AN: Last chapter!
Disclaimer: I owned Wicked. But then I woke up.
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In a couple of weeks Elphaba was old enough for school. She was excited; it was a chance to learn, and a chance to read some new books. Her mother helped her get dressed into a long (almost black) dark green dress. Glinda braided her hair as she rubbed some coconut oil into her face. She wanted to be as clean as she could for her first day of school.
Her mother handed her a small knapsack with books and a small lunch in it. Elphaba started down the road, walking the mile on the side of the dirt road to school. As soon as she passed the gates she heard the evil chattering of children. Elphaba kept her head down, not letting herself to make eye contact with any of the other children.
"Look at the froggy" one boy said.
"Why does she smell weird?" a girl questioned.
"Have you seen anyone so green?" another girl said.
"Does it talk?" a boy taunted.
"I don't think so" another boy says, grabbing Elphaba's backpack.
"Give it" Elphabascreamed "It's mine. Give it!"
The boy who took her bag smiled cruelly and threw it into the mud. Elphaba let out a wild scream, and pushed the boy into the mud. Then she grabbed her knapsack (ignoring the small burning from the wet mud) and ran all the way home.
Her mother was surprised to see her eldest daughter, and was worried when she saw the mud-splattered bag. Melena stopped sewing with Glinda and helped Elphaba unpack her backpack.
"Did you drop your bag into the mud dear?" she asked.
"No mama" Elphaba whispered "A mean boy threw it."
"Oh honey" Melena said, hugging her sad daughter.
"Do I have to go back to school?" sniffed Elphaba.
"Yes dear. But how about you stay home until we send Glinda to school? Then you can be together."
"Yes mama!" Glinda shouted, and she joined the group hug.
"I was asking Elphaba, but I'm glad you would like that." Melena giggled "So Elphaba. What do you say?"
"That would be pleasant." Elphaba whispered.
"Okay then, you'll go with Glinda" Melena hugged her daughters harder.
Finally the day arrived when Glinda and Elphaba were able to go to school. Melena packed both of them a knapsack and kissed them each goodbye. Glinda was hobbling as fast as she could, exited to be going somewhere new. And she was going with her sister! How fun!
The girls were accepted by this year's group of children, whether because this year's brood was nicer or because of Glinda's undeniable charisma, we shall never know.
The first three months passed uneventfully, until winter's cold brought a virus to Glinda. She was awake most nights, coughing. She had always been a weak child, and now she could barely get up. Her parents were understandably worried, and one of their life changing conversations went like this:
"Frex?" Melena said, sitting down on the bed.
"Yes Melena?" Frex said, sitting next to his wife on the bed.
"What are we going to do about-"she was interrupted by Glinda coughing harshly. They waited, and Glinda stopped after a moment.
"That." Melena finished.
"Do you think we should send her out of Munchkinland?" Frex questioned.
"Yes, but where?"
"Not Quadling Country, it's too humid and that's not good for a cough."
"Not Gillikin, it's too cold." Melena continued.
"Not the Emerald City, to smoggy" Frex finished.
"I guess Winkie Country is our best bet." Melena said, hugging Frex closer to her person.
"Tomorrow I'll go and by train passage for Glinda. She should be out of Munchkinland in a couple of days." Frex kissed his wife.
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Frex was true to his word, purchasing a train ticket for his youngest daughter. He told the girls about their decision during dinner. Afterwards, when Glinda and Elphaba were in their bed, the girls talked.
"Will we be sisters forever?" Glinda asked between coughs.
"Of course." Elphaba assured her "You're going to have so much fun"
"Not without you" Glinda said, moving closer to her sister.
"You will. But I'll see you soon. Okay?"
"Yes" Both girls went to sleep soon after that, and in the morning Glinda left. It would be ten years before the sisters saw each other again.
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When Glinda arrived in the Vinkus, she was greeted by a tattooed man and his young son.
"Hello dear, you must be Glinda." He said in broken Ozian, "I'm Yeron, your father wanted my to foster you while you got over this cough, correct?"
"Correct Sir Yeron" Glinda said, curtsying as best she could while being supported by crutches.
"Come children" he said, turning around, picking up Glinda's backpack, and walking along the road. Glinda and Yeron's son walked side by side. Glinda looked at the shirtless boy, noting the blue diamonds that ran up his arms, chest, and parts of his face. He was skin was a deep brown, with short brownish hair. He also sported an earring and a ruby nose stud.
"Hello, what's your name?" Glinda addressed the boy, coughing.
"Fiyero Tiggular, Winkie prince." The boy looked down, obviously shy.
"Fiyero, that's a nice name. Are you really a prince?"
"Yes"
"Wow. What do you do for fun?" Glinda wanted to know everything about someone, a trait that annoyed her family to no end.
"I hunt. I sometimes draw. Or I'll make jewelry."
"Cool!" Glinda squealed and coughed.
"Your cough sounds bad. Is that why you use crutches?" Fiyero was intrigued by this girl who was supposed to become his foster sister.
"No, I've used crutches since I was really little." Glinda explained "My cough is new. My papa wanted me to breathe better air so he sent me here."
"Wow. Do you have any siblings?"
"Yes. I've got an older sister, Elphaba. She's green"
"Like the color?"
"Yes. I like her skin, it's pretty."
"It sounds beautiful." And with that, the new friends launched into an animated conversation, talking all the way home.
Over the next few years Fiyero and Glinda became almost like siblings, sharing a bed if it was cold, sharing victories, sharing sorrows and hardships, and sharing sibling love. In the open fields, and even the huge castle (called Kiama Ko) Glinda became strong. Her cough became a distant memory and soon she could walk without crutches.
When Frex found this out he wrote to Yeron and asked him to allow Glinda to remain with Yeron and his family until Glinda was old enough to go to Shiz University (that was one of the best universities, and best of all it was co-ed so Glinda and Fiyero could go together). Yeron accepted Glinda as part of his family, and it was about that time when Glinda got an emerald nose stud…
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Unfortunately, Elphaba missed her sister. She would go for days at a time without food and became so thin Melena had to alter all her dresses. She also refused to go back to school. She had stopped smiling altogether, and fell into a big depression.
Melena and Frex worried about their daughter and when she refused to leave her bed altogether they decided to send her to her crippled aunt Nessarose, in the Emerald city.
She didn't seem to notice her father packing up all of her dresses and oils, and when he walked her to the train station she could barely kiss his rough cheek goodbye.
Her time with Aunt Nessarose was more enjoyable; Nessa had a huge library with all sorts of books that Elphaba loved to read.
And Nessa's idea of raising a child meant that she had to say her prayers before bed and attend a Mass on Sundays, but other than that Elphaba could run as wild as she pleased. Often dressed from head to
toe in black, Elphaba would jump from rooftop to rooftop, catlike; or she would spend hours in the library. But overall Elphaba was a quiet, withdrawn child that found little joy in the world.
Nessarose and Elphaba liked to have dinner together (more to the former's enjoyment than the latter's) and it was then Elphaba got to know her beautiful, religious, and wheelchair bound aunt. Elphaba decided early on that she was and atheist, but she humored her aunt and got into some interesting debates with Nessa.
Nessarose realized her niece's potential for a university, and when it was time to enroll Elphaba for the fall semester Nessarose found the nicest, co-ed university for her. It was called Shiz…
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AN: That's it! You can make up what happens next, or wait for my good friend ICanCtheFuture to post the rest. She's going to post the other chapters, and write her own after the fourth. SHE DOES HAVE PERMISSION TO POST IT!
Please review? For the sake of my sanity. (Or what's left of it.)