It's one-shot time! I had to write a research paper about Macbeth a few weeks, and then I got this story idea. That usually happens when I do work in school.

"ARG! This is so frustrating! I can't do this!" Galinda exclaimed, throwing her pen across the room.

Elphaba looked up from her book and sighed. "Do you need some help?"

Galinda gave her roommate a pleading look. Chuckling, Elphaba stood up and approached the blonde at her desk. "You're still working on your research paper for Dr. Dillamond?"

"Yup."

"Glin… that was due last week."

"Your point is?"

Elphaba sighed, but pulled up an extra chair next to the blonde. "Let's start with the beginning. What's your thesis statement?"

"My what?"

"Your thesis statement. The statement that introduces what your essay is about."

"Oh, that. 'Animals under the Wizard's rule have suffered a number of degrading changes to their kind.'"

"Their kind?" Elphaba repeated, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, what do you suggest?" Galinda huffed.

"Just stop after 'changes'."

Grumbling, Galinda took her pencil and crossed out the last three words of her thesis statement. "Now what?"

Elphaba took the paper and, readjusting her glasses on her nose, read over Galinda's essay. She scrunched up her nose and turned the paper sideways, trying to read what the blonde wrote.

"What?" Galinda asked.

"I… you… um… there's no 't' in propaganda."

Galinda snatched her essay back from her roommate and read it over. "That's not a 't'. That's a 'd'."

"Glin, you don't cross your 'd's."

"I thought it looked prettier," Galinda shrugged.

Elphaba groaned and face palmed. This was going to be harder than she thought. And she knew helping the blonde in the first place wasn't going to be a walk in the park. Sighing, she grabbed a pen from her desk and began to correct Galinda's paper.

"That's supposed to be capitalized… misspelt… misspelt… Animals is capitalized… misspelt… semi-colon… again, Animals is capitalized… misspelt… Glin, you really need to stop crossing your 'd's… misspelt… GLIN, ANIMALS IS CAPITALIZED! Misspelt… again with the 'd's? Misspelt…"

"Are you done?" Galinda groaned, rubbing her temple.

"You misspelt the same word over five times," Elphaba said dryly.

"Must you be so critical?"

"I'm only trying to help you. And this is only the first two pages. You need at least two more. Where are your quotes?"

"What quotes?"

Elphaba gave her roommate a sideways look. "The quotes you're supposed to use from a secondary source to help prove your point."

"We need quotes to help prove our point?"

Elphaba bit back a growl. "You really didn't pay any attention in Dr. Dillamond's class?"

"He could never get my name right!"

Elphaba bit back another growl. "Okay. Let's just keep going. We can worry about the quotes later."

The two girls spent half the night trying to correct the paper. The made a late night trip to the library, much to the blonde's displeasure. Elphaba helped Galinda find her quotes on other peoples' opinions on Animal rights that matched her own. After an hour and a half of going through and reading books, the two girls were finally able to return to their dorm room.

Exhausted, Galinda ran to her bed and flopped down. "We're finally done."

"With this part. Now you need to rewrite it."

"Rewrite?!" Galinda all but shrieked, shooting up.

"For the final draft."

"FINAL DRAFT?!" Galinda felt the world spinning around her and proceeded to faint onto the floor.

I'm with Galinda on this one. I don't like research papers. Although, my teacher made the 'Macbeth' paper a small one, and I got to type it, so there's a plus. And I didn't faint.