This One Moment (Dutch & English version)

This One Moment

A/N:

And here's the English version! Have fun with it.

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This One Moment

"Fiyero, I..."

"What?"

"Surely we can't just-"

But Elphaba got interrupted by two satiny soft lips. Her heart began to beat wildly. Surely this didn't really happen? A prince only kissed one in fairytales. And not to mention, only girls with royal blood. No, not she, she wasn't that girl. She shivered.

"Are you cold?"

Elphaba shook her head and willingly let Fiyero hold her. Maybe just too tight, but what did it matter? They had betrayed Glinda together, at least, that's how it felt. Both of them. Could she even now continue? What did she have to lose? A soul she didn't have.

"Etch this moment in my soul," she whispered, scolding herself, she didn't have a soul, while she drew a hand through his hair. "Kiss me too fiercely, hold me too tight..."

He did as she had asked him to.

She'd never dared to dream this. To get kissed by a person who was perfect himself. By someone who truly loved her so much that he had left his perfect life for her. It was as if heaven fell down, every kiss again the ground seemed to shake.

Now we are together. Together. This one moment.

He was so close, the man of her dreams. She breathed his breath and despite the chilly, humid forest she felt how warm he was. He was sweating from his attempt to fulfill her simple request. She knew that when this would go by, it would flame in her forever. This one moment.

"What are you thinking of?"

"Nothing, you, uh, nothing."

He looked at her with different eyes, a different view, Fiyero knew that for sure. How could he see her so clearly only just now? In all her beauty, how could he have been so blind?

He kissed her again.

And in her arms he had no text. Speechless he looked into her eyes. He thought back about a few hours ago, when he had finally found her after so many years. Just like now, he was dumbstruck back then. As if she had enchanted him, bewitched. But he knew, every time again when their lips found each other, that this was true love.

Now, now they were together, this one moment. And when they sank onto the ground together, Elphaba swore that if this was her body, she'd never known it. She knew that she loved Fiyero, but the ways in which he wanted her, were unknown to her and she wondered if he had ever loved Glinda the way he now clearly loved her.

"And if there's no future," Fiyero breathed against her lips, "Then there is today."

"Today," Elphaba whispered, "That's all I'm asking for."

Now they were together, this one moment. And they needed no vows, no promises, for their actions, they didn't even ask for a happy ending. Because they knew, however their lives would go after this moment, that they'd belong to each other forever. If you could see how the moonlight spread them a bed, how the nature seemed to agree with the bond they formed, even the most stubborn people would come to believe in fate.

When all was said and done and Fiyero held Elphaba close in his arms, she knew deep in her heart that it couldn't be like that forever. No matter how much she'd want it. And so she forced herself to retain the memories of him, his face, his strong arms around her, his scent.

"This one moment," she sighed.

"I love you, Elphaba."

"I love you too, Yero." Only the last syllable of his name came from her mouth, because she was still slightly out of breath.

Fiyero smiled as he kissed her. "That sounds nice."

"Yero, I..." Elphaba barely dared to look at him, for she was still afraid of rejection.

"What, what is it?" Fiyero asked genuinely concerned.

"I'm feeling for the first time," she tried. And as she finally looked him in the eyes, she found the word, "Genuinely, Wicked."

Fiyero chuckled softly before he kissed her once again to relive that moment one more time, in which he knew that her heart would be forever his and in which he could let her feel just how much he would forever love her.

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