Hey
, here's a new chapter. Inspiration is so great. I needed to write a chapter. Since I was feeling a bit down yesterday. Elphaba and the characters from Wicked make me feel better. Thank you for all the lovely reviews and story following. I love it. I love writing for this chapter, every chapter there will be a flashback. And after a while you will know the entire night between Fiyero and Elphaba.
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TempeGeller

chapter 4: What happens in a dream, stays in a dream

FLASHBACK

"Fiyero, it seems that I can't walk in a straight line…" Elphaba laughed "Why is that now?"
"I have no idea, but I can assume you're too drunk." Fiyero put an arm around her, and noticed her cheeks started to blush. He gave a soft smile. "It's not that bad Elphaba, you're walking straighter then I am."
"Thanks." Elphaba turned around. "So?"

"So what?" Fiyero turned to her. "What is it you want to know, Fea?"
"The Fea again?" Elphaba smiled "What is it with you calling me Fea?"
"Why are you so convince to call me Fea?" Elphaba raised an eyebrow. "Is that something that runs in your family?"
"Is getting drunk fast something that run in to yours?" Fiyero turned to her.

Elphaba slowly turned away and concentrated on the spinning world in front of her. It wasn't spinning just because of the booze, it was Fiyero to. Something about him made her drunk. Drunk from his attention, of the affection he had towards her. He draped his arm around her and pulled her along in his zigzag walk. She noticed the intoxicated smell. His perfume brought the same intoxication as the alcohol had earlier. Whoever expected Fiyero Tiggular would wear anything perfume related; Elphaba was sure he wouldn't call it perfume. He would call it something manly. She smiled at him for just a moment.
"You are really pretty when you smile…" Fiyero gave her a charming smile. "Your whole face lights up."

"What?" Elphaba turned to him. "My whole face does what?"
"You have a twinkle in your eyes…" Fiyero took a step closer "Like the stars, your eyes start to twinkle when you smile. It's beautiful, Fea. Really…"
"Twinkle…" Elphaba raised an eyebrow.

Fiyero leaned towards her and slowly kissed her. Elphaba noticed how the butterfly's in her stomach were under the same intoxication as her mind was. They were flattering around in her stomach, making her dizzy and crazy at the same time. Time around her stopped moving, it was almost like nothing happened around her. There was no one there, not even a single person. What were they doing? But Elphaba's intoxicated mind was too busy to think about anything that would happen to her. She kept her mind with the slow kiss going on. She moved her arms around his neck. And as time kept moving, she felt that Fiyero loved her for that night. And right now that was enough.

PRESENT DAY

"What is it Elphaba?" Glinda turned to her. "You've got something important to say to me, or don't you?"
"I…" Elphaba paused "I…"
"Just spit it out, Elphaba." Glinda slowly pulled her in a hug. "Anything you have to say, can't be that bad. You're my best friend, I promise I won't get mad."
"You…" Elphaba paused

"I'm really feeling bad…" Elphaba said as another wave of nausea hit her with the force as the metaphorical knife she stabbed Glinda in the back with. She felt horrible as she the contents of her stomach kept coming out. Where did it come from? Was this the lesson she got for cheating on her friend. Even if it was just once. She slowly cried.
"Elphie, what is wrong with you?" Glinda stepped next to her. "You don't look healthy. You are overdoing it, you're working to hard. This is your body telling you to slow down…"
'Or to tell you the truth', her mind screamed. Elphaba couldn't believe that she was doing this to her friend. Her best friend in fact. Glinda Upland. Elphaba slowly turned around and started to cry.
"See, the stress is getting to you…" Glinda pulled her up. "You're going to bed and whatever you were going to tell me. I'm sure it can wait."

"But Glinda…" Elphaba spoke, but she was silenced by Glinda's caring words. Words she didn't disserve in her mind. When you betrayed your friend, you wouldn't usually get this much care. The truth was that Glinda still didn't know about her encounter with Fiyero. The word encounter didn't even start to describe this. And now her body decided to punish her. It had for weeks, but now Glinda knew about her stress and about everything that was going on.
"You have to becarefull with nausea like this…" Glinda spoke "My little sister had the same thing. Acute fever, throwing up and her appendix nearly exploded. The doctors only got to her just in time…"

"I don't have…" Elphaba spoke "Appendectomy."
"You don't know that…" Glinda showed the worry in her eyes. "Your appendix could be ready to explode and we both wouldn't know. Do you have any sharp pains in you lower abandon?"
"No, not really…" Elphaba spoke "Like you said, I'm taking to much on my fork. Or it's my body punishing me for what I am or something…"
"That's a dumb thing to say, Elphaba." Glinda spoke "You've had this nausea for how long?"

"A week…" Elphaba spoke "It comes and it goes…"
"you have to drink…" Glinda spoke
"I know…" Elphaba and Glinda walked towards their dorm room. Slowly she opened the door, she told Elphaba to lay down. As Glinda took some water and put it next to her bed. She took a small bucket and place it next to her bed. Elphaba knew Glinda didn't want her rushing to the bathroom when another wave of nausea would hit. Elphaba was still convinced it was her body reacting to her guilt. But Glinda wouldn't let her say that out loud. Like she had said before, it was the most stupid thing to consider. But in her mind she kept considering it. She believed a body was strong, and her unconscious mind wanted to punish her for stealing Glinda's boyfriend. Well, she hadn't really stolen him, but she did sleep with him. In her mind that was just as bad. Specially because she cared for Fiyero, more then she liked to admit.

"Do you know who Fea is?" Glinda sat next to Elphaba. Elphaba started to panic when she heard the nickname, Fiyero had given her in a drunken state of mind. Why would Glinda ask her about Fea? And how did she hear the name? How did she know about one of the things Fiyero had made up drunk, unless Fiyero had told her about her mistake. She turned to Glinda in guilt.
"Fea, no idea. Why are you asking me?"

"Fiyero whispered the name in his sleep…" Glinda spoke "I called him Fiyero. And he almost moaned the name: Fea, like he was really in to her. I don't know how to acknowledge it. He pretended he didn't know who this Fea was from his dreams. It's just the way he said it, it almost sounded…"
"Sounded like what?" Elphaba turned to Glinda.
"Like he was in love with her…" Glinda turned around. "I haven't told him how I felt towards it. Look I like Fiyero, and I would love it if our relationship grew to love. It's just, if Fiyero is in love with someone else. Am I not keeping him with me? Elphaba, do you think this is selfish? If he's in love with Fea…"
"Look…" Elphaba turned to her. "Unless he says he cares about her, you can't know. For all you know it's a strange attraction towards this girl. She might not even exist…"
"But Elphie, his voice…" Glinda turned to him. "I don't want to stand in between them."

"Well, you should let Fiyero decide…" Elphaba slowly turned a bit in her bed. "Talk to him about it."
"Elphie, I'm so sorry I'm bothering you with this." Glinda stared at her.

Elphaba thought about what Glinda had told her. About the affection in his voice, about how he had whispered Fea in his sleep. She even told her that he was practically moaning it. Elphaba thought about the possibility of him actually loving her. Her Elphaba Thropp, then why had she denies Fiyero's feelings towards Glinda. How could she know how Fiyero felt about Glinda? How he felt about her? There could be some many reasons for his behavior. There was no way in hell he cared about her. She always learned that she wasn't that girl. And until this day she believed it. She believed a handsome prince from Vinkus would never chose her over a pretty girl from Gilikin? She had nothing to offer, not like Glinda. No one would ever choose brains over looks.
"Elphaba, I do think you should go to a doctor…" Glinda spoke "I don't want to find you here hurt."
"It's not my appendix, Glinda."

"You can't know that…" Glinda turned to her. "Just go to the doctor, for me. Would you do that?"
"What if I say no?"
"Then I'll drag you to the doctor, myself." Glinda smiled "I am making an appointment."

"I don't think you can make me!" Elphaba glared.

Fiyero woke up from a peaceful sleep that once was disturbed by Glinda. What did he have to say to the 'Fea' question. Off course he knew who Fea was, it was the nickname he had given Elphaba in his dreams. When Glinda woke him up, he was in the middle of one of those intoxicating dreams. He lied to Glinda, he lied to her. Not that there was much to tell. He wouldn't know how Glinda would react to the sex dreams he'd been having about Elphaba Thropp, her roommate. It wasn't something he would be proud of mentioning. No one would ever be proud in talking about that. He didn't want to hurt Glinda, by something that didn't matter. Elphaba didn't care for him at all.

The looks he got from her were always indifferent or maybe even disgusted. A couple of days ago, she had bumped up against him. She looked like she was disgusted by his presence. Her eyes even ignored him at times. How was he supposed to sacrifice his relationship for dreams that were not going to come true. Did Elphaba even like him? Fiyero slowly placed his hands to his temple. His eyes were looking at the ground, he felt like the dreams were something he couldn't help. He couldn't help wondering about it. The first dream he had, was so much more real. Every detail that led up to that night, was something he could tell. Every single detail. How he ran his hands through her hair. Every detail, every sound, every smell. Slowly he stood up. He got up. Slowly he got dressed, he wasn't really in care for what he was wearing. He wanted to get to class, get out of here. Talk to Glinda. Anything that would take his mind of Elphaba. Slowly he moved towards the classroom, he noticed that Glinda was sitting in the classroom. The first thing he noticed was the absence of Elphaba. Glinda was hovering over a small note pad. She would never take notes in class, why would Glinda Upland do so today? He slowly sat down next to her.
"Fiyero, do you care about this Fea?" Glinda jumped to the name he had spoken 5 weeks ago.
"Glinda, are you still talking about that?" Fiyero turned to her. "It's not that big deal. I don't even know who Fea is. Where is Elphaba?"

"Elphaba is overdoing herself…" Glinda spoke "She's really sick right now. She was sick this morning, so I locked the door and took the key. She's in her bed right now, I doubt she would climb through the window. Maybe I should have locked that to…"
"And you have to take notes for her?" Fiyero stared at her. "Why don't I help you with that. If we both take notes, they'll be enough for Elphaba to know."
"No, I wasn't going to take notes.." Glinda smiled "I'm going to doodle."
"I'll take notes for Elphaba…" Fiyero smiled "She wouldn't like missing this class."
"She's acting weird." Glinda spoke "I know you don't know her, but I'm worried about Elphaba. She's working so hard, she's going to bed at 9 and getting up at 3. She's working for 4 hours straight in the library maybe even more. It's like she's trying to ignore me."

Fiyero listened to the lecture doctor Dillamond was keeping. Normally he would doze off, but now he noticed that he was more alert then he had ever been. There wasn't a word he didn't want to miss. It almost seemed like he was trying to prove Elphaba something. Glinda was next to him, doodling something. He didn't really care, but sometimes his eyes turned to her paper. There were a couple of words noted on the paper. From little notes that had to do with the class and notes that were meant to dress Elphaba. The words green and blue equals smiley face was not something he wanted to think about. Even though he liked the idea of Elphaba dressed in a soft blue dress. Or anything that would show of her incredible presence. As doctor Dillamond asked a question, he noticed that his hand reached up to answer. What was this doing to him? Had Elphaba turned him in to this? How could someone like anyone that much? Especially when Elphaba hadn't really talked to him all that much. A look had been enough. Fiyero loved her. He wanted to tell her, now he was just noting down everything. The class was going faster than he remembered. Maybe that was why Elphaba always noted everything down.
"You have taken notes…" Glinda turned to him. "Why?"
"Give them to her…" Fiyero handed the notes. "She missed the class and can you give them back to me? Just tell them you made them…"

Elphaba turned around in her bed. She was glad she started to feel a bit less, she noticed that Glinda had locked the door. She couldn't get to class, there was no way she was would go through the window. So after a few moments she had returned to bed, and let sleep enchant her once more again. A couple of hours she was awakened by an opening door. Glinda was stepping in the room.
"Are you better?" Glinda sat down on the bed next to her.
"Kind off…" Elphaba smiled "So what did you…"

"Take Fiyero's notes…" Glinda smiled "I don't know what got in to him. When he heard you were sick, he started making notes."
"Well…" Elphaba smiled "I'll copy them. What did you do?"
"Doodle mostly." Glinda smiled "I missed you. I usually copy of your notes. And now I'm copying of Fiyero's notes. Aren't you glad you stayed in bed?"
"Glinda, you locked the door so I couldn't leave." Elphaba turned to her. "Why did you do that?"
"You needed the rest.."
"Glinda, that's not up to you to decide." Elphaba spoke "I'm a grown woman, I can…"

"You needed rest, and you wouldn't have…" Glinda turned to her. "I love you…"
"And I love you too." Elphaba smiled "But I need to take care of myself. I can do that you know."

Elphaba stepped from the bed and slowly moved to the window. Glinda was staring at her with the same x-ray eyes. She had a look on her face.
"You don't talk this much…" Glinda spoke "Yet Fiyero likes you. I like it that you and Fiyero get along. But how did that happen?"
"I don't know…" Elphaba admitted "You tell me…"

"I think he's trying for me…" Glinda turned to Elphaba. "I asked after Fea again. He said he didn't know who Fea was and then he started to talk about you. Do you think it's a girl from the Vinkus?"
"Off course not…" Elphaba turned away.
"Oh, I made an appointment with a doctor." Glinda spoke "I don't want your appendix to burst."
"I'm okay, Glinda…" Elphaba turned to her.

"Then why don't you go to the doctor and hear him say that." Glinda turned to her. "I'm worried about you, and I need to know that you are okay. Can you do that for me?"
"Glinda, please…" Elphaba turned to her. "I'm okay, Lin."
"Then say that when you come back…" Glinda hugged her. "You can tell me you're okay. And I'll know you're fine. You have an appointment in 2 hours. Please…"
"Okay, but I'm doing it for you…"

"Thanks, Elphie.." Glinda pulled her in a hug.

Elphaba had gone through the normal routine of taking her blood and asking her what was wrong. The doctor wanted to know if her blood was green. He was really surprised to notice that her blood was red like anyone else. She could have given a mean remark, but she didn't do it. Now she was waiting for something. For the results of her test. Could they even see if she had an appendectomy? She slowly turned to the door. She noticed that time had passed without her knowledge. Why did time pass this fast, she didn't feel like seeing anything. She wanted to hear the news she was fine. She wanted to rub it under Glinda's nose. Slowly the doctor stepped outside the room.
"Elphaba Thropp…"

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