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A/N: Hey here's chapter two, sorry they're so short but I never get around to checking the word count.

Don't worry for those of you who are reading it, chapter 12 of The Storm Arises is going to get there soon! Just keep checking and bug me a little. Oh well on with chapter two! MINOR BOOK SPOILERS WAIT!

(Animals that can talk are capitalized, normal animals are not.) Ex: Elephants can talk and elephants can't; you guy's know what I mean if you've read the books)

Don paced the lobby of the ER with vigor, as if he wanted to put a hole in the floor, and it looked like he was going to, he had been at it for about forty-five minutes.

"God what the hell is taking them so long? They should have an update by now!" he sat hard on the metal chair, looking to his father and Megan, who each had cup of stale hot coffee in their hands that had probably been there since eight in the morning.

"It takes time Don. You of all people should know that." Megan tried to calm the agent, but to no avail.

"I know that Meg but still, it's unnerving…" he paused as soon as he saw the doctor come out, a grave look on his face.

"Mr. Eppes?"

:"Yes?" Alan and Don responded simeotaniously.

"Come with me." Megan hung back to call the rest of the team for Don, and the men followed the doctor into exam 1.

"The damage to his nerves and brain were not severe, but he will have to stay in ICU for the night for observation, and then he can be moved into a normal room."

"When will he wake up?" Alan asked as Don moved to Charlie's side.

"We don't know. The only real injury was the shards that we're going to get out of his skin, and most are superficial."

"What the hell do you mean that you don't know?" Don's head snapped up, his dark eyes flashing.

The doctor shrugged. "We don't know. Like I said before, the damage was not severe, but just enough to knock him into a coma. The glass might have done it too, we don't know yet. We may never know

Charlie woke up in the same room again, but this time he was no longer in as much pain, just a dull ache in his shoulder, like it had been stepped on.

"Well, are you going to stay awake this time?" A Panther dressed in a white frock approached his bed, and Charlie had to stop for a minute to see if he was hallucinating. Was that Panther just talking to him?

"What? You look like you've never seen an Animal before."

Charlie gathered his wits and replied plainly, "Well, that's because I haven't."

The Panther regarded his steadily. "Where are you from?"

Charlie chose his words carefully. If he really was in the Emerald City, then he really couldn't say that he was from California, so he thought quickly. "I'm from Frottica, in Northern Gillikin. I was here to meet an associate of mine but ended up here I guess. I don't know how."

The Panther nodded, taking the lie easily. " I see, well, the person who found you said the same thing. Odd thing she was."

"Why?"

"She was green."

'Oh my god, Elphaba found me? What part of the book am I in?' Charlie thought fast. 'I had just gotten to where Elphaba had gotten Galinda to go with her to the city and talk to the Wizard. And she had just begun to leave Galinda behind to peruse what ever happens, I never got beyond that. Did she find me on her way out? I hope she comes back to help me, maybe we can work something out…'

The Animal clearing her throat broke his thoughts.

"Your visitor is here, and I think that you're leaving to day. "

And that was when he saw her, The green girl in dark dress and robes, a slightly pointed hat jaunted at an absurd angle on her head, blocking her eyes and most of her facial features except her sharp chin and nose, and her long mane of dark hair pulled back into a braid.

"Hello stranger, my name is Elphaba Thropp." She got right to the point as Charlie stood, and stepped behind a curtain to change into the cloths that she had provided for him.

Slipping on the white shirt and deep blue trousers, Charlie folded the dark cape about his shoulders as she continued.

"I know not where you come from, and frankly I don't care, but you're here for some importance to me, or I wouldn't've found you."

"But how do you know how I'm supposed help you?" Charlie followed her out into the bustling streets of the city. And despite her green pallor, Elphaba Blended right in.

"Because like I said, I'm the one who found you, and besides you're not from around here. Where are you from?"

"Frottica. Northern Gillikin."

"I know where that is. And I know that's not where you're from, you have the same accent as the Wizard, and there are rumors that he's from another land, and how am I to know that you're not from the same?"

Charlie shrugged as they stopped at a small café. "You'll just have to trust me, and where do they say that the Wizard came from?"

"Some place called Kansas." Elphaba cut him off as she ordered two cups of tea and they sat in a back booth. "One other thing that I need to know."

"What's that?"

"Your name."

"Charles." Charlie decided to use his full name here, easy to blend in. "You seem very astute for eighteen."

Elphaba stopped and narrowed her eyes. How did you know my age?"

"I'm a good guesser, and you're ten years younger than me. Easy."

She took of her hat, looked to the waiter, took her cup of tea, and studied him adding, "Then we may get along well Charles, very well."

Mak:Well, there's chapter 2 all! Hope you like it, and I'm sorry for those of you that have readthe book, I know that I skipped like half of it, but this is the only place I could think to start. Please don't forget to hit the review button on your way out, it helps a lot.!