A/N: Thank you to all the people who have reviewed and alerted this story. Sorry it took me so long to update but hopefully I’ll be able to update more frequently now that school is done.

When Glinda came out of her dressing room about an hour later, no one was there. “Elphie are you in here?” When Glinda received no reply, she called out again. Still she heard no reply. Glinda started to search the room. Halfway her frantic search she yelled out, “Elphaba if this is a joke it isn’t very funny!” Glinda soon realized Elphaba was not there. She was on the verge of a break down when some one knocked on her door. “Come in.” Her voice wavered and tears started to leak out of her eyes and made their way down her cheeks.

“Mom are you about ready…” Crystal looked up from closing the door and caught sight of Glinda and her destroyed room. “Mom, what’s wrong?” she asked as she rushed to Glinda’s side.

“She left… She left me again! Just after I get her back she has to run off again!” Glinda sobbed. Crystal was trying to comfort Glinda, when a small green folded note on Glinda’s vanity caught her eye. She went to get it and she saw that it was addressed to Glinda in long spindly handwriting. She handed it to Glinda.

“What is this?” Glinda asked sniffling.

“I don’t know it was on your vanity.”

Glinda opened it, and the note read.

Dear Glinda; my sweet,

Don’t worry about my absence, for it will only be long enough for me to fly to Kiamo Ko to collect my things and come back. I should be home before night settles completely. Be safe my sweet.

Elphaba

Glinda’s crying stopped after reading Elphaba’s note, and started to smile as she realized that Elphaba thought that her home was Glinda’s house.

“Mom you alright?” Crystal asked noticing Glinda’s almost sudden change in emotions.

“Yes I’m fine. Let me freshen up and then I’ll be ready to go to the celebrations.”

“Chistery!” Elphaba yelled as she entered the castle.

“Yes, Elphaba? Back soon? It go bad?” Chistery asked as he climbed down the stairs.

“No, it actually went really well. That’s why I am back so soon, I’m only here to get my things and then go back to Glinda,” Elphaba explained.

“Oh, okay. Miss Elphaba, can I go with you? I no like it when I here by myself.”

“I don’t see why you can’t, I’m sure Glinda would like to see you again.”

“Thank you.”

“You are welcome. Now can you help me pack?”

“Of course.”

They worked the rest of the day in a comfortable silence, going through the castle and methodically packing things they would need. After they were done packing they set off for the Emerald City.

In the Emerald City the celebrations just begun as Glinda appeared in her bubble in the center of the biggest one. She landed gracefully on the platform the people had set up for her. “My fellow ozians, we have gathered here to day to celebrate the passing of the Wicked Witch of the West. It has been five years since she last terrorized us. And much has happened in those years, but it is still not enough to make Oz better after what the Wizard did. The Animals are still afraid to come out of hiding, and do you know why? Because they are afraid of us, of what we will do to them. They remember how we blamed them for the problems in Oz.”

“Glinda, why are you so concerned with helping the Animals?”

“Well, um, it is because of a promise I made to one of my best friends before I lost her. She was a good person who only wanted to help, but couldn’t because she had no power and no one would listen to her because of the way she looked. And because it is wrong to blame or shun people or Animals just because they are different.”

“Miss Glinda, I never heard any stories about her being wicked or mean. I heard she was kind and tried to help people and Animals when she could.” A small child in the crowd said. The child was a young girl around the age of eight.

“Shhh child, you know not of what you speak.” Another person in the crowd said.

“No! Let the child speak, for what she says is true.” Glinda shouted. The crowd gasped. “How many of you have actually met her?” Glinda waited as a few people raised their hands including the child. “See most of you make accusations without even knowing what you are talking about. Now all of you that have met her, did she seem wicked?” Glinda asked. There were some mumbled no’s when the girl spoke up, “She was kind and wanted to help. Most of the she would come to our camp bringing food. Though once she brought me a doll.”

“Why were you living in a camp?”

“Well, my parents were part of the Resistance before you lifted the bans.”

“Glinda why did you lie to us all this time?” one of the people asked.

“I made a promise to Elphaba,”

“Who?” some of the people interrupted.

“The Witch, I promised to her that I would never try to clear her name, but I don’t think that I could handle it for her to be called wicked any more. Especially since she has come back.”

There was a collective gasp through out the crowd. “What?!” a few yelled. “She is back from the dead?” one asked.

“She was never really dead. She faked her death to get away from all of the lies about her. Most of you treated her the same way you treated the Animals, something to blame your problems on, and scared her into hiding. But she has come back to me, so I would appreciate it if you would call her by her proper name if you should see her in public. And she is to be respected not taunted or gawked at. She was the one who helped me over come my insecurities and become who I am today. She was also the one who gave me strength to change Oz.”

One of the people in the crowd called out, “How long have you known that she was alive?”

“I just found out yesterday, when she decided to come back and sneak into my room.”

“How do we know that she didn’t cast a spell on you?”

“You just have to take my word for it and think about what you truly know about her and not what you have been forced to believe by the Wizard and Morrible.”

The crowd was silent for a while, not knowing what to think. Most of them had only heard rumors about her, nothing more then that. When some one finally did speak up it was a young man around Glinda’s age. “I believe you. I went to Shiz with both of you. She mostly kept to her self, but she could be outspoken when she stood up for something she believed in. The only time I saw her do something remotely mean was when she would reply to a snide remark with one of her own. And most of the time she would do her best to ignore those remarks. She wasn’t wicked just misunderstood.” A murmur of agreement through the crowd, because once they really started to think about what they knew, it was nothing bad. She was out spoken for Animal rights and tried to help them. And she was green.

Glinda looked through the crowd she saw most of the people nodding their heads or deep in thought. “Do you believe me?” she asked and the crowd replied with a booming yes. “Thank you. Thank you for believing me. Now if you don’t mind I have to be off to the other celebrations to try and convince them that she was good. Continue partying but don’t celebrate her death but her return.” Glinda said as she conjured up her bubble.

The rest of the day Glinda went to the other cities and towns to tell people how Elphaba was not wicked, and how it was just a plot set up by the Wizard and Morrible. The people of Vinkus already knew this because Fiyero told them of her, and what she did for him. The people of Gillikin were not so hard to convince because Glinda’s parents took her side, which helped make most of the people’s decisions. And the Quadlings didn’t care much either way. Some had heard of her as a child and didn’t think of her as a threat. But the really difficultly came from the Munchkins. They were all still scared of her and her sister. Some were willing to believe she was good because they grew up playing with her or really her watching them play. But most were still scared because of what Nessarose had told them. But they were willing to respect her and not cause her trouble.

Glinda felt accomplished when she returned home that night. Glinda had cleared Elphaba’s name in most of Oz. She knew there were going to be some rebel groups but Elphaba would be able to go out in public and not be afraid for her life.

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