A/N: Hello! Sorry for not putting an author's note last chapter, but my compter crashed and I had to borrow my friends computer to post it (I already had it uploaded) and send the second chapter to my beta, whom I love, and I didn't even think about writing one. So I am going to attempt to explain myself. Except I'm going to wait until after the chapter so you can get to reading it.

"Fiyero, come on! We've wasted two precious hours of darkness already! You've had twenty-four hours to do whatever you like, and you choose now to say goodbye to every single room in the castle! We need to go!"

"But why so soon?" a familiar voice said from the shadows. "And where to?"

Somehow the voice was familiar and Elphaba turned to it, seeking out the intruder.

"Who's there?" she demanded.

A short, knobby figure stepped out of the shadows. His long beard looked like a tangled mass of
silver in the moonlight and he had to hold it off the floor with one hand while he moved.

"You!" She cried as she finally recognized him, it was the Dwarven keeper of the Time
Dragon Clock. She'd had a run in with him once in the Emerald City; the meeting hadn't
been particularly pleasant, and she was less than thrilled to meet the disgusting little
man again.

"It's not what I want, but what you want," he replied cryptically.

"Expain," she demanded, anxious to get moving and not wanting to waste her time on this unpleasant man.

"Come outside, and I'll show you." He left, leaving Elphaba very confused.

"Fiyero?" she called, a litte nervous after meeting he dwarf. "Are you done?"

He came into the room. "Yes, I'm done."

"Finally!" she said, exasperated. "Let's go!" she picked up her suitcase, muttering, "don't know why you couldn't have done that before I wanted to leave,"

"Well," he whispered, coming up from behind and startling her, "I was busy becoming...reacquainted with you."

She smiled. "Well, I did enjoy that," she conceded, slipping her hand into his, and together the young couple emerged from the castle into the moonlight.

"Hello!" said the dwarf, popping out of the shadows again. Elphaba jumped.

"Who are you?" Fiyero demanded

The dwarf smiled. "No one of consequence. Now come, there is something you must be told."

The dwarf ran around the corner.

Elphaba turned to Fiyero. "Do you think we can trust him?" she asked.

"I don't know," he replied. Both were anxious to get going, but Elphaba was more than a little curious about what the little man could possibly want. The dwarf made the decision for her when he reappeared, grabbing her hand and half dragging her aound the corner. Elphaba shook his hand off and clung closer to Fiyero.

"What do you want to show us?" Elphaba, ever impatient, asked the dwarf.

"It's not what I want you to see," he said, "but where you need to go that's important."

"Explain."

"If you two walk through this door," he said, banging on the wood, "you will go to the place you need to be together."

"Okay," she said, not fully understanding, but she wanted to be gone, so she didn't ask. "So we just walk through, and it'll take us out of Oz?"

"Possibly. You never know." The dwarf smiled. "Now, will you test destiny, or forge your own path?"

Fiyero pulled Elphaba aside. "What do you think," he said hesitantly. "Should we do it?"

"I don't know. I don't see a downside. If he's right, we end up somewhere else, which is where we were going anyway. If he's wrong, we'll end up on the other side of the clock. It's kind of a win/win."

"I guess..." he said, still hesitant to trust anyone.

"Besides," Elphaba said with a smile, "what have we got to lose?"

His silence was the answer. Elphaba turned to the dwarf. "We'll do it," she said.

"Excellent!" the dwarf said. He opened the door. "Now remember, don't let go of each other, or you won't end up together!"

Elphaba sighed. She picked up her suitcase, grasped Fiyero's hand, and together they walked away from Oz, away from their former lives, and into the darkness.

A/N: Okay, so, chapter 2! Yay! Tell me what you thought! I love reviews!

So, I am attempting to explain why I am writing this story. I thought of it in math class during a test (isn't it weird how you get the best ideas when you're somewhere where you can't write them down?) and the idea kept bugging me, so as soon as I got home I sat down and I wrote. I wrote this whole story (I think it's sixten chapters, but I'm not sure) in one sitting.

We'll be at hogwarts in the next chapter, and the chapters will get longer, I promise!

Also, just to clear up any confusion, this is a book/musical crossover. Or, more accurately, it's all book except Fiyero lives and they are only about 25, not live 40-something. So the timeline is more like the musical. Wait. Never mind. Just know that it's a little of both.