A/N: This is a sequel to Promises Kept…so if you haven't read that then you need to. Otherwise you might not understand what's going on. Also I want to thank my readers for sticking with me. I know that I've been horrible at updating lately…but I promise to get better because I'm now on break from school until January. So I hope to update this story more than my others…and I know I still need to finish them. But yeah…without further ado I give you the next installment to my story…and please don't hate me. I also dedicate this story to the love of my life. :-) And P.S. This isn't proof read so there will be errors.

Chapter 1

Two pairs of feet pitter-pattered down an old darkened hallway. One belonged to a blonde; the other belonging to a brunette. The two figures hurriedly ducked behind a suit of armor when they heard muffled voiced getting closer and closer to them.

"Come out come out wherever you are." A new figure with sandy brown hair approached out of the darkness. The way she delivered her speech was eerie. It was as if it held a taunting quality, as if she already knew what was going to happen.

"There's no use hiding anymore. I'm going to get you." The voice continued to echo throughout the secluded hallway.

By now the blonde and the brunette had huddled closer together, trying to combine their two figures to form the shape of one. It would be easier to hide if they appeared to be smaller.

The blonde's eyes began to dart back and forth between the mysterious figure and her companion. It was as if she were working a plan out in her mind. Meanwhile the brunette's breathing had become heavy as she tried to hide from the overpowering voice.

"I know you're in here." The voice continued to taunt as the owner slowly began to make their way around the room, checking behind pillars as they went.

Just as the figure came upon the suit of armor that the two were using as a shelter, the blonde's plan finally snapped into place. She knew exactly what to do and how to save her and the brunette from the scary voice.

"Yor, I have an idea." The blonde whispered the plan into her companion's ear. The brunette's eyes immediately grew wide as a grin began to grace her features. The plan was perfect.

"Do you think it will work?" The brunette needed clarification before she could agree to the plan her companion offered up.

"I know it will. We know how to do this Yor…now give me your hand!" The blonde confirmed before demanding the brunette go along with it.

The brunette chanced one last glance over her shoulder to the approaching figure before grasping onto the blonde's hand.

In a second the two had vanished.

"Come on guys. I'm getting tired of this." The voice grew impatient when they looked behind the last suit of armor before stomping their foot. They had sworn that the two had been hiding there.

"Guys?" The voice called questioningly into the abyss as she realized she was the only one there. "Mom's not going to like this!" When she received no response she left to go find her mother.

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The blonde's plan hadn't actually worked like it should have. Instead of just vanishing into the next room, the two had accidentally vanished into a strange cellar of some sort. It looked as if they were in the dungeons at Upland Castle.

"Way to go Ro." The brunette scolded her sister as she stood up and tried to wipe some dust from her dress. Their landing hadn't been the most graceful one to date. The two ended up in a huge pile of dirt.

"It wasn't my fault!" Rowena defended herself as she too wiped the dirt away. "We both had to pay attention to what we wanted. I was paying attention! You are the one who wasn't!" The blonde shot back at her sister Kiora. The two twins has just turned seven a couple of weeks before. They were incredibly advanced for their age and their magic well developed. Glinda always said it came from Elphaba but the green woman loved to differ.

"I was paying attention!" Kiora defended herself as she began to gage her surroundings. She didn't like where they were. This wasn't supposed to have happened.

"Sure. Just like the other million times you paid attention." Rowena's voice dripped with sarcasm as she began to walk over to where a door was located. She didn't know where it led but she knew that they needed to get out of there before their parents found out they had been doing unsupervised magic again. Ella was sure to tell them. Ever since she had turned eleven she took on the duty of magic supervisor for the twins. It made her feel important. But to the twins it was just annoying.

The brunette scolded her sister again before joining her over by the door.

"Where do you think it goes?" Kiora asked as she saw Rowena reach for the handle.

"I don't know Yor, but I'm about to find out." Rowena puffed out her chest, acting as if she were brave, before opening the door to see what was on the other side.

The sight before them made both of their eyes widen with shock. It was the worst-case scenario. They would have rather run into a room full of spiders than to face what was on the other side of the door.

Kiora gulped audibly as she tried to shift behind her sister for protection. Rowena had been thinking the same thing and so neither won. They just had to stand next to each other and face the wrath of what was on the opposite side.

"Well, well, well…" The voice echoed to the two girls. "What do we have here?"

Rowena's face turned into one of innocence while Kiora's turned in to one of regret. She should have never listened to Rowena.

"Uh…" Rowena tried to speak but nothing came out. Kiora knew that she needed to save her own ass and so she decided to rat her sister out.

"Rowena used magic! I was forced to!" Kiora lied as she pointed fingers at the blonde. She wasn't going down without a fight.

"Is that true?" The voice on the other side turned her attention towards Rowena. "Did you use magic without supervision?"

Rowena darted her eyes at her sister before looking back to the figure. "Yes." She replied truthfully. She wasn't one to rat out her own sister.

"You do know the punishment for unsupervised magic, right?" The figure looked between the two twins.

"Yes." The girls replied in unison.

"Very well then." The figure said nonchalantly as she pulled her wand out from her dress pocket and pointed it at the two girls.

"Permissum vestri vox exsisto reus pro unus dies." The figure chanted as she pointed her wand at the twins. In a matter of seconds an orange glow surrounded them before vanishing.

The twins both frowned as the orange glow vanished from around them. They had had this happen many times before and knew what that meant. It meant that their powers had been bound for the next twenty-four hours.

"Now if you two are done getting into trouble your mother and I have something to talk to you about." The stranger with blonde curls looked between the two girls.

"Yes ma'am." The twins both hung their heads low as they followed sullenly behind the woman we now know is Glinda the Good.

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Elphaba sat in front of the vanity checking over her appearance one last time. It had been almost six years since her and Glinda had gotten married and she was beginning to see the effects of all those fights and hateful words slurred over the years. The stress lines were evident on her forehead and the frown lines began to mar her features. The marriage had gone wonderfully the first two years, but after that things seemed to change. The two would often get into fights over nothing. They hardly ever agreed on anything now a days.

"Get a hold of yourself." The green woman said to her reflection. She could feel her grip on reality slipping. She had thought that whatever was in the lovers way would pass eventually. She was wrong. The two hardly even liked being in the same room anymore. They had gone from unconditional love to tolerating one another. Their sex life was nonexistent. Elphaba could not for the life of her remember the last time her and Glinda had made love without one of or both of them being intoxicated.

The green woman continued to stare at her reflection in the mirror. She didn't think that she had changed that much in the past six years. So why had Glinda fallen out of love with her? What had she done that caused her to go to bed at night next to a complete stranger? She sighed before pushing herself up from the stool to walk over to the door. Just as she reached for the handle an eleven-year-old girl popped her head inside.

"Hey mama." Ella smiled towards the green woman before closing the door behind her. She had already informed her mother about Ro and Kiora's antics but she knew she needed to inform Elphaba as well. Otherwise she would never find out on her own. Ella was also smart for an eleven-year-old and knew that her parents no longer communicated as they once had. It saddened her to be around them these days.

"Good afternoon Ella." Elphaba sounded a little too professional and less motherly as she spoke to Ella. It was hard for her to see how her and Glinda's fighting was affecting their girls. It shouldn't be that way.

Ella frowned a little bit as she went over to give the green woman a hug. She knew that this wasn't the Elphaba that she had known many years ago. This Elphaba was a ghost of herself.

Elphaba wrapped her arms around the eleven-year-old and gave a faint smile. "You're getting taller and taller everyday. I swear one day you're going to outgrow me." The green witch chuckled slightly as she pulled back and held the girl at arms length.

"Yeah right." Ella chuckled. "Mom's not exactly the tallest person."

"Yeah but your father was a pretty tall man. Taller than myself." Elphaba spoke freely of Fiyero. She knew that Glinda still didn't like for her to talk to Ella about Fiyero, but she also no longer cared. She believed that Ella should know about her father and Glinda could be damned for trying to stop her.

Ella gave a small smile at hearing about her father. She loved when Elphaba would give her facts about him because her mother never would. She also remembered that it was one of the first things the two of them fought about. A couple of years ago her mother had caught Elphaba telling Ella stories of Fiyero and didn't approve at all. There was a lot of yelling and cursing. The twins slept in Ella's room that night because they were afraid. It took a week before Elphaba was finally allowed off of the couch and back into Glinda and hers room.

Elphaba smiled towards her adopted daughter as she led her over to the couch.

"So what can I do for you Ella?" She asked. She knew from the way Ella was acting that this was not just a friendly chatting session.

Ella shifted uncomfortably in her seat before looking up to meet Elphaba's brown eyes.

"Um…well you see…me and the twins were playing a game and well…" Ella averted her eyes trying to find something to look at besides the green woman. "They used magic." She said in a rush of words.

Elphaba frowned slightly at hearing this. She knew that the twins were very powerful when they combined their powers, but she also knew that they were untrained and often made mistakes.

"What exactly did they do?" Elphaba needed more details before she could determine the best solution.

"They transported from the second floor hallway to I don't know where." Ella shrugged.

Elphaba sighed heavily before turning her attention back to Ella. "Does your mother know?"

Ella didn't know whether she should lie or not. She had already told Glinda but she didn't want Elphaba to feel like she was the second best. She usually always went to her mother before Elphaba. She knew that deep down this saddened the green woman a little.

"Um….yes?" Ella answered almost questioningly. She continued to stare at the green woman trying to get her reaction.

Elphaba raised her left hand and made a pinching action to the bridge of her nose as she exhaled quite loudly. She often used this mechanism to calm herself.

After about one minute of silence Ella couldn't take it anymore. She needed for her mama to say something.

"Mama?" Ella asked in a little girl voice.

"Hmm?" Elphaba hummed as she lowered her hand and looked towards the little girl.

"Are you mad at me?" Ella gave a little pout, which Elphaba couldn't help but think was still cute.

"Of course not. You did the right thing in telling me." Elphaba smiled towards the girl. "Do you know if your mother went to go look for them?"

Ella seemed relieved with her answer but she knew the worst was still to come. "Yep. She used a locator spell I think."

Elphaba smiled weakly, knowing that Glinda had already found the girls by now and was probably bringing them up to their room. The two of them had to speak with everyone.

"Can I go get a snack now?" Ella asked as she stood from the couch to leave.

"No hold on a second Ella." Elphaba stopped the little girl. "If I know your mother she'll be up here within a couple of minutes and we have something to talk to you girls about."

"Okay…" Ella trailed off not knowing what it was that her parents had to tell her.

Elphaba was correct however. Within minutes Glinda came walking into the room followed closely by two pale green children. The years of marriage hadn't been the best for her either.

Elphaba jumped up from her seat when she saw the three women enter the room. Her eyes locked with Glinda's for a split second before having to look away. She then turned her attention to the twins behind her.

"You've been using you magic unsupervised?" Elphaba went straight into questioning the twins.

Rowena and Kiora stared at each other before back at their mother. "Yes ma'am." They responded formally.

"I hope you know that attempting such magic without supervision could be deadly. You two could have made a fatal mistake back there and all for a silly game!" Elphaba's voice began to get louder as Glinda walked over towards where Ella stood watching the whole spectacle.

"I'm sorry." Rowena apologized.

"Me too." Kiora followed closely behind.

"Sorry doesn't cut it young ladies. When your mother and I tell you no magic unsupervised we mean it! You two are grounded and not allowed to use magic for a week!" Elphaba yelled.

"But we can't anyways. Mom bound our powers." Rowena spoke up but was jabbed in the side by Kiora. Her eyes widened when she realized what she had just let slip.

Elphaba's eyes opened in surprise. Had Glinda really bound her girl's powers? They had talked about this in the past and had both agreed that doing that was never an option. Had Glinda gone behind her back again? She then turned around to stare at her wife.

"Is that true Glinda? Did you bind their powers?" Elphaba needed clarification before she was allowed to yell.

"So what if I did? It's not like the punishment you're doing is helping them any!" Glinda defended her actions as she stepped closer to the green woman. Meanwhile Rowena, Kiora, and Ella had huddled together in a little circle. They knew what was about to happen.

"Well it's better than binding their powers! What if something happened to us and they couldn't use magic to help?" Elphaba argued.

"Nothing has happened to you yet!" Glinda yelled while thinking in her head, "unfortunately."

Elphaba seemed to know exactly what was going through Glinda's head at that exact moment and began to turn a darker green. She only got this color when she flushed or was angry. She hadn't been flushed in a long time so it had to have been caused by anger.

"Oh all hail little miss popular who thinks that she knows what's best for everyone." Elphaba seethed as she narrowed her eyes at Glinda.

"Well maybe I have to act on my own because you're too stubborn to listen to anything I ever have to say!" The blonde yelled back as she stepped a little closer to Elphaba. She was trying to be intimidating.

"Well maybe I'd listen if you ever had anything intelligent to say! You don't know how dull it is listening to you ramble about fashion and makeup!" The green woman wasn't going to let Glinda intimidate her.

"Probably not as dull as listening to you talk about science and animal rights!" Glinda yelled.

"I haven't talked about animal rights in a long time miss prissy skirt, so come down off of your holier than thou pedestal! Elphaba screamed.

Neither of the arguing pair had noticed that Rowena had begun to cry. They were too busy focused on one another to see Kiora and Ella trying to calm their sister down.

"I will when you come off of yours!" Glinda shrieked. "I had every right to do what I did today so you can't tell me that I didn't."

"You didn't! You can't just bind their powers as punishment and not tell me Glinda." Elphaba motioned over to the girls for the first time since the start of their argument and noticed Rowena crying. Her face immediately softened and her anger dissipated.

Glinda wondered why Elphaba had changed so dramatically and so she looked over as well. The sight before her eyes broke her heart. She could see Rowena crying as Kiora held her hand and Ella rubbed her back.

"We should tell them." Glinda spoke softly as she made her way closer to Elphaba. She didn't go to her daughters because she knew that they would only flinch and back away from her touch.

Elphaba sighed before nodding her head in agreement.

"Girls." Elphaba spoke softly gaining the attention of their daughters. Rowena's tears had turned into sniffles. When the three daughters finally locked eyes with Elphaba she continued. "Your mother and I are getting a divorce."