This story is an AU and is inspired from the movie "Nowhere Boy". There will be some songs and reference from the 1950's (I'm not really that old) and some reference to Wicked as well. Chapter titles are from 1950's songs, except the last chapter.
I don't own Wicked, the plot from Nowhere Boy, and the songs I'm going to use
Chapter 1: The Wanderer
In the clear blue sky, a green girl, known as Elphaba Thropp, is flying in the air. Elphaba is laughing joyously because she feels like she's flying high and defying gravity and no one will bring her down. Elphaba continue enjoying her flight until she fell down which was revealed to be a dream and that her Aunt Lily woke her up.
"Do I ignore you? No. So don't ignore me." Lily said to her, "I have called you twice."
Elphaba got up, put on her school uniform and went downstairs for breakfast. As Lily is preparing the food, Elphaba's Uncle Daniel place a gold harmonica on the table as a present for Elphaba. "Is it expensive, Uncle Daniel?" Elphaba asked.
"No, it isn't." he replied. Daniel turned around to see if Lilyis coming so she won't know what he will say to Elphaba. "First practice, front room, seven o'clock tonight. Don't be late." Bobby whispered before Elphaba hugged him.
Before Elphaba could bike to school, Lily stop her to remind her to wear her glasses, which her friend Boq, who is waiting for her outside, teased her about it. When they are far away from, Elphaba took off her glasses as she didn't like wearing them. Even though Elphaba is the only green girl in all of Oz, no one minds about her skin. While Elphaba and Boq are biking to school, they saw one of their fellow classmates walking to school.
"Hey Kayline, how is your fishy mother doing?" Elphaba wittingly said.
"Thropp, you prick." Kayline said.
"She thinks she's tough because her mother works in Emerald City." Boq told Elphaba.
"Well she couldn't fight while getting dirty." Elphaba said.
"So what's her family's name again?"
"Don't know. But I know it rhymes with 'horrible'. When Elphaba and Boq arrived in school, they saw a girl fighting a lower classmate in the front. "Hey Evella, leave that kid alone." she told her.
"Fuck off, Thropp." she said.
"Does your mother teach you talk like that?" Elphaba sarcastically asked which made Evella attack her.
Both of them got punished and were sent to the headmaster's office. When the headmaster was done talking to Evella, he called in Elphaba, who was waiting outside smiling as if she's not ashamed.
"I'll be surprised if you work at the Munchkinland docks because I think that being a housewife is the only option you have. Otherwise you'll be going nowhere." the headmaster told Elphaba.
"Is 'nowhere' full of geniuses, sir? Because that's where I belong." Elphaba told the headmaster.
Later that night, Uncle Daniel is setting up a radio for Elphaba's room while Aunt Lily is at the living room listening to the symphony on the living room radio. "And so, Judgement Day." Daniel wittingly said as he got the radio working which made Elphaba excited.
"Lily, it worked! Can I have a go at it?" Elphaba shouted from upstairs.
"No, Elphaba. We do not turn over Allegro over." Lily said.
"So what do you want to listen? May I suggest The Honeymooners or I Love Lucy?" Daniel asked.
"I wanted to listen to those variety shows people keep talking about. You know, where people do random funny things." Elphaba said.
"Well if you insist." Daniel said as he put on the right station on the radio. Elphaba and her uncle listened to the radio for half an hour and they are enjoying it. "Go on then. You're missing your show while I'm missing my time at the bar." Daniel said. As Daniel left Elphaba's room, he collapsed on the floor and Elphaba noticed him while she was laughing at her show on the radio.
"Uncle Daniel?" Elphaba worriedly said and went to check on him. Elphaba told Daniel and she called an ambulance. As the doctors arrived and put Daniel in the car, Elphaba is getting more worried about him. "Is he going to be alright?" Elphaba asked Lily.
"Stop fussing, he'll be back on his feet first thing tomorrow." Lily said.
"But Lily-"
"Stay here. We'll be back soon." she said before the ambulance took off.
Elphaba couldn't sleep without thinking of what's going to happen to her uncle. Daniel is Elphaba's favorite uncle in her whole family and found him as a father figure to her. When morning came, Elphaba went down to see if her uncle's home, but only find Lily home standing by the fireplace.
"Aunt Lily?" Elphaba asked. Lily turned around with a somber look on her face.
"He's dead, Elphaba." she said. Elphaba laughed thinking that Lily might be joking but she isn't laughing and Elphaba knows that she's telling the truth. Elphaba then cried onto Lily's shoulder and Lily cradled her. "There, there. It will be alright. I'm sure your Uncle Daniel wouldn't approve you crying. He wanted you to be strong, Elphaba. And you should be like that alright." Lily told her.
At the funeral in the cemetery, Elphaba put a flower on top Daniel's casket before they could lower it. As they lowered the casket, Elphaba saw a woman with red hair standing far from where the service is. The woman saw Elphaba and left the cemetery leaving Elphaba wondering who she is. The family went back to Elphaba's home for a memorial service. Everyone is inside talking about their time with Daniel while Elphaba is outside with her cousin Nessarose, who's in a wheelchair.
"We could go to the arcade at Quadling Country tomorrow if you want to." Nessarose told her.
"I don't need to be looked after, Nessa."
"I know. I just wanted to know if you wanted to go to Quadling Country tomorrow. He's my uncle too."
"He's more than an uncle to me." Elphaba told her, "You saw her too?"
"The one with the red hair?"
"Where is she now?"
"You want to ask Aunt Lily?" Nessarose asked but Elphaba didn't respond. Nessarose decided to tell Lily, who is talking with the other members of their family, about the woman. "Elphaba wants to know where Aunt Melena is." Nessarose told Lily, which made the people around them stop talking. Lily told Nessarose where she is and she went back outside to tell Elphaba. "She was busy, apparently, the red hair woman. But I'll take you to her tomorrow. And you should call her mom when we meet her." Nessarose told her and Elphaba looked confused when Nessarose said mom.