~A/N~ Yes! My iPod has finally accepted how to spell 'Glinda', 'Elphaba' and 'Fiyero'. This is very good :-)

Disclaimer: I do not own Wicked (sorry my brain was writing the next chapter in my head and I couldn't think of anything interesting).

"I still don't understand why she fainted! I though she was the most powerful witch in Oz." Zaver's comment was cold and accusing.

Glinda's chirpy voice replied, "I told you. She hasn't performed a spell that powerful in more than 10 years. It would of been draining on her body before, so it was worse now."

Elphaba opened her eyes to see Glinda and Zaver standing at the foot of a hospital bed.

Glinda's eyes widened when she saw that Elphaba was awake, "Elphie! Zaver, go get Fiyero."

Elphaba tried to sit up but get arms ached to much, so Glinda rushed over and helped her.

"Elphie, you really shouldn't try to do anything right now, you've been unconscious for two days."

Elphaba groaned, "Two days? Did you guys try to wake me?"

"Fiyero wanted to," Glinda said matter-of-factly, "But I said that you needed to rest after performing the spell."

"Well is Boq okay?"

Glinda nodded but didn't get a chance to speak before Fiyero burst into the room, "Fae!"

He wrapped his arms around his green wife and shook her back and forth a bit, "I was so worried about you!"

"Yeah, he's even been sleeping in the hospital so that he made sure no one kidnapped you." Glinda smirked.

Fiyero blushed and quickly changed the subject, "Well now that you're awake we can schedule the briefing meeting so that Boq knows the plan."

"Unfortunately our Captain of the Guard has decided that, because I brought you to in as advisors, he can do the same." Glinda frowned as Fiyero cut in."

"Well we can't expect everyone to be as perfect as me!"

Glinda ignored his comment and continued, "There's no way that we'll be able to go through the meeting without them trying to change every detail of the plan."

Elphaba sighed and leaned against her pillows further, "No one said that it would be easy."

Boq frowned at his reflection; after years of seeing tin instead of flesh, it was odd to see organic matter again.

Turning away from the mirror, he looked around the room that he had been staying in. The bed looked more inviting, the shower looked friendly, but most of all, the small picture he kept on the nightstand seemed more reachable.

The small knock on the door signaled Elphaba's entrance into Boq's quarters.

"Sorry," she didn't seem to have her usual confidence, "I just wanted to see you; to know that you really were human."

Boq smiled, something that felt almost alien, "Thank you Elphaba, really. How are you?"

She only shrugged, so Boq continued, "Uh, Glinda said she wanted to see me, so I have to go . . . Bye."

As Boq left Elphaba stood in the center of her room, her eyes fixed in the picture of his nightstand.

Young Elphaba and Glinda (or in those days, Galinda) stood in the center outside the gates of Shiz. Galinda's arm was wrapped around Fiyero to her right, and intertwined with her best friend. Elphaba had her left hand on the back of Nessarose's wheelchair. Boq was standing next to his girlfriend, but he was the only one without the happy twinkle in his eye. It had been taken about a week before Elphaba and Glinda had left for the Emerald City, and one of the last times that the five were together as a group.

In the meeting hall, Elphaba got more suspicious glares then she had insults during her time at Shiz. It was obvious that no one trusted her, but they still accepted her presence (turns out Glinda was looked up to more than Elphaba thought).

The meeting turned out to be incredibly drawn out; every time Glinda, Fiyero or Elphaba would introduce a new piece of the plan, someone would cut in with questions or comments, just as Glinda had predicted.

It was heaven when Glinda announced a short recess, in which she and Elphaba got a chance to talk in private.

"This is ridiculous!" Elphaba was furious, "We aren't going to be able to convince them this plan is going to work; they don't think it's important."

Before Glinda got a chance to reply, Fiyero and Boq sauntered over.

"So this is going well," Boq's voice was a mix of laughing and sarcasm.

Elphaba shot him a death glare and marched back to the table taking her seat, Glinda and Fiyero sitting next to her. Soon enough the group was back to their arguing.

But despite the noise, Elphaba heard the crack, and had just enough time to pull Glinda & Fiyero under the table with her before the room was blown apart around them.

~A/N~ Action at last! Be sure to follow the story, it will have much more added to it!