My second fanfiction! Please R&R!

This is an in depth version of the famous lion cub scene in the classroom. Even though it is in third person it is meant to be Fiyero's POV...

DISCLAIMER! I don't own Wicked, I just really really really really really really (10 minutes later) really love it! I don't own many of the lines from this fanfic because they were taken directly from the musical (which I don't own)

Please enjoy, and I love reveiws!

What is this feeling?

"Oh great, what is the artichoke doing now?" Fiyero thought while sitting on his bench in Dr. Dillamond's class room.

He watched as Elphaba tossed her hair back and forth muttering "Toss, toss".

"It seems Galinda has claimed another hopeless case, why does she bother trying…ok this is just embarrassing, I have to say something." Fiyero thought.

He strutted up behind her and waited quietly until she noticed him. Jumping back with a yelp she said "What?" while glaring at him.

"Nothing, it's just, you've been Galinda-fied." He said with a smirk before imitating her 'toss toss' to mock her.

He looked at her and saw embarrassment and irritation in her eyes and felt something he never felt before. "What is this feeling?" he thought. He had embarrassed the ridiculous green girl and yet he didn't feel very good.

"Oh sweet Oz, this must be that thing called guilt I have heard of! This must be what other people feel like…how do they bear it!" Fiyero thought dramatically.

"You don't need to do that you know." He blurted out suddenly.

Confused as to what made him say that, without another word he took his seat as Dr. Dillamond entered the room.

Fiyero, oddly enough, was thinking while Dr. Dillamond spoke to the class and only tuned in when her heard Elphaba stand up and say "What?" in anger.

Dr. Dillamond began talking about how animals were no longer permitted to teach. Shocked at this, Fiyero eyes glanced towards Elphaba's green face which was displayed a look of horror. Not that he really cared about much; he didn't think it was very fair to not let an animal teach. Animals never bothered him much.

When Madame Morrible came into the class room Elphaba shot out of her seat and yelled "Madame you can't permit this!"

Though he couldn't understand why, she seemed genuinely upset by what was happening before them. For some reason, it made him feel bad to see her so upset.

When two men dragged their history teacher out of his own class room, Elphaba became distraught.

"Well are we just going to sit here, in silence?" she bellowed.

The class said nothing in her defense; Fiyero saw some of his 'friends' lightly snickering at the young women creating a scene before becoming fixated on the man entering the room with something covered with a sheet. He began talking about 'progress' and eventually lifted the sheet to reveal what he called a 'cage'. Inside the cage was a cowering lion cub, who looked extremely unhappy and uncomfortable. However the, least happy person in the room was Elphaba.

"This remarkable innovation is actually for the animal's own good!" the man said.

Elphaba stood up and said, shaking with fury "If it's so good for him then why is he trembling!"

The man dismissed her and said "One of the benefits of caging a lion this young is that he will never, in fact, learn to speak!"

"Oh no" Fiyero thought.

"Oh no" Elphaba said softly. She turned to him quickly and said "Can you imagine? A world where animals are kept in cages? And they never speak?"

The look of horror and sadness in her eyes made Fiyero's heart feel heavy as he listened to her.

"He does seem a bit agitated, but that is easily remedied!" the despicable man said.

"What are we going to do!" Elphaba shrieked at Fiyero rising from her seat.

"We?" Fiyero asked in shock.

"Well, somebody has to do, SOMETHING!" she bellowed throwing her arms into the air dramatically.

Suddenly there was a burst of light and their fellow classmates began to flail around, unable to control their actions.

"What's happening?" I asked her as we watched the scene before us.

"I don't know, I got mad!" she replied looking upset at what she had done.

Fiyero didn't exactly know what to do, this entire day was so unusual, and he half expected to awake in his dorm room any second. Part of him wanted to simply flee the scene, but Elphaba looked so upset and he felt that guilt thing again.

Before he knew it, he ran and grabbed the lion cage and said "All right, just don't move, and don't get mad at me!"

Fiyero lay awake, thinking, on his bed that night. He had actually been thinking a lot since that scene in class, and it wasn't as bad as he thought. Before he knew it he was drifting off to sleep.

He was suddenly in the clearing under the bridge, and Elphaba was there. However, she didn't look herself; her oddly colored skin actually seemed to glow in the dark. Her lips were moving wildly but Fiyero couldn't here a word she was saying. Then he heard the words "Do you ever let anyone else talk?" come out of his mouth. Suddenly, their hands touched and their eyes met and the next thing he knew, he was kissing her. As he kissed her, he could hear her words from before softly echoing in the background. "No you're not, or you wouldn't be so unhappy. You wouldn't be so unhappy, you wouldn't be so unhappy, unhappy, unhappy…" Suddenly there was a loud roar from a lion and Fiyero woke up in his dorm room, sweating.

"What is this feeling?" he thought before the horror dawned on him. He was in love with Elphaba Thropp.