(A/N: wow, thanks for all the reviews guys! Anyhu, this is kind of short I guess, but it's an update never the less. Sorry for any spelling typos or whatever etc. So enjoy! and review!)
"Fiyero?" she asked in wonder.
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It was 11:59.
She dropped her mask and it fell to the floor as they stopped dancing, they were frozen, unable to move. They stared at each other in shock. Fiyero couldn't believe she'd figured him out, did she know him that well? It made him love her all the more because she could tell who he was by the way he held her, by his eyes, by the way he said her name. Fiyero saw David a few yards away from him, mouthing 'no' a million times over and over again. No. Fiyero stared at her. Her eyes were so full of hope and realization, love. He wanted to say yes but—he couldn't, could he? His heart would break when he saw the look in her eyes when he told her: no, it's just me, Daniel.
She was so sure it was him. This was Fiyero. It had been him all along, it had—no, she couldn't jump to conclusions, how could this be Fiyero? She shouldn't get her hopes up, but he was just like him. Her eyes moved to their hands, still entwined, yes, those were Fiyero's hands. She looked at his mouth, the slight playful curve at the right corner; that was Fiyero's mouth. She looked into his eyes again and saw the blue that was just completely Fiyero. He was shocked, that much she could tell, but she also saw a debate in him and love and a strong desire to tell her something.
"Fiyero?" she asked again, whispering his name softly as she stepped closer to him, "Is it really you?" One look at those brown beautiful eyes and Fiyero's answer was made, he couldn't hold back any longer. It was like all of the ties that had kept him away from her just snapped at the sound of his name from her lips, his actual name, not Daniel's. At the sound of his name all of his love for her just came out him like a crushing wave. At the sound of his name all other thought left his mind. At the sound of his name all he could see was her. At the sound of his name, he pulled her close until their noses were touching.
"You tell me, Elphaba." he breathed and he kissed her passionately, pouring all of his love into it, for every month he had not been able to hold her and kiss her, for every tear she had shed because of him. He couldn't remember ever feeling so good. It was like everything that made up happiness in the world had been bestowed upon him, and it started with the sound of his name from her lips.
Elphaba felt his lips on hers and immediately, she knew. It was Fiyero. He still loved her, she'd been with him all this time and she never knew it .She didn't have time to question why he'd pretended to be a servant named Daniel, all she could think about was the sound of her name from his lips, and the searing kiss that made her feel like all the happiness in the world had been bestowed upon her, starting with the sound of her name, from his lips. They finally broke apart, needing air. She gazed up into his eyes with love and reached up and slowly took his mask off. Fiyero didn't try to stop her, closing his eyes as he felt her butterfly touch gently remove the mask that was so much more than just a masquerade mask for the mask fell to the floor and joined her, own which she'd dropped. Now she could see his face, she hadn't seen it in so long, she'd forgotten how beautiful it was. She laid a hand on the side of his face.
"All this time?" she whispered, "It was you?"
"Ev-every last second." Fiyero managed to say, his voice was thick and cracked as tears pooled in his eyes, "Elphaba, I love you, you know that don't you? I didn't have a choice, I love you and I always will."
"I love you too Yero," she said, tears building in her own eyes, "So much, s-so please don't ever do this to me again." Now with their masks shed, they kissed again, because once wasn't enough after so long.
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"Sir, we have to get you out of here." James heard a voice behind him. He turned around to see a man clothed entirely in black, a hood over his face.
"Who are you?" asked James.
"I'm part of the Organization set to protect you." said the man, "In just a minute, Frex's men are going to attempt to capture you and your daughter and force you into giving Oz to Frex."
"What?!" James asked, flustered.
"We don't have much time, c'mon!" the man grabbed James' arm and began pulling him through the crowd until they got to the bar. He pulled him behind the counter and opened one of the cabinets beneath the counter. He quickly moved a bunch of glasses out of the way and then slid the bottom of the cabinet out carefully to reveal a long dark tunnel.
"Elphaba, you'll make sure Elphaba is safe, won't you?" asked James.
"We'll try our hardest sir." said the man, pushing James into the tunnel.
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Slowly, the hand on the grand clock edged its way to the 12 to meet the hour hand. Victor watched it, waiting for the chimes of the clock to unknowingly announce war. Then, there it was. The chimes echoed loudly throughout the ballroom. Victor pulled his gun out of his jacket and a shot rang throughout the ballroom. Guests screamed and ducked down as several other men that had all been bordering the ballroom began to close in on the guest, holding their guns in the air to show that they had them and would use them.
"Everybody down!" Victor shouted. He looked throughout the crowd and didn't see the Wizard, the Organization must have gotten to him first. He then searched for the princess, she was still there.
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Fiyero had been leading Elphaba outside so that they could have some time to themselves when he heard the gun shot. He felt her hand leave his and he spun around to see her being pulled away from him by two men dressed in black and wearing red masks. She struggled, but it was no use. Fiyero jumped forward but felt himself being dragged back by two other men.
"Let me go!" Elphaba said, trying to pull her arm away. Many of the guests stood up, about to go to her aid.
"Stay down!" Victor yelled, "Anyone who doesn't cooperate will be severely punished, nobody go near the princess." A few listened to him and didn't make another rmove, others kept going and Victor figured out what they actually did care about, if not themselves, "For every time you don't cooperate, your princess will suffer for it." said Victor angrily, getting frustrated, he nodded to Jacob and he struck Elphaba hard across her face. She probably would have fallen if not for the two men holding her up. This put the crowd into an uproar, but nobody moved closer to her.
"The east tower." Victor said to Jacob and he and the other man that was holding Elphaba dragged her up the grand staircase and out of the ballroom. Fiyero struggled with the men restraining him.
"Lock all of the exits!" Victor yelled. There was a synchronized clicking sound as all of the exits were locked. The men restraining Fiyero roughly pushed him back to the ground and kicked him in the gut before walking away. Just when he'd gotten her back, just when he thought everything would work out, how could something like this happen? Suddenly, Fiyero heard another gunshot and more screams. A man had been shot for trying to escape. Blood soaked his white shirt sickeningly, falling rapidly to the floor with the grace of rain and the terror of murder. The brown of his eyes seemed to fade instantly into a dead gray as he fell face forward onto the marble floor with a skull cracking thud. Blood pooled around him and spread across the marble, like fingers reaching for the guests to drag them down too. Women shrieked and jumped away from the blood and the men flinched. The ballroom was completely silent then as Victor and his men walked around the ballroom, obviously awaiting some kind of order.
Fiyero felt a sharp nudge in his side. He looked to his side and saw David.
"C'mon." he said, "We just need to get behind the counter." he hissed.
"I have to go to Elphaba!" Fiyero hissed back.
"Are you crazy? Do you want to get yourself killed? You'll do her a lot better if you manage to stay alive." David said.
"I can't just leave her!" Fiyero said angrily.
"You can't die on her either! Imagine what that would do to her!" David hissed, "If you don't hurry, we're going to miss the cue and our chance of getting out of here. In about two seconds, the lights are going to be killed and we'll have our escape, but Frex's men already anticipated this and changed the wiring, the lights won't stay off more than a minute or two." just as David finished his sentence, the room went black and screams of shock were heard throughout eh crowd. Fiyero felt himself being pulled through the darkness till he found himself behind the bar. He noticed the glasses and then a long dark tunnel where the floor of the cabinet should have been. David pushed him through and then followed suit, closing the cabinet door behind him.