Adventure Time: Hair

"And then! There was this one time our tree house was invaded by a giant snail, well she was actually a giant slug but that comes later in the story, anyway-"

"Uh huh…"

"Then we taught her to swing swords around and beat box like all- bumbumtsshbumbumtsshbadabadabumbumtssh! and then-"

"Uh huh…"

"THEN! We found out it was a giant slug and that's why she couldn't get any dates cause-"

"Uh huh…"

Fionna paused, although she was more than excited to continue her dangerous adventures with the giant slug event, she couldn't help but feel like her audience wasn't paying attention.

"…Hey…" she called out, looking down at said audience on her lap, "FP? Are you even listening?"

"Uh huh…"
Fionna's lips were set in a pout as she glared down at the Flame Prince, who had his head on top of her lap, hands folded neatly on his chest and eyes closed, nodding every once and awhile as she continued the story.

Suddenly she let out a horrified gasp and pointed over the hills, "…oh my glob there's a giant purple four eyed fish flopping its way towards the fire kingdom!"

"Uh huh…"

Fionna growled and crossed her arms.

"…dude you aren't even listening!"

Without missing a beat, he opened one eye up to her and smirked every so slightly and smugly.

"You taught the female slug to sword dance and beat box to attract a mate, yes I've been listening"

Fionna's face fell into a sudden blush, what is it with that arrogant smirk of his?

"…oh…sorry…You looked like you were falling asleep" she coughed.

The Flame Prince shrugged, clasping his hands together as he stretched and yawned, "I might, it's relaxing out here"

For today's visit, there was, unfortunately, nothing to do. No monsters were attacking any cities or kingdoms, no prince in need of rescuing, no adventures to be had. But Fionna absolutely refused to let the beautiful day to go to waste.

And so the couple decided, well more like Fionna decided, to relax on the grassy hills beside the tree house to enjoy the gentle breeze, fluffy clouds in the sky and talk.

Of course, the high and mighty Flame Prince found nothing amusing about just sitting around. But quickly warmed up to the idea the moment she forced his head onto her lap. In which he discovered was very comfortable.

"Well…I wouldn't think napping on an active volcano is relaxing"

He stopped in mid stretch, "…relaxing? No, but it's fun. You should try it"

She laughed, "I think I will"

Fionna took in a deep breath before finally collapsing backwards, arms out stretched looking straight up and watching the clouds pass them by. It was quiet, save for the breeze pushing past the branches of distant trees and the soft sigh of her prince.

It wasn't long before she found herself yawning as well.

"Well, you can nap now. I'm done with my story, unless you want to know how about we had to do repairs on the treehouse while the two slug made out four feet next to us"

She may not see him in her current position but she was sure his expression was not pleasant, "I think I'll pass"

A soft chuckle was exchanged before the two fell into a comfortable silence.

Fionna casually glanced over to her right, making sure her pack and sword were within arms reach should something happen while the hero of Aaa slept. In which chances are with her luck that would be the case.

Weapon in check, she yawned as a soft breeze grazed her cheek. There was no point in fighting the inevitable, her blue eyes began to droop as her body relaxed, welcoming the afternoon nap.

Who knows how long it had been since she was able to relax like this, her home is always ravaged by some kind of monster or threat.  Her days of relaxing were few and rare, even more so with her new boyfriend and his own…anger issues. But slowly, with the help of a fire shield gem and his own hard work, the number of fires she had to extinguish on his behalf have dropped considerably.

Today in particular was a breakthrough; this had been by far the most relaxed she had ever seen him.

Even the grass beneath him wasn't completely scorched to nonexistence.

She smiled, the minor weight of his head on her lap felt warm and comforting.

Suddenly her eye's snapped open, her body completely alert and awake in response.

Fionna quickly, but carefully sat up and stared at the sleeping prince on her lap.

Slowly her eyes scaled upwards, realizing a huge detail she somehow overlooked in their month together.

His hair.

She stared at the flame on his head and swayed with the wind in a calm manner; one of the first indications of his mood swings was his hair. It was simple logic, it swayed aggressively when he felt angered but glowed bright when he was nervous or shy.

Biting her lip, she slowly brought her hand up, just barely hovering over the flame. Despite knowing full well that the gem around her neck would protect her from fire regardless of it's form, its difficult to override what had been built into your genes for millions of years. Fire hurts humans.

Her brow furrowed in determination, without warning to even herself she took the plunge and reached in.

Upon feeling his hair was being violated, the Flame Prince's eyes snapped open.

Fionna however was frozen in place, stuck trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she was not only touching fire, but can…feel it.

"…what are you doing?"

"Silence, I'm doing science"

His eye's widened and remained deathly still, "…..uh….that usually has explosive results"

She didn't respond, she was too entranced the the red and yellow flames licking her fingers and slipping through her palm to hear him.

In which she noticed, began to glow bright, and twitch slightly. Blinking back to reality, she looked further down to find him blushing furiously.

It may be just fire to her but it was still his hair, meaning he could feel her touching it.

A small blush graced her cheeks, she quickly withdrew her hand and giggled nervously.

"Sorry…this is probably weird to you but…you know…before this I couldn't touch fire so I didn't know what it felt like"

He coughed, "O-oh…ok..makes…um sense…and your scientific results?"

Taking his lack of pushing her away as an invitation, she reached back in and toyed with the flames around her fingers. Watching and feeling carefully to put it to words, even with the fire shield she could still feel him warmth, though no longer harmful, his hair was no different.

"….ironically…",Fionna bit her lip, flexing her fingers inward to her palms and out stretched.

"Like water"

His jaw dropped,"…I think I'm offended"

She laughed, of course he wouldn't understand. It was the other way around for him, he has millions of years built into his genes to avoid water at all costs.

Fionna smiled and gently poked the crimson jewel on his forehead playfully, "It's kinda hard to explain…like…I can feel it…but I can't grab it, it just…slips through my fingers"

"Oh…I see…that makes sense actually"

With the science put aside, Fionna continued to amuse herself "brushing" her fingers through his hair.

"This is so cool" her eyes sparkled.

"uh…well…um…you're more than welcome to…uh…continue your science…or whatever" he coughed, still blushing furiously and still completely still.

And that's what she did until he fell asleep under her touch.