Disclaimer: I don't own Sisters Grimm or Wicked. Sorry to disappoint.
The Wicked Witch of the East
I straightened, much more relaxed and I looked at Puck. He wasn't even looking at me. His eyes were still pitch black but he was flirting…with Fern. Witch! I looked at Daphne who had a hard look in her eyes.
"Curse her…" I urged. I don't know what made me say it. Something about this play was influencing me. Daphne's eyes darkened and she looked up at me.
"Sabrina…you don't know how much I want to curse her. But we're Grimms and it isn't done that way. We treat everyone with respect" Daphne said. I sighed and nodded. Daphne stowed her wand away and I smirked. She looked at me confused, oh the irony.
"You don't see it? You're a witch and you're witch in the show…I think. I don't think you really do any magic. Well you do that thing to Boq but…" I said, trailing off. Daphne was staring at me. I laughed quietly and I turned to Ms. Gravel.
"Are you two ready? The crowd is getting a little…restless" Ms. Gravel said. I looked at Daphne and we nodded together.
"Ready as we'll ever be…the Sisters Grimm" I said, smiling at Daphne. She nodded and she walked to her wheelchair and her boyfriend, Arthur…well, not really. I think… She went on stage and I slipped into the wardrobe on stage. Ms. Gravel stood on the other side of the curtain. Fern looked at Arthur and smiled, flirtatiously.
"Good luck, Arthur" she said, winking at him. Arthur turned red and Daphne stared at him in complete shock. He looked down at her and gave her a weak smile.
"Now is the scene featuring the two wicked witches or as you know them, the Sisters Grimm" announced Ms. Gravel. She moved out of the way and the curtain opened once again.
Arthur rolled Daphne forward in her elegant wheelchair as she sipped tea…
ARTHUR
(spoken) Will there be anything else, madame?
DAPHNE
(spoken) I've asked you to call me Nessarose.
Remember?
ARTHUR
Yes…madame (He walked away swiftly. This was a sad sight. Nessarose was in love with Boq who was in love with Glinda. And she enslaved him to try and get him to love her…pity)
DAPHNE
Boq! (She rolled around to stare at him and then rolled back to her previous position. She took out a mirror and started to smooth out her hair.)
SABRINA
(spoken) Wow…it seems the beautiful get more beautiful. (My face appeared in the mirror and Daphne shrieked…it was just a projection that was cleverly hidden)
While the green just get greener… (I opened the door and stepped out, my hands holding my cloak tight)
I'm sorry, did I scare you?
It seems I have that affect on people.
It's good to see you…
DAPHNE
What are you doing here? (I looked around, relishing the moments)
SABRINA
Well…there's no place like home (I crouched by Daphne who looked extremely impartial)
I never thought that I'd say this but I need father's help
I need him to stand with me
DAPHNE
That's impossible (Her voice was void of any emotion. She was good!)
SABRINA
No it's not!
Not if you ask him.
He'll do it for you, you know it!
DAPHNE
Father's dead! (She said it with such a harsh conviction I almost believed her. But I knew our father was in New York with my mother, raising Basil. They would come up when he was old enough to join us as a detective. I ripped my hand from hers)
SABRINA
What?
DAPHNE
He's dead.
I'm the governor now. (I got up and walked away from her but she wheeled after me)
Well, what did you expect?
After he'd heard what you done…
How you disgraced us! He died…
Of shame! (I looked at her in shock and turned away. She wheeled away from me, disgust on her face. I had to tell myself it wasn't real. But her face reminded me of the time I had stolen the key to the kazoo of the North Wind)
Embarrassed to death!
SABRINA
I'm glad…it's better that way. (I said it as coldly as I could but softly as well)
DAPHNE
That's…a WICKED thing to say! (She shouted so loudly that the audience were frozen)
SABRINA
It's true! Now it's just us. (I rushed over to her and knelt, her hands in my own)
You can help me. Together… (She yanked her hands away)
DAPHNE
Shut up! First of all!
I can't help a fugitive if I'm an unelected official! (Ominous and destructive music started)
And why should I help you?
Flying around Oz, trying to rescue Animals you've never even met!
And not once, did you ever think to use your powers to rescue me!
(SING) All of my life I depended on you! (This was starting to get to me…it was so true. I was backing up, scared)
How do you think that feels?
All of my life I depended on you!
In this hideous chair with wheels.
Scrounging for scraps of pity to pick up
And longing to kick my…
Heels (She looked angry at me and I looked down)
SABRINA
There isn't a spell for everything.
The power is mysterious.
It's not just like popping up a pair of… (I suddenly stopped like I had an idea and I took out the Grimmerie)
Ambulahn Dare Pahto Pahpoot (I could actually feel real magic coming from me and so could all the Everafters in the entire audience. They all stiffened as the actual silver shoes started to turn red. I swished my arms around and looked forward for a second. Puck was standing in the wing, staring at me. He could feel the magic radiating from me as well.)
Ambulahn Dasca Caldapess Lahfenahto
Lahfenahtum Pede Pede Caldapess
DAPHNE
What are you doing!
What does that mean? (She was screeching while I chanted the spell over again)
Oh! Oh! (She was screaming in real pain now. Pain that I didn't truly mean. She was surprised and everything she said was real)
My shoes! They feel like they're on fire! (I completed the chant for a third time and brought my hands in, cradling the magic before throwing my hand out. Real, invisible magic pulsed towards the shoes and they turned ruby. Daphne's foot was thrown out, clumsily and then the other. I lifted my hands up and she fell out of her seat. I leaned forward to catch her)
No! Don't help me. (She stood up, victoriously. But it wasn't her making her stand. It was the shoes…the shoes worked. I had just made another pair of Ruby Slippers…who gave me the real Grimmerie!)
Goodness!
SABRINA
Oh Nessa, at last…
(SUNG) I've done what long ago I should
And finally from these powers, something good…
Finally, something good (I sang softly. I looked up and saw Puck. His eyes were a strange silver color…I remember him telling me what that meant…love)
DAPHNE
Boq! Boq! Come quickly!
SABRINA
Boq?
DAPHNE
Boq! Come here at once! (She seemed really enthusiastic at calling Arthur. Too bad it seemed that he liked Fern…uh, oh. I groaned and Arthur ran out. She sat in her chair again)
ARTHUR
You! Stay back!
SABRINA
It's just me. I'm not going to hurt you
ARTHUR
You're lying! That's all you ever do.
You and your sister! (He sounded like he meant it and Daphne looked at him hurt. He looked scared…he had felt the magic coming from us. He knew who we were)
She's as wicked as you are!
DAPHNE
Boq! What are you talking about?
ARTHUR
I'm talking about my life!
Or all that's left of it!
No creature can leave Munchkinland!
None of us can!
Ever since she took power she's been stripping
Munchkins of all our rights.
Did we even have any to begin with? (Daphne looked truly distraught now. She had been kind of making him do whatever said. Now that I looked back on it it was truly awful)
DAPHNE
To keep you here with me! (He turned to look at her, confused. He didn't like her then…he'd been using her)
But none of that matters anymore!
Look! (She stood up and showed Arthur the enchanted shoes that I had just created. He looked shocked)
ARTHUR
You did this? For her?
DAPHNE
For both of us…
ARTHUR
Oh Nessa, this changes everything (He took her hands and she smiled…she didn't know what was happening next. She hadn't really read the script very well, just her lines…and she thought it was all real now…oh it was very real. Very real, indeed)
DAPHNE
I know. (She was excited now…)
ARTHUR
(SUNG) Oh, Nessa…
Surely now, I'll matter less to you
You won't mind my leaving tonight
DAPHNE
Leaving? (She knew he was being so very serious now…she was confused and since she was a witch…she'd really cast the spell on him!)
ARTHUR
(SUNG) Yes!
That ball that's being staged
Announcing Glinda is engaged to Fiyero. (Daphne knew that he wasn't speaking of Glinda…know he was speaking of Fern. And Puck. That they were so called 'dating'. Over my dead body they are…and Daphne's)
DAPHNE
Glinda? (She was distraught and she walked over to lean on the desk I was standing behind. I held her face up as tears began to stream down her beautiful face)
ARTHUR
(sung) Yes, Nessa, that's right.
I've got to go appeal to her.
Express the way I feel for her
(spoken) Oh Nessa, I lost my heart to Glinda
From the moment I first saw her.
You know that. (I looked up and into the wings. Puck was still staring at me but I could see Fern behind him. She looked like a hellbound porcelain doll…and I wanted to wring her neck! Daphne was in so much pain right now…Fern was smirking victoriously…she had known!)
DAPHNE
Lost you heart? (She was moving limply and she had a dark look on her face. The face when she was about to do something truly bad…her tattoos weren't blazing so she wouldn't use all her magic but should would use some…oh no…she turned around and looked at Boq, smiling darkly. The music turned darker as well)
(sung) Well we'll see about that.
Did you think that I'd let you leave me here flat? (Arthur knew he was in trouble as she stalked forward. He took out a pocket knife. Not the prop knife but a real one that he must carry when going home. Daphne stepped back)
ARTHUR
Don't come any closer! (He was scared…like he should be. He knew that Daphne was a witch and that I was a fairy and since I was a creature of magic, a witch as well…whoa, this play couldn't have been better casted! Wow! Ms. Gravel really knows how to pick 'em)
DAPHNE
(Sung) You're going to lose your heart to me
I tell you!
If I have to…I have to…magic spell you! (She got down and leaned over the Grimmerie. I saw a faint outline of her tattoo on her exposed hand but that was the only tattoo in sight. She was going to use real magic and so was I…and all the Everafters realized it. Puck stared in horror as she started to chant)
Ah Tum Core Tum…Ah Tum…Tah Tayk (She was pretty good at pronouncing…until she came to the end. She actually shrunk his heart a little)
SABRINA
Nessa, stop! It's dangerous. (I had to remind myself that I had to say in character. I almost called her Daphne…she pushed me away)
ARTHUR
What is she doing?
SABRINA
Stop! You're pronouncing it, all wrong!
ARTHUR
I'm warning you!
OWWW! (Daphne suddenly stopped, horrified…well, she wasn't. I could see the faint glimmer of a smirk on her face. She was partially horrified)
SABRINA
Nessa!
DAPHNE
What is it?
ARTHUR
My heart…it feels…it feels like it's shrunk…like it's shrinking
DAPHNE
Elphaba! Do something (She threw the book at me and I held it close. She knew what was possible and impossible when it came to magic. She didn't expect me to do anything but actually enchant him. She wanted me to punish him…and I was willing. I looked at Puck and his eyes were hard. He gave a slight nod…I was going to do it)
SABRINA
You can't reverse a spell once it's been cast. (I said it bluntly and simply. Fern looked at me in horror)
DAPHNE
Well! Then what will we do! (I rushed behind the wardrobe with Arthur wheezing. It would be more difficult to breath with a smaller heart)
This is all your fault! If you hadn't shown me
That horrendible book
SABRINA
Hush, with you!
I'll have to find another spell
It's the only thing that might work (She knew all to well. We were smirking at each other. I was trying to figure out which part of his body I would make steel. I probably shouldn't let him have children…no, I'll be gracious. Maybe his joints…that could work…)
DAPHNE
(Sung) Save him please, just save him
My poor Boq, my sweet, my brave him.
Don't leave 'til my sorry life has ceased
SABRINA
(Sung) Vivahlos Vivahlos Meno Non Cordo
Meno Vivahlos Vivahlos Meno Non Cordo (I was singing softly so people could here both Daphne and I sing. I sung the melody We sounded amazing together…just as good as that evil blonde witch and I, unfortunately…uh oh, I just acted as if I wasn't blonde…maybe I should stop thinking like Elphaba)
DAPHNE
(Sung) Alone and loveless here
Just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me, the Wicked Witch of the East ( She held her hands out and everybody could see she looked almost thrilled to be wicked…like me)
We deserve each other
SABRINA
I am finished…
DAPHNE
What about his heart? (If I didn't know my sister I would've thought that she was concerned. That isn't the case. She did this…well not only her. She and I with some insight from Puck…I miss him but according to Daphne I need to wait until my favorite scene)
SABRINA
It's alright…he won't need one now
I have to go to the Emerald City right away.
What happens to the monkeys is now my fault.
I'm going to set them free
DAPHNE
You're not going back to save some monkeys (She was looking at me, smiling…she was doing this to get a point to across. Not to me but to Puck and Fern and Arthur)
You're going to find Fiyero!
But it's too late… (That was only a line. We both knew that it wasn't. My soulmate…not that evil blonde b…witch)
Elphaba! Please don't leave me! (She hung on to me and I didn't cringe)
SABRINA
I've done everything I could for you.
And it hasn't been enough.
And nothing will ever be (I stalked off stage and look into Puck's silver eyes. I walked right past and sneered at Fern. She looked slightly frightened)
DAPHNE
Elphaba! Wait! ELPHABA!
ARTHUR
Where am I? What happened?
DAPHNE
Nothing… (We both knew what happened…she didn't know what part I had enchanted however. Arthur got up and they played squeaking hinges over the sound system but part of it was his. She screamed)
ARTHUR
What is it?
What's wrong?
DAPHNE
It wasn't me! It was her! (He screamed at his rusty hinges and I was laughing quietly. Fern stared in horror at what Daphne and I had done)
It was Elphaba, Boq!
IT WAS ELPHABA! (Arthur ran as fast as he could. Good thing he's related to an Everafter or he wouldn't know what happened. Too bad that our magic can't be reversed…except by maybe the Blue Fairy and what's the chances of him finding her?)
The curtains closed and there was a roar of applause. Daphne stalked over to Arthur and Fern. Arthur was cowering behind Fern now.
"You! You turned my joints in hinges! Into metal hinges! Turn it back!" Arthur shouted. Daphne and I cackled together. Puck looked at us, worried at what we were becoming.
"Don't you remember, Arthur? Once a spell has been cast it can't be reversed! You're stuck…serves you right for stringing me along. Nobody makes a fool out of the Wicked Witch of the East" Daphne hissed. The Wand of Merlin was in her hand and it was held out. I grabbed her arm and held her down.
"Now, Granny and our parents wouldn't be very happy about this, would they?" I asked. Daphne lowered her hand and smirked.
"No…they would die…in shame just like poor Frex, our 'father' did" Daphne snickered. I cackled along with her and turned to Puck.
"You…leave. I'd like to speak with Fern" I said. He looked at me and sneered. His eyes were still silver though and I don't think he even realized it.
"Whatever, Grimm" he sneered. He stalked away and I glared at Fern. She looked cool and smirked.
"I was wondering…who supplied you with the Grimmerie. I mean it musn't have been too hard to get Glinda to give it to you. But why give it to me, a fairy with a witch for a sister? You must've known what this play would've done to us. It would've made what we really are come out…but you didn't think I could read it did you? Well let me tell you. I'm not a creature wielding magic. I'm a creature of magic just as my sister is a creature of magic. We don't wield magic. We are it. And let me tell you something…stay away Puck if you know what's good for you or we'll show you what we truly are. What happened on stage was only the beginning" I hissed. She staggered backwards at the raw power in my voice.
"If you must know, my sister actually did make the dancers move uncontrollably at first. She didn't know but she did. You're dealing with the wrong people. And you! For stringing me along I shrunk your heart and my sister made your joints hinges…I don't really thinks he meant to but she did!" Daphne said. Fern was glaring at me angrily.
"Then what are you truly?" Fern demanded. Daphne and I looked at each other and smiled.
"Wicked…" we whispered.