1Disclaimer: Alright, this is as much as I can possibly remember from the play, so none of it is mine. I'm sorry, for all of you who know the exact lines, how messy it is. I have still only seen it once and for the life of me cannot remember half of it! Arg!

Chapter 11: Heartless? Indeed

Elphaba held her hand over the Grimmerie and chanted the spell she had just taught herself. The wind whistled around her, and suddenly she was in an incredibly cramped little space, looking through a sheet of glass at her sister. Yes! It worked!

"Boq, please. I asked you to call me Nessa."

He looked at her frostily. "Yes, Madam." With a turn on his heel he stalked out.

"Looks like things are going well, sister." Elphaba said, pressing her face closer to the glass. She leapt out when Nessa shrieked. "No! It's alright. I won't hurt you."

"What are you doing here?" She asked, wheeling her wheel around furiously.

Elphaba wrung at her cape, looking around nervously. "Oh, you know. There's no place like home." She glared at the floor, then admitted. "Actually, I've come to beg father for help."

"He can't-"

"I know he probably won't, but I'm his daughter, and I have this guilt tripping argument all lined up to make him think-"

"Elphaba!" Nessa turned from her sister. "Father is dead. He has died of shame. I rule Munchkinland alone now."

Elphaba stopped for a moment. "Good," she finally said. "It's better that way."

"That's a wicked thing to say!" Nessa snipped.

"Don't you see? You can help me now! The monkeys-"

"The monkeys!" Nessa looked furious. "Of course! The monkeys. Doctor Dillamond, the lion cub! It's always someone else you have to help, when your own poor sister is tormented so!" She looked at Elphaba's blank face. "Oh really Elphaba. I'm still in this chair, I can't walk! I have to trap all the munchkins here in Munchkinland just so Boq won't leave! You fly all over Oz, helping animals you've never even met. Have you ever thought of helping me? Isn't there anything in that stupid book that could make me walk?"

Elphaba sighed. "Nessa, it's not that simple. It's not like you can just take a pair of-" Her eyes lit on the jeweled shoes their father gave her so long ago, clashing brilliantly with black and white striped socks. Her family had never been good at color coding. "Shoes!" She backed up and laid the book on the ground, waving her hands over it and chanting the moment she found the spell she wanted.

"What are you doing?" Nessa rolled backward frantically, then shrieked. "Ah! My shoes! They feel like they're on fire! What-" One leg popped out, then the other, each accompanied with a yelp from Nessa. She leapt out of her chair and stood unsteadily, looking like she was going to fall over.

Elphaba stood, leaving the Grimmerie where it was. "Nessa! You can walk!"

"I can walk!" Nessa grabbed a bell and started ringing it furiously. "Boq! Oh, Boq get in here quick!"

The munchkin walked in with a sour look on his face, then stopped and stared in amazement. "Nessa!"

"Yes Boq! I can walk!"

"This changes everything."

Elphaba rolled her eyes. That Boq was about as shallow as Fiyero.

"Now you must let me go to find Glinda, before she marries Fiyero, so I can tell her how I love her before it's too late!"

Nessa looked shocked and Elphaba blank. Maybe he was a little more shallow than Fiyero. "Boq, how could-" Her eyes filled with tears. "You heartless little munchkin boy! I'll- I'll-" She spotted the Grimmerie, and somehow in her rage the spell she wanted became readable. She pointed at it, chanting and then pointing at Boq.

"Nessa no! Stop!" Elphaba tried to tear Nessa away from the book. "You're getting the words all wrong! Stoppit Nessa! No!"

Boq reeled back, his hand on his chest. "Ah-rg! My heart, it feels like it's shrinking!"

Elphaba snatched up the book and raced to his side as Nessa pulled back in shock. "No, what have I- you'll be able to save him Elphaba?"

"I'll try." Elphaba opened the book and started reading furiously. She watched with dismay as Boq's skin slowly became a silvery color, and rivets popped out of them. The silver skin became hard and round, every part of him. She stared and stepped back. Boq was made of tin! She stepped out in front of her sister, her face grave.

"Is- he alright?"

"He won't need a heart anymore." Elphaba thrust the Grimmerie back into her bag, then headed for the door.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"To the Emerald City to confront the wizard, since you won't help me, sister." She threw sneer into the last word.

Nessa smirked. "You're only going there to see Fiyero! He's engaged to Glinda, Elphaba."

Elphaba stood still for a moment, whispering so softly Nessa didn't hear, "her name is Galinda," then spoke louder. "I know. I'm going to see the wizard."

With that she summoned her broom and flew away as fast as it would take her, wishing she hadn't even gone to see her sister in the first place.

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Fun, but not original at all and rather messy. I don't really care to remember that part of the play really. It didn't excite me.