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The Diggs residence, One Week later
It had been a week since Dorothy's last departure from oz. but life as a cat made things really boring. She wasn't allowed to leave the residence outside of the picnic basket. Toto didn't even talk to her that much which was sad for her. The only people who really paid her any attention as a cat was Ellie, Aislynn, Alex, and Annabella. But they didn't really talk to her. Donna and Kelly spent their time helping Jenny and Jessica with some sort of side project. Therefore life for Dorothy had been rather lonely, Dorothy wished she could just change back into human, but she knew only the jester could manage it. she spent her days and very much of her nights wandering around the house, looking for doors that she could easily nudge open, discovering more and more about the place. It was really bigger than it looked from the outside, there were empty rooms, rooms coated with nothing but a thick layer of dust. But she didn't discover anything really useful. In her last discovery she found a room with a pipe organ similar to the one she found in the emerald city, the difference being it had much more dust. It was now extremely late at night, she was about to go back into the parlor and fall asleep when she heard the sounds coming from upstairs. She followed the sound to the point where it brought her to one of the guest bedrooms. The door was open a crack so she lightly pushed against the door with the top of her head and walked in. it was Alex's room, she saw him sitting at a desk in the room, a lamp turned on he was reading a book of some sort. She walked over and saw that he was wearing a pair of glasses. She wanted laugh but she didn't want to attract his attention to easily. She walked over to side of the desk and jumped up making Alex jump.
"Dorothy!" he said surprised.
"What you reading?" Dorothy asked.
"A book I borrowed from Aislynn, I needed something to do." He said shutting it and showing it to Dorothy.
Dorothy saw that it was definitely one of the books she had seen before in aislynn's room. It was a history book, one that she hadn't seen before.
"And, um the glasses?" Dorothy asked.
"What glasses?" he asked curiously.
"The ones your wearing." Dorothy said.
Alex looked at her and then put his hand up to his eye. His face changed to an expression of surprise.
"My reading glasses! I didn't realize I put them on, force of habit I guess." He said taking them off and looking at them.
"You need reading glasses?" She asked curiously.
"Yes, but I don't like to use them." He said folding the bows back against the lenses and setting them on the desk.
He then got up from the chair and scratched Dorothy behind the ears. Dorothy purred and looked around for a clock. She found a small one and found that it was eleven. Alex looked at the clock as well and stretched yawning a bit.
"I think it's time for bed." He said switching off the lamp and walking over to the bed.
Dorothy sighed and walked back to the door and walked out of the room/
"Goodnight Dorothy" Alex said.
"Night." Dorothy said as she walked out of the room.
She walked back downstairs to the parlor, and jumped up on the couch. She rested in a comfortable position and soon was asleep.
Meanwhile at the jesters hide-out
The jester was lounging against the crystal ball. He was chuckling to himself as Dorothy spent her time as a cat.
"Well well Dorothy gale, not really enjoying this are we?" he asked into the crystal chuckling
He got up and walked over to his spell book. He then memorized the spell he needed to change her back when something caught his eye. He noticed some red text that said warning.
"What's this?" He asked reading through it.
It was a page of downsides, side effects to being transformed to a cat and back. This made him rather angry, he didn't want to harm her intentionally but now he knew there were possibilities of her being permanently damaged.
"Oh sweet Oz! Oh jester you really messed up this time." He said looking back at the crystal ball.
He looked down at the crystal ball. He saw Alex walk in to the room. He then scratched Dorothy behind the ears and lay down on the couch across from the one that Dorothy was sleeping on. He then smiled and chuckled.
"Well, at least you'll have some sort of companionship to help you cope with it, but I'll give you another day before I change you back." The jester said sighing.
He then waved the wand over the crystal and it switched to the image of Glinda looking through a book, the same spell book he was using.
"Well, well Glinda sweet Glinda, you think you can just search the problems away?" He asked chuckling.
"I thought he didn't want to harm her!?" she said angrily.
"She must have found the downsides." HE said to himself.
"I mean the possibility of still having the possibility keeping the ability to see in the dark or the sharp hearing can be a plus, but really, she could be unable to walk for a up to three months, even Dorothy wouldn't be able to cope with that easily." She said sounding upset.
"What!" he exclaimed before reading back into the book.
He read through the page again. He stared at the words angrily and picked up the book and threw it across the room. He picked up the wand and threw a spell at a painting on the wall causing it to explode. His intention wasn't to cause any direct harm, just to make her life a bit more difficult. But the damage was done and the only way he could undo it was to break the spell. But he realized, there was no way he could get close to her, not during the day anyways, he knew he'd have to cast the spell some point in the night. But now, she would wake up to find herself possibly unable to walk, at least not for a while. He hadn't known that it would be a side effect. He knew had he known he wouldn't have cast the spell in the first place.
"Well then, sleep well Dorothy gale, and good luck in two days' time." he said sadly, going back into his lounging position to rethink his plans.
Okay sorry this chapter was so short, but I promise the next chapter will be much longer. Anyways with the many questions I've been asked. The one of whether or not it will be a DorothyXscarecrow fic. No its going to be a scarecrowXaislynn fic, I really thought I had dropped enough hints but I guess not.