Note: Just to let you all know that Fiyero is human in this, they are at Shiz University together and I suppose it is really an AU story because none of the stuff happens the same as it does in the books or the musical; although I'm pretty sure I may include key points from the musical/story as it progresses, so for now I hope you're happy to just go with the flow. Muiscgal3: Thanks for your review that was my favourite part to write too.

Chapter two: An eventful day out

After a ten minute walk, Fiyero arrived at the Ozian fair with the green girl.

Fiyero turned to Elphaba and was greeted with a heart warming sight; Elphaba was looking around in child like wonder, a small smile playing at her lips.

"So what do you want to do first?" asked Fiyero grinning

Elphaba rolled her eyes "It's all so magical" she said sarcastically.

Fiyero was about to argue that he had just seen her looking around in excitement but then figured there was no point, this was Elphaba and she was obviously good at hiding her genuine emotions.

"I guess this is really ordinary to you" said Fiyero

Elphaba sighed, "Why are we here Fiyero?"

"To have fun" said Fiyero, looking around at the rides, "What do you want to go on first?"

Elphaba shook her head violently

"I'm not going on anything" she said stubbornly

Fiyero sighed then tried again

"How about the big dipper" he said pointing to a roller coaster with water involved.

Elphaba looked at the ride like she was going to be sick.

"I have issues with water" she said

Fiyero laughed thinking she was joking but stopped when she glared at him

"You're being serious?" he asked "What do you shower with?"

Elphaba scowled "Don't be stupid" she said "I shower with water…I mean I just don't get wet if I can avoid it"

Now it was Fiyero's turn to scowl "I wish you'd stop calling me stupid" he said "It's annoying"

Elphaba smiled sheepishly

"Sorry you're right" she said "You're just erm a bit forgetful aren't you?"

Fiyero sighed; at least she's trying he thought.

"Well here's an idea" said Fiyero "Why can't you, Elphaba, for one day put aside your worries and just have fun"

Elphaba groaned, he wasn't going to give up, his attitude made her uncomfortable as she was so much more use to unkindness, then she was use to people making an effort on her behalf.

"Fine, I'll go on the waltzes'" said Elphaba in defeat

Fiyero grinned at her and for a moment Elphaba couldn't help smiling back

"Yes my favourite" he said

Then he motioned for her to follow him to the ride, they had to queue up for no longer than ten minutes, then we're shown to a carriage, Fiyero slide in first; Elphaba hesitated causing Fiyero to sigh. "I don't bite you know" he said gently, then he patted the space next to him, Elphaba got in and sat next to him feeling all the more uncomfortable. She tried to put as much space as possible before her and Fiyero but then the ride started up and she was flung against him. Fiyero just laughed but Elphaba felt herself blushing, that's not going to look good she thought red with green; I'm going to go purple. The ride started building quite a lot of speed and Elphaba gasped in surprise, "It's going to fast" she shouted "I think I'm going to be sick or worse, thrown out!"

Fiyero laughed "You're fine" he said

Suddenly Fiyero reached behind and put his arm around Elphaba so she wouldn't be too worried about falling out, Elphaba stopped breathing and stared at his hand upon her shoulder. Suddenly the ride came to a stop and Fiyero jumped out, Elphaba followed quickly.

"That was fun" said Fiyero grinning but Elphaba shook her head.

"Blah" she said "I don't want to go on anything else, just yet, I might throw up"

Fiyero stopped and turned to her looking serious

"Elphaba" he said "You've gone green, you look sick"

Elphaba was about to shout at him, how dare he make fun of her skin colour after saying everyone else was wrong to but then she caught the hint of a mischievous grin in his eyes.

"FIYERO TIGGULAR" shouted Elphaba and Fiyero stepped back in shock; maybe she hadn't got the joke.

"You are so lucky I can take a joke" she said grinning, then she pushed him backwards and he just managed to steady himself before otherwise falling over.

"Well" said Fiyero grinning "You call me stupid often enough, so I thought I'd jokingly get you back"

Elphaba paused "Erm yeah" she said "That's just a joke and I…"

Fiyero cut her off by holding up his hand and then he caught sight of a cuddly toy game store.

"Fair enough" he said quickly "How about a game, you could win a soft cuddly toy"

Elphaba rolled her eyes at him in disgust.

"I'm not Galinda" she said "What am I going to do with a soft toy?"

Fiyero cringed, why did his girlfriend have to be such a girl?

"Erm I don't know" he said "But come on, you just have to throw some balls at some cans"

Elphaba reluctantly followed Fiyero over to the game stall; he handed over his money to the gamer and got 3 balls. "You just have to knock em all down" said the gamer "Doesn't matter how many balls it takes"

Fiyero threw the first ball and it just missed the cans, then he threw the second ball and to his amazement it hit the cans and then bounced off. Secretly cursing himself for being conned, Fiyero threw the third ball, but as he did so he felt himself go all fuzzy and tingly and he couldn't understand what was happening. Then he watched as his third ball, was about to miss all the cans just like his first one, but all of a sudden it seemed to change direction in mid air and hit the cans dead on centre, this time all the cans fell down instantly.

"Well I'll be" said the gamer scratching his head in amazement.

The gamer then handed Fiyero, a cute stuffed monkey about the size of Fiyeros head, Fiyero tucked it under his arm and he and Elphaba walked away. When they were out of hearing distant Fiyero grabbed Elphaba's arm.

"Don't think I didn't notice that" he said

Elphaba looked surprised "Notice what?"

Fiyero had an angry look upon his face

"That magic you did to help me win" he said

Elphaba turned away to hide her embarrassment, when she turned back to Fiyero he had a grin upon his face.

"I well…that is…I didn't really…" spluttered Elphaba

Fiyero laughed

"And everyone thinks you're so mean" he said, he then held out the stuffed monkey to Elphaba.

Elphaba gazed at it for a few moments before shaking her head.

"Give it to Galinda" she said "I'm sure she can do more with it!"

Fiyero frowned and looked at the stuffed monkey, right now he wanted to launch it across the other side of the funfair but knowing that would be stupid, he once again tucked it under his arm and turned towards Elphaba grinning.

"What do you want to do next?" he said

Elphaba looked around, a circus sign caught her eye and she smiled.

"Erm there is a circus show on" she said

"Erm ok" said Fiyero, secretly wishing she'd have opted for another ride.

Together Fiyero and Elphaba made their way to the Circus tent, and then took seats near the back inside. A man in top hat who appeared to be the ring master made his way out on to the circular stage "Ladies and Gentleman, munchkins and Winkies (Fiyero cringed slightly at this) welcome to the Ozian circus" The crowd clapped loudly in suspense and excitement, Elphaba looked around curiously, most of the circus theatre was full. "Our first act is Eladora the flying Elephant"

The audience clapped as a huge elephant made its way on to the stage, but Elphaba sat with a bemused look upon her face. Fiyero was excited to see how they would make the elephant fly. A woman who had walked on with the elephant slapped it on the trunk up and said "Fly Eladora", the elephant however, did not move but rather stubbornly started swinging it's trunk from side to side. The woman smiled around at the audience sheepishly and then gave the elephant another slap and repeated "Fly Eladora". This time the elephant stamped its feet on the ground causing the ring master to run on to the stage, in his hands he carried a long metal garden trowel. Fiyero felt Elphaba tense up beside him and a feeling of dread formed in the bottom of his stomach, he knew what was about to happen. The ring master began hitting the elephant with the trowel shouting "Fly Eledora, you pathetic thing", a few members of the audience laughed and for a moment Elphaba just watched too shocked to move. Then after the Elephant started making noises of pain Elphaba was up out of her seat and running towards the stage. Fiyero also jumped up out of his seat although he was less sure of what he should do, than Elphaba was.

Elphaba climbed up on to the stage and tried to snatch the metal trowel out of the man's hand, the elephant went rigidly still as if it knew someone was trying to help it. "THE WAY YOU TREAT THIS ELEPHANT IS DISGUSITING" she shouted, the ringmaster backed away from her uncertain of what to do, "Erm that is I…"spluttered the ring master. In his shock, he let Elphaba tear the trowel from his hands, a member of the audience all of a sudden stood up and shouted "SIT BACK DOWN LADY!" Elphaba turned to the audience member in disgust, "Not until they release this poor defensively animal" she said trying her best to control her temper.

Another member of the audience then stood up "OY" they yelled "Artichoke! Sit down! You're ruining the show"

Elphaba was now furious and waved her fist at the audience member, half the audience were on their feet by this point and Fiyero had to push and shove people out the way to get the stage.

"What did you just call me?" asked Elphaba loudly, drawing herself up to her full height on the stage.

Another member of the audience shouted "She looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle!"

Without warning the lights in the circus started to flick on and off rapidly, popcorn boxes and flyers advertising the circus began flying around the room and in the middle of it all stood Elphaba, a force to be reckoned with. People began to scream and rush for the exit, leaving Fiyero free to get to Elphaba, he took hold of her hand and tried to pull her towards the exit but she was having none of it.

"Fiyero, let go of me" she spat "I'm not leaving"

Fiyero groaned loudly and had to duck as a wooden chair, came flying out of nowhere and just missed him. Without warning Fiyero leapt forward and grabbed Elphaba around the waist, before she had chance to react, he had put her over his shoulder and was running for the exit.

"PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT" she shouted "FIYERO TIGGULAR…HOW DARE YOU…STOP MAN HANDLING ME!"

When they were sufficiently fair enough away from the circus tent, Fiyero plonked Elphaba down in front of him and then covered his face with his hands.

"Anything but the face" he said wearily

Elphaba blinked, folded her arms and stood there tapping her foot impatiently.

After a few moments Fiyero lowered his hands slightly to see what she was doing.

"Why are you doing that?" said Elphaba

Fiyero edged back slightly

"Well you're about to blow me up or something aren't you" said Fiyero

Elphaba looked confused

"Am I?" she asked

Fiyero blinked "Erm I thought you were angry"

Elphaba edged forward slightly

"I am but not at you really" said Elphaba "Although if you carry me like that again I will be forced to set you alright"

Fiyero cringed at the thought until he caught the mischievous smile playing on Elphaba's lips.

"Erm that's ok then" he said

Elphaba shook her head violently "No Fiyero it's not ok" she spat angrily "Did you not see what they were doing? They were practically torturing that poor defenceless creature. It couldn't stick up for itself. I'm assuming it couldn't speak but they still shouldn't…"

Fiyero cut her off abruptly "I know "he said

"It's not fair" said Elphaba miserably "It's just not…I…"

Elphaba looked like she was about to cry, Fiyero had never seen her look so fragile and it made him extremely sad and uncomfortable. He reached out and patted her on the shoulder.

"Hey" said Fiyero soothingly "It will be ok"

"That's what people are like Fiyero" she said "I was only trying to do the right thing and look how those people treated me just cause of my skin. I'm sick of being the good guy but people treating me like I'm some kind of wicked villain"

Her voice was so thick with emotion and her eyes were sparkling with tears about to fall, Fiyero did what came naturally, he put his arms around Elphaba and pulled her close. At first Elphaba was shocked and tried to pull away but eventually she relaxed and placed her head against Fiyero's shoulder.

"I know its hard Elphaba" said Fiyero rubbing her back "But you can't right all the wrongs of Oz, you have to do it one step at a time, sometimes you need to plan…you can't just jump out and scream like that"

Elphaba did not reply, so Fiyero drew back and looked at her, he realised that she was not listening but looking behind him with a very worried expression on her face. Fiyero turned around and was filled with dread, there no less than a yard in front of him, was his girlfriend Galinda, he quickly let Elphaba go and moved back.

"Galinda" he said nervously "there you are.. erm...I didn't know you were coming!"

Galinda glared at him, if looks could kill thought Elphaba Fiyero would be dead.

"Obviously!" spat Galinda "I asked you to bring me to the Ozian fair and you said it wasn't your think…and now I turn up to find you cuddling the artichoke"

"Hey don't call her that" said Fiyero quickly

Galinda laughed scornfully and Elphaba cringed on Fiyero's behalf.

"Why not?" spat Galinda "Everyone else does"

"Well everyone else is wrong, ok!" said Fiyero

Both Elphaba and Galinda gasped in shock at the same time, then they both turned towards each other, each giving the other looks of deepest loathing.

Eventually Galinda turned back towards Fiyero.

"What's got in to you?" said Galinda softly

Fiyero was silent for a moment as if he could not make up his mind but then he stepped forward as though filled with an unknown courage.

"What's got into me?" he said "I'm sick of people being so damn mean!...and Shallow!"

Galinda wore an expression, similar to as if she had been slapped in the face and this seemed to bring Fiyero to his senses.

"Erm actually I didn't quite mean" said Fiyero nervously "I just got erm…Galinda!"

He moved towards Galinda as if seeking comfort but she moved back, a look of confusion on her face.

"Tell me the truth" she said "Why did you bring her here?"

Galinda looked like she might burst into tears at any moment and Fiyero was becoming more uncomfortable by the second. He looked from Galinda to Elphaba, pleadingly.

"Erm it wasn't his fault" said Elphaba stepping forward "I kind of forced him too"

"YOU WHAT" yelled Galinda furiously

Fiyero momentarily forgetting that he was not under the spotlight also wore an expression of confusion.

"Yeah what?" he asked

Elphaba stepped forward bravely

"I put him under a spell" she said "He didn't know what he was doing…I just thought…that it would be nice…to come here with someone…I don't have any friends you know!"

Galinda stepped towards Elphaba with a look of cold fury.

"I wanted to come here with someone" snapped Galinda "Until you kidnapped my boyfriend…Now say you're sorry before I do something I'll probably live to regret!"

Elphaba looked at Fiyero and when he said nothing, she stepped towards him nervously

"Erm that's ok" said Fiyero "She doesn't have to..She"

"WAIT!" said Galinda "Take the spell off him first Elphaba Thropp"

Elphaba looked sheepish before waving her hands in Fiyero's direction.

"Erm done" she said then she marched directly up to Fiyero, looked him in the eye with an angry look on her face and said "Sorry for ruining your day!" then she turned around and stormed off in the direction of Shiz University.

Fiyero felt his heart sink a little as he watched her go, he had wanted to help her, and instead he had made things worse.

"That girl is such a loser" said Galinda bitterly, before linking her arm through Fiyeros, "Are you ok Fiyero, my darling?"

Fiyero was unsure of what to say in response and as Galinda dragged him off in the direction of a roller coaster he muttered to himself "Not really…Not anymore"

End of Chapter 2

Authors Note: Well what did you guys think? I really hoped you liked it as it takes me a while to edit..I have a very unusual way of writing, I write it like a screenplay then fill in the action later. Sorry it's took me so long to update, I've been snowed under with university work. Hoping to get the next chapter up in 2 weeks as it's already wrote and just needs editing….Please please please review…it helps to motivate me

Next chapter title: Walking the Walk

Preview:-

"Please Elphaba" said Fiyero, edging closer "Just give me a chance to prove that, I'm not like everyone else"