A.N: Thanks to: we ship it0-o, James Birdsong, AJeff, and Lorenalims for the reviews for the first chapter! They are greatly appreciated along with everyone who read it! The next couple chapters will follow the musical storyline somewhat (as you see here)...
"Oh Fabala, it's so much more beautiful than I thought! " Elphaba nodded in agreement her eyes not leaving the window.
"Look it's the statue of the wizard " Her sister pointed out and she turned to Nessa, smiling at the joy on her face and trying not to stare directly at her father.
They spent the next few minutes looking out of the window and pointing at various little things they found interesting before the carriage stopped, marking their arrival. Her father was the first one out, she followed after, getting Nessarose's chair ready and helping her out.
"I have to sign paper work," Her father glowered at her. "Elphaba I assure that you can find where they are assigning rooms correctly?"
Elphaba nodded once."Yes father. "
He gave her a stiff nod.
"Father?" Nessa called to him sadly and his attention was on her, his face looking nothing like it had been a moment earlier.
"Don't fret my dear Nessa," He told her, placing his hand on her sister's head. "I'll join you shortly before my departure for a proper goodbye, and I've told the driver to take your clothes to your room when it is assigned, but before that," He kissed the top of Nessa's head before going back into the carriage and coming out with a box .
"For my beautiful daughter!"
Nessa gasped as she saw the new pair of shoes. They shone in the lights, going from one color to the next.
"Elphaba." She straightened as he turned to her closing the box.
"Father."
"Try to keep that mouth of yours shut and help my beautiful Nessa put her shoes on." He ordered and she nodded quickly.
"Yes." She exchanged Nessa's old pair of shoes for the new ones putting her old ones in the box that her father shoved into her hands.
Nessa stared at the shoes with excitement."They are gorgeous father!
"You are gorgeous my daughter, I'll see you soon. " He kissed her head once more before striding off.
Nessa looked up to her with a pretty smile, falling slowly as she saw her face.
"Elphaba I'm sure he—"
Elphaba waved her hand in the air, not bothered by it at the least. She was already used to it. "He has given me enough by letting me go here. "
Her sisters smile returned and she nodded, relieved by her response. Elphaba took to pushing Nessa as she looked to where they needed to go.
They walked silently for a moment before her excitement got the best of her.
"I cant believe I am finally here... "
Nessa squealed. "Neither can I! I mean look at that building! And that one! They don't follow any specific design, and yet…" Her sister looked up trying to find the words she wanted to say.
"They fit perfectly." She finished for her and Nessa nodded lifting her hand to place it on top of her sister's.
"We'll fit perfectly. " Nessa corrected.
She smiled despite herself, shaking her head slightly."You will fit in perfectly Nessa." Because as much as she tried to deny, as much as she tried to assume...These people were exactly like those back at home. People don't really change, they still laugh as she passes, they still stare.
They all point.
Her sister still hides under her hair in embarrassment. She could only keep her head up and ignore them as she led Nessarose to where they were assigning rooms. She entered the main building and everyone quieted down as they stared with their mouths open. The silence was deafening until they turned their attention to a blonde girl riding on top of her luggage.
"Galinda!" A few of the girls giggled, going over to talk to her while the boys all fought over who would help her down. Elphaba paid her no attention trying to get Nessa through the people who either stopped with shock at seeing her or were staring at the girl on the luggage.
"Elphaba? " Elphaba looked up from where she was going to see everyone staring at them.
At her.
'If they stare at you it's because they haven't seen anything like you, anything as beautiful." He whispered to her quietly as his fingers trailed her cheek.
Elphaba scoffed, shaking her head."I'm not beautiful."
He held her head between his hands."Yes, you are, you are so very beautiful to me, and you have a heart of gold... You are everything to me. If people can't see the beauty that is your heart, they aren't worth it. "
Elphaba listened to his words, feeling her heart soar as he looked at her. She broke their gaze pulling her head back and leaning into his chest."They are all going to stare."
"So? Let them! Just grin at them and show them that it doesn't matter, because it doesn't... If those idiots can't look past the color of your skin, they aren't worth giving your attention to. " He argued passionately and Elphaba's head lifted with a smile.
That's what she did, she smiled at them waving her hand at those who didn't look away when she did so.
"Welcome, welcome! New students! " A big fish of a woman waltzed to the middle of the room and she couldn't help but cringe at all the makeup she wore.
"I am your Shiztress, Madame Morrible…"
She talked about how a great pride it was to be here and how she had the greatest hopes for some of them, Elphaba had to take a step away to smile when she directed the latter to the blonde who was on about some sorcery stuff but acted as if nothing happened.
"Now you have all already been assigned a room and a roommate so—"
"Excuse me Madame, we have not had our room assigned yet. " Elphaba raised her hand.
"And oh my... " Madame Morrible jumped when she saw her, the students all laughed. "And you—"
"Elphaba Thropp," She answered ignoring the stares. "My sister and I have not been assigned a room yet."
"I apologize your father he... " Madame Morrible looked her over. "Never mentioned you, but he specifically asked that your sister room with me so I may attend to her with any need she might have."
Why had her father asked to stick beside Nessarose if she was to be roomed with the Shiztress? "But…"
"No worries, I will find you a room, " Morrible turned her attention to the students." Who here volunteers to have the governors daughter as their roommate? "
"Madame!" It was the blonde girl who raised her hand and Elphaba was confused as to why.
Madame Morrible looked relieved when she did."Thank you for sharing your private room with miss Elphaba."
"What!" The blonde squeaked looking at her in horror.
"You got a private room?" A couple of girls cried out as the blonde looked at Madame Morrible with a pleading look.
"Yes, but... Madame, I —" But Madame Morrible had begun to speak to the rest of the students.
"Go children and settle in, make friends for the coming year will be a test of how much your mind can grow and change within Shiz."
The blonde girl glared at her but Elphaba only noticed that her sister was being led away from her.
"My father wanted me to take care of her Madame, and..." She couldn't do that if she wasn't rooming with her.
"I'll take it from her miss Elphaba. " She couldn't do this, her sister was the only thing she had here. The only person here who did not laugh at her skin. The terror of being left by herself won over her attempt to calm down.
"No!" Her hands raised as she felt the crushing feeling. She could hear gasps all around her as she opened her eyes, seeing Nessa spin towards her as everyone else leapt away, in fear of her hands that were currently glowing green. Murmurs all around wondering how she did what she did and she felt sick.
"Elphaba! You promised that this would never occur again! " Her sister brought her out of it and she lowered herself ,the apology running out of her mouth
"This has happened before?" Madame Morrible exclaimed and Elphaba didn't know what to say to her.
"Well, yes, but I assure you I will try to keep this curse from—"
"Curse? No, miss Elphaba, talent! You can do great things with a talent like that, why even the wizard would be overjoyed to hear about you and your talent… I assume you are interested correct?" Elphaba was speechless, only able to give a nod. "And with a few sorcery classes we can take that talent and nourish it into something more incredible and useful. "
The Wizard? The Wizard would be overjoyed to hear about this?
She merely glanced at the blonde girl who was now her roommate as she began dramatically fainting and at her sister that looked at her with pride.
Maybe... Just maybe things would be different here.
"Will you stop making so much noise, you green thing." Elphaba tuned her out, busying herself with writing her letter.
The blonde girl, Galinda, was on her side of her bedroom putting away her thousand of different dresses and other little trinkets that were much too pink in color to be nice. She wrote to Sanevan, telling him about Shiz and how beautiful it was, omitting the part of how they all stared at her knowing he would tell her to 'Grin and bear it.' She wrote of how the Shiztress told her that the magical curse she had was actually a magical talent, how... How the girl she was roommates with was going to end up with her clothes thrown out the window if she didn't stop insulting her.
"What is your problem?" She spun around with a scowl. The blonde flinched momentarily before she frowned.
"You are! Stop making so much noise, I'm trying to peacefully unpack my shoes here. It's bad enough I have to listen to you too!"
Elphaba scoffed, "I'm not making any noise, if anything you are the one making the noise."
The blonde shook her blonde ringlets, her finger wiggling at her."Your pen scratching on the paper is loud! What are you writing anyway? I doubt someone like you has anyone to write to."
Elphaba pressed her lips together trying to keep herself together as well.
"It's not making any noise, obviously you are hearing things and if that's the case I'd like to refer you to a psychologist that would likely help—"
"I'm not surprised that someone like you would have a psychologist." Her roommate giggled presumptuously, making Elphaba's ears want to close off.
"I don't but I might need one if you keep babbling on. " She muttered turning back around to finish her letter.
"I'm still speaking to you!"
Elphaba went back to tuning her out as she picked her pen back up. She could hear Galinda pacing behind her making even more noise than she thought possible with her heels. She took a deep breath bringing her pen back to the paper before it was snatched away.
Elphaba's hand caught her arm before she was able to do anything to it. "Give that back." She ordered, unamused.
"You're hurting me!" The blonde yelped trying to pull away but Elphaba tightened her grip.
"Then let it go!" She growled as the blonde clutched the paper in her hand.
"I don't want to let me go!" The girls stared at each other angrily.
Oh how she wanted to slap this girl.
"Put down the paper and I'll let go of your hand." Instead the blonde girl raised her other hand, bringing the shoe she had been putting away straight to her templed. Elphaba crumpled to the ground as Galinda gasped dropping the paper and backing away.
"I didn't mean to!" The blonde cried out covering her mouth. Elphaba groaned as she brought her hand to her head feeling the wet substance dripping. She could feel the anger bubbling throughout her body, and through her hands.
"Here! " Galinda said throwing her a pink towel from one of her many bags.
Elphaba let it fall on the floor and disregarded her apologies grabbing her letter now smeared with blood and heading towards the bathroom to check her injury.
She heard the girl apologizing through the door.
"I'd watch your back if I were you blondie " She threatened and after a moment she heard footsteps and a door close.
What a great start to a new year.
A few hours later once Elphaba had finished rewriting her letter, put it in an envelope and had it put out to be sent out, she finished cleaning up her blood from the ground and had changed the bandage on her temple.
She settled into her bed her head still throbbing, she had very much thought of throwing her roommates shoes out the window, but she didn't want to stoop so low as to be like that blonde girl. So Elphaba sat down and read…Like she always did when she wanted to escape.
It wasn't until the sun was setting that the girl Galinda came back. She looked frightened at her as she scurried over to her side of the room looking around at her things. Elphaba merely smirked into her book. She wouldn't do anything to hurt her purposely. She could never hurt anyone purposely.
Elphaba finished the chapter she was on and closed her book, setting it aside and turning her lamp off to sleep.
Her roommate squeaked loudly running into the restroom.
Elphaba laughed snuggling into her blanket.
"I hope you have the most pleasant dreams, miss Galinda." She whispered as sweetly as she could once her roommate had tiptoed over to her bed. Empty threats never hurt didn't hurt anyone though.
Shouting. Fighting. Arguing.
A small house, a small kitchen that she's been to many times. A man clad in a gale force uniform stood with his gun, waving it back and forth between his mother and his father, Sanevan hidden around a corner, watching as another man came in and grabbed onto his father.
"I'm truly sorry about this Devin, you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. " The man said in a serious tone. Elphaba watched on, her eyes going to Sanevan who stood terrified.
"Don't hurt my wife!" His father pleaded, trying to desperately go to his wife. "Please I beg you , take me, but don't hurt her! "
Elphaba watched herself appear next to Sanevan, fearful for his life when he ran forward, her hand resting on his shoulder to stop him. He did stop, his breath quickening as he looked around. Something about the whole thing felt wrong. Something wasn't right here.
His father began to speak again."I won't say anything, I swear it. I'm only a farmer! "
The man in the Gale force suit looked at him sadly, "You work for the governor," He said remorsefully looking at Sanevan's parents with pity. "It's too much of a risk, I am truly sorry. " His arm rose and she heard a shot.
She turned away and pressed her eyes together at the same time Sanevan did, hearing the aching cry his mother wailed. Another shot rang out and the room went silent.
His home was never this silent before.
"No!" His scream startled her and he was about to jump in but the image shifted into a forest where he crumpled onto the ground.
Elphaba woke up suddenly, sitting up drenched in sweat. Her breathing came labored and her heart was pounding loudly.
It was only a nightmare, he was okay, she told herself.
It was just a dream, just her imagination. Elphaba brought her hand up to her face and wiped the sweat away. She had slept in his arms for months, and it was her body dealing with the separation like this.
From being accepted unconditionally by him to being without him.
She wiped her forehead again and seeing the red gleam in the moonlight. Her bandage must have shifted in her sleep. Elphaba stood and was promptly startled when she saw her roommate staring in terror behind her pillow. Elphaba swallowed the knot she felt in her throat."What?" She growled and Galinda shook her head.
"Go to sleep blondie."
Elphaba went into the restroom to clean her injury and place another bandage around it before heading back to bed.
If it got worse she would actually have to go see a nurse.
Her roommate still stared at her with a mix of fright and disgust in her eyes. Elphaba glared at her until she turned away and she went back into her bed. It was a dream that would keep her up for hours that night.
And maybe for weeks when her letters received no response.