A/N: Hope you guys enjoy!!
Nicole
"Oh, this really truly sucks,
this really truly sucks,
Glinda's married,
Elphie's gone,
This really truly sucks…"
"Nicole, shut up." Idina shot a glare at the girl who was singing under her breath before chewing on her lip. What to do, what to do…
"Anybody know where the he-wait a second." A smile was spreading rapidly over Tiana's face. "The Wizard made a mistake!"
"I what?" The man blinked from his spot next to his unwilling bride, turning to raise an eyebrow at the group of girls.
"Omigod, Ti, you're positively absolutely riiiiiiight!" Nicole beamed at the girl. "I caught on first, I win."
"Shut up, Nicole. Tiana, what are you talking about?" Ignoring the blonde girl's pout for being told to shut up twice in under ten seconds, Idina stared at Tiana.
"If I'm right, then it was with giving the title to Morrible. Right?" Allen smiled broadly, and suddenly Idina caught on.
"The Wizard, is it not right that it was Fiyero's father, the King, who died?"
"Died is one way to put it, but yes, and we were over that. Now, if you excuse me, I have a re-"
"And is it also true," Elise said, leaping up onto Idina's shoulder, "That, by common law, the King's heir is traditionally the one to take over, not the leader of a representative body?"
"What does this have to do with anything!?" Morrible's matter of fact statement caused them all to stay still for a minute.
"I shouldn't have had the sugar before I left, it's kicking in now," muttered Nicole as she took two steps closer to Morrible. "And I'm about to do something stupid."
"All of this legal jargon is amounting to the fact that you aren't the leader, Fiyero is. And, if I'm correct, which I believe I am, Fiyero would be voting for the annulment of the marriage, not for the marriage."
Elise wasn't there to save her from the slap from Morrible.
"Unfortunately for you, my dear, he didn't name a designated heir, so therefore, the kingdom is mine."
"It's not yours to rule." Nicole's head swung up, half of it decidedly red. "It's 'Yero's, because he's the only surviving heir right now, unless you're saying that a man younger than you gave birth to you. Heck, the oldest man alive couldn't have given birth to you. By the way, you hit like a baby." And her leg shot out and kicked the extremely large Madame Morrible in the shin before she turned and darted for the door.
"Got to go, Tiana, you know the lines of Shen Shen, Allen, care to dress up for the b… the thing following me?" Laughing, she darted out of the palace doors, Morrible close behind, already muttering under her breath.
"And now we lose another one, but… wait… since Morrible didn't argue, Fiyero, I guess you're King now?" Idina raised an eyebrow at the man – who seemed not to have heard a bit of the conversation.
Elphaba's pregnant!?
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"Uh, Fiyero?" Idina asked again when he didn't respond the first time.
Elphaba is pregnant? he asked himself again, but his thoughts were interupted by someone poking him in the side, "Ow- what?" he asked looking around. Oh yeah... Glinda.
"So Fiyero, since you're now the other ruling power in Oz, what do you say?" Tiana said smiling knowing what the answer will be.
He looked straight at the Wizard and took a step towards him. "Over my dead body," he said shaking his head.
All the cheers of the WoOers, actresses and monkeys were quickly cut off my the Wizard who said, "that was a bad thing to say," and he motioned to the guards to raise their weapons. "I am still the Wizard of Oz." His grip tightened on Glinda.
Glinda looked over at the Wizard with a perplexed look on her face, "Who cares?" she said, "majority rules, therefore, I am no longer married to you," and she took that ring off and threw it to who knows where. Glinda then took her free hand and slapped him for all that it was worth.
He turned back to face her with a hand on his cheek. "Don't you dare do that again young lady," and he hit her.
Annaleigh's mouth dropped open as she looked in shock to Glinda. Returning her gaze to the Wizard, she took a step forward. "You did not just do that," she said with a look in her eye so fierce that even the Wizard took a step back from the blonde, but before Annaleigh could say anything else they all disappeared, with Glinda, in a puff of green smoke.
They found themselves back on the stage of the Emerald City Theatre, all of them quite surprised but somewhat relieved at the turn of events.
Ellen looked around the room with a confused look on her face, "Where is Tiana and Mikayla?" she asked, "I thought they were with us?"
"Yeah.." Stephanie added taking a look around, "Chelsea and Lisa aren't here either."
"Oh they should be back soon," Elphaba said, whereupon they all looked to find her sitting, obviously in thought, in the middle of the theatre. "I sent them back to Earth to get all the needed props, costumes, and whatever else you guys use." she said.
"Speaking of which," Kristin said, cautiously taking a step forward, "Um, well how will we get costumes to fit us? Because, well I am somewhat smaller than most," she said nervously giggling.
Elphaba didn't respond. She seemed to be waiting for something.
"Oh!" Glinda suddenly exclaimed, "I can do that!" she said smiling. "You know I did learn a couple things at Shiz."
"If you could even call it a couple," Elphaba said mumbled under her breath so no one could hear her.
Suddenly, Mikayla, Tiana, Chelsea and Lisa appeared with a couple clothing racks, more make-up, a few boxes full of props, and the mechanical bubble. "Thank goodness this was your night off!" Mikayla said setting down a box full of witch hunting tools, "I think that's everything," she said smiling. "Well that better be everything," she muttered to herself.
Everybody was now grabbing clothes, trying things on, getting make-up on and resizing clothes. It was chaos up on stage. Especially with Allen, Fiyero and Taye trying to figure out how to hook the bubble out. After the mishap in the Emerald City they didn't want to risk anything during the performance with the one Elphaba conjured up.
Idina took a quick break from reapplying her green, for the second time today and went and sat down next to Elphaba. "Hi" she said quietly.
"What? Oh. Hey," Elphaba replied calmer than usual.
"You okay?" Idina asked eying her closely.
"Yeah, just a little stressed," she said motioning up to the stage. "How do you guys do this 8 times a week?"
Idina laughed, "crazy isn't it? But somehow we survive."
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Idina's and Elphaba's conversation was cut short when they heard the main theater doors quickly open and shut. Everyone looked over to see Carmen, Holli, Kaylee, and Elise out of breath, running towards the group on stage.
"Holli, Kaylee, are you guys alright?" Shoshana asked.
"Yea, we're fine, just no more elbowing for a couple weeks!" Kaylee laughed.
Carmen quickly interrupted the conversation, for she had important news, "I think the entire Emerald City is outside!" she exclaimed, "everyone is here to see the show!"
The group all began gossiping quietly, but everyone talking in unison caused an immense amount of noise, which quickly brought Elphaba to her wits end.
"QUIET!" she yelled, angered by the lack of focus.
"Elphaba, calm down," Fiyero said, walking towards her, "think of the baby," he added quietly as he placed his hand on her stomach.
"I'm fine," she insisted, getting the group together. "Okay everyone, is everything ready? Actors? Costumes? Good, get into your places. Carmen, let them in!"
Carmen swung the main front doors open and was nearly trampled by the crowd that quickly filed into the theater, trying to grab the best seats in the house. Within five minutes, all the seats in the theater were filled, and people were even standing in the back of the theater, ready to watch the free show.
While everyone was backstage getting ready, Tiana and Holli took the opportunity to peek through the curtain, sharing laughs about the hilarious outfits the citizens wore, specifically the large and outrageous hats, causing many of the audience to be unable to see around each other. But the two quickly became distracted as they heard heavy footprints running behind them, and turned to see Taye sprinting towards Elphaba.
"Um, Elphaba?" Taye approached her cautiously.
"What? Why aren't you in costume yet?!" Elphaba demanded.
"Well, we have a problem," he sighed.
"What now?" Elphaba sighed.
"Idina and Kristin are locked in their dressing room."
"Oh is that all?" Elphaba sighed. She walked back to where the main dressing room was, glared at Dorothy as she sat tied up in the backstage hallway, and stood in front of the doorway. Elphaba quickly chanted a spell she knew from memory, then tried the door. To her surprised, the door still wouldn't budge.
"Well that's strange," Elphaba wondered out loud, "that should have worked." She tried the spell again, but again met no luck. Elphaba sighed, "This door has been magically locked, probably Madame Morrible's doing."
"Oh no, what do we do?" Annaleigh gasped, having overheard the conversation as she passed in the hallway.
"Well, that key we used to rescue Idina, that key should work on any door in Oz. We just need the key, where is it?" Elphaba asked the group.
She was met with complete silence, with the exception of some muffled laughing. Elphaba went to find the source and found herself face-to-face with Dorothy Gale.
"What the hades did you do with our key?" Elphaba demanded.
"Elphaba Thropp!" Kerry yelled, "mouth!"
"Not now, this is important!" Elphaba retorted, and returned her attention to Dorothy. "If you want to keep those pigtails my pretty, you best tell me what you did with our key."
"Well," Dorothy sniggered, "to paraphrase you…you got me, but you forgot to get my little dog too."
Elphaba cursed again, having clearly figured out where the key had gone.
"Elphaba, mouth!" Kerry repeated.
"Sorry," Elphaba apologized this time, "but that dumb little dog has our key, and we can't start the show without it!"
Bark, bark, they heard behind them, and everyone turned to see a small dog with a key tied around his neck.
"Run Toto, run!" Dorothy yelled, and the dog immediately ran up the nearby flight of stairs.
"Get 'em!" Elphaba yelled, and most the group immediately followed after the dog.
It took nearly ten minutes for the group to locate the dog again, as he had somehow managed to climb onto one of the walkways situated high above the stage.
"Okay, let's corner him," Ellen suggested, and everyone nodded in unison. With that, Nicole approached Toto from one side of the walkway, Mikayla from the other, and with Elise hovering overhead. The walkway was quite unbalanced, as any movement caused the girls stop and regain their balance. Nicole tried to stand up, and nearly fell off the walkway, only able to stabilize herself with help from Elise. Mikayla saw that Toto was about to escape while Nicole was distracted, so she lunged at the dog with all her might.
"Gotcha!" she said triumphantly as she grabbed onto Toto, refusing to loosen her grip. However, she immediately felt the walkway start to tip, and she felt herself falling down towards the stage. She closed her eyes, waiting for the impact.
"Ahhhhhh, wha?" Mikayla exclaimed, as she noticed that she had not in fact hit the ground. She opened her eyes to find herself securely fastened inside a bubble that Glinda had instantaneously conjured. The bubble slowly floated down towards the ground, popping as she safely reached the floor.
"Phew, thanks Glinda!" Mikayla smiled, quickly handing the dog over to Elphaba. Grabbing the key that was hanging from his neck, Elphaba ran back to the dressing room and was successfully able to unlock the door.
"Thanks!" Idina exclaimed, "I was getting claustrophobic in there!"
"Yea, what happened?" Kristin asked.
"No time for questions, it's time for the show!" Allen exclaimed, "everyone needs to get in their places!"
Everyone quickly ran to their starting spots on the stage, and took a deep breath as the curtain started to rise.