AN: I want to thank ComingAndGoingByBubble and xXStefyXx for reviewing! ... Especially since no one else did. I have to admit, I was slightly disappointed at that. Just wondering what caused it... Everyone busy? Don't like the story? Don't like the Wicked/Glee crossover? Or am I just too impatient? :P (That's very well possible, too, so if that's the case... sorry :3.) Anyway, any readers out there, please review - just to let me know you're reading this and I'm not sending it off into the void ^^.

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Chapter 2.

The Glee kids understood that Mr. Schue needed some time to let this sink in, but they really wanted to get to know the three Ozians and so they stayed in the auditorium a little while longer to talk. Glinda got along really well with the Cheerios – Quinn, Santana and Brittany liked the perky blonde, and they talked about clothes and make-up all the time. Fiyero was getting acquainted with the guys and Elphaba found herself rather liking Kurt and Mercedes. 'Seriously,' Kurt said, his words accompanied by large gestures, 'you have been like my role model my entire life long. I still can't believe you're real.'

'So everything that happens in the musical… happened to you?' asked Mercedes. 'Like… everything?'

Elphaba shrugged. 'I don't know what happens in the musical, so ask ahead and we'll find out.'

'You were born green?'

'Obviously. I didn't make myself green,' she said sarcastically. 'I'd much rather not be, really.'

'Right. Stupid question,' Kurt quickly interrupted. 'You and Galinda loathed each other at first, but then you became best friends because of something to do with a dance at the OzDust Ballroom and a hideous hat.'

'My hat is not hideous!' Elphaba protested, one hand flying to her head. Mercedes gave Kurt a pointed look. 'Well done, Kurt.'

'Are you and Fiyero in love?' Tina asked. Elphaba nodded. 'But he was engaged to Glinda first, right?' Mike added to the question, and Elphaba nodded again. 'Yes, that's true.'

'Is it true that your mother died because she chewed milk flowers so that your sister wouldn't come out green?' Mercedes asked softly, and a pained look flashed across Elphaba's face. It still stung to think about her sister and she much rather didn't. 'That's true, but I really don't want to talk about that,' she said quietly. The Glee kids understood that and continued questioning her for a while longer.

After a while, she excused herself and sat down in the back of the auditorium by herself, needing some space. That space was not given to her, however, because she had only been sitting there for a minute before the girl with the brown hair and eyes, Rachel Berry, sat down next to her. 'Elphaba?'

The green girl looked to the side, lost in thought. 'Hmm?'

Rachel hesitated for a moment, then decided to tell the truth. 'I just wanted to say… I'm sorry about being bitchy to you earlier, and that I didn't believe you,' she said. Elphaba smiled. 'Oh, don't worry about it. No one believed us at first. It is rather hard to believe, especially when you're from a world without any magic in it.' She looked at Rachel. 'There really isn't any magic here? None at all?'

Rachel shook her head. 'Neither are there Animals. Only animals.'

'Huh.' Elphaba rested her chin in her hands and stared off into the distance again. 'That sounds… strange.'

'I also wanted to say…' Rachel faltered for a moment. 'I… um… I just want you to know that Wicked has been one of my favourite musicals for years. It has always been my dream to be playing Elphaba on Broadway one day. Not just because it's an amazing part and the songs are so beautiful and would fit my voice really well,' Elphaba rolled her eyes at that, but Rachel didn't see it, 'but also because I admire Elphaba's character so much. She's so strong and independent, and even though she's green, she's beautiful in her own way. Nearly everyone turns against her and she never had the life that she deserved, yet she finds love and friendship and she always keeps her head up – well, except perhaps during 'No Good Deed', but who can blame her? If I thought I just lost Finn, I'd give up, too. But… I guess what I mean to say is that I really admire you, and I think you're pretty amazing.'

Elphaba smiled at the girl next to her, surprised. 'Thank you. Very much. You have no idea how much that means to me.'

Rachel smiled, too – a radiant smile, like Glinda's, that lit up the entire room. 'So… Are you going to play the parts?'

Elphaba sighed. 'I don't know, Rachel. I'm not an actor, or a singer. I'm just… me.'

'I'm sure you can act, and we already know that your singing is simply amazing,' Rachel stated. 'Would you perform 'As Long As You're Mine' with Fiyero? Please? I'd love to see you do it.'

Elphaba shifted uncomfortably. 'I'm sorry, Rachel, but… No. I'm not really comfortable with that,' she admitted. 'To you, it's just a nice song in a musical, but to me… That night actually happened to me, and though it was wonderful, it was also private, and I'd really like to keep it that way.'

Rachel nodded, just the tiniest bit disappointed. 'I understand, I guess. But if you don't want to perform all those songs, how can you ever play the part in the musical?'

'Hmm… I don't think I will,' Elphaba said finally. 'I don't like being in the spotlights, and I'd feel bad about taking away your chance to shine. You are all amazing singers yourself, for what I have heard so far anyway, and you do love the spotlights. But perhaps…' Her face lit up when she had an idea. 'Perhaps we could coach you?'

'Coach us?' Rachel repeated. Elphaba nodded enthusiastically. 'Yes! We'll have auditions and pick out the right people to play the right parts, and then Fiyero, Glinda and I can coach you guys so that you perform the story as truthful and as well as you possibly can. Does that sound at all like a good idea to you?'

Rachel squealed very Glinda-like. 'That sounds like a fantastic idea! Let's go tell the others!'

Although Glinda was slightly disappointed when she heard she wouldn't be part of the musical, they all agreed it was a good idea. They would talk to Mr. Schue about it the next day. Meanwhile, Rachel offered for Glinda and Elphaba to spend the night at her house – 'Kurt, Mercedes, why don't you come as well? That way we can have a pyjama party!' – and Finn told Fiyero that he could stay with him for the night if he wanted to. They all accepted the offers gratefully and they agreed that Finn, Mercedes and Artie would go talk to Mr. Schue the next day to calm him down a little and convince him of the fact that Elphaba, Fiyero and Glinda were real and that they had to help them get back to Oz.

The pyjama party at Rachel's turned out to be a lot of fun. Mercedes and Kurt brought their own pyjamas, but Glinda and Elphaba had to borrow everything from Rachel. The pyjamas were all flannel and pink, which Glinda found wonderful while Elphaba did not, but she didn't really have a choice; she wasn't planning on sleeping in her clothes. Mercedes and Kurt came over not too long thereafter and they all sat together on Rachel's large, pink and fluffy bed to talk.

'I love the 'Popular' scene in the musical,' Rachel told Glinda. She was sitting at the head of her bed, legs crossed. She looked at Elphaba, who was lying on her stomach on the bed, flipping through a book. 'And just so you know: I agree that pink looks good with green. You should wear that flower in your hair more often.'

Glinda squealed with happiness and Elphaba grumbled. 'Please don't encourage her.'

'Well I'm really sorry, honey, but you have to admit that you really needed that makeover,' Kurt told her almost apologetically. 'The glasses, the braid and the clothes were really not done.'

'See! I told you!' Glinda said, jumping up and down on the bed, causing everyone else to sway slightly. 'I'm not the only one who thinks so!'

'I love the way you look in the second act, though,' Mercedes told Elphaba. 'The dress you wear there it simply amazing, and your entire appearance just breathes your personality, how strong you are. I really love that.'

'Not to mention that you look so much better with your hair down,' Rachel said, her eyes lighting up when she had an idea. 'Ooh, can I please do your hair?'

'Sure,' Elphaba agreed wearily and Rachel squealed and ran off to fetch a hairbrush and some ribbons and hair pins.

The rest of the pyjama party carried on in that same fashion and by the time they got up to go to school the next morning, they were nearly best friends. Fiyero turned out to get along well with Finn and his friends, too, and so they were a happy group all together.

They waited anxiously for Finn, Mercedes and Artie to return from their talk with Mr. Schue and when they did, they informed the other that their Glee club teacher was still pretty shaken, but that he believed them and he had liked their plan. They would start the auditions that same day.

Everyone immediately signed up for their favourite roles. Elphaba, Glinda and Fiyero would be judging the Glee kids, along with Artie, who was co-directing the play, and Mr. Schue, who had recovered well enough from his shock to join them and direct the musical as he had originally meant to do.

First up was Santana. 'My name is Santana Lopez and I'll be auditioning for the role of Madame Morrible, because I love evil women,' she announced. Kurt, from behind the scenes, sniggered. 'Suits you well.'

Santana shot him a look. 'Shut up, Lady Hummel.' She played the part perfectly and Elphaba felt actual shivers run down her spine at the resemblance Santana held with Morrible. 'She's perfect for this part.'

The others agreed and they took notes. The Glee kids all auditioned and the judges agreed on almost everyone. Rachel turned out to be a perfect Elphaba – when she dropped the snobbish attitude, Elphaba concluded, it was almost as if she was looking in a mirror. Rachel was very convincing and they all applauded loudly at her performance of 'The Wizard and I'. Finn would join her as Fiyero, which they were both very happy about, and they decided that Sam would make a nice Wizard. Frex would be played by Joe and Melena by Brittany. Quinn, being the tragically beautiful girl she was, was cast as Nessarose.

They had a hard time deciding on who would be playing Glinda, though. Kurt really wanted the part and they all agreed that he somehow managed to pull it off really well, they weren't sure whether they could allow a guy to play a girl's part. They decided to make him sing 'For Good' with Rachel and when he succeeded in blowing them all away, they agreed that he would make a fantastic Glinda, even though Glinda herself wasn't really sure she was okay with this.

They decided Blaine would play the part of Boq, which left Mercedes, Mike, Tina, Sugar and the others to play the Shiz students and the Ozians, which they didn't mind at all, 'As long as I get at least one solo line,' Mercedes warned.

And so they got started. Mike and Mr. Schue gave them all dancing lessons, along with Glinda and Fiyero. The latter was having quite a hard time in teaching Finn how to 'Dance Through Life' in tight pants. 'Dude!' he exclaimed after a while. 'Just ignore how tight the pants are and dance! You look like a string puppet!'

'I can't help it!' Finn protested. 'I don't see how you can even move in these, let alone dance in them! Can't I just dance through life wearing normal pants?'

'No, you can't,' Mr. Schue told him sternly. 'Fiyero wears tight pants during that song and so you have to wear them too.'

Finn glared at Fiyero. 'Why did you have to wear those?'

Fiyero merely rolled his eyes.

Meanwhile, Glinda was teaching Kurt how to act like her. 'Just put on the wig,' she told him sternly, 'and toss the hair. Toss toss.'

'Toss toss,' he tried. She snorted. 'That was even worse than Elphie's first 'toss toss'. And believe me, that says something.'

Kurt scowled at her. 'Hey, I'm not used to having long hair!'

'Well, get used to it. Again. Toss toss. Lift the hands, shake the head, toss the curls over your shoulder. Toss toss. Got it?'

'Got it,' he said, but Glinda made him do it five more times before she was even remotely satisfied. 'We'll work on that later. Now sing with me. Pretend I'm Elphaba and do you Popular tricks on me.'

He jumped on the bed behind her, eager to impress her with his Galinda impression. 'Don't be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialysis! Now that I've chosen to become a pal,' here he swung his arm around Glinda's chest, as Galinda did in the musical with Elphie, 'a sister and-'

'Don't touch the breasts!' Glinda screeched, pulling away and turning around to stare daggers at him. Kurt looked at her in confusion. 'What?'

'You're supposed to swing your arm around Elphie's neck, not her breasts! That would give people bad, bad ideas, not to mention Rachel will feel sexually harassed when you do that to her,' she told him sternly. 'No breast touching. Ever. Girls don't do that to one another.'

'I wasn't touching your…'

'Yes you were. They were my breasts, I should know whether you were touching them or not. Let's try that again, only less inappropriate this time, okay?'

Fortunately, things were going a lot better with Elphaba and Rachel. The two girls had really grown close since yesterday and Elphaba was giving Rachel tips about how to act like her. 'Shall we do a method acting exercise?' she proposed.

'Doesn't that mean that I just pretend to be you, even outside the acting environment?' Rachel asked. Elphaba nodded. 'Something like that. I took Drama classes in my first year at Shiz, and my teacher taught us about method acting. We're just going to have a conversation now, I'm going to ask you questions or tell you things you are supposed to respond to, and you're going to try to think like me and react like me. Okay?'

Rachel nodded. 'Got it.'

'Perfect.' Elphaba cleared her throat and managed to choke out a very Galinda-worthy squeal. 'Oh, Elphie!' she squeaked, notching her voice up at least two octaves. 'Please let me give you a makeover!'

Rachel scowled at her. 'No, thank you very much.'

'But Elphie!' Elphaba protested, secretly impressing Rachel with her perfect impression of the bubbly blonde. 'You look so dreary! You can't go to a dance like this!'

'I don't plan on going to dances, Galinda. I don't like dances,' Rachel told her. Elphaba nodded. 'What's your favourite thing to do in your spare time?'

'Reading,' Rachel answered immediately.

'But that's so boring!' Elphaba whined in a Galinda-voice. Rachel shrugged and pretended to read a book. 'I like reading.'

Elphaba fell silent and started staring at Rachel with wide eyes, horror written all over her face. Rachel looked at her in concern. 'Elphaba? Is something wrong?'

'You just broke character,' Elphaba told her, smiling slightly. 'The horrified look was part of the exercise. That's the look people usually direct at me when they first see me.'

'Oh.' Rachel blushed a little. 'I'm sorry.'

'Don't be. Let's just carry on, okay?' Elphaba started staring again and Rachel looked at her innocently. 'What are you looking at? Is there something in my teeth?' she asked, before breaking character again to ask, 'Did you really say that on your first day at Shiz?'

Elphaba chuckled. 'Yes. I did. I've said it many times before, too. The funniest time was when I used it on a man in a café who was staring at me and he actually answered with 'Yes, I believe there's some spinach stuck in your teeth'. Turned out to be true, too.'

Rachel laughed at that. 'I can totally see that happen.' She grew serious again. 'Don't you ever get tired of people treating you like that only because you are green?'

Elphaba shrugged. 'It really used to bug me, but it doesn't anymore. The 'Wicked Witch'-business still does, though. I know I'm not wicked, and everyone that matters to me knows, too, but it still hurts to see an entire country celebrate your supposed death, only because of a green skin and a few mistakes in the past.'

Rachel's eyes widened. 'For real? That actually happened?'

Elphaba nodded. 'Just as it did in the musical,' she smirked. 'Only, obviously, Glinda knows we're alive. We're her secret friends. Fiyero's parents know, too – we live with them in their castle in the Vinkus. It's hard, hiding all the time, but it's necessary. And I have Fiyero and Glinda. That's really all that matters.'

Rachel hugged the green girl suddenly. 'Oh, Elphaba, I'm so sorry!'

Elphaba waved her away. 'Oh, don't be! Although,' she smirked, 'perhaps I'll just stay in this world, with you guys. No one here thinks I'm wicked and with you guys already liking me, I'll have more friends than I've ever had in my entire life.' She was only half joking. Now that the words had left her mouth, she actually started to seriously consider the idea. Would it really be so bad to stay here? But no, she finally decided. She couldn't do that to Glinda and Fiyero. Glinda would miss Oz, and Fiyero his parents… she had no right to take that away from them for her own selfish reasons.

Instead, she shook her head and directed her attention back to Rachel. 'Let's practice some more.'

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