Real talk- this is my favorite proposal that I've ever written. Almost done with this dang thing. On the last chapter right now, and it is slowly but surely being written! Leave a review if you enjoyed!
Chapter Thirty-Eight
A week later, Fiyero walked into the nursery to find Elphaba and Rao. He stood in the doorway as he watched Elphaba rock Rao in her arms, humming a lullaby in his ear. Fiyero smiled at the pair as he watched in silence until Elphaba turned and saw Fiyero, and she smiled as she continued to soothe their son. Her smile melted Fiyero's heart and he had to contain himself as she put Rao in his crib. He ran a hand through his hair and looked down to floor as Elphaba turned to him. She said,
"What are you smirking about?"
He smiled harder and replied, "I just don't know what I did to deserve you." He looked up at her with a sweet look on his face.
Elphaba came closer to him and kept the smile on her face as she put her hand on his cheek and said, "I love you, Yero." She followed with a lingering kiss and he was like putty in her hands. When he snapped out of her trance, he took her hand and started leading her to the main study of the house. When he stopped and turned to her, he said, "Do you remember this room?"
Confused, she replied, "It's the study, Yero."
He continued, "This is the study where we saw each other after we were separated at the prison." Elphaba's face changed at the realization, "You were lost and looking for Glinda and I remember the second I heard your voice…Oz," he said, remembering the moment, "I thought I was dreaming." He sighed as he paused and looked at her, "Come on, I have something to show you." He offered his hand and she took it, silently agreeing to follow.
He led her to the back of the castle that looked over the grasslands. As the sun set, Elphaba looked at Fiyero and said, "What's gotten into you?"
He smiled at her and said, "You, Fae." She smiled at him with a curious look on her face. Fiyero took a deep breath and took her left hand as he bent to one knee.
Elphaba covered her mouth with her right hand and her eyes widened to Fiyero's stance. She said, "Yero, w-w-what are you-"
"Fae, I love you and I can't live without you. I know that this is really overdue and when I first realized that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you I planned to do this much, much sooner, but you know, things got in the way." Elphaba laughed at his reference as the tears in her eyes started to spill over, "You're everything to me and I know that we haven't had the easiest time, but the universe keeps pulling us together and I…" his voice started to shake as tears of his own started to surface, and fall down his cheeks, "I was broken until you came into my life and you…you put me back together." He smiled through his tears and Elphaba proceeded to cry harder, "I can't be without you Fae, and I hope that I can give you everything that you've given me and then some." He took the velvet box from his pocket and opened it, revealing the ring he'd kept for months, "Elphaba, will you marry me?"
Elphaba responded quickly by nodding her head, almost unable to speak until she said an almost inaudible, "Yes" as Fiyero put the ring on her pale, ring finger and she bent down to his level to embrace him and bring him as close as she could to her. He responded by holding her tightly, breathing in her scent and smiling through all the tears he was crying.
She pulled from him to look at his visage, and she smiled through her teary vision as she wiped the tears from his face. She put her hands on his cheeks and kissed him deeply as she could. Fiyero deepened the kiss and the two broke several moments later and rested their foreheads together, the both of them lightly sniffling.
"Everything we've been through, all the pain and suffering and separation and doubt, I would go through all of it again in a heartbeat for you, Yero. You are my everything, my soul mate, and now we get to spend the rest of forever together." Elphaba said, beaming through her tears.
Fiyero kissed her forehead and said, "The rest of forever, together. I like that."
"I love you, Yero my hero."
He sighed and kissed her again, and helped her up. They entwined their hands together as they went back inside of the castle, both of them more in love with each other than ever before.