Disclaimer: I do not own anything. I wish.
I have already posted this on the gelphie lovers community on livejournal, but now I am also posting it here!
This is also my first attempt at slash at all, though it's mostly mild, so we'll see how that goes.
Also, I don't have a beta or anything, so there shall be mistakes! (Hopefully not too many!)
Elphaba was content. It was a Friday night, meaning she had all weekend to do her homework and read. Presently, she was sprawled across her bed with her history textbook open reading ahead. The room she shared with Glinda was quiet and calm, which could be attributed to the fact that Glinda was not there. The little blonde vixen was probably out somewhere nice with a boy doing something fun. Something Elphaba was certain she did not want to know about. Before it was more about the fact that hearing Galinda's perky voice bubble about her boys and her clothes made Elphaba nauseous with a combination of being overwhelmed by pink sparkles, boredom and wanting to concentrate on her homework but over the period of time the two girls had been friends Elphaba had begun to notice there were new reasons she did not want to hear every detail of the blonde's life. New reasons Elphaba was not entirely sure she liked and had even less idea how to deal with. So away they went. If there was anything she had learned growing up about dealing with people, it was how to hide. It was then when Elphaba, focus now directly back on her textbook to prevent further thoughts on matters, heard the distinct sound of clicking on the floor leading up to the door.
"Glinda?" She mumbled to herself, then shook her head. It was only nine o'clock and she could not remember the last time Glinda had come home that early on a Friday night. And it wasn't as if any of her friends would come looking for her here at this time, running the risk of an altercation with the green girl. The door swung open and Elphaba was hit with a fresh wave of the familiar scent that was indefinitely clinging to their room. "You're home early."
"I am, aren't I?" It wasn't really slurring, but Glinda had managed to lose the greater majority of her diction at some earlier point in the evening and Elphaba assumed that vodka had something to do with it. "Well the short one... Biq, yes! Biq brought me home. Avaric and I were having a grand time when..."
"Avaric, Glinda? I thought you were going out with Fiyero?" How anyone could go through boys so fast, Elphaba would never understand. Sometimes, she was pretty sure she couldn't understand how anyone could go through boys at all.
"Well Fiyero was there. He took me there. But after things started to get blurry, he went away. I don't think he liked my dancing..." Glinda pouted as she remembered, but per usual when she was tipsy, things didn't seem to bother her for long. Smiling brightly a moment later, she sauntered over to Elphaba's bed and held out her hand. "Dance with me, Elphie!" Pursing her lips at the nickname she was not quite yet accustom to, Elphaba began to list all the reasons it was not a good idea to dance with Glinda. The list didn't include much substance, or variation. She's drunk, she's cute when she pouts and she's drunk made recurring appearances. "Elphie! You're not dancing yet!" Tugging at the green girl's arm, Glinda began to dance on her own, all the while pouting at Elphaba in attempts to convince her to join in on the dancing.
"I don't think dancing is a good idea. Besides, I have to read." Elphaba gestured to the open textbooks.
"Elphie- you're already at least two chapters ahead of the class and it's Friday night. You have all weekend to read your boring textbooks! Besides, look at me, I'm pouting. I will continue to pout until you dance with me, and pouting will give me wrinkles so you better hurry up." Elphaba sighed. She did make a good argument. Well, if she really thought about it, it was a really bad argument. But, she supposed, it was easy to persuade those who wanted to be persuaded. Accepting the outstretched hand which was being offered to her (and who was she to resist anything Glinda offered her?) she was pulled off the bed and onto the floor where she began to dance with Glinda to the music in the other girl's head. It wasn't right, Elphaba knew, to allow herself to indulge in this, but one dance couldn't hurt anything... unless of course Glinda decided to lay her head on Elphaba's shoulder like that making Elphaba's breath catch in her chest.
"Are you okay Glin?" Even though she didn't ever want Glinda to move from where she was curled into Elphaba's side as they swayed from side to side to the silence filling the room, she had to ask.
"I'm tired Elphie." Came the muffled reply in such a small voice that it broke Elphaba's heart. It wasn't right that someone so bright and beautiful and... pure could sound so small, afraid and worn.
"Would you like to go to bed?"
"No."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Glinda removed her head from Elphaba's shoulder, and Elphaba almost regretted asking the question until she met Glinda's eyes which were staring directly into her own. The blue orbs were filled with glee, happiness and excitement- the things Elphaba thought Glinda should always be filled with. Knowing that she was responsible for putting that look on Glinda's face, even for this one time, made the fact that Glinda's body was no longer pressed against her own okay.
"Do I want to talk about it? Oh Elphie." Glinda sighed. She wasn't slurring her words as much anymore as she made her way over to her own bed and sat down. Elphaba stood awkwardly in the middle of the room until Glinda patted the spot beside her on her bed, giggling, and indicating for Elphaba to sit beside her. "I just don't know how to deal with some things."
"I don't know how to deal with a lot of things." Elphaba confessed with a rare laugh.
"There's ... somebody. And you know that feeling that you get, when your heart jumps into your throat and your breath gets caught?" Elphaba knew Glinda's giggles well, but the nervous giggle was a new one to file in her memory.
"Kind of. I'm not really good with identifying feelings." Elphaba shrugged, not wanting to let on that she had that sensation right now and just about every other time she looked at her roommate.
"Well, there's someone. And I've never felt this way before," Glinda rolled back on the bed dramatically. "I've never felt this... intense. Usually I just go after the hottest boy, or the richest boy, but now my heart's doing somersaults and they're not for Fiyero, before you ask."
"Avaric?" Elphaba flinched as the name left her lips.
"Ew! No!" Glinda erupted into a fit of giggles. "Avaric is only appealing after too many drinks. I mostly only mentioned him because you get this cute look on your face when you try to hide how much you dislike him."
"Glinda Upland!" Elphaba chastised.
"I love when you're giggly, Elphie!" Glinda bubbled.
"If it makes you that happy Glin, I'll be giggly every day. Though it may ruin my tough image- you know how hard I worked to achieve that. Besides, me giggly all the time may get overwhelming." Elphaba teased, expecting Glinda's bubbliness to only increase. However, when she looked back at her friend, there was something else in her eyes. "Glin, I'm sorry I was just teasing... if it made you uncomfortable..."
"No, not uncomfortable at all." Glinda smiled. "You just say the sweetest things sometimes Elphie."
"So if it isn't Fiyero and it isn't Avaric, who is the mystery man?" Elphaba, not usually one to partake in girl talk of any kind, indulged her roommate. "Certainly not Master Boq?"
"Master Boq! Elphie, really!" Glinda shrieked with mirth. "No, there is no mystery man."
"There isn't?"
"No."
"Then all that talk before about hearts leaping and breath catching and..."
"There is no mystery man, Elphie."
"Oh."
"I should sleep. Tomorrow we'll talk?"
"Tomorrow, indeed." And for the first time, Elphaba fell asleep quickly with a smile on her face because for the first time in as long as she could remember, her dreams had a chance (and a good chance, at that) of coming true.
I had something COMPLETLEY different planned for this originally! But alas, this is what came out of it. Hopefully someone enjoyed it : ) !