Hey,

In this chapter there are a few actors of Wicked mentioned. I hope you don't mind it took so long, I did have fun writing it. I hope you guys love it!

Enjoy,

TempeGeller

Chapter 4: The wonderful wizard of Oz and the wicked witch of the West

"Why did you even get the police in to this?" Elphaba turned to her. "They're not going to help you. You know how the Gale force was, they're just looking for…"
"Do I detect hate right there?" Kristin spoke "Cause love is better."
"Oh an overly happy person." Elphaba rolled her eyes. "Glinda why did you bring your double along?" "Elphaba!" Glinda turned towards her. "She knows the city."
"Well…" Elphaba spoke "Well, so does Dorothy. We have her for that remember. We don't need some blond giggly bubbly person, no offense?"
"I'm all of those things." Kristin smiled "Why would I be offended?"
"Because…" Elphaba turned to Glinda. "Remember how I hated you when we were not friends. That emotion is going through my vanes right now."
"Elphie." Glinda stepped next to her. "She hasn't even called you steamed artichoke. Karebear has never done anything wrong."
"Can you not call me that?" Kristin turned to her. "Call me Kristi, like everyone else."
"See, you're to bubbly for her." Elphaba turned to Kristin. "She gets hyper on sugar sometimes."
"Well, the unnamed God says that sugar isn't bad." Glinda turned around. "Plus my kids eat a lot of that. Okay?"

"Oh, you're a Christian too?" Kristin smiled
"No." Glinda believed "I don't believe in the…"
"Yes, she is." Dorothy spoke "Don't talk about you know who."
"Ozma, why can't we…"

"So how do you feel about gay people?" Glinda turned to Kristin. "Are you really conservative?"
"Well, I feel that animals should have the right to talk." Glinda spoke "Just not owls, they are to preachy. Well, they always do that. I love flying monkeys the most. How do you feel about the right off Animals to talk?"
Elphaba rolled her eyes as Glinda kept talking. Kristin had a certain confusion of her face. She turned to Dorothy and showed the confusion.
"I don't…" Kristin smiled "I guess I'm okay with learning my parrot how to talk."
"You know gay means when two people of the same sex go out." Dorothy spoke "You know."
"oh, I'm completely okay with that." Glinda spoke "In fact I think Avaric would…"
"Glinda!" Elphaba turned to Kristin. "I'm so sorry about her behavior. She's not trained with guests."
"Elphaba!"
"It's okay." Kristin smiled "I was brought in a understanding family. I don't mind people believing in something I don't. Well, I would love my dog to talk. Maddie and I would have very interesting conversations."
"So she's your…"
"Glinda!" Dorothy and Elphaba said at the same time. There was a certain anger in their eyes. Kristin turned to them, something in Elphaba knew that Kristin must think they were really crazy. Yet she didn't want to give Kristin any reason to freak out.

"Look, what does the child look like?" Kristin turned to Elphaba. Elphaba turned away a bit, she looked towards Dorothy. "Look, miss 'I don't want to talk to Kristi', can you please show me what she looks like?"
"Here's a picture." Elphaba handed her. "She has black hair, she's very smart. And she talks to everyone. I should have kept a better eye on her…"
"Look, it's not your fault." Kristin put her hand on Elphaba's knee. "Look, kids run away. I'm sure we're going to find her. This is not your fault…"

Elphaba stood up. She walked towards the window as she stared over the rooftops. Where was her child? Where was Rain Tiggular? She was missing for 4 days now, and she knew that someone had to take care of her. Rain was able to take care of herself for a few days. She was smart enough to use magic to get money. So Elphaba shouldn't worry about Rain feeding herself. It was the fear the city brought with it. Elphaba's eyes went to the door as Fiyero entered. Kristin seemed to be impressed by his handsome features. Or at least that's what Elphaba thought. She slowly walked towards him and moved in his arms.
"Fea, are you holding yourself strong?" Fiyero moved his hands through her hair. "Or as strong as you can be?"

"I am sure that we're going to find her…" Kristin spoke
"Oh, I thought you were so convinced she was dead." Glinda moved her hands in front of her mouth.

A week passed by as Rain was in the care of Idina. In the evening Idina had to perform, so Cara would babysit her. Rain had fought Idina not to take a babysit, but there was no way she would be convinced. What had happened in this week? Why did Idina act like a mom towards her? Why did she feel like Idina was kind of like a mom? Was it wrong for her to love someone like a mother figure? And was it because Idina was so much like Elphaba. Was it simple her appearance or the whole package? In a way Rain liked it that returned that love to her. The woman respected her and took care of her like only a mom could. She sang her to sleep and kept her save. Rain respected Idina for taking her in and making her see the city through her own eyes. Rain believed that Idina was brought up in New York, or was born in the outskirts of the big city.

"Hey Munchkin." Idina smiled at her.
"Well, I'm also part Vinkan." Rain returned her smile.
"Well, don't you have a sense of humor. " Idina picked her up and gave her a soft kiss on her forehead. "I'm going to keep call you little munchkin."
"So why did you stop asking me after my mom?" Rain turned to her. "I mean I like it. Having fun with you is really fun. I…"
"Well, you wouldn't tell me…" Idina sat down and pulled Rain on her lap. "It seems like a waste of precious time to keep asking something you won't give me an answer to."
"Seems like you are smart…" Rain turned around. "So are we doing anything fun today?"
"I don't know…." Idina turned "What do you want to do?"
"Maybe eat something nice and go to the Empire state building." Rain started to smile even harder. Her smile was something that still enchanted Idina. There was nothing she could get used about this girl. "Or we could just watch a movie."
"Well, that sounds good Munchkin." Idina spoke. "What do you think about a musical? Sound of music? Or any I have laying around."

"Good…" Rain ran up the stairs. Idina smiled as she heard the child go through her DVD collection. Rain was not someone who let someone else pick a DVD. She had her own mind. So it made Idina happy that the child was going through her books, DVD's and music. She loved music and liked singing herself. They liked to sing together. Idina would play on the piano and Rain would sing as right as she could.
After a few moments Idina heard a soft knock on the door. With a heavy footstep she walked towards the door. The first thing she saw were the brown eyes that belonged to Taye Diggs.
"What are you doing here?"

"Do I need a reason to visit my girlfriend and her daughter?" Taye gave her a kiss on her cheek, he entered the apartment. "And I bought something for your child."
"What did you get her?" Idina crossed her arms over her chest. "By the way, nice to hear we're dating. When did you decide that?"
"Right after that first kiss…" Taye sat down. "Life's too short to not put a label on a relationship. I love the kid and I love you. We're perfect together. I'm not saying we should get married, but someday."
"You want to get married?"
"Someday, yes."
"Taye!" Rain threw herself in Taye's arms. Something in Taye already loved this child. Idina's baby, in the beginning he wanted to make Idina like him. He was trying get her heart through her daughters approval. Yet now he had her love, he saw that they made his life more perfect. Some parts of him wanted a child of the both of them. Still Rain was charming and an identical copy of Idina.
"See what I got you…" Taye showed her a bag. Rain pulled it in her arms and opened it. Right than her face turned pale.

"The wizard of Oz…" Rain turned to Taye. "Who is this L. Frank Baum?"
"Well, he's getting more famous." Taye smiled "This story is something that I loved. I read it on one day, and I thought you would love it too. It's about Dorothy Gale who travels to Oz. Well, she kills the Wicked Witch of the East and goes to…"
"She has a name you know…" Rain stared at the cover. "It was Nessarose…"
"It didn't say that in the book…" Taye smiled "Well, they travel to the wizard of Oz. Well, there's Glinda. She helps Dorothy among the way to kill the Wicked Witch of the West."
"The wicked Witch of the West?" Rain stood up. "She has a name too, it's El-pha-ba…"
"Where do you keep getting this kiddo?" Taye touched her forehead. "Did you read another version than I did?"

"I'm going to read this…" Rain ran on the stairs.
"She'll be down again in a minute." Idina sat down next to Taye. "She knows books better than I do. I think she already read that one, she hates it when I forget small details of a book. You don't have to worry, though. She's coming down and we'll watch a movie."

Rain noticed as anger started to move through her body. Lies were written in a book that grew popularity in this world. There were words about how mean her mom was and about how many people she had hurt and killed. There wasn't one thing that hurt her more than watching her mom's name being pulled through the mud. Like she hadn't fought for the freedom of Oz altogether. The pictures of her mother were worst. They didn't look at her at all, her kind and brown eyes had been altered to red. And her beautiful emerald skin had been changed to an ugly green cursing skin. Dorothy was written as the ultimate good guy, not that Dorothy wasn't a good person. She knew for sure that Dorothy would never describe herself in this way. Dorothy was described as a child, not an early teenager. Her aunt was described as a person that tormented the habitants of Munchkinland and she admitted that on many cases she was. Yet a broken heart had turned her in this woman.

The worst were the lies, some things hadn't even happened. Her mom had never send wild dogs after Dorothy or anything to get her killed. Yeah, she hadn't been that nice to her. Yet she didn't recall that her mom ever wrote in the sky to 'surrender'. Rain threw the book to the other side of the room when she finished it.
"What's wrong Munchkin?" Idina and Taye walked in the room and sat down on the bed.
"Didn't enjoy the book I guess…"

"Well, it's full of lies." Rain spoke "I mean…"
"It's fiction." Taye spoke "Anything in there is not real. There is no wicked Witch of the West. It's just to make you see that there are actual evil people in the world."
"Well, not…" Rain turned around. "I…"
"Let's just put that book away…" Idina took it away and put it on the bedside table. "Let's go watch a movie, this book is just not your cup of tea. I mean some people like it…"
"If you knew what I knew you wouldn't like the book either…" Rain stood up. She moved out of the window towards the living room. The movie she picked out was easily picked up and put in the video player. She sat down in between Taye and Idina. Almost like she wanted to put a barrier between them. Yet it didn't stop both of the adults from glaring to each other. As the movie the sound of music started, Rain put her head on Idina's shoulder. It almost came natural to her. Yet, she didn't smell her mom. Parts of Rain started to miss something her mom did that Idina would never be able too. The part of Idina's voice that would never reflect her mothers. The smell of herbs and magic was something she couldn't smell anymore. Maybe she needed to find her. Yet, leaving Idina hurt her too. Maybe she wanted both of the girls in her life.

"So when Maddie talks to you…" Glinda turned to Kristin. "Than what does she say? Is she interesting? You know I knew this dog…"
"What?" Kristin raised an eyebrow. "I…"
"Well, does she have a sense of humor like…" Glinda smiled and sat closer. "Once upon a time I knew this monkey. Real charmer, I might just have dated him…"

"Glinda!"
"Dating monkeys?" Kristin gave Glinda a playful push. "That's funny. It's a metaphor for how disrespectful men can act. Well, you're right with her. All men are charmers."
"That's Glinda for you…" Elphaba rolled her eyes. "Funny."

Elphaba sat down. Glinda didn't know how she should talk to people who were not from Oz. She saw talking animals as something normal. Yet to Kristin Chenoweth they weren't normal. They were something she had never seen before. She couldn't leave Glinda alone with Kristin for five minutes. She was sure that Glinda would show her the existence of magic.
"So…" Kristin turned to Glinda. "So how are you parents?"
"Well, they're good." Glinda gave a sincere smile. "I was adopted in a real great family. My parents were open about it. My sister Merlia isn't my real sister. Yet…"
"I was adopted too…" Kristin spoke "Never met my real mom."
"Well, you're not missing anything…" Elphaba laughed "My mom let me play near the pond, just so I would fall in and drown. And my father well he didn't like me all that much. Being adopted isn't a bad thing. It's not when you have bad parents."

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Dorothy stepped in the room. "Dead parents make me want to cry my eyes out, since both of mine are dead. So let's not mention…"
"Well, I would be okay with that deal too…" Kristin smiled "Not because of my parents, but because of Fea. I don't want to hear about your awful parents. Okay?"
"Well, I wasn't talking about…"
"Elphaba!"

After the movie, Idina decided to go for ice cream. In a small job near them, you could buy the best ice cream of New York. At least that is what Idina told Taye and Rain. Rain was still moping, she had enjoyed the movie. After it, she had returned to discussing the book. She was like any other six year old, she got obsessed with stuff. Yet the nature of her obsession wasn't all that common for six year olds. She talked about the lies and about how they were not bad people. When they go to the store Rain stopped to talk about the book and the lies that were spread in it. She just sat down and ordered a strawberry ice cream. She didn't know for sure if she took this at home, she didn't know what kind of music she surely liked.

As the ice cream arrived a voice sounded from the other side of the room. The woman had long wavy brown hair, piercing blue eyes and very angular facial structure. She called both Idina and Taye's name out and walked towards the table.
"Idina, Taye…" She sat down on the fourth chair that was not occupied by any of them.
"Willemijn…" Idina stood up and gave her a hug. "This is Rain."

"Your daughter. I heard Leo mention about it." Willemijn spoke "She sure has your eyes. I didn't know you have a child. You never told me about it…"
"Well, you never told me you were leaving…" Idina raised an eyebrow. "Why didn't you stay on Rent? I mean we had great fun, didn't we?"
"Well, We will rock you casted me." Willemijn turned to Idina. "You don't say no to 'We will rock you'. Not when you are an understudy in Rent. You have to understand Idina. I mean I miss all of you. But still Leo said it was the best choice and it pays good. What could I ask for more?"

"Handsome costars." Taye laughed "Well, it sure hasn't been the same without you.."
"Yeah, well I miss you crazy bugs too." Willemijn sat down. "So you two…"
"She's not mine." Taye smiled "But we are together."
"See I knew you would be an item." Willemijn raised her hand to order some ice cream. "On the set we had bets going how long it would take before you two would admit you were in to each other. I guess I should return to Rent to collect. I was the only one to get it right."
"I don't think they are aware of our relationship…"

"Willemijn, why did you and Leo broke up?" Idina raised an eyebrow. "I thought you were going to strong. I mean a couple weeks ago you and Leo were talking about getting married."
"I'm 28." Willemijn smiled "It's not an age to settle with someone. Beside, maybe I want to move back to the Netherlands. Maybe things will work out, maybe they won't."
"So you're together yes or no?"

"We were just a fling, Idina." Willemijn responded. "Not like you and Taye, I mean he keeps eying his friend Michelle. I for one get jealous when I see how he looks at her."
"Michelle Federer?" Taye smiled "Isn't she attending drama school?"
"I guess…" Willemijn stared at the waitress as she arrived with her ice cream. "Well, one of my friends Bart is flying in this weekend. We used to date, so just maybe."
"Good luck with that." Idina laughed "I still think you and Leo make an adorable couple."
"Well I'm not saying never. Not just this month."

Willemijn stared at Rain. Rain was very surprised when they assumed that she was Idina's daughter. Somehow she believed that was the best excuse. They couldn't exactly say that Idina had found her. That now she was taking care of her. Willemijn was very pretty, and was the oposit of Idina. Where Idina seemed to have a soft eyes, sometimes Willemijn would looked more strict. However they shared the same unique beauty. She wasn't surprised that she used to be Idina's understudy. Idina and Willemijn spoke about the musical. A part of her wanted to see Willemijn in We will rock you.
"Mom…" Rain played along in the lie. She believed Willemijn would look at her strangely if she called her mom 'Idina. "Can we go see Willemijn in we will rock?"
"I don't think that's too smart." Idina spoke "Well, I don't really like to have you out late, Munchkin."
"Well, if you would like to see it…" Willemijn smiled "I can get you tickets."

"Well, we'll see about that." Idina spoke "Why don't we do something together?"
"Well, I'm free this afternoon. If you feel like shopping. The 4 of us." Willemijn turned to Taye. "What do you think Taye?"
"If you go shopping I'm out of here…"

Kristin sat down next to Dorothy. She had gotten away from Glinda, which made her happy. A smile appeared on her face. Dorothy turned to Kristin and felt honored that one of the biggest Broadway stars was now in her apartment. Even if it felt strange to have that woman staring at her.
"So her name is Glinda…" Kristin spoke "And she acts exactly like the Glinda the good from that book the Wizard of Oz. Well, it hasn't…"
"What?" Dorothy turned around. "What are you talking about? What book?"

"Well, the girl is called Dorothy Gale like you." Kristin spoke "And she goes to Oz. There is some woman they call the Wicked Witch of the East and you have to…"
"Kill the wicked witch of the west." Dorothy turned to her. "How is that…"
"Who wrote this book?" Elphaba stepped in the room. "If you don't know about this book…"

"Then someone must have…"
"Yeah." Glinda nodded her head. "What the hell is going on?"

Willemijn was standing right in front of the changing room as Rain stepped outside. Idina wanted to buy her a new dress, or was that Willemijns idea? Rain had no idea to be honest. It was Willemijns idea to enter this store and yet Idina had told her to try on the blue dress. She loved how the soft material felt on her skin. So much softer than most dresses were in their land. Rain wanted to ask for more dresses, but she knew that she wouldn't have to. Idina had already gotten more dresses in all kinds of different colors. Rain turned in her dress.
"That's beautiful…" Willemijn spoke
"How about you try this one?" Idina handed her a pink dress. Rain stepped back in the changing room. She pulled the blue dress from her body and dressed herself in the pink dress. The fabric felt softer than the previous one. The dress was just right and she loved the playful pink in the mirror. It made her look more like Idina than her mother. Because it showed how she was not green. Not that Rain cared. She stepped out of the dressing room. Her cheeks were blushing under the attention she was getting.

"Isn't she perfect?" Idina smiled "We're taking that one too."
"Why?" Rain almost sounded surprised.
"She's your mom." Willemijn spoke "Moms like to give presents to their children."

After that Rain had to try another 15 dresses. Idina took all the dresses as a beautiful present for Rain. Rain had never gotten so many beautiful dresses at once. She knew they were pretty expensive. Her mom told her they couldn't always buy all the dresses she wanted. She didn't care, that didn't mean she didn't care about getting beautiful dresses. After shopping for dresses they went for toys. Rain had never seen so much toys together. Toys that could move didn't exist in Oz, not like they moved here. People put way more attention to toys. There were games she would like to try. There were so many dolls she wanted to take. Her mind did scream to her. She was supposed to be more mature. People who were as mature as she was, didn't play with toys. In all truth, she hadn't played since her sister died. It seemed like her playful side had died with Glinda Rose. She stared at the toys, but was almost scared to show she liked them.
"So what toys to you like?" Idina smiled

"All of them." Willemijn spoke "She is a child after all."
"I think I prefer a book…" Rain turned away. "I mean…"
"Rain, you're a child." Idina spoke "It's okay to like toys."
Rain noticed that those words were something she needed. She started looking closer to some of the toys. She liked a couple of Barbie's. Most of the toys were amazing. She turned to Idina for an okay to take a toy. She was rather shy and all the toys she simple eyed were taken of the shelves. It took them an hour to pass through the store. It took them an hour to buy a lot of toys.
"You never pay her toys, do you?" Willemijn smiled as Idina rolled her eyes.
"Well, she's grown out of them." Idina spoke "And most of them were broken."
"Don't worry, Idina." Willemijn smiled "If I had such a darling child, I would spoil her too."

After that they left the store. The people told them they would bring the toys home, Idina had given them her address and told them to bring them around 4. After that they went for a pancake. Idina and Rain returned home.
"How do you know Willemijn?"
"She's from the Netherland." Idina spoke "I was up against her when I auditioned for Maureen. Back in the Netherlands she played Maria, Fantine and a lot more."
"Then why didn't she stay?"

"Well, she met Leo on a tour." Idina explained "She had just broken up with her boyfriend. And he told her that she could get a part of Broadway. She had many parts of Broadway. She was even in Chess a few years ago. She's really good, I never thought I would make it against her. I did. We became friends by spending time together. "
"That's a nice story Idina."
"Why does everyone think I'm your child?" Rain turned to her. "Including Taye…"
"You're going to think this is stupid." Idina sat down next to her. "I told Taye you were my child. At first I thought he shouldn't care if I had a kid. I mean if he cared, he wasn't worth it. Than he didn't care and we started having fun together. The 3 of us. I want to be your mom…"
"You would be an amazing mom, Idina." Rain spoke "I think you would be the best. I do value you as a mother, but…"
"When your mom finds you, you're going to have to leave." Idina had tears in her eyes. "And you're going to leave me all alone. Taye is going to hate me if he finds out I lied. I'm going to lose everything. I shouldn't have lied…"

"It doesn't matter…" Rain took her hand. "Do you know why I get so pissed with the book? Because it's full of lies. Full…"
"Sweetie, you don't understand this is fiction." Idina pulled Rain in her arms. "It's not real. It's just a story. I mean there's no magic and no other…"
"There is Oz." Rain spoke "Everything that is in that book is a lie. It's the story told with nothing but lies. The wicked witch of the west is my mother. Elphaba Thropp, we've fought a war."
"You have imaginations kid. " Idina smiled "You do realize you told her name."
"Idina, I'm not lying." Rain looked up at her. "I think that this writer is from my world. Not from your world. I need to find this woman or man and I need to see if…"
"What's the worst that can happen?"
"My sister and grandfather died the previous time things went wrong." Rain spoke "This woman is bringing out a book about our world. Me and Dorothy were planning a book. We were planning to tell the truth."

"Rain…"
"I don't mind this." Rain stared at her. "Going shopping and doing all of this things. You are like my mom would have been if it weren't for the war, for the pain, for the prejudice. You have to believe me. And if you don't…"

Rain ran up the stairs, she went the room she had been calling her bedroom for a week. She pulled a couple of written books from her bag. She returned downstairs and sat down next to Elphaba. She pushed the book in Idina's hands. On Rain's face Idina could see a certain confusion. She pulled her head closer to Idina's shoulder.
"Did you write this?"
"I did…" Rain smiled "It was supposed to be about my mom. This is her story, about when she flew around defying gravity. About the world. This person could be planning something. I don't understand why you and your sisters are doubles…"
"what is a double?" Idina turned to him.

"They're evil." Rain turned to them. "Or at least they're up to something. Up to something big. I want to know why this person wrote the lies. I.."
"So your mom is…" Idina stared at the pages. "She has an emerald skin."
"Yes."

"Your dad has blue diamond on his skin?" Idina stared at the floor. "And he's a scarecrow?"
"Was." Rain explained "Mom used magic to turn him back in his normal form. Idina I need your help. With whatever going on."
"I think it's not my help you need…" Idina smiled "If you say I'm your mom's double and this person knows everything that happens in Oz. Than that person will see me as your mom. We need Taye, maybe even Willemijn. Anyone we can get."

"So you believe me…"
"You've never lied to me." Idina picked her up. "So why would I not?"