Okay, so this is my first attempt at Fiyeraba. I LOVE reading Fiyeraba's though, so I figured I'd give it a try. I had this idea a while ago actually. Fiyero may go slightly out of character because originally it was just a random guy with Elphaba (this is before I knew the story in the musical, so I only knew book Fiyero). But I don't think I'd be able to write a fiction where Elphaba loved someone other then Fiyero…

Is it just me, or did I make Avaric kind of really sexist? I just discovered the 'horizontal ruler'


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Disclaimer: Wicked's not mine.

"Hey Fiyero!" The Prince looked over to where the voice came from to see his friends calling him over. He grinned at them and walked over coolly, appreciating the admiring looks he got from the girls.

"'Sup, Tiggular?" Avaric called. "Checking out the Shiz ladies?"

"Yeah." It was his first day at Shiz, though not his first day of college or the first day of term. In fact, this was his fifth school of the year, and even on the first day he was already popular. Of course it helped that a few of his friends from the school before were kicked out and switched colleges as well.

"So are we. They've got some nice ones here." He joked, and then whistled. "Have you seen Galinda Upland?" Fiyero nodded and grinned.

"Hey, you should go talk to that girl over there." Tryne said elusively, nudging him and pointing over his shoulder. Fiyero shook his head as he turned around to see who the boy had spoken of. His friends, due to his reputation and good looks, never tried to hook him up with a good, or even normal girl. There was always something majorly wrong. He once dated a kleptomaniac for weeks until his friends finally told him, and by then half his valuables had been stolen. And another time the same friends set him up with a girl with serious anger issues. She beat him half to death when he broke up with her. And then there was the girl who, it turned out, wasn't actually a girl. Oh, his friends thought they were so funny.

This girl looked normal mostly. She was studious looking, with very plain clothes, glasses, and hair in a long braid. She wasn't particularly pretty, but could be, if she wore better clothes and let her hair out. She looked normal enough, but that didn't mean anything necessarily.

Did his friends really think him so stupid that he wouldn't have figured out their little tricks by now? Well, he did act pretty brainless most of the time. Sometimes he even wondered whether his brain was present, but he had figured this out (even if it had taken him a while), and now he was going to figure out what made this girl so messed up as his friends snickered.


Elphaba Thropp was sitting on a bench on the college campus, reading. Shiz was, as usual, full of life, learning and gossip. Not to mention people constantly insulting her because of her skin. But with that idiot Galinda in full gossip/make up mode, Elphaba would rather study in public than have to listen to her and her friends.

"Um, hi." A voice said. She looked up, confused that someone was talking to her without an insult. It was Fiyero Tiggular, the scandalous winkie prince who had recently arrived at the school. Her brow wrinkled in confusion. Why would he be talking to her of all people? "So… What's wrong with you?" He asked.

"Excuse me?" She hissed defensively.

"Well, since I'm so popular and I get so many girls, my friends tend to try to set me up with um… messed up girls." He said nonchalantly. Wow. He was as shallow and conceited as her ditzy roommate. If not more. The green girl laughed humorlessly.

"What? You have to ask?" She snorted and snapped her book shut, getting up. What, was this some sort of stupid prank?

"Um, well, yeah." He stuttered. "Am I supposed to know? I'm new here you know." They were both completely lost. She laughed again, and the prince noticed it sounded slightly crazy. Perhaps that's what was wrong with her. Would they let some sort of psychopath into the college?

"Are you blind or something?" She asked sarcastically, breaking into his thoughts.

"No, just colorblind." He said, laughing. Elphaba did a double take, her chocolate eyes widening.

"What?" She breathed. He must be joking. The prince frowned at her.

"What? Haven't you ever met someone who's colorblind? It runs in my royal blood." He joked.

"No, I haven't." She murmured, glancing at her emerald skin. He wasn't joking, was he? Slightly dazed, she began to walk away.

"Hey!" Fiyero pouted, grabbing her arm. He didn't even flinch. "You haven't told me what's wrong with you!"

"I don't think I'll tell you. Maybe I enjoy your confusion." She was speaking mostly to herself as she jerked her arm out of his grasp and stalked away.


"No one will tell me." A familiar voice whined in Elphaba's ear. She groaned at being pulled from her book again by the prince, and this time before class. She breathed out slowly to keep her anger under control and for the second time that day, put down her book to answer Fiyero.

"No one will tell you what?" She asked, slightly amused.

"What's wrong with you!" He cried. "I ask everyone, and they just laugh and tell me not to bother. And then try to seduce me if they're a girl. But I think Avaric and Tryne told everyone not to tell me. I can't figure out why no one goes near you." He finished with a huff and a cute little pout as he sat down next to her.

"Has it occurred to you, prince Fiyero, that maybe there's nothing wrong with me?" Elphaba snapped. Fiyero blinked.

"Oh. Is that true?" He asked. Perhaps his friends had just mentioned her because she was anti-social. Then he rethought it and shook his head. "But if that was true, people wouldn't call you things like Artichoke, and Cabbage Face, and, well, a bunch of other vegetables… Wait! Are you obsessed with vegetables, or hate them or something?" The conversation was going a little too far for Elphaba's comfort. She sighed in annoyance.

"Go away, Fiyero!" She snapped. "Class is starting!" In truth she didn't want him to know about her skin. It was nice to have someone who would actually talk to her, even if that someone were a brainless idiot of a winkie prince.

"Yeah, what are you sitting with the Artichoke for? You can do better than that." Avaric laughed, and Fiyero shrugged.

"Maybe if you guys will tell me…" He mumbled, but got up and sat with Galinda anyway. Avaric laughed again.

"Sorry, Buddy." He said. Elphaba looked over to where the prince was now sitting. Galinda and Fiyero… They were so much alike; the green girl wondered how long it would be before they were together. Probably not long. Why did she dislike the idea so much?

This is AU by the way. Ozdust doesn't come until later.

Review Please! If my attempt is horrible, please tell me! And though I've got the main story in my head (sort of), suggestions would be awesome too.