A/N: Ah. I was bit by the angst bug. Many thanks to Ginger Glinda and Embers of Twilight.I really appreciate your reviews. The next one will by much lighter, I promise.

Days Gone By

Universe: Canon, musicalverse

Main Character: Glinda the Good

Fifty years ago, the Wicked Witch had died at the hands of a female child equipped with nothing but a bucket of water. Now, ironically, the Good one lays dying fifty years later, worn away by the hands of time.

Glinda the Good thinks about what she has done these last fifty years to make Oz a better place. She lifted the Animal bans, disbanded the Gale Force and unified the many territories of Oz. She likes to think she was a good ruler.

It was growing darker now, much too quickly to be the fading of the daily light. Glinda feels her heart stop, and her breath cease. Her last conscious thought is that her Elphie would have been proud of her.