AN: Whoa, it's been a while, hasn't it? (For my doing, anyway.) Haven't had much inspiration for this, been busy with a few oneshots and Yero my Hero, and finishing Dangers, Friends, & Endless Love... but anyway, here's another update. Thanks for the reviews, hope you like this!

Disclaimer: I own neither Wicked nor Glee.

Chapter 5.

'That monster is my father?!' Elphaba shrieked. She was pacing up and down in front of the stage and stopped only to glare at Glinda. 'How could you not tell me?!'

Glinda sniffed. 'Because I knew you'd react like this.'

The green girl threw her hands up in the air in exasperation. 'Can you blame me? I just found out that the man who almost single-handedly ruined my life is actually my father, and that my best friend kept that fact from me!'

'It didn't matter anymore, now did it?' Glinda said quietly. 'He's gone and he's not coming back. It wasn't like the two of you could do some father-daughter bonding anymore, or anything.'

'I don't want to do father-daughter bonding!' shouted Elphaba. 'I just wanted to know!'

Fiyero put one hand on her shoulder. 'Elphaba…'

She shrugged him off. 'Back off, Fiyero, this is between Glinda and me!'

'Yo. Elphaba.' Puck stepped up. 'I know that you're upset and stuff, and believe me, I've had some father issues myself, but you can't really blame her for trying to protect your feelings.'

Glinda beamed at him and Elphaba shot him a glare. 'Stay out of this.'

Mr. Schue cleared his throat. 'Why don't we leave Elphaba and Glinda alone for a moment?'

'Please don't,' Glinda begged, and Elphaba made a dismissive hand gesture. 'Don't bother. We're done here. I'm going to find the Grimmerie and I'm going to get us out of here, and that's the end of it. I've had enough.' She stormed off, leaving the others in baffled silence.

Mercedes, Kurt and Rachel all wanted to go after them, but Fiyero stopped them, shaking his head. 'It's probably best to leave her be for a moment… unless you fancy being a toad for the rest of your life.'

They immediately backed off and they sat down again, but they didn't continue the rehearsal. After a while, Fiyero decided to go and find his beloved, whom he finally discovered in an empty classroom, huddled in a corner. The chairs and tables were smashed around the room – probably magically – and she looked as if she was still boiling with rage. 'Go away.'

He sat down at a safe distance from her. 'Elphaba… You can't really blame her for not telling you.'

She sniffled. 'Oh, yes I can.'

'I know you're angry…'

'Has your biological father ever tried to kill you?' she interrupted him. He looked slightly baffled. 'No.'

'Then don't tell me that you know how I feel, because you don't.'

He nodded slowly. 'You're right.' He paused for a moment. 'Do you want to talk about it?'

She shook her head and he moved to sit next to her, wrapping his arm around her shoulders. 'You're a strong woman, Fae. You'll get over this. You and Glinda will make up again… You just need to give it some time.'

She nodded curtly, then suddenly got up. 'I'm going back to the auditorium. There's only one more scene to go – we might as well finish up the rehearsal.'

The final scene went wonderful, with Kurt easily reaching the high notes of the 'For Good'-reprise and Finn and Rachel acting their parts wonderfully, after which they all applauded and Mr. Schue, April and Shelby got on stage. 'Well done!' Will praised them. 'It still needs a lot of work, but we're getting there. April, Shelby, Elphaba, Fiyero and Glinda will continue to coach you, with me helping them the best I can, and we're going to put on a wonderful performance in a few weeks!'

Elphaba was still brooding and Glinda winced as she caught her friend's expression. 'Elphie…'

'Don't,' the girl said flatly, but Glinda persisted. 'Elphie, I'm really sorry, but you've got to stop this now. It's not my fault! And you're spoiling the mood.'

Elphaba bristled. 'I'm spoiling the mood?! Excuse me? You lied to me, Glinda Upland, so I think I have a right to be angry!'

'I didn't lie!' Glinda protested. 'I just didn't tell you anything!'

Elphaba jumped up and shouted, 'That's the same thing!'

Unfortunately, Sue Sylvester chose that exact moment to walk into the auditorium. 'William,' she said brusquely, 'I'm trying to have a conversation in the hallway and that is not going well with your misfits shouting at each other. Keep the noise down or I will creep up to you in your sleep and shave off all of that sheep fur on your head that you dare to call hair, understood?' Her eyes wandered towards Elphaba and her eyes widened. 'Are you painting students green now? I always knew you were going to lose your mind one day, but I had never thought that day to come so soon.'

That was about everything Elphaba could take at that moment and she shouted, 'Yes, I'm green, all right? Now could you just leave us for a moment? My friend,' she glowered at Glinda, 'and I have some things to sort out.'

Sue, however, approached the witch curiously. 'I don't think I've seen you before. Are you even a student here? William, you know non-students are not allowed in this auditorium. I'm going to report this to Figgins and your entire nice little play will be cancelled.' She smirked and started to walk away as Elphaba decided she had had just about enough. She made a hand gesture and muttered something under her breath, and the next thing they all knew, there was a toad sitting in the spot where Sue Sylvester had been standing just a clock-tick ago.

Mr. Schue's eyes widened. 'Oh, no. You didn't!'

Glinda sighed. 'What's that with you and toads, Elphaba?'

The green girl, forgetting about their fight for a moment in her amusement, smirked. 'It's a classic. I like living up to stereotypes. I'm a witch, I'm green, I fly on a broomstick and I change annoying people into toads. And that woman was definitely annoying.'

Most of the New Directions were laughing by now. 'Well, that is certainly true,' Puck chuckled. 'And perhaps it will teach her a lesson.'

Fiyero gave looked at the witch sternly. 'Elphaba…'

She shot him a look and he decided wisely to shut up. Mr. Schue picked up the toad and examined it. 'Oh, dear...'

'I like her better this way,' Santana declared drily, and Quinn chuckled softly. Puck walked over to Mr. Schue and gingerly poked the toad, which made an indignant, low burping sound. Nearly everyone laughed at that, but Mr. Schue looked as if he was close to having a stroke. 'Elphaba? Could you please change her back?'

Elphaba studied her nails nonchalantly. 'Nah. She's less annoying this way.'

'Elphie,' Glinda began sternly, 'I know you're mad at me for not telling you about your fath-' she quickly corrected herself when she caught the deadly look Elphaba shot her, 'the Wizard, but you shouldn't take it out on other people. It's rude.'

'She was rude,' Elphaba said simply. 'And I was mad. It's not a good idea to be rude to me when I'm mad.'

Glinda sighed irritably. 'Really, Elphie, sometimes you can be such a-'

'Girls,' Shelby interrupted them firmly. 'Not now. Elphaba, I understand your feelings, but you can't leave her like this! It's immoral. And besides, people are going to ask questions.'

Elphaba rolled her eyes. 'Fine,' she grumbled as she rose and walked over to Mr. Schue, who gingerly placed the toad on his lap. 'Be careful.'

'Am I ever anything but?' Elphaba retorted at which both Fiyero and Glinda snorted sceptically. Elphaba shot them a death glare before turning her attention back to the Sue-toad, as she started muttering something and waved her hands in the air. There was no puff of smoke, no crash of lightning, nothing really – one clock-tick the toad was there, and the next, it was Sue. As simple as that.

Only Will, who had just been trying to be careful with the toad, hadn't really thought about what would happen if he put the animal on his lap to keep it safe. So when he suddenly found Sue sitting on his lap, he went beet red.

Sue herself didn't seem too happy with this development either. She leapt to her feet, looking absolutely horrified, and stared at Will. 'What the hell?!'

He tried desperately to think of a plausible explanation, but since there really wasn't one, he just looked sheepish. 'Sorry?' he tried.

'Oh, you will be!' she roared, furious beyond belief. 'I have no idea what just happened, but I will find out! And when I do, you will pay for it! All of you!' With that, she stomped from the auditorium, still fuming.

Glinda looked at her green friend disapprovingly. 'Well done, Elphie,' she said sarcastically, at which Elphaba immediately bristled again. 'Now you wait just a clock-tick…'

'STOP IT!' Mr. Schue suddenly barked. The New Directions almost never saw him angry, but this time, he was. 'All of you! I've had enough of this for today!' He grabbed his bad and stalked towards the door. 'Class dismissed!'

There was a faint knock on the door and Mr. Schue looked up from his paperwork a bit irritably. 'Yes?' he snapped.

'Mr. Schuester?' It was Elphaba. He softened a bit and cleared his throat. 'Sorry. Come in.'

She lingered in the doorway, a bit hesitantly. 'I… I just wanted to say I'm sorry. For what happened this afternoon,' she clarified. She looked slightly embarrassed. 'I let myself go. I shouldn't have. I was just… I don't know.' She sighed, and Mr. Schue smiled at her tiredly. 'I understand, Elphaba, it's fine. I could imagine that what you… saw… and what Glinda told you… that it must have been quite a shock for you.'

She sighed and came further into his office, slumping down into a chair. 'You could say that.'

He peered at her over his desk. 'You okay?'

She waved one hand in the air dismissively. 'Fine. Just…'

'Shocked? Confused? Shaken?' he offered, and she smiled faintly at him. 'Yeah… that.'

He returned her smile and pushed his paperwork aside, leaning forward. 'Have you made up with Glinda yet?'

She shook her head. 'I could make up an excuse right now and say that I feel betrayed by her and that I'm not ready to talk to her yet, but the truth is that I just lost it earlier and now I'm too proud and stubborn to go to her and admit that I was wrong.'

He had to laugh at that. 'If your character in the musical is anything like you, I'd say she's used to that.'

Elphaba made a face. 'Probably. But still. She deserves an apology, and I'm bad at apologies,' she admitted. 'I hate admitting that I was wrong about something, especially to Glinda – she always gets all smug and perky about it and she won't leave it alone for at least the rest of the week.'

Will chuckled. 'I'm sure she's not that bad.'

Elphaba stared at him incredulously. 'In that case, you really don't know her. This one time at Shiz, she dragged me to a party and announced that I would have to dance with any boy that would come up and ask me. I told her that no such thing would ever happen, because no boy would want to dance with the Artichoke, but for some reason, a few boys did ask me to dance, and she wouldn't let me hear the end of it. She would get this smug look on her face whenever she saw me, and she would be nagging constantly about how I had been wrong and how she had been right – she only stopped after I threatened to cut off her hair and burn her wardrobe in her sleep.' She shook her head in exasperation and slight amusement at the memory. 'I never understood why those boys wanted to dance with me in the first place.'

'I bribed them,' Glinda admitted from the doorway. Elphaba spun around and Glinda gave her friend a sheepish smile. 'I can't handle being wrong any better than you can, Elphie. I wanted to be right, no matter the costs, so I paid a few boys to go and dance with you that night.'

Elphaba opened and closed her mouth a few times, no sound coming out, before she let out one of her famous witch cackles. 'Oz, Glinda, you are positively wicked.'

Glinda scowled at her. 'Not funny.' Then her gaze softened. 'But I promise I won't nag you about hearing you admit that you were wrong… if we could just be friends again. Pretty please?'

Elphaba sighed, then gave up. 'Fine. I can't stay mad at you for long, anyway.'

Glinda beamed at her. 'Yay!' She hugged her friend. 'Thank you, Elphie.'

Mr. Schue looked at them, satisfied. 'So no more shouting sessions at the next rehearsal?'

Elphaba and Glinda both looked sheepish now. 'No more shouting sessions,' Elphaba agreed, and Mr. Schue smiled. 'Good.' He waved his hands at them. 'Now go home, you two. I'll see you next rehearsal, all right?'

'Sure,' Glinda agreed, leaving. Elphaba stopped in the doorway and flashed him a grateful smile. 'Thank you.'

He smiled back. 'You're welcome.' She made to leave again, but he called her back. 'Oh, and Elphaba?'

She looked at him questioningly. 'Yes?'

He grinned at her. 'Despite the fact that it was, indeed, immoral and just, well, not done… I kind of enjoyed you turning Sue into a toad.'

She flashed him a radiating and way too innocent-looking smile. 'Didn't we all?' she chuckled before disappearing from his office, shutting the door behind her.