I also don't own any thing From L. Frank Baum. Just thought I had to say that as well. I do own this idea however. I hasn't yet been patened yet, but I'm working on it. I am joking by the way.
Elphaba walked down a dirt road with a hood pulled over her face and her head down. She approached a small farm on the side of the road and spotted a dog. A little black dog that looked exactly as she remembered it. She knelt down to it's level and stuck her hand out to it. "Do you remember me? I remember you."
It sniffed her green hand and then jumped back and growled. She pulled her hand away from it and hid it again.
"It's nice to be remembered." She said to the dog as she stood up and looked around. Just then a girl appeared. She ran over to her and bent down to pick up the dog.
"I'm sorry. Was he bothering you?" She said in that sickeningly sweet voice of hers. Elphaba rolled her eyes and looked down at the girl.
"Oh, no of course not dear." She replied in a faked sweet voice. "May I speak with you?"
The girl looked around her and then back at the house. "I don't know Auntie Em taught me not to talk to strangers." She said clutching the dog close to her. Elphaba held her composure and led the girl over to a rock. She sat on it while Elphaba stayed standing.
"It will take less than a few minutes." She said standing in front of her while the dog growled.
"Alright. I'm Dorothy by the way." She said sticking out her hand. Elphaba looked at it and kept her hands hidden from her.
"Yes, well then Dorothy, did you recently travel to the Land of Oz?" Elphaba asked sitting lower than the rock. Dorothy's head jerked up and her eyes got wide.
"How do you know?" She asked nervously.
"I was there." She said pulling back her hood to reveal her green face and let her long black hair unfold.
Dorothy clasped her hands to her mouth to keep herself from screaming and the dog cowered back in fear. Elphaba rolled her eyes again and crossed her arms across her chest.
"I'm just here for one reason and one alone." She told her leaning forward.
"Revenge?" Dorothy said backing away towards the end of the rock.
"What? No. The shoes. All I want is the shoes." She said standing up and pacing. Dorothy looked around and the dog ran back. She had scared him off. Dorothy looked after him.
"Toto!" She called after it with no success.
Elphaba sat in the dog's place and looked at the girl. "Please that's all I came for." She said almost begging. Dorothy looked back at her with fear in her eyes.
"So, it wasn't a dream it was real. There really was an Oz?" She asked looking at her and pulling her knees up to her chest.
"The Land of Oz is as real as is the fact that I am green." She said to her seriously.
Dorothy looked at the Witch and then back at the farm.
"You can have them. I don't want them anymore." She said almost crying the words out. "I'm sorry I stole them in the first place." She said tears now trickling down her face.
Elphaba got up quickly and looked down at the girl. She cried into her hands and then looked up at the Witch.
"Oh, well I hid them when I realized that I still had them. They would be very valuable to anyone here." She said standing up and getting up off the rock once her crying had stopped.
Elphaba didn't speak she only listened to the young girl.
"They're in the barn. Follow me."
Elphaba followed her to the barn and then inside it. Dorothy walked to the back and opened a huge wooden trunk. She dug through it's contents for a few minutes and then pulled out a pair and dusty ruby slippers. She held them in her hands and brought them over to the witch.
"Here they are. Sorry if they're dusty it's been a few months." She said smiling to her for the first time since the witch had revealed her identity.
Elphaba accepted the shoes and held them for a few seconds in her hands.
"It's fine. I have a piece of my sister back." She said holding them close to her.
"How's Liir?" She asked shyly fiddling with her hands. Elphaba was stunned by the question and suddenly felt sorrow.
"I don't know. I haven't been to Oz yet." She answered looking only at the shoes in her hands.
Toto then ran to Dorothy and voices could be heard following.
Elphaba looked behind her to the source of the voices and ran behind a pile of haybales.
The barn doors opened and Elphaba heard the trunk slam shut. She peered over the hay and saw five other people.
"Auntie Em," She said walking to the old women in front. "Uncle Henry, what are you doing in here?"
"Toto, came and told us." The woman said hugging her. "He seemed frightened. Are you alright?"
Dorothy smiled at her aunt and uncle.
"Yes. Nothing happened. He probably just heard a car backfire." They laughed at this and Toto looked over at the hay where Elphaba was watching. She moved her gaze to the three men behind the couple. One was sort of portly in her opinion. The second one seemed to know little about the world around him. The third one however caught her eye. He seemed familiar to her, like she had known him from somewhere. She poked her head out more and stared at this man. She did know him, from somewhere. She just couldn't place it. Then something clicked in her mind. He looked exactly like someone she knew. Who? She ducked behind the hay again as Dorothy's aunt and uncle turned to leave with the other two men. She stepped to the edge of the pile and peered around it at the man.
"You're sure you're alright?" He asked putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Yes. I said I was fine." She told him with a sweet smile.
Elphaba smiled and moved around to the side of the pile to see him. It would continue to bother her until she figured it out.
"Ok. Well you be careful kid. You went to an imaginary land last time you bumped your head." They both laughed and he hugged her before walking towards the door. Toto ran out before him still afraid of Elphaba. He gave a handsome smile as he left and it clicked in her head. He looked exactly like Fiyero.