Thoughts of a Scarecrow

By Watson

Chapter 5:

"Fiyero!" I moaned as I came to my senses once again, slowly and with my hand to my head. My head felt so strange it was as if I had stuck Tin man's axe through it. The pain was so great that I wished I could have. "Fiyero!" There was the voice again. I opened my eyes slowly as to shelter the light out of my eyes. I felt like I had been asleep for years, with my body feeling heavy and barely able to move. I felt like just going back to- "Fiyero!"

"Huh?" I answered finally, rubbing my eyes clear of their fuzziness, "What? Where am I?"

"You knocked over a bottle of 'blue fog', it is sure to put anyone sleep…including the man made of straw…It's not good to mess with magic love."

"Elphaba?" She smiled gently as she kissed my forehead lightly. My head lay in her lap as I looked up in her features.

"You shouldn't wonder away from the group," she said in a mocking tone, "It would have been safer if you had stayed with the others!"

"I was looking for you," I said, slowly rising into a sitting position, "And I got all the way into this room…with the glass…and then-"

"You first knocked over my bottom of 'blue fog', stood in the fumes for a bit, and then were knocked out cold," she laughed, "Then I came in, found you on the floor and waited till the effect wore off, thankfully before the hunters found us together…Speaking of which, you have to leave now…"

"What?!" I said jumping to my feet in shock, "And leave you here?! To face them alone?!"

"Boq and the Lion are with them…" she spoke softly looking at her lap, "That girl too…Dorety or something right? Maybe it's just the end here, figure the last battle would come sooner or later. It would be best if you were with them, as to seem like you are against me and-"

"Elphaba, would you listen to yourself?! You sound like you are given up! What happened to seeing us able to escape?! What happened if we are together, we could get through anything?!"

"I'm just really tired," she answered, her voice softer than I had ever heard it, "After today…I don't see the point in trying to fight when everyone is against me!"

"And what about me Elphie?" I asked, partly begging, "I believe in you! I have always believed in you!"

"Well what am I suppose to do after they finally get here?" she asked eyes suddenly sparking their old angry fire, "I don't have enough power to stop them all! I am only part of the power of OZ! I don't have any power to control fate or the lives of other! I can't kill and I can't give life back! Don't you see! It's impossible for me to stop the inevitable! I am tired and weak and ready to just let them storm this place and do what they want! I don't want to fight!"

"For the love of-"I sighed, not wishing to finish that sentence (not really knowing what to end it with), "And I'm suppose to believe this?! I'm supposed to believe that this is the point that you give up at?! After all that fighting and all that has happened, am I suppose to just go back to being that person that I was before? The mindless scarecrow?"

"Well it was easy wasn't it?" she asked, her eyes as sharp as tacks, "It was so easy being one of them! I should have just given up! I should have taken Glinda's advice and apologized when I had the chance to! I am so sick of fighting that I would rather just drop down now and beg the wizard-"

"Elphaba you are being so stubborn!" I cried out of frustration, "Why must you always be so stubborn? It's just like back in school when you-"

"What did you say?"

"I said you can be so stubborn like you were back in-"

"But…you can remember being in school?" I froze. Indeed I could remember. I could remember that I was in my family's extra castle, that I was indeed a prince of the Winkies, and that I fallen in love with Elphaba while attending the Shiz! I could remember everything! I had been left to die out in that cornfield and then I felt the spell take over me and then-

"I can! Oh Elphaba! I can remember!" She let out a cry of surprise as I lifted her into my arms and swung her around, "I may not be human but I remember it all! I remember you, the school, the day I first saw you! Oh it's a beautiful day! My name is Prince Fiyero, a winkie prince, who loves a young munchkin land girl by the name of Elphaba, who has a rare condition that has turned her skin green! But I don't care I love her! I love her!"

"Fiyero!" Elphaba cried as she grabbed my shoulders to settle herself, "Get a hold of yourself!"

"I can't when I finally can figure my life out!" I answered with a grin, "I can finally say who I am again! And I…I…"

"What is it?" she asked, curiously.

"I…I…think…I just thought up a plan!"

"Fiyero…Do you really think?"

"Hey, if a brainless scarecrow can think up a plan, then we can escape?" I asked with a smile, holding her face in my hand. She was unsure a moment, before she smiled.

"I guess miracles can happen can't they?"

"We are the miracle people," I told her, " I guess I'm not brainless, just at that time I had wished I was as it would be easier. I'm sure that even if it would be easier I would rather be myself now that dancing through life anytime else. But now I have a plan that is going to work. I told you that this place is filled with tunnels and secret passages right?"

"Yes, and I've seen a lot of them myself while getting use to the castle. But there isn't any that the people won't search if we try to hide."

"Yes but I bet you haven't realized that there is a trap door right in the main room did you?" I said a small smile playing on my lips, "We are going to play on their ideas and let them save us!"

"I'm still not getting exactly what you are getting at?" she said looking at me with a slight turn of her head.

"Here is my plan. Everyone keeps saying that you will melt with water right?

Well what if we make it look like you melted, you'll be actually hide under the trap door, and then after everything dies down I will come back and we'll escape from OZ and from all of this forever!"

"Escape from OZ?" she said with surprise in her voice, "I don't think any one has been outside of OZ before, we don't know even know what's out there-"

"But what do we have here?" I asked, slipping my arms around her, pulling her to me, "I promise you, whatever is on the outside that it has to be better than in here. Where we are criminals although all we did was show a little bit of strength in standing up to the government who controls the people with lies and propaganda. Trust me; whatever is out there has to be better than being a criminal here in a place that hates us." She was silent, laying her head on my chest, my arms around her waist, and her arms around me. I could be in OZ or anywhere else and still be at home with her. "Can I take that as a yes?"

"Will you be there?" I smiled again.

"Anywhere you are that is where I will be."

Author Notes: Okay, I know you've all been waiting for the next chapter and here is and the end is soon coming. I'm sorry for the long wait but the holidays can be hetic. But I've been thinking about the story alot so I have lots of ideas. This of course is the worst ending to a chapter I could think of, it's really cliche I think, but it's cute and it sort of sets up the next story I have in mind. But I promise in my ending chapter I'll tell you more. So as bad as this chapter is I promise I'll try and get you guys the best I can in my up and coming stuff. I also will go through and edit stuff when I'm done so be expecting an edited version of this story. Just not at the moment.

-Watson