Elphaba sat at the small desk. Chewing away on a just about edible grey substance.
She had been left to herself the past couple of days. Someone would send food in from a hatch in the wall. So she saw no one.
Most of the time she spent laying on her comfy bed. Which she was thankful for every time she climbed in.
It would embrace her in a sort of hug which she desperately longed for.
Feel her amazing blonde friend's arms around her neck. Telling her everything would be ok.
Be pulled into Fiyero's body. His hands stroking her hair. Telling her to be strong.
Finishing her food her eyes drifted down to her fluttering stomach. Who was clearly enjoying the food more than her.
Lost in her thoughts she never noticed the soldier enter. Closely followed by the bloated looking codfish Morrible.
The guard made her stand leading her to a ring on the wall and chaining her to it.
"Trust me that is for your own protection "
"Protection?"
That's when Elphaba saw the book.
"What are you going to do to me?"
She asked eyeing the Grimary nervously as Morrible began flicking through clearly knowing what page she was looking for.
"I'm becoming...inpatient".
Her eyes scanned over Elphaba's body. Gulping she looked down then back to Morrible, who had placed the book onto the desk and was beginning to mutter the spell.
She pulled on her chains. Trying to stop her doing whatever she had planned. Panicking as the muttering of the spell stopped.
Their eyes met as Morrible turned, grinning evilly.
Elphaba felt weird.
Her head started throbbing.
Her vision started to blur.
Her chest began to sting.
Her breast began to swell her dress feeling painfully tighter and tighter.
"What have you done!?"
Morrible never replied. She merely took a seat and watched as Elphaba experienced more pain travel through her.
Her stomach began to feel like it had been filled with laver.
Her gut on fire.
She needed to hold her belly. To try and help but her hands were chained unable to reach.
That's when she saw it. Her stomach began swelling before her eyes. As if she had eaten a balloon and it was being rapidly inflated.
Elphaba panicked. Her breath quickening.
The pain kept getting worse. Her stomach getting larger.
Morrible just watched as her former student quivered. Screaming and crying. Her face red. Eyes wide.
"You're horrible !Heartless! How can you sit there and...ahhhhhhh"
She screwed up her face, her dress struggling against her skin.
After a couple of minutes, the pain began to lessen.
Elphaba felt an evil cold hand full onto her swollen stomach.
"Yes. This is much better".
She patted it. Looking at the lump proudly.
Elphaba felt a massive kick. As if even the child within her knew of this horrible women.
They left. Leaving her still chained to the wall.
Her body ached everywhere. Her stomach felt like she had been kicked by a horse.
She couldn't stop shaking from the adrenaline which had been passed so quickly through her.
Every movement the baby made she felt.
She needed to rest to sleep. But she couldn't. So she just slumped up against the cold wall.
She had never cried so much. But she couldn't stop. She wanted Fiyero. She wanted Glinda. She just wanted to be held by someone.
She was scared. So very scared
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Sitting in the bare room of wooden walls and floors, Fiyero sighed. He had found the tin mans shack but was yet to;
One- Inform him who he actually truly was.
Two- Try and get him round to see what Elphaba did to him was done to save, not hinder.
Once he had done with those lengthy topics he had to try and achieve his help to get the girls.
It was going to be an intense conversation. But he had to try. Oz knows what state the girls wherein after having been locked up for such a length of time.
If they where still alive that is.
Boq admired the fixing skills he had just used on his scarecrow friend. It had been a while since they had seen each other. He expected him to be happy and talking about all the things which had happened to him since last they met. He wasn't however. He was quiet. Boq could pretty much hear him thinking
" So what brings you this way, old friend?"
"Boq, we need to talk"
Fiyero said. Addressing him by his name for the first time. Boqs mouth opened. Asking himself how he had come to know his name.
"There's more to me than you know. I've known you longer than you think. It's me ,Fiyero"
He grinned. Boq stood still. Like he had rusted into a shocked position.
"How? Why? It was her, wasn't it!? "
"Yes. It was " her". But before you say a bad word about Elphaba-"
"The wicked witch. That evil woman who turned me into this hunk of metal!"
"Boq. Think about what you're saying. Do you know the full story? She saved you. It was Nessa rose who harmed you not Elphaba."
"What!? How would you even know anything about this?!"
"She speaks of that incident often".
"Speaks? Spoken surely. She died. We witnessed it did we not? Or was that a lie as well? Like hiding who you truly were from me?"
" I didn't remember. Not till much later. The spell she cast saved me. I would have been dead if it wasn't for that over caring women, as would you".
Boq let those words rest in his head a moment.
"She's alive Boq. Her death was a trick to release her from everything".
" A trick? You mean she's still lives? We need to tell Glinda".
"She knows. They are together right now in fact".
" Are they near? I would so love to see Miss Glinda again".
"They are quite near. Morrible has taken over the city".
" Yes, I did hear rumor".
"She has both the girls. They are her prisoners".
" Glinda's a prisoner?"
"As is the lady who saved your life. Everything she has ever done has been out of the goodness of her heart. And now she needs us. Just as we needed her. You would be dead if Elphaba hadn't turned you into a tin man. It's Morrible who's the evil one. She twisted words making everyone believe in the wicked witch of the west".
It was true Morrible had managed to persuade Boq of Elphaba's evil actions. Maybe he had been looking at things from the wrong point of view.
"Why are you here?"
"I need to get to them. I can't do it alone. Boq I need your help. Please put your past things behind you. They need us. Both of us".
" Can they not break themselves out? Elphaba is supposed to be this all powerful-"
"She's pregnant"
"Glinda?"
"No"
"Ah"
" Listen Boq. Please help me with there escape. If not for Elphaba then for the child. Please".
He was begging now. Groveling.
Boq sighed. It had been alot of information to process.
His friend scarecrow was really Fiyero.
Morrible had Glinda in a prison cell.
The wicked witch was with child.
Had Elphaba really turned himself and his friend into different species to save them?
He wanted to help Fiyero to save Glinda.
"Ok. Ill help. But not for Elphaba. The thought of Glinda chained in a cell isn't easy to take. "
"Right, good. Luckily I have a plan".
"What do you need me to do?"