Gumlee One-Shots

Misleading Memory (⚠️)

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[CW: mentions of abuse]

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"I'm your boyfriend..."

The two looked at each other in shock, both just as surprised as the other. This really wasn't how Gumball had imagined things would turn out.

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Fionna had brought in the only vampire in AAA to the royal taffy infirmary, rather than to Doctor Prince and his kingdom, trusting Gumball more with this since he was the only one who seemed to be able to tolerate Marshall. It would have been dismissed and ignored by Gumball like always if it wasn't for the fact that Marshall looked as if he were dying. Again. He had been taken to the castle infirmary on a stretcher, rushed there actually, by the taffy prince himself who seemed as though he was dying alongside him with worry. Of course, this was a major shocker to the adventuress, who had never seen a single word of care come from Gumball's mouth for the vampire, was now drowning the vampire with all the care his taffy heart could muster. It was unsettling to say the least.

Gumball tended to the vampire for a week, seeing no signs of the vampire ever waking up. His instant healing had somehow stopped working or it was working but wasn't strong or fast enough to heal the problem, just stop it from progressing. Another week passed and Gumball had started to lose hope of the vampire ever waking up, which was understandable, but Fionna stood firm in her belief that her best friend was bound to wake up. And as faith would have it, he woke up.

The vampire had just woken up, a couple of days after said week, his eyes fluttering away the blinding light. Everything seemed to be a blur and all the sounds around were hazy, nothing clear enough to determine whether he was finally dead or not. Regardless of his high hopes of being dead and forever blind or deaf, he was finally able to see the unclear blurbs as nurses all around him, somewhat making out what they were saying.

"Should we-..."

"Best to tell-... Hate..."

"Prince-... Vampire is-..."

"Dismiss-... Adventure-... Injury..."

After a few moments, the vampire could clearly see a pink man in front of him and two cake shaped nurses on his side. What the fuck? "Are you aware of your surroundings, Marshall?" The lights were still stinging the vampire's eyes, but he was glad he could make out somewhat of the place.

"Yes...? A hospital...? Who the fuck are you?!" The vampire was shocked and cranky, to say the least. Marshall was most definitely not pleased by anything around him in his current situation, nor was he okay with random strangers all around him.

The nurses and the pink man were taken aback by the rude way they were treated for saving his life, not expecting it. For in the condition he was arrived in, it was highly likely that Marshall wasn't going to survive. Gumball disregarded the remark as a typical Marshall comment and recomposed himself. "Language, Marshall," Gumball put up his stoic façade, making sure that anything else Marshall would say in such a state wouldn't falter his mood or demeanor. "Nurse Waffle, please tell Fionna Mertens that her friend has awoken. And Nurse Pound cake, what are his statistics?"

As the first nurse scampered out, Nurse Pound cake stumbled with her clip board, hastily flipping through the papers until she landed on the right page. "Well... He had a deep wound on his head and countless smaller ones all over his torso. Miss Mertens clarified that one of the monsters her and Mr. Abadeer were facing had caused them. He's been prescribed with an antibiotic and an analgesic that he must take daily. I'm not sure about the side effects but usually with these types of cases they either go into a permanent coma, get paralyzed or um... Memory loss... But not permanent! Well... Sometimes... I think... I strongly believe that he's lost his memory too..." Gumball gave a numb nod to the nurse's words, gently and gracefully taking the clip board from her with a gentle smile and assessing things for himself like he didn't believe the nurse -- or he didn't want to believe. "My prince... may I ask something?" Meanwhile, the vampire had simply been sitting and taking in what had just been told -- feeling quite shitty for snapping now. Gumball on the other hand just gave a small hum, accepting the nurses request. "Shouldn't he be... Tied up? He might attack us..."