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One week before the wedding

As the day of the wedding and the first night of the blue moon festival drew closer, dorothy and alex found themselves in the grand ballroom that had been used during the china princess's and Marshall mallow's wedding helping with set up. When they finished what they were told to do, which was making sure the room was clean and the tables were set up and evenly space. Alex checked his watch and sighed.

"this only took us an hour." Alex said.

"what, really?" dorothy asked rather surprised.

"I know, it feels like it's been longer." Alex said holding his hand out for the scepter.

"I know, should we see if Alyssa has anything else for us to do?" Dorothy asked.

"we should probably, but I feel like Alyssa put us on this task deliberately." Alex said shrugging, the scepter pinging in agreement.

"that wouldn't come as a surprise." Dorothy said sighing.

"so, dorothy I have a question for you." Alex said letting the scepter float next to him.

"hmm?" Dorothy asked smiling.

"may I have this dance?" Alex asked smiling back.

Dorothy smiled and walked over, taking his hand and getting into position. Soon they were dancing, and it almost felt like magic between them. Unknown to them, it was a form of magic, an old and ancient form that had been lost many years before. The steps they were doing, in the exact way they always did it, allowed for a small amount of magic to be formed and to allow them to become captivating to anyone who saw it. as they danced they began to think of the others and wondered what tasks they had been set to.

However unknown to them, they were the only ones set to do a task. In the chambers the rest of them were talking, well, at least, Alyssa, Terrance, ellie, Alison, Caitlyn, Elena, Chrissy, Emma, Aislynn, zeb, Ozma, Annabella, Madeline, Jack, and Eliza were talking to each other. The rest of the adults, as well Betsy, trot, and the triplets had met up in the library.

"so, dorothy and alex finished, it only took an hour." Madeline said.

"an hour? Wow, it feels like it's been longer since we put them on the task." Alyssa said sound surprised.

"well, I asked you to get them out of the way, so we could plan this for them, but I didn't expect them to be efficient with it, I expected them to spend most of the time c hatting." Ozma said sighing.

"well, Mr. and Mrs. Teak already have a blue print, but would they really accept that we plan on building them a vacation house?" Aislynn asked.

"no ace, that's why we're doing it." Caitlyn said checking some things off on her clipboard.

"then why did we split up the group." Annabella asked curiously.

"so that they would suspect a thing had they decided to take a break and come in here, the other tasks on the clipboard are like, five, ten-minute set ups tops." Alison said.

"but why wouldn't they accept it?" Zeb asked curiously.

"because dorothy doesn't like people going so much trouble for her, besides to put a nail in the nonexistent coffin, the wedding is one week away, a week later is her birthday, and if she found out we were going through this kind of trouble instead of doing what we said we were, she would be furious." Madeline said shrugging.

"where do you even plan on having it built anyways?" Chrissy asked.

"just outside of the village that Rose and the Jester reside, we're also having that old farmhouse that dorothy came here in repaired." Ozma said.

"I'd question why, but I don't feel like any of us would get a satisfying answer." Chrissy said shrugging.

"whose idea was it anyways?" Zeb asked.

"ours." Alyssa and Terrance said in unison.

"a week before your wedding and this is the thing you worry about?" Zeb asked.

"dorothy doesn't allow anyone to do much for her, she doesn't really like gifts, she doesn't like that she's popular, she despises when people go behind her back, alex at least remains level headed, Terrance and I already have everything else set in motion, it's time we do something for her that she'll feel obligated to accept." Alyssa said sternly.

"no need to get snappy about it, it was just a question." Zeb said.

"forgive my sister, zeb, we all get a bit annoyed that dorothy doesn't really let us do anything for her." Elena said.

"and we all agree that it's time we all did something for, and a statue didn't seem like a good idea." Ozma said handing Alyssa the blueprints.

"we'll get the royal contractors and builders on it right away." Alyssa said.

"wait, outside of the village Rose and the Jester are part of, don't you need Rose's blessing to build there?" Elena asked curiously.

"yes, and it wasn't hard, I just had to ask, and she gave the blessing as well as the deed for the plot, it belonged to her family, when I asked her why she'd willingly give up such as large plot of land, she said she'd explain later." Ozma said shrugging.

"Glinda said you almost tried to argue about it." Ellie said.

"I did, it was odd." Ozma said shrugging.

"I don't see why she wouldn't, if everyone likes dorothy so much." Zeb said rather unsure.

"that's what I thought, I went there, asked if could use the large plot of land just outside the village for building, when I told her it was a house for alex and dorothy to use as a vacation spot or something like that she smiled and asked me to wait, came back with the deed a few moments later." Ozma said holding It up.

"why question it?" Emma asked curiously.

"because living with mombi for so long taught me to question everything." Ozma said.

"Oh." Was her response.

Meanwhile in the west at castle garrison.

"you know she almost certainly won't use the house that they build her?" the jester asked as he and rose descended the stairs down to vault.

"oh, she will, she'll feel obligated, and she and alex will likely try to relinquish the deed back to me." Rose said.

"your family has owned that land for several generations and you never used it, why would you allow for it to go to dorothy?" the jester asked curiously.

"why do you think dear?" rose asked in response as they stood in front of the vault door.

"because you want to repay her, for reuniting us, I gave her the castles out of guilt, what your doing is being generous as you always are." The jester said kissing her.

Rose smiled and kissed him passionately for a moment before they were interrupted by a loud banging from the vault door.

"how could they know?" Rose asked pointing her thumb to the door.

"you'd be surprised." The jester said rolling his eyes and waving his wand over the locks.

"I'm sure I wouldn't." Rose said smiling.

"also, if they do try to relinquish the deed back to you, will you take it back?" the jester asked.

"no, because then dorothy will feel at least obligated to use it, but I've already made a change of policy that when it's done that no one is to bother dorothy or alex, it'll be a place where they can actually go to relax, and not be hounded by people." Rose said.

"relax, those words usually fall with she and doesn't coming before it." the jester said.

"exactly, she does what she calls, relaxing, but she won't go to the western castle, I mean sure she was down there with alex yesterday to make sure everything was clean and ready for Alyssa and Terrance's honeymoon, but the odds of them actually staying there is next to nil." Rose said as another loud knock came on the door.

"Okay, okay, don't get impatient we're right outside the door." The jester said.

Meanwhile back in the emerald city palace library.

"okay, so we all agreed?" Henry asked.

"yes, it'll take a few days, the royal builders and contractors will work day and night, we'll take care of the rest." Locasta said.

"and I'll get started on the furniture, do not let my son find out, this has to be surprise." Mr. teak said sternly.

"yes sir." They all said.

"but how do we keep him from looking in on you?" Mrs. Teak asked.

"I don't know, just try, I'll come up with something." He replied.

"so, you guys come to an agreement?" Alyssa asked coming in.

"indeed, they did." Betsy and trot said looking up from the triplets.

"good then everything can be set in motion." Alyssa said smiling.

"are they still in the ballroom?" Em asked curiously.

"yes." Alyssa said.

"dancing." Madeline said coming into the library.

Back in the ballroom the two of them were unaware of the audience that suddenly started building up as Madeline had told them what was going on. The two of them were only focused on each other. They moved so gracefully, so beautifully, that Zeb was at a loss for words, as were Ned, Melinda, and Bill, as they had never seen it before. But none of them could say a word anyways. When they eventually came to a stop dorothy embraced alex tightly only to be met with applause which cause them to jump.

"wow, just, wow." Zeb said walking over to the two.

"how long have you guys been standing there?" Dorothy asked.

"about 5 minutes." Madeline said looking at her watch.

"so, you're all done then?" alex asked

"yes." They all said in unison.

"well, Alyssa, what do you think of the set up?" dorothy asked.

Alyssa pushed through the group and looked around, as did Terrance, the two of them spent about ten minutes looking around the tables.

"it's perfect." Alyssa said.

"everything is perfectly spaced, to the centimeter." Terrance said.

"We did our best, it didn't take long surprisingly." Alex said.

"yes, Madeline told us when you two had finished." Eliza said.

"why don't you two take a break? Go for a picnic or something?" Em suggested.

"and leave you all here?" Dorothy asked.

"why not, you two have earned it." Zeb said.

"besides you two spend more time cooped up in this palace than I do." Ozma said smiling.

Dorothy looked at alex for a moment, he glanced back, and they had what could only be described as a silent conversation, not a word was said between the two of them. But the look on their faces said that they were contemplating it. the scepter pinged a rather definitive ping and the two of them turned.

"alright, we'll go, but we won't stay out too long." Dorothy said.