Missesmadhatter: Actually I already had this sitting around in my document folder pondering if I should put it up or not. I didn't want to start a fic up right now since school is starting soon and my classes are going to be challenging writing courses, but what the hell, I bored right now, I'll see how much I can get done by August 22, hopefully it'll be 10,000 (finger's crossed) and from then on with school it'll be a chapter every 2 weeks I guess.
Anna Marie Raven: Thanks, don't worry my chapters aren't usually that short lol only prologues. My average is between 1,000, to 3,000 words per chapter so don't worry. I will continue for as long as I can without getting bad grades for not doing homework lol
Lyndalion16: Thanks so much, I'll write more, as much as I can
Thanks SO much for the reviews!
I can't believe there's actually Return to Oz fics and fan clubs I just found this out recently when my new wicked fandom got me back into my childhood love of Return to Oz. Don't you guys just love those old 80s movies that gave you nightmares as a child but then you grew up loving and understanding them like for me it was- Neverending Story(the wolf scared me, it was frightening movie for me and it made me sad with the horse and all) and Willow(I don't have to explain myself with this one) and The Last Unicorn(okay maybe that didn't scare me) and Labyrinth(Hey David Bowie scared me! even though I sorta find him hot now lol) and Beetle Juice(Tim Burton nuff said there) and Princess Bride(the rats and the sea monster scared me okay, don't laugh) –as you can tell I was one of those kids who were afraid of everything lol
Okay one other thing before I start, this is also not scene to scene like Return to Oz, it is a rewrite, but not a line to line repeat so don't get confused if I skip a scene, part, whatever, it's not suppose to be the same, only close, well to the plot, that is, but not to movie-and I'll stop rambling with run on sentences now (I tend to do that sometimes) again the only thing that is the same is the idea, the synopsis, that's it
Oh and one more thing, just one more I swear,if youhaven't seenWicked or know the story email me(email at profile)and I'll send you a link to theWicked Musical Script. And also Billina, although in RTO is not going to be in this fic, I know what you're thinking, "oh no! How are they going to defeat the Gnome king without a chicken?" well even more reason to read
On to chapter 1!
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Chapter I
The next morning Dorothy was playing in the barnyard with the chickens. Something was going on she could tell. There was always whispering between Aunt Em and Uncle Henry behind her back. Aunt Em was going to take her on a trip to see a doctor of some sort, that was all she could make out of the whispers.
"Hey Dorothy"
She looked up to see Hunk, "Hello Hunk"
"What's wrong?" He asked concerned noticing her frown, he's been worried about lately, everyone has been.
"Do you ever wish you could go back?"
"Go back where, Oz?"
"Yeah, When in Oz I wanted to go home believing I belonged here, but now I don't know anymore it doesn't seem that I fit in here enough to belong. I seem to only get in people's way. If was different in Oz, I was celebrated and welcomed by all the citizens, I was wanted there, when I wanted to go home they wanted me to stay so badly, enough to cry" She looked down remembering
"I know what you mean, I went to the city a long while back. People take going back east as giving up but I wasn't giving up I was seeking opportunities by going to college, I was considered odd then seeking opportunities in an education rather than gold hunting in California"
"Where did you get the money to travel east?" Dorothy asked remembering Aunt Em's stories of covered wagons and hardships
"My father was rich, he was in stocks and such and our family had a noble name dating back to the colonists"
"Old money?"
"Yeah you can say that. Anyways my father wanted me to go to college to become a doctor, I just wanted to go to college to get the hell out of our small town and get a whole new experience—"
"Hunk quit talking and help us out with the fences!" Zeke called out
"I have get going, sorry" Hunk paused thinking for a moment, "By the way I found this key in the barn ruins, I think it could be from Oz"
"Let me see!" Dorothy lit up with excitement as she eagerly took it from him, it was indeed a key with the O-Z sign of Oz, "It is, it's a key from Oz, it's my proof!"
"Your proof?"
"Yes proof that Oz exists! The proof I wished for!" she jumped up, "I can't wait to show this to Aunt Em, thanks Hunk!" she ran to the house
"How thoughtful of you to egg her on like that" Zeke sighed, "You even had to use some nails from our supply to go make her that"
"An orphan little girl like her needs something to believe in"
"Yeah well you want to know what this Oz nonsense has gotten her into?"
"Hope?"
"No, I heard them talking the other day, they're sending her away, to some hospital and you can guess what sort of hospital it is"
"They couldn't? She's just a little girl, they wouldn't send her to a place like that because of something she just made up to help herself get over her parent's death"
"Well they are tomorrow"
"Of course, how could I forget, they always love to bend those who dream of a better world" he sighed remembering a special girl he once knew, "always"
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AN: Chapter 2 coming in a few hours, I'm editing it right nowAnd a shameless plug, I have another writing inspired by Wicked, it's original fiction called The Thorn Witch, it's a fantasy romantic comedy that's also a homage to all the classic 80s fantasy movies located at Fiction Press under my other pen name of Julianne Nicolette
