, hi Marsh." She mentally punched herself. 'Way to be stupid Fionna.' For some inexplicable reason she felt like this was a delicate situation with Gumball asleep on her couch and Marshall Lee's deep voice in her ear.
" 'Uh, hi' yourself! come fix my house."
"Fix it yourself poo-brain." She snickered, "Does the widdle, bitty Vampire King need the big, strong adventurer to come fix his pwoblems for him?" She cooed into the phone, and a pink hand appeared on her shoulder.
"Who is it Fi?" Gumball said, a note of sleep clinging to his voice. She took the phone from her ear.
"It's Marsh, wants me to undo my prank."
"Let him deal with it." he said tugging her arm childishly. She put the phone back to her ear.
"I gotta go dude."
"Is that Gumball?"
"Y-yeah" Her blush was back in full force. "We fell asleep watching a movie on my couch."
"Yeah I bet you did." Marshall made kissy noises into the phone and Fionna's blush grew hotter.
"Shut up you donk! I'm going back to sleep, get out of your flipping house by yourself!" and she hung up, huffing about clueless vampire idiots. Gumball dragged her back to the couch where he laid down pulling her down with him. She, being more used to late nights than the prince, was now too keyed up to sleep. She sat down in front of him, the curve of her butt brushing gently against him as she settled herself.
"PG, Do you mind if I play BMO for a bit?" he just pulled a pillow under his head and shrugged.
"It's your place, Fionna. Do what you want." He gave her a sweet-but-sleepy smile and curled his legs up so they were slightly cupped around her. He watched her play the game for a little bit. Enjoying the pleasure of simply being in each others company. When she finally beat Hunny Bunny she let out a small whoop, jumping a bit in her seat until she remembered the prince behind her.
"Oops, sorry dude I forgot you were trying to sleep." she said with a wince. He just shrugged. This closeness between them was the only compensation he could begin to ask for, and even that seemed like too much.
Eventually she grew tired (and bored of not being able to beat Silly Sam) and stretched getting ready to head up to bed. When she went to get up she noticed that Gumball had pretty much curled himself around her. She scooted a little to the side before getting up so not to wake him and he stirred, curling an arm around her torso. Well this was awkward. How was she supposed to get up to her room now? 'oh well' She sighed and just laid down next to the clingy royal and fell asleep.
"Ahem" Cake stood in front of the sleeping couple on the couch puffed up and her fur standing on end. Two sets of eyes blinked open, purple eyes meeting black, and suddenly he was awfully wide awake. He removed his arm from Fionna's waist like she was on fire and scrambled up off the couch.
"Why hello there Cake!" He offered a reassuring smile as she glared at him.
"Mmhm that's right, get your paws off her." Fionna on the other hand just waved in greeting and rolled over to go back to sleep, noting in her mind that "Oh Cake is home, that's nice."
'Cake's home!' her mind screamed at her. Her back went rigid and she launched herself off the couch and onto the cat, hugging and cuddling and sort of wrestling her. "Cake! where the cheese and crackers have you even been!?" Cake hugged the girl back.
"Didn't Prince Gumball tell you? He sent me on a mission to get the whoosy-whatsit from the Mystery Temple." She was eying the prince from where she was holding onto Fionna.
"No... he didn't tell me anything..." and before the girl had a chance to think about it Gumball was speaking again.
"Now that you are back, Cake, I'd like to ask the two of you ladies back to my castle. I have another important mission for you!"
"And that's why we were sleeping like that." Fionna finished recounting the past month of her life to her sister. She hefted the bag of daisy chains she was toting higher up onto her shoulder. It wasn't very heavy, and she didn't see why the prince couldn't have just taken The Morrow to deliver them to the fluffy people himself. It would have been faster. She supposes he is busy, though, and that his trip to the tree fort had probably set him back in his duties.
She simply took it with a grain of salt and enjoyed the time catching up with her surrogate sister. The fluffy people were happy to receive the daisy chains and thanked the heroine profusely. Fionna was happy that she had made them so happy but this kind of mission was the most boring thing she could think of. Where was the action? The adventure? As they left and walked home the sky began to darken, and right as they reached the warmth and safety of their tree-home the rain began to come down.