Disclaimer: I do not own Wicked, none of it.
A/N: I wrote this with the Broadway cast in my head, all except Fiyero. So these are the people in my head as I wrote this: Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Taye Diggs as Fiyero (sometimes its Norbert, but mostly Taye). Anyway, here is the first chapter. Review, tell me how you like it.
1: After Class
A dark boy with tribal blue diamond tattooed skin, interrupted Dr. Nikidik's lecture about the good cages would bring to all of Oz, in preventing Animals to learn to speak. After being embarrassed and humiliated, the boy crouched in the corner to listen to the rest of the lecture. Throughout the lecture, he noticed a green skinned girl up in the balcony that always offered her opinion of things. For some reason, he couldn't take his eyes off her. She seemed very strong willed and persistent, and he found that to be quite attractive in a woman. More and more he couldn't stop thinking about this girl and her magnificent emerald skin. The lecture ended, and he walked out into the hall, hoping to meet this mystery green girl. He caught a glimpse of her, she was hard to miss, and decided to go introduce himself. Rushing over to her, he finally got within voice range of her.
"Hello, miss," he blurted out, before she walked away from him.
She turned around, a look of surprise stamped across her face that someone had addressed her.
"You were just in Life Science, right?" he asked her.
"You noticed?" she said sarcastically.
"You're hard to miss," he remarked, then mentally kicked himself for choosing that phrase, and the obviousness of her skin, "That's not how that was suppose to come out, I just mean…"
"Its fine, I'm used to it," she told him, sadness hinting in her voice.
Nobody really knew the torture she put herself through by not letting on that what people said to her and how the react to her, really did hurt.
"I'm Fiyero Tiggular," he introduced himself.
"I'm Elphaba Thropp. Where are you from, I haven't seem anyone with marking like these before," Elphaba asked, staring at his skin, then quickly glancing away, blushing.
"I'm from Vinkus, yes I am a Winkie," Fiyero laughed, knowing the stereotype given to his culture by others.
Elphaba let a slow laugh escape her lips, which was very rare in Elphaba's case.
"So where are you from?" he asked her, staring at her emerald skin, that he just couldn't seem to get enough of.
"I am originally from Munchkinland, but I traveled throughout Quadling Country as a small child," she told him.
Something had come over Elphaba, and she wasn't quite sure what it was. She never socialized with people, unless it was in a heated debate or a sarcastic remark. She had a feeling of safety and security with him that she never felt with anyone, not even Nanny or Nessarose. Maybe it was the fact that he too would be an outcast at Shiz; he would be discriminated against because of skin color as well as Elphaba was. He was probably the only Winkie at Shiz, and people will fear him, because he is different than what they know.
"Elphaba?" he asked, causing her to snap out of her thoughts.
"Sorry, what did you say?" she asked him.
"I said that sounds fun," Fiyero retold her, laughing at how she was blushing, making her face turn a darker shade of green, "so what were you thinking about?"
"Like you would care," Elphaba said hotly, returning to her normal self.
"Well," he started, loving Elphaba's fiery spirit, "I wouldn't have asked if I didn't."
Elphaba softened a little at this, nobody really cared what she thought, not even Glinda.
"It was nothing, really," she whispered, fixing her eyes on the floor beneath her.
"Alright," he said, knowing she was lying, "so are you doing anything, well, now I guess?"
"Well, today is Tuesday, right?
"Yeah."
"Nothing, it seems. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I have Madame Morrible's Sorcery Seminar after Life Science," Elphaba told him, blushing more at her babbling that was so uncharacteristic of her.
"Well, would you like to go somewhere?" Fiyero asked her, fidgeting getting more and more nervous as every minute passed.
Elphaba couldn't believe what she was hearing. Someone, wanted to go somewhere with her. The color of her skin didn't matter to him, nobody had ever been like this to her.
"Where?" she asked, then quickly snapped back to reality, "I hope you aren't thinking that this is an easy score. I'm not that kind of girl."
Fiyero laughed, "No, of course not. I wouldn't see you as that kind of girl. You seemed to be very strong-willed."
Elphaba shifted and smiled at the floor, avoiding eye contact with Fiyero.
"Alright, I'll go," she decided.
Fiyero smiled, delighted that she agreed.
"I really don't know anywhere around Shiz, so do you have an idea?" he asked her.
"We could go to Oz's café on Lurline Avenue."
"Okay, sounds good."
"I need to go back to my room, put away my Life Science stuff, so I will meet you there in an hour," she told him, turning around to head to Craig Hall.
"Okay, bye Elphaba."
"Bye Fiyero."
Elphaba walked faster than usual, practically running back to her dorm. She walked into the room she shared with Ms. Popularity, Glinda.
"Glinda, you have to help me, with all your poofy things and smell good spray thingy, please," she screamed out before she even got the door closed.
"Elphie, calm down. Tell me what you are ranting about," Glinda exclaimed, grabbing hold of Elphaba and pushing her onto a bed.
"I don't know what came over me, I have never been like this. Something is wrong, Glinda, I just know it –"
"Elphie, calm down," Glinda repeated, "What is going on?"
Elphaba sat down and took a long deep breath before telling Glinda what had just happened.
"I was coming out of Life Science and this boy with weird tribal marking all over him, approached me, and introduced himself. We continued to talk, which is very uncharacteristic of me to talk to anyone, really. Anyway then he asked if I would like to go somewhere with him, and I AGREED, Glinda, I don't know what came over me!" Elphaba shouted to her roommate.
"What was his name?"
"Fiyero, something."
"TIGGULAR!"
"Yeah, that's it," replied Elphaba, not knowing the big deal in it.
"Elphie! He is a prince in Vinkus. Sweet Oz, Elphie, let's get down to business, is he cute?"
"Glinda! This isn't a time for chatter, this is serious. I have to meet him in, well, 40 minutes now," Elphaba shouted at her roommate, trying to drill it into her skull.
Glinda smiled at the new side of Elphaba Thropp that she had never seen before, and wasn't ever sure that it would ever appear. But here it was, and Glinda couldn't help but feel excited for her friend.
"Okay, Elphie, lets see what we have."
Elphaba sat on her bed as the perky blonde skipped her way over to her wardrobe to see if anything came about for Elphaba to wear, something other than that black frock she was always sporting.
"How about this one?"
Elphaba looked up from her twisting hands to the dress that Glinda was holding up. It was an beautiful red satin gown, that sparkled in the light of the room. It would look beautiful on a girl who's skin wouldn't clash with it.
"Red and green, I don't think so Glinda, you ought to know that wouldn't work, or are you losing your fashion sense?" Elphaba remarked sarcastically.
"Alright, don't get all huffy, really Elphie, need one make such remarks?"
Elphaba just rolled her eyes, as her roommate pulled out yet another beautiful gown that would again clash with her emerald skin.
"You know what, forget it, I don't need to change who I am for a man, or boy rather. If he asked me because of the way I am, why do I need to change? Well, thanks anyway Glinda, but I have to go. Bye!" Elphaba stated as she walked out the door of her dorm.
Glinda sat on the bed, admiring the pride her friend endured. She wished she could be more like Elphaba, she didn't change for anyone, else that someone was herself. Glinda would change for anyone who would pay the least bit of attention to her, and sometimes she wished she wasn't that way. Maybe she could learn a thing or two from her green roommate, and come out a stronger woman in the process.