"Glinda? Glinda?!" She yelled as loud as she could, hoping for a response.

"Great. This is just perfect." Elphaba huffed as she took in the nothingness around her. "Not only am I here again. I'm here alone." She clinched her jaw. "Wherever here is."

"That's what I'd like to know."

She turned quickly when she heard the voice. "Glinda?"

"Let me know if you figure it out."

She just as quickly turned the other direction. "Glinda, is that you?"

Silence was her only answer.

"Glinda?!" She gave it one more try.

"Wonderful." She sighed. "Now I'm hearing things."

"No you're not."

She gave a startled yelp as instinct had her turning to see if there was someone behind her. "Breena?"

The short haired witch grinned. "In the flesh." She furrowed her brow. "At least it feels like I have flesh. But who knows around here?"

"Bree!" Elphaba wasted no time grabbing her in a bone crushing hug.

"It's nice to see you again too, Elly." Breena half chuckled until she realized her sister wasn't going to let go anytime soon. "Air." She gasped. "Air would be good."

"Don't you 'air would be good' me young lady."

"Young lady?" Breena quirked an eyebrow as Elphaba held her at arm's length. "Last time I checked we were still the same age, which means you can't call me things like kid or young lady."

"What did you think you were doing, running away from me like that?"

"Not in the mood for witty banter huh?" Breena sighed. "I didn't mean to make it seem like I was running away from you, Elly."

"You told me to leave you alone, jumped on a horse that wasn't yours might I add, and rode off. How was I supposed to take that?"

Breena opened her mouth to respond but didn't get the chance as Elphaba continued.

"I could understand you not wanting to talk to Addena after the bombshell she'd just dropped on you, but I'm your sister, Bree. You're supposed to be able to come to me for anything, not go off on your own and scare me half to death."

"I didn't mean to scare you." Breena gave her a sheepish look. "Does this mean you're not glad to see me?"

"Glad doesn't even begin to cover it." Elphaba pulled her into another hug.

"Ow. Has anyone every told you you're a lot stronger than you look?"

"Shut up and hug me back."

Breena grinned as she did as she was told. "I really didn't mean to scare you, Elly. I just needed some time to think and getting away from the house seemed like the best way to do it. Things just kind of snowballed from there."

"Kind of?" Elphaba pulled back to look at her. "You're hurt and Eadlyn has Glinda and all you can say is things 'kind of' snowballed?"

"Hey, it's not like I wanted to have a sword shoved in my leg. And... Wait a minute. That bastard has Glinda? Our Glinda?!"

Elphaba nodded.

"How in Oz did that happen?"

"It's a long story."

"Then do you think you could do something about this… whatever you want to call it around us before you get started? It's hard to concentrate when it looks like I'm suspended in midair."

"Me?" Elphaba frowned. "What am I supposed to do about it?"

"I don't know." Breena shrugged. "You're the one who brought me here."

"I did not."

"You most certainly did. I heard you calling for Glinda and thought I better come see what was going on. The next thing I know I'm in this…" Her voice trailed off as she tried to come up with the right word again.

"Nothing." Elphaba filled in the blank for her.

"Yeah." She agreed. "Nothing describes it pretty well."

"I know, but what makes you think I can do anything about it?"

"Like I said, this is your deal sis. Has it happened before?"

"Yes. With Glinda."

"So that's why you were yelling for her."

"But it was different." Elphaba tried to explain. "We barely had a chance to say two words to each other."

"What happened?"

"I got this horrible pain in my head and the next thing I knew I was waking up at Upland Manor."

"Interesting." Breena narrowed her eyes. "I've read about people who could pull others into their subconscious minds. People who have visions like you. I bet this is some kind of offshoot of your powers. And if that's the case, you should be able to control the scenery around us."

Elphaba frowned. "Do you really think so?"

Breena nodded. "You didn't know you were doing it so you didn't know to provide a backdrop, right?"

"I guess."

"It's not going to hurt anything to try. So close your eyes and think of somewhere quiet. Someplace you'd go to relax."

"But…"

"Just do it."

Elphaba complied, picturing the quietest place she could imagine for about half a second before sighing. "See, I knew it wouldn't..."

"The gardens at Colwen. Nice choice."

She opened her eyes, shocked to find they were indeed in the sprawling garden Colwen Grounds was infamous for. "It worked."

"You've got to start having faith in your powers sis." Breena teased her.

Elphaba still couldn't believe it. "I used to sneak out here whenever we came to visit Grandfather. There were so many places to hide no one would ever find me."

"I used it as a getaway when I was sick of everybody. It reminded me of the garden Mom and I had at our house."

"Bree." Elphaba took her sister's hand, knowing how hard it must have been for her to come here after Leandra's death.

"Well that's about enough reminiscing for now." Breena quickly changed the subject. "Let's have a seat and you can fill me in on how Eadlyn managed to get his hands on Glinda."

"I already told you it's a long story."

Breena looked at her over her shoulder as she led her to one of the benches littering the gardens. "You have someplace else to be right now?"

"Good point." Elphaba conceded. "I guess I'll start at the beginning then." She waited until Breena sat down next to her. "Right after you rode off Glinda told me what was really going on with Addena and Eadlyn." She gripped her sister's arm, realizing she had no idea what she was talking about. "There's nothing between them, Bree. He was..."

"Blackmailing Addy." Breena finished her thought for her. "Ginny, Mrs. Upland, told me all about it. Eadlyn took her as a bargaining chip and was holding her at the camp."

"I know. Addena told us about Eadlyn taking her and one of the guards told us she was at the camp. But I'm getting ahead of myself." Elphaba chastised herself. "Once I knew the truth we decided we had to tell you too. So Glinda and I took off on my broom to look for you. But it started storming so we found a little shack where we could wait it out. Just as we were getting ready to leave this wolf pup came running up to us."

"So he found you." Breena looked relieved. "I felt horrible for sending the little guy off on his own but I didn't know what else to do after he told me the trappers were attacking his group. Did the others..."

Elphaba nodded, answering her question before she could finish asking it. "They found us at the same time. I wanted to keep searching for you, especially after they told me you'd been captured, but I knew I couldn't leave Glinda and those kids out there alone to make their way back to Upland Manor."

"It's all right, Elly." Breena put her sister's shoulder. "You did the right thing."

"Did I? Maybe if I'd found you then you wouldn't have gotten hurt."

"Stop beating yourself up over things you had no control over and finish telling me what happened."

Elphaba started to protest but stopped when her sister gave her a 'don't argue with me' look. "We took the Animals back to the house and I went to the palace to tell Father what happened."

"You did?"

"He needed to know you were missing. And no matter how much I wanted to find you I knew I couldn't search those woods alone."

"So you went for the cavalry." Breena nodded. "Let me guess, you used the mirror spell to take some of the guards back to Upland Manor with you so you could start the search right away." She pointed. "And I bet you wore yourself out and then argued with Glinda about resting before you starting looking for me again."

Elphaba was shocked. "How did you know that?"

"Because I know you." She smirked. "And I would have done the same thing."

"By the time I got up the next morning Dad was there." Elphaba continued. "He came with the rest of the guards who were going to help with the search. He and Fiyero found out what was going on and coerced Eadlyn into making good on his word to help look for you. Addena overheard him telling his friend, Gregor, to go to the camp and tell them he would be there as soon as he could get away. He tipped Addena off about having you by calling her Addy."

Breena growled, "I told him not to call her that."

"You're lucky he did. Otherwise we might never have found you. She went straight to Fiyero and Cade and they decided Cade would take a few men and follow Gregor to see if she was right."

"I was wondering how they found us."

"Glinda and I went with Fiyero and the rest of the search party to keep Eadlyn from suspecting that we knew anything. One of the guards who went with Cade came to let us know they'd found you and Mrs. Upland. We started to confront Eadlyn and then..."

Breena cocked her head when her sister hesitated. "What?"

"I..." Elphaba swallowed hard. "I had a vision."

"Of what?"

"While I was out of it Fiyero had Eadlyn arrested and sent most of our party off to help rescue you." She glossed over the question. "Eadlyn killed the four guards watching over him, shot Fiyero and kidnaped Glinda."

"What?!" Breena's mouth popped open. "He killed the guards?! Is Fiyero all right?!"

"He's fine. The bullet went through his side." Elphaba answered. "I chased them and almost had Glinda but Eadlyn got her again."

"How did he manage that?"

"He hit me in the head with a tree branch and knocked me out."

"He hit you? With a tree branch?!" Breena couldn't believe what she was hearing. "He killed four guards, shot Fiyero, bludgeoned you and still has Glinda?" She clinched her jaw. "What I wouldn't give to get my hands on him."

"You and me both." Elphaba sighed. "I came to at Upland Manor and found out what happened to you." She shook her head. "You're not doing so well Bree."

"Eh." Breena waved her concern away.

"No Bree, I'm serious. You have a really high fever and you were barely breathing. What happened?"

"Well, you already know about me taking on the trappers. At first I used magic but smacking them around felt so good that I started hitting them. Besides, I didn't want to take a chance on hurting any of the Animals. Penny, the Lioness who was with the kids, and I were holding our own until someone started shooting tranquilizer darts. I was still pretty out of it when some guy gave me a potion to bind my powers so I couldn't use them to escape."

Elphaba mumbled, "Or heal yourself when they stabbed you."

"That too." Breena let her know she'd heard her. "Eadlyn came to gloat about being with Addy so I punched him. That's when he decided to let his men have fun by putting me and some of the Animals through a gauntlet."

"A gauntlet?" Elphaba raised her eyebrows. "I thought Mrs. Upland was exaggerating when she mentioned that."

"I know, pretty archaic right?" Breena rolled her eyes. "Anyway, we knew the men would be too excited about the possibility of torturing people to pay much attention to anything else so we came up with a plan to sneak Ginny and all but a few of the Animals out of the camp. Unfortunately all hell broke loose first. I was trying to protect Ginny when a guy got in a lucky shot with a sword."

Elphaba flinched at the thought.

"Everything gets pretty choppy from there. I remember coming around a couple of times and being in pain but not much else."

"Bree, are you..." She didn't want to finish the question but she needed to know the answer. "Are you dying?"

"Of course not."

"Thank the unnamed God." Elphaba let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding.

"At least I don't think so."

"You don't think so?"

"I didn't mean for that to sound so flip. It's just, I've never had an infection or fever like this before. I don't know what's going to happen. Until I heard you yelling for Glinda I was in some weird kind of limbo. Every once in a while I can hear snippets of conversations or feel someone holding my hand but I can't respond to them. It's pretty damned frustrating."

"I'm scared, Bree. What if you..." She couldn't bring herself to say the word again.

"I know I'm bad off right now Elly but are you giving up on me?"

Elphaba was too shaken by the possibility of losing her sister to really hear what she was saying.

"You are aren't you?" Breena ran her hand through her hair. "Is Addy giving up on me too?"

"What? No!" Elphaba was quick to reassure her. "Neither one of us is giving up on you."

"Then what's with being so morbid? This isn't any different than the jams we got ourselves into with Morrible. We got through those and we'll get through this." She narrowed her eyes when her sister didn't answer again. "There's something you're not telling me."

"No there's not."

"Yes there is. You've got that forlorn look in your eyes."

Elphaba wrinkled her nose. "Forlorn?"

"Don't change the subject."

"I didn't. You're the one who said I had forlorn eyes."

"Your vision." Breena snapped her fingers. "You never told me what you saw."

Elphaba looked away.

"That's it, isn't it? What did you see?"

"Nothing."

"How many times do you have to be told you're a bad liar before you believe it?"

"I didn't see anything."

"Elly."

"Even if I did see something, it's not going to come true so what's the point in talking about it?"

"Because it's obviously upsetting you." Breena waited a half beat for a response. "Was it about someone close to you?" She sighed when her sister remained silent. "Was it about me?"

Elphaba tensed.

"It was, wasn't it?" Breena swallowed hard. "Did I die? Is that why you won't tell me? Because you're afraid it will make it come true?"

"Just because I saw your funeral doesn't mean it's going to happen."

Breena's eyes got big. "You saw my funeral?" She was obviously blown away. "Wow. Maybe I am dying."

"No you're not!" Elphaba gripped her sister's hands. "I've seen other things in my visions and stopped them from coming true and I'm going to stop this too. I'm not going to lose you, Bree." Tears filled her eyes. "I can't."

Breena pulled her hands free to put her arms around her sister. "I'm sorry. That was a really bonehead thing for me to say. But it's not every day that your psychic sister tells you she saw your funeral."

"I'm not psychic. And I shouldn't have blurted it out like that."

"I didn't give you much of a choice."

"I meant what I said." Elphaba held her close. "I'm not letting you go, Bree." More tears streamed down her face. "I can't lose you and Glinda at the same time."

"Hey." Breena pushed back to look at her. "You haven't lost Glinda. And we both know I'm too damn stubborn to let something like this keep me down for too long." She used her thumbs to wipe away her sister's tears. "So stop worrying your pretty little head."

Elphaba sniffled. "My head is too egg shaped to be pretty."

"There's that sarcasm we all know and love." Breena grinned. "And your head is not egg shaped."

"I love you." Elphaba pulled her close again.

"I love you too." Breena let herself be held for a while. "Speaking of your head, I wonder how we're supposed to get out of here. Not that being with you isn't nice, but it's kind of creepy sitting in our dead grandfather's garden talking about…"

Elphaba pulled back to cover her sister's mouth with her hand. "No more saying any form of that word. We've already established that it's not going to happen. And the last time I just kind of woke up."

Breena mumbled something.

"What? Oh." Elphaba moved her hand. "Sorry."

"I said that doesn't really help us this time does it?"

"Not re…" Her voice trailed off mid word.

Breena looked at her, concerned. "What's the matter?"

"I don't know." Elphaba frowned. "I suddenly felt weird."

"Weird how?"

"I don't know." She sounded frustrated. "Just weird."

"Weird is a pretty broad word to us."

"I…" Elphaba started to gesture with her left hand, her eyes going wide when she noticed it was slowly fading away. "What in the name of…"

It was Breena's turn to frown. "Where are you going?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe you're waking up."

Elphaba looked at her sister. "Then why aren't you fading?"

Breena shrugged. "Probably because I'm not waking up."

"But I can't leave you here."

Breena raised her eyebrows as most of her sister's left arm completely disappeared. "It doesn't look like you're going to have much of a choice."

Elphaba's heart sank. Her sister was right, unless… "What if I take you with me?"

"What?"

"I said what if I take you with me?"

"That was more of a what the hell are you talking about than an I didn't hear you." Breena looked at her like she was crazy. "You can't take me with you."

"Why not?"

"Why not she says?" Breena grumbled. "Because you just can't."

"Watch me." Elphaba grabbed her sister's arm with her right hand.

"Hey! Let go."

"No."

"Elly."

"I said no! What if I leave you here and I never get to see you again?"

"You're being ridiculous." Breena tried to pull free. "Now let go before you hurt yourself or something."

"I told you I'm not leaving you here."

"Elphaba!"

Instead of replying she closed her eyes, hoping she was strong enough to make this work.

AN: Wow! We've hit the 200 review mark already. I want to thank everyone who's reading and reviewing. Especially those who have been in this with me for the long haul. You guys make my muse extremely happy! :)