Chapter 75. Dreaming....
Rifiuto: Non Miniera
"Uh….I….I wanted to see you."
He nodded.
"Well, here I am." She nodded. Her grip tightened on the hat.
"Elphaba…..wh….why do you have….?"
Elphaba glanced down at the hat, nervous.
"I….it was…..mine."
"The one Glinda gave you at the Ozdust?"
"Y…yes…..n….no……yes……no….."
"Which is it, Elphaba?"
"It was mine." She said, tears glistening in her eyes. Silent, he moved to the bed, sitting next to her, and wrapping an arm around her waist.
"Elphaba, what is it? What's wrong Fae?" She creid out, sobs beginning to wrack her body, and she clutched the hat to her chest. Silent and confused, Fiyero pulled Elphaba into his arms, and held the shaking girl, rubbing her back.
"Her."
"What?" Fyero asked.
"Fae. This was hers."
"Whoa, whoa, slow down. Back up." Fiyero said, pulling away and taking Elphaba's face in his hands. "Now start again love. Who's Fae?"
"Fae was…..me."
"What?" Confusion shone in his eyes.
"Fae was me. I'm Fae."
"I don't--"
"You don't understand!" Elphaba screamed, pulling away and moving ot the edge of the bed, getting up and pacing.
"I went to the future. I met myself. I met you and Glinda and Boq and Nessa! Fae had an affair…I had an affair. With you! I never finished Shiz. Glinda and I went to the City and met the Wizard, and afterwards, I sent her back here, but I stayed, and I became a fugitive. I joined the Resistance. Yes, Fiyero, it exists! They work underground. I had to kill Morrible, but I failed. And then I came home, to find you dead, beaten to death, by the Gale Force. And they took you away. So I ran. I went straight to the Cloister of St. Glinda, and I became a maunt. And then nine months later, I had a baby. Your baby! And I stayed... for ten years, and then went to the Vinkus."
Crying, she held the hat against her chest.
"And when Nessa died, I went to see her, and I met Glinda, and we fought. And, in the end….in the end……this……little bitch named Dorothy came to kill me, and she threw a bucket of water at me, and I melted. That's my life! That's my future!"
Elphaba turned to him.
"I'll end up living that life if I don't do something to stop it. I can't loose everyone I love. Not again. Nessa, Glinda, Boq. You. I can't loose you Yero. I can't loose you." She cried.
Fiyero got up silently and went over to her, and engulfed her in his arms. He held her close, and she buried her face in his chest, sobbing. The hat fell from her hands, as she wrapped her arms around him. They stood silent, Fiyero comforting her anyway he could.
"You won't loose me Fae. You won't. I promise."
"No!"
"Fae! Fae honey, wake up!"
Elphaba turned to her husband, and promplty broke down.