AN: sorry about the long wait, but...ok, no excuses this time. *shrugs*

Disclaimer: I don't own Wicked, but I own a copy of the script signed by the original cast members, which is just as good if not better!

Chapter 4: We are all civilized here!

The next time Maggie entered the room, she had a beautiful girl a few years older than her following close at her heels. The girl was rather short-only about half a foot or so taller than Maggie-with the same pale skin and liquid topaz eyes that Emmett had. She moved gracefully, as if each step was part of an elaborate, complicated dance.

She was so lithe and graceful on her feet, that if a ballerina had been there, she would've cried. She had a pixie-like face and jet black hair that was spiked out around her face in a pixie-cut. She was beaming, and every few seconds or so, a small giggle that sounded like tinkling bells would escape her perfect lips. Oh, and she was also wearing designer clothes and patent black ballet flats.

"Okay, everybody!" Maggie said as she and the girl sat down on the lounge next to each other. "First off, I'd like to indtroduce you all to my good friend Alice Cullen!" The pixie girl's already huge smile grew, which Nessa found amazing that such a thing was possible, especially since the girl-and therefore her face-was so small for her age, which Nessa guessed was about fifteen or sixteen.

"Alice, you know who everyone is, I believe." Maggie continued without stopping. "Mhm," Alice said. Pointing to each of them, she said, "Elphaba, Fiyero, Glinda, Nessarose, Boq, and...those two dinglesquats over there that nobody cares about." Elphaba narrowed her eyes. "How does she know all our names? We've never met her before in our lives!"

"Alice is psychic," Maggie said. "She can see the future based on the decisions that people make. If somebody changes their mind about something, though-"

"Then thier entire future changes based on just that one descision, no matter how small or insignificant it may be," Alice interrupted.

"For example," she continued, "right now, the Dinglesquat-ButtMunches are on a path that will lead them to a rather awkward situation later this evening after Maggie and I leave. But, if even just one of them changes their mind about something, then that could change completely and that awkward situation may never happen."

"What's my future?" Nessa asked, eyeing Boq hopefully. There was a pause. Alice's eyes glazed over and she stared ahead of her at nothing. Her face went blank. It was almost as if she had left the room and gone somewhere else completely. "What's wrong with her?" Boq asked. "Nothing," Maggie said. "This is just what happens when she has a vision. Just wait, it'll be over soon."

Sure enough, in another moment or two, Alice blinked and looked around. Then her smile came back as she turned to Nessa. "You're good...for now." She tacked the last part on with a giggle. "Okay, everybody, let's get this show on the road!" Maggie said cheerfully.

Alice grabbed the remote and turned on the music. Today it was David Cook's first ever album, and the song was "Come Back to Me," Maggie and Alice's 1 favorite David song. Then Alice brought the screen down and made the image and logo pop up. "Before you read the first review, I have a question," Fiyero said. "Yes?"

"Not that I don't like her or anything, she seems like a lot of fun and like she's really nice, but I was just wondering...why exactly is Alice even here?"

"I thought I might need somebody to help me with remote duty, because sometimes I forget to do certain things, and since Alice is a vampire like Emmett, and vamps have super-human memories, plus she was getting bored just sitting around all day in the main control room with nothing to do but baby-sit Emmett, I figured I may as well end her misery and solve my little problem at the same time, so I made her my second-in-command. Killed 2 birds with 1 stone, y'know? She'll be in here with us everyday from now on. Now, here we go!"

Maggie picked up her clipboard. "What happened to the index-" Nessa began.

"Got rid of 'em, decided to use the clipboard instead." Maggie said, cutting her off.

"Okay, now I know that we said last chapter that we would start this one with Rose Emeraldfay's dare, and I tried to, but the stupid thing refused to get written, so here's what Alice and I came up with instead:

"I'm going to write a whole seperate chapter dedicated to the sole purpose of carrying out that dare just for Rose, and PM it to her. That way, I can finally finish this stupid chapter and Rose still gets what she asked for. That cool with everyone?" When everyone agreed, Maggie smiled. "Okay, great!

"Now," she continued. "Down to buisness. We've got a fantastic review rate, so, first off, I just wanna say thanks to all the people who reviewed! Rose, of course, is one of our most avidly reviewing readers. She has recently started to review every chapter of every fic that I post, so Rose, thank you!

"And our most recent reader, Bremela, has also started doing the same thing, and wow, that girl is fast! She's already got all her reviews for each chapter of every story sent in! So, anyway, Brem, a big thanks to you, too! Alright, now, let's get started! The first review for this chapter is from none other than Bremmie herself! Brem's first question is for everybody.

"She wants to know, 'If each of you had a daughter and a son, what would you name them?' Elphaba and Fiyero are not allowed to say 'Nor' or 'Liir.' We'll start with Elphie." The green girl's response was immeadiate.

"Depends on whose kids they are." There was silence for a moment. "Wait, what?" Boq finally asked. Turning to him with a "no duh" look on her face, Elphaba said, "I'm asking who the father is, you moron!"

Maggie sighed. "Let's just say it's Fiyero." she said, which made the Winkie prince in question perk up considerably. "Oh," Elphaba said more calmly than before as she tucked a few strands of long ebony hair behind her ear.

"And we aren't allowed to say Liir or Nor?" she asked for clarification. Alice-who Maggie sometimes called "Pixie" or "Ali"-nodded. "That's right," she said. Elphaba pursed her lips while she thought. "...For a girl, maybe...Akahana or...perhaps Hisae, I guess..." Nessa cocked her head. "Why?"

"They're both Japanese," Maggie said, "Akahana means 'red rose' and Hisae means 'eternal blessing.'" Elphaba nodded.

"And for a boy?" Alice asked, trying to move things along.

Elphaba thought for another moment. "Well, since I seem to be on a roll with Japanese names today for some strange reason, why not add another one to the list? Maybe...Takeo, or...Takeru." Maggie smiled. "'Hero,'" she translated, "and 'warrior.' Elphaba nodded.

Alice blinked, coming out of a vision that most of the others hadn't even been aware was occuring. Grinning her signature Over-Sized Alice Cullen Beaming Smileã, she turned to Fiyero, who was a bit fidgety all of a sudden, nervous about the reason Pixie was looking at him that way.

"Uh...Maggie?" he asked in an almost cautious voice. Maggie turned her attention to what was going on beteween him and the, as she sometimes put it, "Queen of Psychic Pixies."

"Yes, Fiyero?" she said. "Why is Alice looking at me like that?" Maggie looked at Ali's face and laughed.

"Relax! It's just her way of saying without words that she's had a vision about something you're going to do or say in the near future. When she uses her copyrighted smile like she is right now, it usually means that it's something she finds amusing, interesting, or that she just likes in general." Fiyero let out his breath, relieved to know that the tiny, hyperactive, bouncing-off-the-walls ball of energy didn't have anything devious planned for him.

"Your turn, Fiyero." said the hyperactive energy ball in question without letting her smile fade at all. "Uh-oh," Maggie said suddenly, her smile vanishing quickly. "Uh-oh?" Fiyero repeated, starting to panic slightly. "What's uh-oh? Why did she say uh-oh? Maggie, why did you say uh-oh?" Not taking her eyes off of Alice, Maggie said, "That vision she must've had, Fiyero?"

"Yeah?"

"It was about your answer to the question." For a brief instant, everybody froze. Maggie and Fiyero both held their breath. "Go ahead," she said finally, breaking the tense silence. "Just get it over with quickly, okay?" He gulped and nodded. Then, very fast, he said, "." Alice instantly started bouncing up and down in her seat, clapping her hands, eyes clenched shut, grinning, and letting out what could only be descriped as a very Glinda/Galinda-esque squeal.

"Uh...M-Moving on," Maggie stuttered. "Glinda, what about you?" The blonde scrunched up her face in thought. "Hmm...Let's see...Elphie did Japanese names names, so I am going to do...Celtic! Okay, um...Oh! I know! The girl will be Isolde, and the boy will be Tristan!"

"You mean those people from that Irish myth where he went to pick her up so that she could marry this king named Mark Corn-something-or-other, but then they fell in love and died?" Alice asked, raising her perfect jet black eyebrows incredulously. Glinda just shrugged. "I dunno, what do I look like to you? A historian?" she said in an almost-a-shriek-but-not-quite volume, causing Alice to giggle hysterically. "Boq's turn!" Maggie sing-songed.

"Do I have to?" the Munchkin half-moaned. "Yes!" everybody else replied in perfect unison. He shrugged weakly. "I dunno..." he said in a half-slurred manner. "Charlie the Unicorn and...Can I pass, please?" he finally said, giving up. "I wouldn't wanna do that if I were you..." the girl replied. "The penalty for passing on a question is the same for refusing a dare, only with an extra night added on. You pass one question, you spend two nights with them." Alice added, nodding towards the recently re-named Dinglesquats (formerly known as the Butt Munches).

"I don't CARE!" Boq shouted. The two hostesses looked at each other and shrugged. "Jasper!" Alice yelled. A tall teenage boy came in. He had the same pale skin and topaz eyes that the group was beginning to recognize and associate with Maggie's vampire friends, and slightly shaggy honey blonde curls.

"Everybody," Alice said, standing up and smiling proudly. She moved to the boy's side. "This is Jasper, he's my husband. Well, technically speaking, the correct term is actually 'mate,' since we're vampires, but our coven doesn't think that way. We think of ourselves as a family, not a clan or coven, so we use the human terms for that sort of thing."

Jasper's topaz eyes rested on Maggie. "Not to sound rude," he said. Elphaba thought that she heard just the slightest Southern drawl in his voice, but wasn't sure if it was real, or if she was just imagining things.

"But Emmett and I were in the middle of the final level on Halo Reach, and we really wanna finish by the time you guys come back, so can we hurry this up?"

"I thought you guys finished that game, like, two days after you got it, which was the day it came out?" Alice said. It was more of a question than a statement, though.

"We were bored and couldn't think of anything to do, so we figured, why not play through it again?" he replied before furrowing his brow. "Uh...Maggie? Where did you get that?"

Everybody turned to look at Maggie. She had a slice of sour-dough bread sitting on a paper plate in her lap, and was holding another one near her mouth, frozen in what was very obviously mid-chew. She finished chewing and swallowed before she answered.

"Jazz," she said, "when you're in a giant magical room, and you have complete and total control over it, plus you have crazy magical powers, even if it is only for a short time before I stop typing this, you've gotta take advantage of that fact and use the room's magic as well as your own, and your control over everything to satisfy yourself." she explained.

"And right now," she continued, "my satisfaction can only be completed if I have two slices of sour-dough bread." She paused thoughtfully. "Maybe I should conjure up a little bowl of pistachios, too..." she said, mostly to herself. Jasper cleared his throat. "Oh, yeah!" she said.

"Boq here has passed up a question. I hereby make you the Official Dude in Charge of Preparing Punishments!" she announced, pointing at the ceiling and letting her arm shoot straight up like a bullet. "So...go get a bed roll or a sleeping bag or a cot or something and put in the basement so he can be punished."

Jasper sighed. "I'll be right back," he said, then left to go and find one of the things Maggie had listed. After he was gone, Alice turned to Maggie, hands on her hips. "Why can't Emmett do it?" she asked. "Becauuuuse-uh," her human friend replied in a tone that said, "this should be obvious, you crazy psychic!" "Emmett is the Head of Security!"

"Then make Edward do it!" the short vampire protested. "I can't, Alice!" Maggie said. "Why not?"

"For one, Edward already has a job! He's the Head Tech! And besides, his eyes were starting to get dark, so I sent him on a hunting trip and he probably won't be back until dawn."

"This is stupid, you guys!" Elphaba said, standing up. She had begun to get fed up with the argument. "Can we please just act like the civilized human beings that we all are and finish this freaking chapter already?"

Five minutes later...

"Bremmie," Maggie said in a voice that was bordering on a British accent. "I'm so terribly sorry, my pretty, but the remaining people cannot answer this question. The younger Miss Thropp is, quite sadly, unable to bear children due to her unfortunate condition. The other two are, as we all know, obscenly old (AN: I recently started watching the Potter Puppet Pals videos with my brother, and I've been watching them way too much! "Wizard Swears" is one of my faves!) and have lost all fertility that they, very doubtfully, used to have. Therefore, we will move onto your next queston."

"This is not what I meant, Maggie," Elphaba said. Maggie scrunched up her face. "Well you're the one that wanted to act 'civilized!' Where I come from, Elphaba, you really can't get more civilized than the British!" Alice shook her head, trying to help emphasize Maggie's statement.

Picking up her clipboard, she (Maggie) flipped to the next paper on it. Putting on her "civilized British" voice again, she said, "Miss Bremela's next question is for Prince Fiyero. The question is, 'When you saw Elphaba, was it love at first sight?' She also requests that you tell the complete and total truth."

Fiyero looked slightly uncomfortable, probably because not only Elphaba, but Glinda as well, had turned to look at him, and he did not enjoy the fact that his ex-girlfriend/fiancee was waiting for him to speak, espcially since she was the one he'd been dating at the time that Bremela had referred to.

"Um..." His head whipped around towards Glinda. "Will you be mad if I say yes?" he asked. Elphaba's instantanious reaction was to put her arms around him. "Don't worry, love," she said. "If she tries to rip your head off, I'll put a shield up so she can't get to you."

He breathed a sigh of relief. "Good," he said. "Okay, to answer the question..." He paused for a moment, trying to collect his thoughts. "In all honesty," he began, "I really didn't know what to think when I first saw Elphaba."

"Care to elaborate?" Alice asked in confusion. "Well..." Fiyero took a deep breath and let it out before continuing.

"At first, when she smacked me with that book, all I could really think was along the lines of, 'What the hell was that?' and then I was kind of disoriented after waking up so suddenly. Then, I was looking around, nothing was familar, and I was wonder where in the heck I was, and I could hear someone yelling, but I couldn't make out what was being said." He sighed.

"When I finally figured out what was going on, and found the source of the yelling," he cast a meaningful glance at the green girl, who blushed and looked away. "All I could really think was..." he trailed off into a shrug. "Nothing, at first, and then, all of a sudden, there was this voice in my head, screaming at me. And all it said was, 'She's green,' and when I was finally able to speak, all I could think to say was, 'Well, maybe the driver saw green and thought it meant 'go,'' which, of course, was incredibly stupid of me..."

Elphaba smirked. "And I will admit that I regretted saying that almost instantly," he added. "But, then, later, when she showed up at the Ozdust..." He looked at Elphaba, who, in turn, stared blankly at her lap. "If by 'first sight,' you mean when I saw her first step foot into the Ballroom, then...Yeah. I think it was love at first sight." he concluded, making her blush even deeper than before.

Fiyeraba fans around the world, Maggie and Alice among them, sighed dreamily. When she composed herself, Maggie said, "Boq, your turn again. Bremmie asks if you really wanted to hunt Elphaba down."

"Depends, are we talking bookverse or musical-verse here?" the Munchking replied. "Oookay," Maggie said, realizing she wouldn't get anything else out of him in his current mood. "Glinda, you aren't in a relationship with anyone, and Brem wants to know who you want to be with that's in the musical."

"Nobody." Alice's eyebrows shot up, as this was apparently a shock to even her, psychic though she was. "Alright, um...Nessa, where did you get the striped so-Oh, um, Bremmie, one thing. They aren't socks, they're stockings. Big difference. Anyway, Nessa, where did you get the striped stockings that you're famous for?" Maggie asked.

"Well, in the novel, someone-I think it was Nanny-anyway, someone knitted them for me. In the play, I don't really know. They just sort of...appear in the second act." Nessa shrugged. "'Wizard,'" Maggie read. "'Why are you so evil?'"

All eyes turned to him. All but one pair shot accusing glares in his direction. "Um...pass?" Maggie shrugged. "Alright. Guess you're sleeping outside tonight on the cold, hard ground." Elphaba smirked and Alice giggled.

"'Morrible: In the book, Elphaba slams you with a trophy. Were you really dead?'" Maggie said, reading from her clipboard. "Well, how would I know?" the Carp woman snapped. "Either way, I was dead, wasn't I? How do you expect me to know what killed me?"

Maggie and Alice exchanged glances. "I never thought I'd say this," Maggie said hesitantly, "but she actually kind of has a point." She shuddered, as if the idea repulsed her, which it probably did.

"Elphaba, favorite school subject?" The green girl smiled. "History. What else?"

"Favorite spell?"

"Anything I can use to make those two uglies over there suffer." This caused everybody but the Dinglesquats to burst out laughing.

"Okay!" Maggie said. "The next review is from our very own Rose Emeraldfay!" Alice pushed a button and there was clapping. She pushed it again and the clapping stopped. "Rose's first question is for Fiyero.

"It says, 'In a book I'm currently reading, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian-' OMIGAWD, ROSE, I READ THAT TOO! Sorry. Anyway, 'They said something interesting to describe a character. It said, 'she was as thin as a scarecrow-'' Oh, I remember that part, about Luke's mom, May Castellan? Sorry!" Maggie said when she got a few "get it over with already" type looks.

"'Do you ever find yourself unusually skinny compared to all of the other people in Oz?'" Maggie kept her eyes down when she was done. Fiyero was chewing his lower lip before she'd even finished. "Mmm, nope. Not really." he said.

"'In the end of the book, 'The Wizard of Oz' you were claimed to be the wisest man in Oz. What are some of your thoughts on that?'"

"Wow." Fiyero said. "Um...okay, this is new. Don't think I've ever heard that one before...uh...My thoughts on it, okay, let's see..." There was silence for a few moments while he thought about what Rose had said. "Okay," he finally said, "Rose, tell me something. If I'm the wisest man in Oz, then why is the Great Drought still going on? Cuz if I really was so smart, don't you think I would've found a way to stop that by now? Just sayin'."

"'Boq: This may seem random, but I wanted to ask you, have you ever thought about taking Yoga classes?'"

"No." Boq said. "He needs time to cool off," Maggie said. "'Glinda: Were you ever a good student in P.E?'" The blonde scrunched her face up. "What's that stand for? Pretty and Energetic?"

"Well, that answers that question," Alice said. Maggie nodded. "Dinglesquats! If you played chess against each other, who would win?"

"Well, that's an easy one, dearie," Morrible said, "I would, of course, because I plan things out, not to mention I have a superior intellect."

"I beg to differ," the Wizard interjected. They started to argue, and Maggie eventually had to turn on the Silence Siren.

"This one is from kym667103. She asks, 'Elphaba: Do you still want to be degreenified?'" Elphaba sighed deeply and stared at her lap. "I...I honestly don't know anymore. It would still be nice, but I just...After everything I've been through, I'm not sure what I want as far as that sort of thing goes."

"'Fiyero: Would YOU want Elphaba to be degreenified?'"

"Oh, HAY-UL NO! What kind of darn fool question is that, anyway?" A few of the girls giggled while Elphaba blushed. "'Glinda: How do you come up with those nicknames?'"

"Nicknames? What nicknames?"

"You know, like 'Elphie?'" Alice clarified. "Oh! Those nicknames! I dunno, they just sort of come to me, I guess."

"Well, that's all for today, everybody. I hope you enjoyed, and please remember to review!" Maggie said as she and Alice stood and left.