Our Future is Unlimited...

Chapter 6

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT at the last half of this chapter!

ELPHABA:

Next morning I awoke to a clattering sound from below our room. Fiyero wasn't in bed, so he must have been doing something downstairs.

I slip on my dressing gown and descend the small set of stairs. There I see that my husband is in fact mid task; preparing breakfast no less! But instead of putting everything on the table, he has a large basket.

"I thought we'd have a picnic this morning instead," he says to me. How thoughtful and romantic of him! The perfect thing to start our day together.

I decide we go to one of my favorite spots in the forest, so we finish preparing, dress and head on our way.

I lead Fiyero to the bright clearing, plenty of soft green grass to spread out our picnic.

We eat biscuits and preserves, eggs and potatoes. I never knew he could actually cook; he must have learned himself when I was being taught without me even knowing.

We sit for a while and enjoy the sun, but then I hear something. Almost like water running.

All the times I have come to this spot I never once heard it before.

"Can you hear that too, Fae?" Fiyero asks glancing over at me. "Yes," I reply. "I don't know where it came from, I've never heard it before." Fiyero gets up and offers his hand to me.

We follow the noise around trees, through brush.

When we finally come upon the source, I am amazed at what we have found. It is a small grotto: a pool of fresh water is beneath a large mass of rock in the side of a mountain, where a tiny waterfall flows down between cracks. "So beautiful," I sigh.

Fiyero puts his arm around me and kisses my forehead, then my cheek, then my neck. "Yero, please!" I giggle.

He continues, making my laughs grow louder. He is so good at teasing me that way.

"Let's not waste this opportunity like this," he tells me. He starts taking his shirt off. "Wait, you don't mean..." I start to say.

"Come and swim with me!" he exclaims, casting the rest of his clothes aside and jumping into the water.

Oh, the things he gets in his head , I think to myself, chuckling. How could I say no? I pull off my dress and underthings and slip into the pool.

We splash and laugh together. He takes me in his arms and we float in the deeper part of the cove, embracing. My Fiyero could not think of anything more crazy...crazy, but romantic.

That's just how he is.

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FIYERO:

We spend the morning in our new secret hideaway, swimming together. When our fingers begin to prune, we lay in each other's arms out on a large rock to dry off. Once we are ready, we dress again and start the walk back home.

As we go around the large oak tree, suddenly the ground starts to shake. Nuts and leaves start falling from the boughs, and my ears start ringing.

"It's an earthquake!" Elphaba exclaims.

She braces herself on the ground, and I throw myself over her, covering her head and neck. She reaches up and covers my own head and neck with her hands.

The vibrations get more violent, and I hear a hard loud crack in the distance. A branch must have broken off a tree. Squawking and loud calls of animals in distress pass by, but I don't dare look up. My Fae must stay safe with me.