Over the next few days Elphaba decided that she should spend more time with her sister, she'd been so busy with Fiyero and Galinda that she hadn't paid her a visit in over a week.

"Hi Nessa" Elphaba smiled as she walked over to her sister and sat down next to her.

"Hello Elphaba" Nessa replied icily "I see you've finally parted yourself from you're precious friends and decided to remember you have a sister"

"Nessa that's not..." Elphaba began but was interrupted by Nessa.

"I've a good mind to tell Father about this, you know he wouldn't be pleased with you Elphaba!" Nessa said angrily.

Elphaba rose from her seat and replied "You wouldn't..."

"Oh you'd think so wouldn't you?" Nessa spat.

"You have Boq and all you're other friends!" Elphaba said as she tried not to raise her voice "Or did you really expect me to be at you're beck and call throughout my whole time at Shiz!?!?"

"Boq?" Nessa laughed bitterly "He's too busy fawning after Galinda to care about little me!"

"Oh so this is what it's about, I see..." Elphaba said quietly "You can't stand to see someone other than yourself happy! You're jealous... Of me!"

"Be expecting a letter from Father Elphaba" Nessa dismissed coldly. Elphaba stormed off back to her dorm room, she couldn't believe that Nessa had said all those awful things but worse of all if Nessa really had sent a letter to father he could pull her out of Shiz altogether... Elphaba collapsed onto her bed and thought about what her sister had said until Galinda came back.

"Hey Elphie!" Galinda smiled.

"Hi Glin" Elphaba replied absentmindedly.

"Whats wrong Elphie?" Galinda said as she rushed over to her friends side and sat on the edge of her bed

"Oh nothing, it's just Nessa" Elphaba said quietly "She said some pretty harsh things just now... The Nessa I used to know would have never have even thought about saying those things... especially to me!"

"What did she say?" Galinda said.

"She's writing a letter to father, telling him I haven't been looking after her... He didn't want to pay my fee for Shiz anyway..." Elphaba sat with her head in her hands.

"You mean..." Galinda gasped "He could take you away... from Shiz... From Fiyero... From me?"

"Yeah... and he wouldn't think twice about it" Elphaba admitted as Galinda crushed her in a big hug.

"Oh Elphie!" Galinda wailed as tears streamed down her face, staining her dress "I won't let him do that and neither will Fiyero!"

"It's ok Galinda, don't cry" Elphaba patted Galinda on the back stiffly, after a few minutes Galinda stopped crying and went to touch up her makeup in the bathroom. Elphaba decided to go to the library so gathered her books and called a goodbye to Galinda.

It wasn't long until Elphaba sat down at her usually table in the library, She almost instantly felt better as she opened her favourite book on animal rights and began to read. She didn't know how long she had been reading but when she looked up it was getting dark outside. Elphaba was just about to leave when Fiyero walked through the double doors and came to sit with her.

"Hi Fae, I've been looking for you" Fiyero said in a concerned voice and took her hand in his "Galinda told me what happened with you and Nessa today"

"What if my Father pulls me out of Shiz?" Elphaba wandered quietly so that just Fiyero could hear. Fiyero saw the fear in her eyes as she said this so he squeezed her hand briefly for support. "He's always hated me and without Nessa around to occupy him..."

Elphaba's mind wandered back to all the times her father had abused her, physically and mentally... She remembered his harsh words and taunts, his strong thrashes and blows as she begged for him to stop time and time again.

"He abused you didn't he" Fiyero realised. Elphaba looked surprised; it was as if he could see into her soul. Elphaba could only nod in reply as Fiyero pulled her into a tight hug. Elphaba buried her head in his chest as he murmured words of comfort into her ear, his soft, warm breath tickling her skin lightly.

Fiyero was certain that he would never let Elphaba's Father take her away, even if he had to fight him off himself. He'd rather die than know Elphaba was being taken back with him.