A/N: *hides from tomatoes* SORRY! I realised I have less time on my hands than I had hoped. I will try and get the chapters up quickly...and I promise an extra long one next time....just don't expect it for a while. I'll be doing some major - one a day - uploading when the school holidays are on. I've just got so much to do, with the WicKed rehearsals (damn that first song). While the guys playing Frex and Melina are behind the screen, we're (Glinda and I) are rehearsing 'What is this Feeling', and the chick playing Glinda can't get around fast enough, after the chorus. Eh, anyway. I also have school and assignments, band, dance class AND singing lessons....so...yeah, I have hardly any time. Reallly sorry!
Disclaimer: Do you guys get it already? I don't own it! Ack, I do own Jonathon. :D
Of course, they all knew it wasn't a fairy tale, and that they couldn't live in the forest forever. Saying that, they also knew they had to get Glinda back.
"So you'll go into Emerald City...and you'll stick around for a couple of days, and you've supposedly been in Fliaan, because an old friend was sick. You had to rush off straight away, and then when everything has settled down, on the fifth day, at midday, I'll rush in on my broom, and cause a scene. We'll fly around for a while and then come back to the forest...nobody will be able to find us. Then we'll make it up from then," Elphaba said and Glinda nodded. "Here's your broom...if you run into trouble or something happens, come back on it. It knows where to go,"
"Thank you Elphie. Be careful, and don't get caught!" Glinda said, hugging her friend tightly. "See you guys later"
She took off on the broom, planning to get off it and hire a carriage as soon as she got to Shiz. Elphaba sighed and turned back to Fiyero and Liir. They had come up with the plan that morning, but Elphaba and Fiyero still hadn't told Liir their decision.
"Liir...come over here," Elphaba said, trying to sound as motherly as possible.
She and Fiyero sat at the base of a tree together, and Liir sat adjacent to them.
"Yeah?" he asked casually, but he knew something was up
"Um...Fiyero and I...well..uh.." Elphaba faltered.
"We decided that you're our son. And we were wondering if you would...well...accept us as parents," Fiyero supplied and Elphaba nodded
Liir's eyes lit up and he studied their faces, waiting for them to tell him it's a joke. Fiyero stood up and opened his arms, and Liir, needing no further persuasion, leaped into them, giving him a hug. Elphaba stood up awkwardly and wrapped her arms around him. Liir felt tears prick his eyes, but he forced them back. He was too old to cry. He looked up at Elphaba, who looked like she was going to cry.
"Mother..." he said softly and she smirked
"Kinda sounds weird, right," she asked, letting go of him
He nodded and they laughed. Liir stood between the both of them, finally feeling happy. He suddenly turned towards both of them with a confused look on his face.
"Am I allowed to still call you Elphaba and Fiyero?" he asked
"Course you can...Mum and Dad...it just doesn't sound like us," Fiyero said and Elphaba smiled, hugging Fiyero tightly.
"Elphie! Elphaba!" Glinda landed near them, two days early.
"Glinda? What happened?" Fiyero asked, jumping down from the tree he and Elphaba shared.
Elphaba jumped down after him, and Liir joined them.
"Look!" she cried, pulling out a piece of paper and waving it in their faces.
Elphaba pulled it from her grasp and started reading it, Liir and Fiyero reading it over her shoulders.
Welcome Back To Shiz!
To all past students of Shiz, we welcome you back for our 50th Anniversary. Bring along your friends, family, anyone to celebrate the 50th Anniversary. They'll be a special tribute to the past students that attend and you'll be reunited with old friends. So come along!
Elphaba looked up at Glinda, who looked worried
"Trap?" Elphaba asked, glancing at Fiyero
"Most likely..." Glinda said softly.
"Or...ya know...it could be real." Liir said
"That's true...but there's no doubt they'll have guards all day," Fiyero said softly and Liir nodded.
"So...are you gonna come Elphie?" Glinda asked
"I'll....be on the roof with Fiyero. Glinda...could you take Liir in yourself. You'll enjoy that, won't you?" Elphaba said and Liir nodded "If I decide to do something or if I get seen...get yourself and Liir out of there"
Glinda nodded, but suddenly she gasped, and grabbed Elphaba's hands excitedly.
"What?" Elphaba asked, confused at the sudden outburst
"This could be it! The Wicked Witch of the West swoops down from the roof on her broom and captures Glinda the Good and the kid," she glanced at Liir "Sorry, I ain't got a title for you yet,"
"Glinda...it's probably what they're expecting!" Elphaba protested
"Exactly! They'll expect you not to come because it's so obvious that you'd be there, it'll be so unexpected!" Glinda said and the other three stared at her, trying to decipher the sentence.
"Okay...well...let me at least find a protection spell," Elphaba said and Fiyero jumped back, grinning
"Not that kind...scarecrow man," she said and he laughed, glancing over her shoulder at the Grimmerie.
She flipped through it until she found a spell.
"This should put a bubble around us for a little while...but we have to hurry," Elphaba said and they nodded.
She started the incantation and when she finished, they waited for something to happen. When nothing did, Elphaba took it as a good sign.
"It must've worked." Elphaba said and they nodded.
Glinda and Liir went on one broom and Fiyero and Elphaba climbed on the other.
"Chistery, stay here and protect the flock," Elphaba told her monkey, and it grumbled.
"Okay...We'll fly to the top walls of Shiz and hide behind the turrets and wait. Fiyero...you have to be here...I cannot stress how much you have to be right here and ready to go. I can't carry three people for a very long time, so as soon as I get up there, Liir, you have to jump onto the broom and we'll take off. Glinda...keep Liir close. I'm gonna come in randomly, when I think it's safe...so it'll be a surprise." Elphaba said and everyone nodded.
They took off and flew high, praying not to be seen. When the high walls of Shiz came into view, they all dropped down to the ground, near a clump of trees.
"You guys walk from here," Elphaba instructed and they nodded.
They started walking and Fiyero took the other broom. Elphaba wrapped the cape around her and Fiyero, hoping to appear like a bird. Fiyero and Elphaba flew to the top of the Shiz walls, and looked down into the centre. Stalls were set up everywhere, and a stage had been built where the park used to be.
Glinda and Liir neared the walls and a guard came to greet them.
"Miss Glinda. Your carriage waits. Is this your guest?" the guard asked
"Yes, thanks plenty Jonathon." She said, fixing her posture and turning her chin up.
Liir glanced at her strangely, but the emerald carriage pulled up in front of them, and they had to get in.
"We shall escort you to the stage where you are to make a speech, and then you are free to do whatever you want," the guard said from the front
"That's fine with me," Glinda said, a happy grin on her face.
A/N: What is Glinda cooking? EH...not much probably. Chapter 6 hasn't been written at all, I thought I'd give you a new chap asap, so yeah....might not hear from me till the school holidays.