A/N: Here's yet another one! Please read and review!
Beautifullywicked
"No! No, no, no!" Ali said in frustration, "You're too early with the music... again"
Kaylee sighed, "Well the shows in just 2 hours, and we've made it through everything but the finale so, that's good... right?"
Megan nodded, "True, ummm but does anyone know where Glinda is right now?"
Elphaba got up from where she was sitting in the theatre, "I've been wondering the same thing, she should be here by now."
Just then Chistery flew in a window with a letter, "What are you doing here Chistery?" Elphaba asked looking at him, "aren't you supposed to be with Glin-" she stopped dead in her tracks when she opened the letter...
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Glinda struggled trying to get free of the grasp that the guard had on her, but got nowhere. She wished, just for this once that she could have Elphaba's thinking skills. Just this once! The guard took her back into a room in the palace where there was a wedding dress laid out on a bed. After closing the door, the guard finally let go of her and motioned to the dress. "You should change." he said, not harshly, but almost like he was symathetic.
She smiled at him, looking at his name badge, "Thanks Rothferd" she looked over at a desk in the room and saw some paper and a pen and suddenly had an idea. She smiled sweetly at him, "Um would you mind if you left for a few minutes while I change? I promise I won't take long."
"I'm sorry Your Goodness, but I have strict orders to make sure that everything goes as planned," he said not moving from where she was at.
"Oh, of course of course." she nodded, "I should have known that, well do you think you could send in maybe one of the servant girls then to help me?"
"Of course Your Goodness," he said as he turned to open the door to call for one.
"Ahh Rothferd?" she asked, making him turn around, "do you think you could get Clara for me? I've gotten to know her a bit,"
He nodded, "Sure." He stepped outside for a moment and before you could say "please" Clara was there in the room.
"Oh Your Goodness!" she said smiling, "so good to see you again!"
Glinda smiled at the young girl, and then addressed the guard, "Would it be okay if you just stepped outside for a moment?"
He stood there a moment, thinking probably whether or not he could trust them, and then nodded and stepped outside, closing and locking the door.
Glinda closed her eyes and sat down on the bed with her head in her hands.
"Your Goodness!" Clara exclaimed, "Is something wrong?" she asked rushing over to her making sure she was all right.
"Oh, no Clara," she paused then said, "Yes actually. I'm getting married."
Clara looked at her strangely, "But that's wonderful!" she said looking confused.
"Well, I would think so too," she said looking over and weakly smiling at her, "but it's just the man I'm getting married to I don't love!"
"Oh," Clara said slowly, "I know it's not my place to ask..."
"No, no it's fine. The Wizard." Glinda replied flatly.
"What?" Clara said in shock, "I'm sorry, I mean... well, what I'm trying to say-" she stuttered.
"Oh no, it's quite all right. I couldn't agree more, but we only have a few minutes," Glinda said getting up and scribbling a quick note on a piece of paper and handing it to Clara. "Go out and there should be a flying monkey, yes a flying monkey" she repeated when she saw Clara's face, "outside the palace hiding somewhere, his name is Chistery. Tell him to bring this to Elphaba right away. Okay?" she asked looking at her making sure she understood.
"Sure," she replied, nodding, but still looking a little unsure as she turned to leave.
"And Clara?" Glinda said adding one more thing.
"Yes?" She asked turning around.
"You can't tell anyone. No one, okay? People's lives are depending on this."
She nodded, "Okay." and she left.
Glinda sighed and walked over to the bed and started changing.
WickedlyAsh
Elphaba clutched the letter that Glinda had written only an hour earlier, but she feared that it was already too late. While trying not to interrupt rehearsals, Elphaba quietly called a few of the actresses over along with Fiyero, careful not to worry the teens who were currently putting all their effort into the nearing production.
"Listen," Elphaba said in a hushed tone, "we have a problem, I just got this note from Glinda." Everyone listened intently as Elphaba read Glinda's note aloud:
Elphaba,
The Wizard is forcing me to marry him! The guards won't let me out of their sights, and I think the ceremony is about to begin! Help!
Glinda
Glinda had a tendency to be a long-winded person, so the shortness of the note only further proved how urgent the situation really was.
"Now, based on how long it took us to receive the letter, we may already be too late."
"OH NO!" Julia yelled, causing everyone in the production to look over at her awkwardly. "Ummm," she tried to recover, "I'm just trying to get into character."
The cast didn't immediately buy it, so Julia had to continue. "Well, the witch's mother is a complex role, you know? And I have to sound surprised when the baby comes out green! Don't judge!"
Although it was clear that not everyone was convinced, the cast slowly went back to what they were doing.
"How can all of this happen so quickly? Do people not need marriage licenses and things here?" Stephanie asked.
"I'm afraid not," Elphaba sighed.
"Even someone of such power, they can just go and get married?" Carmen offered.
"That's it!" Fiyero exclaimed, although he was careful not to grab the attention of the entire room. "As the leader of Oz, the Wizard needs permission from Oz's governing bodies to marry! If permission is denied, the wedding is annulled, it doesn't count!"
"Who are these governing bodies?" Kerry asked.
"Well, my father for starters," said Fiyero, "and I guess Nessa too, since she's the governor of Munchkinland, and three others…and a majority vote decides it."
"Well, I assume we'll have your father's vote, Fiyero. And last I checked, Nessa is still down in the basement, so I'm sure we can convince her to vote our way. We just need one more person to vote our way…" Kerry thought out loud.
"Boq," Elphaba whispered, so quietly that almost no one could hear her. "Boq is the ruler of the Meadowlands now! He would never want Glinda to marry anyone but him!"
"You're right!" exclaimed Stephanie, "in that case, we have the majority!"
"Now we just need to get the leaders together, and we'll go rescue Glinda!" Elphaba exclaimed, heading towards the basement before another word could be said.
Beautifullywicked
Elphaba silently watched all the cast members go back to rehersing (sp?) calming down a little from what Fiyero had said. She quietly walked to the back of the theatre and sat down thinking when Fiyero walked over to her noticing something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" he asked sitting down next to her taking her hand.
She inhaled deeply and unfolded the letter, "I didn't read all of it to them you know." she said quietly.
"What do you mean?" he asked looking at her confused.
She handed it to him and he looked at it, the whole thing.
Elphaba,
The Wizard is forcing me to marry him! The guards won't let me out of their sights, and I think the ceremony is about to begin! Help!
Also, there's one more thing. He knows. He knows everything Elphie, and he has guards outside this very moment ready to attack. Please don't do anything irrational. Stay safe, be careful and well I hope to see you soon.
Glinda
Fiyero looked at it, then looked over at Elphaba who was looking nervously back at him.
Nicole
Nicole, who had been waiting for her next part, had been watching Elphaba instead of talking to the Idinas and G(a)lindas that had been scattered around the room – when in doubt stare at the most magical being in the room, right?
And so, in turn, she had seen expression after expression cross Elphaba's normally composed face – worry, a bit of hatred, worry, shock, worry, and then that cold façade again.
She was halfway across the room, weaving in between everybody, before she realized she couldn't just tell Elphaba that she had been staring at her. A smile crossed her face, and she stepped in between Kerry and Elise before reaching Elphaba.
"Hey, Elphie?"
"I don't like to be called Elphie." The witch hastily stuffed the letter back into her pocket. Out of the corner of her eye, Fiyero took a step back. The blonde girl – Nicmole? Nicoal? Nicole? Something like that – was standing in front of her, grinning.
"Okay, Fae. Phaba. Um… anyway, is there any way I could step outside and get a bit of fresh air? So many people are making me a bit-"
"You'll stay here until we're ready to leave."
"But I-"
"No buts."
"Why did you seem so worried a second ago while you were looking at the letter? I would say it was for Glinda's welfare, but you were hating, too. And seemed a bit shocked…"
"You were watching me?"
"Um, yah. When in doubt, watch-"
"The green girl?"
"The most threatening thing in the room." She blinked, and Elphaba couldn't help but smile. She was threatening?
"But that doesn't answer my question, why the unnatural worried?"
"You're worried?" The only other green woman in the room walked up to them as the finale came on – again. "Julie's rehearsing for me, I needed a break…"
"Yeah, I'm worried we can't pull this off."
"No, 'dina, it's more than that. Something's wrong… and it involves that stupid letter Glinda sent."
"What about the letter?" Kerry and Elise, who had somehow managed to piggy back herself onto the back of Kerry, appeared behind Nicole.
Nicole raised an eyebrow at Elphaba. "Peer pressure, peer pressure, peer pressure, peer pressure…"
"They know what we're doing and they've surrounded the walls, okay?" Elphaba whirled around and glared at her love.
"I was never good at handling pressure…"
"I see that." Eyes icy, she turned back, eyeing Nicole. "You meddle where you aren't needed, and now you're getting everybody unnecessarily worried."
"It's not my fault you think you can handle everything when you can barely handle a broomstick."
Elphaba's hand swung to connect to where Nicole's face had been a moment before.
Where was Nicole?
Looking down, she saw the flying monkey-human-Elise thing sitting on her chest. "I just saved you from a horrible slap. I hope you're happy."
"I hope you're happy now." Nicole grinned.
"I hope you're happy how you've hurt your cause forever…" Kaylee chimed in.
"I hope you think you're clever!" Idina laughed.
"I hope you're all happy… because we're surrounded by a bunch of Wizard's guards."
"Oh, the answer to getting out of this one is sooooo easy." Nicole's eyes sparkled as she propped herself up, playfully pushing Elise off of her chest. "All we have to do it…"
Elphaba glared at the girl as she started to explain her plan. Nobody had a right to be insane enough to taunt her…