Chapter 3

"Elphie!" Glinda squealed as she jumped from her bubble into Elphaba's tower.

"Yes?" Elphaba moaned.

"What's wrong?"
"I'm just- I-" She really didn't want to say it. "I'm hungry and I can't get up." Glinda's eyes softened.

"Oh Elphie." She cooed. "I'll heat up the soup." Glinda ran off then came back minutes later with tray filled with a steaming bowl of soup, a spoon, some crackers and a cool glass of water. "It's important to stay hydrated!" Glinda said in her peppy tone. She raised the spoon and placed it to Elphaba's lips. "Here"

"Glinda, I don't need you to feed me."

"But you're too weak to do it yourself." Glinda pointed out.

"I can do it." Elphaba said taking the tray weakly and almost spilling the soup all over herself. Glinda pulled it back.

"Nope. Let me take care of you for today." She said with a grin. She began feeding her while Elphaba frowned at having to rely on someone to help her.

"So um when was your last period?" Glinda asked.

"What?" Elphaba almost spit out the soup in her mouth. "What kind of question is that?"
"Just answer it!" Glinda giggled.

"I um-" Elphaba did the math in her head. One, two, three, four, five, six. What? She counted again only to come up with the same number. Her eyes widened. "I'm late." She whispered.

Glinda squealed. "Elphie don't you get it! The dizziness, the morning sickness, the late period! You're pregnant!" Elphaba's eyes got even bigger.

"Not possible." She whispered. "I can't be-"

"Think about it! It's the only thing you could be!"

"I'm not pregnant."

"I can prove you are."

"What?"

"I made an appointment for you tomarrow!"

"What? Glinda you know I can't go outside!"

"You can with this!" She cried, pulling out a potion from her bag.

Elphaba raised an eyebrow. "And that is?"

"It's a potion that's popular in the emerald city. You think of a color and you can become that color for six hours! Isn't that cool!"

"Why do they-"
Glinda didn't hear her she just kept talking. "People mostly use it for special occasions like Lurnemas where they want to look green or red or something for the holidays but you can use it for this! It's going to be so cool!"

"Glinda!" Elphaba yelled attempting to get her friends attention.

"Yes?"

"If I were to agree to this how would we be getting there? We can't take my broom."

"But we can take my bubble!" Glinda chirped. "Oh it'll be perfect! I wonder what you'll look like normal colored?" Elphaba raised an eyebrow. "Not that you don't look amazing emerald! It suits you." Glinda grinned nervously.

Elphaba sighed as much as she didn't want to go outside she felt she had no choice if she was pregnant there was something left to live for, one tiny sliver of Fiyero. "What time is the appointment?" Elphaba asked with a look a defeat on her face. Glinda squealed.

"Yay!"

Fiyero winced as he was hit once again.

"Stop." He heard a voice cry.

"Why are you here?" One of the men hitting him asked.

"I'm here to deliver a message from the wizard. He heard of the incident and has thought of a more…. Appropriate punishment." A creepy giggle ensued. "A public whipping tomarrow in the square to show the citizens of Oz the… consequences of defying the wizard and associating with… it." Fiyero was about to scream at him in response but was quickly silenced by a quick kick in the gut.

The guards smiled their demented smiles then through a beat and battered Fiyero back into his cell.

Fiyero almost preferred the physical pain. He hated this and all he wanted to do right now was to die so he could see his beloved again.