Sorta like fanfiction...

[SeasickKitten]

Well, my friend and I were bored one night so we decided we'd roleplay Wicked. I edited it a bit so that our separate bits blend more. We did this on three separate occasions, doing a different scene from Elphie and Glinda's lives. As you will be able to tell, it's based largely on the musical, though I suppose has touches of book inspiration. I thought they turned out fairly well, so I thought I would share them. Since I enjoy reading Wicked FF, I thought others would enjoy reading thses. Please ignore the bad use of lyrics, lol... and there are some spoilers, so if you haven't seen the show or read the script, *do not read this if you don't want to know what happens!*

-Roomates-

Galinda studied herself in the mirror as she flashed her winning smile. She was perfect! Perfect teeth, perfect hair, perfect looks, and a winning personality, or at least she thought. The only thing wrong was that green bean room mate of hers! Why did Morrible have to mistake what she meant when she raised her hand? Her? Volunteer to room with Miss Tall, Green, and Studious? Hah! That was a laugh, and she did laugh out loud.

Elphaba unpacked her scraggly clothes, hunching over and trying to conceal as much of her worn wardrobe as possible, recognizing it was the antithesis of her roomate’s fashionable closet. She jumped at a sudden snort from her roommate and dared a quick glance over at the short blonde before finishing folding her few garments and stuffing them unceremoniously into a dresser drawer. Why had this socialite volunteered to room with her, and then seem to want to take it back?

Galinda flipped her hair and then moved a couple of unruly strands. She smiled once more and then turned around to begin her own unpacking. She grimaced... She should have someone to do it for her. She, Galinda, of the Upper Uplands unpacking her own suitcase? Again she laughed and began on the many bags she had brought for her stay at Shiz

Elphaba started at the loud laugh from her roommate, and worried that Glinda (was that her name?) was finding Elphaba's skin an impetus to laugh. Just like all the other people in this unforgiving world that she was thrust into. She chanced a quick glance at the uppity uplander and realized that the blonde was simply laughing, about what ever uplanders laugh about to themselves. Elphaba quickly snatched up one of her books and plopped onto her bed, finding solace in the information pouring into her brain.

Galinda carefully hung her dresses up in the large closet she had to share with the Munchkinlander and her hair fell from behind her ear. She brushed it back in an unconcious display of grace. She attempted to put some of her belongings on the high shelf above the closet, but found her height wasn't sufficient and so found another place for them. Galinda then plopped down on her bed, seeming to drop into a seductive lounge without purpose. She felt as if she would cry. Her social status was ruined now that she had to room with this green girl! She would have, but she didn't want to seem weak in front of her roomie. She felt a power coming from her, and put her self on guard from it.

Elphaba slowly lowered the textbook she was devouring. She regretted the fact that her roommate seemed to regret her presence to such an utter amount that no conversation had passed between the two of them. Glinda, a seemingly shallow bubbly person, would typically seem the type to talk aimlessly, but not it seemed with Elphaba.

Galinda's eyes flicked over to observe the girl on the bed across the room. She was tall, or at least taller than herself, had very strong features, and of course, was green. If it wasn't for that, than perhaps she would be pretty. But, when Galinda thought of it, the skintone did give her a sort of exotic beauty. She snapped her eyes away from the girl and cleared her throat. Being the type that usually chattered nonstop, she was getting uncomfortable in the silence-filled room. "Well, if we absotively must room together, I am Galinda Upland, of the Upper Uplands. You are..?" She had forgotten the green girl's name, but it had been something weird.

Elphaba brought her head out of the fog of her reading and back into the real world. Had Glinda, or GUH-Linda as she seemed to insist, addressed her? Elphaba shyly closed her book and shifted her solid gaze onto the upland girl before croaking out a puzzled, "What?"

Galinda rolled her eyes and repeated herself. "I am Galinda Upland of the Upper Uplands and you are..."
"Elphaba." The green girl muttered, uninterested in conversation with this, this, well, she didnt know what Glinda was exactly yet. Then she sensed that Glinda wanted more of an answer about her identity, so Elphaba added, "Thropp. The Third Thropp Descending," Hoping that sufficed for conversation with her roommate.

Galinda smiled behind a petite and shapely hand. "Does your name imply elfblood in your history?" Everyone knew elves were green, and though it was a mean thing to say, it didn't phase Galinda. It was an honest question.

Elphaba, not shaken by Galinda's slightly socially unacceptable comment, (having never been socially acceptable herself) replied simply. She courteously said, "If you are referring to my verdigris, than yes, it might appear that I am part elf. But no, the putrid shade that I am seems to be simply a birth defect, or as my father seems to think, a punishment for his sins."

Oooh, scandalous! Galinda grinned at the thought of what kind of sins warranted that. She looked at the girl who made her last thought. She laughed at the sight of her.


Elphaba was growing weary of the random spurts of laughter emitting from the Uplander. "What are you laughing about?" She questioned. Her many years of society's bitterness toward her made Elphaba hard and determined on almost every level of her being.

Wasn't it obvious? Galinda got to thinking about how unlucky it was that this had happened. "Oh, this!" She cried out gesturing around the room. "This whole situation! Me being paired with you of all people!" She collasped into hysterics on her bed and soon found herself crying because she was laughing so hard.

Elphaba sat welded to her bed. She possessed no faint idea of how to react to the over reactive and over dramatic mess that she must learn to deal with for the entirety of her first year at Shiz. She calmly replied, somewhat under her breath as she returned to her reading, "You could just request to be placed in a dorm."

That made Galinda laugh even harder if that was possible. "Me? In a dorm? You are too funny!" She said all between spurts of giggles and gasps for air.
"And not just looking!" She added as an afterthought and then laughed harder.

Elphaba glared at her roommate down her long hawkish nose. "I'm very glad you find yourself amusing, because I certainly don't." She turned, frustrated, back to her book, trying to become absorbed into its pages once again, and block out the silly little noises coming from Galinda the Obnoxious and Ostentatious.

Galinda eventually calmed herself and got up off of the bed. She needed to share what she found so funny with someone. The whole story of how there had been some confusion over rooming here at Shiz. Her parents had wanted her to write them as soon as she could, so they would work as well as anyone else. She walked over to her desk and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen.


-Ozdust and a Little Before-

Galinda's eyes had been glued to the new kid. He was supposedly a prince, a winkie prince. How exotic! When he asked her to go to the dance at the Ozdust, how could she refuse? They were both so perfect! They deserved each other! Now she was in her room with ShenShen and Pfannee, looking through her wardrobe for something to wear.

"Please Elphaba, try to understand," Nessa pleaded with her sister in a mild and somewhat patronizing tone. They were in Nessa's room, and Nessa was tyring to convince Elphaba that she would have a wonderful time at the dance with Boq. Elphaba didn't seem too keen on her disabled sister attending any dance, but consented with a defeated, "I do," of understanding.

Galinda grimaced as she pulled out the ugliest hat she had ever seen. "Check out this disgusticified hat! My granny always sends me the strangest things!" She put it on as a joke and her friends tittered with laughter. Then an idea struck Galinda.

"Wouldn't it be the greatest if I got the green bean to wear this, in public?" She smiled with glee at the thought.

Elphaba, still deciding if she would darken the party with her presence at the Ozdust ballroom, walked sulkingly back to her room. She opened the door to find Glinda with her usual set of cronies, Pfannee and ShenShen. She averted her eyes from the spectacle of the three getting ready for the dance and sat down on her bed, dressed in her usual black frock, and picked up a book. Still determining her plan for the night, she pretended to emerse herself within the pages of the book in order to be ignored by Galinda and her guests.

Galinda shooed Pfannee and ShenShen out of the room, thinking she might better convince Elphaba to wear the hat if they were gone.

Elphaba looked up, startled by the sudden almost vacancy of the room that had just been filled by overly perfumed girls. Her eyes met Galinda's for a second and she started, "Galinda, listen, Nessa and I had just been talking about you..."

Galinda smiled and hid the hat behind her back. "And I was just talking about you!" She stepped toward Elphaba and held it out. "I thought you might wanna wear this hat to the party tonight!"

"It's really, uh, sharp, doncha think? You know black is this year's pink. It would go so well with your hair! It'd look smart on you! And you are so smart!"

Elphaba looked at the hat with apprehension, and back at Galinda for any sign of a hidden motive behind the sudden gift. Detecting none, she slowly took the hat from Galinda's hand and laid it on her
dresser. "Thanks," She practically mumbled under her breath.

It took all Galinda had to keep herself from bursting into fits, then and there. She turned so Elphaba wouldn't be able to tell if she let a smile slip and went back to her closet, to continue her search for the perfect dress.

After Galinda's kind gift, Elphaba felt a sudden boost of confidence, and shuddered quietly in response for it was a very rare occurrence. She had decided. Elphaba would show up at the dance, and wear something maybe, different than her usual black frock. A black dress! She decided it had to be black, just to match the hat. Then she cursed herself, feeling her roommates influence on her fashion decisions.

Elphaba, not paying too much attention to the way she dressed, quickly changed into her black dress and set the hat on her head. She adjusted it correctly in the mirror and even bent it a little to add a dip to the rim. She then walked out into the hallway and started on her way to catch a coach to the ballroom. On her way she spotted Madame Morrible.

Well, Galinda was nice to me, Elphaba thought to herself. I could do something to help her out. She tapped Madame Morrible on the shoulder and the carp looking woman turned her attention to her esteemed green student. "Madame? Galinda, you know, my roommate" She began, Morrible squinted her eyes in another direction, as if trying to picture the unimportant student. "Galinda of the Upper Uplands?" Understanding dawned on Madame Morribles face and she nodded for Elphaba to continue.

"She shows real potential for sorcery. Is there anyway you could get her into your class?" Morrible nodded thoughtfully.

"Well, for you, Miss Elphaba, we should be able to squeeze her into the class." Elphaba smiled and thanked Madame Morrible and headed on out to the coach.



Madame Morrible pulled Galinda away from her friends. What could Horrible Morrible want with her? And why did she have to come now of all times? "Miss Galinda. This is for you." The woman said and handed her a silver rod with a jeweled star on the end.

"What is this?" Galinda asked.

"It's your training wand. Miss Elphaba convinced me that I needed you in my program, although I, myself, don't think you are cut out for it. You have Miss Elphaba to thank." Morrible didn't seem too thrilled to be adding Galinda to her program.

Galinda stared at the wand in her hand. What had possessed Elphaba to recommend her? What had Galinda ever done for Elphaba? Then it struck her. The hat! And now Elphaba was ging to make a fool out of herself. What had she done?

Elphaba walked into the Ballroom with an unusual bounce to her step. She opened the doors to the dance floor and stopped dead in her tracks at the top of the stairs as every eye in the room turned in her direction. It was as if an unseen spotlight shined on her. Her confidence began to ebb away, but she realized she had nothing to lose. She continued down the stairs to the dance floor and began dancing to the songs in her head, since the music had stopped short at her entrance.

Galinda was mortified! What could she do? And now Elphaba was making even a bigger fool of herself, dancing like that!

Elphaba flipped her wrists and wove her arms around, bending her knees, and standing straight again, continuing in an alien movement.

Galinda took a deep breath and a leap of faith. She walked up to Elphaba. "Mind if I cut in?" She began dancing as well, badly imitating Elphaba's movements.

Elphaba stopped her motion for a split second, with a look of shock aimed at Galinda, and then started up her own dance again.

Galinda breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the music start up agina and saw the other students began their own interpretation of Elphaba's strange dance.

Elphaba smiled warmly at her sudden acceptance and met Galinda's gaze and her smile grew. She for once, was not alone. The realization made her soul glow with a sense of belonging she had never felt before that night.

[SeasickKitten]

One more...

-The Emerald City-

Glinda, for she was Glinda since Dr. Dillamond had been taken away, gasped as the stepped off of the train. What a different world! She looked around, her eyes soaking in all she saw. Now this was the place where she belonged! She could tell already. She looked behind her to see if Elphaba was following. Since the incident with the dance and magic lessons, they had become inseperable.

Excitedly bouncing off the train, Elphaba gaped, eyes full of wonder, at a city; a GREEN city. Her excitement surprised even herself as she realized that becoming friends with Glinda had made her assume some Glindafied quirks. Elphaba gazed again across the city's panorama and saw that there were museums, libraries, palaces, so much that she simply couldn't fathom all of the city's complexities at once.

Glinda pulled on the sleeve of Elphaba's plain frock and looked like a child urging her mother to take her into a candy shop. "Oh Elphie! Come on! We'll get run over if we stand here!" And as she said that, a man pushing a luggage cart whizzed past them, causing Glinda's hair to flow around her face like a heavenly glow. "Come on! Let's go shopping, or something! It's not everyday you come to the Emerald City!" Glinda looked up at Elphaba with a pleading look. It seemed she had already forgotten the real reason for coming to the Emerald City in the first place.

Elphaba slowly emerged from her cloud of wonderment, closed her gaping mouth, and found her self standing barely on the curb of a rather busy street in the middle of the city. She looked down at Glinda and saw her pleading eyes, and immediately formed a plan of action that they should follow, setting Glinda's whims aside for a second. "Come on, Glinda!" Elphaba shouted with a sudden burst of excitement and pulled her friend roughly by the arm toward a fruit vendor before pulling her to a hotel nearby.

Elphaba figured they could budget their money and stay in a nice hotel while in the city. "Ok, Glinda, we are going to check in, and the rest of the night, I will sit in the room and think about what I want to present to the Wizard and you can go out shopping. Deal?"

"Oh, but you need to come! You can't be seen before the Wizard in that! This is the perfect opportunity to get you something flattering! First impressions are lasting, and one of the first impressions is the way you look." Glinda said the last part matter-of-factly, as if it were common knowledge.

Elphaba snorted as unladylike as she could. "Well, you can make the first impression. I'll stand behind you, you can announce us to the wizard and then I can just talk while hiding behind your superfluous dresses and with their layers and layers of... fabric frosting. If you wear that dress," Elphaba gestured pointedly with a long green finger at the fluffiest of fluffy dresses, "I'm sure the wizard would be impressed." And she finished with another snort at her own humor.

Glinda laughed and smiled coyly. "Darling, I could wear that," a guesture to one of Elphaba's plainest frocks, "and the Wizard would be impressed... why the great Lurline herself and the Unnamed God would be impressed by the stunning beauty of Miss. Glinda Upland of the Upper Uplands!" She twirled and her lavish dress flowed around her legs, as she laughed. She knew what she said was blasphemy, but she was never much into religion.

Elphaba laughed at her friend's perpetual self assuredness, wishing she had a sliver of that confidence in herself. Then Elphaba had an idea, and before she could think about the weight of her question, she turned to Glinda in all her glittering glory and asked, "Hey, could you maybe, take me shopping and help me find a presentable dress?" Then she added sarcastically and with twitching fingers, "Just in case the wizard isn't dazzled by your looks?"

Glinda gasped and her hands flew to her mouth. "Sweet Oz! Elphaba shopping for a new dress? And asking me to help? If things continue going this way, the Wizard will end up making both of us his advisors! From what I hear, he needs some fashion advice... or a decent hairpiece." Glinda didn't know what actaully she would find in the Wizard's castle, but she's heard that his head drew all the attention. A bad toupee could really grab people's attention. "Oh Elphie, I'd love to!"

Elphaba laughed at the mental picture she had imagined of the Wizard and his infamous hair piece. Then she sighed, finally realizing just how much she had gotten her self into, for Glinda was overly happy to help anyone with fashion. And what exactly am I good for? She casually wondered for a second, before looking back at her friend's anxious face. "Well, we better leave very quickly before I change my mind."

Glinda squealed with excitement and grabbed Elphie's arm. She looked into the windows of the shops along the street and finally found a shop that fit her standards. She pulled Elphaba in after her and immediately began looking at racks. She found a stunning red dress, that fit long and close but she grimaced when she held it up the Elphaba. The red and green made her look like a Lurlinemas decoration. "Remind me that red is not your color!" She put it back and looked at the other dresses. She wanted to find somehting a color other than black, for that was what Elphie always wore.

Elphaba rolled her eyes. "Glinda, you should know by now, that nothing goes with green! Except, miraculously, that pink flower you put in my hair that one time... but really. Black is good, it fits my, my, outlook on this putrid world. Black is perfect for me." Elphaba gave up on attempting to seem interested in the shopping and turned her attention to the bustling street outside the shop, noticing the horrid lack of Animals in the city. With a sigh, she turned back to Glinda, trying to make her antsyness obvious to her friend, hoping to urge her to find something soon.

Glinda gave a frustrated sigh as she couldn't find anything that looked flattering on her friend. She came upon, finally, a long black dress which several layers of sheer black material acting as a skirt. The material was cut in different ways making some parts lighter and some darker. The bodice was fairly tight, and had lacework around the high collar. It had beadwork and embroidery patterning it, and some of the designs ran down to the sheer material. It had loose sheer sleeves which flowed off of the arms and were held in place by slipping a metal ring around the middle finger. She gasped when she saw it and held it up to Elphaba.
"Ooo! It looks like your size! Luck is with us today!" She handed the dress to Elphaba and hurried her in a dressing room to try it on.

Elphaba felt a slight flicker of excitement in her stomach, simply because Glinda's excitement was so catching, NOT because she was actually interested in the dress fitting her, she told her self forcefully. She daintily slipped on the black dress, but came out of the dressing room with the sleeves dangling unused. "Um, Glinda?" she questioned, slightly embarrassed. "What do I do with the... sleeves? Do the rings just hang there?" A tinge of her embarrassment touched her cheeks and made them a slight darker green.

"No Elphie! You slip them over your middle finger, so the sleeves flow around and down your arms!" She spoke as if she were speaking to a small child who had put the shoes on the wrong feet. She walked up and put the rings in their proper places, her fingers brushing Elphie's with a tenderness their deep friendship brought. She stepped back and her eyes widened. She suppressed an awed and surprised gasp. "Why, Miss Elphaba, you're... beautiful..." The last word was breathy and quiet, almost a whisper.

Elphaba lowered her head to examine herself, stupidly ignoring the mirror. Then she evenly looked at Glinda's eyes, trying to detect any sign of joking, and after detecting none, she smiled sheepishly and her blush deepened. "So you think this might impress the Wizard?" She then clumsily spun to watch the dress twirl, an impulse that surprised her.

"Oh, Elphie! If I'm impressed, the Wizard will be!" She grinned and hugged Elphaba. "Go ahead and change back! You need to figure out what you will say! I'll pay for the dress! It's enough to see you in it, so you don't owe me!"

Elphaba slowly slipped out of the black dress, enjoying how the fabric gracefully caressed her skin. And it's black! Thank Lurline! She thought to herself. She came out of the dressing room and found Glinda looking at her anxiously, as if anticipating an extended shopping trip. "Thank you Glinda, I actually, like this dress."

Glinda smiled warmly at her friend. "It's my pleasure, Elphaba. Now give me that dress so we can pay for it... unless you'd like to look through some more of these racks..." She said trailing off, her eyes being caught by a gorgeous strapless pink dress that was decked in sparkles. It had a rather low cut and a tight bodice, that would fit Glinda rather nicely. It wasn't too bright, but a pale powder pink. It had beadwork on the bodice and the dress lengthened down in a cut that would cling to her shapely legs. She could almost feel the satiny fabric against her skin. "Elphie, I can't resist! Wait one moment! I'll be quick, I promise." She grabbed the dress and dashed into the dressing room.

Elphaba snorted at her friend's insatiable hunger for more clothes to add to her wardrobe. She had grown restless in the clothing store and decided to bring herself down from her normally high loft of societal acting to Glinda's level for a bit, and became somewhat playful. She ran over to Glinda's dressing room door and banged annoyingly with her fists before scratching creepily with her fingers at the door. "Glinda.... It's Bic.... I never got that dance you promised me..." She teased impersonating Boq.

"Oh, Elphaba, don't even joke about that!" She trailed off, for she began thinking about Elphaba's sister, Nessarose. Before they had left for the Emerald City, Boq had told everyone that he still was in love with Glinda rather than Nessa, with whom he had presumably been with. She knew that Nessa was heartbroken and most likely would never get over it. She felt guilty, a feeling which she hadn't felt a lot before the capture of Dr. Dillmond. She never would have felt guilty or even cared beforehand.

"Oh, so you do have some feelings for Boq I see? Under all your fluff you have a heart thats capable of loving, what's this? Someone less than perfect?" Elphaba laughed, meaning to insult Glinda a little bit further, to cement that fact that she thought Glinda to be shallow to the highest degree. Then she realized the harshness of her words and ventured, "Hey Glinda, how's the dress look? Give me a peek."

Glinda bit her lip and scowled a bit at Elphaba's words, but soon got over it when she looked at the dress in the mirror. She squealed with delight. "Oh Elphaba! You must see this! Have you ever seen a more gorgeous dress?" She opened the dressing room door and gave her friend a seductive look and a little growl. "With me in this, and you in that, how can the Wizard resist us?"

Elphaba laughed and played along, giving her version of a seductive look, which ended up making her look like a confused broccoli of sorts. "He won't be able to resist us! We are unlimited! I can finally do something to affect this wasteland of Oz, bringing the Animals back up to the standards of living they deserve..." She trailed off, lost in her own thoughts once again, a place she traveled alone and spent much of her time in.

Glinda left Elphaba where she had wandered and changed back. She took the dress from Elphie's hands and paid for them. She waited while the cashier put the dresses in bags, and thanked her when she received them. "Alright, Elphaba! Now that we'll look good, we can go back to the hotel and let you figure out what will make us sound good. Or rather you..." She blushed. She wasn't too aware of all of the social issues that they had come to discuss. She knew it was something about the absence of Animals that was growing larger and larger.

Uncharacteristically, Elphaba felt at ease all of a sudden, and made another rash statement which she knew Glinda would love. "Let's eat at some fancy restaurant first; I would just love to see some more of this city." Now that she had started she realized she might as well continue in her planned diversion. "You could check out the architecture while I gain a feel for the layout of this city."

Glinda grinned. "I love architecture! And I am rather hungry... though I may have to settle for just a salad. I have to make sacrifices for being so stunning!" She carried the awkward packages towards the door. "Since I picked the dress shop, you can pick the restaurant... but don't make it too bizarre."

Elphaba snorted. "We can browse around the city for awhile; I feel no rush to plan out what I want to say to the Wizard. It's almost as if the words are written on my heart, simply waiting to be spoken. You of all people know how passionate I am about the Animal rights! But let’s get walking." She traipsed off into the crowd, glancing back over her long nose just to make sure Glinda was behind her. "Come on, Glinda, keep up!" She challenged her shorter friend, for Elphie knew she had much longer legs than the blonde.

Glinda tried to keep up, but because of her short legs, the dresses, her heels, and the crowds she lost sight of Elphaba, which she wouldn't have deemed possible before. She looked around her, determined not to panic.

Elphaba walked about a half of a block from the store determined in her strolling, then turned to check for Glinda once more. She looked back into the crowd, and for a second, she didn't see her friend. Then she saw the crowd rushing around a seemingly immobile object in the middle of the sidewalk, like a stream meeting a boulder. She snorted at the blonde blockade and shoved her way back through the crowd before grasping Glinda's hand and pulling her into the rushing river in the right direction once again