"How the GLOB am I supposed to answer that?!"

Marshall tiredly smirked. Fionna wanted to turn him over and shove his face in the dirt, she had half the mind to!

"Fi..." He sighed pitifully.

No, no way Marshall Lee could ever be pitiful. He could fake it, but this was just wrong. Fionna pet his black hair once more and huffed her breathe to hold in the tears that kept falling.

"Yeah?"

"Gottcha." Marshall Lee lazily closed his eyes and smiled peacfuly.

"What do you mean Marshall? What are you talking about?! Open your eyes and tell me what you mean!" She shrieked. Marshall's smile faded and he stilled once more.

Fionna's chest trembled with sobs. "Tell me! Please be joking! Please tell me this is a prank and you're fine. Come on, Marshall Lee, let me in on it. I... I need..."

She lay his head down on the forest floor and lay next to him. She wrapped her arms around his torso and screamed and sobbed into his chest.

Eventually she grew tried and fell asleep, wanting more than anything for him to be ok.

Fionna woke with a start. Her eyes were nearly swollen shut and her head splinted at every movement. She looked at Marshall, asleep, dead, not here. She put her hand on his chest and began to cry again.

"You just slept with a corpse you weirdo."

Fionna's eyes widened. Voice thick and dry like sandpaper, but very much there. His eyes were closed and his face pale. Pale... But not gray.

"Marshie..."

"You sure do talk a lot in the morning."

"Are you..."

"You followed and strange man into a dark forest and slept with his dead body and all you can do is gawk at him coming to life?"

Marshall opened his eyes, revealing them as blue.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm just fine Fi." He sighed.

Fionna stood up, took a stance, and kicked Marshall Lee square in the family jewels. That woke him real fast.

"AAAWWWWOOOWOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

"Gottcha."

He was crying, he was really really producing tears. Now that the blood flow is back, it hurt all the more when she kicked him again.

"PAAAIIIN! MY LOVE MEAT!

After walking and... Limping back to the treehouse, the two sat on the couch saying nothing and staring at the wall. The silence was impossible to stand, so Fionna spoke up.

"Was that a prank?"

"No, not really. Well... The 'gottcha' part was, but that's because I'd already decided to be alive and I was curious what you'd thought."

"You chose to live now of all times you've been alive?"

"Yeah... I get to have bacon, sunlight, mortality... I like this round of people that are living, it's been a great new century so far and... Now I can age and die... With you."

Fionna blushed and with a weird satisfaction, saw him blushing as well.

"L-let's go strangle some pixies in broad daylight!" Fionna said and she stood quickly.

Marshall stood as well. "Y-yeah! And pick up some groceries on the way back so that Cake doesn't hurt me!"

"Yeah!"

"Okay!"

With that, the two ran out of the treehouse to abuse innocent pixies and live away to their hearts' content.

AN/ wow it's been a while! Sorry for the absence. If it weren't for the comments coming in even now, the story wouldn't ever have finished. So, thanks! Who knows, if I get enough comments I might be motivated to write another chapter or two with those humans doing human stuff...