All Wicked characters belong to Gregory McGuire.
Chapter 2: A Reunion of Sorts
"I'm the Wizard of Oz", said Glinda to herself in the mirror, practicing her new authority over, well, herself at the moment. She turned around to look at her office. This dark room looks like a dungeon, Glinda thought to herself. "The first thing I need to do as my wizardly duty is spruce up this room", said Glinda aloud which was awkward since she was the only one in the room. If I'm in a BAD mood cause of my BAD office then I will be a BAD ruler and Oz will suffer for it, Glinda noted mentally. "Ok, the first thing I need to do is get rid of this mechanical head." She walked over to the "head of oz", so to speak, and put her arms out in an attempt to lift it, but just as she did, the head began floating in the air. Glinda's first instinct was to run out of the door but after a moment of thinking she ran for the Grimmery. She swiftly flipped through the pages, having looked through it numerous times over the past day or so, and found a spell to "un-defy" objects. As she looked back over at the head, everything went from one extreme to the next. Standing right where the head was, were Elphie and Fiyero. Everything went black.
"Well that's just great", Elphaba told Fiyero, "we frightened her so much she fainted." "Well we have to make an attempt to lift her", Fiyero told Elphaba, "but I think it might be a challenge with her huge blue dress." Elphaba laughed to herself thinking about the time she told Glinda she looked ridiculous in that get-up, but now she looked so right in it, being a ruler and all. "You're right", agreed Elphaba, "on the count of three". "One, two, three!" It actually wasn't very difficult to lift Glinda, considering her small build. They walked over, laid Glinda on the desk, and put the cushion from the chair under her head. "Well what do we-", began Fiyero, but he was cut off by a sudden knock on the door.
"Should we answer it", he asked. "We need to see who it is first", answered Elphaba, eyeing the peep hole on the door. Both of them walked cautiously over to the door and Fiyero peered through the hole. "I can't believe it", was all he said while backing away from the door with a shocked expression on his face. "What is it", Elphaba asked curiously. "See for yourself", answered Fiyero. As Elphaba inched towards the door, she felt a familiar feeling in her stomach that she couldn't quite put her finger on. As she peered through the whole she knew instantly what the feeling was. She opened the door to reveal Nessa. It was the feeling of love for family.
Immediately Elphaba threw her arms around Nessa. "I thought you were dead", she gasped through breaths of air. "Well I decided that it was way too much responsibility to run Munckinland", explained Nessa, "so when I saw the house fall I put legs under it and everyone thought I died." "What about the slippers", questioned Elphie? "Well, I practiced walking with them and when I got good enough at it I wanted to walk without help so I gave them away to whoever found them". "Where were you hiding?" "That's just it", Nessa explained, "I wasn't". "No one recognized me without my wheelchair or slippers so I was just another person in the crowd." "Well why did you come to Glinda", asked Fiyero suddenly, which made Elphaba jump. "Actually I came to her to see if she could maybe help me find you", Nessa said in Elphaba's direction. "Well you certainly did", said Elphie with a friendly smile on her face.
Just then there was another knock on the door. Elphaba opened the door without thinking, revealing a man made out of tin, who she immediately knew was Boq.