Woot woot, Chapter 13 marks the ninety-page mark :) Yippe-day. This the most contradicting chapter of fanfiction ever written, just -gesticulates wildly- ignore it. If you're like a nun or something, then you, uh, might not want to read this chapter..it'd be against your religion. But w/e, do what you want :)

Just know, the rest of this fic is already written out. After this, there's only two chapters left (not counting the epilogue). I think I'm changing the ending, though, because it sucks. So...yea. Just thought you'd want to know.

Disclaimer: I don't own Wicked. I don't own Wizard of Oz. If you do, just know, I hate you. :)

"Kiamo Ko? Isn't that where your wife lives? Things must've gone pretty good with her-"

"No. Things went bad. But it's the only safe place, right now."

"Are you sure it's safe?"

"No."

"Great. You're really giving me a positive outlook."

"Look, we have to go, now. We'll be able to get there in a week if we don't stop."

I nodded. "If it's the only way." I laughed then.

"What?"

"Look at me. Earlier today I was a foot away from practically committing suicide, now I have a great desire to live."

So we all headed off to Kiamo Ko. And like Fiyero said, we were there in a week.

"Fiyero?" I asked when he unlocked the gates and led us all inside.

"What, Fae?"

"I'm confused. How can we come here? Won't your tribe eventually come back?"

"Yes. But they don't live here in this half of the year."

"Oh. I see."

Sahlah and Tasi immediately disappeared when Fiyero told them what room they could have. Glinda and Emir disappeared also, but not together.

"I guess that leaves just us. I assume we'll be staying in the same room." He said as he led me up the stairs.

"What made you presume such a thing?"

He stopped and pressed me against the wall, kissing me fiercely.

"Hold on there for a second. Li will need a room, too."

"She can have Nor's room. I think there's still a crib in there."

He showed me Nor's room. It was kind of boring, hinting that the girl was still in diapers. I placed Tale in the crib that was still there. "Night, Li." I kissed her forehead and smiled. No more beds of leaves for my daughter.

"So, Yero, where will we be staying?"

"Here." He opened the door across from Tale's room. It, like Nor's room, was boring. "It's nothing special, just a guest room, but I hope it'll do."

"I'm not going to be picky, Fiyero. Anything'll do right now."

"I thought so."

"Erm..I've been wearing this dress for…let's just say….a long time. Do you have anything I could change into?"

"Sarima is a little bit too big for you..but if you like billowing..."

"Anything's fine, Fiyero."

"Okay." He walked out of the room.

I walked toward the vanity table. I wanted to see what I looked like, just for grins and giggles. Who was that person looking at me in the mirror? I hadn't seen my own reflection in a while. And I still didn't care for it. I grabbed a brush and brushed my hair until it shown again. I found some oils in a desk drawer, and I used them to clean myself up. In a few minutes, I looked halfway decent. For a green person.

Fiyero walked back in holding a black sleeping gown. He paused when he saw me. "You look beautiful, Fae."

"Get over yourself. Give me that." I took the nightgown from him and put it on facing away from him.

I slid under the covers in the bed, savoring the soft mattress underneath me. I groaned and buried my head in a pillow, waiting for Fiyero.

He slid in after me, and I was comforted by the warmth of his body next to mine. Even after a week of traveling, I suddenly wasn't so tired.

I looked up at him and saw that he had been staring at me. "What?"

"Nothing."

"Don't tell me nothing. I've seen that look before. I know what you want."

He smiled sheepishly. Tentatively, his mouth found mine, and his fingers were roaming along my body. "You can't tell me you don't want it too." He said, breaking the kiss.

"I didn't say I didn't. You just hinted it."

"You are a card."

"I'm an Ace."

He slid Sarima's nightgown off of me and threw it to the floor. Slowly, his fingers traced the outline of my body. I pressed closer to him. "You know, green is my favorite color."

"Don't set yourself up." I recklessly tore his shirt off of his body and threw it off the bed. I traced his chest, wanting to remember ever single diamond on his body.

"I'm not. I was complimenting you."

"That's taboo."

"I don't care." He kissed me again, this time more fiercely and passionately than ever. We tore off the rest of each other's restricting clothing. Fiyero pulled up and stared at me. I felt embarrassed, like a virgin.

"You are beautiful." He said softly, more passionately.

"Pretty is as pretty does, love."

"I know that." He kissed my lips and began to move down. I moaned as he teased me with his tongue below my waist. I felt a strange warmth in my belly and I gasped.

Fiyero moved up to my head again and began to nibble playfully on my neck. I swatted him away gently. "Knock it off."

"You know you like it."

"So what if I do?"

He didn't answer me. Instead he slid his hand down my spine, and below my waist. I moaned and pressed myself into him, wanting him, needing him. "I love you." He whispered in my ear, sending excited chills down my spine.

"I love you too." I entwined my fingers in his hair as he slipped cautiously inside me. "Don't hold back, Yero my hero." I murmured. "I want all or nothing."

He nodded and started softly thrusting. I threw my head back in a heated utopia. I was seeing stars; there was no one but Fiyero and I, and I slipped into blissful sensuality. "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.." I repeated over and over again, I couldn't help myself.

I heard Fiyero moan above me, it was over for him, and I wasn't far behind. I gasped as I reached my peak. Fireworks seemed to go off throughout my body, and I slowly drifted down. When I was back in Oz, I was hit with the reality of Fiyero laying on my chest, smiling vivaciously. "Hey." He said softly.

"Hey."

He slid next to me and kissed my forehead. I nuzzled my head against his chest; his warmth and smell helping me fall into a deep repose.

I woke up the next morning, sunlight streaming through the windows onto my back. Fiyero was awake. He was propped up on his elbow watching me sleep.

"Look who decided to join me in awakeness."

"Shut up. Awakeness isn't a word, Fiyero."

"I love you too."

I smiled. I sat up, and groaned. I was majorly sore. "I can tell."

"I have my ways."

I stuck out my tongue, and he caught it in his mouth, kissing me deeply. "Well, that was interesting."

"Come on. I smell food, and I'm hungry."

We quickly got dressed, and Fiyero walked with me downstairs.

Sahlah was at the stove, fixing some foreign looking food. It sure smelled good, though. Glinda and Emir were already seated. Tasi was next to Sahlah, he couldn't keep his hands off her, it seemed. I knew what they'd been doing.

I sat down between Glinda and Fiyero. "Hey, Tasi, come sit down. I don't think you should be swapping saliva while she's cooking our food."

Tasi sat down. He looked very happy.

"What's got you so happy today, Tasi?"

"I'm happy? Look at you, you're radiant." The symbolism struck him, and he raised his eyebrows. I just smiled.

"No pun intended, I assume."

"None at all."

I felt Fiyero take my hand under the table, and I gently squeezed it.

Sahlah then placed a plate of the foreign stuff in front of both Fiyero and I. "What is this stuff, Sahlah?"

"It's Panook."

"That explains so much."

"It's an Evian food, my mother used to make it for us all the time. I thought I'd make it since I had all the ingredients. It's good, try it."

It was good. Either that or I was just really hungry. Probably the latter. "So, what's on the agenda today?" I asked.

"I don't know. I guess we should try to take Tale to someone, there might be someone here who can help her." Replied Fiyero.

I nodded. "I'm going to check on her." I got up from the table and headed up to Nor/Tale's room.

When I peered into her crib, she opened her sapphire eyes and smiled at me. "Hey darling. Are you feeling better?" She cooed and I lifted her out of the crib. She seemed a little stronger to me, but not one hundred percent. "Let's go say 'hello' to everyone. How does that sound?"

I took my daughter downstairs. Glinda was gone; probably primping. As was Emir. Sahlah was washing dishes, and Tasi was kissing her neck. Every once in a while, she'd let out a high-pitch squeal, or a, "Tasi!"

I raised my eyebrows to Fiyero, and he smiled. He took a sip of his coffee, then motioned for me to give him Tale. "She doing better?" He asked.

"Much. She's not as weak."

I smiled as Fiyero played with his daughter. Giggling and cooing and amusing her. I suddenly felt jealous of my daughter. She had a mother and a father who loved her. I tried to imagine what my parents must've treated me like as a baby. "She knows you're her father, I think." I said, smiling at Fiyero.

He looked up at me, "You think?"

"I know. I don't think we need to take her to anyone, Yero. I think she'll be fine."

He nodded, "Probably. I just wanted to be sure."

He really cared about her, I could see that. This was what a family was supposed to be like.

"What do you mean they're not here?"

"I told you, they're not here. A whole gang of them left last night, the Witch included. They went to Kiamo Ko."

"Where is that?"

"In the Vinkus."

"Where is the Vinkus?" The dark-haired girl asked a Scarecrow.

"Don't worry, Dorothy, I know where the Vinkus is,and Kiamo Ko. We'll head there now."

"Okay."

I watched as the four -well five, if you count the dog- of them walked down the path. Maybe I had done a bad thing by spying on Fiyero and that Elpha- WITCH woman; but I didn't care. Fiyero had cheated on me, and for that, he, his lover, and his love-child deserved to pay.

"How could we of missed them?" I asked the Scarecrow.

"I told you we shouldn't of stopped last night. If we hadn't, we wouldn't of missed them!"

"Oh, come down off your cloud. These shoes aren't the most comfortable things in Oz." I said, pointing down to the red, sparkling shoes given to me by the Munchkins, for killing the Wicked Witch of the East.

"Take them off."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"I don't know. They just won't come off."

"Oh sweet Oz!"

"Now, where is the Vinkus?"

"It's on the other side of the Emerald City. Kiamo Ko is right near the border, too."

"I wonder why the Witch fled there."

"Because she knew we were coming." Said the Tin man.

"But how?"

That, I thought, was a question worth asking.

I lay curled upin Fiyero's arms. I was tired, exhausted even, yet I couldn't sleep. Insomnia.I had woken Fiyero up once while I was turning over, and he tried to help me; we had made love three times that night. Fiyero was out like a light, and I didn't want to wake him. Gingerly, I slid out of his arms and searched the room for where Fiyero and thrown mine nightgown.

I finally found it in a corner. I pulled it over my head, and took one last look at my sleeping lover before I slipped out the door soundlessly.

First, I checked on Tale, who was sleeping in Nor's crib. I watched her for a while, the moonlight casting an eerie green glow on her pale skin. I had to admit, my baby intrigued me.

Then I checked on Glinda. She was sprawled out on her bed, one leg under the sheets, the other above it. Her face once turned into the pillow just slightly, giving her a hair lip. I chuckled softly at this. How indecorous.

In the next room, lay Emir. He lay on his back, his eyes closed tightly. He never even moved. Maybe he and Glinda should get together. I'd like to see that.

Across from Emir, was Tasi and Sahlah. When I opened the door, though, they weren't asleep, they were far from it, in fact. Tasi had Sahlah in his arms and...I immediately closed the door, blushing. I doubted even if I had stayed there, they would of noticed me.

I shook the image of Tasi and Sahlah out of my head, and headed back towards my own room. Fiyero was still asleep, though he looked discontented. I slid back into bed and he opened his eyes. "Sorry." I said, smiling sheepishly.

"It's alright." He pushed a lock of my dark hair behind my ear and kissed me gently.

"Fiyero?" I said softly, after he broke our kiss.

"Hmmm?"

"How long do you think we'll be safe here? Not forever, it's too perfect."

"If it was perfect, it would be called Utopia, not Kiamo Ko. I don't know, love. A while, I guess, but we'll leave soon, we don't want to push our luck."

"What luck?" I said dryly.

He smiled softly. "Your parents should of named you Lucky."

"Sweet Oz, I would of killed myself. Elphaba's bad enough."

"Pretty is as pretty does, love." He smiled.

"Ha. You're a full-blown comedian. How ludicrous."

"You know you love it."

"No. I love you." I kissed him, and we disappeared into one another's bodies, melting into one.

When it was over, Fiyero fell asleep almost immediately, his face buried in my shoulder. I still couldn't sleep. It was like my thoughts were taking over every one of my bodily functions.

I stayed up all night that night. It was like that night when I had counted stars, except I had Fiyero with me, all to myself. I gently ran my fingers through his dark hair, relishing the softness between my fingertips. I felt a rush of something so powerful that it scared me. Not in a bad way, if it makes any sense. But it was then that I understood, I loved Fiyero too much (if that is possible) and I wouldn't be able to live without him. I hoped I never would have to.

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Li