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Chapter Twenty-Four
After that night, Elphaba started to spend her nights in her own dorm room. She began to keep her distance from Fiyero, skipping tutoring sessions, making lame excuses to him to cancel dates. She felt that avoiding Fiyero would slow her nightmares, however, despite her best efforts, she continued to have nightmares of increasing intensities.
Glinda was aware of Elphaba's methods and felt sorry for both Fiyero and Elphaba, and she tried her best to comfort her roommate, but not much would cheer her up. "They could mean nothing, Elphie. I hate seeing you like this. You clearly don't like it either, so you should just make up."
"It's more complicated than that." She said, putting her hand on her head. She made a face at Elphaba, "You had a bad dream about hurting him. How is that complicated?"
Elphaba smiled a dark smile, "Glinda, don't you see? How is it that you're so blind? Nothing ever works out for me. Nothing. Better to cut things off now before I hurt him."
Glinda furrowed her brow and replied, "You're already are hurting him, I hope you know that Elphie." She said, crossing her arms to her friend. Elphaba gave Glinda a mean look and replied,
"I'm going out." and with that, Elphaba left her roommate shaking her head at her blind ignorance. Like last time, she fled to the only place that made sense to her- the Suicide Canal. She walked along the shore of the canal, feeling the wave of air the current sent above the water. She shook her head and said to herself, "Silly Elphaba. You'll never have it."
Fiyero knocked on Elphaba's door, and a familiar blonde answered. Upon seeing Fiyero, she said, "She's not here."
Fiyero furrowed his brow, "Where is she?"
Glinda sighed, "No idea." She looked at the man in front of her, "Fiyero, she's got this crazy idea that she's going to hurt you."
He winced, "How was she?"
She frowned, "She's lost. Go. Go and bring her back." Glinda didn't need to say another word. Fiyero nodded and left for the Suicide Canal, hoping to find a green girl there. It started to drizzle as he approached the shore, scanning the surroundings for Elphaba. He found her a few dozen yards from him and went towards her.
"Fae?" he said, coming up to her, "Are you alright?"
She continued to face the water, "What do you want, Yero?" and she crossed her arms.
He looked at her with concerned eyes, "You don't have to be afraid of anything, Elphaba. You're not going to hurt me, Oz, you can't hurt me!"
She shook her head and turned to him, "Fiyero, I have screwed up every good thing that's been in my life! Don't you understand that? There is no way that this will end well for you or me!" she exclaimed.
Fiyero was silent for several moments. Elphaba searched his eyes for a response, but none came until he spoke, "There is nothing that you could say or do to hurt me, Fae." He said, calmly. Elphaba's eyes filled with water, much like the rain around her and she shook her head. He cupped her cheeks and said, "Because I am so hopelessly in love with you. Your smile, your laugh, your beautiful personality, and the way you blush or when you smile against a kiss-Oz, Fae. I can't tell you how much I love you, but you prove it to me everyday, and I fall that much more in love with you."
Elphaba dropped her head, and Fiyero slowly bent down to one knee, pulling out a velvet box from his pocket. When she looked at him again, shock filled her face and she covered her open mouth with her hand. Fiyero took her free hand and said, "Elphaba, there is nothing you could ever do to hurt me, because I love you so much it hurts. You are everything to me, and I want to spend the rest of our lives together." He opened the box to reveal the custom ring, "Elphaba, will you marry me?" his heart pounded as he waited for a reply.
Elphaba's eyes filled with tears, but a good kind of tears. She smiled underneath her hand and began to nod her head, several times. Fiyero beamed, "Yes?" and he stood up.
She took her hand down and smiled at him cupping his cheeks with her hands, small tears and raindrops flowing down her face and Fiyero's, "Yeah," she said, and she kissed Fiyero passionately. Fiyero wrapped his hands around her waist and deepened the kiss, lifting her in the air and spinning her around. He put her down and she smiled against their kiss and he smiled back, "There it is." He kissed her again, sweetly. They broke apart and he reached in his pocket for the ring, and slipped it on her ring finger of her left hand. Elphaba extended her arm out to look at the ring and smiled at her fiancé. She embraced him, and said, "Thank you, Yero." Wrapping her arms around her neck. He broke the embrace and said,
"No, Fae. Thank you." He leaned his forehead against hers and smiled. He looked up at the rain, and noticed the two of them were soaking wet. He offered his hand, and led her back to his dorm. When they arrived, he found some towels and handed one to his fiancé. He went into his bedroom and found some clothes for Elphaba and presented them to her, "Here, you can wear these until yours dry."
Fiyero went into the other room and waited for her to change. When he came back in, he caught her yawning and said, "Bed?"
She nodded, "Yeah, I'm exhausted." Her and Fiyero got into bed, Elphaba on his chest and Fiyero holding Elphaba in a loose embrace. Her left hand rested on his defined stomach.
"Fae, you weren't thinking about…you know…before I came to the canal, were you?"
"What, suicide?" the words made him flinch, but she didn't see, "I-I don't really know." She put a hand to her head, "Oz, did you propose because you thought I was going to kill myself?" she said, tensing up.
"No." he said honestly and she relaxed, "I've been waiting a long time to do that. I've been carrying that ring for months, now." He ran a hand through her damp, raven hair and continued, "I've wanted to propose to you ever since you agreed to go out with me, if we're being really honest."
Elphaba smiled against his chest and said, "You're an idiot."
He smiled, "I love you too, Fae." He kissed the top of her head, and the two eventually fell asleep together. That night, Elphaba didn't have any nightmares.