Chapter 6
She opens her eye and saw wide fields of golden hay around her, she turns in place to see only gold against sky blue. Then off in the distances she sees a tall figure in white and royal blue running to her, as they got close Dorothy was able to see the familiar face of Scarecrow. She starts running to him, as they closed the distance, they run into each other's arms, hugging so tight as if their lives depended on it. When they finally lessen their grip on each other to look into the other's eyes. Scarecrow places a hand on her cheek, the wind starts to blow so strong as he spoke
"I know this is just the beginning and we don't know what is coming. (wind sounds out) I love you and I have ever since we met. (wind sounds out) . Maybe one day I can tell you (wind sounds out)."
He leans down and kisses her softly, she felt herself lean into the kiss to then the world spins under her feet. Under her breath she says.
"I love you too."
As she said that, they kiss once more. When she opens her eye again as she shot up in bed gasping before looking around. She slumps back down after realizing what had happened.
"Ok I need to get this to stop."
She gets up and heads to her closet
"He would never feel like..."
She waves her hands to gesture to herself
"for me. He probably still sees me as that 11 year old girl, Jesus what if he sees me like a sister? What am I going to do Toto."
She face plants onto her bed landing next to Toto, she turns her face to look at him,
"I don't even know if what I'm feeling is love or if I'm just excited to be with him again."
She reaches over and picks up the egg and holds it up the light peering through the window, making the egg shimmer a green light all over her small room. She smiles, lost in thought of the night before till a sharp knock comes from her bedroom door,
"Dorothy, you might need to hurry it's 7."
She jumps up and runs over to her dresser
"Oh crud, thank you Marvel. Did you sleep well?"
He laughs quietly
"Ya I did, I probably slept more than you or the king did?"
Dorothy blushes madly as she slips on her red shirt dress, then goes to her vanite to put on the smallest amount of makeup and the emerald. For the last touch, she pined the OZ emblem to her chest just right where her heart lied, the top part of the key was visible under the top button. She pulls it out and holds it in her hand. As she gazes at the key, she thought how she could easily just go straight to Oz and see her friends standing there. In her mind she sees them in the corridor that Scarecrow showed her last night, with open arms and warm smiles. She is snaps out of her day dream by Marvels voice,
"Hurry up little miss, I made us some breakfast and it would be better if you eat it while not being in a hurry."
"Coming Professor."
She puts the egg with the spoon inside in her purse and walks out of her room to the smell of an old favorite meal of hers: pancakes with a side of eggs along with biscuits and gravy, the smell reminds her if the days before everything had hit the fan. The depression, War, the death of her aunt and uncle, and even before she went to Oz, back when she remembers the arms of her parents. She is envelope into a memory of herself at the young age of 5, she is in the kitchen with her mom string the pancake batter. Her father comes in from getting mail and hugs his wife from behind, Dorothy with all her might jumps up to join them in a hug. The memory fades off as snaps herself out of it to see Marvel standing there with a concerned face,
"Sorry, just a lot of memories have been coming back since yesterday."
He seemed to have a rush of relief flooded him, they sit down and started to enjoy the meal as they talk about the good old times. When they started to head out, Marvel asked her to wait at the front door for him.
"Marvel I have to get going."
"Just give me a minute "
He goes to the back and Dorothy ,with the patience of a teacher, stands and waits. In a few minutes she see a emerald green car, Dorothy stood there laughing as he got out to open the door for her.
"What is up with you and bloody emerald green?"
She gets in and as he shuts the door he says
"Oh you and Scarecrow are the same "
He gets over to the driver door and gets in, as he starts the car he continues.
"He refuses to wear any more green then his ascot and the ribbon on his hat."
They laugh together merrily, between her chuckles she says
"That's so adorable."
He smirks
"Not to prey but did you two hit it off last night?"
Dorothy chooks on air as she pretends to not know what
"What… NO. Why would you think that?"
He does a little dance in his seat,
"Oh sweetie you know how bad you are at lying and by the sound of you two last night, it sounded like you guys are a couple that got reunited after being apart for a long time"
Dorothy sits there blushing madly as she cures in her head, I didn't think the walls where that thin. She looked over to see him driving happily as if he made someone's day, she looked down and felt her purse. The egg was huge compared to everything else she had in there, she lets out a sigh as she sees the school in view.
"Thank you Marvel, for everything, you could of just erased everything and not of dealt with all this moving and protecting me."
Marvel squeeze her hand tightly
"You mean so much to us and I would never let you forget something so special. Your like the granddaughter I never had, and if you did say no I would suspect you where under the witches control. You would never miss an adventure."
Dorothy tears up as she laughs at that fact, they pull up to the front doors and she gets out. Before she shuts the door, she sticks her head in
"This means so much to me, Marvel. I always felt that I was just working since I gave up on the farm. That I was missing something, maybe now I can finally find out where I belong."
They said their goodbyes and Dorothy continues on her way.
~0w0~
It's now after school and Dorothy is sitting at her desk grading the last few of her papers as she waits for Marvel to come get her. Someone came to her open classroom door and closed it loud enough for her notice. Standing there is Esteban, you can feel the wave of tension come with him, he walks up to her desk and sat on the up right corner . She sits up straight ready for what he has planned.
"You seem cheery today Miss Gale, more than normal, has something happened?"
She raises her eyebrow
"Just was able to meet up with some old friends of mine from my childhood"
He nods as he eyes the visible emerald on her.
"I guess they turned out to be pretty well off if they gave you so many gifts, and I saw you getting out of a pretty nice car to this morning as well."
She nods as she pretends to be busy
"Yes, Marvel dose have a nice car and it was nice to see him again. He was like the grandfather I never had growing up "
Esteban's frown deepens as she talks, once she was done he sighs deeply
"Ok I'll cut to the chase , are you leaving because of me. It's already all over the school, and I'm being harassed for it."
Dorothy sat there stunted till she cursed under her breath.
"Those office workers don't know when to shut their traps."
She takes a deep breath
"No it's not , I just was offered a better job by old friends. I'll fix this mix up, so no need to worry."
He leaned back a bit the smiled, breaking out a bit of charm that makes Dorothy wish she could just get up and leave to Oz. If only that key had more then one trip.
"Well maybe I guided you wrong."
Dorothy She cross for arms and looked him dead in the eyes
"Are we really going to have a repeat of yesterday, if so you may kindly get' out of here. I don't want my soiled because of one rotten apple."
He sighs heavily
"Come on Miss Gale just give me at least this much "
He jump as Marvel pokes him in the butt with his pen that seems to of been part expandable pointer
"Young men these days, if this is how they been treating you, no wonder you and Crow talked for so long. It must of been a breath of fresh air for you, my Dear"
Dorothy giggles as Esteban glares at Marvel menisling, this wipes the old man's smirk into a straight face. Esteban stand up to face Marvel, it felt like two dog about to fight for territory. Esteban speaks to Dorothy in a dry tone that kinda scares her
"So there is some who can tickles your fancy, well I will see myself out. Have a good day Dorothy, I hope you would reconsider leaving."
With that he left in total silents, Dorothy got up and stood by Marvel placing a hand on his shoulder.
"What's wrong Marvel you got serious all of a sudden."
He puts his pen in his pocket as he states.
"He's a puppet of sin."
Dorothy steps back
"I know that he isn't the best person but isn't that a bit of a stretch."
He shakes his head slowly
"My dear, didn't you say his actions have gotten worse with the past coming weeks along with your dreams of Oz."
She nods
"He is one of the witch's pons, they are trying to strengthen the bond between the world's. He may not know it but he is being forced to be near you and try to make a bond between you two. No matter if it's good or bad, a bond is a bond, stay as far away from him as you can. We are going to have to speed thing up, I was able to fight enough boxes I believe. This weekend we will get everything packed and sent to my house, you'll need to pack what you want for Oz separately."
She stood there wide eyed as Marvel started to leave the room. He no longer had that filmiler sense of gentle happiness. She followed him
"Wait wouldn't all this emerald protect me from anything they have planed."
"Not from a physical being, I know this may seem to be overwhelming for you but I promise you everything will be fine. Just trust me, please Dorothy."
He stops in the hallway to look her in the eyes, she saw a small shred of fear appearing. Dorothy hugs Marvel as the realization of the impending danger aroused. When they pulled away, she said
"I understand, but please give me till next Friday so I can say goodbye to my kids. They mean so much to me."
He nods with pained smile,
"I understand my Dear, now let's get going we don't have much to do and we have still have all of your expenses to tie up."
As they walk off and get in Marvel's car, a pair of sickly unnatural green eyes watch them closely. In a voice that can only be described as many voice in one, came from Estabin at once.
"You can't protect her forever false wizard, we will have our revenge on her and that scarecrow too."
Once his eyes faded back to his natural color he walked off.