Disclaimer: If I owned it, Wicked would be a movie now.

A/N: ok this is my first time doing something for Wicked, and yeah, bear with me. PLEASE DON'T FLAME ME! ONCE AGAIN THIS IS MY FIRST ATTEMPT! Surely you wouldn't want anyone to flame you, and I wouldn't do it to you soooo please just review and if I messed up, please tell me nicely.

BTW ELPHABA KNOWS FIYERO IS ALIVE O.K?

This story starts right after "For Good" and the melting scene. Everything is like in the musical up until Glinda finds the bottle. K, now that's out of the way… starting after the melting scene….

Glinda Upland looked across the room with tear filled eyes. "Elphie!" she softly called across the room where the Witch Hunters, and that girl, Dorothy, and her little dog Dodo, were only minutes before.

Glinda shook her head trying to shake the sounds of Elphie's screams out of her mind, but the sound stayed in her mind. A wave of fresh tears fell down her cheeks. Slowly she stood, the Grimmerie clutched in her arms, and walked over to Elphaba's hat, and picked it up, holding it to her chest. Remembering how she had given it to the green girl as a joke to humiliate her.

"Oh Elphie!" Glinda cried, sobbing.

"Miss."

Glinda looked towards the ground, it was the monkey Elphaba had given wings to years ago, right before all this Wicked Witch of the West thing began. Chistery, she thought his name was.

"Miss Glinda." Chistery said slowly, holding something in his hand out to her.

Glinda looked closely, it was the funny green bottle that Elphie had slept with under her pillow in their days at Shiz, the one that she claimed belonged to her mother…

The one that she had seen an exact replica of in the hands of the Wizard.

Glinda wiped her tear filled eyes with her hands, not caring if her makeup was smudged. Then she walked over the hard floor to where she had picked up the hat, her heels clicking lightly on the wood until….

THUNK.

Glinda paused. She was standing where she had picked up the hat, but why had the floor, when she stepped on it, sounded hallow?

She stomped her foot on the area again, and once more a hallow THUNK sounded though the room. Curious, Glinda knelt down and ran her hands along the floor, doing so she felt the outline of a square that looked something like a trap door, why would there be a trapdoor here? She wondered, slamming her hand on the wood. Suddenly the square of wood sprung open.

Glinda shrieked, falling backwards. Then she crawled over to the trapdoor, peering inside.

At first she could only see black, but as she peered closer she could make out that there were different shapes. What could be down there? Glinda wondered to herself.

Then, one of the shapes moved.

Glinda resisted the urge to scream. Just because someone, or something, Glinda told herself, is down there doesn't mean they are going to harm me. Maybe they are friends of Elphie's.

"Hello? I'm Glinda. You know The Good. Are you alright down there?" The creature said nothing. Glinda opened the Grimmerie and after puzzling over the strange words of the lost language for a few minutes, she managed to create a small, dim, flickering light and brought it down into the trapdoor, just barely lighting the tiny room. Yep, there was defiantly a person down there, dressed in all black with green….

Glinda gasped, scrambling away from the trapdoor. No, it couldn't be, that's impossible, it was a trick of the light. Impossible Glinda, it's impossible, you saw the smoke, and you heard the screams.

A swear echoed from the trapdoor, and from it scrambled Elphaba, looking very much alive.

"Glinda?" Elphie asked, "Are you all right? You don't look so well."

Glinda shook her head, blonde curls bouncing back and forth, she didn't feel so well either. She took in a deep, shaky breath and said, "Elphie? Is that really you? How can you be here, you're supposed to be dead! Unless you are dead, and that means so am I and-" Elphaba clamped her hand over Glinda's mouth.

"Glinda listen to me!" Elphie whispered urgently. "You weren't supposed to know I'm alive, that wasn't part of the plan, it was-" Elphaba sighed, running her green hands through her long, midnight black hair.

"Why didn't you tell me you were planning to fake your death? Didn't you trust me? Elphie, answer me!" Glinda pleaded, trying to meet her best friend's eyes.

Elphaba didn't answer immediately, she looked in to Glinda's eyes and said, "Now that you know I am alive, are you tempted to clear my name Glinda? Tell me truthfully, are you?"

Glinda nodded solemnly, "Yes, I am." She admitted, "But I promised I wouldn't. You know that."

"And if you ever did try and clear my name, the citizens of Oz wouldn't listen, they would turn on you, saying you are as wicked as I am, then they would find me, and kill me, and then there would be no one to help Oz. Do you want that? Please, you must forget you ever saw me!"

Glinda nodded, fresh tears in her eyes. "So this is how it ends then? Me never seeing you again and you living alone in exile forever? Oh, Elphie, I hate sad endings!" she cried, embracing Elphaba in a giant hug.

Elphaba hugged her back, she sighed, "Glinda don't cry, you have to be strong, for all of Oz, alright?" She pulled back, grasping Glinda by her shoulders to look her only and best friend in the eyes. "Besides," Elphaba said, "You don't have to worry about me being alone, Fiyero, he's alive, and he knows I'm alive as well. He'll be coming for me soon."

Glinda was surprised to know her former fiancé was still alive, though she should have known Elphie would try to save him using her powers…

"Oh." Glinda smiled, "That's wonderful, I know you'll live happily ever after."

"Glinda-"

"No, it's alright, really, Elphie, you… you deserve each other. He really, really loves you. I can tell."

Elphaba smiled, pulling Glinda into a hug, "Thank you, Glinda. It means a lot to me." She grinned widely, "You know, you could be a million times better ruler for Oz then the Wizard could ever be."

"Huh. You don't say…" Glinda gasped, and a giant smile light up her face. She stood up, and helped Elphaba to her feet, before announcing, "Elphie, I have an idea."

O.K so once again, this is my first Wicked attempt, so please don't flame me, but please review. I think I covered everything, but if you're confused, please tell me in your review so I can clarify it. Yeah, I also have NO idea about how long this will be sooooo yeah….. also a WARNING I AM WRITING TWO OTHER STORIES AT ONCE! So yeah. REVIEW PLEASE!