Elphaba stared at the ceiling of her mother's office. A million questions that had no answer formed and died in her usually quick paced brain. Elphaba's head was beating so loud she was sure that her younger sister could hear her from her room on the other side of the house. She read the document again, still unable to produce suitable reaction,
By pledging to the honor and generosity of the King and Queen of Vinkus,
I, Melena Thropp, give my eldest daughter, Elphaba Thropp, to the use of the royal families eldest son, Fiyero.
By doing this, you give full permission to the eldest son to force her to obey and concede his wishes without hesitation.
This contract will start when your eldest daughter reaches the age of sixteen.
Signed,
King Karfen of Vinkus
The contract went into more extent before Elphaba had to stop reading it. The thing that had bothered her most through this whole emotional experience, was that it seemed like her mother had been fighting against the Vinkus royal family in order to get rid of her. Tears blotted Elphaba's eyes and she quickly wiped them away, knowing at any moment her father could open the door and see what a state his daughter was in.
Suddenly realizing something and quickly rereading the contract over again, Elphaba came to terms with the fact that the contact she was currently gripping in her hands bound her at the age of sixteen. Currently as a fifteen year old, it stressed her out because her birthday was more or less, a few days away.
Elphaba was flashed with a heat of anger because she knew she had been a horrible fool. Her real reason for going into this room had been for trying to put an end to a bickering argument her and her father got in every year around her birthday. Elphaba was trying to find her birth certificate. She knew her birth had been an unceremonious occasion for her parents and thus was not documented. But the small light at the end of the tunnel kept telling her to keep her glimmer of hope that her birth certificate was out there. Elphaba's hopeful adventure had started out pleasant, until the world came crashing down upon her in the form of balled up parchment with the news that would change and life or plans she had made for the future.
Her hopes and dreams of getting a proper education and meeting the Wizard were gone. Elphaba knew that and was stuck reaching for those dreams that now seemed to her, as far away as the stars.
A blank but hurt expression was clearly displayed on her face as Frex opened the door and tried to stand in front of his daughter ominously. Elphaba finally noticed him when she glanced up, her thinking trance temporarily broken. Before Frex could mutter one thing, his green daughter shoved the parchment in his hand that contained her deal and muttered,
"Fuck you," just loud enough for him to hear.
After glancing at the document that Falaba just shoved in his hands, Frex knew Melena had been stupid to do this. He couldn't admit to her or himself, but Frex knew he needed Elphaba more than he ever realized. He had to try to break this deal.
