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"i'm glad you're okay. or at least... seem to be." she really was happy that he was okay. she'd always hoped that maybe him being gone wasn't true. now that she knew he was alive, she could stop worrying about it. then again, she had the whole twins thing to worry about now. "about five for me... time seems to pass differently for some people here. it's strangifying. i don't understand it," galinda said. "how have you been?" @fcdcdmcmories

"I THOUGHT.. THAT I WAS GONE TOO, BUT.. I WAS NOT. I'M HERE." he couldn't tell if that was a good or bad thing. so much had happened and so much had changed and yet, FIYERO HAD ALWAYS REGRETTED how things had ended between them. but when the heart was elsewhere? what could one even do? "it's.. it's good to see you, though. even if it has been... oz, how long now? years?" / @galindafication

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she froze, staring at him for a few seconds. she never imagined what she'd say to him if she ever saw him again. she'd been under the impression he was dead after he ran off in oz. she always hoped he was okay, but she felt like she was just giving herself false hope. "sweet oz..." galinda said quietly. "it has been... i thought you were gone forever." not only did she think he was dead, how was she supposed to tell him about the twins? he deserved to know, but that's a big thing to tell someone when they've been gone for so long. @fcdcdmcmories

FIYERO HAD NOT BEEN LOOKING TO WHERE HE WAS GOING. yes, some could say that he would lose his own head, had it not been attached to his body, but.. this world was strange. more than strange and right now, when he looked up, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. there was no way. she was really.. HERE? "i.. don't know what to say. it's been.. quite some time, hasn't it?" / @galindafication

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"i'm glad it's not a bad reminder. at least... i hope it's not. i really did have good intentions, it's just... i wanted pfannee and shenshen to think i was like them... turns out i was never anything like them, really." she never would have given elphie the hat if she didn't like it. she isn't and wasn't the kind of person to give something to someone if she didn't like it. "no. you were never the problem for me. sometimes things are just complicated and we don't know why. but things happen for a reason, even if it makes us feel ickified." hearing her next words made her heart hurt. she hoped they'd both be happy together, but it didn't sound like that's how it turned out in the end. she still didn't know what happened to fiyero truly, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to know. "you're the only person i'd trust with them, even without experience. it kind of just comes to you. you learn as you go. i'm still learning and i've been their mother for five years." she did trust the twins' babysitter, but there were things she'd never allow for her to do with them that she'd have no problem trusting elphie with. even after all these years, she had no doubt in her mind her girls would be safe. "well... you might not forget it, but you're nothing like him. you never have been. he was a fraud and he took advantage of you. you've never done that." @fcrafcrtnight

"YOU MEAN.. THIS HAT? EVEN NOW, I STILL HAVE IT WITH ME. I WOULDN'T LET GO OF IT, IF I TRIED. I DON'T THINK I EVER COULD. and i know that you liked it too, deep down. i know you. i've always known you." yes, perhaps glinda had given her that hat for one reason, but.. she knew what was in her heart. in fact, in her darkest moments, it was the one thing that had kept her going. knowing that she had someone that believed in her. that cared. right? and maybe they had gotten separated there for a moment, but it didn't matter. none of it did. "it was me. it was me that was the problem. i just.. i'm glad that things changed, even if i wasn't there to see it." shaking her head. no, she didn't want to think about that. no. "i don't... i... i don't think that we were true love. at least, i don't know. i guess that we never got the chance to find out." nodding. and grateful for the change of subject about fiyero? yes. yes. yes. "and you know, if you ever need any help with them? i.. i don't know what i'd do, but... i'd love to help. i would." she would. "i don't know about that. what he did? how do i forget that?" @galindafication

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"i was born with it. it just wasn't something i used very often until i attended shiz university. and then when i took over oz, it was important to get a better handle on it so i practiced and got a lot better at it over the years. there are still some things i have to learn, but i won't know what those are until i have to learn them," she explained. she didn't use her magic growing up because she didn't need it. it was strange how she ended up having to rely on it as an adult. "thank you. bubbles are kind of my thing." @moonglowmuses

"were you born magical? or did you become magical along the way?" amanda supposed that magic could have changed a lot of aspects of her life. she wished that she'd possessed the ability to alter occurrences of her life. she wished that she could have stopped her mother from leaving. she wished that she could have prevented her father's abuse. she wished that she could have implemented ways of making friends who treated her well and stayed for the course of things. if only, she pondered. if only. "it's... beautiful. how you made the bubbles like that." amanda had to admit that she was intrigued.

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"well, we don't always tell people of our abilifications. maybe you have and you just don't know they're magical," she said. that had been the case with the wizard. of course, the situation was the opposite. she thought he was magical and he was really just a fraud. galinda's eyes lit up a bit when he asked to see an example. she loved getting to show people her little tricks. she quickly conjured a small bubble in the palm of her hand and smiled as it changed into different geometric and animal shapes. "i'd love to. i'm free until i have to relieve my babysitter, so i have plenty of time." @moonglowmuses

"i don't think that i've met anyone who is magical before." at least, alex did not know someone who had confided their magic. "i know that we just met, but could you show me an example?" otherwise, he would continue to feel skeptical about the other's abilities. "could i treat you to some lunch?" alex offered. "i do not see any clients until the evening time, so this should work for me if it does for you, too?"

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"i'm part of the reason they made fun of you though... i'm the one that gave you that old hat. i know it was only one night and most probably wouldn't even remember it, but i do. it was the worst i ever felt and i'm not even the one that got hurt. i'm so sorry i did that to you... i never meant for it to turn out that way." the truth was, she loved that hat. she wouldn't have brought it with her if she didn't. she just didn't want the judgment from her so called friends, so she made up a dumb story about her granny forcing it on her. she loved everything her granny made for her, though. "you weren't wicked, though. they were. all that awful talk they did about your ideas, just to immediately agree the second i started putting things into action. every one of them were wicked for that and for that awful effigy... that just pissed me off." it wasn't strong language, but it was for her, considering she hardly ever said anything remotely close to a curse word. "he didn't love me the way he loved you. it just took him a while to figure it out. i can't be mad about that. i can't be mad at people finding their true loves." fiyero had been her true love, but she wasn't his. and as much as it hurt to find out, she at least respected the fact that there was no physical cheating, at least that she was aware of, and if there was, she didn't want to know. "i didn't have much experience with them either. it was a learning experience. it still is. i miss them being babies, but i love watching the little witchlings they're growing up to be." watching ellie and farrah grow up has been the best time of her life. she was terrified when she first had them, being a single mother and no one to help her. "you're nothing like him. you never were. he was an awful man. you've always had greatness." @fcrafcrtnight

"HEY. you made a lot happen for me, okay? if it weren't for you.. i would have been just the weird girl. the one that nobody wanted anything to do with. the freak. it was thanks to you that i was not. it was thanks to you that they actually looked at me for a little while there." because.. for a long, long, long while? she had thought that she was just.. invisible. just a girl that wanted to meet the wizard and nothing more and how scary had that BEEN? to realise that someone that had always been her idol had become.. well, had always been a monster? what he did wasn't right. nothing about it was right and it horrified her. right? what he had done to the animals, when they hadn't deserved it AT all? "and you know that it does make sense. i was what they wanted to see. the wicked witch. the scary one. the monster. you are galinda, the good. who were they always going to follow?" her, always and she couldn't bring herself to feel sorry about that. if anything? she was glad that her best friend had not been alone. "there's nothing to dislike there, is it? he's.. a good man. shallow at times and an idiot, but.. he has a good heart. it's what counts. i know that he would have loved them. and you. i'm.. i'm sorry that i got in the way of that." there were a lot of things that she was sorry for and others that she was not, but hurting galinda had always been something that she had not wanted to do. right? she was her best friend. how could that ever be the case now? "i hope that.. then, as her namesake.. i won't let her down. i'm not-- well, i never really had that much experience with kids." she took glinda's hands, almost grateful for the change of subject. she'd get there. right? "doctor dillamond was the first friend that i ever had. besides you. and what happened to him.." it had been a crime. no. something like that shouldn't have happened. "they got what they deserved. morrible and.. him. and maybe you're right. i just.. i never wanted to be like him. never." @galindafication

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galinda nodded. "absolutely. no one is perfect. i hurt a few people... but it was to help them in the end. in fact, i've recently reconnectified with one of them," she said. "you were a child. children can be held accountable, but they're usually put in a position to do bad things in the first place. sometimes they feel like there's no other choice than to do the bad thing." @fcdcdmcmories

"YOU... YOU THINK SO? WHAT IF.. WHAT IF SAID PERSON HAS DONE A LOT TO SURVIVE? EVEN.. HURT OTHERS?" the grabber had deserved what had happened. the grabber had deserved it all but.. doing that? doing that to someone? it was always going to stay with him. MESS HIM THE FUCK UP. "i.. i had a lot happen to me as a kid. that's just what it is." / @galindafication

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"from experience, i happen to know that a person can change, no matter how 'messed up' they might be. i'm one of them," she said. she'd been vain and shallow most of her life. of course there was always good deep down, but she was also spoiled. it wasn't until college that her true self came out. "what's so messed up about you, anyways?" @fcdcdmcmories

"UNLESS YOU CAN CHANGE HOW MESSED UP I AM? DOUBT THAT." what had happened to him hadn't been his fault. or.. at least, that was what the hundred shrinks that he had seen over the years had told him but .. HE WASN'T SURE IF HE ACTUALLY BELIEVED THEM. was he? / @galindafication

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"there's many that haven't. everyone's a skeptic about one thing or another. i've heard people say magic is in the eye of the beholder, but... i think they meant beauty, because magic is very real, whether one beholds it or not," she said, waving her wand a few times, small pink bubbles coming out of the tip. "well then, thank you. i've always stood out a little, i supposify." @moonglowmuses

"i... don't know what to say. this is a lot for me to think about." did amanda young believe in witches and sorceresses? she did not think so, but it was possible that she had a lot to learn. perhaps her world was too narrow. "forgive me for being skeptical. i have never met a magical person before." her world was impossibly human. she wondered if magical people could undo the terrible things that humans were capable of. "it is a compliment," amanda said, loosening up and smiling. "there is something about you that stands out."

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she nodded with a smile. "i am. i'm very magical. my favorite mode of transportation is my bubble," she said. she mostly used it to fly over everyone and take the shortest and fastest way to work. her students loved seeing her fly in. "likewise." @moonglowmuses

alex could not prevent the puzzled look from crossing his face. "you're a witch?" he did not mean to doubt people. he believed that people were telling the truth most of the time, but this information was hard for him to wrap his mind around. "does that mean that you are actually magical?" that was something to contend with. alex made sure that his handshake was delicate as well, not wanting to make his companion uncomfortable. "galinda. it is a pleasure."

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"i hate that you had to leave... i hate how everyone treated you... i hate that i couldn't do anything about it. everything they claimed to hate you for wanting to change, they hopped right on the bandwagon as soon as i started putting things into effectification and it just doesn't make sense, it wasn't fair to you." although she was glad she was able to make those changes happen, she hated the way it happened. she hated that people demonized elphie for it, but praised herself for it. the ozians acted like it was her own idea, but it wasn't. "i know... me too. i can't bring myself to dislike him. he gave me my witchlings, even if h wasn't aware. i wish i'd been able to tell him, but i know what it would have looked like if i had." she'd thought about it over the years. the timing of her getting pregnant was terribly inconvenient, it would have made it seem like she baby trapped him. she wouldn't have expected anything of him, but she knew he would have been a good dad. galinda smiled softly and nodded. she'd hoped for the day her girls got to meet the person who single handedly changed her life for the better. and ellie talked all the time about how she wanted to meet someone with her name. "i'd love for you to meet them. i've been hoping for years that you'd be able to - and ellie, she just thinks it cool that you have the same name. she can't wrap her head around it," she said with a small chuckle. "of course i did. everyone and everything deserves to be treated with the same respectification all around. unless, you know... they're anything like the fake wizard and horrible morrible," she said. "who you're related to doesn't define who you are as a person. their bad qualities shouldn't fall on you." @fcrafcrtnight

"I KNOW WHY YOU DIDN'T GO. AND I COULD HAVE NEVER ASKED YOU TO DO SUCH A THING. YOU HAD TO GO YOUR OWN WAY AND.. I HAD TO GO MINE. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE MEANT ANY LESS TO EACH OTHER." glinda had been the reason why she had gotten as far as she had. she had been the reason why she had any kind of reason to believe in herself and if it hadn't been for her? she would have never been strong enough. not to believe in herself, anyways, and.. it was thanks to her that she did. "we didn't mean to.. i.. i care about fiyero. i think that a part of me always will. BUT.. YOU WERE THE FIRST FRIEND I EVER HAD. THE ONE THAT DIDN'T SEE ME AS JUST.. WEIRD. AS JUST ME. THAT SHOULD HAVE MATTERED MORE THAN ANYTHING." and it hadn't and at the time, everything had gotten so complicated and it wasn't something that she wanted to focus on in the slightest. not at all. it had just.. oz, what had she been thinking then? it was easier to blame him. it was easier to blame her father, even when.. this. "they.. they sound lovely. and you know, grass and animals ARE important. i can't.. if that's what you want? i can't wait to meet them." and she was honoured. beyond words, beyond anything and no, she had never pictured glinda as a mother before, but.. right now, she thought that she would be the most amazing one there. right? there was no one better. no one more loving. no one kinder than she was. right? even if she did not see it. "you.. you did? you took care of them? THANK YOU." wasn't that all that she had wanted to do? to protect the animals? yes. because she too knew what it was like to be the odd one out. the one that didn't have anywhere to call home. she knew that. to know that glinda had continued the work that she had tried to do? it meant the world. "good. it was a better fate than they deserved. especially him. to know i am related to such a man.." @galindafication

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she'd never thought of how elphaba saw her. she'd always hoped that maybe she saw her for more than her exterior, but the fear that she saw her in a negative light scared her, so she tried not to think about it. "you think so? even after... well, i didn't go with you..." fiyero running off to be with elphaba hurt, she'd admit. but neither of them did anything wrong - at least to her knowledge. she couldn't be mad at people for falling in love. "you don't get to choose who you fall in love with. i can't fault either of you for that. it hurt, but... i cared more about you being safe and happy." and she did. she wanted more than anything for them to both be okay. she still didn't know what fiyero's fate was, but she knew she'd never see him again. she smiled when asked about the twins. they were her favorite subject. "they're wonderful. ellie's a little rebellious, she tests the waters sometimes. very outspoken and will go into a tirade if someone walks on the lawn because the grass has feelings and it probably doesn't like being stepped on. she gets pretty upset when the lawn needs to be mowed. she tells the grass it'll only hurt for a minute. farrah's an introvert. she plays with her sister, but she doesn't really mingle with other kids. she makes friends with every animal she comes across, though. she's my sensitive one, small things make her cry. much like myself. they have my face, but i see fiyero in their personalities." she obviously didn't know what their father was like as a child, but she sees glimpses of what she knew of him now and then. "elphie... you didn't fail. you were failed. there's a big difference. you should see oz now - i was able to reversify everything those horrendable people did. the munchkins have their rights back, the animals have been reinstated as members of society, everyone is treated fairly. at least... that's how it was before i ended up here." she worried about the state of oz now. she was hopeful that someone on her side was taking over, but she'd never know the truth until she got to go back home. "well, in a way. i banished the wizard from oz, i made him leave. and i put morrible in prison. honestly they both deserved worse fates, but i wouldn't be galinda the good if i did what i really wanted to them." @fcrafcrtnight

"YOU ARE. or do you not think that i didn't see you? you were never just another shallow, popular girl. that much i know. you were always more." and yes, maybe they had gotten along horribly at first - loathing had been the word to describe it back then - but.. she had always known that there was more to galinda upland. that she was and had the potential to be someone else, if she wanted it. "i... i am sorry. for how that went down. i cared for him and i think that a part of me always will, but.. i never meant to hurt you. in any kind of way. OR TO LEAVE YOU ALONE." but she had left and then, fiyero had left because of her and no, she didn't think that she had thought about her best friend's side until now. "but those girls.. your girls.. how are they? what are they like?" she would have said that she wanted to meet them, which she did, but.. would that be asking for far too much now? "i... i wish it could have all been different," that about summed it up, now? "all i wanted to do was help, but.. i guess that i was doomed to fail. ALL BECAUSE of him. but.. hearing that.. it wasn't just me believing in you. it was believing in each other." wasn't that what had gotten them that far? knowing that they had each other.. until they didn't? "it's no dream. and wait, wait.. you.. ended her?" some of her memories were blank spots or.. was morrible that irrelevant now? @galindafication

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galinda shook her head. "no. it's real. what kind of witch would i be if i was carrying around a fake wand? it would be a horrendable offensification," she said. she smiled as she shook his hand delicately, as if they were both made out of porcelain. "i'm galinda upland. you can call me galinda. with a 'ga'." @moonglowmuses

alex did not recognize the other's verbiage, but that was all right. he did not mind that in the slightest, as a soft smile emerged. "is that... what i think that it is?" alex inquired, lifting a brow. "a wand? is that a prop? are you an actress of some kind?" there had to be a reasonable explanation, correct? "i do not mind others entering my personal bubble, so it's more than fine." alex extended a hand, hoping that she would shake his. "my name is alexander browning. but you can call me ALEX." he did not mind others calling him by his nickname.

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"well, of course. i'm a witch. i prefer the term 'sorceress' but i end up having to explain that it's a witch anyways, so..." ohhh. maybe she was just repeating her words, then. people did that sometimes. "it's very real. it's my home. i'm technically from gillikin, but i was in the emerald city for a while before i ended up here," she said. "well, thank you. i think." @moonglowmuses

if amanda had not been stumped before, she was now. her jaw dropped slightly before she corrected the look. she did not like strangers to see her raw emotions. "did you just say that magic can come from your fingertips?" amanda had never heard of such an ability. she was mystified. "i cannot say that i am from oz," amanda admitted. "is that a real place?" she had heard of it before, but from the media. not from personal experience. "galinda," amanda repeated. "you seem like an interesting person, galinda." she did.

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she smiled, nodding. "it is, indeed. not all of my magic can come from my fingertips, some of it needs a little help," she said. did they just use the same word? were they from the same place? "oh! you speak ozian? are you from oz?" she asked. "galinda upland. with a 'ga'," galinda said with a polite smile. "it's nice to meet you." @moonglowmuses

amanda casted an intrigued glance at the other person. it was an interesting sentiment that the other expressed. amanda saw the wand right away, furrowing her brows in confusion. "is that a wand?" she'd never seen such a thing. not the real thing, anyways. was it possible that the other was truly magical? "you did not encroachify anything, so... no need for an apology." amanda was more forgiving these days. this lifetime. "i can relate. being a klutz seems to be contagious, huh?" the woman paused. "i'm amanda, by the way."

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Look at her! She's wicked, kill her! Bring me down! No one mourns the wicked! So we've got to bring her down!

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"it's not meant for everyone. you're better without it. always have been. i wish i was better without it." she'd been popular her entire life. she didn't know anything else. until she ended up here, anyways. galinda nodded just barely, almost embarrassed. "i didn't keep it a secret from him... i didn't know until after... well, after everything happened." she felt awful that he never found out about his children. but what could she do? "not at all. there was nothing bad about the path you chose, except for the way people treated you for it... there's no better namesake than the strongest person i know. they know all about you. how you... you were nice to me, even if i wasn't at first. how strong you are, how good a person you are... how you're the reason for the person i am now," she said. most of the twins' bedtime stories were about herself and elphie. "i've been hoping and praying that this day would come... if this ends up being a dream conjured up by madame morrible, i dunno what i'd do... except for end her. again." @fcrafcrtnight

"SHAME THAT I NEVER REALLY LEARNED THAT, HUH?" being popular was perhaps not in the cards for her and never had been and maybe, that was alright. she had made her peace a long time ago with the fact that she and glinda were meant for every different fates - two that were never going to ALIGN at all. or would they? "fiyero? i.. yes, that makes sense," looking down for a second. "and you shouldn't have. NO ONE SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER ME. TOO MUCH OF A BAD LEGACY TO KEEP, WOULDN'T YOU SAY?" but the gesture had moved her and perhaps, right now, it was clear in the way that she had teared up. holding her back just as tightly. "i missed you too. i missed it being this.. simple." @galindafication