Avaric didn't seem certain about the whole thing but had listened and reluctantly gone off. She had changed her mind and told Avaric to just sneak into the room and wait, because she knew getting Galinda to wait outside their room while she called him in was just not going to happen. If Galinda wanted to enter, Galinda was going to enter. Another thing she had to think about was making sure no one could hear them talk. If she knew anything about Galinda in her short time here it was that Galinda was unwilling to listen to anything she did not find to her interest. And anything related to Avaric was not in her interest—other than Sanevan who was his supposed cousin.

So Elphaba opened her bag and took out her barely used sorcery book. Well, actually, never used—Morrible never covered anything in the book, preferring telling her how to do the worthless calming spells over anything of her own interest. The spell she found was short but useful as she neared her dorm window. She looked up at their window and glanced at the spell book reading the words. The spell was quick and seemed to flow out of her like a long breath.

Finding Galinda was the trickier part it seemed. Once a lecture let out it was a pool of students mixed together and packed tightly in groups, talking over one another as if their words would be better received if they raised their tone. Finding a tiny blonde in the mess of people was an entirely different experience for Elphaba. For one, she had to excuse herself for pushing other students out of her way when they didn't move on their own. Most only took one glance at her and moved out of her way but the others were so engrossed in talking and blocking her way that it was nearly impossible to pass them.

She could have waited to talk to Galinda and tell her, but they needed her to know now before things got worse. The sooner the blonde knew the quicker they could help.

She scanned the courtyard one more time and a well known giggle rung out from behind. She whirled in her spot and saw Galinda, her arm intertwined with Sanevan's—who looked pale as a ghost as he spotted her. It came to mind that none of them really cared that the most scandalous Prince of the Vinkus was in the hospital, nor that he was supposed to be in a relationship with Galinda Upland. Galinda seemed not to truly care that Sanevan was the reason Fiyero was in the hospital in the first place either. They didn't discuss that subject as they all smiled and giggled with them. She didn't fail to notice how Milla nodded and accepted everything that Galinda said. The poor girl…She wondered why her parents had let her go through what she did?

Elphaba waved Galinda over and Galinda smiled at her when she saw she was alone.

Galinda strolled over to her with her friends, "Elphie, so good to see you by yourself!"

She hummed in response.

"I should probably get to class." Sanevan muttered as soon as they were close by. He gently pulled his arm out of Galinda's hold, but Galinda stopped him, holding his hand and standing on her toes to place a kiss on his cheek. "I'll see you later." She whispered faintly, fluttering her eyelashes at him.

He glanced at her momentarily and back at Galinda. "Yes, of course." He smiled thinly and rushed off.

"We all should get to class," Galinda said and the other girls agreed staring at Elphaba as if they didn't want to look at her. She ignored them, still furious at what she had just witnessed.

"Madame Morrible wont take too kindly if I'm late for class by a few seconds again, I'll see you girls later, come on Elphie!" Galinda waved at her friends.

Elphaba began walking away trusting that Galinda would follow. Sure enough, Galinda called after her.

"Elphie, don't walk so fast!"

"Don't wear inconvenient heels to class and you wouldn't have a problem with keeping up." She retorted. "What's the purpose of wearing heels to a lecture?"

"There is never not a time to wear heals. You should never lose the glamour."

Elphaba stilled in her steps and pretended to look for something in her bag. "I forgot my reading glasses, I'll meet you in class."

"Oh, don't worry I'll just come with you! It gets awkward to sit there with Morrible." Galinda said following behind her like she had planned. Galinda started to chatter away about unimportant things as they made their way up to their room.

"…Looking like a scared puppy, but he still listened and did you see how he looked when I kissed his cheek?"

"You're looking for trouble Galinda." She said in irritation, coming to their door. She counted on Avaric being inside by that time.

"Defending himself is not trouble. He can hold his own which is good." Galinda replied, rummaging through her purse for something. "Oh, shoot I'm lucky you came by I don't have my training wand on me!"

"Where in Oz do you keep that thing?" Elphaba asked fishing her key out from her pocket. She felt a slight headache coming on from her use of magic but it was controllable.

"Usually in my purse—there is a spell for it." She giggled as Elphaba opened the door.

Elphaba snickered as Galinda hurried through the door before she could take her key back out.

The door was suddenly closed shut in her face and Elphaba was left standing outside. She threw her hand out trying to open the door but nothing happened. A few curses came out her mouth…there was no use trying, as the spell would last for a few minutes and there was nothing to undue it.

She only hoped that Galinda would listen to Avaric and that Avaric explained things how they were.

There was nothing she could do in the meantime, she couldn't hear anything or enter or use a counter spell. Nothing to be done but wait the five minutes it took until the spell wore off.

So Elphaba leaned back against the door and waited; thinking of nothing but what was going on in their room.

A few minutes later the door opened and Avaric came tumbling out and the door was shut again.

Elphaba turned to him immediately and Avaric glared at her as he pressed the back of his hand against his nose and rushed past her to leave.

"You said you would be there." He said as she followed behind him through the halls. It didn't seem to matter to either one of them that if he got caught in the girls dorms they could both get in quite a predicament.

"You shut the door before I could come in!" She argued keeping pace with him.

Avaric's stomped out the door making a couple of girl who were just coming in jump back. They stared but they both ignored them. "One look at me and she jumped back into the door." Avaric wiped at his nose again, cleaning a few drops of blood off of his nose. "She grabbed a thick book and she slammed it in my face repeatedly."

He winced when he brushed his hand on his nose too hard and he scoffed letting himself drop to the floor. Elphaba nearly tripped over him when he did so, but he held his hand out and that helped stop her.

"I tried explaining everything to her, I gave her the letter but she dropped it on the floor and she didn't listen and…I'm sorry." He said apologetically, ripping strands of grass off the floor.

If anyone was out there listening or watching them they would be in quite a mess.

Elphaba sighed and fell beside him, scanning the area to see if anyone was around to listen. "Don't be, it's partially my fault for changing the plan and having you wait inside. "

Avaric stared at her for a second, "No, I should be." He said, looking apologetic. "I didn't tell you the whole story."

She took in his face, the downcast expression, the fear in his eyes—the pain, and she frowned. "What are you talking about?"

If Elphaba hadn't been looking at his face she would not have noticed the way his lower jaw trembled as he cleared his throat."It was a couple years ago," He began quietly. "I think it might have been shortly after I was changed because it's actually a clear memory…"

She nodded as she listened.

"…It was at some stupid event at her families home and we—the Tenmeadows, were invited. I remember being disoriented and confused and I remember she asked me to follow her up to her room. I recall being completely smitten with her and the dress she was wearing…" He trailed off and it was enough to make her skin crawl and anger pool in her stomach. "It's a little hazy but I pushed her into the bed and— "

Elphaba didn't let him finish as she pushed him to his back with her elbow. He threw his hands out in surrender but by that time Elphaba was holding him down with her knee at his neck.

"I didn't do what you think I did!" He choked out grabbing her leg to push it away as Elphaba glowered at him. "I stopped." He spluttered.

"I think this would have been valuable information. I wouldn't have put you anywhere near Galinda if I knew." She muttered angrily, pressing her knee harder on his neck. How could she let him anywhere near her? It killed her to know what she could have put Galinda to suffer through. "Don't come near her at all, anything that needs to be said to her will come from me, stay away." She threatened before lifting her knee and letting him go.

Avaric gasped, taking in breaths as he began grabbing at his neck. "I agree, " He whispered hoarsely as she left him there.

She didn't turn back to see if he was okay that time, this time it was not a good idea to stay alone with him. She needed to apologize to Galinda and make sure she was okay. The last thing she wanted to do was further traumatize her.

It didn't take her long to get back up to her room, their door was unlocked and Elphaba stepped inside, promptly having to duck out of the way of something flying past her.

"Get out!" Galinda screamed at her while Elphaba watched out for the other boot Galinda threw at her.

"Galinda—" She began, collecting her boots and keeping them away from the dainty blonde.

"Don't talk to me and get out!" Galinda said once again, holding her training wand in front of her.

"This is my room as well." She replied not at all fazed by the wand being pointed at her. Although she felt a small flicker of magic coming from the blonde, Elphaba was not afraid of it.

"I don't want you here anymore." Galinda spoke gravely, tracks of dried makeup stains on her face.

"I didn't know," she said sincerely stepping closer to her own bed, "please, just listen to me."

"Listen?" Galinda hissed, her hand shaking. "I listened when I didn't want to...I apologized for everything I did to you and yet you work with him to have him hurt me? Trying to find excuses for things he's done to me with a silly letter."

"I didn't want to hurt you, Galinda. We only wanted to tell you about what's going on and what happened to him."

Galinda scoffed and fresh tears began to brim on her eyes. "The whole 'that wasn't me' act isn't going to work on me. The mind change thing is stupid and low for you. I'm not an idiot."

"No, you are not." She said quietly and Galinda choked back a sob.

"I didn't think you would be capable of doing this."

Elphaba felt horrible. She never meant for Galinda to feel this way. She never thought she would see Galinda cry."Whatever he might have said about his mind is true. He was forced to change and he didn't have a say in it. I didn't mean to leave you alone with him. It wasn't what I intended to do."

Galinda looked at her in confusion. "Then what did you intend to do?"

"I wanted to be there and help explain things to you because we need you, but if I would have known about Avaric I would have never let him go near you." She said truthfully.

"Did he tell you?" Galinda asked, narrowing her eyes at her.

Elphaba gulped and nodded. "He implied what he almost did."

The blonde frowned, lowering her wand slightly. "Did he also tell how he tore my dress and how I had to hide bruises on my body for weeks because I was scared to tell someone?"

The feeling of dread returned and the only thing that kept her from breaking at that second was Galinda's wellbeing. "He said he stopped before he did anything." She spoke, her throat dry and her voice shaking.

"He didn't need to take his clothes off and enter me to hurt me. Crushing me with his body and hands was enough."

Elphaba blinked back tears. "I swear that I will not let him near you again," she promised. "but I do need you to be on our side on this. Avaric isn't the only one who has been changed like this there are others and they could use someone like you to win others over to their cause."

"Name one person."

"Sanevan." She murmured.

Galinda blinked. "Sanny?"

"Sanevan Valner… Not Sanevan Tenmeadows, Galinda this isn't a joke we are trying to pull on you this is happening and it's real...and we have to do something about it, and we need you before they try to corrupt you to do what they say. "

Galinda's wand fell to the floor as she fell back into her bed, contemplating her words. It appeared that Galinda was unsure if she should believe her or not and honestly it would not surprise her if she didn't after what she did. All Elphaba could do was continue to talk to her.

"They can't touch you Galinda, not when you have so many followers that would notice a change in you, besides you are a sorceress and they can't mess with a magical human. "

Galinda glanced at Elphaba and back to her legs, swinging them back in forth. "How do you know his name is Sanevan Valner and not Tenmeadows?

It was almost a relief that Galinda was talking about Sanevan again. She preferred Galinda's pining over her ex over her thinking back on Avaric and her own idiocy for leaving him by himself with her."I knew Sanevan from before."

"How?"

She needed to be truthful to Galinda. If she wanted her to trust her she couldn't lie now.

"He is an old friend from Munchkinland." She explained. It wasn't a lie either, they really were old friends.

Galinda looked at her skeptically, dabbing a tissue at her eyes."He doesn't look Munchkin?"

"That's because he isn't…and he isn't Gillikinese either, he is from the Vinkus."

Galling sat silently for minute and it gave Elphaba time to sit on her bed.

Galinda turned to look at her sharply, "You are very good at making things up."

Elphaba groaned. "What would I gain by making things up? Galinda, I'm green; an artichoke; a magical freak, but not a liar, and you know that. "

Galinda shook her head, "You expect me to believe that Avaric was…brainwashed and that he didn't mean to hurt me because he didn't know how to control his 'feelings' for me?

"He didn't even want to tell you about this whole thing because he wanted you to be involved, he wanted you out of this situation completely and he wouldn't have said a thing if I didn't tell him…As much as it might kill him we need you in this. "

"How do you expect me to believe something like this? How do I know you aren't making things up just to cover for him? Prove to me you aren't lying?"

Elphaba didn't have any proof. She didn't have anything to show that Sanevan was not a Tenmeadows; she didn't have proof that Avaric was changed either. She only had their words and Boq's. And that was not enough.

Galinda was waiting for a response, her arms crossed across her chest…and her blue eyes still covered in tears.

Elphaba looked away from her without another word, turning to her bed and moving her pillow to the side.

Her green bottle; the MIRACLE ELIXIR still printed in the front, nearly faded. She smiled at it; her only keepsake of her mothers.

She took it in her hands and took a deep breath, taking a few steps towards Galinda and calmly offering it to her.

Galinda stared at it in bewilderment but did not take it.

"If what I say is untrue…I give you the right to break it." It pained her to give it away, but she knew she made a mistake when she left her alone with him. It might not have been what she wanted to do but it was her fault.

Galinda hesitated and Elphaba pressed it into her hands. Galinda gently held the bottle between her fingers.

"Give it back to me when you have undeniable proof that this is really occurring in Oz."

Galinda was still looking at the bottle in her hands, clutching it to her chest protectively. "If what you say turns out to be the truth…what am I supposed to do?"

Elphaba felt her shoulders relax. She was listening and that's what mattered. "Make sure people keep loving you…Be wary of anything Morrible might ask of you. She could play with your desires for your future to make you do what she wants."

Galinda shifted in her bed. "Is Avaric really in on all this?"

She nodded."Unfortunately ."

"This entire situation is crazy." Galinda sighed laying down on her side.

"I know," she chuckled quietly. "It almost seems impossible, but it's happening."

"I will listen to you only because I know what his green bottle means to you, but I do not want to see Avaric or talk to him."

"I can't guarantee you wont see him around Shiz or around me, but I swear I will not let him near you." She promised and Galinda smiled lightly.

"Okay."

Elphaba sighed, feeling tired. "I think I'm way over my head on this." She said rubbing at her temples.

"Out of your mind you mean?"

She glared at her. "Poor choice of words."

Galinda pouted."Sorry, so we do we do then?"

She had no idea really."Let people love you and if Morrible at any times asks anything of you let me know."

"Ok," she nodded slowly. "And what about Sanevan?"

She shrugged."What about him?"

"Is he going to be a part of this too?"

"Most likely." She responded and Galinda frowned, pushing herself up to sit.

"I thought you said he is was an old friend ….If he was an old friend why are you trying to…" Galinda trailed off, gasping suddenly. "He has a girlfriend back in Munchkinland doesn't he? That's why you were trying to keep me away from him!"

"Galinda…" She said with irritation. She regretted leaving her alone with Avaric, but it didn't stop her from the displeasure she got when she mentioned Sanevan.

"She is more pretty than I am isn't she?"

She rolled her eyes. "Does it really matter what she looks like...What am I saying!" She shook her head. She needed to snap out of it. "This doesn't matter, what matters is that they might screw with a lot of peoples heads and then what does it matter that you want him?"

Galinda's lower lip trembled."It matters to me."

Elphaba groaned, feeling bad again. "How about we get some rest, we have a lot to talk about later."

"I'll actually get a easier to understand explanation of all this?" Galinda asked, and Elphaba shrugged slowly.

"I don't know, right now I'm trying not to think about the classes I'll be missing, but I really can't force myself to go and I don't think you are going either."

"No. If what you are saying about Morrible is true the last thing I want is to be alone with her...and I'm still a little shaken up about earlier."

That only helped in making Elphaba feel more guilty. "So we rest?"

"I'd really like that..." Galinda said honestly.

Luckily Galinda didn't ask any more questions. Which was good because she was completely drained. She held back her own questions deciding it was best to ask Avaric what she wanted to know.

It was quiet as they both lay in their beds, Elphaba would glance over to Galinda every few minutes to see her deep in thought, studying her green bottle.

Elphaba looked at it wistfully, that was the most important thing she had and she didn't want to lose it.

It took them a few hours before either one fell asleep, Galinda was the first to close her eyes and Elphaba was about to follow suit, her eyes were slowly closing when a creak outside the door made her snap them back open.

Elphaba slowly sat up her ear perked up trying to see if someone was outside their door.

Hearing nothing else she brushed it off as her mind playing tricks on her and fell back into her pillow. Moving around in bed until she found a comfortable spot and let her eyes finally close.

Another noise was heard, and she froze in her spot this time listening as the doorknob was moved around in an attempt to open it. Elphaba quickly and quietly got out of bed, taking a quick glance at Galinda before stepping beside the door as it came unlocked.

Her hand raised slightly, letting her energy flow through her fingers as the figure opened the door and walked in.

Without a moment's hesitation Elphaba moved her hand towards their chest. The figure turned quickly almost sensing her but they weren't able to stop her hand from connecting.

A sharp gasp and he slid down to the floor.

She panicked for a moment making sure Sanevan was okay. His eyes were slightly glazed over from her magic. She had paralyzed him for a few minutes and he began gasping for air; her magic must have hit his lungs.

Having no other alternative she pressed her lips on his, sharing her air with him. He immediately relaxed, his eyes closing at her touch.

Once he began breathing again she pulled away slightly to catch his eyes. His eyes were watering as they stared at one another, his eyes glancing all over her face until he simply stared into her eyes.

She looked into the hazel color eyes of the boy who was once the best thing she'd ever had, she looked at the fear swirling in his eyes and also the way those same eyes still showed the tenderness they used to.

"I don't know what you are doing in here," She began quietly. "But when you are able to move I want you out of here, you got that?"

Sanevan blinked twice, his eyes looking down.

Elphaba sighed brushing his hair off his forehead before placing a kiss on his head and standing up to get to bed.

She lay in bed facing him, there was nothing else to be said as they merely stared at one another for the next few minutes until he regained some movement and he was finally able to move.

He flexed his hands as he moved his neck from side to side and slowly stood. He rubbed at his neck until he opened his mouth and talked to her.

"I just came to apologize…" He said softly and Elphaba turned to make sure Galinda was still sleeping before she responded.

"I don't need your apology, even if I wanted it you could have waited until tomorrow."

"I couldn't sleep, I'm sorry I'll go." He turned to leave opening the door looking back at her momentarily before he fled the room.

A part of her wanted to go after him and talk it out, he only wanted her to be okay after their breakup but she just couldn't and now she had other things in her mind. More important things going on than her personal life and what she was feeling.

And although she tried, she couldn't just sleep as well as her blonde friend.

She awoke in the morning feeling groggily and a bit off.

She blinked her eyes open even though she wanted to just stay in bed and she could have also seeing as she didn't have any classes until later that afternoon, but she had a lot to do.

So she threw her legs out and sat up rubbing the sleep away from her eyes as she headed into the restroom before Galinda woke up and took hours to ready herself.

After she was somewhat presentable Elphaba left the room on the hunt for some caffeine.

A lot of students were out and about early in the morning all outside the boys dorm room's chatting and trying to get a look at something, she ignored them not precisely caring who got caught with a girl in their room. She continued walking breathing in the fresh air and as she walked, her eyes came across Avaric, who was sitting down on a bench by himself looking down at his hands.

His mind must still be reeling about what happened with Galinda the day before. Elphaba decided to go over to him to ask him the question she wanted to know, but as she neared him her steps slowed as her eyes took in his face.

He looked as if he was in shock looking at his hands, her eyes drifted down to his hands and her eyes immediately widened as she saw the dried red stains on his hands and his shirt, that she really hoped was only paint.

"Avaric?" She called out and his head whipped up, his eyes looked angry, menacing even as his chest heaved.

"What the hell did you do?" She asked slightly frightened by his disheveled look.

He shook his head, his red hands fisting. "Boq's dead." He whispered hoarsely.

AN: Well... That's how this chapter ends... But hey! Fiyero is going to make an appearance next chapter so... that's cool right?

Thanks for reading!