It didn't take her long to go back to her room and it took her much less time to find her bag that she had carelessly left on the chair. In another minute a broom levitated from the corner. And another thirty-seconds was what it took to open the window and fly into the sky.

She had promised him that she wouldn't leave him alone; she had promised she would help. He may not want her by his side anymore and she had no reason to disagree. They both pushed each other away and she had fallen for Fiyero, but she promised Sanevan. She needed to talk to him and let him know her promise was still going no matter what. Fiyero was with his mother and she was a strong woman. He didn't need her there.

Galinda…well…Hell hath no fury like an Upland scorned. Her mother would keep her safe. She failed her sister and she failed herself. She swore that no one would harm her sister and her words meant nothing in the end. Her words would no longer mean nothing. She was sure she looked wild as she raced towards the Mauntery. Her hair blowing in the wind and a scowl on her face to keep her from crying.

It didn't take her more than three minutes to get there, landing roughly on the floor feeling like a feral cat as her head jerked everywhere for any sign of familiarity. There was a considerable change in her demeanor when she noticed Tibbet carefully balancing a few items in his hands. It took him a second before he noticed her and when he did his face lit up, "Elphaba!" He yelled out joyously, dropping the items and coming to her. For the second time that day someone hugged Elphaba but it no longer made her uncomfortable.

"Where'd you go you hotheaded green girl? And why are you here looking like you just killed someone?" Tibbet frowned but his face went back to the wide smile he was previously wearing. "Never mind that, we have time later right now I have to get the gauze's and other medical goodies to this really handsome blonde." Tibbet sighed with a dreamy smile, "He was pronounced a traitor and left to die but the best part is that he helped the others escape…Well, all but poor Olsen… " Tibbet trailed off looking off into the horizon before he shook his head and smiled again, "Anyway, this blonde dreamboat got shot so I should probably go check on him!" He told her skipping back to grab his items on the floor. Elphaba smiled somewhat confused and happy that something good was happening. That is until her sights came to the boy sitting on the far end of the courtyard near the flowers.

His body was turned away from her but she knew that head and that body and she could clearly see the daisy twirling in between his fingers. She felt nervous, something that never happened before with him. She swallowed her nerves and walked over to him. He didn't notice her and she was glad of it, not knowing what to say.

"Hey flower boy." She finally said and his head spun slowly towards her. Elphaba couldn't decipher the look on his face but if she could guess it, it would be grief. He didn't respond to her instead continuing his examination of the white daisy in his hand. She watched him play with the stem and turn it around his fingers as she sat beside him. He pulled a petal off of the daisy and let if fall to the ground. Nothing was said because neither knew what to say. They merely sat there until his flower was nothing but the flower head. She chose to end that silence.

"Morrible is dead. No one else is going to go through this."

There was nothing from him.

"How are you doing?" She asked and his eyes flitted towards her and back to his leafless flower.

"Physically I can't complain." He shrugged placing the flower head on his lap and plucking another flower off the ground. "But the thing that's bothering me is I seemingly slit someone's throat but I can't seem to recall whose throat it was?" He never looked at her as he spoke.

"Boq's."

"Boq's?" He repeated opening his mouth and then frowning. "I can't exactly say I didn't because I don't remember."

She gave him a puzzled look."You don't remember?"

"No," He said briskly as he finished pulling out the petals from the next flower. "I don't."

She waited for him to expand on it and he sighed, knowing she wouldn't stop staring until he did.

"I don't know if it's because my mind has really been screwed with or because I was disoriented after you used your magic on me back in Shiz. I don't really know, all I can tell you is I woke up yesterday and had no idea how I came to be here…" His eyes moved across the courtyard. Now Elphaba had another thing to fell cruddy about.

"That's something else I wanted to ask you." And now she wouldn't know how he ended up at the Mauntery.

"Well, I don't know." He answered roughly.

Elphaba bit her bottom lip. "You know it would be helpful if you quit your brooding and actually talk to me rather than answer that you don't know for everything? It hasn't been this difficult to talk to you since we were pubescent little kids."

Sanevan looked like he was trying not to smile. "Wasn't it worse?"

"Are you kidding me? I'd take this gloomy man over the boy whose voice cracked every second he made fun of me."

His lips twitched. "He was an idiot."

Her lips curled up as well. "I agree."

"But no more than the one who broke up with you."

Elphaba locked her jaw."I agree with that statement too."

He went back to his flower and Elphaba placed her hand on his stopping him from continuing to destroy it.

"Stop that." She told him and Sanevan stared at his hand on hers.

"I was selfish..." He said quietly. "You promised me you'd be by my side and I broke up with you and still had the nerve to be angry that you left. I had no right to anything after I left you, and Oz do I feel like a total moron." Sanevan ran a hand through his hair in frustration.

"You should." She agreed easily. "You pushed me away."

"And I'll regret it for a long time..." He stopped and stared at her for a moment. "You don't look at me like you used to and it absolutely kills me."

Elphaba looked away. "I'm sorry."

"You shouldn't have to say that. I'm the one who owes you an apology and I hope you can forgive me for pushing you away so suddenly."

"I forgave you a long time ago." She told him softly and he smiled wrapping his arms around her.

"You shouldn't forgive me." He murmured into her shoulder. "I don't deserve it?"

"You do." She assured him, brushing back his hair.

He sniffed and pulled away. "I don't. I don't even know if I killed someone or not? I don't even know what they really changed in me?"

"You didn't change, you just became paranoid and afraid, but you are still the same person." She assured him.

"I want to go home. It doesn't matter to me who I am or who I'm not. I want to go back to Munchkinland and see where my parent's bodies were buried so I can say goodbye to them."

"What are your plans after?"

"What else do I have left? Go home and go back to my job…Now that Morrible is gone I have no need to pretend to be who I'm not. I can go back to being Sanevan Valner and working with you and your family."

Elphaba pressed her lips together, her eyes slightly watering, something that he noticed.

'What's wrong?"

"My family is dead." She said bluntly wiping at her eyes.

"Oh, sweetheart…I'm so sorry." He moved to hug her but she pushed him away. "Don't do this. Don't keep it in my ellie. "

"You know I have no choice." She said monotonously.

"You always have a choice. "

She shook her head. "Not when it includes hurting people and destroying things. "

"Then it's even more important to let it out. You have to hurt and cry about it otherwise it will always be a lingering feeling that could cause you to break at any time. " It was his turn to brush her hair back. Elphaba pushed his hand away again.

"I can control it." She said with certainty and he looked at her sadly.

"No one can."

"I can," She said more firmly. "One day I'll cry over this, but not right now. "

"Okay," He nodded. "I understand. Don't prolong it too long I dont think I'll be able to stand being at your side and knowing you could blow at any time." He said playfully nudging her shoulder. Elphaba turned away, unable to face him.

"If I'm by your side it's not going to be the way you want."

"...What do you mean?"

"I mean that I care for you, and I always will, but you and I are no longer going to be together the way we once were."

He was silent by her side and all she heard from him was a drawn out trembling breath.

"So this is it for us two? This is where we officially end?"

"We ended a long time ago. We aren't those two kids hiding a relationship from my father anymore."

"We wouldn't have to hide anymore, you need to go back to Munchkinland because you are the next in line for the Eminecy and—"

She felt awful for moving on so easily. She felt horrible for making him believe they still had a chance. "I don't want you to convince yourself that we have a future. Once upon a time maybe, but I don't think I can be with you in that way. I want to be there for you. As a friend."

He blinked. "A friend?"

"Like before we went all hormone crazy."

"Elphaba," He said quietly. "I think before we were all hormone crazy we hated each other."

She grinned, tousling his hair with her hand. "We just wont hate each other the same way."

"I always thought it would work out for us. You always told me our relationship was doomed from the start but I just thought that it was you being you. I believed we had a future despite it all."

"We'll still have each other."

"But we wont be together."

"No."

He sighed and sat back. "So what do I do now? You were the only thing I was living for, the only thing I had to look forward to."

"You have a new chance at a new life. You don't have to stay in Munchkinland for your whole life anymore you have the possibility to return to Shiz and continue to earn a degree and be more than just the gardeners son."

"Right now being the gardeners son sounds rather relaxing." He told her with honesty and Elphaba smiled.

"Then you be the gardeners son."

"I think I will, the new emminent Thropp might need a gardeners son." He pointed out and Elphaba chuckled.

"Not a gardeners son, a gardener. I think she's hiring."

Sanevan thought of that. "Do you think I'd get the job?"

She shrugged playfully. "It all depends on what she thinks of you. "

He pursed his lips. "Do you think she likes frogs?"

Elphaba began to laugh. "Probably not so I wouldn't go chasing her around with it unless you want to be out of a job."

He smirked lightly. "Yeah, that's probably a good idea."

They went silent again, but it was not as uncomfortable that time.

"I should go now…I left without telling anyone and I don't want to worry them."

He smiled kindly. "I'll be seeing you?"

"Yes, I'll see you in Munchkinland."

"Good."

She smiled back fondly as he hugged her goodbye.