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A new chapter, I worked so hard. So now another 2 Out of Oz chapter, but I'm turning in for today. Enjoy this chapter. I hope you will be very happy with it, I am.

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TempeGeller!

Chapter 14: Whatever it takes

Nathaniel turned around as he passed the guards. He was lucky they still trusted him. For some reason they trusted Fiyero and him. The crazy mother of Fiyero hadn't told him about his involvement. Nathaniel was happy, he needed to get Elphaba out of here. Even if she didn't love him. Nathaniel stepped beside the many cells, the southern cells is where they kept the worst people. Nathaniel was sick by this idea. Elphaba wasn't like anyone of this people. These were people that had killed people. Maybe they hadn't done it. The wizard had put them here, maybe they were just like Elphaba. Innocent people, they were guilty. In the eyes of the world.

Nathaniel couldn't believe that the woman he loved was locked up in a dirty cell. She was beaten, bruised and tortured all night. He didn't know what they were trying to make her say. Where they trying to make her confess to her sins? Was it the thing she was trying to do? Was it to make her dead in to justice? Elphaba's death made in to justice. Nathaniel couldn't understand that anyone could do that.
"Why are you here?" A voice behind him asked. "Nathan, I didn't think you were ever on prison duty. Or have you done something wrong? Is the wizard punishing you?"

"No, he thinks I will be able to make Elphaba talk." Nathaniel spoke "He hopes that she will love me enough to make her talk."
"I think she's a horrible woman." The guard whispered. "I mean you must hate her. What happened to the child. She must have killed your baby."

Nathaniel turned away. He was mad. How could a man say that. The kid was with Fiyero in his house. She did great in taking care of them, she was an amazing mom. She had learned them everything they knew. Her kids were sweet kids, he had seen her daughter running around in the city. He was happy that Fiyero and the child got to know each other. He wanted to child to be his, but he wasn't. He had never gotten over losing Elphaba. Now she and Fiyero had found each other, he had lost her forever. Would he be able to make her fall in love with him?
"Nath?"

"What are you doing here, Glinda the good?" the voice of the guard sounded again. "Are you here to make her talk too? The wizard is really serious on making her talk. I thought it was only a formality. I thought everyone already decided she disserved death penalty."
"She does, but the wizard wants to give her the feeling she can get away." Glinda smiled "You know how they get. I am here, she used to be my friend. I want to kick her ass."
Glinda slowly stepped next to him. She stepped towards her brother, she put her left hand on his right shoulder. Glinda smiled at him. He thought about how stupid this guard was, normally no one ever came here. Yet he believed that they wanted to be here and the wizard wanted them to be here. Nathaniel didn't understand. He stepped farther, until the guard couldn't hear them anymore.
"Why are you here Lin?" Nathaniel spoke "I mean did the wizard send you…"

"He didn't, like he didn't send you." Glinda spoke "You remember when I slept with my best friend's boyfriend. My friend never spoke to me again, I wasn't even drunk. I told her flat out. I only now understood that I would have loved my friend back. I think I can do this for Elphaba."
"You are smarter, than I thought." Nathaniel smiled "I think you've grown up Glinda. You really did."
"I want to save my friend." Glinda spoke "Elphaba is my friend. Sleeping with someone's friend doesn't equal dead. If it did, I should have gotten the same punishment. I was lucky I didn't get pregnant. I love Elphaba. And we're going to save her."
"okay, but you won't be Glinda the good anymore. And where do we need to bring Elphaba?"
"I'm the only one who thought of that." Glinda smiled "I thought of everything."

"You have?"
"We're going to get Elphaba to escape. Only to be chased to the tower and plunge of it. I have a spell that can make it look like they've chased her of the tower." Glinda explained. "But we will get her outside and bring her to some place."
"Where?"

"Well, Nessarose is the answer. I know in what convent she's hiding and she owns me a favor. I'm going to let her hide Elphaba." Glinda said. "Elphaba is her sister, she's going to tell something about it. Elphaba needs somewhere to heal. I've seen what they did to her, and she needs somewhere still. No one comes there. It's perfect."
"You're great." Nathaniel walked faster. "You thought about everything. I just came here and was ready to become evil. You had everything in mind. Glinda, you've gotten really mature. I can't believe this is you. I mean…"
"Elphaba made me in this." Glinda smiled "Plus, I love Boq."

Nathaniel and Glinda stepped on. They passed a couple of dangerous looking people. Nathaniel thought about the plan. Maybe they could make it look like all of them had jumped of the tower. And maybe they were all good people.
"Most of them didn't do anything wrong." Glinda spoke "They just saw injustice in the ways of the wizard. They ended up here. All alone and forgotten. That's how the wizard works?"
"What if we let them all out?"

"We can't do that." Glinda whispered. "We have to hope that we can save them later."
Nathaniel and Glinda didn't say a word for the next five minutes. Passing by a lot of innocent people made them unhappy. It was horrible that they were here, and their lives would be going nowhere. They were all like Elphaba. Lost and different. You weren't supposed to be punished for being different. Nathaniel thought that difference should be celebrated, not changed. Difference was good. And he believed everyone should be different. It was difference that brought change and new things. It was change that made people different. Nathaniel took another step towards the cell. The first thing he saw was Elphaba. She was in a corner. He recognized the dress, it was a blue dress. Only now he saw red blood on it. She was sitting in the corner, shivering from both cold and pain. She was a mess. He could imagine that she was crying because she missed her kids. He slowly opened the cage. Only now he noticed that she was asleep. Her eyes were trembling in the vision of a vivid nightmare. He captured in his arms, but she was still asleep. He couldn't take the pain, the bruises or the nightmares away. They were haunting her in her very head. Nathaniel wished he could take the nightmares away.

He carried her out of the jail. Glinda started chant. Just to make them invisible. It would turn them invisible. It would make it look for everyone that Elphaba had killed herself. Even to Fiyero, the man that loved her with all his heart. Nathaniel wanted to be happy, it would mean he got Elphaba. But he couldn't get happy, he knew that Elphaba would never truly be his. And if he made her dead if Fiyero's mind, he would only own half of Elphaba's heart. They weren't meant to be. Elphaba and Fiyero were soul mates. And with that Nathaniel carried her outside. He would tell Fiyero later.

Fiyero tugged his daughter in her bed. Ally smiled as she turned around in her bed. Fiyero hadn't been able to tell her the truth about her mother. He only said that she had gone away. 'Gone away', he said she was going to be back. Soon, but he couldn't defy what soon meant. Maybe he meant in a next lifetime. Maybe they were going to kill his wife. Because in his mind, they were already married. He didn't care what the Vinkus would say, or anyone else. Elphaba was the love of his life, he had ignored that universal truth for too long. And he had hurt her. If he had told her earlier, maybe nothing of this would have happened.

"This is for the better, my boy." Baxiana spoke.
"Mom." Fiyero closed to door to the his daughters room. "You have to listen to me. Really, when I was small. Remember when you told me, you would always side with me. Now you are not keeping your promise. You are just ignoring me. When I met Elphaba, I saw that school was important. My grades went up, you asked me why. I'll tell you, she thought me not to always dance through life. She was my rock. And it's because of her, I'm here today. She made me in this man. She continued your amazing work. I fell in love with her, and I'll never fall out of love with her. You learned me to follow my heart, and she's my heart. I love her. I always will. If she dies, I die."
"What about her marriage?"

"I didn't have the guts to tell her how I felt during school." Fiyero cried "I thought it mattered what people thought of me. Instead of following your voice, I mean it doesn't matter what you look like. Mom how have you forgotten your own words? Why did you let the wizard poison your mind? They turned Elphaba in a monster, because that's what they needed. They wanted to kill the animals, attack the country and in the end they'll kill anyone who's different. First it started with animals, later it will be skin. How long will it take before we're the ones they want to kill? The whole Vinkus. I've heard them say something like that. "
"You think my mind has been poisoned?" Baxiana sat down. "Yero, maybe you're right. I haven't been seeing, I've been judging. Oh no, the girl. She.."

"She didn't do anything wrong."
"I called her all of this." Baxiana stared to the floor. "Because the wizard hated her. And now she…"

"She…"
Baxiana stepped outside. She stared at the sky. The stars were shining over the city. She started to cry. How could she be that mean? Why had she let herself judge Fiyero's girlfriend? She was a good person, she should have seen it. Yet she was poisoned by her own prejudice. So poisoned that she didn't even see the good in Elphaba's eyes. Why had she been so blind?

"Mom, we have to save her."

"Open the damn door!" Nathaniel yelled as Glinda helped her out of the bubble. The door swung open to reveal Nessarose in her wheelchair. She stared up at Nathaniel, a smile appeared on her face. Like she hadn't seen anyone in so long.
"What are you doing?" Nessa questioned. "Elphaba?"

"Nessa, why are you here in the middle of nowhere all by yourself?" Nathaniel turned to her.
"Come in." Nathaniel walked inside. He came in to a large living room, there were paintings of Elphaba everywhere. Even of a child that Nessarose dreamt of. She pointed to the sofa and told them to put Elphaba on there.
"Nessa, why are you here in the middle of nowhere?"

"I'm here to pay for what I did to my sister." Nessarose spoke "I was a bitch, a judgmental one. I should have congratulated Elphaba on her baby. But, I couldn't. I was jealous. You see, Elphaba is the only person that ever loved me. If she was going to have a baby, she would leave me. I would be all by myself. If Elphaba didn't love me, no one would. So in a way, I thought the baby stole Elphaba's love away. Off course she was going to love her child, more than she did me. And I would be all alone. That's why I moved here. I betrayed the only person I have ever loved, and I've assigned myself a life of loneliness and hard work. I work for the people of the orphanage. I take in children who are different, without a mother. I give them a proper home. Right next door is that. But I never come there, I'm down here. Working for them. I convicted Elphaba to a life of loneliness, and now I must carry the same. I disserved it."
"Nessa, you have to help us." Nathaniel spoke "You can pay your death to Elphaba. You have to help us hide her. You see, they captured her and tortured her for a week. She's hurt and almost beaten to dead. We need you to nurse her back to health. Or at least give her a place to get better…"

"Off course…" Nessa spoke "There's a beautiful bedroom upstairs. When I just got here, I was so convinced Elphaba and her baby would search for my help that I made a room for all of them. After a while I finished a master bedroom and room for the baby. I even got a living room and everything. But it didn't feed my pain. When I heard Elphaba was living on the run, I hoped she would forgive her mean sister and come back. That never happened. You can bring her upstairs. And you can stay there yourself. I can make a bed, or you can stay in the orphanage. Anywhere. I want to thank you to save Elphaba from her cruel fate. I really do. You are real heroes. After she's healed, I'll go back to.."
"Nessa, you don't have to do that…" Glinda spoke "Say you're sorry. You don't have to punish yourself. You've done enough of that for the past years. She'll take you back. You're her sister. Elphaba has never stopped loving you."

"Has she?" Nessa looked up to Glinda. "Did you forget I called her baby devil spawn? That I told her that she was horrible stuff? I wouldn't be able to forgive me? I called her beautiful baby something awful. Something like that cannot be forgiven Glinda, ever."
"It can…" Glinda turned to them. "Saving someone's life is…"
"You haven't done anything awful to her. You saved her life. "

"I've betrayed her." Glinda spoke "I was the reason she needed saving. I mean if I hadn't gotten mad, she would have been with Fiyero. I was the reason she was beaten up. That's worse than words."
"You've made up." Nessa turned around. "You're here."

"Nessa, you could have turned your back to your sister." Nathaniel spoke "You could have taken your hands of her. You are helping people to make up to Elphaba and you are helping your sister right now. You're starting to pay for everything you did wrong. Elphaba will forgive you."
"I hope nothing is wrong with her…" Nessa said as she walked towards the elevator. Nathaniel followed her inside. He had Elphaba in his arms. They walked in the room. Nathaniel had to admit that Nessa had really made a room for Elphaba. It had so much books, every book Elphaba wanted to read. The writers she loved and everything she loved. There was a piano, no one knew Elphaba's guilt pleasure was to play piano. Yet her sister had put one there. They walked in the bedroom. It was simple and completely like Elphaba loved it. Soft colors nothing to bright. Yet there were shoes, just to remind her of Glinda's presence. A few colors were things he noticed next. All of things Glinda would love. Than he saw a wall full of pictures. Pictures of a small Elphaba and her mother. Pictures Elphaba hadn't even seen herself.

"Put her on the bed." Nessa whispered. She moved a strand of hair out of her sisters face. Slowly she started to put some cream on the bruises. It would help make it heal. "I get bruises all the time, from when I slam my wrists to the wooden floor. I'm sure they'll heal. However mine were never so severe. Who has done this to her?"
"Mad man." Glinda spoke "Nessa, are you sure you can trust the people of the orphanage."
"Most are animals." Nessa spoke "Elphaba would have wanted it that way. Every lost animal can work here. To the outside world they are people, they're safe here."
"So…"

"I followed Elphaba's wellbeing through them." Nessa explained "They never gave me her location, but they told me she was okay. Knowledge is danger you know, Elphaba's location is dangerous to give. People would commit murders for it. I heard that she had given birth to a son and a daughter. Ally and Walker. There doesn't go a day by that I don't want to meet them."
"Do you know that Fiyero is the father?" Glinda asked
"I don't." Nessa smiled "But does it matter. I mean Fiyero was in love with Elphaba. I just feel sorry for the pain my sister had to carry."

"Where did you get all of this pictures?"
"I got them form a shoebox beneath my mother's bed." Nessa cried. "It's the closest I have to Elphaba. I missed her."
"She's going to love this Nes." Glinda smiled "And I promise to you, you will meet them."

"I hope so."

"The sky looks clear, Fiyero." Baxiana spoke. She was thinking about a plan to save Elphaba, but nothing came to mind. How come was she so lazy? It shouldn't be so hard to find a plan to save someone. She should just walk in there and demand to see her daughter in law. But that was something she couldn't do. She couldn't believe that she had betrayed her own son.

Fiyero stared at the towers of the city. They were looking different, there was something about the dark sky that made them larger. And that's when he saw it. He saw a green figure plunging to her dead from the highest tower. He moved his hands in front of his mouth. There was only one person that looked like that. He recognized her from the distance. He knew it was Elphaba. She was falling in the river that went through the city. Her body would probably be carried away by the water. Fiyero moved his hand in front of his head. No one would care about her dead. What would he tell their kids? How could he keep saying that 'mommy' was going to return. When their mommy had just thought plunging to her death was the best way out. What made Elphaba think that death was better than him and their children. Why had she taken her life? Why had she not tried to run. And then he saw soldiers on both sides. Jumping was the only way she got to choose. The only way she would not be humiliated. The only way she could die as her own person. And she wouldn't be brought in front of 1000 of persons as a monster.

"Son…"

But Fiyero didn't listen. He stepped inside and walked to his daughters bed. He got next to her in the bed an pulled her in a hug.
"Daddy, is mommy coming home?"
"Soon, Ally. She'll be home soon."

Yet, soon would never come, Fiyero thought. Soon was going to be the next life time. He closed his eyes. All he had was the child that looked like Elphaba. He had to live for her. He had to keep Elphaba's memory and legacy alive. Fiyero was going to save the animals, he was going to become what Elphaba was. A rebel.
If she wasn't coming back, the wizard was going to pay. And he would pay with a revolution by his hands.

I hope you liked the spin I gave with Nessa. I want you to know that she's not part of some plan, she really does feel sorry. I felt bad for turning Nessa in such a negative person, and I wanted to turn her in to someone who felt remorse. I hope you like that. She was a bitch to Elphaba, but everyone can make mistakes. Nessa is the one that represents the people who are mean, but learn and do great things. No one is just evil. Accept Madame Morribe :p She is! Imagine a house dropping on this beautiful Nessa. Yes :'( Sad! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! And don't forget to review!