Summary: Basically another Next Generation thing. read to find out more
DISclaimer: I DO NOT OWN IT! Seriously, if I did, I would watch the play EVERY weekend, but sadly, it looks like I will be stuck with clips from youtube and my soundtrack until they make a movie or sell broadway tickets cheap!
A.N: For the purposes of this story, Morrible is a little slower acting in her removal of Nessarose…like nearly a year…or about 8-9 months. Oh and also a few more things,
1) Elphaba isn't allergic to water in this,
2) she has grey-blue eyes like Kerry Ellis (though I don't necessarily mean that she looks exactly like that actress).
3)Since this is in the musicalverse, Fieyero is more like an aristocratic prince than an aboriginal one, which is the impression I get from pieces such as 'Dancing through Life'.
4) And finally, at points Elphaba may seem a little out of character, well first of all, sorry. I've never actually been able to see the whole play, just clips and extended clips of songs on youtube and have listened to the songs on the soundtrack. I have, however, read the book, during which after a point Elphaba becomes a bit more…well quiet and almost defeated, until the end when she goes a little crazy about the stupid shoes…
Chapter One
"Fieyero?" Elphaba whispered to him one morning. He couldn't believe it had been 3 months since they had all escaped the Emerald City with the Monkeys. That night in the woods had certainly been memorable, and they had made other nights as memorable since arriving at their little hide-away in Kiamo Ko.
"Fieyero," The green woman repeated, shaking her lover a little more to get him to wake up. He moaned a little and snuggled into the blankets a little more
"I'm sleeping." He murmured.
"Yero, I have something to tell you, it's important."
"Elphaba, please…don't." he said, not pretending to be asleep anymore. "Don't tell me that you're going to leave me on one of your missions that you might not come back from. Not while I'm half-awake and might mistake it for just a bad dream."
"You might anyway." Elphaba said dryly, "But in about 6 or 7 months you will have a crying, smelly, loud bundle of evidence."
"What?" the Prince asked, rolling over and sitting up, fully awake now.
"I…I'm pregnant Yero. You're going to be a father." She said quickly, sounding very anxious. There was a tense silence for several seconds as the news sank in. Then suddenly Fieyero grinned jumped out of bed, picking up his lover and twirling around with her in his arms, laughing.
"Are you serious? We're going to be parents?" he asked excitedly, putting her down gently.
"Wait," Elphaba interrupted, "You aren't upset?"
"No!" he said, "Elphie-Faye, this is wonderful! Alright, it might not be the best timing, but we'll muddle through this." The green girl's lip quivered,
"But what if it's…what if the baby's…" she trailed off, unable to say it
"Green?" He finished, "What's wrong with that? I love you, Faye. And we will love this baby." He said. The green girl snorted
"But we aren't getting at all corny, are we?" she sniggered, kissing him again.
"No of course not." He smiled into her lips.
"Fieyero?" she said after a few moments,
"What is it Elphie-Faye?"
"I'm a little, well, nervous." She said sheepishly, "About becoming a mother."
"Wait a minute, you, Elphaba Thropp, who can stare down the Wizard of Oz and an entire nation without flinching, are worried about being a good mother?"
"YES!" she cried, pulling away abruptly, "My mother died when I was only a toddler, I don't remember much about her, and I was never the child that people wanted to go near, I don't know how to be maternal! Sticking up to the wizard-that was just like standing up to a bully, and I already knew how to do that!"
"Hey, calm down Elphie, it'll be fine. We'll work through it together, you'll see."
& 6 months later&
"What a touching display of grief." Elphaba remarked acidly when she saw Glinda putting flowers at the base of The house Nessa had been crushed under.
"I don't believe we have anything to say to one another." Glinda said, turning her back on the green woman, not saying anything about the illusion that she had clearly put on herself. The Elphaba she remembered hadn't been anything like that old hag with the strangely beaked nose that had shown herself to Dorothy.
"I wanted something to remember her by, and all that was left of her were those shoes! And now that wretched little farm-girl has walked off with them!" the witch of the west yelled, "So now I would like a moment alone, with my sister." She said, leaning against the house as she broke into tears.
"Oh Nessa…please forgive me!"
"Elphie!" the Witch of the North cried, "It's not your fault, really! It's dreadful, it is, to have a house fall on-what in Oz is that?!" she broke off mid sentence, her voice rising in pitch as the illusion melted away to reveal the large swell of the Green Girl's abdomen.
"Sweet Oz! Elphie, are-are you…?" she sputtered. Elphaba nodded, tears still streaming down her face.
"And it's…Fieyero's?"
Another nod.
"I love him Glinda." She whispered. Suddenly Gale Force soldiers appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the pregnant witch, two of them grabbing her arms to restrain her, exchanging slightly revolted and shocked looks with each other at her obvious pregnancy. Looking over at the blonde, Elphaba shook her head
"I can't believe you would sink so low! To use my sister's death as a trap to capture me!" she cried
"No! Elphie it wasn't like that! It-" but the 'Good' Witch was cut off by a grunt and Prince Tiggular himself swinging down
"Let the green girl go!" he cried, pointing his gun at the soldiers restraining his lover. When they didn't move his face hardened further in expression "DO IT! NOW!" he said louder,
"OR tell all of Oz how the Gale Force soldiers stood and watched while Glinda the good was slain!" he said, turning the gun on his ex.
"Fieyero what are you doing?" Elphaba cried. She might be angry with Glinda, but didn't want her friend to be killed!
"Fieyero!" Glinda wailed,
"Quiet!" he snapped "Let her go!"
"Do it!" Glinda commanded, bending down and slowly picking up the black hat Elphaba had dropped and tossed it to the Green Witch.
"Go!" Fieyero told her when he felt her hand on his shoulder.
"No, not without you." She replied, and in a lower volume, for his ears only, "Don't forget who else this child needs." He looked back at her briefly, keeping the rifle trained on Glinda.
"I'll be fine, go!" when she hesitated, he tightened his grip on the gun and Glinda whimpered, sending Elphaba running awkwardly along. Once she was out of sight, the soldiers started as if to chase her, to find the gun pointed at them. They surrounded the prince, and he surrendered his rifle. However, before they could start beating the crap out of him Glinda shrieked for them to stop
"Don't you see?" she asked, kneeling beside him, "He was never going to harm me, he just…he loves her. And what she carries."
"Glinda, I am so sorry. I never meant…" he trailed off. Suddenly the Captain barked
"But him up on those poles there!"
"No!"
"Take him to the field until he tells us where the witch went!"
"Please don't hurt him! Please! Stop! NO, please!" Glinda begged, to no avail. One of the Guards who was a little more in control pulled her away from the scene. However, if she had stayed, she would have heard the desperate, anguished chanting that echoed through the air and seen the transformation of Prince Fieyero… … …
An: Okay, please review. This first chapter is a little weak I suppose, but (hopefully) it gets better.