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Early the next morning Ellie awoke to find Toto barking at her door. She sniffed and got up and walked up to the door. Opening it Toto ran out as quickly as he could. She then shut the door and walked over to the bed and cried some more. Today was the memorial she didn't even know if she could look at the statue. She missed Dorothy so much already, she should have protected her more. She then heard a knock on her door.

"Ellie? Are you there?" came the voice of Mr. Gale.

Ellie got up and walked to the door. Opening the door she was face to face with Henry gale.

"Hello, Mr. Gale." Ellie said wiping tears from her face.

"How are you doing?" Mr. Gale asked seeming to be on the verge of tears.

"Not well, you?" Ellie asked

"I miss her." Henry said placing a hand on Ellie's shoulder.

"I do too, I wish I had protected her better." Ellie said pushing it away.

This shocked henry, was this little girl blaming herself? He nodded and walked in the direction of Glinda's room. When he got there he found Glinda flipping through books causing some pages to rip out. She was crying hoping to find something, anything.

"Miss Glinda?" Henry asked looking at her.

Glinda gasped and looked up.

"Mr. Gale. I am so sorry, did you need anything?" Glinda asked.

"You need to talk to your sister, I think she's blaming herself." Henry said.

"Sweet Oz, no!" Glinda said getting up and running out.

After a few minutes Glinda found herself at Ellie's room knocking on the door.

"Ellie it's me please open the door." Glinda said.

It took a few minutes but the door eventually opened. Ellie wiped some tears off her face and embraced her sister.

"Glinda, please tell me you found something I'd do anything to get her back." Ellie said.

"Ellie, you know if I did you'd be the second to know, I'm sorry, but you can't blame yourself for what happened to Dorothy." Glinda said kissing her sister on the forehead.

"Sis, I blame myself because she was my charge, I was supposed to protect her under your orders." Ellie said wiping tears from her eyes.

Glinda's eyes went wide, she never had relieved Ellie of her charge, and she never lifted her orders. She hugged Ellie tightly and began to cry a bit. She then sniffed and wipe tears from her eyes. She told Ellie to change into a dress, the memorial would be soon. Ellie nodded and shooed her sister away. She shut the door and walked to her closet. She pulled out the dress Dorothy designed for her. She hugged the dress tightly and went to change into it.

A few hours later in the chambers the sun had finally peaked through the darkened clouds and was shining on the statue making it shine beautifully. Wiser was cleaning off the statue with one of his wings, he was crying, he wished there was something he could do but he knew that there was nothing that could bring her back. Soon everyone who was in the emerald city and others who traveled by large carriages to get there to see the fallen heroine of oz.

The china princess and marshal mallow were the first to confront the statue. They began to tear up, soon Glinda entered followed by her parents. Walking up to the statue Glinda brought a hand up to the face of the statue and stroked it with her thumb. Even if the sun had warmed it, it still wasn't her. Em and Henry gale then entered and stood next to them, followed by the tin man, scarecrow, and the lion entered. None of them could bear to look at the statue. After the girls had filed in and everyone who was coming had taken their places. Ellie was the last one to come in. she was carrying a piece of paper. She slowly approached the statue and set the piece of paper in front of it.

She had gone and sketched a picture of Dorothy, blow that were the words 'Even then' in large golden friendly letters. She then walked away from the statue crying. Glinda had given a speech about Dorothy, about how she managed to change everybody that she met. The Scarecrow then went on to tell the story about how Dorothy help him, the tin man and the lion gain what they most desired. And then it was over. Everyone filed out towards the banquet hall to give their condolences to Mr. and Mrs. Gale and to have some food. Ellie however did not, she stayed behind with Toto. She then walked up to the statue and embraced it, crying. Tears began to roll down her face in an endless stream, some tears dripped on to the statue, others fell onto the scepter which began to glow.

"Even then, I'll keep on even then." She sang weakly, "and love you even then." She added

She then felt not stone but fabric. She looked up and saw that where her tears had fallen growing out of the stone was the fabric of Dorothy's dress. Toto noticed this and barked loudly as the statue began to glow.

"Glinda! GLINDA!" Ellie screamed hoping someone would hear her. Alyssa ran into the door way.

"What is it el… sweet Oz, GLINDA!" she yelled when she saw what was happening.

The entire group returned to the chambers. Glinda gasped when she saw what was happening, she also noticed the scepter was glowing. Em and henry ran forward, as did Alison and Elena. The patches that were restored began to expand. Her face and hair began to change back after her dress.

"If I left you, I never meant to, and I won't pretend, even then, I loved you even then." She sang, she then gave a yawning stretch. She immediately fell into Ellie's embrace.

Ellie began crying tears of joy, and people cheered a whistled, Dorothy's aunt and uncle ran up and pulled their niece into a large hug.

"Oh Dorothy, we thought we lost you for good this time" Aunt Em said wiping some tears from her face.

Ellie broke from the embrace and kissed Dorothy on the cheek. Dorothy giggled, if Ellie were Glinda and slightly taller she would have been kissed on the forehead. But this was her sister.

"To be severely honest I thought I was a goner." Dorothy said pulling from the embrace and dusting herself off.

She then picked up the scepter, which glowed brighter.

"Glinda, did you do something?" Ellie asked looking at her sister.

"No, I don't know what did this." Glinda said transformed the color of her dress from black to a light blue color.

They began to question this but the scepter glowed and wind whipped through the room, the figures of the witch of the east and the witch of the west appeared briefly to all of them, they looked at Ellie and smiled. They then vanished with the words. "Thank you" echoing throughout the room.

Everyone cheered again as the scepter resumed its usual glowing. Dorothy bent down and picked up Toto, who barked happily and licked her on the face.

"So, the jester is gone for now." Dorothy said.

"Where did you mean for that vortex to go?" Glinda asked looking at Dorothy concernedly.

"I wanted it to take the jester far away from the Land of Oz, but he got the wand back so he could be anywhere." Dorothy said.

"Well then, one last battle, and this time he'll gather real followers I'm sure." The china princess said pushing her way through the crowd and up to Dorothy.

"Quite right, but next time we'll be ready." Glinda said nodding.

Dorothy got up and looked around, when she saw her boots lying next to where she had been standing she walked over, pulled the socks out of it and pulled them on. She then got up and looked at Glinda.

"Glinda, please send us home." Dorothy said smiling.

"Sure dear, but don't you want to stay a bit longer?" Glinda asked.

"I think there are people who would be missing me." Dorothy said walking over to her aunt and uncle, "Oh and Ellie?" she added.

"Yes Dorothy?" she responded smiling.

"Do try to drop in from time to time." Dorothy said as Glinda waved her wand over them.

They were soon surrounded by a rainbow, Dorothy waved goodbye to all her friends and smiled. After a few minutes she found herself standing in the fields outside her house, her aunt and uncle were running down the road followed by the sheriff and Mr. Alistair. Toto barked at them, Dorothy looked up and saw that it was no longer dark, dreary and cloudy, but bright and sunny. She smiled and ran up to her aunt and uncle.

"So everyone believed the cover story?" Dorothy asked.

"Somewhat, but the rain only stopped yesterday, some people began to hallucinate about seeing funnel clouds and what not." The sheriff said.

"Looks like you'll have another story to tell to the children in the library." Mr. Alistair said laughing.

After a while they all laughed, Dorothy asked what she had missed at the school. Mr. Alistair told her not to worry, given the recent events. She would be excused from any work she missed.

"Thanks Mr. Alistair, say hi to Donna for me." Dorothy said as Mr. Alistair turned to leave.

Dorothy then walked back to the farm, the sheriff was talking to her aunt and uncle about getting them a new pickup truck to replace the old one. Dorothy smiled and walked into the farm house, followed by Toto she walked in and shut the door. She hoped that she wouldn't have to face evil again for a long time.

Well that's the end of this story, but don't worry there will be closure

Song lyrics used. Even then from Legends of Oz Dorothy's return