So, here's another chapter! Hope you all enjoy, and slices of my awesome Wicked-themed birthday cake for those who reviewed last chapter. And thank you for the happy birthdays, too!

First Birthday

It didn't occur to him until one day when he looked at the calendar, at that date, which someone had circled in green ink, reminding him instantly what had happened a year before. He sighed and went downstairs to his wife, sitting up in her chair drinking coffee, Elphaba on the floor watching her with her gray eyes,

like a hawk.

"It was today," he told his wife gravely. Melena looked at him, confused.

He pointed at Elphaba. "That's what happened."

"Ah." Was all Melena said. They looked at each other for a while.

"What should we do?" asked Melena finally. Frex shrugged.

"Go about our lives. I have to go to work." He kissed his wife on the top of her head and headed for work.

That was the only way it was mentioned all day.