A/N: Hey everybody, happy Halloween and it seemed appropriate to update (and maybe end) the story that I guess that you all would scroll down and find, seeing as it's got Elphie in it, and that it's kind of a Halloween story. So, here's the next chapter!
Charlie was nervous, very nervous. He and Elphaba had finally gotten word that Avric had completed his task, and that Madame Morrible was dead, that the number two person in the Wizard's regime was gone, and even with the heightened security around the wizard, it was easy for them to slip into the palace and to set up a surveillance in the inner chambers of the Wizard, and after four long days, they finally caught a glimpse of the man that they were going to murder for the good of a country, but before Charlie could say anything to Elphaba, he had a flash of light in his eyes, and a scene of reality.
"I need the probe now" the doctor reached for what the nurse was handing him, and peered over to Charlie, who's eyes were closed, but he could sense that he was in a hospital, in some kind of procedure.
"Ok Charlie, this might sting a little, but sense your getting back to reality this might help."
He felt another shock, and then was returned to Elphaba.
Charlie woke to find that his green friend was sneaking up on the Wiz, trying to figure out what he was saying, but she could make out none of it.
"Well, I think that it is time Charles, I think that it is time to end this…to end him." She pointed to the Wizard, and rose, pulling a knife out of her boots, and Charlie saw another flash, and said to Elphie, "I think that we have to hurry Elphie, I have a feeling that I don't have much time." He also pulled out a knife, and stood with his friend, and they stepped together to finish the deed that had brought Charlie into a coma in the first place.
"Well, I think that should do it." The OR doctor patched Charlie's skull back together and washed up to go talk to the two other Eppes men, and give them the news that Charlie should wake up in a few days, and would be released in a few months and would stay at home, away from any electrical devices. The two Eppes were relieved, and were happy to hear that Charlie would recover, but were worried that Charlie might not be ready to come out of Oz quite yet.
But he surprised all of them when he woke up some four days latter, asking for Don and Alan. He could barely speak; he had been out for two months.
"D-don…dad….how…long…have…I…been…here?"
"Shhh, don't worry about it buddy, why did you get out of Oz too fast?" Don asked him with a smile, and Charlie was surprised.
"Elphie told me to go, after we took care of the Wizard…" that whole sentence took all his strength, and Charlie fell into a fitful sleep, where he relived his last hours with Elphie, and helped murder the Wizard.
He had stepped out of the shadows with her, raised his knife at the same time she did, and for once, he had no regrets for killing someone that he hardly knew. He had planned, and argued and laughed for the last two months with these new friends of his. Now they were working together to bring to an end the reign that was oppressing so many in OZ: the Animals, and the animals respectively; the poor in Oz, and the ones that were rebels, like them. Elphaba hesitated only a second, then drove her blade into the Wizard's chest as he turned to face the two of them; and only Charlie saw the recognition in his face before he few onto the bed, and then she turned to him and said, "We're done here Charles, now you must go, it is not safe for you here, for me, for any of us." She was almost frantic.
"But Elphaba, this is only the beginning, this is the start of a new Oz for all of us!"
"But you're not going to be here for long Charles! You said yourself, and I can feel it, you were not meant to be here." She shoved him out of the window that they had entered, and that was the last he saw of Elphaba Thropp.
Charlie was out of the hospital and back into the house when Don handed him the charred copy of Wicked.
"Wow, we need to frame this thing." Charlie laughed, and flipped to the page that he had finished reading when he was thrown into the world of OZ, and to start the conspiracy to put down the not so Wonderful Wizard.
"Wow, I forgot that the Wizard just left, and Elphie ends up getting murdered."
"By who? Did the story change sense you were in there?" Don teased, and helped Alan bring out the lunch for that day.
"Nope, the story is what it is, and I figured that I would stick to reading my textbooks for the rest of the summer."
"Amen to that, and how do you like having your shot hair Charlie?" Alan poked fin at Charlie's very short hair, which was now an afro, and would be until he grew it back out.
"Oh shut it dad." Charlie took his sandwich, and the three Eppes enjoyed the rest of the summer in peace, and Charlie wondered what would've happened if Elphie had lived, and at the beginning of the fall semester, he started in on Son of a Witch…
Mak: Well, I didn't plan on finishing it but I did so there ya go, I still have my other story here, as well as the others in the Yu-Gi-Oh! And Star Wars sections to do, so go and check them out, so hit the button for the last time on this one guys and thanx so much for reading and I haven't decided whether to do a sequel on this one or not. So bye!