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Charlie had finally finished his apple by the time that he and Elphaba had made their way into the heart of the city. Throwing the core into the trash, he thought that he saw a small rodent maybe a mouse or a Mouse try to get at it, but his path was quickly stopped by Elphaba's slender hand.
"We're here. Well, almost, I doubt that you have a fear of the dark Charles."
Charlie shook his head, hoping that wouldn't become true once they got down into the prison break her friend out. But he didn't have much to worry about at first because the pair stopped into a small shop that was used as the army headquarters, a Rhino blocking the way to the door that Charlie guessed led to South Stairs.
" Need to get into South Stairs." Elphaba got right to the point when she walked up to the Rhino, and amazingly the Animal stepped away, and they both spotted the door that led into the prison. Signaling to Charlie, Elphaba confidently led the way down deep into the dungeon, where Charlie was hoping that they wouldn't end up staying.
Don awoke with a start the next morning at his desk, wondering what the hell he was still doing at work, he should be at home with his dad, deciding weather they should let the doc do the operation on Charlie or not.
Megan spotted the disheveled agent, and wondered how long that he had been at work. She also saw that he still had that piece of paper with 'Elphaba' and 'South Stairs" scribbled on it, and the charred copy of Wicked under it.
"Still trying to figure out where Charlie might be in the story?" she asked, handing him a cup of coffee.
"Yeah, but it's hard to tell, he could be absolutely anywhere in here."
"Well, do you know where he was when he went to turn on the lamp?"
"Dad thinks that he might be somewhere in here." Don pointed to Gillikin " But he thinks that with Charlie in there it might present a few problems."
"Like what?" Megan took more than a few packs of sugar to her coffee, stirred, and sat at her desk.
"Like where Elphaba makes Glinda go back to Shiz with out her and disappears for five years. Charlie could be stuck in there and he won't come out of the coma for maybe weeks or months, if he finds her or she finds him, we might just have to give up hope all together, even with the procedure."
"Why? I thought that would bring him out of it."
"No, if Charlie's got something going he'll want to finish it before he comes back to reality." Don finished warily, and Megan hoped that it wasn't true.
Mak: Hey guys sorry it took a while to post, this is our homecoming week, I'm in band and things get hectic for us this time of year, so sorry if I take a while in posting the next chappie! So hit the button on your way out of Oz!