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As dorothy returned home that evening she made herself a quick snack, and went to bed. however, when she awoke she found Madeline standing over her and smiling.
"Morning." Madeline said.
"Maddie, is something wrong?" Dorothy asked.
"well, that depends on what you call wrong." Madeline said.
Dorothy groaned and sat up.
"What did you do" Dorothy asked sighing as toto ran into the room barking like mad.
"Dorothy! Dorothy! Come out here! you gotta see!" Toto said.
"Hush toto." Madeline said.
Dorothy sighed and got up, grabbing the scepter she looked at Madeline who had a nervous smile on her face. Dorothy sighed once again and followed her and toto into the living room. Suddenly, however she found herself being pulled into a crushing embrace. It took dorothy several minutes to figure out it was Ozma. After Ozma released her, she took a deep breath and asked the question that had come to her mind.
"Okay, before I lose my cool and flip out on you Maddie, does Glinda know?" Dorothy asked.
"I'm sure she's noticed by now." Madeline said.
"Maddie, why would you take her out of the city without Glinda's permission? You know she'll throw a fit!" Dorothy whispered sternly.
"I know, and you needn't whisper, your aunt and uncle and your cousins aren't home, they're at Alex's, you actually slept in for once, congrats." Madeline said.
Dorothy shook her head and walked over to the couch. Closing her eyes and rubbing the bridge of her nose between her thumb and forefinger.
"Maddie, next time you plan on doing something so incredibly stupid, do me a favor." Dorothy said.
"What is it?" Madeline asked.
"Don't root around my thoughts till you get an idea." Dorothy said.
"hey, don't blame a girl for trying." Madeline said.
"okay you two, don't argue." Ozma said.
"Please don't, as much as I hate you guys doing something behind my back, I, I guess this was better than trying to convince me." Glinda said appearing in the room causing all three of them to jump.
"Glinda!" they all shouted.
"It's alright, I'm not mad." Glinda said.
"You're not?" Dorothy asked taking a few deep breaths.
"No, yesterday after noon, while I was watching you with Jon, when you fell asleep, I decided to look in on ace and Ellie, and, I know that keeping Ozma in the palace all the time is wrong, but I'm just so paranoid that something might happen." Glinda said.
"well, I can't blame you for the paranoia, but Glinda, this all, would be, well, inevitable at some point, we'd all basically tell you what we thought." Ozma said.
"But you have told me, and I haven't listened." Glinda said.
Immediately dorothy got up and walked over to Glinda, hugging her tightly she sighed.
"Glinda, it's alright, like you said, you were paranoid, but give us just one whole day, till, let's say eight in the evening, that Ozma can be safe with me here." Dorothy said.
Glinda looked down at the girl. She sighed and wrapped her arms around dorothy.
"One day, if anything goes wrong, I will bring her home." Glinda said.
"It's a deal." Dorothy said as they broke from each other.
Glinda looked at her and smiled. she then vanished again. dorothy smiled and went back into her room. Both toto and pockets were sitting on the bed waiting for her. dorothy sighed and shooed them out of the room. She then let the scepter float in the air and quickly changed into some day clothes. As she left her room and went back to the living room, she found that Madeline and Ozma had gone outside. Ozma appeared to have had a jacket conjured for her, but Madeline didn't seem to care about the cold. However, this awoke another memory in the back of her mind as she walked over to the window and watched them. The cold weather never really bothered her, at least not until she started getting frostbite.
"Dorothy, come inside this instant and get a coat on, you'll catch your death of cold!" came the voice of Dorothy's mother.
"Ah mama, but it's not that cold outside." Little dorothy said.
"Dorothy listen to your mother." Came the voice of her father
Little dorothy groaned but continued playing in the snow.
"Dorothy, I'm not kidding, come over here now or you'll be sent to your room." Her mother called.
Little Dorothy huffed and walked over to the door with a snowball in her hands. As she reached the steps however she dropped the snowball as her hands began stinging as if something had bitten her.
"Mama, my hands hurt!" little dorothy screamed.
"that's frost bite my child, it can be avoided by wearing all your winter clothes, hats, scarves, mittens." Her mother said
Dorothy smiled, since then she had built up a tolerance for the cold, but still, her first snow ball fight wouldn't take place until years later, with alex, Ellie, Glinda, and several others. Sighing she pulled on her coat and boots and went outside to join them.
Meanwhile in the city
"Glinda, I figured you'd be watching them in the crystal?" Brianna asked walking into the kitchen with a giant sack of flour.
"I think I can let them go for an hour." Glinda said.
"trust me, if she's with dorothy. She's safe, dorothy would never let anything happen to Ozma, just like you would for dorothy." Brianna said.
"I guess you're right, anyways, can you find me a mirror, Ellie has been trying to contact me since last night, she knows I saw them and heard what she said" Glinda said closing her eyes.
"Why not just conjure one?" Brianna asked getting a cup of water for herself.
"I'm not in the mood." Glinda said conjuring her wand and then vanishing it again.
Brianna sighed and set her glass down, walking out of the kitchen, she returned a few moments later with a hand mirror. Placing it in front of Glinda, immediately the surface started to ripple and Ellie's face appeared in it.
"sis, I'm sorry about what I said I..." Ellie started to say before her sister cut her off.
"Ellie, it's alright, I'm not upset with you." Glinda said smiling at her sister.
"You're not?" Ellie asked confused.
"No, Ozma has been trying to get me to let her out of the palace for several months now, you are the one who said what I needed to hear, but please, don't go behind my back with anything." Glinda said.
"I promise I won't, unless you start doing something stupid." Ellie said.
"In which case, you have my permission." Glinda said chuckling.
"Well, at least you understand." Ellie said as her image began to fade from the mirror.
Glinda chuckled again and sighed, but suddenly she got a terrible sinking feeling, as if something was wrong.
Meanwhile back in Kansas.
Betsy eventually showed up and joined in the snowball fight, not long afterward Em and Henry came home with the triplets. As the morning flew into afternoon they all found themselves in the living room, drinking hot chocolate Em had made. And they were explaining why Ozma was here in the first place.
"Everyone knows Glinda is protective of the people she cares about, I mean for years she hid the secret from Ellie that she was her sister, blocking it out of her memories and closing the connection between them." Em said.
"I know, but still, I heard what Ellie said while I was walking to my room, Glinda was rather upset at first with her actions, but it's all for the better now, I hadn't had a snowball fight before today." Ozma said.
"Mombi never let you have much fun, did she?" Madeline asked.
"nope, it seemed her life goal at the time to keep me as distant from others, and as miserable as possible, and everyone in Gilikin country knew it." Ozma said.
"I can see where that would be a problem." Betsy said taking a sip from her mug.
"You don't even know the half of it, it's not a story I have problems telling, it's just a rather long story." Ozma said sighing.
"Let's save it for a rainy day, then shall we?" Madeline asked.
"Dorothy, sweetheart, are you feeling okay?" Em asked looking at her niece.
Dorothy had been sitting there quietly for several minutes. She started feeling the pain in her chest that had risen when she was Jon's house the day before. She tried to get up but found herself incredibly dizzy suddenly, and soon after, she blacked out.