A/N: Hello! I've been wanting to write this for a while, and I finally got around to it! The title isn't all that great, so any suggestions would be appreciated!
Some Explanation: In this Fanfiction Elphaba takes the place of Zelena, though not in the way you would expect. It takes place after the end of Wicked and in episode 13. Witch Hunt of S3. I wrote this because I was madly hoping it would be Elphaba, and was rather sad when it wasn't.
Disclaimer: I do not own ABC's Once Upon A Time in anyway. A lot of these quotes are directly from the show. I do not own Wicked: A New Musical: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz. All the characters and places belong to the owners, not me.
"Yero, look at all these things! She is almost as bad as..." Elphaba sobered at the thought of her bubbly friend.
"As bad as who?" Fiyero walked into the grand bedroom with a questioning look on his sack face.
"As Glinda." Elphaba said quietly. All this jewelry would have delighted Glinda, despite the fact it could be put to better uses: like feeding a family. "These things are beautiful, I wonder why she didn't take any with her."
"Maybe she couldn't." Elphaba limped painfully over to the wardrobe. Fiyero followed worriedly, ready to pillow her fall if she tripped. He wouldn't be able to catch her, straw doesn't hold things very well.
"Elphaba mayb-"
"I'm fine Fiyero. Besides, look at these lovely clothes. I'm sure she looked very nice in them." Elphaba looked sadly down at her ratty dress she had been running in for three years. It was her only one, and the black fabric was worn and patched in many places. A rip exposed her twisted leg and the sluggishly bleeding gash on the emerald skin, courtesy of the Gale Force members.
"I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you used one. Put on the patterned black leather would look stunning on you." Elphaba blushed faintly, and said,
"It will work." In a puff of green, the dress replaced her rag, and Fiyero led her over to the mirror as she sighed and smoothed the fabric.
"Now that's how you wear a dress! You look lovely." Fiyero smirked. Elphaba turned and weakly hit him.
"That's rude. She probably wore it much better than I did."
"It was a compliment!" Elphaba smiled softly at him.
"Thank you." She replied.
"You should go rest Fae. I'll go find something to help your leg."
"I don't need rest, I need to get ready to confront whoever is messing with the protection spell!" Her alertness just went up as she felt someone touch the perimeter. Elphaba had immediately altered the protection spell she discovered around the grand castle. She was sure the owner of the castle had put it up, but it was always good to add her own magic.
The scarecrow's blue eyes widened just a bit.
"What do you mean?" He sounded panicked. Elphaba maintained her calm, being on the run for three years had taught her many things.
"Well, I see people out the window. And someone with magic just touched the boundary. Those people know we are here." The green girl dragged herself over to the window, and then gasped as she peered out.
"Look. Something flying is attacking them!" Fiyero rushed over beside her, and proclaimed,
"It looks like... Like a flying monkey! You don't think the Wizard or Morrible followed us, do you?!"
"No, no, the Wizard doesn't have magic, and Glinda put Morrible in jail, remember?"
"Yes I do." Fiyero looked a bit calmer. "But who is ordering them to do that? The monkeys only listen to you, and only the Wizard could control them against their will."
"And they are good creatures. They would never do that on their own accord." Elphaba sounded worried. "No!" She watched as a plume of purple smoke engulfed the monkey and it plummeted to the ground.
"It's alright Elphaba." Fiyero wrapped an arm around her. She noted the movement of one figure moving away from the others.
"Look, they are heading for the tunnel entrance where we went through!"
"What should we do, Fae? You are the expert here."
"Let's stay here, they probably won't come up to this room."
They waited for a while, before Elphaba went to the window and looked down.
"She's in the courtyard! Fiyero, stay here. I need to go see her. I know it's her."
"What if she hurts you? I'm coming!"
"No! Please stay here." Fiyero huffed as much as one without lungs could, sitting back in the bed.
"Fine. But if I hear shouts, I'm coming."
"Good." The emerald skinned girl nodded and swept out the door, hiding her limp rather effectively and taking her broom with her.
Elphaba watched as the beautiful woman in the rather low-chested dress put out the fire that fueled the spell, then walked over to a stone bench that oversaw the kingdom below. The woman said something that confused her.
"I'm sorry Henry. Maybe one day you will find me and wake me up. But until then..." Her voice was sad, and Elphaba then caught sight of the pin dipped in some sort of potion. She remembered the stories, it had to be a sleeping curse! Elphaba needed to stop her before she put herself under. The green girl flew down and landed silently, then greeted her in what she hoped was a familiar, but not overly knowing way.
"You weren't even going to say hello first?" It sounded innocent enough, and curious. "It's not exactly the welcome I was expecting!" She teased. It was rather fun to be mysterious and confusing. Elphaba knew Regina had no idea who she was, besides the Wicked Witch. Regina still didn't look at her.
"What does a witch have to do to get your attention?" She knew Regina was still focused on the curse. She couldn't let the Queen prick herself, so she magicked it into her own hand in a poof of green smoke. Regina gasped.
"What's the matter?" Elphaba asked. She wondered what was wrong, why she wanted to do that. "Has life got you down?" It was a way to hide her concern a little longer. Finally Regina stood up and answered icily,
"None of your buisness." Elphaba narrowed her eyes. It was her business, family business. Of course, Regina didn't known that. Or maybe she did, though Elphaba doubted that. She smiled a bit, her green lips twisting pleasantly.
"You really don't know who I am, do you?"
"I know exactly who you are. The Wicked Witch." Though Elphaba hated that title, she had grown used to it. There was more to her than that.
"Is that all?" She raised her eyebrows.
"I'm not that interested." Regina grabbed for the potion dipped pin. Elphaba poofed it away again into her other hand. She circled Regina.
"Please, allow me to introduce myself. You can call me Elphaba." She kept her tone cordial, not wanting to come off as cold or hostile. As she walked away, she could barely keep from staggering as shooting pains plagued her leg.
"That's my dress." Regina gestured at the dress Elphaba was wearing, obviously hostile; and Elphaba realized she was right. Her mysterious facade broke as she turned to apologize.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't realize-"
"I think you didn't realize you should never have left Oz."
"You don't understand. But that's besides the point. You can have your castle and clothes back. Though I did see something interesting. Your crypt."Elphaba was back to mysterious. She could explain to Regina later, hopefully sitting down with a set and stitched leg.
"Yes, how did you break the Blood Lock?" Elphaba raised her eyebrows again. Could she really not guess by now?
"I didn't."
"The door was open. No one is that powerful." Regina said confidently.
"Cora really never told you." It was a statement. Elphaba hated the woman for what she had done to her daughters.
"Tell me what?" A bit of Regina's confusion leaked through, though she stayed hostile, true to her title. Elphaba cocked her head.
"The truth about us, Regina." Regina almost laughed at how ridiculous the situation was.
"What are you talking about? And how do you know my mother?" The Queen's second question was cold. Elphaba leaned in close, seeing Regina's furrowed eyebrows.
"Same way you do." She said quietly. "I'm your sister." A little disbelief still bled through her voice. The pain was building in her leg. She needed to sit down, she was sure she would collapse any second. It was hard to keep a steady voice and clear face. "Actually half sister, but details, details." She turned away.
Regina almost looked angry and sneered at her.
"That's not possible. You're...green." Elphaba sighed and turned to her again, a bit upset even her sister judged by looks and shocked at her rudeness.
"Cora had me after you, after she wormed her way into the dregs of royalty." Cruel, but true. Henry had been low in terms of royalty. "She discovered a spell that could take her to a different land, but no time would pass in her own. The spell was her escape. It was very risky, she could have killed herself and altered the Enchanted Forest forever, but she pulled it off. The spell put her in Oz, where she met a lover."
She staggered up the steps, hoping Regina didn't notice. At her sister's silence, she backed herself up. "Well you know I'm telling the truth. How else could I have broken the door to the crypt?" She gestured behind her, green skin glinting in the moon.
"Mother gave me up and left. But you she kept. You she gave everything." Elphaba made no mention of Nessarose. She had to admit, once she found out about Regina, she had been a bit bitter, but now she was just sad she never had a loving mother.
"Everything she wanted. If what you're saying is true, then you are lucky to have escaped her." Regina sounded bitter, and she hadn't noticed Elphaba's sad tone.
"Trying growing up without a mother." With an abusive father. Controlling sister. BEING GREEN. Elphaba thought. Regina rolled her eyes and sat back down. "Trying living in Oz, knowing that NO ONE thought you were good enough. Not your mother, not the only man both our paths crossed. Rumplestiltskin." She whispered. It wasn't her he had wanted. He wanted Nessa, who he soon found out didn't have magic. Of course, it stung a little, but not bad. Actually, she hated the man once she heard him talking to Nessa. Not because he didn't want her, but because of the way he treated everyone and everything around him. She was just using Rumple as a tie to Regina, something they both knew. She actually didn't care about the crazy man at all. She didn't care what he thought.
Regina crossed her legs, her tone interested.
"You knew Rumplestiltskin?"
"What, did you think you were his only student?" Elphaba was genuinely confused. Did Regina even know Rumplestiltskin?
"Let me guess. You're mad, because he chose me to cast his curse."
"No, I'm not mad. He just cast me aside because of how I looked. I was already used to it. Actually..." Elphaba squirmed a bit, finally dropping the act. Her story probably sounded bitter and revengeful, but she was just trying to explain her side. She stumbled over to the bench and plopped next to Regina. "I came here to meet you. I wanted to get to know my sister! It may be a bit wei-" Regina had been looking her over, and noticed a growing deep red stain on the skirt of the dress.
"You're bleeding!" She observed. She looked up as a thump was heard. "What was th-"
"Fae! I couldn't wait any longer! I thoug-" the scarecrow skidded to a stop as he saw the two witches sitting civilly next to each other. "What? What's going on?" Regina stood up, alarmed.
"What the hell are you?" Elphaba attempted to stand up, but all the activity had been too much for her leg, and she fell back onto the bench. She groaned.
"This is my, uh... boyfriend. He g-"
"Your boyfriend is a scarecrow?!" Regina looked at her like she was mad.
"As I was going to say, he got turned into a scarecrow." Elphaba cast her eyes down to her army boots. Fiyero walked over and stood next to her, a hand on her shoulder.
"And now she is trying to find a way to turn me back." He irritably brushed a few strands of straw out of his blue painted eyes.
"Well, that's interesting. The Witch, the Scarecrow, the Flying Monkeys. So you set them on us!" Regina spun to face Elphaba, purple magic swirling on her hands.
"NO! I haven't had any contact with the monkeys since I left Oz yesterday. I have no clue how they got here. What do you mean set on you?"
"We were attacked twice by flying monkeys. And who else could have done it."
"We don't have an answ-" Fiyero started to say, before he cut himself off and pointed at the sky. Something was rapidly approaching, and they soon made out the form of a monkey.
"Chistery!" Elphaba yelled.
"Don't stand up Elphaba, he'll come to us." She pursed her lips, but stayed sitting. Chistery landed right next to Elphaba, causing Regina to back up warily.
"Miss, I have no time. She controlling all us. With magic! We no want to harm. We can't escape! Please help!" Elphaba grabbed his hand and asked worriedly,
"Who's controlling you, Chistery?"
"The de-" he choked off, grasping his throat and squawking.
"Chistery!" Elphaba shouted urgently. Suddenly a voice called out behind them.
"Don't be worried Falaba! He's just getting what he deserves for disobeying his mistress. It won't kill him." The lady's voice was soft and sweet, contradicting her words. All three of them turned to look at a beautiful young girl with hard blue eyes.
"Nessa?!" Elphaba gasped.
"Who are you?" Regina hissed. Nessa laughed.
"Why, Regina, I'm your sister!"
"Nessa, I thought you were dead! What happened?" Elphaba's voice broke.
"Well, after the incident with you and Boq, I realized I did posses magic. Dark magic. My hatred for you and that crocodile and then Boq had festered dark magic in me, and it grew after that. When that wretched brat's house landed on me, I was severely injured. I thought it would be the perfect way to get my revenge. Fake my death, come here where I knew you would eventually run. I learned through my newly given magic of all of Regina and Rumple's doings. They are also part of my revenge plan." Nessa's tone was casual, as if talking about the weather or school.
"Why you little-" Regina thrust a fiery ball at the dark witch, who just blew her back onto the bench with a burst of green. Elphaba was confused, her sister was warped and green was her color!
"Ah ah! I'm not done!" Nessa trilled. "Like you, I crossed paths with Rumplestiltskin. He thought I had no magic, so I had no worth. YOU trying growing up with no mother. Try living knowing you would never be good enough for anyone because of our mother. Knowing anyone would be better than you." Regina rolled her eyes.
"Wait, let me guess. YOU'RE the one who is mad because Rumple didn't chose you to cast his curse. He chose me." Nessa's eyes flitted downward. "Well get over it. It wasn't everything it cracked up to be." Nessa looked enraged.
"Anything would have been better than the life I had." She cooled down a bit. "But, despite my shortcomings, I made something of myself, dear. And I didn't need Cora. Or Rumplestiltskin."
"Well, it's too bad they aren't around to see how well you turned out." Regina said. "They're both dead." Nessa and Elphaba stared at her in shock for a moment before the younger girl looked down and twitched in anger. Then she said,
"It's alright. You're the only one I need alive. And Elphaba." Her voice was filled with venom, and she had actually really wanted Rumple and Cora as bad as she had wanted Regina and her green sister. Elphaba had no idea what she was talking about.
"Really? Why's that?" Regina said sarcastically.
"Because I'm going to take everything away from you." Nessa leaned closer, practically hissing.
"I've already lost everything that matters." Regina came back slowly.
"No Regina. You haven't lost anything yet." Nessa stated angrily. Elphaba just kept quiet despite her confusion, knowing Nessa wanted her revenge much more on Regina.
"So you are going to kill me." Regina stated.
"No." Nessa shrugged. "That's too easy. For me to get what I want I need you to suffer. You see, what's in store for me is all my dreams being realized. But for you," she leaned close, "well, it's a fate worse than death." Regina stood up in challenge.
"Go ahead. Bring it missy." Nessa leaned even closer, making their noses almost touch.
"Indeed I will." She stepped back and summoned a twister. "See ya soon, sis." Then she flew up, cackling madly. Regina watched, grinning madly.
"I'll deal with you later Greenie. I've got business to attend to." Regina stalked off, to go release Robin Hood.
Elphaba looked at Fiyero with many different emotions flitting in her soft brown eyes.
"Come on Fae." With that, they stood up, Fiyero supporting Elphaba as best he could.
A/N: Thank you all for reading, I hope you enjoyed it! I apologize for any mistakes, I don't know how to work the beta system.
Reviews are greatly appreciated and I will reply to each one if I can. ;)