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IF YOU HAVEN'T READ 'MY OWN WORST ENEMY' THEN GO READ THAT FIRST, OTHERWISE THIS WILL MAKE NO SENSE.
Right, so hello everyone! I bring you the sequel to MOWE, 'No Regrets'. Enjoy.
Chapter One (No names this time)
Kalina tried to protest to her aunts fussing. Glinda wasn't really her aunt, but her mother and Glinda were close enough to be sisters.
It was Kalina's sixteenth birthday and Glinda was holding a party. Elphaba stood in a corner of what was deemed 'Glinda's Dressing Room', which of course meant that it was pink, and was sending her daughter sympathetic glances now and again. Torrisa was laughing at Kalina's annoyed expression behind her blue gloved hand, which matched her dress.
"Auntie Glin, really there is no need for all this," Kalina tried to say as Glinda attempted to do her makeup.
Glinda placed her hands on her hips. "Kalina Tiggular-Thropp. This is needed, it is your sixteenth birthday party."
Kalina turned to face her mother. "Mother, tell her that the makeup won't show up on my skin."
Elphaba sighed. "I can't lie, Kalina, darling, it will show up. If can show up on me then it can on you."
Glinda had already done Elphaba's makeup earlier that day and now she only had Kalina left to finish up on.
Kalina turned back to face the mirror and folded her arms across her chest. "Thanks for helping me, Mother," Kalina said sarcastically.
Elphaba smiled. "You're welcome, honey," she replied with equal sarcasm.
Torrisa walked over to sit in a chair next to her younger sister. "Hey, I had to go through it," she said to Kalina. "You'll survive."
Kalina turned to face her sister. "Yes, but you like this sort of thing."
Torrisa giggled. "True," she agreed. "You just be thankful that your birthday lands on a weekend this year, otherwise I might not have been able to make it."
Torrisa was now nineteen and attending Shiz, much to Elphaba's delight. Her eldest daughter would be quizzed on her time there every time she came home for a weekend. Kalina was glad to have her sister there for the party. It would make things less awkward.
Glinda stepped away from the teenager, smiling at her handiwork. "There we are, all done."
Kalina looked at herself in the mirror and smiled. "Thank you, Auntie Glinda."
Glinda squeezed her niece's shoulder. "You're welcome." She looked at the clock on the wall. "Oh my Oz, we are late! Come on, come one, come on!"
Glinda forced everyone out of the room. Elphaba waited outside the door for her daughter to come out. Elphaba fiddled with a loose strand of thread on her floor length black gown as she watched Kalina walked towards her.
For once, her youngest had been persuaded to wear a floor length dress. It was black ruffles and she had elbow length gloves to match, same as Elphaba.
Elphaba noticed the worried look on Kalina's face and wrapped her arms around her. "It'll be fine," she whispered in the teen's ear, "You'll have fun."
"I hope so," Kalina muttered back glumly.
It was then that Elphaba spotted Fiyero and Boq walking towards them. She released her daughter from her arms and Kalina hurried to catch up to Torrisa and Glinda who were talking about the latest issue of Ozmopolitan.
Fiyero kissed Elphaba on the lips and she pushed him off. "Not now, dear," she said to him, "We are running late as it is."
She smiled at Boq as they made their way to the ballroom. Boq and Glinda had started dating a few weeks after Torrisa's fifth birthday and now they were happily married.
Elphaba, Fiyero and Boq soon caught up with the other three and together they made their way down to the ballroom. There was a guard who announced their presence and they made their way down the staircase, Elphaba and Fiyero holding hands and Glinda holding onto Boq's arm. Torrisa descended next followed by Kalina. The ballroom full of her classmates, whom Glinda ad invited, fell silent at the slight of the birthday girl.
Once she was finally at the bottom of the stairs her best friend, a Cheetah named Samisa, ran over and started talking at a mile a minute.
Kalina just smiled and nodded as her friend led her over to where the food and drinks were. Kalina grabbed a glass of the punch while Samisa filled a plate with food.
"Sami, you plan on eating all of that yourself?" Kalina asked, laughing at her friend's hurt expression.
"No, this is for us to share." And with that Samisa started walking over to a small group of chairs.
Elphaba's eyes followed her daughter as she walked away from the stair case leading down to the ballroom. She knew that she should be happy, but something didn't feel right. Fiyero noticed her expression.
"Fae? What's wrong?" He asked gently, wrapping her arms around her shoulders.
Elphaba sighed and shook her head. "Nothing," she said.
Fiyero turned her in his arms so she was facing him. "Elphaba, what's wrong?"
She sighed again. "Nothing...but, I just have a bad feeling. Flying house bad feeling, if you know what I mean." She looked at him pointedly, trying to say what she meant without actually having to say it.
Realisation dawned on Fiyero's face and he kissed Elphaba's forehead. "It will be fine, love, try not to worry."
Elphaba nodded and looked over her shoulder at her youngest daughter and then her eye flicked to Torrisa, who was talking to some boy. She smiled softly and pushed her fear aside. Tonight was a night for celebration, not negative feelings.
The party went smoothly, as Glinda had planned it. Elphaba was milling around the room, talking to some of the Animal guests when the lights all went out. There were a few screams, at which Elphaba had to resist rolling her eyes. Fiyero was trying to call people's attention, when the door was flung open.
Elphaba spun around and spotted the figure in the doorway, lit by the moonlight. She wore her dark hair long down her back and she had sharp features. The woman was sixteen years older than when Elphaba had last saw her, but there was no doubting who it was.
"Anvesa," Elphaba hissed. She was sure that it was Anvesa and not her twin, Nizava, because she happened to know that the latter had recently cut her hair to shoulder length.
Anvesa smirked and with a flick of her wrist, two guards grabbed Elphaba's arms. Elphaba kicked and struggled but it was no good. She looked around the room where Fiyero, Glinda, Boq and Torrisa were all held the same way she was. More guards were pointing guns at the guests, who had huddled together in groups. The only person out in the open was Kalina.
Elphaba watched in fury as Anvesa walked over to Kalina. "Leave her alone!" Elphaba shouted.
Anvesa laughed. "Elphaba, are you not going to let your daughter meet her half-aunt?" Anvesa made a disapproving noise with her tongue and smiled.
Elphaba watched that as Anvesa got closer to Kalina, her daughter stiffened. Elphaba tried again to get away. The guards held her tight and one pulled out a gun a held it to her temple. Elphaba flinched at the feeling of cold metal against her skin and stopped moving.
She glanced into the eyes of the two guards and saw that Anvesa must have cast the mind spell on them.
In a hope of distracting Anvesa's attention away from her daughter. "So, still using to same old spell, are we?"
Anvesa scowled and turned to face the green woman. "I'll have you know, I not only cast that spell on the guards, I also made them invincible, as well."
Kalina watched the exchange between the strange woman and her mother. She looked up to Fiyero and he mouthed the words, 'Get out of here. Take the broom.'
Kalina had found that she was able to fly her mother's broom without ruining the magic cast on it and so she ran quietly to the entrance hall through which Anvesa had entered. She grabbed the broom that was there mostly for show, for guests to gawk at the witch's broom. She mounted it and shot off.
Anvesa stopped talking when she saw Elphaba's triumphant smile. She turned and was furious to the outline of someone riding a broom out of one of the windows and noticed that Elphaba's daughter was no where to be seen.
She turned back to the smirking green woman and stomped up to her. Anvesa slapped Elphaba so hard across the face that Elphaba could taste blood in her mouth from where she had accidently bitten the inside of her cheek. Elphaba's eyes flicked to Fiyero who was furiously trying to get loose.
"I will get your daughter. I swear it," Anvesa hissed and then told the guards to fill the palace dungeons with the leaders of Oz and the party guests.
Kalina landed the broom in a forest and brushed the tears out from under her eyes. She sat on the forest floor, in all her finery and thought of what to do. She couldn't fly properly in the dress she was wearing, so that was her first mission. She knew of a seamstress that was near Shiz and was a friend of her mother's, so she could go to her.
Kalina mounted the broom and flew off. She landed clumsily outside the seamstress' house. She knocked timidly on the door and blinked at the light when it was opened.
"Sweet Lurline, Miss Kalina, what are you doing here?" The large woman hurried to get the teen inside.
Kalina explained everything about the party and needing a new dress. The seamstress then went looking on the rack of dresses she had nearby. "Aha!" she called and pulled out a black dress with a long skirt and sleeves. It had a high collar with buttons that went down the front.
"This is the same pattern as the one I made for your mother to go to the Emerald City all those years ago. Thought it might be handy to keep one spare."
She fitted the dress into Kalina, making any adjustments needed and then went into a back cupboard. She came out carrying a pointy black hat, like Elphaba's but the brim was flat, not curled up on one side.
"These are always popular at costume parties," the seamstress explained. "I thought you might like it. Finish the look, you could say."
Kalina took the hat and placed it on her head. She took it off again and pulled out the pins holding in her hair and then placed it back on her head. The hair was long and fell down her back with kinks in from being up from the party. She looked in the mirror across the room and, though she didn't know it, she looked just like her mother when she escaped from the Emerald Palace.
Kalina thanked the seamstress and set off again. She didn't really know where she was going but then she thought of her grandparents in the Vinkus. Maybe they could help.
Glinda screamed and screamed from the cell she had been thrown in with Elphaba and Torrisa. Fiyero and Boq were across the hallway in a cell opposite Elphaba, Torrisa and Glinda's.
"Glinda, give it a rest, it won't work," Elphaba told her cell mate. She was slumped against the wall and had her knees up by her chest. She had taken off her gloves and had one arm wrapped around Torrisa's shoulders.
Glinda glared at her best friend from where she sat by the bars. Then she sighed and slumped down too. "How are we going to get out of here?" she said to no one in particular.
"You're not," a cold voice answered and the inhabitants of the cell looked up into the face of Madame Morrible. Elphaba spat in her general direction.
"What do you want with us?" Glinda asked.
Morrible laughed. "Nothing, from you, Miss Upland."
Glinda snorted. "Actually it's Mrs Riddle now."
Morrible smiled a creepy smile and nodded. She turned her attention to Elphaba.
"I guess that you already know that we have found and now captured your youngest daughter, don't you?" At Elphaba's horror stricken look, Morrible laughed. "Oh, I suppose you didn't. Oh well." She smirked. "You'll be lucky to ever see her again," the large woman said coldly.
Torrisa and Glinda held Elphaba back from the bar of the cell as her fury and rage took over. "Mother, you have to calm down! You could hurt yourself!" Torrisa tried to calm the green woman down.
Morrible watched as Elphaba leaned into Glinda and nearly pulled the smaller woman down as she felt her legs buckle beneath her. Elphaba then turned to Torrisa and pulled her into her arms. Elphaba looked over Torrisa's head at Morrible with tear filled eyes.
"If you touch a hair on my daughter's head, I will hunt you until the day I die," Elphaba said softly.
Morrible laughed and then left them alone. Elphaba held Torrisa for a few minutes before she stood and brushed down her dress.
"Well, Glinda, let's get to work," Elphaba said to her blonde friend.
Glinda looked confused and then stood too.
"She'll soon realise that it was a bad idea to put two witches in one cell together," Elphaba said, a solemn expression on her face.
And then Elphaba and Glinda started planning on how to get out of the cell.
Well, there we are. Tell me what you think! Reviews inspire updates! *Hint hint*
By the way the updates on this one won't be as fast as My Own Worst Enemy because I am going back to school soon, so if there isn't an update for a few days or something like that, then that's the reason.
Cherry x