And a little concern that a few people had: yeaaa I thought she would be older then that toooo but out the fics ir ead the majority had her at 10 years old when she "killed" elphaba and its only been like five months since then so im taking the liberty of making her birthday somewhere in those five months and making her 11... I mean ive seen her be anywhere from 10 – 13 "killing" elphaba and I always though she should be older so now that I think about it... ill think I will change her age to 11 killing the witch, 12 now, but she can still look 10 – 11 so I don't have to change my last chapter llam sometimes people looke youngggerrr then they aaaare... im lazy... oh yeaaa
Oh since she wants to be mentioned thank you AGAIN amy for you mad cool editing skilllllllzzzz
hope you enjooy the chapter
Chapter 5
Gray stone filled her vision. Well all of her vision that she could make out. Almost everything was blurred, but she could tell everything was the same color. Gray. She went to go push herself off of her stomach and the floor, when she realized, she wasn't on her stomach or the floor. She was lying down on a pile of... something soft. She tried to look down but it hurt when she moved her head, so she felt what it was under her instead. It felt like... she would say sand, but it was too moist to be sand, and some pieces were larger then any piece of sand. So it had to be dirt. She felt to the left of her and she felt stone. She felt behind her and her hand met stone for a second time. She was in a corner.
She blinked a few times, hoping to clear her vision. After a few minutes she was able to see that what she thought was the floor was really the ceiling. After a few more minutes she decided to try and turn her entire body around to see the entire room. On her second try she was able to move herself far enough to see the room that Liir and Dorothy had been living in for... how long did he say... four... five months?
She scanned the room and saw everything pretty much the way she remembered it. Her eyes moved to the far right and she saw something. It was blurred so she couldn't make it out, but she knew it hadn't been there before. It was large, and next to where she was laying. She rubbed her eyes and realized that what she was looking at was Dorothy, a sleeping Dorothy.
Nor swung her legs over the side of the dirt mound. She moaned, unable to stop herself. Her head hurt so much. Dorothy moved a bit but stayed asleep. She studied her. She looked peaceful just sleeping there. Nor didn't want to take that away from her so she tried to not make any more sound.
She moved her head to see if Liir was in the room and a shock of pain coursed through her head. She stopped moving her head, finally learning that if she did, it would hurt, simple as that. She moved her hands to the back of her head to see how bad it was when her fingers felt cloth. It was bandage, a bandage that went all the way to around her head, like a headband. Forgetting the new rule she established in her head, she went to stand up but another pain erupted in her head so she sat back down with another longer, louder moan.
Dorothy began to stir and soon her eyelids fluttered and opened. She looked to where Nor's head should have been and her eyes widened in panic. Then she saw that Nor was sitting up against the wall on her dirt mound. Dorothy stood up, "You should be resting!" The way she said it, it made Nor feel like a child again, being scolded by her mother for not doing the right thing.
Dorothy moved over to where Nor was sitting and began to push her back down. Nor started to protest but Dorothy wouldn't hear of it. "You need rest or that gash on the back of your head won't ever heal. And if that happens then I won't be able to forgive myself for not doing everything in my power to make sure Liir's sister gets better! I mean what if it got infected and you died? Liir would never forgive me." Nor looked at her quizzically. How did she know she was Liir's sister? As if Dorothy read her mind she answered, "Liir told me, two days after you went unconscious. Don't worry, I had suspected as much. He told me he was going to find his family and then he started looking for you. He never said that you were family, I just didn't know you two were such a close relation. I thought you might have been a cousin or something."
"Well, I'm really his half sister. We shared the same father." The words that Dorothy just said began to sink in to her. "Wait, how long have I been asleep?"
"Three days."
"Three days! Geez, it didn't seem that long." She heard her stomach grumble. "No wonder I'm so hungry."
Dorothy went over to the table and rummaged through her books and papers. "Aha, I found it, I knew I put it somewhere." She came over to Nor holding a ripe, red, juicy looking apple. "This is for you," she said as she handed Nor the apple, "I don't need my magic classes anymore so we have extra money now from the work Liir has been doing. Enough to feed 3 people and a dog."
Nor bit into the apple, it was like heaven. It was even juicier then she expected it to be, savory sour and sweet flavor moved across her tongue. She took another bite, and another. It tasted so good...she didn't remember how long it had been since she had an apple and this one moment made up for all those years of no apples. It was so good.
"So, what have you been doing since I was asleep?" Nor inquired after she was half finished with the apple.
"Oh, well Liir has been doing the usual. He goes to work usually when I am still asleep. I'm not sure exactly what time; he has never wakes me. He usually gets home towards the late afternoon, before the sun goes down."
"And you?" Nor asked after taking a few more bits out of the apple. It tasted so good it must have come from heaven.
Dorothy continued. "Usually I would go to magic classes for most of the time Liir is away, but since I don't need them anymore I stopped going. I've just been staying here with you most the time; I pretty much didn't leave your side in case you woke up. I only left for Liir or Toto."
Nor was surprised at what she said, she had stayed by her the whole time. Nobody had cared for her that much, except of course of Mother, but that was pretty much something that was needed in the requirements of a Mother. Nobody had ever shown her that much worry or love on choice. Nor finished the apple and placed the apple down on her dirt mound. She was still hungry but she knew that they couldn't afford to feed her anymore. "You stayed by me? For three days? Why?!"
Nor could see it on Dorothy's face that she was shocked by her words.
"Well, I'm not really sure it's just... Whenever I was sick, Auntie Em always stayed by me until I got better. I thought it only right to show you the same care." Dorothy's words and her tone made it sound like it was the obvious choice.
"It's just... nobody has ever really done that before, you know, stayed by me when I was sick. My mother didn't even, sure she checked up on me now and then, but mainly I was left alone..." Just then, because of what she saw, Nor knew that she and Dorothy were friends, best friends, no, closer then that. It was an unspoken connection but she knew that both of them knew it was there. Nor saw that Dorothy's dress was shorter then it was when they first met. Nor could see the edges were ripped and torn. Nor was wearing Dorothy's dress as a bandage... She cared that much. Nor was barely able to hold back tears, even then her eyes sparkled faintly. "Thank you, thank you for staying by me, and really caring about me... you're really the first."
Dorothy's face lit up in compassion for Nor and they hugged. The hug didn't last long but it felt so good to have someone who really cared about you, and she had barely even known Dorothy. It was almost too good to be true. They both laughed... oh she hadn't laughed in so long and it felt so good. "So, what exactly is Liir's job?" Nor had heard so much about this job, she just needed to know.
"Well, it's really just a physical labor job you know, lifting packages and all..." It turns out all Liir really did was unload packages of products from supply trucks into the stores that bought them. He would go to a center station every day and would receive a list of information to as where he would be working and what he would be unloading. Place and item changed every day, but he always did the work, because they needed the money too badly.
The two girls just talked. They talked about everything that has happened to them in their past, the present, what might happen in the future. They talked about everything. It seemed to sooth Nor to have someone to talk to after so long, someone who understood what she was saying, and cared about the words that came out of her mouth. And it comforted her more just to care about what someone else said; to be able to care about someone else.
They talked until they heard the sound of footsteps and the patter of small dog's paws from the alley outside. They knew that it was Liir and Toto. Liir had decided to take Toto with him everyday so that Dorothy didn't have to care for two living things, but they still only looked up when they both finally entered the room.
The first thing Liir did was look over to the dirt mound on which Nor was sitting on, propped up in the corner. She had guessed that they had taken the dirt from the yards of the deserted buildings to make some sort of bed for her, something more comfortable then just lying on the floor, which in truth the dirt was actually more comfortable then hard, cold stone.
He ran over to Nor, "You're finally awake." He said after he embraced Nor in a bone-crushing hug. "You had me worried there for a second, thought I would lose the rest of my family." He with a relieve smile on his face.
Nor laughed, "You shouldn't have been worried, I was in good hands." She said as she looked over at Dorothy. Dorothy smiled and blushed, looking down on the floor.
Nor realized something was different, something not necessarily wrong just, out of place. She looked around the room and her eyes stopped on that annoying excuse for a dog. Its mouth was moving as if it was "barking", but no sound was coming out. Liir obviously saw the puzzled expression on her face and answered the question going through her head. "Dorothy but a spell on him, it stops any sound coming from his mouth. Quite ingenious of her to think of really." Dorothy only blushed harder, more fiercely and kept her eyes on the floor. Nor looked at the annoying dog again. It was "barking" harder now, more of its body moved. It looked like a real idiot trying to bark and nothing coming out. It realized Nor was looking at it and it "barked" even harder now, so powerful that it managed to knock itself backwards onto the floor, Nor was enjoying this.
"Ah do you hear that? Silence." They all laughed.
After Dorothy's blushing fit subsided she got up and moved over to the other chair, next to the one Liir was sitting in. "How much money?" she asked. Nor saw Liir hand Dorothy a few of bills. She counted them and then pulled out a box that was tapped to the bottom of the table, out of site. Even Nor had missed seeing it. From the box she pulled a much larger amount of bills. Dorothy counted them all together and a look of delight crossed her face, "Liir, I think we have enough! Oh Liir, we have enough!"
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