Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to Wicked. If I had, it would have only been a show about the love life of Elphaba and Fiyero.
A/N: Well, I hope that people actually read this, I've had this idea in my head for about a month. Please R&R. It's my first fanfic. And this chapter is really short because it is more of a prologue than a full out chapter.
Smart was not a word often used to describe the Vinkus Prince known by the name of Fiyero Tiggular. However that may have been, He was somewhat known to be smart when it came to the love department. The dark haired, blue-eyed man was known all through Oz as a ladies' man. This was mostly because of his carefree attitude, and to make it sound even more pleasant, that he had named "dancing through life." Of course, after gaining this reputation for himself, it was now expected of him. It didn't help any that he was also of royal blood. Yet, now that he had come to Shiz, he was very puzzled in the case of a girl with green skin. She had been very impartial to him so far, and that was not normal.
Now, Fiyero had had people dislike him before, sure. He had even had people ignore him, but to have someone treat him as though his title didn't mean anything at all and it was the attitude he displayed that mattered was beyond comprehension. Everyone was either jealous and hateful (which seemed to be one of the most frequent cases) or wanted to be just like him and followed him around like a god (which seemed to be even more frequent). His first signs of each of these was at the Ozdust when he went with Galinda Upland. The girl was nice, and yes, she was beautiful, but he seemed to be just having fun with her. There was no love there.
Galinda had introduced him that very night to the green girl. Her name was hard to pronounce, Elphaba. At first he thought he had heard incorrectly, but he wasn't going to comment on a name that might have sounded like a disease to him. Fiyero regretted now that Galinda had said that he was a prince, because now he believed that would make the green girl become even more closed off than she had been when walking in with that ridiculous black hat on her head.
After that night, Fiyero had definitely hoped he wouldn't have any classes with his girlfriend's roommate, but nothing ever happened the way he wanted it.
In every single class he had the first day at Shiz happened to contain the girl. It wasn't until the last class of the day that he had caught on to the fact that no one liked her, at all. An older male student had even congratulated Fiyero about the incident where he had almost run her over with his carriage the day before. It was all a mistake of course, and Fiyero was about to defend himself against it when he realized the student was serious. Many people were rude and called her names, such as "Artichoke", or, "the Human Caterpillar". For some odd reason, this made his blood boil.
In each class he also noted that no one sat by her. He felt bad for her, but sat down in a place where gawking girls wanted him to. His mouth was in a permanent straight line with indecision, though, even with girls around him asking all sorts of strange questions. What's your favourite colour? Do you like Galinda a lot, or are you going to break up with her? How much shampoo do you use on your hair? Is it soft?
Fiyero was not sure as to whether or not he should even bother with the girl, but he let his own motto shove him along and decided that until he was sure she was Galinda's friend he had no reason to even talk to her. Tonight he had a date, and he was going to have fun. Even if a green girl with beautiful dark hair was the only thing in his mind.