AN: I'm going to continue it, since most of you voted for that, but I'm going to do it in a sequel. I feel like this story was just a short fluffy thingy about them getting together, and the romance-on-the-run-thing will be somewhat different, so this is the last chapter of Blow My Mind. I split up this chapter; the second part is some kind of epilogue, that will also be a prologue to the sequel, which will be up one of these days and will be called Be With Me :).

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Chapter 14. Dreamed a dream (or two)

When there was a knock on the door the next morning, Galinda sighed and got up.

'Look,' she said tiredly as she opened the door, 'I don't know why you're here, but I really don't have time for… Avaric?' She blinked upon seeing the other boy standing there. 'What are you doing here?'

Then she realised that he wasn't alone. 'And why in Oz are you dragging Fiyero with you?' she added, scowling.

Avaric cursed under his breath and unceremoniously dumped the Vinkun prince against a wall. 'Because,' he said irritably, 'despite the fact that he's a prince, my friend and my roommate, I still refuse to take care of him when he's sick. I mean, look at him. There's snot coming out of his nose.'

'Yes, well,' Fiyero groaned, glaring first at Avaric, then at Galinda, 'that's usually what happens when you get a cold because someone locked you out in the rain for hours.'

'It wasn't hours!' Galinda protested. 'It was half an hour at most! And how was I supposed to know that mister the strong and muscular Vinkun prince would get sick because of a few lousy minutes in the rain? Seriously, Fifi, I would have thought you to be stronger than that,' she said in a reprimanding tone of voice, as if it was his own fault that he got sick.

Avaric snickered. 'Well, anyway, here he is,' he said, shoving Fiyero forward. 'Take good care of him.'

'What!' cried Galinda. 'Why me?'

Avaric shrugged. 'You're his girlfriend,' he said.

Galinda glared at him. 'I'm not!'

Avaric held up his hands. 'Ex-girlfriend?' he tried. 'Friend? Whatever. I don't really care what you are to him. The point is that I am not going to take care of him.'

'I can't, either!' Galinda insisted. 'I already have Elphie to take care of! What am I, a nurse?'

Avaric grinned at her. 'Yep.' Then he left.

Fiyero blinked a few times, then raised his head, looking slightly alarmed. 'Why do you have to take care of Fae?' he asked anxiously. 'Is she okay?'

Galinda rolled her eyes. 'Fine,' she sighed. 'But apparently, you're not the only one who can't take a few minutes of rain without getting sick.' She hauled his arm over her shoulders and dragged him inside.

He headed for Galinda's bed, but she swatted him away. 'Oh, no, no way!' she cried. 'You are not sleeping in my bed! Can you imagine all the bacteriolia that would end up in my bed?'

'Bacteria,' Fiyero muttered.

'You just go ahead and snuggle with Elphie – Oz knows you both could use it,' Galinda continued as if she hadn't been interrupted at all, 'and I'll go and get some chicken soup or something.' With that, she, too, left.

Fiyero sighed and sank down onto the edge of Elphaba's bed. She was lying with her back towards him, asleep, and he kicked off his shoes and crawled under the blankets next to her.

The moment she felt him move, her eyelids fluttered open and she half-turned to look at him. 'Yero?' she asked sleepily. 'What are you doing here?'

'I'm sick,' he mumbled. 'Avaric told Galinda to take care of me.'

She chuckled weakly and reached for his hand. 'Serves her well,' she murmured, her head dropping against his shoulder. 'It's her fault we're sick, after all.'

He kissed the top of her head. 'Still,' he said. 'I'm kind of glad that she did lock us out, or we might have never made things right between us.'

She sighed, snuggling closer to him. 'Yeah…'

When Galinda came back, that's how she found them – in Elphie's bed together, with the green girl wrapped in Fiyero's arms, both of them fast asleep. She squealed softly at the sight.

Fiyero frowned, then muttered, 'That squeal can really only belong to one person.'

Elphaba cracked open one eye. 'It took me an hour to fall asleep in the first place,' she complained. 'Did you have to wake me up?'

Galinda grinned at them. 'Sorry.' She didn't look sorry, though.

She skipped across the room and sat two bowls on the nightstand. 'I brought you chicken soup!'

Elphaba winced. 'Volume, Galinda.'

'Oh.' Galinda lowered her voice to a whisper. 'Sorry. But don't you want chicken soup?' she rambled on. 'It's good for sick people, and the sooner those bacterilias are gone, the better.'

'Bacteria,' Elphaba and Fiyero corrected her at the same time.

Galinda scowled. 'Did you two want chicken soup on your heads?' she grumbled.

Elphaba just sniggered softly.

'Can you feed us?' Fiyero whined.

Galinda looked at him as if he had gone crazy. 'Feed you?' she echoed. 'And get bacteri… thingies… all over myself? No way.' She pushed one of the bowls into his hands. 'You're the prince here,' she informed him. 'You be a gentleman and feed your princess. I am going out with Pfannee and Shenshen before I risk getting sick myself.' She grabbed her purse and waved sweetly at them both. 'Bye!'

'You heard her,' Elphaba muttered. 'Feed me.'

Fiyero chuckled. 'My pleasure. Here, sit up.'

He helped her prop a few pillows behind her back, then sat up himself and filled a spoon with soup. 'Here comes the carriage…'

She scowled at him. 'I'm sick,' she grumbled. 'Not a toddler.'

He grinned at her. 'Humour me.'

She rolled her eyes, but obediently opened her mouth, and he fed her the soup, one spoonful at a time. 'Fae?'

She swallowed the soup. 'Yeah?'

He looked at her, his gaze opaque. 'About… you know… that, um… thing…'

'Spit it out, Fiyero.'

He sighed and dropped the spoon into the bowl. 'About what I said. That day – night – at the library.'

She sat up a little. 'Yes.'

He put the bowl back onto the nightstand and turned to look at her. 'About living together, and stuff.'

She nodded.

'You…' He swallowed. 'You never told me, you know… how you feel about that.'

She bit her lip.

'I mean, you don't have to make a decision right now,' he hurried to assure her. 'I was just wondering, you know… if you'd thought about it.'

She leaned her head against his shoulder, tired. 'I… I have, I guess,' she said quietly. 'But I'm not really sure… I mean, I love you.'

Those words never failed to make him grin goofily.

'But I'm not sure about… you know…' She chewed the inside of her cheek thoughtfully. 'That. I mean… it's so final, you know?' she tried to explain. 'It's like… forever.'

His grin widened. 'Exactly.'

She elbowed him in the side, and he doubled over. 'Ow,' he gasped. 'Ribs.'

She blanched. 'Oh, Yero, I'm sorry!' she exclaimed, horrified with herself. 'I didn't mean to –'

He looked up at her. 'Well,' he said teasingly, 'remind me not to piss you off next time.'

She kept on stammering apologies, but he just laughed and drew her close, planting a kiss in her hair. 'It's fine, Fae. Really. And you don't have to answer my question if you don't want to,' he added. 'I was just wondering.'

She looked at him. He couldn't really name what he saw in her eyes, but she was as unreadable to him as ever.

'I…' She sneezed and wiped her nose with her sleeve. 'Ugh. Sorry.'

He chuckled. 'I can hardly blame you for sneezing when I'm the one snivelling all over your pillow.'

She smiled, laying her head on his chest. 'You can snivel into my pillow any time you want,' she murmured.

He grinned again. 'Really?'

She looked up at him. 'Yero, I…' She hesitated, then said softly, 'I'm an idiot.'

He raised one eyebrow.

'I mean…' She sighed. 'You're so wonderful,' she said. 'You always say and do the right thing, you're sweet and you always understand me perfectly, even when I'm at my worst… and you never gave up on me, no matter how hard I pushed you away. You're the only one who's ever done that. Beside Galinda,' she added. 'I just… what have I ever done to deserve you?'

He smiled and leaned down to kiss her briefly. 'Trust me, Fae. I'm the one who should be asking that question. But what were you trying to say?'

'Just that I feel really stupid for not jumping up and yelling 'yes!' into your face.' She sighed. 'But the truth is, I… I don't know. I mean… I can see us… having a future together, I guess. But I'm not sure about it all, and it's still so far away, and…'

'Do you love me?' Fiyero interrupted her.

She looked up at him. 'I just said I did, didn't I?'

He brushed a strand of hair away from her face and kissed her forehead gently. 'Then that's all I need. We'll see about everything else, Fae. We can take on the future when it presents itself. For now, let's just… be together. Okay? Are you okay with that?'

She nodded against his chest, snuggling into him with a happy sigh. 'I'd love that.'

'Good.' He kissed the top of her head and put his arms around her.

It didn't take them much longer to fall asleep.

From that day on, everything was alright between the two of them again, and, as Galinda put it, 'Fiyeraba was back in business!'. They went on a couple of dates (with Galinda giving her friend a makeover every single time, no matter how fervently the green girl protested) and soon, Elphaba didn't even remember why she had been so mean to him at first. Their relationship was without a shadow of a doubt the best thing that had ever happened to her, and she was determined to cherish it for as long as he would let her – which he claimed would be forever, even though she herself wasn't quite sure about that just yet.

Epilogue

It was one day when Elphaba and Galinda were in Sorcery class together that Elphaba got the news.

'Miss Elphaba?' Morrible called when the green girl made to leave the classroom at the end of the lesson. 'Could you stay for another moment?'

Galinda looked at Elphaba questioningly, but the green girl nodded for her to go ahead. 'I won't be long,' she promised.

'I'll wait in the hallway.' With that, Galinda skipped out of the room.

Elphaba turned back to face the Headshiztress. 'Yes, Madame?'

Morrible smiled sweetly and held up an emerald green envelope with a golden seal. 'Great news, dearie.' She handed Elphaba the envelope.

The dark-haired witch turned it around in her hands, frowning slightly. 'This is from… the Emerald City?'

'Look at the seal, dearie,' Morrible instructed her, and Elphaba did.

She gasped. 'The… the Wizard?'

Morrible nodded, beaming. 'Yes, dearie. The Wizard wrote to me, asking me to give you this… but then I think you and I both know what's inside, don't we?'

Elphaba was sure her eyes would fall out of their sockets. 'But… But I…' she stammered, baffled.

Morrible patted her shoulder. 'Open it, dearie.'

Still in a daze, Elphaba did, her eyes quickly skimming over the letter that was inside. She paled a few shades. Then, slowly, a radiant smile spread across her face.

Morrible chuckled. 'Go ahead, dearie,' she said, waving her best student away. 'I know Miss Galinda is waiting outside and you're probably dying to share the news with her.'

Before she'd even finished speaking, Elphaba burst out of the door, storming outside and skidding to a stop in front of her blonde friend. 'Glin!'

Galinda blinked at her. 'You're glowing,' she stated. 'And it's not your usual Oh-My-Oz-I'm-With-Fiyero-glow.'

Elphaba grinned at her.

The blonde's eye fell upon the envelope in her friend's hand, and her eyes widened to the size of saucers. 'Elphie!' she screeched. 'Is that what I think it is?!'

'Yes!' Elphaba actually started jumping up and down - she hadn't thought herself capable of it, but she was too giddy to care. 'The Wizard asked me to come to the City and meet him!'

'Elphie!' Galinda screeched again. 'You're going to meet the Wizard!'

'I know!'

'You're off to see the Wizard, Elphie!'

'I know!'

'We need to go and tell Fiyero!' Without waiting for a reply, she grabbed Elphaba's hand and dragged her through the hallway in the direction of the courtyard.

Elphaba just couldn't wipe that stupid grin off her face. Not even when the other students they came across sent strange looks in her direction.

She was so happy that she didn't even care when Galinda spotted Fiyero across the courtyard and yelled at the top of her lungs, 'FIYERO! ELPHIE IS GOING TO MEET THE WIZARD!' and every other student stopped to gape at the two girls.

This was it. The start of her new life. Her one dream had come true when she had gotten together with Fiyero, and now her other big dream was coming true as well.

She was meeting the Wizard.