Even Otter Things have Happened

Plot Summary: Takes place after 'Otter Things have Happened'. Julien tries to make up with Marlene, but she doesn't want to. He enlists the help of the penguins to create a love potion for him, but things don't turn out right….

Disclaimer: The Penguins of Madagascar is the property of Dreamworks Animation Studios in association with Nickelodeon. I do not own The Penguins of Madagascar.

Wow. This is my first PoM fanfic! Thanks to Miztah Han for all the coaching, and Panacea447 and Soft_Kitty (^_^) for all the encouragement. Well, hope you like it! XD ~Triksterr206

Chapter I: To break the King's Heart

Marlene sat at the edge of her pool, watching the sun rise over the horizon. She sighed, taking in the beautiful sight, sad it would end soon. She was still sad at what happened yesterday. The joker she was starting to fall for, wasn't really a joker. She sighed deeper at the thought of Fred and Julien fighting over her, and what happened to him after that. Turns out the Lovulator was a total failure, and science could never really tell whose true love is who. Fred was past, and she had to move on. Her peaceful moment was totally shattered when King Julien, still in bandages, popped up behind her. She was so surprised, she fell right into the pool.

"Well hello there silly otter!" said the self-proclaimed King, waving a bandaged arm while trying to disguise the pain he felt, which failed horribly.

"Julien! Stop sneaking on me like that." Marlene snapped back, climbing up on the rocks and shaking herself dry. "What do you want?" But anger quickly changed to worry when she saw Julien's bandaged limbs. "Are you alright?" She asked, after seeing Julien in pain.

"Now, do not go being worried at what happened yesterday."

Marlene also noticed only now that Julien was awake. Usually he was asleep, and woke only at noon when he warmed up for his 'dancing for the people of Central Park'. Marlene was becoming increasingly suspicious by the minute, and blurted out, "What do you really want?"

Julien was surprised by the way she answered, and meekly replied, "I just want to be talking wid you, dat's all."

"About what happened yesterday? Julien, you don't have to talk about it. Fred is, well, Fred, and we're sooo not happening."

"But do you not be seeing it Marlene? I am being in love wid you! I want to be being your boyfriend, with all the huggies and kissies and such and such. Do you not be seeing it?"

At first Marlene was surprised by the lemur's confession, but surprise quickly turned into uncomfortable awkwardness as Marlene stuttered out a reply to his seemingly random outburst.

"Bu-bu-but Julien, I-I'm not in love with you. Do you know what I mean? We're just friends."

"So no kissies and huggies and the such and such like dat?"

"No. We-we-we're just friends." She finished, afraid of breaking Julien's heart, but also wanting to rid herself of the discomfort in her gut. "I love you, but not-not in that way."

Julien suddenly launched himself at Marlene, tears breaking out his big yellow eyes, Marlene pinned against the rock-wall of her cave. She was so close to him, they were already nose-to-nose, making Marlene feel very uncomfortable. She protested, "Juli-!" but all that was drowned by the lemur's voice,

"Why are not being in love wid me Marlene? I am fuzzy, I have a bushy tail, I am a king! What cannot you be wanting from me?"

Marlene finally snapped, and pushed Julien away, not at all sorry. "Look Julien, not even with your good looks or even if you-your-you're a self proclaimed king, I won't ever fall in love with you! Y-y-y'know not even with the strongest love potion, I won't fall in love with you!"

She expected Julien to burst into tears and run off like a child denied candy, but a weird smile appeared on his face, muttering. "Yes, love potion, that might work…"

Julien then sprints off into the direction of the penguin's lair.

"Oh no. I have a bad feeling about this.

At first, Kowalski refuses, but because of the lemur's incessant pleading and pathetic death-threats, he agrees but sets conditions:

"Fine. But you'll have to stop going into our habitat at night."

Julien just laughs at Kowalski's conditions but later agrees. As Kowalski starts making the love potion, Julien sits in front of their television and whispers to himself "Fine, silly penguin. I'll just ask Maurice to do it instead."

"Yes! I present to you Love Potion #37!"

As soon as Kowalski finished talking, Julien snatched the potion and ran off. Later, he runs along the zoo's wall to return to his habitat, laughing at his success and the smarty penguin being so stupid! So caught up was he in his laughter, that the vial of love potion dropped into the park, unnoticed by the king.

*Later On*

Fred was staring at the morning sun, glassy eyed and drooling. "That's a pretty big orange, and it hurts my eyes just looking at it. Soooo big!"

But his thoughts were interrupted when a cylindrical bottle containing pink liquid inside it rolled to his feet, coming to a halt.

"What's this?" asked Fred himself. "Hmmm, strawberry milkshake! Thank you giant tasty orange for the strawberry drink! Wrong flavor though!"

Fred the uncorks the bottle, and takes a big gulp from it. "Yah, that isn't strawberry at all." He sighed, and ran back up to his tree, leaving the bottle on the grass. Several drops of the liquid leaked onto the grass, which then began to slowly grow…