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Epilogue

Part 2 (Elphaba and Fiyero) – Ten years later

Since leaving Kiamo Ko ten years ago, Elphaba and Fiyero had spent their days either in hiding or traveling to another hiding place, never staying for a long time in one place. They were still afraid that someone would not believe the Wicked Witch to be dead and would come searching for her. She couldn't be found, ever. She would have to stay in hiding forever.

Both lovers were together at last. Finally reunited. But the price they had paid for their happily-ever-after had been too high. Elphaba had to fake her own death, Fiyero was turned into a scarecrow and they had to leave their child behind. A green woman and a scarecrow raising a child would have been suspicious.

Shortly after leaving Kiamo Ko, Elphaba had told Fiyero about his daughter.

FLASBACK

She knew that he had a right to know that he had fathered a child. After all she had muttered Arwen's name a couple of times during a dream. Elphaba had always warded off Fiyero's questions, telling him a lie instead. She had told him that Arwen had been the name of a child who had lived nearby her hiding-place and that Elphaba had watched her in secret while she had been playing outside.

But now it was time for the truth. She couldn't go on like this, lying to her lover, to the father of her child.

"Fiyero, we need to talk," Elphaba began.

"About?" Fiyero replied.

"Something I did." Elphaba answered.

She was still unsure how to tell him that they had a child together. A child she gave away. A child who was now raised by Glinda, his former fiancé.

Fiyero looked at her, expecting her to start talking. He could see that she was fighting a battle inside her. He presumed she was thinking about a way to tell him about something she had done, like killing a couple of people while she had been mad with grief for him and her dead sister.

"You remember my dreams? My nightmares?"

"Which one?"

Elphaba hadn't been able to get a good night's sleep. Always waking up drenched in sweat, muttering under her breath.

"About the girl, Arwen."

Fiyero nodded.

"She hadn't lived nearby my hiding-place. She lived with me.", Elphaba told him.

"How? Why?"

"Remember the night in the forest? The day we ran away together? A couple of weeks later I found out I was pregnant, with you child."

"I have a child?" Fiyero asked in disbelief.

"I have been hiding somewhere safe. A woman, her name is Yantar, helped me during the last months of my pregnancy and during childbirth. I gave birth to a little baby girl, Arwen Tiggular," Elphaba finished.

"Where is she now? What happened?"

Elphaba took a deep breath and continued. "I thought you were dead and I knew that everyone wanted me dead too. They would have killed Arwen. She is the child of the Wicked. Long before I knew that you were alive, I had decided to send her away, someplace safe. I had thought to let her live with your parents, but she is now living with Glinda, who will raise her as her own."

Fiyero was shocked. He had a daughter. One, who lived in the Emerald City. Elphaba could have hidden her in Kiamo Ko, somewhere safe. They could have taken her with them into hiding. But now she was living with Glinda. Fiyero didn't know how they could get their daughter back.

"And now? How do we get her back?"

"We don't."

Elphaba couldn't look him into the eyes. She had told him that he had fathered a child and would never be able to see her.

"But Elphaba, she is our daughter. She should live with us, her parents."

"You know that I had to give her a chance to live her life. I did not want to raise her somewhere, not knowing if we have a shelter for the night or enough food to fill our stomachs. I should have talked with you about it but I haven't had time. Glinda was in the room with me, the Witch-hunter's on the way and I couldn't send Chistery with her to your parents. I had no other choice as to give her away. She deserves to live her life."

END OF FLASHBACK

There wasn't a day Fiyero didn't miss the child he never knew.

There had been times he wanted nothing more then to travel back to the Emerald City and take her back with him. But in his mind he knew Elphaba had done the right thing in giving Arwen away. They would have never been able to raise her. Raising a child and hiding from all of Oz wasn't something you could easily pull off.

The only thing Elphaba and Fiyero had left of their daughter were Elphaba's memories and occasional glimpses into a crystal ball. Elphaba had taken it from Kiamo Ko with her into hiding so they could check up on Oz and Arwen.

Watching her daughter growing up, only seeing her in the crystal ball was so painful sometimes that it nearly tore Elphaba's heart apart and she longed to hold her again.

Maybe one day they could be together again, but that was only wishful thinking.

"What are you thinking about?" Fiyero asked her, already anticipating the answer.

"Arwen."

Fiyero embranced his love. He knew that the pain a mother suffered when losing a child was sometimes too much to bear and Elphaba had suffered a great deal. In the early days of their hiding he had heard her crying out Arwen's name in her sleep. By day she had acted as if the loss wasn't affecting her. But Fiyero knew her too well to be fooled.