Ok this chapter is pretty long but most of it is direct quotes from the cat fight scene in "Wicked" (now for all of those lawyers clicking their pens to begin writing a lawsuit, check out the disclaimer!)
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Let The Green Girl Go
Fiyero trudged down the path through the treacherous woods, careful not to make a sound that might warn Elphaba that he was following her. He kept a safe-distance at all times and was thankful she decided to go by foot because the destination wasn't terribly far. Occasionally she would stop and look behind her shoulder; he suspected it was out of habit of being on the run all of these years, alone, constantly living in fear. He imagined himself living this forest, hiding, without someone to hold close and say it would be all right, he wished that he could have been there for Elphaba all of those lonely years. It doesn't matter; he was going to make up for lost time
After about another hour of frantic traveling, Elphaba at last reached a clearing and Fiyero's jaw dropped as he could make out a house centered in the middle of the ground. Elphaba had been right. He could hear faint voices coming from the clearing but because of the distance he couldn't make out the words. He could vaguely make out Elphaba's pointed hat through the darkness, and somehow he could tell that she was seething with rage. It was then that he heard a very familiar voice.
"Yes you just take that one road the whooooole tiiiiiiiime!" Glinda shouted after someone he couldn't see.
He could see Elphaba's shoulder move up and down, as if she was trying to calm herself down by taking deep breaths. He wished he could see what Glinda was doing that was causing his Elphaba to react this way, deep in thought he almost hadn't noticed Elphaba walk out onto the clearing.
"What a touching display of grief!" she spat at her friend.
Fiyero decided to move in closer to see what was going on, so he quietly walked over to the spot that Elphaba had previously been standing, making sure to lurk in the shadows.
"I don't think we have any thing further to say to one another!" said Glinda when she heard Elphaba. Fiyero was slightly angry that Glinda would talk to Elphaba that way.
"I wanted something to remember her by, and all that was left of her were those shoes…and now that WRETCHED LITTLE FARM GIRL HAS WALKED OFF WITH THEM!" Elphaba screamed. Fiyero, who had been confused at first, suddenly realized what had happened. He felt sick as the horrible truth dawned on him; Elphaba's sister had been crushed by the house.
His heart hurt for Elphaba, it was all he could do not to dash into the clearing and take her into his arms and tell her it would be ok. After everything she had been through the past few years, now she has to cope with the grief of losing her sister as well.
"How much more grief could Elphaba manage to endure before something bad happens?" Fiyero thought to himself.
"So I would appreciate some time, alone, to say goodbye to my sister." She whispered. Elphaba kneeled before the house and put her face in her hands.
"Nessa please…please forgive me." She wept quietly.
Fiyero couldn't take it anymore, he was just about to reveal himself to Elphaba and hold her in his arms, to tell her it wasn't her fault and that she still had him, until he realized Glinda hadn't left yet.
"Elphie! Don't blame yourself! It's dreadful, it is, to have a house fall on you…but accidents will happen!" said Glinda softly, trying to get Elphaba to calm down. It had the opposite effect.
"AN ACCIDENT?" Elphaba bellowed at her small friend.
"Well…I wouldn't call it an accident-" Glinda began.
"Then what would you call it?" Elphaba spat.
"Uh…a regime change, caused by a bizarre an unexpected…twister of fate!" Glinda said trying to think fast.
"You think cyclones just appear out of the blue?" Elphaba began to rant.
Fiyero watched as the two most important women in his life began to bicker. Though he still cared for Glinda as a friend, he was livid at her for speaking to Elphaba in that way. It wasn't her fault that he had gone with her, she tried everything to have him turn back for Oz-sakes! He felt it was fault that Glinda was so mad, but she shouldn't take out her feelings on Elphaba who was in mourning.
"And just what exactly have you been doing? Besides flying around on that filthy old thing!" Glinda spat back gesturing to her broom.
"Well…not everyone can come and go by bubble!" countered Elphaba. Fiyero resisted the urge to laugh, Elphie was so clever.
"Whose invention was that? The Wizard's?" Elphaba cackled. "Even if it wasn't I'm sure he would still take credit for it!"
"It seems a lot of people are taking things that don't belong us aren't we?" Glinda finally said in a low voice.
Oh no, here it is. Fiyero knew this was going to come up sooner or later, but he really wanted to avoid this. In fact, this was precisely one of the reasons he wasn't sure how to break up with Galinda at Shiz, because of a cat fight.
"Now you just wait one clock-tick." Elphaba began slowly. "I know it may be difficult for that blissful, blonde brain of yours to comprehend that someone like him could choose someone like me…but it's happened! It's real, and you can wave that ridiculous wand all you want and it won't change anything! He doesn't love you, and he never did, he loves ME!" screamed Elphaba as she rushed towards Glinda. Everything she had said was true, though it sounded harsh to Glinda. Fiyero was starting to feel guilty about Glinda until she did the unthinkable. She slapped Elphaba right across her beautiful green face.
"How dare you!" Fiyero thought furiously. How dare she slap his Elphaba, he felt like slapping her right across the face but Elphaba had beat him to the punch.
After being slapped, she let out a earsplitting cackle and asked "Feel better?"
"Yes…I do!" said Glinda smugly.
"Good!" Elphaba said before slapping Glinda even harder in the face so that she spun around.
He couldn't say that he wasn't impressed as he also made a mental note not to upset Elphaba. Suddenly he watched as the two girls went into fighting stances, Elphaba held her broom ready for combat and Glinda held her wand the same way. Elphaba lunged at Glinda, forgetting her broom and Glinda tore her hat off her head. He watched as the scene unfolded until…"NO!" Fiyero shouted in his mind.
He watched in horror as his fears came true. Half a dozen Gale Force guards had sprinted into the clearing and seized Elphaba.
"I'm sorry it took so long to get here miss!" said one of the guards, addressing Glinda.
"Glinda did this?" Fiyero thought, not believing that it could be true. Glinda, of all people, the women who he grew to love like as sister would sell out Elphaba to the guards? There was one thing he knew for sure…all of this was his fault. Glinda never would have done this if he had stayed with her in the castle.
"I'm so sorry Elphaba; I swear I'll make this right!" Fiyero thought.
One of guards stood in front of Elphaba, pointing a spear to her head as she struggled to release herself from the hold one of them had on her. However, despite the terrifying situation, she only glared at Glinda.
"I can't believe you would stoop this low!" Elphaba said in a powerful sounding voice. "To use my sister's death as a trap to CAPTURE ME?" Elphaba cried out to her former best friend.
Glinda began to deny it but all of the guards were in a frenzy. He had to think of something…fast! Fiyero went over all of his options, but he knew only one would prevail. To save Elphaba, he would have to put himself in the line of fire. He realized that he didn't even need a clock-tick to think it though, he grabbed a rope that had been hanging from a tree and without hesitation swung into the clearing.
"Let the green girl go." Fiyero said in a deadly serious voice.
