Princess Bubblegum always loved looking out from her lab window. It really was the highest point in the Candy Kingdom, and a good way get an eyeful of the colorful joyous land.

Today, the princess opened it up wide, rested her arms on the window frame, and gazed out at her people with a ghostly smile. She was so proud of them for their courage and ability to heal after what happened some years ago. Even if things weren't quite the same, (hence the King and Queen's passing) Bubblegum still tried with honest effort to rule her kingdom as best as she could. She felt she had too.

But at the moment the princess was feeling kind of cold. She looked down at her arms and saw her pink skin was riddled with Goosebumps. She raised an eyebrow. What was with the sudden change in weather?

She looked out into the sky. Not a hint of the cloud kingdom could be spotted. The sky was blue and beautiful. Then the princess made a face. She knew what the problem was now. Yes, the feeling was familiar, but what gave the answer away was the sight of a large blue man with a beard the size of hay stacks flying toward the princess. He was grinning and waving his hands at her like a mad man.

He also seemed to be carrying a drum set on his back. The princess scuffed. Not this again. Not another one of his stupid songs…

But before the princess realized it, the said man flew at her without thinking of slowing down. He crashed into her through the window and onto the laboratory floor. The pink royal squirmed and kicked at the wizard.

"Guah! Ice King! Get off me you…butt!" exclaimed the furious princess. the Ice King did what he was told (though very slowly, as he was an old man) and managed to get on his two feet.

"Oh! Tee hee, silly me! Must've forgot to slow down eh?" He said with his usually upbeat attitude when around the princess. Bubblegum didn't have any patients for it. None at all.

"Ice King, for the last time, I refuse to marry you! If you don't leave my presence right now, I'm calling Finn and Jake!" Bonnibel threatened. She knew Ooo's greatest heroes could put this joker in his place. As they have done it multiple times before.

The blue man dropped to his knees and begged the princess not to summon them.

"Ooh pleeease don't princess! Just hear me out! I, I wrote a song for you! You must hear it! My sweat and tears created it just for you!" pleaded the old man. Bubblegum looked at him with her arms crossed and eyebrows furrowed. Then she sighed. Pitying the crazy old geezer.

"Ice King…I've heard plenty of your songs, and none of them have changed my mind. I'm not going to elope with you." She told him calmly. The Ice King shot up to his feet and looked at the princess with a big, excited and a little creepy smile.

"Oh but princess this one is different! This one is definitely the best yet! You see, I had professional help with this one and now it's fab-tastic!" Bubblegum wasn't impressed.

"I highly doubt it will help your case. Who in their right mind would even help you right a song?" ask the princess. Ice King smirked.

"Marceline!"

The princess froze. She could feel her chest tighten. It's been a long time since she heard someone say that name. Especially in a positive manner. But the princess wasn't ready to turn her head up at one of Marceline's masterpieces. If it was a song about her, the princess was almost positive there would be some kind of message from the monarch to the princess in it. the candy girl sighed once more.

"Alright. Let's hear it."

The Ice King grinned from ear to ear, and quickly set up his drum set (making sure the wires weren't tangled again.). Once he finished setting up, he pulled some old papers out of his beard and placed them down on the floor where he can see them. And then he played.

Marceline?

Is it just you and me,

In the wreckage of the world?

That must be so confusing for a little girl…

But I know you're going to need me here with you,

But I'm losing myself, and I'm afraid you're going to lose me too.

This magic keeps me alive…

But it's making me crazy!

And I need to save you,

But who's going to save me,

Plaease forgive me for whatever I do…

When I don't remember you…

The Ice King stopped when the princess placed a hand over his mouth. She looked into his blue, cold eyes with confusion, and also melancholy.

"Ice King…I don't think that was for me…" She told him quietly. The blue man jerked his head away from her hand to speak.

"Of course it was! I told Marceline that I wanted to write some fad lyrics to lure the honeys in, and that's what she helped me do!" He protested.

Ice King…You truly are a madman riddled with memory loss…Then again…simply forgetting awful memories might not be such a bad thing…

"THERE YOU ARE!" Shouted a familiar voice.

What dropped inside the princess's window was nothing but shocking. Marceline, the Vampire Queen zipped through her window at lightning speed wearing nothing but a baggy shirt with an anti-smoking symbol on it and pajama shorts. She was also carrying an umbrella. Bubblegum's guess was it was used to shield herself from the sun.

She flew right into the Ice King, on purpose, and knocked him over on his side. His drums flew in different directions at the impact. The princess leaped backward a few feet to avoid getting hit by debris. After everything settled, Marceline stood above the Ice King, her eyes glowing a vicious red and her fangs fully visible through her gums. She was pissed.

"I thought I told you to not fucking come here and sing that! That wasn't a love song for you're glob damn princesses!" She spat at him. Bubblegum knew that that was Marceline. But the fowl language closed the deal. For she only knew one person that would sputter such harsh tones and hateful words. Her sister….

"What? You never told me that! I asked you to help me sing about my soon-to-be adoring princess fans! What on Ooo was I singing then?" the Ice King loudly asked. Marceline's expression lightened just a little, but it wasn't much of a change. She looked at Bubblegum for a moment. Her face the same, then she looked back at the Ice King. "Nothing…It's nothing."

"Whaat?" exclaimed the old man. He picked himself up quickly. "One does not simply, ' sing about nothing' I mean-"

"I don't care Simon! Just get out of here! You can chill at my place or something, but just… leave." The vampire grumpily said. She managed to calm down a bit in that last sentence. Almost weighed down with disappointment and sadness. But the Ice King's face brightened. "Oh yay! I'm going to try out Marceline's awesome axe bass!" He said before flying off without his drum set. Followed by Marceline shouting, "You keep your prune hands off my guitar!"

After the Ice King left, Marceline whipped around to face Bubblegum.

"What did he sing to you?" the vampire asked darkly.

"What?"

"WHAT DID HE SING TO YOU?!" She shouted. The princess tried to keep a calm and steady posture. Succeeding, much to her relief.

"Nothing I haven't heard before." She simply said.

Marceline's eyelid twitched.

"What the Glob is that suppose to mean?"

The Princess shrugged. "He sang about the hardships you and him had during the Mushroom wars. You've told me before how hard your life was back then. So has he…I don't know. It wasn't anything knew to me." She professionally explained.

"Whatever." Marceline growled. She floated off the ground, getting ready to take off.

"Why do you care?" the princess asked.

This stopped the vampire in mid-air. She looked at the pink girl. She held her hands out in front of her in an, 'are you serious?' gesture.

"Really? Are you seriously that clueless? That's personal biz the ice king was throwing around! Something the likes of you shouldn't hear." Marceline sneered.

"What do you mean, 'the likes of me'? You've told me everything about you! Before you went all crazy and darn near destroyed my kingdom!" the princess spat at the startled vampire. It wasn't often the princess would lose her cool, but when she did it wasn't just over tea. It had to be something that really bothered her. Really got her fired up.

The princess was expecting Marceline to burst into a fit of rage, but instead she caught the princess by surprise. Marceline sighed, slowly lowered herself to the floor, and walked to the nearest counter. She sat at a convenient seat there and wrapped her lanky arms around her head; peering into the many test tubes and beakers. It was a while until she finally said something.

"I've gotten along with my dad you know," She paused. "And to tell ya the truth…It ain't all it's cracked up to be." She stated.

Marceline could feel Bubblegum's curious eyes gaze on her. The never ending silence was what gave Marceline the indication to continue.

"It's kinda funny actually. I spent my whole life trying to win my father's love. And now that I have it…I don't really want it. Not from him anyway. My true father figures were Simon, and the Candy King. I can't tell you how much I regret letting the entire kingdom down the way I did."

'Then why have you acted so hateful towards me? Towards my kingdom these last 4 years?" the princess asked. She's never seen this side of Marceline before. Marceline has never simply talked things through with her. She always chose to raise her voice. But not this time.

"Do you hate the Ice King?" Marceline threw back.

Bonnibel paused, and then said, "Well judging by the way he's always kidnapping me and freezing me in ice…yes. I do hate the Ice King. He deserves no more then that."

She saw Marceline shuffle a little in her seat. "Hate is a very, very strong word Bonnie. I should know. I grew up in it. Saying that I hate you and the kingdom would be the equivalent of me saying that I want to kill you and your entire kingdom. But that's not the case. Not even close. Saying that you hate the Ice King is the same as saying 'I want to kill him'." She leaned back in her seat; looking up at the hard candy ceiling.

"You know…you otta be nicer to Simon. The man lost his wife, and his sanity. Maybe he's just using you to fill the hole left in him after the wars. He was a good man. A man that rivaled our father."

She could hear Bubblegum mumble something under her breathe. Whether it was her cursing the vampire out or thinking out loud about her words, she did not know.

"I've tried many times to apologize for fucking your life up like I did. I doubt I'll ever get your forgiveness," Marceline hopped off the chair and walked to Bonnibel. "But at this point…all I really want is for you to understand where I'm coming from. Because I don't hate you. I love you Bonnie. I love this kingdom. The one person I truly hate… is myself."

Marceline then popped her umbrella open, and flew out the window. Bonnibel stood completely still for a minute or two. Then a smirk crawled on her face.

"See what happens when you talk things out Marceline? It's so effective, you just might get a sister out of it."

"Aw dude! No way! Jake! Hey Jake check this out!" Finn the human shouted at his dog friend. The two heroes where wandering the land of Ooo looking for some monsters to kill when the young human found a flier nailed to a tree. Jake the dog lazily got up off the log he was resting on, and went to see what his brother was yelling about.

"What's up Finn? Cause dude, I was having a great dream with explosions and dungeons and half naked ladies and-"

"Awe dude! I don't wanna hear about your creepy dreams. But dude look at this! I guess Princess Bubblegum is throwing a Candy Kingdom ball tonight!"

The dog's eyes widened. "No way! But wait. I thought the Candy Kingdom balls where canceled since the King croaked. Why do you suppose she's throwing one this year?" The curious dog asked while scratching his ear with his foot (which he simply stretched up to his ear without bending over.).

"Don't know. But now that she's finally throwin' one, we gotta go!"

"You bet bro!" the two pals bumped righteous fists with each other and ran home as quick as they could to get ready.

"Huh? What the hell is this?" Marceline said; looking at an envelope that was placed on her door step. She almost never got mail, so to her this was a tad ominous. But she opened it up anyway, and red the note that was inside.

Dear Marceline,

I have decided to throw a Candy Kingdom ball this year, and I am currently lacking in entertainment. It would be nice if you could perform for our guests and help set up the ceiling streamers and posters.

I certainly would appreciate it. sincerely, Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum

Marceline saw the date the ball was suppose to be on in the top right corner of the note. "That's tonight. Tonight!? Why the fuck did she wait until the day of the ball to ask me this?"

"It was actually sent weeks ago."

Marceline almost jumped out of her skin. Who said that? She looked at the envelope in her hand. It had little eyes and its mouth was the opening that she pulled the note from.

"It was just really hard to find your house considering it's a cave and…yeah." The envelope explained. Marceline stared at it. She wasn't exactly surprised to see a talking envelope( for there was much weirder in the land of Ooo), she just wasn't expecting to see a talking envelope today.

"Uhh…alright. Thanks for the info…" She unnervingly told it.

"You're welcome. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to die now. As you did just rip out my guts. Don't forget to read the back too. So long." Marceline looked at the note then back at the envelope. "Wait…was your guts the no-"

Marceline stopped when she noticed the envelope's eyes where gone and motionless. She gulped. Oops. R.I.P envelope.

She looked at the note again. On the back? She flipped the note over and read a small caption in the corner. Once she did her stomach nearly dropped to death's castle.

P.S – I forgive you Marceline. I finally do.

The night of the ball. Where everyone is dressed up and ready to have a good time once again. But Bubblegum was still a little shaky about doing this. She knows that at least a few candy people will find disrespect in this because of what happened to her father. And because of Marceline's presence. She did inform the Kingdom that Marceline may show up to do a gig. Upon which most of them responded in some form of negative manner. The only candy people that wasn't upset by this was the bar candies.

"Marceline? The little squirt that could knock out a full size cinnamon? The little demon that slept in dumpsters and shit? Hell yeah!"

"No way! The crazy batshit girl that ate dead candies after a rumble is comin ta the ball! I fucking love that chick!"

"Hey don't worry your pretty little bubblebutt Bubblegum. If anybody gives you or Marceline trouble about it, we'll kick their ass!"

Bonnibel didn't know whether to be worried or relieved that the bar dwellers want to pitch their two cents in. or two fists. The latter seems more accurate. But as far as Marceline's safety, everything checks out. The princess also hoped that Finn and Jake saw the fliers just in case Ice King shows up.

The number of guests that arrived was huge. Most of them came from other kingdoms. Few candy people went, and even they looked a bit sour to be there. But because the other kingdoms never experienced a tragedy like the Candy Kingdom they where having the time of there life. Bubblegum was at least thankful of that. But she still didn't see Marceline.

She never got a response back from the vampire, so she couldn't be sure she was coming or not. The ceiling decorations still weren't hung up, and the place was almost crowded already. The princess bit her lip and could do nothing but wait.

About an hour into the ball, and everything seems to be going fine. Everybody either dined at the tables, danced on the stage, or just sat somewhere and mingled. Even the candy people that showed up managed to brighten up a bit. Finn and Jake made it too. Once they joined, the party immediately took off. Those party animals can make even the stiffest of lumpy space people get up and shake it. the Princess was happy, but she still wondered what Marceline was doing.

She was hoping to talk with her again. Like she did in the lab a month prior. She wanted to see that side of Marceline again. Though she knew why Marceline did that. She must have been dragged so far under the rug that she had just completely given up on defending herself. And simply went with explaining her situation without a thought in her head.

"Princess!"

Bubblegum jumped. She saw Finn standing awkwardly in front of her. His goofy grin plastered on his face.

"Say princess? have you seen Flame Princess anywhere? I invited her, but she's still not here…" the boy questioned while trailing off. The princess smiled.

"Oh, I'm sorry Finn. But residents of the Fire Kingdom aren't allowed to social gatherings like this. It would be too dangerous to have living flames walking around everybody. Somebody would melt or get burnt. I had to alert her father of this." Bubblegum explained.

Finn's normally happy, cheery face dropped to the opposite. The poor kid was crushed. But he had to understand. The Fire Kingdom is filled with evil, dangerous people. Including Flame Princess. Finn slumped his shoulders, and walked away.

Sorry Finn…

"Jeez, Bonnie. Way to crush a young boy's heart."

The Princess whipped around in her dining seat she was sitting in, only to see Marceline standing there, dressed in her signature grey tank top, skinny jeans, and boots. The sneaky vampire looked down at the princess with a smirk. She looked around the room. Nobody seemed to notice she was here. Except the bar goons. They expected her to show up, and in doing so made sure to pay close attention for any late night vampires. They all went up to Marceline to greet her tough guy style. With punches in the shoulders and hardy slaps on the back.

"Hey hey Marceline! What is up? Last time I saw you was when I kicked that candy cane's ass and you ate him! Good times eh? "

"You're taller then I remember ya Marceline, and stronger too!"

"Hey Marceline! How bout after the balls over we swing by the bars for old times sake?"

Marceline greeted them each with strong punches as well. The Princess noticed though after the bar candies started huddling around Marceline that other people noticed her too. Soon the entire room was quieter then before. Slower, and less mingling. Marceline noticed this too.

"Yo what's up with everybody? It's a freakin party lets have some fun!" She shouted. She spotted Jake in the group.

"Hey Jake! Think you can get this place bouncing again?" The dog gave her a stretchy thumbs up, and then he got up on stage. 'Hey everyone! Can I have your Globin attention please? Check. This. Out."

He caught the audience's attention with his epic Gut Wave dance. Soon everyone was trying to be as loose as Jake was on stage. They were having a good time again. Bubblegum had no idea how Jake could woo a crowd so easily, but he did the job.

She looked behind her, expecting to see Marceline standing there with an ever so cunning smirk. But she wasn't there. She took off somewhere. The Princess dragged her eyes across the room, scanning it for a sexy vampire lady. She got nothing until she looked up above the stage. Marceline was sitting on the balcony railings, looking down at the stage. Her face with a blank image. Bubblegum pursed her lips, and decided to join the Vampire Queen.

She Walked up the stairs that led to the royal balcony, and saw Marceline still sitting there.

She slowly walked toward the grey skinned girl. Once Bubblegum got to the edge of the balcony, she leaned her head over to look at Marceline face to face.

"Why did you forgive me?"

"I…I beg your pardon?"

"In the note you had sent to me, it read on the back that you forgive me. Why? And why so suddenly?"

Bonnie had to think about this one. Choosing her words wisely is definitely a smart move right now. "Well…I suppose I finally get it now. About you. Before, I just thought you were selfish and monstrous, and that your natural insticts where to be incapable of doing good. But I knew you before that as well. I knew you could be gentle. You could be lovable. And I guess that all clicked together when I talked to you in my lab last month. After my mother died I had nothing but hate for you,"

Marceline cringed at the word 'hate'.

"But then I realized that killing my own sister would be a horrible thing to do."

Marceline snapped her head to gaze at Bonnibel. The pink girl held a promising smile. Marceline's lips twitched.

"Bonnie…You have no idea how that makes me feel. You have no idea how many days I've wasted wishing I could take back everything I did. Everything I've done to you. Hearing you say that makes me feel like I've set sail. Like I can finally grow up. Live…"

"Okay everyone! Time for the entertainment!" The two girls looked down at peppermint butler making an announcement on stage. Marceline was going to play a song for everyone. The princess looked Marceline over, but she doesn't have her guitar with her.

"Marceline? Did you bring your axe base?"

"Nah. I don't need it."

"Then how will you perform?"

"Who said I was performing?" Smirked the devilish vampire. The Princess, dumfound, looked down at the stage once more. What she saw made her eyes widen.

The Ice King.

He right away started performing.

Slime Princess You're alright,

Flame Princess you're okay,

Wildberry princess could be better.

All of the princesses are pretty alright BUT,

O~oh Bubblegum, You look like a lot of fun!

I~'m right outside, and that is how I know!

Hey Princess did you get my text?

With a picture of my awesome gun show?

I'm also workin on my pecks,

If you'd like I'll send you a picture of that too!

"Okay…what. In. Ooo…I don't even…" the Princess was at a loss for words. She couldn't believe the Ice King was singing about that crap. She heard a giggle. She looked at Marceline who poorly tried to hide her giggly actions with her hand.

"Marceline…Did you 'help' him with this song?"

And while the Ice King had no idea how badly he was embarrassing the Princess, and while Marceline was trying to hide the truth from her sister. She still gave her the most well known answer in both their hearts. The answer that gives everything away and more…

"I don't know."

THE END! yays! i finished! well I hope you guys liked it. Now I know this chapter prabably wasn't anything spectacular, but its what it is. Sorry this took sooo long! I actually started it a couple weeks ago, and it got deleted so i kinda lost my motivation but i found it and it's all good! D:

anyway~

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