"Why am I always caught in between these two?" Glinda thought as she nervously twirled a bit of hair around her dainty finger. She looked like a porcelain doll seeing a big foot coming down on her face... if porcelain dolls showed emotions. But no one noticed. Fiyero and Elphaba were paying no attention to Glinda, but instead staring each other down. Elphie's fiery eyes were bearing into Fiyero, trying to intimidate him, whereas his were calm and simply unafraid of hers.

"Fiyero," Elphie began, clearly trying very hard to remain calm, "We are going in circles. I need to do something here! The Wizard is gaining more control; taking over your own homeland! Doesn't it bother you what he's doing o the Vinkus! Building a second Emerald City on your beautiful nature wonderland! He'll make all the Animals out there go quiet, too. Help me stop this!"

"I'm doing what I can, Elphie!" was his response. "I can't let you murder anyone, though!"

"Assassination is not murder. It's... It's..." Elphie trailed off. She knew exactly that what she wanted was murder, but she couldn't admit she was wrong. So she turned on Fiyero – again. "Well, if your not going to help me, get out!"

Fiyero gaped at her for few minutes. Then resignedly got up from the kitchen table and quietly went to the door, pausing to say, "I'm sick of this pride bullshit, Elphie. Get over yourself." Then, with a small nod to Glinda, he was gone.

Glinda stared at Elphaba incredulously. "What?" Elphie snapped. Glinda just shook her head and sat there for a few minutes. Elphie stood expectantly for a while then started to leave the room.

"NO!" Glinda yelled. "You don't get to walk away like that!"

Elphaba swung around and stared at Glinda, dumbfounded. "You treat Fiyero like dirt!" Glinda cried. "You treat me like I'm not even here. You don't understand that you're not the only one involved in all this!" Glinda surprised even herself in this outburst. She huffed, all out of breath.

"I'm sorry," Elphaba whispered. Glinda just shook her head, unforgiving. "Fine! I'm not sorry!" She swung around again, and walked briskly from the room muttering, "Dumb blond..."