A/n: I didn't know whether to put this under it's own title, or put it in another fic that I'm writing. So I looked at it for a bit and decided to make it its own fic. Sorry about the shortness and I hope you enjoy!!!!!

Disclaimer: If I owned Wicked, Boq would give up on Glinda eventually, but he didn't, so I don't.

"She's phosphorescent!"

"Maybe the driver saw green and thought it meant go!

"It seem the Artichoke is steamed!"

Insults had followed Elphaba her whole life. They were just a fact of life that couldn't be avoided. It wasn't as bad when she was younger, the children from the nearby town would call her "Froggy" more as a nickname than anything else.

As she got older, though, things got worse. During the rare occasions where she was allowed to leave the house, Elphaba would have people stare at her odd skin color, mothers would would make their children come inside as she passed, and and gossiping ladies would whisper loudly about how she would grow up to be no good.

Perhaps that is why Elphaba was so excited when Madam Morrible told her she could meet the Wizard one day if she worked hard. She would show Oz that even a green person is great and powerful! She WOULD be great!

Her father would just die of amazement about what his shunned, no-good daughter would become!

Nessa would have to get someone else to help her because her sister would be off doing great things!

That pesky blond roommate of hers would be jealous because Elphaba has taken the one thing she had wanted the most!

And then she would be be the happiest person in Oz! Young and adventurous, helping animals, doing good deeds, having best friends, and maybe even falling in love. Her life would be wonderful when that happened, Elphaba simply could not wait.

Two years later, as she sat under the trapdoor in Kiamo Ko, Elphaba remembered that day. She remember her excitement and her feelings of hope.

In a sense, she had been mostly right about her future.

Her father had died of amazement about the terrible thing that she had become- A Wicked Witch.

Nessa had to have Boq to help her because Elphaba was a fugitive for doing good things.

Elphaba had, in a way, taken the one thing Galinda had wanted the most- Fiyero.

She had been the happiest person in Oz for a time. But the time wasn't big enough, and it only took up the space of one night in the Great Gillikin Forest.

And every thing else, it was all true; she helped animals, did good deeds, had a best friend, and fell in love. Yet, her life wasn't all that it cracked up to be.

"I was so naive. I was blinded by hope," she whispered into the dark to no one in particular. Then she herd it, the noise she had been waiting for.

Three knocks and the sweetest sound ever. Fiyero's familiar voice calling, "It worked!"

She closed her eyes and smiled before climbing out to meet him. Maybe life wasn't that bad after all.

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