A Struggle Against Storms - True Adventure Time

Day 2: Confrontation

Author's pre-Note: Okay. So some people are gonna hate me. Some people will find this more interesting. Bare with it to the end.

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Chapter Five – Day Two: Confrontation

Finn practically fell through the doorway of the tree house, stumbling a little. He swayed some from exhaustion. Sweat was dripping down his forehead, coating his back and his forearms. His heart was beating fast, coursing the power stored in his body to sustain his weakened muscles. He caught and steadied himself on the edge of the door, pausing for a moment. Looking around as I came in after him, even in his exhausted state he had a giant silly grin on his face. He went over to the sofa and tossed his pack and sword on their haphazardly, his sword sliding off the sofa and onto the floor.

He turned around to face me. I could feel myself flutter a little, he was not unattractive. I moved towards him and our lips met as I wrapped my arms around his neck. We held this position for only a moment before I broke the contact.

I gave him a seductive look and began leading him backwards up to his bedroom, letting him watch me go up the ladder first. The room war dark, but the moon shone bright through the window leaving a gash of silver light in the dark mass of shadows. Finn cam up the ladder quickly and went to stand in front of the closer doors. He let me observe as he undressed. I let him undress me at his own pace. Our skin shone unnaturally in the light from the moon. His tan and my pale silver.

The Vampire Queen awoke some time later, warm and cozy from the waves of heat rolling off of the human next to her. She had her arms around him and her head was resting on his chest. His heart beat and slow steady breathing indicating he was still sound asleep. She carefully detached herself from him and slipped out of the bed. Examining herself, she decided she needed a shower and floated her way into the bedroom's bathroom.

After she'd cleaned herself up she grabbed her red robe she'd taken to leaving there and went back to get her underwear off the floor. When she entered the room again she saw Finn was still asleep, his arm still outstretched as though she was there next to him and the blankets covering his legs and feet but leaving his torso exposed. But this time she could hear his heart rate and breathing to be more irregular and quickened. He was having a bad dream again. Undoubtedly it was about her, Finn had never truly gotten over that girl after what happened to her. Marceline could still remember that night.

She'd heard the news from Bubblegum and had rushed out to search for her missing friend. She'd found him on a cliff that over looked a small lake, he was sitting with his legs hanging over the edge. It looked like he was planning on camping out there; he'd had a blanket laid out to sleep on and a bonfire started, probably to keep away predators as he slept. It was one of the few times she'd foregone her playful, teasing antics when around the human, she knew what it was like to lose someone that important. She'd flown down and just hugged and comforted the boy, she almost shed a tear for him. But only almost, she'd cried too much already to be able to do that again. After that day though, it was hard for them to see each other much. Finn never seemed to have time or want to hang and Marceline didn't want to pressure him into anything after what he'd been through. Somehow they'd grown apart and somewhere along the line, Finn went from a boy to a man.

When Marceline finally kicked the human's butt into hanging out with her again, she'd discovered Finn's loneliness. Apparently, he'd never gotten over not having her in his life anymore, or maybe is was just not having someone in his life. Marceline can't ever quite recall how exactly it happened, but somehow it did and she and Finn started providing other benefits for each other, benefits that friends generally don't provide for each other. But they were still friends – Definitely just friends. In fact, this only worked because they were friends. She doesn't like Finn like that, she's definitely attracted to him but she doesn't want to be anything with him... It's just that he's lonely, and she gets lonely over the countless years being single... So because they were friends, they... helped each other out...