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Chapter 4: The Grapedore Vaults

Elphaba and Glinda arrived at Grapedore, the home of Magnus de Capo. His house is located is near the borders of Oz and the Badlands. His house is big and it is made entirely made of glass with a great view of Emerald City. When the two entered the house, they find de Capo sitting on the couch eating cherries while reading his company's newspaper. de Capo saw them and was delighted that they're in his home. He ordered his guards to leave so they talk privately. "Welcome, would you like a drink from one of my personal champagne collection." he offered.

"Don't start with the gentleman's manner on us." Elphaba said.

"You knew, it is very hard to find your pressure points. The drugs thing, I never believed at the moment."

"It took months of undercover in the Emerald City slums just to trick you."

"Wait you were?" Glinda asked.

"Ah so you knew about me before I came to take a piss at your home."

"Of course I have. I've always read your magazines since the day it started and I ask how you get everyone's information." de Capo chuckled which didn't please Elphaba. "You're press strategy is worse than the Wizard's press secretary. You're lucky that you didn't got a hold of Glinda."

"Of course I won't blackmail her. She has too many perfect records. My visits to her are mostly working my way up to her staff just so I can get a hold of their secrets. But now, I've got something from Mrs. Glinda's damsel in distress that so juicy than her staff's personal secrets."

Glinda then walked closer to de Capo with a really angry face. "You have used me, just so you can get personal gain! Why don't you murder me then?!" Glinda shouted

"I'm not murderer, Mrs. Glinda, unlike your husband. Let me explain why you're all here. You see, after Lady Locasta Udent has stepped after I 'suggested' it to her, newcomer Nessarose Thropp has become the smartest person on Glinda's staff. She knew about my blackmailing technique which would ruin me forever. But her sister Elphaba over has given me her sister's files containing, but under one condition."

"Then what is it?" Glinda asked.

"To give us the files on Boq and never bothered you or him again." Elphaba replied.

"That is correct. And Nessarose's pressure point is her sister Elphaba, Elphaba's greatest pressure point is her best friend Glinda, and Glinda's pressure point is her family, but mostly her husband Boq. I own Glinda's husband, I own Nessarose. She and her files are what I'm getting for Lurlinemas."

"It's an exchange, not a gift." Elphaba said in an annoyed tone as she gave her Nessarose's files to de Capo.

de Capo got the files and felt something strange about it. "Forgive me but, it seems to be missing something." he said.

"You mean the personal files on Nessa herself. In return of the files, you will relinquish the files of the man known as Boq Merrill to us."

"Oh he is really interesting. So many dead people. You should have seen what I've seen."

"I don't want to see it." Glinda said.

"We'll you might enjoy it though. I enjoyed it."

"Then why don't you show us." Elphaba sarcastically said.

"Show you Grapedore, my secret vaults? Is that what you want?"

"I want everything you got on Boq." de Capo chuckled and Glinda and Elphaba were worried about what he's going to do.

"You know, I honestly expect something good."

"Oh I think you find the contents of that folder…"

"Including the tracking device she installed in here." de Capo opened the folder and showed them a tracking device with it which surprised Elphaba. "I guess I was wrong, your sister is way smarter than me. BUt that doesn't matter, I got what I needed and I'll just blackmail her like all the rest. By now your sister the theft, don't you Elphaba. She will call every armed forces all around the house. When they arrive, they will look at my vaults, then I'll be imprisoned. You, on the other hand. will be blamed. And Ms. Glinda go back solving crimes on Mr. and Mrs. Psychopath on her smelly old castle. Nessarose has been looking at this opportunity for a very long time. She will be a very proud little sister."

"The fact that you know what's going to happen isn't going to stop your plan."

"Then why am I smiling? Go on, ask me."

"Alright um… Why are you smiling?" Glinda asked.

"Because Elphaba Thropp has made one very, enormous mistake that will ruin the lives of everyone she knows. Let me show you the Grapedore Vaults. The entrance to the vaults is right in front of us." de Capo got up and approached to the door. When he opens the entrance, all Elphaba and Glinda could see is just a white room with nothing but a chair.

"So where are the vaults?" Glinda asked.

"Vaults? What vaults? There is no vaults under this building. The vaults are in right here." de Capo pointed his head and Elphaba knows what he meant, which made her worried. He then sat and began explaining about his "vaults". "The Grapedore Vaults are in my mind palace. You know about mind palace, don't you Elphaba? How to store information so you would never forget, by picturing it. I just sit here, I close my eyes and down I go to my vaults. I can go into anywhere inside my vaults, my memories." In de Capo's Mind Palace, de Capo wonders around a place that looks like library until he goes to a cabinet with files in them. "I'll look on the files on Boq Merrill." In the real world, de Capo is pretending to look at the files with eyes still closed, which makes Glinda laugh. "Mmm, this is one of my favorites. Oh this is exciting." he said as he got a files with a picture of Boq in his mind palace and pretending to flip it like a book in the white room. "Oh joined the OZA at the age of eight. Those whack jobs for them. Oooh, he's gone into an assassin for hire now. Attended Shiz University so he would assassinate some sort of fish lady. Oh this is an interesting one here. When he was tin, he was technically hired by the Wizard to kill Elphaba in exchange for a heart." Elphaba clutches her hands out of anger when de Capo mentioned the last part. "Oh he is really devious. I could see why you like him, Ms. Glinda." He said as he put the files back and return to the real world. "You see. That is my Grapdore Vaults."

"So there are no documents? You don't actually have anything here?" Glinda asked.

"Oh I send out for something if i really need it but mostly I remember it all."

"I don't understand."

"You should have it on a t-shirt." de Capo mocked

"You remember it all?"

"It's all about knowledge, everything is. Knowing is owning."

"But if you just own it then you don't have any proof."

"Proof, why would I need any proof? I'm in the press you moron. I don't have to prove it, I just print. Which makes this one of the reasons why you can't have me arrested, Ms. Glinda. And speaking of news, Ms. Elphaba will be heavily featured tomorrow, stealing state secrets to me. And Ms. Glinda will also be featured as an accomplice. Let's go outside. Elphaba's little sister will be here shortly."

The three went outside at sunset and waited for Nessarose to arrive. "Elphie, do we have plan?" Glinda asked, but Elphaba didn't spoke.

"Taking their time aren't they?" de Capo said.

"I still don't understand?"

"And there's the back of the t-shirt."

"You just know things, how does that work?"

"I just love your child-like doubt on your face. I like to flick it. Bring it over here a minute. Come on. For Boq. Can I flick you in the eye?"

"Elphie?" she asked, but Elphaba just nodded to her. Glinda went close to de Capo and he flick her eye, which he enjoys it.

"Hear me out, Glinda. I know who Boq hurt and killed. I know where to find people who hate him. I know where they live. I have their phone numbers. I will call them right now and tear you whole life down. And I will." de Capo said as he continue to flick Glinda

Just then the entire Oz armed forces arrived at Grapedore with Nessarose out front. "Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland Merrill. Please step away from that man." Nessarose said through the megaphones.

"So, the Grapedore vaults only exist in your mind, nowhere else, just there?" Glinda asked.

"Now you got it." de Capo said.

"Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland Merrill. Step away. Do it now." Nessarose continued speaking as soldiers are coming in closer to the three of them.

"It's okay they're harmless." de Capo told them.

"Elphie what do we do now?!" Glinda shouted.

"Nothing my dears!" de Capo shouted at them, "There's nothing you could do. I'm no villain, I'm just a businessman acquiring assets. Even if your wicked friend just stays silent for the next hour, she will never be a hero."

"Oh, do you research!" Elphaba finally spoke and approached to de Capo. "I'm not a hero. And I'm certainly not WICKED! HAPPY LURLINEMAS!" she shouted at him. Elphaba then hold out a pistol she took from Glinda and instantly killed de Capo through the abdomen. Nessarose and Glinda saw this and they were shock over what Elphaba just did. "Get away from me Glinda, stay well back!" Elphaba shouted at her.

"OZ ELPHABA!" Glinda shouted.

Nessarose told them not fire at Elphaba, but they stand fire at her with Elphaba putting her hands up in the air. "Give my love to Boq. Tell him he's safe." Elphaba told Glinda.

"Oh Elphaba, What have you done?" Nessarose softly said to herself in a disappointing tone. Nessarose could still see Elphaba, but she could only see an eleven year old Elphaba crying.

Nessarose is seated in her wheelchair looking at the window while she's in a meeting with all of Oz's leaders, except Glinda, to determine the fate of Elphaba Thropp. "As my colleague is remarking, Oz sometimes needs a blunt instrument. Equally it needs a scalpel without remorse. There is always a time when we need an Elphaba Thropp." Nessarose said to the other leaders of Oz.

"Madame Nessarose, if this is some expression of familial sentiment-" the Quadling prince said.

"Don't be absurd. I'm not give to outbursts of sisterly compassion." Nessarose said to him, "We must never punish her like the Wizard did two years ago. There is no prison that would hold Elphaba Thropp without causing a daily riot, but she won't survive if we send her to the Southstairs. We all know why Elphaba did it, to protect love ones. And all of you in this room won't pretend that Magnus de Capo didn't blackmail all of us. Isn't that right, Lady Locasta." Nessarose said to Lady Locasta who is attending the meeting.

"I'm suppose you're right, Nessarose." Lady Locasta said.

"Regrettably, my sister's a murderer, but for good reasons."

Elphaba and Nessarose are standing on the field with a machine that Ozians call it an airplane behind them. The two are waiting for Glinda and Boq, who arrived by carriage and the two were happy to see Elphaba. "You look after her won't you?" Elphaba playfully told Boq as he hugged her.

"Oh don't worry I will." Boq replied. As Boq stopped hugging her, Elphaba turned her attention to Nessarose to make one last request. "Since this is likely to be my last conversation with Glinda the Good, would you like me to say my last vows to her." Elphaba told Nessarose which she agreed. Boq, Nessarose and her entourage walked a steps back to let Elphaba and Glinda speak. "So here we are. Elphaba Elsa Nancy Thropp." she said.

"Sorry?" Glinda asked

"That's my full name. Elsa was suggested by mother and Nancy came from my nanny. I'm saying this because you might be looking for baby names and I wanted to keep this a secret, but, you're pregnant."

"Really Elphie?! How did you know?"

"Well you showed some symptoms over the past months and I just wanted to tell you by the time you're ready. I say that you're 3 months pregnant."

"Don't worry, if it's a girl, I'm just gonna name her Elphie since I like calling you. But I'm pretty sure it's a boy."

"Oh, okay. Uhh… Sorry I can't think of something after that."

"Yeah neither can I. But I'll say this. The game is over."

"The game is never over Elphaba. But there maybe some old or new players. It's okay. The West Wind takes us all in the end."

"What's that?"

"Oh it's just a story my father used to tell me from one of his sermons just to scare me. The West Wind is a terrifying force that lays waste to all in its path. Seeks out and plucks the unworthy out of the world. But I never believe it."

"So what about you? Where are you actually going?"

"Oh just some undercover work outside of Oz. But at least I told you I'm leaving unlike last time and Fiyero won't be with me."

"For how long?"

"Six months, Nessa estimates. She's never wrong."

"And then what?"

"Who knows?" Elphaba said while trying to hold back her tears, "But if this is the last we will meet again, let me say this. Glinda Upland Merrill, you have been a very good friend for half a year. Since I started doing detective work, I've been acting like an obnoxious asshole to everyone including my clients. But with you joining me, you made me see some light in some people. Because you were there, I've been change for good, again."

Glinda and Elphaba had tearful hug and Elphaba then went inside the plane. Glinda and Boq hold hands as the plane went into the sky. Elphaba looks out the window waiting for her next adventure.

Epilogue

Fiyero is at his office at the Gale Force headquarters relaxing with a newspaper in his hand and the radio turned on. Suddenly, he heard static and then heard a voice that keeps repeating the same thing: "Did you miss me?". But it's not just Fiyero's radio, it is happening all of Oz. Lady Locasta and the Quadling prince are still in the meeting room and she heard it also. "How is this possible?" she asked to the Quadling prince.

"We don't know, but every stations reported that it's broadcast in every section in Oz simultaneously. It is also reported that every theatre in Oz is projecting the person who's saying the same thing as the radio." the Quadling prince said.

"Has Glinda been notified? And Nessarose?"

Back in the field, one of Nessarose's entourage gave her a letter from a mysterious sender. She opened it and was shocked about what the letter said. Nessarose then received a phone call from Lady Locasta explaining what is happening to Oz. "That's not possible." Nessarose said to the phone which Glinda and Boq could her.

"What happened?" Glinda asked.

Elphaba is still looking at the window as the plane is flying. A servant then gave Elphaba are wireless phone that is ringing and answered the phone. "Hello?" she asked.

"Hello, Fabala, how is exile?" Nessarose said to Elphaba through the phone in her carriage.

"I've only been gone for four minutes."

"Well I certainly hope you learned your lesson. As it turns out, you're needed."

"Oh make up your mind. Who needs me this time?"

Nessarose looked at the letter again which is revealed to be a picture Madame Morrible smiling with the words "Did you miss me?" written next to it. The mysterious voice that is broadcast all over is revealed that Morrible has announced that she has returned to Oz. "Oz needs you." Nessarose replied.

"But she's dead, I mean you told me that she was dead, Madame Morrible." Boq said to Glinda.

"Absolutely, died in prison from natural causes." Glinda said.

"So how can she be back?"

"I don't know but she used magic to fake her death. But if she is, she'd better wrap up." Glinda and Boq then saw the plane with Elphaba in it has returned to Oz. "There's a West Wind coming."

Well that's the end of the story. Review on how it went.