Since the last chapter was so short I tried to make this one longer. I hope you like enjoy this chapter. Thank you all for reviews keeps me inspired or helps my muse tell me to write. ;-)

Part 10

The Palace (Emerald City)

"You have got to be kidding me!" Elsie stated as she smiled and talked to one of the guards. She had to be the diversions, so that Rose could fly in and grab the book out of the safe in her mother's bedroom. Elsie told Rose that it was behind a painting of the Emerald City before she became the newest diversion. Now at this point she was wishing she was the one that could fly on the broom. This Nate fellow's wallowing was starting to get on Elsie's nerves. Its not that she was unkind, but she could not handle as pleasantly as her mother could. Nate's wife had been cheating on him with his brother and Nate was just told recently that his wife was with child but she was unsure who the father of said child was.

"I'm so sorry..." Elsie said as she saw the door open and a gloved finger come out the door. That was the signal. Elsie smiled politely and faked a yawn. "...but I must retire. I have a meeting in town this morning and I need my beauty sleep. I wish you the best of luck with your wife and your predicament. I know that she loves you, and that you would make a great father, it is up to you wether you wish to raise this child or send your wife away for her misdeeds against you." Elsie said softly and then walked down toward her room. The door was opened for her by her two guards and she smiled and bowed her head at them and then waited for the doors to close. She stood in the middle of the room with her robe on. She was looking around but it was becoming difficult to see because it was yet again getting darker.

Rose looked around the room and smiled. She had been standing behind the door. She had the book, it was safe in her bag waiting to be taken back to her mother. Rose waited for the door to close, she then just watched as Elsie moved to the middle of the room and tried to find her. She smiled as Elsie past her by. She was hiding in the shadows and was easily hidden with her dark outfit. She waited for Elsie to turn her back on her before she slowly made her way into the middle of the room. Elsie let her shoulders fall thinking that Rose was not actually in the room, and she relaxed which made scaring the young royal easy.

"BOO!" Rose whispered into Elsie's ear making the blonde jump and squeal as she rushed to the other side of the room. Rose was now laughing at Elsie she thought it was quiet easy and very entertaining to scare the young blonde. Though Elise seemed to hate it. Elsie made sure Rose knew how much she hated it by scolding her once again on trying to stop her heart from beating with her scaring antics.

"Are you trying to have me drop dead of fright!" Elsie demanded an answer but the only one forthcoming from Rose was the laughter filling the room at how frightened she had gotten. Elsie did a full Glinda huff and turned on her heals so her back was once again to Rose. She didn't even know this Rose woman and she was making her promise absurd things AND LAUGHING at her!

"No...(Laugh)...heaven forbid...(laugh)" Rose said sarcastically between laughs.

"Well...HEY!" Elsie huffed out and turned to look at Rose. She stomped her feet and then walked over to her bed and then stopped realizing storming off wasn't going to help much when they were in the same room and there was no where to stomp off too. Then there was the fact that she was acting like her mother, huffing and stomping her feet when she didn't get her way, so yes in this one moment Elsie made a note to let herself act like her mother. It was just that this Rose was making her insane. She couldn't stand her, she couldn't look at her (for two very different reasons) she just couldn't stand Rose's personality. Which seemed odd to Elsie because the line her mother said long ago 'opposites some times attract' came into play and what had happened when they danced proved it but now Elsie had to wonder why she couldn't stand Rose.

Coming up with the answer being that she liked the mystery of it all and that's what caused the attraction and now that the mystery was gone and she knew who her dance partner was she didn't find she was that attracted to Rose, but she would admit she might have a slight infatuation with the woman just not to anybody she knew.

Once Rose was done laughing she took a few deep breaths and when she looked around for Elsie she saw the blonde was no where insight. Rose turned around quickly and when she didn't see Elsie behind her she turned to the sides and yet again found that the blonde was no where in sight. Rose sighed and put her hands at her hips and turned to look around the room once more. Rose knew that Elsie wasn't actually anywhere near her because if she was then she'd be able to sense her. Rose turned once more around the room this time looking for Elsie's power rather then the young woman herself. Her turning came to a halt when she turned toward the closet. Rose smiled and walked slowly over to the closet. Once there she heard breathing inside, she lifted her hand slowly and knocked gently on the wooden surface.

"I apologize for scaring you. Will you come out now?" Rose asked politely though it was killing her to do so.

Elsie hearing the apology smiled. The blonde closed her eyes and when she opened them again she was out of her closet and standing at the foot of her bed staring at Rose. She held back laughter as she watched Rose put her palm flat against the door, sigh deeply and then start asking for forgiveness again.

"You know...if we don't get out of here soon we'll have to walk." Elsie said as she looked at Rose.

Now Elsie could laugh, because Rose jumped at least five inches into the air when she heard her voice coming from behind her and not from the closet. Rose turned around and stared at Elsie. To Elsie's surprise Rose didn't scold her for scaring her she didn't even yell at her for doing what she'd just done. And what REALLY surprised Elsie, Rose didn't even ask how she had just done that.

"Aren't you going to ask how I just did that?" Elsie asked looking at Rose confused as to why she wouldn't ask.

Rose's smile grew and she rolled her eyes at how funny Elsie could be. Rose chose not to answer verbally. Instead and closed her eyes and then opened them, only when she opened them she was now standing behind Elsie. Elsie on the other hand had her jaw hanging nimbly. Rose leaned her head forward so that her chin sat lazily on Elsie's shoulder.

"No...I don't need to ask you how you just did that." Rose whispered into Elsie's ear. "But you are right if we don't leave soon we'll have to walk out of the city." Rose said and stepped back. Elsie turned her head slowly and to her dismay she found herself smiling. Once she realized she was smiling she shook her head.

The two young women soon found themselves on Rose's broom and flying out her balcony window. Elsie had her arms wrapped painfully around Rose's waist and pushed her head into the back of Rose's shoulder as they took off. The poor blonde was afraid of heights, and by the way she was holding Rose in a death grip she made sure that Rose knew exactly how much she disliked flying.

TBC...