Author's Note: This is my first ever Fanfic don't hate me please! Hello this is important! You can skip the prologue but if you do then you MUST read this note because it involves important context of the story. The idea is that everything happened the way it should until the end of the Glinda and Elphaba's run to the Emerald city and then the big difference is that Glinda refuses to leave her and goes with Elphaba to join the resistance together. Glinda holds up the fort at home for Elphaba as the "wicked witch" works (a.k.a. terrorism) and grabs supplies so they don't starve.

Prologue: Magic is thicker than water

Glinda had been thinking.

Yes, yes there were so many jokes that could be made to mock the rather shallow seeming nature of the blonde's mind but she did, believe it or not, think often. Arguments of intellect aside Glinda had been thinking, thinking about what she really wanted in life and everything she left behind to be with Elphaba. This was not to say she regretted her decision and in a way she chose this for the woman she loved as much as herself. Lurline knows what would happen to the bitter green woman if left alone for so long. No the day she had rejected her normal and rather easy life to be with the witch was a day that gave her true happiness and true sorrow alike.

She was trapped in this humble cottage in the isolate Glikkus Mountains and it was a bit frustrating considering the fact she was a Gillikinese girl that had taken to the social life like a bird to the wide open sky. However her old life seemed so much hollower when she thought of the true bond formed between herself and Elphaba and she had been running over all their conversations in her head when she was bored at home waiting for her lover to return.

But something kept popping up in her mind as she waited. She wanted a child.

To her that was the one thing missing in her life other than the loneliness to which she had no solution for. She was raised with the ideal being for her to marry and have children so that thought just would not leave her. She wanted someone to remind her that Glinda's existence was not so temporary; she wanted to both prove she was here and that she could make something beautiful. And when she got down to it she wanted to be a mother. At first these thoughts were brushed off and she assumed they would fade or at least become bearable like the fact she would not get much of a social life again. Much to her surprise the desire only grew and grew in her until her maternal instincts could not be suppressed any longer.

So she came to the conclusion she could not hide this from her love any longer; she had to tell her.

After more tick tocks then she dared to count her lovely Elphie came back to their house. At the moment she returned Glinda had been practicing her magic. The swirls of mystical powers coiled around her wand and slithered into the air as though it was a snake twisting through the wind like it was grass. The green woman's twiggy limbs ached from her work and her eyes were tired but felt lighter when she saw Glinda with her expression cutely twisted into a look of concentration that looked mostly like she was pouting with that puckered lower lip. It made her smirk and let out a low chuckle that made the blonde jump from being snapped out of her focus and the magic just popped out of existence almost like a candle being blown out.

"Elphie~," She squealed excitedly as she hopped up from her chair to rush to the witch's side with a sweet smile.

"Hello my sweet."

"Boring as usual."

"You always say that," she sighed and wrapped her arms around the petite girl's waist with a stern look, "I know the mountains bore you but-"

"But I chose this life I know but I don't care I want to enjoy being with you," she insisted with wide begging eyes. In mere tick tock of holding their gaze Elphaba broke into a meek smile and gave her love a kiss that Glinda happily reciprocated. When their lips pulled away the blonde looked up at the green woman and her face became sullen with the thought she should tell her what had been on her mind. "What's wrong?" Elphaba asked a small hint of concern sneaking its way into her usually droll voice that only someone so close as Glinda could pick up on.

"I have to tell you something."

"You can tell me anything my sweet after all you've forced me to do the same," she said her tone becoming playful at the jab at how her lover had refused to have the hard truth of the nature of the witch's "work" revealed to her. Despite being a mere joke Elphaba had a point she could not keep this from her even if she wanted to but she knew the green girl would not like to hear it.

"I… I want a child," with the request the gaunt woman tensed and the smirk playing on her lips fell and she let out a sigh. One spindly hand moved to her head and pinched the bridge of her sharp nose so she would remain calm. The Gillikinese woman felt the air around them grow heavy and awkward making her pull away and she went to grab her wand and played with it to get her mind off the uncomfortable situation.

"You know we just can't make that happen after all I don't have the proper ahem, plumbing, not to mention we are in the turning point in a power struggle!"

"But-but we have magic we could-,"

"Magic I barely understand and again this is a sad and hard world; it is not the kind of world we should raise a child in."

"This is the only world and life we have or at least that is what you insist Ms 'I am an atheist and aspiritualist," she put her hands to her sides and her tone continued to become more shrill as she mocked Elphaba.

"But we should wait until after I overthrow the wizard, if I overthrow him…" she snapped at her but her vigor softened at the thought she might not succeed.

"Elphie we aren't going to be young forever," she cooed picking up on the broken spirit of her love and came closer again letting the distance disappear between them and kissed her on her murky green blushed cheek.

"I won't make a good mother," she looked at Glinda with a serious stare.

"You are so motherly to the Animals that you teach to talk."

"But humans are not the same story."

"I can be motherly enough for the both of us."

"You can't really think-,"

"Please I believe in you, Elphie; I believe in us." Glinda grasped her lover's green fingers and intertwined them with her own. Elphaba thought on it a moment. She had thought of it before truth before, what woman hadn't? She hated the idea of child birth though and she discovered she was not good with humans let alone simple minded little brats. But the child of her and Glinda couldn't be that bad and if she used magic there would be no childbirth and Glinda would do most of the care taking. Perhaps, she thought, just perhaps preserving her ideals and giving a companion to her love for when she was away could be worth it.

"Fine," she finally muttered regretting it a bit in her gut but was set at easy by the grateful kiss from the blonde.

Later they had dinner and studied the necessary spell to create life. It turned out it requited a woman's egg which was quite doable for the two and soon enough a bright-eyed baby girl was born and they named her name was Estella.