Eclipse 1

Elphaba pulled her hand out of Fiyero's as she picked up her pace, walking further away. Fiyero attempted to get caught up, but was failing, "Elphaba!"

She still wouldn't turn around, or slow her pace, "No, Fiyero."

"Why not, Fae?" he asked, beginning to pick up a brisk pace.

"I just want to go back to my room, Fiyero. I don't want to spend the night with you." She said, reaching the doors of Crage Hall.

"Elphaba, you can't always hide from it. She wouldn't want you to." Fiyero paused at the door.

Elphaba paused, and slowly turned her head, before turning her body on the ball of her heel. The look in her eyes could have killed an army in a split second, "Excuse me?"

Fiyero was suddenly slightly scared of his girlfriend, and had immediately regretted the territory he just put a foot into, "I-"

Elphaba's lips curled slightly in anger, but also in sadness, "No. You don't get to choose how I grieve. I don't care if it happened a year ago or fourteen years ago. You don't get to choose how I grieve. That day I lost a mother. The one person who I believe, possibly, loved me. You have a whole family who loves you. I didn't grow up with that. Nothing close to it. So, you don't get to decide how I want to grieve my mother!"

She stood there, breathless, waiting for his response.

Fiyero blinked, "You don't believe that I love you?"

Elphaba scoffed, "That's what you took from that? That I don't believe that a guy like you, could love a girl like me?"

Fiyero looked hurt, "Guy like me," Anger flashed in his eye, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Elphaba began to look defeated, remembering arguments like this through her childhood, though her father wasn't arguing against it, but drilling into her head that she wouldn't ever be loved, "I don't want to do this tonight..." she turned to run up the stairs to hers and Glinda's dorm room.

He raced behind her, but luck was against him, as Glinda left the door unlocked, giving Elphaba the upper hand, and getting in quickly.

He pounded his fist on the door, banging until someone would answer.

Eventually, Glinda quickly snuck out the door, closing it behind her and holding the doorknob from Fiyero, "Do not grab this doorknob or I will make a promise you will never have heirs."

Fiyero stared at her, "Message clearly received. Just let me talk to her."

She shook her head, "Fiyero, I don't know what you said, and I don't want to know. All I know is you aren't seeing her until tomorrow at the earliest. Whatever you said hurt her. Let me talk to her, and hopefully save your relationship. This isn't the only fight recently, correct?"

Fiyero nodded, looking worried. It had been one of many fights in the past few weeks. Had it really pushed her that far?

Glinda nodded slowly, to herself, "Okay. That's what we will do then. You come back tomorrow before the holiday weekend starts? Then you'll have a few days to spend together and work it out after I talk to her. Okay?"

Fiyero nodded, "Thank you, Glin. I don't want to lose her. But I think I've messed up big time… I pushed the final straw."

Glinda gave him a sad smile, "I hope you haven't."

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Fiyero knocked on the girls' door the next morning, planning to get Elphaba to come into town with him, to the café to talk things through.

Glinda answered the door, and it had been clear she had previously crying, and was trying to hide it.

Fiyero became worried, "Glin?"

Glinda handed him a note, "She's gone. She left Fiyero."

He looked down at the piece of paper. It only read five words.

"Total Eclipse of the Heart."

Fiyero looked up, "We have to find her."

Part 2 to come…