A/N: I think I gave this fanfic a bad title. Does anybody have any better suggestions: And Boq's last name isn't actually Fitzgerald, I just decided it. You can probably guess why. And I'm sorry if this messes up any Baum canon, I'm only on the 5th Oz book by him at the current time.
Disclaimer: I don't own Wicked or the Oz books here, I'm just the girl at her computer, it's just her and me, a fanfic writer of the east.
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Boq. The name was a simple, fairly common name in Munchkinland.
"Did I ever tell you I really like your name?" Nessarose asked him, her voice sounding a bit quiet. He knew she just wanted to break the awkward silence.
"Thanks, but it's a really common name. There was always a kid in my class with it," he responded.
"I know, but it's really nice," she answered, now looking him in the eye. "And besides, if you become famous by doing something spectacular, maybe now whenever somebody names their kid Boq they'll think of you. In fact, maybe even name their kid after you."
Fitzgerald (his last name) was not simple and common. He actually had never met anybody else outside of the family with that last name.
"Fitzgerald?" Nessarose read aloud from the return address on the letter Boq meant to send to her but didn't in time. "Am I pronouncing that correctly?" Boq nodded. "That's an unusu-uncommon last name"
Boq smiled. "Were you going to say unusual?" Nessa blushed and nodded. "I get that a lot."
With a last name like that there probably weren't any other Boqs with it. So, in order not to get stalked down by Nessarose, that's why he told young Dorothy Gale his name was Nick Chopper instead. And then, needing a new identity and being upset with his Madame Governor, he made up the story about the Wicked Witch of the East enchanting his ax so it cut off limb by limb, body part by body part, so he wouldn't be able to marry the girl he loved…