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Chapter Twenty-Seven

Elphaba woke in the early hours the next morning finding herself in her fiancé's arms. As she looked at his sleeping figure, a pang of guilt and pain struck her heart, and she gently began to get out of bed. She took off her engagement ring and laid it on the bedside table and took one last look at Fiyero, seeing what their life would have been in his peaceful visage. She envisioned a perfect wedding day surrounded by friends, an easy life, even children- but she stopped before it got to painful to think about and left the apartment very quickly.

She went back to her own dorm where she woke Glinda with the sound of her packing, and her friend got out of bed, "Elphie, what are you doing?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

"I have to go, Glin. My father is arriving any minute." She responded, keeping her head down.

"What about Fiyero?" Glinda asked, and Elphaba stopped her packing and looked at her friend, shaking her head. Glinda made a sad face to Elphaba, and she helped her green friend pack the remainder of her belongings. When she was finished, there was a knock on the door, which revealed to be Nessa and her father. Elphaba's heart sank when she saw him, and could not meet his gaze. She gave Glinda a warm embrace and said, "Thank you for everything, Glin. I'll never forget you."

Glinda, with tears in her eyes, replied, "I love you, Elphie. You're the best friend I've ever had, and I cannot repay what you've given to me." Elphaba started to tear up, but was interrupted by her father clearing his throat, a clear sign for her to leave. She hugged her friend once more, not wanting to let go, and then left her in the dorm doorway, tears streaming down her face.

Nessa went with her family to see them off, and hugged her sister before she boarded the carriage back to Munchkinland, holding her, trying to tell her how sorry she was for the circumstances. However, the two were gone before she knew it, and she was left in the warm morning sun, no carriage in sight. She sighed a heavy sigh, and left to attend her morning classes.

However, at lunch, a frantic and worried Fiyero sought her out to find some explanation for his missing fiancé.

"Nessa, have you seen Elphaba?" he said, quickly sitting across from her at a table in the library.

Nessa didn't look up from the book she was reading for a few moments, and then looked at him with a confused face, "What do you mean?"

He sighed, "I woke up this morning, and she was no where to be found."

When Nessa realized what happened, her face turned very sullen, "You don't know…"

"Know what?" he said, growing more concerned.

She bit her lip, "Elphaba…left this morning for Munchkinland. To get married."

Nessa might have well have slapped Fiyero in the face. He looked at her with a shock filled face, not wanting to believe what he'd heard, "I-I…We…she said she wasn't going to go!"

Nessa looked at him with a guilty face, "She has little play with our father. She was never going to get out of it, and she and I both knew it."

"We were engaged. She is the love of my life…and she just gave up like that."

Nessa shook her head, "She didn't just give up- she wanted to be with you more than anything else, Fiyero. Elphaba had to do what was best for you and her- she knew if she stayed you both would face consequences."

Fiyero remained silent, "She didn't even write me a note, I just found her engagement ring on the bedside table this morning." He put both of his hands on his head as he sighed, "She is my world. And she didn't tell me she was leaving."

Nessa bit her lip to suppress her emotion. All she could think to do was try and comfort Fiyero, but she knew it wouldn't heal his wounds. After all, you can't heal bullet holes with bandages, and both of them knew it.