Her lips responded eagerly, surprising Fiyero who had kissed her gently, her arms tightening around his waist. He clearly wasn't complaining about it as he took it to himself to try and turn around to put his arms around her something that he definitely did not think through as they were on a horse. It was that very reason why they both ended up slipping off the horse and falling to the ground.

She was the first to break away when they fell. Her body sprawled all over Fiyero who had grabbed ahold of her as they fell. His face scrunched up in pain as she scrambled off of him, watching as their horse sped off in fright.

"Ouch." Fiyero finally said as he sat up rubbing at his wrist.

Elphaba was sort of frozen with what she had done. She could have broken away earlier and pushed him away but she was kissing him back and not as soft as he had kissed her.

"I had a dream similar to this a while back." Fiyero spoke up shaking his hands off as he jumped up to his feet. Elphaba rose at the same time taking small glances at Fiyero whose eyes never left her. "I was hurt like I am now." He chuckled as he cracked his knuckles. "And you kissed me. I think I dreamt it so I wouldn't feel so bad about getting beat up by some guy trying to get with the girl I was seeing. I remember how much I wanted that kiss to be real."

Elphaba's eyes widened. "You were unconscious…" She blubbered and Fiyero nodded.

"Yeah, the nurse said…Wait a second."

She should have kept her mouth shut because Fiyero was looking at her with an enormous grin.

"I -No. It wasn't a dream. I don't know why but I did…" Elphaba confessed and Fiyero looked at her with a open jaw.

"You did kiss me!" He grinned running his hand through his hair. "My mom was telling me to leave you alone because she thought I wanted to ravish you while you were all drugged up, but in reality you had wanted to ravish me when I was barely conscious." He laughed and she groaned at how giddy Fiyero looked, his smug little smile at the thought of what she had done. The edges of her lips rose only a teeny bit unable to help herself as she shook her head.

"I did not want to ravish you." She explained, growing red at the thought.

"Sure you didn't. Just like I don't want to ravish you right now." He said, wiggling his eyebrows.

Her face turned even more red. "Can we talk about ravishing some other time because right now we have somewhere to be."

His eyebrows rose high, "So you did want to ravish me?" Fiyero grinned widely.

She sighed, "Can we do this another time? We are in the middle of a road with no horse."

Fiyero's grin never fell. "We can go back to the castle and get another one." He offered, pretending not to be thinking about what they talked about.

"So we can get caught and forced to stay?"

"Well, unless you know a spell to get us over there in an instant we have to go back... Why are you looking at me like that? " He smiled his hands reaching for her face. Elphaba swatted his hands away as she swung her bag around and pulled the large book out.

Fiyero looked disappointed at her rejection but then his eyes widened with recognition. "That's my mothers." His brow furrowed as he came closer to inspect the book.

"I know," Elphaba admitted. "I borrowed it." She replied without turning to him, she was busy trying to find any spell that might resemble something for traveling.

"You can read it?!" Fiyero sounded incredulous.

"Yes, some of the words are a little difficult to understood from all the bouncing around but if I really focus on it I can make out what they say."

"You can read it?" He repeated in awe.

She gave him a look from the side of her eye. "I'm trying to if you would let me focus."

"You can read it?" His tone went a pitch higher and Elphaba turned to see his awestruck expression.

"Why do you say it like that?" She frowned.

"Because it's been in our family for over twenty years and no one has been able to!" He answered in shock.

Elphaba blinked, not liking the stunned look. "What do you mean? The letters are jumping around but if you stare long enough, a word forms."

"No words that I can make out let alone read." Fiyero commented looking over her shoulder and squinting his eyes at the pages. She felt his breath against her cheek and she struggled to keep her eyes on the pages. There was something about Fiyero that made Elphaba's mind forget what she was doing. She felt like she was sixteen again and fighting back her feelings for Sanevan who had at that point been her best friend. Except this was different. She knew Sanevan her whole life and Fiyero was just beginning to come in. Changing her every thought with one glance at her direction, making her believe that falling in love was not just a one time thing. For whatever reason she was here and beside him. At some point Elphaba's head had turned a little to the left something that startled her when his face was a mere inch away. One of the two leaned in and she found herself kissing him once again, their current situation absolutely forgotten as his hands found themselves on her face and her arms wrapped around his neck, dropping the book on the floor in favor of her hands in his hair. It wasn't until his hand slid down to her neck that Elphaba decided to pull away.

"Really," She began breathlessly. "Fiyero we need to focus and get to the Emerald City. This is crazy and we need to get out of here and get to Morrible and the Wizard to stop this."

"Yeah, ok... " He said with a dreamy look in his eyes. "But I'm not letting what happened just now mean nothing because it meant a lot to me whether you realize it or not, or even if you believe me."

Elphaba didn't know what to make of that. "Later please. It's really the wrong time to be doing this. " She said nervously and Fiyero nodded, his thumb trailing down her cheek.

"I guess. "

She smiled and he returned it as she bent down to pick up the book. The book has fallen open when she had dropped it and her eyes came to one word on the top of the page. She couldn't match the letters to any Ozian letters but her brain automatically knew what it meant; fly. She picked the book back up and began to read what she could, the words flowing out of her mouth like a gentle dance, the magnetic feeling drawing out of her body as the words left her mouth.

Fiyero watched on curiously as she finished the words. His mouth was popped slightly open and his eyes never tore away from her even as she looked all around her for anything that might have proved the spell book worked.

"Whatever the hell you just said…was hot." Fiyero said in a low voice and Elphaba rolled her eyes slowly. Fiyero bit the bottom of his lip as he stared at her which turned into an odd and confused expression as his brow knitted together, looking over her shoulder. Elphaba whirled around and her eyes widened as Fiyero grabbed onto her and pulled her out of the way. She felt the impact immediately, both of them more confused than in pain. Elphaba stood first, eyeing the object floating freely in front of her. Beside her Fiyero rubbed his eyes, his mouth hanging open quite unattractively.

Elphaba brushed her hair away from her face as she gently came towards the broom. Her hand reaching over it.

"What are you doing! Don't touch it Elphaba." Fiyero warned pulling her hand back. Elphaba shook his hand away slapping it off of her when he tried again.

"I think I pronounced a word wrong." She muttered under her breath and Fiyero scrunched his face.

"What exactly did you read?" He asked, scratching his neck.

"It was a flying spell. I think." She told him, inspecting the floating broom.

"You think?"

Elphaba ignored his remark. More preoccupied with the broom. She eyed it for a few seconds more before picking the book off the ground again and stuffing it into her bag, and then grabbing the broom.

There was nothing to lose to try it out. Fiyero tried to stop her again without touching her but she swung her leg over it and balanced herself. Fiyero was completely speechless when she looked at him. "Get on Fiyero."

"Are you kidding me?"

"Nope."

"I am not getting on that thing…" He said, pointing at the broom.

She cared for Fiyero, loved him even, but if he didn't want to come it was a lot more safer for him, so she shrugged. "I'll be leaving you behind then."

"That looks extremely unsafe for so many reasons that I don't have to say." He said, glancing down at his pants.

"Then I'm leaving you."

"No!" He threw a hand out to grab the broom. " I don't want to be far from you…I mean…well not now that we…well you know." He said grasping onto the broom in fear she would fly up and leave.

"I really don't know, but if you are coming get on before I leave you."

"Don't." He said again with more urgency, finally sighing. "I'll go, just give me a second."

Fiyero studied the broom for another minute, looking at her and at the broom before frowning and getting on behind her.

"Holy crap!" Fiyero cursed wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Ready?" She asked turning her head to look at him.

"Do you even know how to make it go?"

"Nope. That's what we're gonna found out." She said turning her head back and grinning to Fiyero. Fiyero paled and she pushed the broom forward.

"This is so unsafe. This is terrifying. Oh lurline I'm gonna die!" Fiyero rambled on behind her and Elphaba couldn't help but chuckle. It was terrifying but at the same time exhilarating as the broom flew through the sky. The feeling of the air going though her hair, Fiyero's hands tightly wrapped around her waist, his head resting on her back in terror. All made her feel alive.

Free.

"Hey, you aren't going to piss yourself back there are you?" She teased gently and Fiyero scoffed into her back. "No, but faint is another thing."

"It's not that bad."

"Are you serious? The only thing not bad about this is that my crown jewels aren't being crushed at the moment, which is strange."

She rolled her eyes, "Your jewels will be fine."

"They better."

"They will…Now please tell me. Why did Morrible say it was Avaric who killed Boq?"

Fiyero muttered something into her back that she didn't hear.

"Fiyero speak up." She nudged him with her shoulder and Fiyero repeated himself.

"I didn't say he killed him, I said I think he did."

Elphaba frowned, "What? What makes you say that?"

"He left before you did. Galinda said so."

"But why does that make you think he did it?"

"Because Galinda told me about him, of what he almost did to her and - "

"-And did she tell you why?" She interrupted briskly.

"She said they did it to him too, and I've seen what they are able to do to those that have been changed, they can make them do their bidding and the only reason I know is because I saw Morrible talk to a boy and the boy wasn't really there, you know. He had a look in his eye that wasn't normal."

"If that's the case why did Morrible allow him to leave? Or let me leave if she knew that I knew." She wondered keeping the broom evenly in the sky.

"You're joking, right?"

It dawned on her just then…they used her. That's how they found the Animals; they were keeping track of anyone that helped them. Morrible knew that she knew, probably since the beginning, and if not once she didn't return back to Shiz it must have been clear to her. They were leaving them alone until they decided to act and then it must have occurred to Morrible and the Wizard that they were serious and not just playing around.

An even better reason to get rid of her and the Wizard.

They would pay.

"Are you awake." Elphaba nudged her shoulder back into Fiyero's face a while later, a bit too harsh.

"Hmm." He responded sitting straighter.

"We're here."

"How do you suppose—" His voice wavered and he gasped once she started to descent to the cities edge.

"I have a way to get in, really yero I'm not that unprepared." She said in exhilaration as they dropped.

"Yero?" She could hear the smirk in the way he said it.

"Shut up and pay attention because the way in isn't very pleasant." Almost as if on purpose Elphaba aimed the broom down and lowered rapidly before she jerked the broom straight, making Fiyero gasp.

"You really are trying to kill me!" He said with a shaking voice.

"Not kill you, scare you." She chuckled.

"But why?" He said jumping off the broom when they were low enough.

"Because I can." She smiled cheekily landing on the ground more gracefully than Fiyero.

Fiyero huffed, dusting his pants of the dirt that was smeared on his pants. Elphaba grinned at him fixing her cloak to cover herself again. Fiyero smiled and shook his head.

"How do I hide who I am?"

"Stop dusting yourself off and you're just another worker."

"There is no way this," Fiyero gestured to his face and body. "Would ever be confused for a worker. No worker in the world looks this good or well dressed." Elphaba rolled her eyes as she walked off keeping herself guarded as she walked through the city with Fiyero in tow.

"Just follow me, it's near the east of the palace."

"The east?" Fiyero said in bewilderment. "The only thing that's over there is the sewers?"

"I know."

She felt Fiyero stop behind her. "You have to be kidding me right?"

She smiled at him again.