Wonderful | wicked | book 2/3

Nessa

There's a tapping sound, I open my eyes.
I'm still in bed, I see Glinda creeping into the room.
"Oh good!" She says sweetly, "your awake"
Glinda walks over to the curtains, which Elphie must have shut during my sleep and throws them open.
Light fills the room, I squint and cover my eyes.
Glinda rushes over to my chair and brings it by my bedside.
"Glinda, how long was I asleep?"
Glinda looks around, as if she's trying to find a clock that doesn't exist.
"Quite a while, Elphaba started to get worried, did you know it's the next day"
"Goodness" I reply, slightly startled at how tired someone who doesn't move can be.
"Anyways, someone's coming to see you today!" Glinda announces anxiously as she look at me cautiously, She picks me up and places my down in my chair, panting loudly.
"Wait here I'll go get them."

Glinda scampers away, I'm left alone for a few minutes untill she finally comes back,
I hear her whisper
"Go on" harshly and the door opens slowly.
Boc!
He doesn't have his axe and looks no where near as angry.
"Why are you here?" I ask timidly,
He steps forward, I jump as he comes towards me.
"I'm here to make piece" he says calmly, he walks to the corner of the room and sits down in an arm chair.
"You don't have to forgive me, I know what I did" I say frantically "it's just that I depend on people so much and you we're going to leave and..."
Boc looks angry again.
"You didn't just hurt me Nessa, you hurt everyone here" he barks, his eyes wild and scary.
"And I tried to make it right, I went out into the courtyard, ready to tell everyone they were free and then that house..." my voice trials off, I'm shaking at the memory.
The worst day of my life.
Suddenly I remember, as much as I feel guilty about what I did, Boc isn't completely innocent either.
"You can't just pin this all on me, what about you? You lied to me, you made me think that you loved me"
Boc looks surprised,
"I can't even be mad at you for it, why would I think that anyone would like me in that way" I mumble, looking down at my feet.

"Nessa, I didn't mean for it to go as far as it did" Boc says, "but I really did enjoy that night at Ozdust, you were an excellent dancer"
I raise an eyebrow
"Your making jokes now?" I ask bluntly "what happened to, about to axe murder me, Boc?"
Boc looks ashamed, a guilty look takes hold of his face.
"Things got a bit out of hand I'll admit, but you don't understand, everyone is scared of me because I look like this."
I feel myself getting angry again, rage boils up inside of me like a kettle ready to be poured.
"You don't think Elphaba felt like that, she was treated so horribly and no one helped her, the real witches are out there not in here with us"
Boc flinches, like I could get up and slap him, but I wouldn't even after everything I still couldn't hurt him.
"Boc if I could reverse everything I would, even if it meant that I never went to Ozdust, I would do anything to make this right."
Boc stands up and walks over to me,
"Can I stay here?"
"What?" I say, that was the most unexpected thing he could have possibly said.
"I don't belong out there and I want to stay with Glinda."
Of course, he still loves her.
"Yes, sure, come with me and I'll tell everyone."

Box steps forward and opens the door for me and the push myself down the hallway over to the lounge where everyone is, Glinda is in a light yellow dress that I'm sure she wasn't wearing earlier and Elphie is in a simple back one.
"Boc has asked to stay with us," I say, I hear Boc breathing nervously behind me.
Elphabas eyes narrow but she nods anyway.
Fiyero goes over to Boc and they begin to chat, Glinda and Elphie Crowd around me, we go back out into the hallway to speak in private.
"How did it go?" Glinda asks nervously.
"He still loves you Glinda, that's why he's staying because he doesn't trust us" Elphaba growls.
"Well then we have to show him that we are trustworthy." I say determinedly.
Glinda shuffles back into the lounge, a fake smile plastered onto her face.
I'm left alone with Elphaba.
"Elphie, we have to let him stay, I have to make this right" I plead,
"Very well" she says "but he's not being left alone with you,"
I nod politely.
Reaching my hand out to grab Elphies I notice that hers is surprisingly cold.
"Elphie, are you okay?" I ask as she wraps her fingers around mine,
"Yeah why wouldn't I be?" She asks, glancing back into the lounge.
"Your hand is so cold," I say worriedly.
Elphaba places her other surprisingly cold hand on top and crouches down beside me,
"I've been outside," she smiles "nothing to worry about Ness"
I breathe a sigh of relief and lean back against the soft padding on my chair.
"Do you think any of the clothes here will fit me?" I ask dumbly, Elphaba chuckles at the randomness of the question.
"Is mums wardrobe is still her then I'm sure you will fit into some of those clothes" she says hesitantly.
I nod excitedly.
"Nessa I have another question for you"
Elphaba says, I'm quite nervous of what it could be.
"If any of mums shoes fit you, do you want me to enchant them?"
I could walk.
I could run.
I stare as Elphaba, my eyes filling with tears.
But what if she forgets about me.
I also think about Glinda, how it would make her feel so much better.
I want to make everything better.
So I do say the answer that everyone wants to hear.
"I want to be able to walk"