Bitter Sweet Tragedy

Closure

Bubblegum POV

Barnaby's doctor called it was his heart, a heart attack that nearly killed him. He always had heart problems ever since he was born, no matter what surgeons did to fix the problem it always happened. Soon he came into terms in with it; he accepted it.

As we flew, I grew more and more tried as I was engulfed in Marshall's heavenly scent. It wasn't long until we came close to the Candy Kingdom, Marshall told me to hang on to his back. I did as I was told and held on tight while he transformed back into his humanoid self. I was still clinching onto his back when we landed for some reason I was frightened that if I let go that I would never be this close to him again. I buried my face into his back. "Nerves?" he asked as if he wasn't bothered by my actions; I nodded in response. He then turned me around and pulled into a hug, "Don't worry, Marceline told me to come with," he made me face him, and look him in his eyes "So I'm not going away tell you want me to." My heart went flutter when he said those words I nodded again pulling him into another hug. "Come on we still need to find out where your brother is." He said pulling away and taking my hand.

3rd person

Marshall and Bubblegum had landed in front of the castles doors. When they went inside they were greeted by Candy citizens, but they weren't Bubblegum's citizens they were Gumball's. When they walked in signs of sorrow filled the main hall. Bubblegum and Marshall had to push though the saddened candied people for they were crowding a door that lead to the royal care center. As they ran down the hallway making sure not to waste any more time, they ran into Dr. Ice cream who exiting a door labeled Gumball.

"Oh, thank Glob," he breathed out when seeing the two "Princess you got here right one time your brother had just came back from surgery and needs some blood, come with me." He held out his hand and without hesitation Bubblegum took it, but before they left she told Marshall to stay there; that she would be back.

Once around the corner Marshall had let a sigh, and walked over to the door that had Gumball's name on it. He looked around to see if anyone was around to catch him sneaking into Gumball's room. When he entered the room he was greeted by an enormous amount of flowers of all sorts of colors. It was pitch black in the room, not being a bother Marshall didn't turn on the lights and just used his demon eyes to see in the dark. It wasn't long tell he found the pink prince in bed surrounded by flowers, breathing heavily as if someone had put weight on his chest. He was hooked up to an I.V and a heart rate monitor. 'Thank glob his heart beat's constant.' thought Marshall making his way towards him, he pushed away flowers well more like kicked them away, pulled up a chair and placed it by his bed. Marshall took his limp hand into his, it warmed his cold hand.

Marshall POV

Gumball had always told me that he had heart problems, but I never thought how serious it truly was. I stared at him as he breathed heavily but steady. There were no signs of him trying to fit it he just laid there as if he knows that his going to die. "Why Gumball," I whispered as if he was listening "Why did you reject me? Why did you have PB make that serum to make you forget about what we had; what we could've had? Now I'm stuck with a cheating girlfriend." I squeezed his hand harder "Why couldn't you see that I loved you," my voice fell tears started to form but I pushed them back "I didn't care what people would have thought about us, plus I'm the Vampire king people would have to think twice before making fun of us." I chuckled a bit.

I let go of his hand and only stared at him "I'm sorry," I started off "I'm sorry that you had suffer behind closed doors because of that night. If we- no if I didn't," I fell short again and took his back into mine again "If I didn't kiss you, this wouldn't have happened and maybe we might still be friends." 'Friends' I thought, if only.

I could hear steps coming down the hallway, 'I have to make this quick' I thought. I took his hand and kissed it then stood up and kissed his forehead. When I kissed his forehead he twitched a little and let a soft breath of air. If my heart still pumped it would have skipped a beat.

I quickly put the chair back where I had found and placed the flowers around his bed, 'the footsteps are getting closer' I thought. When I was done there was no time to leave the room so I took my axe guitar of and placed next to the chair and leaned against eyes locked on the door. when it opened Bubblegum walked in taking his pink hands into hers. Doctors came in right after her turning on the lights. They were to busy trying to connect a pint of Bubblegum's blood into his I.V cord to even notice me. Sensing that i probably shouldn't be in here, i silently walked over to the chair to grab my guitar. Until Bubblegum's voice stopped me in my steps:

"Marshall can we talk."