Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a nice holiday season!

And now… as a special present, some FIYERABA!

Elphaba managed to quickly catch up with the prince and followed him to his room. She just wanted to make sure he was okay. She didn't know why she was so drawn to him. It was probably because he was Raal's son, but she felt like there was more to it than that.

"Fiyero," she whispered, even though she knew he wouldn't be able to hear her.

The prince quickly reached his room and closed the door behind him. Taking a deep breath, he made his way over to his bed and sank down.

Elphaba sat down next to him, wanting nothing more than to talk to him, to tell him that he shouldn't be upset with Galinda.

To her surprise, Fiyero didn't lash out or trash his room. He simply sat on his bed, hugging his pillow to his chest as silent tears rolled down his cheek. Elphaba tried to wipe his tears away, but couldn't touch or feel him. She felt horrible for the ex-couple. She knew how much Galinda liked spending time with the Vinkun prince. It just wasn't fair… for either of them.

The green girl gently reached out and touched the prince's knee. Her hand went right through him without either of them feeling a thing. The prince then kicked his legs up into the bed, his feet going clear through Elphaba's side. The green girl immediately jumped to her feet and looked around the room. There had to be another way to get Fiyero to see her without that spell.

She remembered reading in one of the ghost books that ghosts could use their own energy, as well as the energy around them, to become visible to regular people. She never did it before because she had Glinda. Also, she didn't know she even could do that. After all, not like there were 'Ghost 101' lessons she could take.

She looked at the small lamp on the prince's desk and concentrated on combining its energy with her own. The light flickered, causing the prince to look up.

"What in Oz…" he muttered to himself, going over to investigate. His face was almost hovering over the lamp when the light exploded and he jumped back.

"Ozdamnit!" he heard a disembodied voice say and he whipped around.

That voice. It sounded familiar. "Elphaba? Are you… in here?"

The green girl appeared directly in front of him and he jumped back again. "Oz, I'm so sorry, Fiyero!"

It took the prince a clock-tick to realize that Elphaba had made the lamp explode, and that he could see and hear her. "How… how did you do that?"

"I was trying to use the lamp energy to make myself visible to you," the green girl said, staring at the small, bloody scratches under the prince's right eye and around his nose. "You're bleeding."

"How long have you been here?" he asked, going into the bathroom and wetting a cloth.

"Since you came back. I wanted to make sure you were alright."

"I'm fine."

"Are you and Galinda –"

"I don't want to talk about her."

"She really did enjoy spending time with you. She loved it, in fact."

"But she doesn't love me," the prince said miserably, gently wiping the blood from his face. The skin was a bit sore, but he knew it wouldn't leave a scar. He went into his medicine drawer and pulled out a small, thin tube of ointment.

"She does love you," Elphaba argued as the prince put a pea-sized drop of the ointment under his eye and across his nose. "She just thinks the two of you wouldn't work out as a couple." Which was ironic, considering the fact that Galinda had declared that they would be married one day, but she would never tell him that.

"She doesn't love me the way I love her," Fiyero said as he closed the tube and placed it back in the drawer. He turned back to the green girl.

"Did you really love her?"

He narrowed his eyes. "How is that any of your business?"

Elphaba recoiled slightly. "I'm just trying to help, Fiyero." Her form shifted and she vanished.

The prince was about to call out to her when he saw his floor lamp shaking. He turned on the light and Elphaba became visible again. "Did you just come to talk about Galinda?"

"No, actually, I didn't."

Fiyero softened a bit. "What else then?"

"I… I need you to… I want to… tell me about your father."

Fiyero blinked.

"How is he? Is he healthy? What's been going on with him?"

"You… you knew my father?"

Elphaba faltered. "Yes."

"How old are you?"

"Nineteen. Well… technically, I'm fifty-nine, but I don't think 'dead years' count."

"You went here with my father?" Fiyero asked, doing the math.

Elphaba nodded.

"He's fine. He's still healthy and going strong."

"And… your mother?"

"You knew my mother, too?"

"No, but it's obvious that he would have married someone else if you're here."

"She's fine. Her name is Amalie."

"Where is she from?"

"Ev. She's the youngest daughter of a very wealthy count."

"How did they meet?"

"She attended a ball my grandparents were hosting, and that's where she met my father. They both described it as 'love at first sight'."

Elphaba tried her best to keep the sad expression off her face. But it still managed to sneak its way in.

"How well did you know my father?"

"Well enough. We had a few classes together and… we dated."

The prince froze. "What?"

"We dated. Mind you, it was only for a short while, but still."

It took Fiyero a moment to realize that his father had dated someone before his mother. It was just very weird to him, since his parents always talk about how they were meant for each other and there was no one else in the world for them. "Oh," was all he managed to get out.

"I'm sorry. This must be really awkward for you," Elphaba said, realizing what was probably going through the prince's mind. "I… I should probably check up on Galinda now."

"Yeah," Fiyero hummed, still trying to wrap his head around the fact that this ghost had dated his father.

Elphaba smiled slightly, giving the prince a small wave before disappearing. She went back to her room and found the blonde sitting on the bed, flipping through a magazine. She didn't look upset anymore, but Elphaba decided to ask anyway.

"How are you feeling?" she asked, suddenly appearing next to the blonde.

Galinda jumped. "How did you get in here?"

Elphaba blinked and tilted her head slightly. "… Through the door…?"

"But… it didn't open…"

"Yes. I went through the door. I think you're still confused on this whole 'I'm dead. I don't have a body' thing."

The blonde opened and closed her mouth several times, but no sound came out. Elphaba smirked, which the blonde quickly matched with a glare.

"So, who did you haunt while you were out?"

"Actually… I went to talk to Fiyero."

"You talked to him?"

"I did."

"He saw and heard you?"

"Mmhmm."

"Do I want to know how you managed to make that work?"

"I think you would be very impressed."

"How, then?"

"I read in one of the books that ghost can use the energy around them to make themselves visible. So, I made Fiyero's lamp explode and –"

"You did what?"

"It was an accident." Elphaba waved it off. "And he's still alive."

Galinda muttered a curse under her breath. "I had to ask."

"It's my fault the two of you aren't together anymore and I wanted to try and make it right."

"It's not your fault, Elphie," the blonde tried to reassure the green girl. "You just helped me to realize something that I would have had to eventually realize on my own."

"But I still played a part in it. A very large part. None of this would have happened if not for me."

"Elphaba, don't start blaming yourself and feeling guilty. That's the last thing we need right now. Do you want to get trapped somewhere again?"

"No," Elphaba said softly, yet glumly.

"Good," the blonde said. "Wait… if you can make yourself corporeal on your own…"

"I never said I could make myself corporeal. I just said I made myself visible and hearable."

The blonde rolled her eyes and made Elphaba corporeal. "So… he saw you… as a ghost?"

"That would be my guess." She felt Galinda sit behind her and looked at her through the mirror. "Did you make me corporeal just so you could brush my hair?"

"Of course. Now, hold still."

"I really need to learn to control this," Elphaba muttered under her breath, but did as the blonde requested. Galinda fixed Elphaba's hair into a stylish ponytail, using numerous hair ties and bobby pins.

"You do realize that once you stop the spell, all of your clearly-hard work will be undone and my hair will come loose, right?"

"Must you spoil everything?" the blonde huffed.

Elphaba cackled and Galinda stopped her aura. Just as the green ghost had said, the bobby pins and hair ties fell onto the bed and her hair flowed loosely down her back.

"So, have you figured out a way to find the key?" Elphaba asked, running her hand through her hair.

"Actually, I have," the blonde said proudly. "We're learning revealing tracking spells soon. It's like a tracking spell, but –"

"I know what it is," Elphaba said. "I learned about it, too."

"Anyway, I was thinking that I could sneak into Greyling's office and use the spell to find the key."

"But in order to use the spell, you need to know what the object looks like. We don't know anything about the key's appearance."

"But we do have its size," Galinda pointed out. "Is that enough?"

"I don't know. But I suppose we'll find out. And may I offer a suggestion?"

"Would you still offer it if I said no?"

"Of course. Now, I suggest you work on transportation spells."

"But… we haven't learned those yet. And I heard they're very difficult and risky. Why would I need to learn them?"

"Galinda, you got very lucky with sneaking into the library basement. But the head's office is seriously more difficult. If you get in undetected, great. But getting out will be even trickier, especially if no one saw you go in, but notice you coming out. I would recommend mastering a transportation spell. It doesn't have to be elaborate. Just one that could get you out of the office and at least outside the building."

"Who am I supposed to ask? I can't ask Greyling."

Elphaba's lips curled into a smile.

"Wait…"

"Yes?"

"Are you saying that… you'll teach me the spell?"

"I said no such thing. I think you just inferred that."

Galinda rolled her eyes. "Elphaba."

"Yes. Of course I'll teach you."

Yes, I know this is a bit of a shorter chapter, but I really wanted to focus on the Elphaba/Fiyero moment.