/Takes place while they're kids/
'Faster!' The child thought to herself. It was that time of day. Papa didn't want her in the house, so he kicked her out for about an hour a day. While she was out she was subject to horrors that no child should endure. Why was she tortured so? Because, this little girl was green. As green as sin, her father, Frexspar Thropp the Great, would say. As green as shit, some of the other children, and their parents, would say. In truth, the child was neither. She was a beautiful emerald green. Well, she was earlier that day, before she started running from her torturers. The daily exercise coated her skin and clothes in dirt. Running faster and faster, she quickly sprinted into the woods.
The raven-haired child tripped over a protruding branch in the ground, and she fell with a heavy thud. She was too tired to get up, so she laid still, hoping her attackers would think she was simply dirty grass. However, no such luck came to her as one of the boys following her tripped over her. He groaned as he fell, and she groaned as she clutched her side where the boy's foot had hit her. The boy's ears perked up, hearing the groan emit from the green girl, and he recovered quickly. He stood up, smirking at the girl. "Well, Elphaba Thropp. Seems we've found you!" He hollered for his friends and they came running with rocks in their hands. Elphaba did all she could do, and that was curl up and protect her head and neck with her little arms and hands. She couldn't feel as much pain as she could have, due too multiple beatings throughout her life, so she sat there as the children started throwing. It still hurt though, the rocks. She could feel stones and jagged rocks making their way into her arms and back.
Elphaba felt the throwing stop and the children gasp. Was she bleeding? Did they hit her head? The green child slowly, carefully moved her arms and looked up. When she did, she saw the boy who had tripped over her was pinned underneath another girl. Elphaba analyzed the other child. She was clad in pink and had her blonde hair tied up into a pony tail with a pink ribbon. Elphaba had spent so much time staring at the back of the blonde's head that she hadn't realized the blonde girl was beating the living hell out of the boy. When she realized it, Elphaba scrambled off the ground and started pulling the blonde off. She finally dropped the blonde when the girl twisted and hit her in the nose, and Blondie had hit her hard.
