Chapter 10

Glinda was out of it for a couple of days. The guard did a pretty good amount of damage to her. Glinda finally woke up and the first thing she saw was a white ceiling. Her eyebrows drew together in confusion.

'Am I dead again?' But Glinda looked down and saw a white blanket covering her. She heard a grunt and she looked to seeing Elphaba by her side. Elphaba's head was laying on the bed, her hat positioned next to her, and she was asleep. Glinda saw that Elphaba was holding one of her hands. Glinda looked at how green looked to her pale white hand. "Oh, my love, how long have you been in here?" she whispered.

Glinda tried moving into a sitting position but very strong pain went through her. She grunted loudly and Elphaba stirred. Glinda froze and waited until Elphaba stopped moving and mumbling. Glinda tried again this time she was successful in getting up but not without the cost of the pain. The blonde woman leaned her head against the headboard with her eyes closed, willing the
pain away.

"How did I get here?" She felt a squeeze on her hand.

"I brought you here." Glinda quickly opened her eyes, winced and brought her hand up to her left eye. Glinda felt the cut, traced down until it was gone and let her hand fall down onto the bed.

She saw that Elphaba was now awake and looked happy, sad, and angry at the same time. "Elphie I..."

Before Glinda could finish Elphaba sat up completely and softly kissed her with a gentle passion. After the kiss Glinda smiled, as the result of the green lips making contact with her own.

"Elphie, where are we?"

"In a hospice. I took you here once you fainted. A doctor has been looking over your wounds for a couple of days." Elphaba answered.

"How can you take me to a doctor?" Glinda asked. "Everyone in Oz is afraid of you."

"I still have some allies." Elphaba answered.

"I can't believe you came back to the Wizard's castle." Glinda said. "I told Takai to make sure to keep you were I sent you."

"She tried to." Elphaba replied. "But I over powered her. There's only so much one bird can do."

"I'm so happy you came back for me though." Glinda whispered, as she felt new tears rising.

"I would never leave you in the hands of that bastard and his thugs." Elphaba said, as he brought the blonde witch into her arms. "I'm only sorry I wasn't sooner."

"You came back that's all that matters. I might have sent you away, but I'm glad you came flying back." Glinda said, as she touched her lips to Elphaba's once again.

But not soon after the memory of the Wizard kissing her came flooding back. Elphaba saw this change in Glinda and began to caress her cheek. "I'm going to kill him, Glinda." Elphaba whispered. "I'm going to kill the Wizard."

Glinda started at Elphaba with wide eyes and replied, "You can't do that."

"Why ever not?" The green woman snapped back. "For what he did to you I say I have a pretty damn good reason!"

"Elphie, please listen, there's a lot you don't know." Glinda said, trying to calm down her green lover.

"What don't I know?" Elphaba asked. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill him."

Glinda took a deep breath before replying, "He's your father."

"You're lying." Elphaba replied, after several moments of silence.

"I'm not." Glinda said, her voice completely serious.

"Yes, you are!" Elphaba shouted. "There is no way I could be the daughter of such a monster."

"Elphie, just listen to me for a second." Glinda answered, as she took hold of the green witch's shoulders.

Elphaba jerked out of Glinda's hold on her shoulders and stood up knocking the down the chair she was in.

"Elphaba..." Glinda said.

"I can't believe this." Elphaba said, as she started to pace around trying think of any possible way to believe that this wasn't the truth. 'Impossible it's just impossible.'

"Believe it Elphaba." Glinda started to get out of bed. "You know the green bottle that you have?"

Elphaba shook her head yes never noticing that Glinda was trying to get out of bed, when she should be resting.

Glinda winced from the pain the was going through her body. She didn't want Elphaba to notice the pain she was in. "Well he has an exact same one and your mother...

Elphaba stopped pacing, her back to Glinda. "My mother...what does she know?"

Glinda stood up for a second before falling back down. She felt that something was wrapped tightly around her ribs and sides. She looked down her at her arms to see stitches. 'I got to ask what the damage was done. But not now. I need to get to Elphaba.'

"You know when I was in that deep sleep that is when found all this out." She said this as she stood up again but this time didn't fall back down. "One memory got through and Melena saw the green bottle the Wizard try to give me. She recognize his voice and that bottle."

Every step towards the green witch was sending shots of pain through her system. Elphaba put her hands in her face. "I still can't believe this."

Glinda was very close to Elphaba now. "Believe it or not he is your father." Glinda said, as she gently took hold of the Elphaba's shoulders. This time the green woman didn't pull away.

"I just can't believe I'm related to a man who had you tortured." Elphaba replied softly. "Does he know I'm his daughter?"

"As far as I know I don't believe he knows." Glinda answered, as her breathing started to become labored from the pain from her wounds.

"Glinda, you shouldn't be out of bed." Elphaba said, as she turned around to face her. Then she snaked an arm around the blonde's waist and helped her back into bed. "You need to take it easy. The doctor should be in soon to give you some medicine for the pain."

"How did you get a doctor's help? I would think everyone would run away scared when they caught sight of the Wicked Witch heading their way." Glinda said.

"I guess I still have some luck on my side. This doctor is a friend of Doctor Dillamond. She helps mostly animals, but she has cured quite a few humans in her time. She has also helped an Ox who used to teach at Quox. She aided him when he wasn't permitted to teach and also helped him regain the power of speech."

"Sounds like a good doctor." Glinda replied. Just then a wolf wearing a doctor coat walked into the room. She wore glasses on her eyes and carried a notebook in her paws as well as a cup.

"Well, it's good to see you're awake." The Wolf said.

"Sweet Oz you're a wolf!" Glinda answered, in shock.

"Last time I checked I was." The Wolf replied with a kind grin. "Hello, Miss Glinda, my name is Doctor Timber."

"You were friends with Doctor Dillamond?" Glinda questioned in disbelief.

"Oh, yes, we knew each other because our fathers had some history together. You see, my father ate Doctor Dillamond's father." Doctor Timber answered, but started to laugh. "Just kidding, my father was more of a fish kind of guy. Our fathers went to the same school and lived in the same town so that's how I met Doctor Dillamond. I became a seafood lover myself so Doctor Dillamond didn't have to worry about my hunger getting the best of me. But anyway I have your medicine here. The Wolf said, as she placed down a cup with some strange white liquid inside.

"It looks like milk." Glinda pointed out.

"That might be a good thing to think about when you drink it." Timber replied with a chuckle.

"It tastes that bad?" Glinda asked, as she picked up the cup and looked at it.

"It doesn't taste pleasant but it will help your wounds, so it does it's job." Elphaba answered, as she watched Glinda drink the entire liquid.

"Wow, that tasted...different." Glinda said as she handed the cup back to Timber. Suddenly there was a loud knocking coming from outside.

Elphaba's head shot up in worry, as she thought, 'Don't tell me the Gale Force followed me here.'

"Don't worry my nurse will get that. "Doctor Timber replied, as she pushed up her glasses.

"Doctor, there's a human girl of 18 years that needs to be checked!" A voice called out. "A Scarecrow, Tin man, and a Lion brought her in."

"All right send them to room B2. I'll be there in a minute." The Wolf said.

'A Scarecrow? A Tin man, and a Lion.' Elphaba thought to herself.

Just then they saw a the nurse, who was a fox, leading them pass the room. It was the Scarecrow would did a double take when he say them. "Elphaba? Glinda?"

"Do we know you?" Glinda asked in confusion."Glinda, this is Fiyero." Elphaba replied as she pointed to him.

"Fiyero! Sweet Oz, you look different." Glinda answered. "Why are you dressed up like a Scarecrow?"

"That's a long story." Elphaba answered, just as the Tin man walked into the room. When he saw Glinda his eyes brightened in joy, but when he saw Elphaba he raised his ax in fright.

"It's the Wicked Witch!" He cried out.

"I know that voice anywhere." Glinda said. "Bick!"

"Boq." Elphaba corrected her.

"Yes, Boq!" Glinda replied.

"Hello Miss Glinda, do you know that the Wicked Witch of the West is sitting right next to you?" Boq asked, as his body shook.

"Yes, I know." Glinda answered, calmly. "Boq, why are you made of tin?"

"That's an even longer story." Elphaba replied, as she stood up and turned to Boq. "Put the ax down, Boq before you hurt somebody."

"Like you." Boq snapped back. He looked over at Glinda. He went wide eye when he saw the cut over Glinda's eye. Boq ran to Glinda's side. He looked over her and saw more wounds on her arms. Boq rounded to Elphaba, who has moved next to Fiyero. "What did you do to her?" he yelled. Elphaba was kind of scared of Boq at the moment mostly because he had an ax in his hand.

"I didn't do it." Boq didn't believe it. 'After what she did to me I not surprised at all that she could do this to Glinda.' he thought.

"I should kill you for hurting her." Boq started to move towards Elphaba, ax raised. Fiyero moved in front of Elphaba to protect her.

"Fiyero, don't be a hero." Elphaba hissed into his ear. He didn't respond back, he wasn't doing this for him to be a hero.

"Boq, stop this instant." commanded Glinda. Boq stopped moving for he could never not listen to Glinda. "Look at me." Boq made a squeaky turn about and looked at Glinda.

"Why?" he asked. Glinda slowly made it out of the bed.

"Glinda don't..." Elphaba started to say but stopped at the look her love gave to her. Glinda turned her attention back to Boq. Finally out of bed and slowly and painfully making her way to Boq.

"Because Elphaba didn't give me these wounds you see."

He looked at Glinda carefully. "If Elphaba didn't do it then who did?"

Glinda was now right in front of Boq, breathing heavily. "The Wizard." was all she said.

Boq didn't believe it. "That's a lie. Why would the Wizard do this to you?"

Glinda looked into Boq's eyes. "I wouldn't tell him where Elphaba was..so he tortured me into trying to tell him. Boq, please believe me. Elphaba would never hurt me."

Boq looked into Glinda's blue eyes. He saw love and he saw Glinda look over his shoulders. Boq followed that gaze and saw it landed on the green witch. If he had a heart it would have ached and would've harden. He looked back to Glinda. "I can't...not after what she did to me." With that said he turned and left. He went next door to be with Dorothy. Glinda looked at Elphaba with confusion.

"Later." was all Elphaba said. Glinda nodded and made her way back to bed. Fiyero turned to Elphaba.

"We need to talk."

"About what?" asked Elphaba

"About what happened." replied Fiyero. Glinda fell to her knees clutching her chest.

Elphaba saw this. "Glinda." she yelled and ran to Glinda's side. "Glinda?"

Glinda looked at Elphaba. "I'm all right, just felt a little dizzy."

Elphaba looked at Glinda with concern. "No, stop lying I know you are not all right." Glinda looked away. "Come on now lets get you into bed. Dr. Timber would kill me if you're not in bed resting." Glinda nodded her head. Elphaba put her arm around Glinda's waist to support her and they both got up. Once Glinda was safe in bed did Elphaba kiss her on the forehead. "Get some rest now."Glinda nodded.

Fiyero smiled at the interaction between the two witches. 'They must really love each other.'

Elphaba turned to Fiyero. "So...you wanted to talk."

Fiyero nodded his head. "We will...um can I talk to Glinda for a moment...by ourselves."

"Sure." Elphaba said, as she gave Glinda a smile before walking out of the room and closing the door behind her.

"So what's up?" Glinda asked, as Fiyero took a sit beside her.

"I need to get something off my chest." Fiyero said, as he rubbed his hands in a nervous fashion.

"This whole painful situation is fault and I want to ask for your forgiveness. I never meant to shoot you that time in the cornfield. You know I would never purposely try to hurt you."

"I know." Glinda replied, as she patted one of his hands gentle. "Fiyero, I forgive you, but I know you would never do such a thing."

"Something tells me I don't believe you when you say you have forgiven me. I look at you now and my heart hurts because I know that you have been suffering. All because of me." Fiyero said, as the shame caused him to look away from the blonde witch.

"Fiyero, the day you shot is in the past now. We can't change it even though I know we would like to. This gun shot will heal and that will be the end of it. You have a good heart so remember I have forgiven you, so it's time for you to forgive yourself." Glinda replied as she gave him a smile.
Fiyero nodded his head as he returned the smile.

Elphaba was waiting outside the room when the Lion that had come in with Fiyero and Boq spotted her. "I know you." The Lion said.

"Do you now?" Elphaba replied.

"You were that girl who sent me free when I was just a cub." The Lion said.

Elphaba looked closely at him and the memory came flooding back. "Oh, yes, I remember you now. You were much smaller the last time I saw you, and you couldn't speak either."

"One learns in time." The Lion answered. "But now that I can talk I want to thank you for setting me free. Life is all ways better out of a cage." With that the Lion extended his hand to the green witch.

Elphaba grinned and shook his paw as she replied, "Glad I could have helped."

Just then Boq saw them and called to the Lion. "I wouldn't talk to her if I were you. She might turn you into some unnatural."

"Who's to say what's natural and what's unnatural?" Elphaba spat at him.

"Like you would know what being natural is." Boq replied, as he motioned to the Lion to come over to him.

The Lion gave an unapproving sigh at Boq's actions but followed him anyway.

Elphaba only shook her head as Boq closed the door. It would be hard to get through to him. Maybe it was even impossible to change his mind especially when he didn't have a heart.