**Author's Note: Sorry this took so long, guys! I had writer's block like WOAH. I hope you think it was worth the wait.**

"I assume you know why you're here," boomed the voice from behind the face that was big and stony like some sort of horrible statue looming in the back of the great empty hall.

Fiyero nodded passively. He really didn't have a clue, but he felt apathetic to what was going on around him. It was as thought his senses had been cut away; his body numbly and obediently stood and listened to the omnipotent voice of the Wizard, while his heart and mind were far away. For they were across the city, in a smelly room of a crumbling apartment building with her.

"Yes, sir," Fiyero answered; though he didn't know the question. He thought to himself, 'What's wrong with you? Pay attention! This is the Great and Powerful Oz!' He slightly shook his head, as though just waking up, and stood straighter, like a soldier reporting to his commanding officer.

"You seem like the kind of man to make an entire country proud," spoke out the gentle voice of an old man. Fiyero looked around to see where the voice was coming from. Then he saw a small squirrelly man, probably 50- years-old, emerge from behind the giant face, like a meek child meeting someone whom would change his or her lives.

"Who are you?" Fiyero asked, bewildered.

The man chuckled. "I," he said, "am the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and if you follow my lead, do as I humbly ask, then I swear, someday there'll be a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with you."

Fiyero was speechless. This was the Wizard? The Great and Powerful, Wonderful Wizard? It didn't add up. He was wary of this man, too, because he knew of Elphaba's contempt for him. He had thought before that she was paranoid, but seeing that the Wizard was not what all thought he was, well, he felt lied to, and thought that maybe Elphie had been right about Oz. His, lips however, didn't seem to be hearing this train of thought. "Of course I'll serve Oz," he found himself saying. "What do you want me to do?"