A.N: LifelongLeahstar: Thanks for the review! Galinda is used to getting what she wants, and since nothing is going her way in Shiz she isn't entirely in the best mood...Still no excuse for being nasty to Elphaba!

"Miss Elphaba, I'm sick and tired of waking up every night with your whimpering. It's been the same every night since we've been here... And that's a month already!"

Galinda complained, or more like whined, making Elphaba rub her temples."You're giving me a headache blondie, and I'm trying to study."

"That isn't my name!" Galinda whined again. "I need to get my sleep, the Vinkun Prince is going to arrive tomorrow and I need to look perfect!"

"I honestly could not care less." Elphaba muttered going back to her studying.

"Go back to writing to your imaginary friends."

Elphaba slammed her book on her desk, but didn't say a word.

"What? Is the green bean mad that she has sent so many letters without as much as a reply?"

She gritted her teeth at the blonde's taunts but refrained from replying.

"I mean, writing constantly to someone who never replies, obviously you mean nothing to them if they aren't responding, oh well, sweet dreams!"

The blonde girl voiced every doubt she was having herself. What if he was never really in love with her? What if he only used her to get what he wanted and she really never meant anything? Now that she was gone why would he keep up with the pretenses? Letter after letter she received no response. Every kiss, every touch. All fake. It all meant so much to her, he made her believe that there was more to her than just skin color.

But that was exactly why she couldn't just believe one hundred percent that it was all just a big show for him to get her to sleep with him. He had been friends with her for years and they had been together for two of those.

He had to care.

This was just her paranoia about the two of them. Something they would often argue about.

Despite being just a farmer's boy he was handsome and he did have a few other girls interested in him, he didn't look at them twice as he always focusing on her, but she always told him that it would be so easy for him to leave her and be with any one of them, it wouldn't have to be a secret and he'd argue back that he didn't want to be with anyone but her.

He just didn't have time to write her back, waking up early to help his father took its toll on his health, he'd often just fall asleep once he hit her bed back home.

"Are you turning that light off? I'm trying to sleep here?"

Elphaba waited a few minutes, taking her time to put her notes neatly away and her book back in its bookcase before she turned the light off, tired herself and unwilling to do what the blonde demanded. As she lay in the darkness she couldn't shake the feeling that there was something that just didn't feel right.

Elphaba's eyes opened and she closed them promptly, letting the fresh images fade from her mind.

It was only a nightmare. A nightmare that wouldn't go away no matter what she tried. There was a part of her that wanted to get out of Shiz for a few days and visit. To assure herself that he was okay, but another part of her knew he was okay and knew that leaving Shiz even for a few days would not be easily forgiven by her father. So Elphaba concentrated on letting her breathing even out and her heart beating to a more normal beat. Once she managed that, Elphaba threw her covers off and sat up, seeing her roommate staring at her from her seat on her vanity.

"You're up early."

The blonde sniffed."Well yes, since I can't go to sleep with your incessant screaming I thought I might just get up. "

She rolled her eyes and threw her legs over the bed, ready to get up, and stopped immediately.

She held her hand over her chest. What was this feeling? Like something horrible was about to happen, this ache in her chest?

A heart attack?

"Something wrong Artichoke?" She shook her head standing up and going to the window needing fresh air, her chest started to heave and she found it difficult to breath. Would she die? Would he die? Was that what was causing this? Why did she feel like this? Elphaba let her head rest on the windowsill as her chest uncontrollably shook.

"I'm going to get help!" The blonde squealed shaking Elphaba from her thoughts.

"No! I'm alright." She sniffed, whirling around and startling her roommate.

"You…" Elphaba wiped her eyes roughly and stared at her roommate emotionlessly "Don't seem alright. " Her roommate said cowering from her stare.

" I said I'm alright." She trembled, pushing the feeling of dread away.

"Look around, does that seem alright? " Elphaba did, her chair was overturned along with her books, her roommates mirror was on the floor broken in pieces, and her little trinkets strewn across the floor in a broken mess.

"You realize you are a dangerous green freak right? You could have hurt me. I could have died and it would have been by your freak magic! I can't room with you anymore! Do you know what I could have done to you? The entire university…"

She droned out her roommates blabber focusing on getting to the bottom of what was going on with her. She was unable to sleep, waking up drenched in sweat from nightmares, and freaking out in front of her roommate in broad day light.

She missed him. She hated to know she missed him enough to cause these feelings of dread, these nightmares in her.

She loved him, but she never wanted to love him to the point she would be having nightmares without him. It was unhealthy for her.

She never wanted the two of them to get too far, they would never be able to have a normal relationship. She knew and he knew it too. Elphaba's whole future was already decided. She would care for Nessa after her father passed on, and her father's plan had no man in it for her. Even so she took the risk and now this was how she paid for it. With this nagging feeling in her chest making her believe that something was wrong.

"—And not to mention they'd all be on my side when—"

"You're still talking? " Elphaba grumbled, lifting her hand and watching as her roommate stared in awe and envy as everything that fell and everything that broke mended itself.

Elphaba stared smugly at her. "One of the perks of being a magical genius freak in sorcery class, is that everything I'm taught, I can do instantly."

It was a complete lie, that bit of magic was something she had practiced before in her room back in Munchkinland, Morrible was still only teaching her simple things.

However her roommate had absolutely no idea, and could only stare speechlessly as Elphaba dug through her closet for something to wear.

Irritated and exhausted was how she felt the whole day. There had been a couple of times throughout the morning that she was about to up and leave the lectures and go back to her room to sleep, but there was one class she was particularly interested in alway attending. History, with Doctor Dillamond, one of the only Animal professors in the school. His class taught her so much on Animals and their rights. She couldn't believe how oblivious she was to all this in Munchkinland.

In Munchkinland they all still worked and they all had a place in their school, but here at Shiz Elphaba was yet to see a student Animal, or any Animal other than Doctor Dillamond. Doctor Dillamond passionately spoke of how over twenty years back there had been a great drought in Oz. The citizens had almost starved with little to no water to grow crops. Rumors spread around that a group of Animals were the cause when they began to perform unauthorized experimentation in their homes, dumping the contents on the land and ruining its use for growing. He was firm on telling them all that those were merely rumors with no facts to back them. Elphaba raised her hand about to ask how one Animal hypothetically dumping something on their own land led to a drought all over Oz, but before she was able to ask anything a high pitched voice rang out.

"I don't understand why we are talking about this instead of the subject? This is all in the past?"

Elphaba groaned and Doctor Dillamond sighed. "You see Miss Glinda—"

"Gah-linda."

"Yes, I welcome your desire to learn about our history and if you'll set your eye on this—" The room suddenly went quiet as everyone read the words written on the board.

Animals should be seen and not heard.

Why would anyone write that? Doctor Dillamond demanded to know who was responsible for the words and when no one admitted to it he dismissed them from his class. Elphaba lingered behind while the rest of the student left. Her eyes looking at the giant red letters written on the board.

"Miss Elphaba, There is no need to stay behind and worry about me. Run along and enjoy the rest of the hour like your classmates."

"How can I, knowing that someone is capable of writing these awful things." Elphaba gestured towards the board and Doctor Dillamond looked on sadly.

"Well, this is hardly the worst thing I've heard. There are other things that upset me even more."

Doctor Dillamond sat in the front row of his classroom and took his glasses off. "Many dreadful things have been said to be happening around Oz, horrible things."

"Like what?" Elphaba questioned taking a seat beside him.

Doctor Dillamond took a good look around the room before turning back to her. "There is word that an old college friend of mine has forgotten how to speak and now only acts like a fox instead of a Fox, and I received a letter a few weeks ago from another friend of mine from the Glikkus, telling me to keep an eye out for news about him in the following weeks, and just a few days ago I read that he can no longer form words and was removed from his position as a librarian."

Elphaba's mind was reeling from the information Doctor Dillamond was telling her. "Something bad is happening then?"

"Something very bad." Doctor Diamond agreed quietly, eyeing the door. "Now Miss Elphaba, I believe you have a class to attend to soon and as much as I'd enjoy continuing this discussion on the drought, your time will be of better use studying."

Elphaba frowned at Doctor Dillamonds behavior and thought nothing of it as she picked up her things and left the room, still thinking about his words about his friends. If she had been paying attention to where she was going she would have noticed the carriage coming straight at her, but since she was too busy getting lost in her own mind it wasn't until she dropped her books that she realized she had been hit. Her side ached but Elphaba shook it off, picking her books up and noticing the bent pages. Her nose flared watching the passenger of the carriage fast asleep.

The driver jumped out of the front and scrambled over to her, his hand on his head to stop his hat from flying off. " I'm truly sorry…" His voice trailed off as he gave her a one over. "You're green…" Elphaba gave him a cold stare and proceeded to bang on the window of the carriage. "Stop you're going to wake him! "

"That's my intent. HEY, wake up you! " She could hear a grumbling come from inside before the carriage door finally opened.

A tall, well built man jumped out, taking off his glasses to take a quick glance at her and deciding that giving his carriage driver instructions on where to put his luggage was more important. Elphaba was dumbfounded for a moment wondering how someone could be so stupid and careless.

"See Vare, you can just tell when someone visited the Emerald City," He commented to his driver, turning around to flash her a smile. "Although I have to say this is the most extreme way anyone has shown such passion for their capital city." His words were directed to his driver but he winked at her.

Elphaba fixed him a glare and the driver's eye's popped wide. "Master Fiyero, I don't think... " He waved his hand at him.

"Fiyero Tiggular, and you are?" Fiyero held his hand out, giving her an even wider charming grin. A grin that she did not appreciate.

Elphaba slapped his hand away. "You almost ran me over you idiot, and you were asleep! "

Fiyero shrugged it off carelessly. "Exactly I was sleeping, I didn't do anything, if anything it would be my drivers fault not mine so don't yell at me."

His driver pressed his lips together but didn't say anything.

"Don't yell at you? You come in and—" A sudden rush of dizziness stopped her from speaking making her stumble forward and grab onto the first thing she was able to.

"Vare did we hit her? Are you ok?" She could see the worry in his eyes as he held her up.

"We didn't hit her, I almost did but she barely grazed the carriage."

"We have to get her help then. Vare go and find help." He ordered and his driver ran off into the carriage. "Oh Oz, this isn't the entrance I was hoping to make at all. "His words came out with a forced chuckle as he kept her steady.

"Are you feeling well? " He asked lowering his head to look at her. Elphaba must have answered his question when she fell into him.

"Woah, are you alright?" He asked again placing his hand on her neck. "Let's get you—"

"Don't touch me!" She told him, jerking away from his warm hands.

Fiyero's brow furrowed."But you just fainted on me."

Elphaba shook her head, immediately regretting the decision when she felt nauseous. "No. I simply stumbled that doesn't mean I'm hurt."

Fiyero stared at her in frustration."It has to mean something people don't just nearly pass out for no reason… Where are you going? Wait! "Fiyero called out to her but Elphaba had already left. It was true people didn't nearly pass out for no reason, but she had plenty of reasons. Stress, anxiety, fear…nightmares. It was all getting to her and her health. She needed fresh air and was in way glad that class had ended early as it gave her enough time to take some time for herself.

"Oh it was so perfect it's obviously meant to be and tonight ..." Galinda's perky voice stopped once she entered the room.

"What is she doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" They asked and Elphaba didn't even look at them when she replied. "Did blondie forget that I live here as well? "

One of the girls scoffed as she dropped her history book and notes and picked out the simple sorcery spells she was studying.

"Galinda, you could have had either one of us as a roommate but you chose to live by yourself. Look what that got you!"

"But she volunteered to roommate is there any way she could be any more good!"

"That's so true!"

"And she's so good and Fiyero is so perfect, they're just perfect for each other!"

"Oh stop it you two! We are perfect for one another aren't we! "

Elphaba couldn't take any more of their gossiping.

"Oh it's like sweet Oz, like so... I'm out of here. " Elphaba said mimicking them before bluntly telling them she was leaving.

She made sure she slammed the door on the way out. It was bad enough losing her emotions in front of her roommate she wasn't going to freak out in front of her equally idiotic friends.

After a long hour of Morrible teaching her to meditate and focus on a calming spell, Elphaba decided to end her day by checking up on her sister. She had taken a few minutes after Morrible left to come by, as the old Shiztress had nothing more to talk to her about other than sorcery and how she needed to learn everything perfectly.

She came up to the room and knocked on the door twice, after a few seconds she heard her sister's wheelchair and the door opened. "Nessa." She greeted her, lowering herself to see eye to eye with her sister.

"Fabala, I'm glad you're here." Nessa smiled holding onto her hand.

"Where's Madame Morrible? " She wondered looking around at the quiet room.

"She went into her office but she told me she would be back to check on me— Oh elphaba did you hear about the party tonight? Apparently the winkie prince just arrived and he is throwing a party!"

Elphaba snorted. "Of course, some ridiculous rich boy just appears and —"

"I'm going! Do you remember Boq? He went to school with you but he came here two years ago, he was too shy to ask me at first but once Galinda encouraged—"

Elphaba stilled. "Galinda?"

Now that made more sense. Of course she remembered Boq, he was the next closest thing to a friend that she had back in Munchkinland. He was the son of Munchkinland's mayor and she spent some time with him when their father's would meet up to discuss matters of the country.

Elphaba saw the way he stared at her roommate. Galinda wasn't trying to help Nessarose she was helping herself.

"I know you two haven't been getting along, but please just for tonight... " Nessarose pouted, holding her hand with both of hers. "I'm actually going on a date! Oh it's just going to be perfect I know it! I just wish... " Her sisters words faltered as she looked up to her with a doe eyed expression.

"What Nessa?"

"I wish I had something to repay her with, for helping Boq ask me. "

Elphaba sighed brushing her sister's hair back."Nessa, I know you're happy but—"

"Elphaba, please, try to understand." Her sisters eyes shined as she looked at her.

How was she supposed to break her sisters heart. She couldn't do it.

"I do, Nessa." Elphaba smiled for her sister. "Have you picked out what you want to wear? "

"Yes! I'm so excited I'd love for you to be there with me I rarely see you anymore."

"You know how I feel about these things Nessa. "

"I want you there Fabala, please? For me? " Her sister pouted again.

"You know I can't say no to your puppy eyes."

"Please?" Nessa begged and Elphaba thought about it, eventually giving in after Nessarose tilted her head adorably.

"Only for a couple minutes, for you." She decided and Nessarose straightened in her chair in happiness.

"Thank you, now go and get dressed I'll see you there! "

Well this wasn't the reason she had come to visit her sister at all.

How did she go from refusing to ever set foot in a social gathering to actually agreeing on going? How did her sister persuade her to go? She was going if only for Nessarose's happiness, a happiness that was brought to her by her dimwitted roommate. Who may have done it because she was trying to rid herself of Boq, but she still did it. Elphaba walked quickly to get to her room, everywhere around her students chatter about the party and the Prince.

She stopped in her tracks. There was no way she was going to owe her roommate anything at all even if it wasn't what she had planned. So Elphaba changed her path towards the direction of Morrible's office.

Nessa's happiness was worth this.

She stepped out of that office with a brand new classmate in her sorcery classes. Talking to Morrible went alright, she had agreed to let Galinda in her class if only to make her stay in it.

All for Nessarose, she thought. Even if it was just a way for Galinda to pawn off the boy. She wasn't going to rat her out for what she did because it would hurt her sister.

But if Boq so much as hurt Nessa... her gradual control of her magic would pay off nicely. That's what she was thinking about as she entered her room, only Galinda's friend loud giggling disturbing her thoughts as they walked past her.

"Miss Galinda, my sister and I were talking about you and —"

"Oh and I was just talking about you... here! " The dressed up blonde shoved a pointy hat in her hands.

" I thought you'd like it for the party tonight. " The blonde took it back and without permission set it on Elphaba's head/

"See, perfect. It certainly brings out your cheekbones! I'll see you there later, okay bye!" And the blonde left skipping out the door.

"That just happened. " She murmured falling into her bed with a sigh. She took her newly gifted hat and let it rest on her stomach. Her mind was still processing everything that had happened that day, with her nightmares and stress, possible panic attacks, and Doctor Dillamonds warnings, she was honestly glad she told Nessa she would be at that rich boys party, because her other choice was to stay here all night and stress about everything. This way she could forget about it for a few minutes at least. She let herself close her eyes for a few more seconds before picking herself up from the bed and going to shower.

She would go for Nessa and for her own sake.