AN: Okay, so for this chapter, since there are bits where they're both singing together, I distinguished those duet parts by underlined italics, just so you know. And it seems shorter than the others! Maybe because I actually have both of these songs totally memorized and therefore didn't have to keep clicking back and forth between the word document and the transcript like I have been for the others? I don't know.

I OWN NOTHING AND DENY EVERYTHING!

Diggs had an investor, and the Beauhemians had a show. While the celebration party raged upstairs, I tried to write. But all I could think about was her. Was she thinking about me?

Elphaba stood at the window of the Elephant and gazed across the way at Fiyero's garret as his voice echoed in her head.

"Duke? I'm not a duke...I'm a writer...He wasn't trying to trick her or anything...It's about love...It's about love overcoming all obstacles..."

They could barely see each other from their respective windows.

Elphaba stepped closer, and Fiyero moved back to his typewriter. She sighed.

I...follow...the night...
Can't stand...the light...
When will I begin...to live...again?

One day I'll fly away,
Leave all this to yesterday.
What more could your love do for me?
When will love be...through with me?
Why live life from dream to dream
And dread the day when dreaming...ends...?

She began making her way up the stairs. When she was able to see his garret again, he was gone.

One day I'll fly away,
Leave all this to yesterday.
Why live life from dream to dream...
And dread the day...when dreaming...ends...?

One day I'll fly away.
Fly...fly...away...

"Sorry!"

She cried out in surprise and turned, only to see that it was Fiyero. "Sorry," he said, "I didn't mean...I-I saw your light on, and I...I climbed the..." She frowned and shook her head. "What?" she asked. He blinked. "I...I couldn't sleep, and I wanted to thank you for the...for helping me...to get a job, that is," he said. She nodded. "Oh! Oh, right, yes, of course! Yes, Boq...Boq was right...You're very talented. It's going to be a wonderful show. Anyway, I, uh...had better go, because we both have a big day tomorrow." She turned to leave.

"Wait! No, please, wait!" Fiyero cried. She turned to him expectantly. "Before, when we were...when I...when you thought I was the Margreave...you said that you loved me...An-And I wondered if—"
"If it was just an act, you mean?" she asked. He nodded. "Of course," she said. He looked away. "Oh...it just...felt real..."
"Fiyero...I'm a courtesan, I'm paid to make men believe what they want to," she said. He nodded, embarrassed.
"Yes," he said. He smiled at her sadly. "Silly of me to think that...you fall in love...with...someone like me..."
She cast her gaze downwards and sighed.

"I can't fall in love with anyone."

"Can't fall in love?! But a life without love, that...that's terrible!"
"No, living on the streets, that's terrible."

"No! Love is like oxygen!"
"What?"

"Love is a many-splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love!"
"Oh, please don't start that again."

"All you need is love!"

"A girl has got to eat!"

"All you need is love!"

"She'll end up on the street!"

"All you need is love!"
"Love is just a game."

"I was made for lovin' you, baby,
You were made for lovin' me!"

"The only way of lovin' me, baby,
Is to pay a lovely fee."

"One night, gimme just one night!"

"There's no way, 'cause you can't pay!"

"In the name of love!
One night in the name of love!"

"You crazy fool!
I won't give in to you."

"Don't."
He grabbed her arm.

"...Leave me this way.
I can't survive without your sweet love.
Oh, baby...don't leave me this way..."

"You'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs."
"I look around me, and I see it isn't so. No."
"Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs..."
"And what's wrong with that, I'd like to know? 'Cause here I go...again!

"Love lifts us up where we belong!
Where eagles fly on a mountain high!"

"Love makes us act like we are fools!
Throw our lives away for one happy day!"

"We could be heroes...!
Just for one day..."

"You...You will be mean."

"No, I won't!"

"And I...Well, I'll drink all the time!"

"We should be lovers!"
"We can't do that..."
"We should be lovers,
And that's a fact."

"Though nothing...will keep us together..."
"We could steal time just for one day..."

"We could be heroes forever and ever!
We could be heroes forever and ever!
We could be heroes..."

"Just because I will always love you!"
"I can't help loving..."
"You..."

"How wonderful life is..."
"Now you're in...the world..."

"You're gonna be bad for business, I can tell."

But she kissed him just the same.

AN: Ewan's voice on the "We should be lovers" bit always just...It chills me more than his voice usually does, which is saying something, lemme tell ya! I really don't know why, and I can't really explain the feeling it gives me, but that bit, especially right before he says, "and that's a fact," it just...

Geez, I'm shuddering just thinking about it! In a good way, but still!