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Frozen Reign “Remains of the Day”

“He was trying to protect me”

“He was lying to you Marceline”

“What was he supposed to tell me…that my mother was dead? That he was going crazy?”

“Ignorance is bliss”, the Ice King cooed. “But bliss isn’t something that lasts forever, Marci. At some point the high wears off”, there was a pause, enough time for him to take a seat beside her. “Simon lied about your mother…he lied about being well…he lied when he promised he’d come back”

“But he did look for me”, Marceline argued as she held her now pounding forehead.

“Did Simon come looking for you?” Ice King argued gently.

“I don’t want to talk about this anymore”, Marceline sighed, rolling her head to the opposite side. “I just…do you want to know what I really want?”

She looked at him, her hair fanning around her. Ice King focused, listened intently as he nibbled on his inner lip. His excitement was overly abundant like her words soon to leave her were the secrets of the meanings of life. Marceline didn’t really want to tell him anything but she couldn’t bottle everything up. A part of her hoped that perhaps her words wouldn’t fall upon deaf ears either.

“I…I want my dad back”, she told him with flushed cheeks and a slightly choked voice. “My dad who sang me songs and taught me to read, taught me to play guitar…I really want him back. I need him”

“Marci, sweetheart”, Ice King cooed as he brought her under his wing. “Things will never be the same…you know that?”

“Yes but…” she stopped caring for a moment that she wasn’t with Simon and responded in a dead kind of way as she leaned into him, “Don’t get any ideas”

“Of course”, he chuckled, accepting the minute victory in stride. “You’re just hungry and tired”

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Chapter Two [link]

Feel like I should post one of these every time I update. Um, I think the picture works best with the context, yeah?
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