A/N: I am so sorry it took so long to update! I went on a road trip with my family, and I didn't have internet at all! The next chapter will come much sooner, I promise!


"Hey, Finn!"

"What's up, Jake?" Finn asked, pressing buttons on his remote control rapidly.

"Princess Bubblegum wants to have a jam session today. You up for it?"

"Totally, dude."

"Hey, let's go get Marcie!"

"W-what?"

"GAME OVER" Beemo announced.

"We should get Marceline to come jam with us! Come on, get on my back and we'll go get her!" Jake said, jogging outside. Finn followed his best friend cautiously.

"Maybe we should leave her alone, man. She gets kinda mad when we go over without calling..."

"Nah, it'll be fine! Now get on!" Jake enlarged himself and the adventurer climbed onto his back easily. "To Marceline's cave!"


"Marcie? You home?" No answer.

"Oh, well... You know, she probably wouldn't have come any-"

"Do you hear that?" Finn asked, pressing his ear to the door.

"Sounds like... Music..." Jake mumbled. Finn reached for the knob slowly. "Dude! What the heck are you doing?"

"I'm going to check it out."

"Not a good idea, bro! She'll kill you!" He opened the door slowly, only to find it was pitch black.

"Nah... I'm going." The adventurer stepped inside the dark house and closed the door softly. He followed the music on his tip-toes until he reached a door with a light from underneath it. The music had gotten slightly louder, but was still muffled until he cracked it open.

"I knew that I'd get like this again
that's why I try to keep at bay" The female voice rang out clear but softly.

"Marceline?" Finn whispered, watching the vampire queen float around the room, strumming her bass.

"Be a hundred percent when I'm with you
and then a perfect heart's length away..." She was wearing extremely torn jeans and a white tank-top with black converses.

"You've got a schedule to stick to
got a world to keep sweet
You're so much to everyone all the time" The expression on her face displayed slight sorrow.
"Will you ever slow down?
will I ever come first?
The universe contracts to sigh" She paused in her song, letting the tune fade.

"Marceline?" Finn asked, opening the door fully.

"Finn? What do you want? And hey! What are you doing here?"

"Me and Jake came to see if you wanted to jam with us and the princess." Marceline hissed.

"Go. Away. Now."

"But-"

"GO!"

"At least tell me who the song was about!" Marcie froze.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh, come on! I've known you long enough to say every song of yours is the truth and you wrote it for someone or some reason..." Her face turned red as she hissed again, her tongue flicking out.

"You're mistaken, and I don't want anywhere near Bubblegum!" Marceline was about to fly away when Finn closed the door.

"Please?" Her face was still bright red and she shook her head.

"You know me better than anyone, so you should know I don't like to talk about my personal life. Now get out of my house." Finn sighed and backed up, letting the vampire queen through.

"I may know you better than anyone else, but I still don't know you very well."

"If you're so desperate to know about me, then we can have lunch the day after tomorrow. Sound good?" He smiled eagerly.

"Perfect!"

"You can bring Jake, too."

"Okay. Hey-" Finn grabbed Marcie's hand and held her for a moment. "Are you alright? You seem off..." She refused to meet his eyes.

"I'm peachy. I'll see you later."


"Dude, PB called and wants to know if you want to go on a date with her today." Jake announced at breakfast.

"Really?" Finn paused, his mouth full of pancake.

"Yeah, and she put major emphasis on the 'Date' part."

"Cool. What did you tell her?"

"I said you weren't interested."

"What?" Fin jumped up out of his seat.

"Relax, bro! I'm just messin' with your head!" Jake laughed.

"Not cool. What time?"

"Uh... I think like six thirty. She wants to have dinner at the castle." Jake frowned. "And I'm not invited." He pouted.

"Oh yeah, Marcie said we could have lunch with her tomorrow, and you are invited." Jake froze mid-grin.

"Marceline invited you to lunch?"

"Us."

"Nuh-uh! No way, man! She'll probably eat us!" Finn rolled his eyes and laughed.

"You know she wouldn't do that, Jake. You're just scaring yourself." He grabbed his hood and pulled it over his head, covering his blonde hair. Jake opened the door and stepped outside.

"You don't know everything about her, dude. She could be faking all this friend stuff just for your blood." Finn followed him out, grabbing his sword.

"Are you trying to say that Marcie has been pretending to be my friend for like six years just to suck my blood?" He asked sarcastically.

"You never know, man. You never know." Jake grew super large and Finn jumped onto his back.

"I do know. She wouldn't do that. She doesn't have the patience." He laughed.

"So where are we goin' again?"

"The grass kingdom. The little weird dude sitting on your butt said there was a huge fire monster heading towards them." Jake turned around.

"There's a little weird dude on my butt?" Sitting a ways behind Finn was a small resident of the grass kingdom, eyes slightly crossed and sticking his tongue in and out of his mouth. Jake made a face."He is weird..." They continued on their set path, ready to do their job.


A/N: The song Marcie sings is called Half Life, by Imogen Heap.