Hey guys, sorry it has been so long. The last half of the semester kept me pretty busy. Unfortunately I won't be able to update like I had hoped to over the summer. I'm getting some more hours at work and I'm taking a couple classes over the summer. I have to retake anatomy and I'm taking an entrepreneurship class because I'm thinking about opening a bookstore if I decide I don't like doing what I'm currently in school for. My classes will be over in July and I will begin my last semester of college in August. Again, I am so sorry for taking so long with this update. Hopefully work and classes don't kill me this summer and I can spend some time writing.
Disclaimer: I do not own wicked or any of the characters. I am just borrowing them.
Fiyero didn't really know where to look for Elphaba. The direction she had been going led to the library, her dorm, the cafeteria, and the life sciences building. He decided she was most likely in either her dorm or the library but there was a possibility she could be in the life sciences building talking to Dr. Dillamond.
He decided to check her dorm first. When he didn't find her he decided to make sure she wasn't in Dr. Dillamond's office, which she wasn't.
The library was the last place he was going to look for her. It was a lot bigger than he had thought, but then again at every other college he had attended he had made it a point to avoid the library. It had 7 floors. He didn't think he was ever going to find her.
Just as he was about to give up on finding Elphaba and going back to his dorm, resolving to talk to her at dinner, he walked right into her.
"Fiyero, what are you doing here?" Elphaba asked him. She seemed rather surprised to see him there.
"I was kind of looking for you," he hoped that didn't sound as creepy as he thought it did.
"Do you mind telling me why?"
"Could we go somewhere and talk?"
"There's an empty study room over there we can talk in,"she led him to the study room and closed the door. She pursed her lips and furrowed her brow like she was trying for figure something out.
"I didn't mean to sound creepy out there. I was looking for you, but I was looking for you because I would like to take you up on you offer to help me study. I got a letter from my mother. She and father apparently received a letter about my grades not being too good. She wrote Madame Morrible back and asked if she could suggest a tutor for me. Guess who the suggestion was," he said all this rather quickly and it took Elphaba a minute to process what he had just told her.
"May I read this letter?" she asked him, as if she wanted proof, even though not even two hours ago she had offered to help him.
"Of course," he said, handing her the letter.
He waited nervously for her to get done reading it.
"OK. I'll help you. You have to be willing to put in the work. If you start slacking off, that's it," she told him sternly.
"Not a problem. I have no desire to complete my education with a private tutor at home with my father constantly breathing down my neck."
"Meet me in this room tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon. We will start with economics. I'm in your economics, life science, history, and literature classes so I think we should start with those. I know you need to pass them with a fairly high grade if you're going for a political science degree. I assume you are."
"You would be correct. I thought if I was going to complete a course of study here it should be something I will be using until I step down from the throne. Elphaba, thank you, for agreeing to help me."
"You're welcome, Fiyero."
He had quite a bit of work ahead of him. He had mostly C's with a B thrown in. He needed B's in all of his classes in order to pass them and have them count toward his degree.
Over the next week he and Elphaba met every day in the library for hours at a time, often working late into the night right up until the library closes. Fiyero was a little nervous when it was time for him to take the tests. The midterm and final exams were worth more than the normal tests. He could not fail these midterm exams, he couldn't even risk it if he didn't want to be pulled out of Shiz.
The week after midterm his worries were put to rest when he received all A's on his midterm exams. He was so excited when he told Elphaba that he actually hugged her, it caught both of them off guard. With her help he had brought all his grades up to B's, with the exception of the one B he already had, it was now a low A.
"Thank you, so much. I could not have done this without you," Fiyero told Elphaba. "I received a letter from my mother this morning asking what my plans were for Lurlinemas, if I would be bringing anybody home with me. I was wondering if you would like to come to Kiamo Ko with me for the holidays."
"I would love to, but my father would never allow it. I have to watch out for Nessa," she told him.
"What if I were to invite both of you?"
"He would probably still object"
"Your father might be your father, but he can't stop you from living your life. Your life also can't revolve around Nessarose. You're her sister, not her mother."
"I will write to him and ask, but don't be surprised if he says no."