Sorry it had taken soon long to update. I am on vacation and it can be a little distracting anyway here is the next chapter.

The Voice

"Glinda..Glinda wake up, Can you hear me?" A voice rang through her head. It was desperate and caring; unlike she had heard for a long time. For a few minutes she only saw blackness and her body numb. The good witch felt her eyes open weakly to see the same blue diamond eyes she saw catch her when she heard the bang.

"C-cha..se?" she could only manage to whisper, her mind was retracing; trying to remember what happened. She felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Oh Glinda…I mean, Your highness you're ok. I was so worried. I promise we will catch the person that fired that gun." Then it all came back as a splash of ice cold water; a headache followed too quickly making her nauseous. She groaned closing her eyes again.

"I-I was shot?" she murmured

"Yes Miss. But thanks to our wonderful doctor Danielle you are going to be ok; sore and weak for a few months but ok. The bullet hit your side and missed your rib cage. …I know you probably don't want to hear that but-"

"No..No i-it's ok. I need to k-now when I can re-return to work." Her eyes opened again to see the concerned look on the Captain's face. She had only seen that expression one other time…then it hit her. The memory that had sky rocketed to her head the moment she was shot.

She only remembered that part but she could feel it was something far more important than her incident. How could her best friend hide something as a memory from her, it just didn't sound like Elphie at all or Fiyero for that matter. And that place… she knew it so well yet she couldn't put her finger on it.

"Glinda.." she looked back to Chase and look at his uniform. It was covered in her blood, making her shiver to the bone and placing fear in her heart knowing someone wanted her dead. None of this was making sense to the young witch.

"I can't stay…" She whispered trying to build up strength. "No, you can't. Glinda I thought it was best that you and a trusted friend go somewhere. Anywhere that you could hide safely until this person is caught. It's far too dangerous and Oz can't handle losing you."

Glinda looked to the ceiling only trying not to tear up from the fear in her and the confusion. She only wanted her friends back and to be able to remember. She never asked for any of this, all she ever wanted was to be able to be with her friends and be happy again. She had no trusted friends anymore; they were both killed by the people she ruled over. All because they were so empty headed to believe anything they were ever told.

She let her eyes close again trying to think things through.

"Chase… you help me sit up?" the Captain gently placed his arm gently around the unhurt side of her waist, his other hand taking hers gently gliding her up into a sitting position. She had never felt a man's touch to be so gentle, but she seemed to not care right now only to find answers as to what was happening.

"Thank you.." he nodded watching her ever so closely. Chase had never seen her mask slowly undoing as she sat there. He could see she was in more emotional pain than physical. He wondered what could have hurt the good witch before the shooting. She seemed so innocent and hidden; he couldn't help but wonder who she was before she was The Good Witch. But what came next would make him closer to Glinda than he ever imagined.

"Chase, I don't have a close or trusted friend. You are the only person I could trust the most to protect me. You even felt I shouldn't have out to the balcony. And I owe you an apology f-for it. But please..will you come with me when I leave?" For once the Captain let his duty sit aside as he took her hand.

"I would be forever honored Your Goodness. Just tell me where and I can have you out soon. I know your weak but it's the safest time to travel, the person may think you are far to hurt to be moved." She nodded in relief she didn't want anyone else going with her. At least Chase knew what not to ask and never questioned her.

She could feel her eyes growing heavy and her body weak.

"I'm sleepy." She murmured beginning to fall asleep again. Chase watched as she let sleep take her gently, it had to be the pain medication that Danielle had given her. He rubbed her hand gently trying to figure out where he could take her without being discovered. As he looked to the sleepy witch he made a vow then and there.

"I promise Glinda, I promise I will protect you and make sure no harm comes to you ever again. I don't know what you have been through in the past but it will never hurt you again." He stood walking out, to his room; he began to change out of his uniform. Just looking at the blood stains on it only made him surer of what he was doing.

He didn't know who Glinda was as a person, but if protecting her meant figuring it out for himself, then that is what he would do.

However, as he began to get ready, the good witch was beginning to relive another piece of the memory she had long forgotten, a memory hidden from her for a more than two years.

"Elphie, I can't believe we are coming here." A hand touched her hand as the carriage began to pull up to the small gate of the village. Her green friend pulled her into a tight hug as the carriage came to a complete stop.

"Glinda, this will be good for you. I mean, don't you want to look at where you really came from?" The blonde shook her head her eyes looking out to the village.

"No, I want to be who I always have been. An Upland that is who I was born to wasn't it Elphie?" her friend gave a sigh and hugged her tight.

"I'm sorry Glinda, I could only imagine what it's like to know yourself but then find out it's not who you are at all." The door to the carriage opened the man standing there gave them an encouraging smile.

"Miss Glinda, I give you the place you were born. Welcome to Rulan." Glinda forced herself to step out and look at the place where her birthparents had lived. The place was small, a quiet little village, with red brick roads, small shops and a fountain in the village's square. It was small but a peaceful and home like small.

"What do you think Glinda?" Elphaba said as her and Fiyero stepped out to stand beside her. It made her more at ease to know they were with her. As she looked it over, the blonde felt something. A sense of familiarity and warmth, she looked to her best friend gripping her hand scared.

"It..it actually feels like home."

The Good Witch shot out of her bed, too quickly making her scream for a moment in pain. Her body was covered in sweat, and was shivering from fear. She touched her bandaged waist wincing in great pain.

"Glinda!" Chase ran in so fast it was then she noticed he was in only a brown button up shit, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and in brown pants. But then that couldn't help Glinda from tearing up in pain from the dream and her wound.

"I..Had a nightmare is all..I'm sorry I sat up too fas.t…" Chase gently laid her back down.

"It's ok Glinda, I understand. Everything will be ok. I'm still thinking it over where to take you to hide. But I promise I will find a good place." Glinda shook her head, feeling the pain beginning to ease just as Danielle came in.

"She ok?" Chase nodded, "Just a bad dream Danielle everything is fine."

"Ch-ase. I know where we can go…" The Captain looked at her for a moment and a small smile came on his face, grateful she had thought of a place they could go and she would feel comfortable.

"Where?" Glinda could feel how dry her mouth was as she said the one place she couldn't help but say.

"H-have you ever heard of a small place called Rulan?"