A huge thank you to all of you who reviewed! Please keep doing it! I did some changing to the story in this chapter.

Chapter 2

It took a moment for Elphaba to comprenhend the situation, so she jut stood there for a moment, stuck in though about what she had just done. Everybody was screaming as they could not control what they were doing.

Fiyero's voice suddenly broke though her thoughts. He was standing by the doorway, the lion cage in his hands.

"Well, are you coming?" He then ran out. Elphaba, with not other choice, followed him, leaving everyone else in the room to scream. The halls of the history building were easy to run though, as none of the other classes had gotten out yet.

Fiyero, maybe he was shallowed and self-absorbed, but he could run. Even with the Lion cub in his cage in his hands, the speed with which he could run was faster then anyone Elphaba had scene.

Almost all classes were in session, so running though the grounds of Shiz and making their way to the outmost part of the campus, was not hard and attracted few eyes. Fiyero finally stopped running near a poppy field under an old bridge. He seamed to be hardly panting, but seamed to of forgotten about the Lion, since he was shaking the cage.

"Careful!" Elphaba scream at him, grabbing the cage from his hands. "Don't shake him!"

"I'm not!" Fiyero protsted at her. Elphaba ignored him and gently set the cage on the ground.

"We can't just let him loose anywhere you know. We have to find someplace safe." This was not exactly the safest place. They were sill inside the boundries of Shiz. Didn't Fiyero know that?

"I relieze that?" Maybe he did. "You think I'm really stupid don't you?"

No. Well, maybe a little bit, Elphaba thought to herself.

"No. Not really stupid." Not the best thing to say at all. Fiyero had shown that he did have care for other things then himself.

"Why is it every time I see you your causing some type of commotion?"

"I don't cause commotions I am one!"

"That's for sure." He spoke under his breath, but Elphaba, caught off-guard by the comment, whirled around and faced Fiyero, looking him in the eye.

"Oh, so you think I should just keep my mouth shut it that what your saying? Do you think I want to be this way?! Do you think I want to care this much?! You don't think I know how easier my life would be if I didn't?!"

"Do you ever let anyone else talk?!" Fiyero had been trying to speak for the past few moments during her long ramble, but he said that line with enough direct force and voice that Elphaba stopped her ramble.

"Oh, sure?" She backed up to the cage. Fiyero moved closer to her, but just as he began to open his mouth, another thought suddenly hit Elphaba, and she could not hold it in.

"Can I just say one more thing?" Fiyero rolled his eyes but backed off, looking very annoyed.

"You could of walked away back there." He gave her a funny look.

"So?"

"So no matter how shallow and self-absorbed you pretend to be you do…" But Fiyero quickly cut her off.

"Whoa! There is no pretence here!" He pointed boldly at himself. "I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow!" He straighted his stance and posture, but it was clearly an act.

"No, your not. Or else you would not be so unhappy." Fiyero dryly let out a small laugh and began walking backwards, away from Elphaba.

"Fine, if you don't want my help…" No. Elphaba did want his help. She didn't want him to leave, so she ran up to him.

"No, I do…" But as soon as she grabbed his hand, he stopped and looked at her. Elphaba felt a feeling come over her body. But what was it? Was it the cool touch of his hand? The way his light brown eyes looked at her. The look on his round, pale face that she could not describe? The moaning of the Lion cub suddenly broke though the silence eerie silence, and she let go of Fiyero's hand and ran back to the cage.

Reaching in, she gently petted the Lion on his back. Glancing back over at Fiyero, she felt that feeling come over her again. He was just standing there. Looking at his left hand, the hand she had grabbed. She quickly turned her attention back to the Lion.

"His heart is pounding. I didn't mean to frighten him." She was talking to herself, and did not realize that Fiyero had come over.

"What did you mean to do?" Elphaba kept her gaze away as he spoke. "And, why was I the only one you didn't do it to?" He was know kneeling next to the cage, and Elphaba could sense how focused his eyes were on her. Pulling her head up and looking at him for a moment, she noticed a red scratch on left cheek.

"Your, bleeding." Fiyero just stared at her.

"I am?"

"It must have scratched you?" It wasn't possible though. The cub had been in the cage the whole time.

"Yeah or maybe it scratched me or something." Now he was being very stupid. Suddenly he pulled away from her and quickly stood up. Without even realizing it, Elphaba had reached up with her hand and had touched him on his face where the cut was.

"Well, I better get to safety. I mean the cub." He moved towards the cage, trying to avoid Elphaba, who quickly got up.

"Right." He was smart enough to release the cub in a safe place.

"Get the cub to safety." He picked up the cage and bumped into Elphaba once again. She tried to move out of the way, but he only moved the way she did. She moved the other way and he moved that way. The cage was the only thing in between them.

Fiyero then broke free of the situation, running back towards Shiz for a moment before turning around and running the other way.

As he disappeared from her view, Elphaba felt as though something was leaving her. She called out his name, but either he was out of hearing range, or he did not care. Elphaba herself was actually hoping the latter was true.

Why? Why was she doing this?! She was letting herself fall in love! And not just in love with anybody, with a prince! A prince who also happened to be her roommate's boyfriend! This was not happening!

There was no way in Oz or hell that he could have been feeling the same way for her. He is a prince, and had Glinda Upland as a girlfriend.

"I'm not that girl" Elphaba sang gently to herself. "Don't dream too far. Don't loose sight of who you are. Don't remember that rush of joy. I'm not that girl." Glinda, however, was that girl. Carefree, dreamy, joyful, good-looking and rich, like Fiyero.

Elphaba looked down again at her green hands and tugged at her long, stick-straight, black hair. She knew she was ugly. Fiyero deserved so much better then the green artichoke she was. Glinda was the one he deserved.

"Blithe smile, lithe lime, gold hair with a gentle curl. That's the girl he chose, and heaven knows—I'm not that girl" Elphaba sang again quietly to herself. Glancing up at the sky, which was filling with dark rain clouds, she caught site of Fiyero and Glinda on the bridge. Dashing under it, she kept her gaze down as it started to rain. She heard their footsteps begin to move away. She moved out from under the bridge and caught Fiyero's eye, who stared down at her, before running to Glinda.

Elphaba was letting herself wish and dream for Fiyero. That was wrong. She knew that wishing for something one could not have would only wound the heart.

She stood there for a few moments before suddenly Madam Morrible appeared from the fields with an umbrella. She did not appear shaken at all, but had a huge smile on her face.

"Oh Elphaba, there you are!" She handed the umbrella to Elphaba.

"My dear, I have fantastic news!" Elphaba had not heard her this excited since the incident on the first day of school, when Elphaba's anger had caused another commotion that had gotten her into Morrible's sorcery program. "I have finally heard back from the Wizard! And my dear, he wishes to meet you!"

Elphaba could not believe what she was hearing! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz wanted to meet her! "The Wizard?!" she gasped.

"I know how distress you are over Dr. Dillamond, but my dear, as one door closes…" as she spoke, she reached into her chest pocket and pulled out a large, emerald green envelope with a gold seal. "…another opens." Elphaba grabbed the letter and stared at it for a moment, marveling at the gold wax which bore the Wizard's stamp.

"Oh Madam Morrible! How can I ever thank you?" Elphaba flung her arms around the woman, giving her a big hug. Morrible hugged her back, but quickly pushed the umbrella back over Elphaba's head.

"Careful my dear, you must not get wet." It was true. Elphaba hated the water. She had hated water since she was a baby. She just did not know why. She hated to even drink water.

"The Wizard as you know, is a very busy man. He also would hate to drag you away from your important studies, so you'll go to the Emerald City four weeks from today."

Four weeks! Elphaba did not think she could wait that long!

"Now come on my dear, you should be back in class." Morrible then walked away. Elphaba followed her, but could not help thinking about what was to come: meeting the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

There you go. Chapter Two. Chapter Three should be up in the next few days, so please read and review!