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“You wouldn’t! I did everything for you!”
“Did you really?” Aura questioned. In a blink, Amos now stood there, and the pure ruthlessness in his gaze could truly murder someone. “In the end, you abandoned me like everyone else until I was deemed valuable. You brought me back here for your experiments to further fuck with my life and those I cared about just for your diabolical plan. It didn’t matter if I was an outcast here or belittled in Faerie. I had to fix the reputation you left behind and prove to the people of our kingdoms that I wouldn’t be a photocopy of your villainy. You were so hurt by rejection from the best friend you dearly loved that you couldn’t move on. Even when you found a husband who loved you obsessively and had children with you, it couldn’t replace the love you carried for Elphaba and the agony her rejection brought you.”
It finally made sense as I put one and two together.
Mother and the Vile Queen weren’t just best of friends. They were once lovers?
“She rejected me! You don’t even know how that feels!”
“I may not,” Amos admitted. “But Aurelia does. She had to endure being born by a mother who wished she didn’t exist and tossed to fake parents to raise. She was rejected by her Coven because of your influence. Rejected in multiple areas of her life because you made her life harder by deeming her invaluable to the world because she was the female child you never wanted. So tell me. Is your pain any different from the very child you despised enough to even kill?”
She bit the bottom of her lip as tears stemmed in her eyes.
“I won’t be lectured by you!” she hissed. “Take this collar off this instant!”
“Ah. That’s impossible,” Arthur announced almost sweetly as he shrugged. “I made sure it would be a pain in the ass to get rid of. Like you have to go and gather your magic orbs across the paranormal planes, which includes Hell, in Daddy’s lovely jewel closet that is under a lava pit when Cerebrus isn’t playing with it. You’ll have to collect all those, put them back together, and have my Sweet Domino’s and Sweet Bloodrose’s permissions to unlock the collar.”
“Sweet Domino and Sweet Bloodrose?” Malachite questioned.
“Willow and Willa,” Amos deciphered.
“Of course, you also need the other two split personalities as well,” Arthur disclosed. “Will and the Willow we’ve yet to give a name to. They have to command those tarantula legs to come out of your neck, so it's a rather lengthy process. It took me a hot minute to think of before I asked Ruby and Whitney to help me design it!”
He clapped his hands and sighed before he didn’t hesitate to lean over as his eyes looked so cynically threatening, they sent shivers through me.
“Now how does it feel to be a trapped bird with no way out of its golden cage?” he hissed tauntingly. “The boy you always deemed second now did something that carries first-in-command energy, don’t you think? Acting like your right-hand woman for a few moments was intriguing, but I’ve realized it's about time I let go of that obsession.”
He pulled away as he looked down at her with menace.
“Sweet Domino is a much better queen than you are.”
“You think this fight is over?! You can do whatever you wish! I won’t succumb to any of your plots for my suffering! I regret nothing!”
“So you don’t regret the fact that you were the one to reject me?”
Everyone immediately glanced to the culprit of the soft-spoken question, and there was Queen Elphaba. Roberto and Ruby’s father stood behind her as if for moral support.
“You’ve really disappointed me, Anastasia,” Mother whispered, and I watched how devastated the Vile Queen looked as she absorbed those very words.
“I-I-It’s your fault!”
“If that makes you feel better, feel free to put the blame on me, Sia,” Mother whispered as she approached. “You really let the darkness of power spin the narrative, haven’t you?”
“What do you mean?!” She shook her head. “You rejected me!”
“I rejected your offer to join you in ruling your kingdom in Faerie,” she corrected as her eyes merely softened. “I told you I loved you, that I’d be happy to be with you, but I also had other commitments. You knew I was bisexual and wished for a second partner, and you originally agreed that I could be with Roberto so when you were in Faerie and needed to marry a king to rule with, I’d be here with Roberto running the Phoenix Empire.”
She paused and sighed.
“When you returned with news that you’d been forced to marry in order to rule your kingdom and ended up having children, years had already gone by here. You arrived when I was pregnant with Willow and were disappointed I hadn’t disclosed it to you. I’d tried to reach out to you a magnitude of times, but your husband cut off all means of communication and you already knew I had very little communication with the Coven outside work-related conversation. You got upset that I’d pushed you aside when in reality, your husband made it his mission to ensure you were his and his alone. I offered for you to stay here when you arrived three years later and explained how your husband treated you. How he abused and neglected you, and how his kingdom deemed women as sex slaves and nothing more. I wanted to help you change it all. I begged you to stay and encouraged you to bring your twins here. I knew you disliked the birth of Aurelia, so I offered to let her be raised with Willow, but you didn’t wish for that at all. You got upset that I wouldn’t divorce Roberto and love you alone because that’s what you were used to. Being solely loved...even if it wasn’t a devoted commitment that made you happy.”
The revelation left everyone speechless as Mother dared to reach out and wipe the tears that streamed down Anastasia’s face.
“I loved you dearly, Anastasia, and it killed me to see you suffering. Being abused and pushed into a corner. I wanted to help you so badly…knowing what the future had in store, but when I told you your husband wished to punish you for returning here without his permission, you wouldn’t listen. You said I was jealous, envious of your happiness, and decided we couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t love one another anymore. So…you rejected me and left for a mission soon after. That was the day of the mass explosion.”
The revelation left her speechless as Mother sighed.
“The culprit of the blast wasn’t me, Sia. The investigation proved that the explosion was a murder attempt by your husband who decided no one else would have you. Not me. Or the Coven. Not even your own children. I did everything I could to protect you from the blast from afar, but I guess it wasn’t enough. We tried searching for you…and your remains, but the place was plagued with dark magic and marked untouchable. I couldn’t do anything but mourn your disappearance in silence.”
