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Very early the next morning alex awoke and quietly made his way downstairs. When her got there, he found Madeline and jack waiting for him in the living room.

"So, we have a plan, once dorothy is awake we'll start the plan into action, though it's a bit early to be playing music in the park." Jack whispered.

Alex smile and nodded before walking over to the couch.

"So, do you think dorothy will enjoy it?" Madeline whispered.

"Oh, I'm sure she will, have your disguise made up?" Alex asked.

"yep, though knowing dorothy, she'll see right through it." Madeline said.

"Oh of course she will, there's no doubt about that." Alex said stretching.

"well hopefully she'll stay asleep for a couple of hours." Jack said.

Madeline smiled and conjured up a cup of tea which she took a sip from. She knew dorothy was going to wake up soon. She could feel it, Dorothy's thoughts beginning to awaken. It would be at least an hour though before she was awake.

Meanwhile in Oz.

After a rather failed attempt at learning to swim, Ozma decided to spend more of her time in the chambers, sitting on her throne. She was enjoying some chocolates that Brianna had made her.

"Ozma, are you just going to sit here all day and eat chocolates?" Glinda asked.

"That was sort of the plan." Ozma said.

"Why?" Glinda asked walking over.

"Well, after nearly drowning yesterday, I'd rather keep my feet on dry land for a while." Ozma said.

"That doesn't mean sit around and eat chocolate." Glinda said.

"I know, but it's the best thing I could come up with at a moment's notice, I mean it is valentine's day." Ozma said.

Glinda sighed and rubbed the bridge of her nose. She then walked over to the girl ruler and once again, sighed.

"Ozma, I'll let you off the hook this time, but, I don't know, why not spend some time with the china princess, you know, sisters in royalty and all that?" Glinda asked.

"I try but she always says she's busy with some 'royal business'." Ozma said popping another chocolate in her mouth.

"I'll have to talk to her, see if we can find anything for you two to do together." Glinda said.

"Well, can we look in on dorothy now?" Ozma asked.

"Maybe in an hour it's still early." Glinda said looking at a nearby clock.

"By the way, did you get anything from admirers today?" Ozma asked.

"Oh, chuck contacted me about an hour ago, she told me I got several boxes from admirers." Glinda said.

"I'm not surprised." Ozma said.

"second most beautiful witch in all of Oz." Madeline said appearing in the room.

"Who's the first?" Ozma asked.

"From a technical standpoint, dorothy, though she doesn't identify as a witch" Madeline said.

"okay, but dorothy isn't from Oz, though, I often wish she could move to Oz permanently." Ozma said.

"Hey who knows, anyways, dorothy is starting to wake up, so I have to get ready to make the delivery to her." Madeline said.

"I see, well, happy valentine's day." Ozma said.

"Same to you, your majesty." Madeline said walking out of the chambers.

Meanwhile in California.

It was around eight in the morning when dorothy finally awoke. As she looked around the room she noticed toto and pockets weren't in the room. She stretched and looked at the clock. Noticing it was eight o'clock she sighed and got up. When she left her room immediately she bumped into zeb.

"Oh, Happy valentine's day." Zeb said.

"I guess, hey have you seen toto or pockets this morning?" dorothy asked.

"No, I just got up." Zeb said.

"Well, they must be downstairs then." Dorothy said.

As the two of them descended the steps immediately a knock came on the door. Both toto and pockets ran out of the living room to see as dorothy walked over to the door and opened it. she was immediately met with Madeline standing in front of her with a rather large cardboard box, wearing a delivery woman's outfit and carrying a clipboard under her arm.

"Dorothy Gale?" she asked smiling.

"express delivery?" Zeb asked.

"Must be, yes, do I have to sign?" Dorothy asked.

"yes ma'am" Madeline said handing her the clipboard and a pen.

"I don't think I've seen you doing deliveries, you new around here?" Zeb asked.

"No, I'm just passing through with this delivery." Madeline said.

Dorothy sighed and signed the clipboard. She was going to give Madeline a right earful when she got back to Kansas for this. As she handed the clipboard back to Madeline she picked up the box, it was rather heavy and quite cold. She wasn't surprised.

"Enjoy your day." Madeline said turning around and starting down the path.

"She seemed odd." Zeb said assisting dorothy with the box.

"Yea, she did." Dorothy said.

"It's from Kansas, I guess your boyfriend decided to send something, or some things." Zeb said as they walked into the living room.

"A delivery, this early?" Melinda asked walking in from the kitchen.

"It's from home." Dorothy said.

"From the teak's boy?" Melinda asked.

"I can only assume." Dorothy said.

"It's quite cold, must have been sent in a refrigerated storage thingy." Zeb said.

"I say poke it with a stick, if I know the boy's father well enough." Melinda said.

Dorothy sighed and looked at zeb, he immediately pulled a pen knife from his pocket. This made dorothy a little curious.

"have, you, always been carrying that knife?" Dorothy asked taking it from him.

"Yep, it's quite useful." Zeb said.

Dorothy shook her head and cut the tape on the box. Closing the knife and handing it back to zeb, she opened the box and looked in. immediately the first thing that caught her eye was a small packet that said 'To Bill, from Em' which she handed to auntie Melinda, who smelled it.

"cinnamon, oh bill will like these." Melinda said walking out of the room.

The next thing that caught Dorothy's eye was all the bags of various candies which were all wrapped in emerald green bags with pink and red hearts dotted about. as well as a card, a little plush kitten, and the radio. Taking out the card and the plush she sighed. Opening the card, she read it aloud.

"Dorothy, assuming this gets to you when it's supposed to, which should be valentine's day, inside is several of your favorite candies, and a communications radio, please hook it and the microphone up and set it to the channel written on the back of this card, please do not read that aloud as I know you are doing with this card, love you, miss you, alex, P.S. everyone, and I mean everyone says hi." Dorothy read giggling.

Zeb looked at her with an arched eyebrow as Melinda came back into the room and looked into the box.

"is that a radio?" Melinda asked.

"yes, alex wants me to hook it up and use it to talk to him." Dorothy said.

"Must be his uncle alexanders, I don't recall any of the teaks owning one of these, though, your father and mother owned one, as well bill and Emily, alexander owned two, I thought he gave the other one to Madison." Melinda said.

"you guys have one?" Dorothy asked.

"yea, it's in the cellar, hooked up." Melinda said.

"let's hook it up down here to make sure it works." Dorothy said.

They all nodded and took the radio and its components. Zeb and Melinda were able to get it hooked up in less than half an hour.