Post by reverie on Aug 4, 2005 17:43:46 GMT -5
I re-watched RTO after not seeing it for years and it dawned on me to make a wicked version tieing the movie plot to wicked and turning RTO into a fitting wicked sequel.
If you never seen RTO, the fic takes place 6 month after the tornado and Dorothy is sent to a mental hospital becuase of her tales of Oz. She escapes and ends up in Oz, now in crumbles and deserted with most everyone turned to stone. Glinda is missing and Oz is beyond Dorothy's help and the only one powerful enough to save Oz is melted to the ground...or so everyone though(okay you know where this is going lol)
Well here it is and please mind the minor typos and skipped words I missed while editing
Please let me know what you think!
Prologue
1899 Kansas
Dorothy was lying in her bed, it was one in the morning. She couldn’t get her mind off of Oz, when you have something so incredible happen to you how can you just forget it and move on. She did more than think about it as well, she talked about it, constantly. She wanted to share her adventures so badly but no one seemed to care. All Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were concerned about was repairing the ruins of the farm and house and getting the crops back to listen to her. The hands didn’t seem to care either, they were too busy with Aunt Em’s orders. The only one who seemed to listen, well at least try, was Hunk. Dorothy didn’t know if he believed her or was just trying to be nice. And being nice back Dorothy stopped telling him of Oz since he got accused of being too lazy and threatened to have his pay lowered.
“Are you still awake?” Aunt Em was standing by her bed
Dorothy just looked to her, Aunt Em sighed and Dorothy looked back to the window as Aunt Em walked away. Suddenly Dorothy saw a shooting star, “Look Toto! A shooting star” she whispered to him, I wish I had proof that Oz exists…No, I take that back, I wish I could return, return to Oz.
0o0o0o0
Chapter I
The next morning Dorothy was playing in the barnyard with the chickens. Something was going on she could tell. There was always whispering between Aunt Em and Uncle Henry behind her back. Aunt Em was going to take her on a trip to see a doctor of some sort, that was all she could make out of the whispers.
“Hey Dorothy”
She looked up to see Hunk, “Hello Hunk”
“What’s wrong?” He asked concerned noticing her frown, he’s been worried about lately, everyone has been.
“Do you ever wish you could go back?”
“Go back where, Oz?”
“Yeah, When in Oz I wanted to go home believing I belonged here, but now I don’t know anymore it doesn’t seem that I fit in here enough to belong. I seem to only get in people’s way. If was different in Oz, I was celebrated and welcomed by all the citizens, I was wanted there, when I wanted to go home they wanted me to stay so badly, enough to cry” She looked down remembering
“I know what you mean, I went to the city a long while back. People take going back east as giving up but I wasn’t giving up I was seeking opportunities by going to college, I was considered odd then seeking opportunities in an education rather than gold hunting in California”
“Where did you get the money to travel east?” Dorothy asked remembering Aunt Em’s stories of covered wagons and hardships
“My father was rich, he was in stocks and such and our family had a noble name dating back to the colonists”
“Old money?”
“Yeah you can say that. Anyways my father wanted me to go to college to become a doctor, I just wanted to go to college to get the hell out of our small town and get a whole new experience—“
“Hunk quit talking and help us out with the fences!” Zeke called out
“I have get going, sorry” Hunk paused thinking for a moment, “By the way I found this key in the barn ruins, I think it could be from Oz”
“Let me see!” Dorothy lit up with excitement as she eagerly took it from him, it was indeed a key with the O-Z sign of Oz, “It is, it’s a key from Oz, it’s my proof!”
“Your proof?”
“Yes proof that Oz exists! The proof I wished for!” she jumped up, “I can’t wait to show this to Aunt Em, thanks Hunk!” she ran to the house
“How thoughtful of you to egg her on like that” Zeke sighed, “You even had to use some nails from our supply to go make her that”
“An orphan little girl like her needs something to believe in”
“Yeah well you want to know what this Oz nonsense has gotten her into?”
“Hope?”
“No, I heard them talking the other day, they’re sending her away, to some hospital and you can guess what sort of hospital it is”
“They couldn’t? She’s just a little girl, they wouldn’t send her to a place like that because of something she just made up to help herself get over her parent’s death”
“Well they are tomorrow”
“Of course, how could I forget, they always love to bend those who dream of a better world” he sighed remembering a special girl he once knew, “always”
“Aunt Em! Aunt Em!” Dorothy ran
“What child?”
“Look” she panted, “it’s a key, a key from Oz!”
“Not this again! You need to stop this!” she groaned
“But look at it, O-Z, Oz, it the sign of Oz!” Dorothy smiled convincingly
“It’s just an old key Dorothy” she shook her head, “Probably from a destroyed house”
“But look, it has the sign!” she tried again
“Just coincidence, that’s all, now go inside”
Dorothy looked down sadly; “Alright” she gave up and went into the house, Aunt Em went back inside to go back to washing clothes in the tub
“You never told me that Hunk used to live in the city?” Dorothy then said putting the key in her pocket
“What is there to know, he went to the city fell in love with a suffragist and lost his mind and everything else and now works as a farmhand just to survive” she said nonchalantly
“What’s a suffragist?”
“They’re ghastly women who do nothing but corrupt everything that’s good in this country just for their own needs” she mused
“Why do they do those things?”
“Because they’re horrid spinsters who are too ugly to be loved and cared for by a man so they claim they don’t need one and picket around for rights for crazy and radical things such as voting and holding office” she said in disgust
“Really?”
“Yes, we have one already in our town, you’re very familiar with her” she looked to Dorothy
“Who?”
“None other than Ms. Gulch, that’s who” Ant Em hummed
“She’s one of them?” Dorothy gasped
“She’s the worst of them all”
“What did she do?”
“She is the most selfish woman. Her father was the mayor who established this town I remember, their mother died way back of Tuberculosis. She had a sister, a tenderly beautiful thing stricken with polio. Ms. Gulch started off as an obedient and respectable girl, then one day she turned around when she stole from her father and ran away to the New York City and there she dishonored her father by trying to be a journalist and degrading factories for having child labor and, by god, even teaching immigrants English. She caused her father to die of a heart attack and she did eventually come back and too late that is for her sister’s condition was far greater to treat and the poor thing died a suffering death before her time all because of that wretched woman”
“But she didn’t give her polio”
“No, that’s not the point, she wasn’t there for her, she didn’t tend to her needs, only her own and therefore her sister died. Don’t you understand?”
“Yes ma’am” Dorothy said obediently, she doesn’t sound selfish to me
“And as if she didn’t destroy enough lives she’s the reason that Hunk’s father disowned him and he’s a farmhand. That boy could have been great things, wonderful things, if it wasn’t for her, now he’ll never amount to anything, never”
“Yeah but did she mean for all those things to happen? Did she set out to hurt them or was she just trying to help?” Dorothy couldn’t believe she was actually defending the one who threatened Toto
“For Goodness sakes Dorothy! Sometimes you could be so—so foolish!” she snickered to herself
There was silence as Aunt Em continued with her washing. Dorothy thought about Ms. Gulch. She felt sorry for her despite what she was told. Is it really wrong fighting for others? Or is it still considered fighting and therefore it’s bad? She just wanted to defend others who couldn’t defend themselves, wouldn’t that make her a hero?
0o0o0o0
After washing the clothes Aunt Em finally told her to her face about taking her in for help.
“Do you understand why we’re taking you to this doctor Dorothy?”
“No, I’m fine Aunt Em, really” she pleaded in fear of losing the one thing that brought her color in her black and white home of Kansas.
“Really? You haven’t sleep through a night since that tornado and then you’re no help to me in the morning” she notices Dorothy distraught, “Now what?”
“I have a sick feeling, my friends are in trouble, I know it”
“You mean your non existent friends in Oz?” she mocked, “Wake up Dorothy! We’re in trouble, ever since that tornado damaged everything, the house isn’t yet finished and winter is coming soon and here you’re worrying about your friends in Oz…In OZ!” She snapped
“We’ll get the house done in time, somehow we’ll survive, there’s always a rainbow after a storm, always” she smiled her ignoring her realistic aunt
“Go get packed, we’re leaving first thing tomorrow” Aunt Em ordered ignoring optimistic Dorothy
“Yes ma’am” she walked away
The next day Uncle Henry got the wagon ready as they prepared to leave.
“You promise you’ll take care of Toto for me Hunk” Dorothy asked knowing he’d probably get to busy and forget
“I will, Dorothy, promise” He leaned on the newly built wooden fence
“Just wait and see that mutt would most likely be killed by Ms. Gulch for getting into her yard by the time you get back” Hickory joked, Dorothy didn’t find as funny as Hunk and Hickory did
“Very funny” she commented
“Actually the little mutt would most likely would be hanging by a rope from the trap I made for him”
They turned to see Ms. Gulch on her bike, Dorothy wasn’t as afraid of her now understanding her a bit, “I’m sorry Ms. Gulch, they can be crude sometimes” she apologized
“I’d say,” she turned her nose up, “You think of me so cruel I’d kill a dog, you’re all too ignorant to see anything, all of you”
“It was only a joke” Hunk sighed, “You made less of a fuss on bigger things”
“And just what’s that’s suppose to mean?” she fired back
“You tell me” Hunk casually replied grinning at her causing tension
She got back on her bike and ridden away.
“Dorothy time to go” Aunt Em called out
They got in the wagon and Dorothy waved to everyone
“Bye Uncle Henry!”
“You all get yourselves her by dark!”
“We will!” Dorothy called back as Aunt Em started up the wagon
Toto ran after trying to catch up
“Go home, Toto!” he continued to chase the wagon, “Go!” Toto stopped and barked as Dorothy left, “Will he be alright Aunt Em?”
“Of course”
Dorothy looked to the sky as they rode on. She felt that something wasn’t quite right, like something bad was happening, but where? Could there be something bad happening in Oz? She closed her eyes in prayer, Oh please let everything be the way I left it when I return soon, she knew she was going to return soon, she just knew it. She looked at the sign of the town.
“I’ve never been past Franklin before” she said curios as to what outside of Franklin could be like
She dosed off thinking about it and Oz. When she woke up she half expected something as exciting a surprise as the first glance of Oz but she was let down. It was very foggy that day making it hard to see and the only thing that she was able to see was a huge brick Victorian Mansion, she gaped at the size, three stories it had to be. She smiled remembering that this mansion was nothing compared to the greatness of the Emerald City.
Aunt Em stepped out, “This is it, fix your hair Dorothy” Her aunt said helping her out of the wagon
Dorothy quickly straightened her braids messy from sleep. But like the Emerald City she was nervous. She didn’t want to let Aunt Em down, just like then when she didn’t want to let Glinda down. They were soon greeted at the door and brought into an office. There sitting at the desk was a plump man who reminded Dorothy as Santa Claus a bit, she hid a giggle with her hand.
“You must be Dorothy, pleased to see you my girl” he said
“I’m pleased too sir” Dorothy shyly said back
“Your Aunt Em tells me you’ve been having troubling fantasies lately”
“They’re not fantasies” she quickly added
“You mean they’re real?”
“Yes” she said seriously
“Tell me about it, about Oz” He knowingly smiled to Aunt Em
Dorothy told him as much as she knew of Oz and he listened with a non emotional blank look. She showed him the key and told him of Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man.
“Interesting, so how can a lion talk?”
“All animals talk in Oz like you and me, although they have hardly any rights”
“This Scarecrow you speak of, if he has no brain how can he talk and function? All living things need a brain to work the body Dorothy”
“It’s a whole different world sir and things there have different rules than here” Dorothy smiled as she answered his mocking questions, “but that’s something hard for a non out-of-the-box thinker like you to comprehend” Aunt Em turned her head to her looking sternly by her rude comment
“So how did you get back home?” He changed the subject
“By the click of magic ruby slippers saying ‘there’s no place like home’”
“And just where are theses slippers now, do you have them with you?”
“No, they fell off on the way back”
“Sure they did,” he mumbled below his breath, “Why have you been depressed lately staying up night after night”
“Because” Dorothy didn’t want to waste her stories on this boorishly skeptical doctor
“I think I know just the thing to cheer Dorothy up” he got up from his desk, he opened a cupboard door, “this electrical marvel will make it possible for you too sleep again” he proudly said as he rolled out a machine of some sort, “and more importantly get rid of all those bad dreams that you’ve been telling me about”
Don’t be afraid, nothing bad will come from this. They just want to help me get better, that’s all. Dorothy comfortably soothed herself
“It takes electrical currents and shoots them to the brain causing it too…” he explaintion drowned out as Dorothy studied the machine.
She wasn’t afraid of this contraption or the doctor, Nobody, no doctor that there is or was, is ever going take Oz away from me.
She was looking at her own reflection through the glass of the machine…suddenly she jumped at a familiar face starring back…It couldn’t be? Could it?! She quickly looked behind her at the window and indeed she was behind the stained glass…Glinda! She smiled and winked at her and put her fingers to her lips motioning her to keep quiet
“By all mean we have control to stop these excess currents, don’t you agree Dorothy?” the doctor asked
“Yes” Dorothy turned to them, he continued on and Dorothy quickly looked back…she was gone
She smiled, she came back! She came back to take me to Oz! She heard my prayers! I’m going back to Oz, finally!
To be continued...
If you never seen RTO, the fic takes place 6 month after the tornado and Dorothy is sent to a mental hospital becuase of her tales of Oz. She escapes and ends up in Oz, now in crumbles and deserted with most everyone turned to stone. Glinda is missing and Oz is beyond Dorothy's help and the only one powerful enough to save Oz is melted to the ground...or so everyone though(okay you know where this is going lol)
Well here it is and please mind the minor typos and skipped words I missed while editing
Please let me know what you think!
0o0o0o0
Prologue
1899 Kansas
Dorothy was lying in her bed, it was one in the morning. She couldn’t get her mind off of Oz, when you have something so incredible happen to you how can you just forget it and move on. She did more than think about it as well, she talked about it, constantly. She wanted to share her adventures so badly but no one seemed to care. All Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were concerned about was repairing the ruins of the farm and house and getting the crops back to listen to her. The hands didn’t seem to care either, they were too busy with Aunt Em’s orders. The only one who seemed to listen, well at least try, was Hunk. Dorothy didn’t know if he believed her or was just trying to be nice. And being nice back Dorothy stopped telling him of Oz since he got accused of being too lazy and threatened to have his pay lowered.
“Are you still awake?” Aunt Em was standing by her bed
Dorothy just looked to her, Aunt Em sighed and Dorothy looked back to the window as Aunt Em walked away. Suddenly Dorothy saw a shooting star, “Look Toto! A shooting star” she whispered to him, I wish I had proof that Oz exists…No, I take that back, I wish I could return, return to Oz.
0o0o0o0
Chapter I
The next morning Dorothy was playing in the barnyard with the chickens. Something was going on she could tell. There was always whispering between Aunt Em and Uncle Henry behind her back. Aunt Em was going to take her on a trip to see a doctor of some sort, that was all she could make out of the whispers.
“Hey Dorothy”
She looked up to see Hunk, “Hello Hunk”
“What’s wrong?” He asked concerned noticing her frown, he’s been worried about lately, everyone has been.
“Do you ever wish you could go back?”
“Go back where, Oz?”
“Yeah, When in Oz I wanted to go home believing I belonged here, but now I don’t know anymore it doesn’t seem that I fit in here enough to belong. I seem to only get in people’s way. If was different in Oz, I was celebrated and welcomed by all the citizens, I was wanted there, when I wanted to go home they wanted me to stay so badly, enough to cry” She looked down remembering
“I know what you mean, I went to the city a long while back. People take going back east as giving up but I wasn’t giving up I was seeking opportunities by going to college, I was considered odd then seeking opportunities in an education rather than gold hunting in California”
“Where did you get the money to travel east?” Dorothy asked remembering Aunt Em’s stories of covered wagons and hardships
“My father was rich, he was in stocks and such and our family had a noble name dating back to the colonists”
“Old money?”
“Yeah you can say that. Anyways my father wanted me to go to college to become a doctor, I just wanted to go to college to get the hell out of our small town and get a whole new experience—“
“Hunk quit talking and help us out with the fences!” Zeke called out
“I have get going, sorry” Hunk paused thinking for a moment, “By the way I found this key in the barn ruins, I think it could be from Oz”
“Let me see!” Dorothy lit up with excitement as she eagerly took it from him, it was indeed a key with the O-Z sign of Oz, “It is, it’s a key from Oz, it’s my proof!”
“Your proof?”
“Yes proof that Oz exists! The proof I wished for!” she jumped up, “I can’t wait to show this to Aunt Em, thanks Hunk!” she ran to the house
“How thoughtful of you to egg her on like that” Zeke sighed, “You even had to use some nails from our supply to go make her that”
“An orphan little girl like her needs something to believe in”
“Yeah well you want to know what this Oz nonsense has gotten her into?”
“Hope?”
“No, I heard them talking the other day, they’re sending her away, to some hospital and you can guess what sort of hospital it is”
“They couldn’t? She’s just a little girl, they wouldn’t send her to a place like that because of something she just made up to help herself get over her parent’s death”
“Well they are tomorrow”
“Of course, how could I forget, they always love to bend those who dream of a better world” he sighed remembering a special girl he once knew, “always”
0o0o0o0
“Aunt Em! Aunt Em!” Dorothy ran
“What child?”
“Look” she panted, “it’s a key, a key from Oz!”
“Not this again! You need to stop this!” she groaned
“But look at it, O-Z, Oz, it the sign of Oz!” Dorothy smiled convincingly
“It’s just an old key Dorothy” she shook her head, “Probably from a destroyed house”
“But look, it has the sign!” she tried again
“Just coincidence, that’s all, now go inside”
Dorothy looked down sadly; “Alright” she gave up and went into the house, Aunt Em went back inside to go back to washing clothes in the tub
“You never told me that Hunk used to live in the city?” Dorothy then said putting the key in her pocket
“What is there to know, he went to the city fell in love with a suffragist and lost his mind and everything else and now works as a farmhand just to survive” she said nonchalantly
“What’s a suffragist?”
“They’re ghastly women who do nothing but corrupt everything that’s good in this country just for their own needs” she mused
“Why do they do those things?”
“Because they’re horrid spinsters who are too ugly to be loved and cared for by a man so they claim they don’t need one and picket around for rights for crazy and radical things such as voting and holding office” she said in disgust
“Really?”
“Yes, we have one already in our town, you’re very familiar with her” she looked to Dorothy
“Who?”
“None other than Ms. Gulch, that’s who” Ant Em hummed
“She’s one of them?” Dorothy gasped
“She’s the worst of them all”
“What did she do?”
“She is the most selfish woman. Her father was the mayor who established this town I remember, their mother died way back of Tuberculosis. She had a sister, a tenderly beautiful thing stricken with polio. Ms. Gulch started off as an obedient and respectable girl, then one day she turned around when she stole from her father and ran away to the New York City and there she dishonored her father by trying to be a journalist and degrading factories for having child labor and, by god, even teaching immigrants English. She caused her father to die of a heart attack and she did eventually come back and too late that is for her sister’s condition was far greater to treat and the poor thing died a suffering death before her time all because of that wretched woman”
“But she didn’t give her polio”
“No, that’s not the point, she wasn’t there for her, she didn’t tend to her needs, only her own and therefore her sister died. Don’t you understand?”
“Yes ma’am” Dorothy said obediently, she doesn’t sound selfish to me
“And as if she didn’t destroy enough lives she’s the reason that Hunk’s father disowned him and he’s a farmhand. That boy could have been great things, wonderful things, if it wasn’t for her, now he’ll never amount to anything, never”
“Yeah but did she mean for all those things to happen? Did she set out to hurt them or was she just trying to help?” Dorothy couldn’t believe she was actually defending the one who threatened Toto
“For Goodness sakes Dorothy! Sometimes you could be so—so foolish!” she snickered to herself
There was silence as Aunt Em continued with her washing. Dorothy thought about Ms. Gulch. She felt sorry for her despite what she was told. Is it really wrong fighting for others? Or is it still considered fighting and therefore it’s bad? She just wanted to defend others who couldn’t defend themselves, wouldn’t that make her a hero?
0o0o0o0
After washing the clothes Aunt Em finally told her to her face about taking her in for help.
“Do you understand why we’re taking you to this doctor Dorothy?”
“No, I’m fine Aunt Em, really” she pleaded in fear of losing the one thing that brought her color in her black and white home of Kansas.
“Really? You haven’t sleep through a night since that tornado and then you’re no help to me in the morning” she notices Dorothy distraught, “Now what?”
“I have a sick feeling, my friends are in trouble, I know it”
“You mean your non existent friends in Oz?” she mocked, “Wake up Dorothy! We’re in trouble, ever since that tornado damaged everything, the house isn’t yet finished and winter is coming soon and here you’re worrying about your friends in Oz…In OZ!” She snapped
“We’ll get the house done in time, somehow we’ll survive, there’s always a rainbow after a storm, always” she smiled her ignoring her realistic aunt
“Go get packed, we’re leaving first thing tomorrow” Aunt Em ordered ignoring optimistic Dorothy
“Yes ma’am” she walked away
The next day Uncle Henry got the wagon ready as they prepared to leave.
“You promise you’ll take care of Toto for me Hunk” Dorothy asked knowing he’d probably get to busy and forget
“I will, Dorothy, promise” He leaned on the newly built wooden fence
“Just wait and see that mutt would most likely be killed by Ms. Gulch for getting into her yard by the time you get back” Hickory joked, Dorothy didn’t find as funny as Hunk and Hickory did
“Very funny” she commented
“Actually the little mutt would most likely would be hanging by a rope from the trap I made for him”
They turned to see Ms. Gulch on her bike, Dorothy wasn’t as afraid of her now understanding her a bit, “I’m sorry Ms. Gulch, they can be crude sometimes” she apologized
“I’d say,” she turned her nose up, “You think of me so cruel I’d kill a dog, you’re all too ignorant to see anything, all of you”
“It was only a joke” Hunk sighed, “You made less of a fuss on bigger things”
“And just what’s that’s suppose to mean?” she fired back
“You tell me” Hunk casually replied grinning at her causing tension
She got back on her bike and ridden away.
“Dorothy time to go” Aunt Em called out
They got in the wagon and Dorothy waved to everyone
“Bye Uncle Henry!”
“You all get yourselves her by dark!”
“We will!” Dorothy called back as Aunt Em started up the wagon
Toto ran after trying to catch up
“Go home, Toto!” he continued to chase the wagon, “Go!” Toto stopped and barked as Dorothy left, “Will he be alright Aunt Em?”
“Of course”
Dorothy looked to the sky as they rode on. She felt that something wasn’t quite right, like something bad was happening, but where? Could there be something bad happening in Oz? She closed her eyes in prayer, Oh please let everything be the way I left it when I return soon, she knew she was going to return soon, she just knew it. She looked at the sign of the town.
“I’ve never been past Franklin before” she said curios as to what outside of Franklin could be like
She dosed off thinking about it and Oz. When she woke up she half expected something as exciting a surprise as the first glance of Oz but she was let down. It was very foggy that day making it hard to see and the only thing that she was able to see was a huge brick Victorian Mansion, she gaped at the size, three stories it had to be. She smiled remembering that this mansion was nothing compared to the greatness of the Emerald City.
Aunt Em stepped out, “This is it, fix your hair Dorothy” Her aunt said helping her out of the wagon
Dorothy quickly straightened her braids messy from sleep. But like the Emerald City she was nervous. She didn’t want to let Aunt Em down, just like then when she didn’t want to let Glinda down. They were soon greeted at the door and brought into an office. There sitting at the desk was a plump man who reminded Dorothy as Santa Claus a bit, she hid a giggle with her hand.
“You must be Dorothy, pleased to see you my girl” he said
“I’m pleased too sir” Dorothy shyly said back
“Your Aunt Em tells me you’ve been having troubling fantasies lately”
“They’re not fantasies” she quickly added
“You mean they’re real?”
“Yes” she said seriously
“Tell me about it, about Oz” He knowingly smiled to Aunt Em
Dorothy told him as much as she knew of Oz and he listened with a non emotional blank look. She showed him the key and told him of Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man.
“Interesting, so how can a lion talk?”
“All animals talk in Oz like you and me, although they have hardly any rights”
“This Scarecrow you speak of, if he has no brain how can he talk and function? All living things need a brain to work the body Dorothy”
“It’s a whole different world sir and things there have different rules than here” Dorothy smiled as she answered his mocking questions, “but that’s something hard for a non out-of-the-box thinker like you to comprehend” Aunt Em turned her head to her looking sternly by her rude comment
“So how did you get back home?” He changed the subject
“By the click of magic ruby slippers saying ‘there’s no place like home’”
“And just where are theses slippers now, do you have them with you?”
“No, they fell off on the way back”
“Sure they did,” he mumbled below his breath, “Why have you been depressed lately staying up night after night”
“Because” Dorothy didn’t want to waste her stories on this boorishly skeptical doctor
“I think I know just the thing to cheer Dorothy up” he got up from his desk, he opened a cupboard door, “this electrical marvel will make it possible for you too sleep again” he proudly said as he rolled out a machine of some sort, “and more importantly get rid of all those bad dreams that you’ve been telling me about”
Don’t be afraid, nothing bad will come from this. They just want to help me get better, that’s all. Dorothy comfortably soothed herself
“It takes electrical currents and shoots them to the brain causing it too…” he explaintion drowned out as Dorothy studied the machine.
She wasn’t afraid of this contraption or the doctor, Nobody, no doctor that there is or was, is ever going take Oz away from me.
She was looking at her own reflection through the glass of the machine…suddenly she jumped at a familiar face starring back…It couldn’t be? Could it?! She quickly looked behind her at the window and indeed she was behind the stained glass…Glinda! She smiled and winked at her and put her fingers to her lips motioning her to keep quiet
“By all mean we have control to stop these excess currents, don’t you agree Dorothy?” the doctor asked
“Yes” Dorothy turned to them, he continued on and Dorothy quickly looked back…she was gone
She smiled, she came back! She came back to take me to Oz! She heard my prayers! I’m going back to Oz, finally!
To be continued...
