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Chapter 9

And I'll spell you no lies

!!!Glinda's POV!!!

It couldn't be, I thought to myself. Fiyero? Here? How? He's dead! Well, I guess not, since he's right there.

I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and then next thing I knew, I looked up into black concerned eyes and a green smile.

"Elphi?" I asked. "Is it really you?"

She smiled, her wonderful, emerald smile.

"Yes. It's me." She looked away, and I quickly realized that she was crying.

I felt the tears come to me now, as I laid there looking at her. I sat up and grabbed her around the neck in a tight hug.

"I've missed you sooooo muuuuuch!" I wailed.

Elphi patted me on the back. "It's all right, Glinda dearest, it's all right."

!!!Elphaba's POV!!!

Glinda suddenly pulled back, and glared at me. Here it comes, I thought to myself.

"Glind-" I started, but she cut across me.

"HOW COULD YOU? YOU JUST DISSAPEAR! WITHOUT A WORD! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD! BOTH OF YOU! HOW COULD YOU?!"

And, predictably, she just cried harder. She let me hug her again, and this time, Fiyero joined in.

"I'm sorry." I said, for a lack of anything better to say.

She sniffed. " You're forgiven. Just don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER do that to me again!"

"Never again," I said, "I promise."

She looked me in the eye.

"Why didn't you tell me you were alive? Why?"

Ask me no questions, and I'll spell you no lies, I thought to myself.

"It was safer for you. What if the Wizard had tortured it out of you?"

That stopped her blubbering.

"What? The Wizard? Oh, he's been gone since the day you-" she looked at me, "-died. Or disappeared, I should say."

"Why?" Fiyero asked, speaking for the first time. "Why would he leave?"

"I figured out what you were trying to tell me about him all along. OH!" she suddenly sat up very straight.

"What?" I asked.

"I just remembered something about him. Elphi, when you were gone, before I came to you the last time, the Wizard offered me a drink, from a small, green bottle, and I didn't think anything of it. Until I found yours after you melted."

"I don't understand." But really, I did.

"Oh, Elphi. He was your father. That was why you were so powerful. And why you are green."

Oh, my life just keeps getting better and better.

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