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Chapter 8

Being the Captain of the Gale Force, Fiyero had overseen the sessions of torture Elphaba had to endure.

Morrible had ordered them to show no mercy towards the Witch. The Gale Force officers could do whatever they wanted as long as they made sure Elphaba would still be alive afterwards.

The first time they had Elphaba whipped until she was bleeding. The members of the Gale Force wanted to see for themself if green blood was running through her veins.

Later they had whipped her for the fun of it and done other unmentionable things.

Sometimes Elphaba refused to scream and they would torture her until she would or until she would beg for mercy, which she had done twice. Fiyero knew only about one time. He was about to step in, not being able to see her being tortured like that, when she had uttered her plea to them, begging them to stop their wrong-doings towards her.

It seemed that Morrible wanted to oversee today's session of torture too, as she was already in the torture-chamber, waiting with a sickly smile as they chained Elphaba to the wall.

"My, my, Elphaba, look at yourself. You look nothing like the defiant girl anymore. You have always been a weakling and now your future is mine to decide," Morrible said in a taunting voice.

"Kill me already. I have nothing left to live for."

"Not even your best friend Glinda the Good or her handsome fiancé?"

"They have each other and don't need me," Elphaba spat.

"And your precious little girl?"

"She is dead. Killed by the Wizard's soldiers! Tell me why should I, the most evil person in OZ, should live when an innocent child, my daughter, was killed in cold blood, without a second thought?"

Fiyero tried to hide his surprise. Elphaba had a daughter! He never knew. She hadn't been pregnant when they had seen each other in Quaddlingland. But maybe she had conceived then, during their last night. Or maybe someone else had fathered Elphaba's daughter. Fiyero had always imagined that Elphaba would stay faithful towards him even when he hadn't been.

"Are you sure that she is dead? Do you have any proof?"

"I swear, by the unnamed God, leave my Tanith out of this! Kill me already or I will make sure that when I die I will take you with me to hell!"

"Then you will never know where your child is hidden," Morrible said with an evil glint in her eyes.

The room was silent. You could have heard a pin drop. Elphaba had to comprehend what Morrible had said.

"Tanith is alive? I have seen the blood! There was so much blood for a little girl!"

"She put up a fight, even for a two year old she tried to hold her own. Normally I would have ordered them to kill anyone associated to the Wicked Witch of the West."

"How did you know that she is mine?"

"I just knew when I saw her that she is your daughter. But maybe you should see for yourself. Oh yes, the next time I come for a visit I will bring your little girl with me!" Morrible laugend.

"No! Please, I beg of you, don't let her see me like this!"

It was too much for Elphaba to comprehend. The child she had thought she had lost to death forever was still alive.

Morrible had her daughter hidden somewhere, somewhere Elphaba hadn't thought she could be. No, she hadn't searched for her child, believing her to be dead and now Morrible had told her that her little girl was alive and well.

As much as she longed to see her and hold her in her arms again, Tanith should and could never see her like this. It would give her nightmares, if she didn't have them already.

"Fiyero, please, my daughter can't see me like this, please you have to make sure that she will never witness them torturing me. Please, I beg of you my friend," she said looking directly at Fiyero.

But there wasn't anything he could say or do now. Maybe later he could try talking to Elphaba.

"Silence witch," he said.

A couple of hours after Elphaba had been brought back to her cell Fiyero went to see her again. He could hear her screaming for and cursing at Morrible from afar.

"Morrible, I swear by the unnamed God, if you hurt my daughter I will come back from the dead to haunt you! Hurt Tanith and I will kill you! Morrible, come back I neeed to talk to you. Please, don't let my child see me like this!"

If Elphaba continued screaming like that, she would be hoarse in a couple of hours.