All here is the sequel to Fate's little twist. It is set six years after Glinda's death. Elphaba still hasn't really gotten over Glinda's death and Hope only has memories of what Glinda is like curtesy of people telling, espcially Elphaba, all about her other mother. Reading Fate's little twist might help with the story line in this one. So if you haven't read it you might so you won't be lost with some references in this story. I don't own Wicked and never will. I don't own the title either since its the same title as a Star Wars movie. So unless some one can come up with a better name that's what the name will be. I hope you enjoy reading this one.
Darkness was all around. Everywhere you looked it there was the black mass surrounding the area. It was suffocating and offered no hope to anybody who was trapped in this hell. Suddenly a bright light pierced through the darkness and showered down a new hope from the prison breathing in new life and a new start.
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"Mommy! Mommy!" A young voice shouted in the halls in a frantic way and tears. Elphaba lifted her head from a book and pushed up her reading glass to her head. She was wondering what was causing such emotions from her daughter. The green witch just swung her legs over the edge of her bed when a green blur rammed right into her stomach. With the momentum of the hit Elphaba went flying back on to her bed, the glasses shot off the top of her head and landed on the floor.
"Oof." The green witch grunted in pain as the two bounced on the bed a couple of time. A six year old Hope, quick as a cat, clambered up her mother's body and buried her face into the green neck. Her tears started to run down the column and Elphaba knew that from the way Hope was acting, something has scared her daughter pretty badly. So the raven haired beauty wrapped Hope up in a protective embrace and slowly got up into a sitting position. Elphaba started to run a hand through the raven locks and softly spoke words of comfort trying to calm Hope down.
"It's ok. It's ok. Mommy is here." She would whisper. Hope's cries quickly reduced down to sniffles as she wiped her nose on the black tank top Elphaba was wearing. The green witch couldn't help but laugh at that little habit Hope picked up. Glinda did that all the time when she was alive. Elphaba's eyes stung a bit at the thought of her dead lover. It's been six years now since her death and the ache in her heart still hasn't stop hurting. Elphaba pulled her daughter back and wiped away the rest of the remaining tears that didn't get on her shirt.
Her eyes glowed love at seeing Hope strong and healthy but not so big. She was small for her age and Elphaba, along with the Lion and Fiyero, thinks that Glinda's shortness might be in affect for Hope. Her green skin had a healthy glow just like her mommy's and it highlighted those light blue eyes. Elphaba knew she had to watch out when Hope was older and knew how to batter her eyelashes at anyone who caught her eye.
"What's wrong?" Elphaba asked gently. Hope wrapped a small, green hand around the emerald ring that was hanging around her neck. Brown eyes watched that action very intently. Ever since she gave that ring to her daughter a year ago she has never left that thing out of her sight. It looked like it's a source of comfort or protection, Elphaba inferred, because she gave it to her. She did that for the green child never stopped trying to get at and finally when Hope was old enough she gave it to her for her fifth birthday. Elphaba whispered to Hope as she put it around her daughter's neck that it belonged to her mother and it would protect her from anything that scared her. Also the green witch added that Glinda will always be with her for her spirits lives on and watches out for her always. At that gesture from her daughter Elphaba knew something must have spooked her while she tried to sleep.
"Th-There w-wa-was a…a..a"
Elphaba put a hand over the green mouth that was stuttering so bad she couldn't decipher what Hope was trying to say. Crystal blue eyes moved back and forth, dark eyebrows drew together slightly at what her mommy did. This was a way Elphaba used to stop the rambling her daughter did at times. She swears that this little girl in front of her had only her looks but the way she acts a lot of the time it's like Glinda all over again. The green witch removed her hand and used it to tuck some dark locks behind the green ears.
"Take a couple of breaths and tell me what's wrong." Elphaba instructed as she wrapped her arms around Hope's waist. Hope closed her eyes and took some deep breaths. Her eyes snapped open, startling her mommy a bit. The green hand gripped the ring tighter.
"There was a figure in a hooded cloak standing in a corner of my room and it wouldn't go away when I put the blanket over my head. It scared me for I thought it would get me. It was scary." Hope explained as tears started to well in her eyes when she remembered the dark figure in her room staring at her underneath that hood. Fear froze the blood running in Elphaba's vein when her daughter described what happened. There has been a minor threat or two on Hope's life because some people still thought Hope was a monster and Glinda was put under a spell for it to happen. But it was taken care of with the help of the Lion and Fiyero.
The green witch believed her daughter really saw this because it's only been ten minutes when she put Hope to bed. She mustn't let that emotion display on her face though for she had to be strong for Hope. Elphaba swallowed that feeling and her eyes filled with fire at someone scaring Hope. That is unacceptable.
"Show me and I will take care of them." Elphaba said in a firm voice. Hope nodded her head and slid of her mommy's lap. She felt better now that her mommy was going to take care of the person. She liked it when Elphaba would protect her and calm her down with hugs and kisses. It made her feel very safe. Elphaba grabbed hold of the outstretched hand and got up from the bed. Hope guided the green witch back to her bedroom with her hand still clasped around the emerald ring.
When they got in front of the wide, open door Hope went behind Elphaba's legs. Soulful brown eyes soften as a hand went on top of the head. Hope looked up to her with fear ridden eyes. Elphaba patted the head a couple of times for reassurance and told her green child to wait out here while she checked her room.
"Just keep hold of that ring and your mother will be with you." The raven haired beauty whispered. Hope nodded her head in understanding and held the ring even tighter then before. Elphaba's eyes widen when she saw a green light emitted in her daughter's hand but just as quickly died away. When that happened Hope's shoulders became less tense and the fear started to melt away in her eyes. Speechless the green witch walked into the bedroom as she picked up her left hand and looked at her pink jeweled ring. She didn't do that kind of magic it was only for Glinda but who did? Elphaba pushed out the notion of Glinda being alive out of her head. That's a highly unlikely idea for it's been six years and she had to get use to the fact that Glinda was never coming back.
The green witch wiped away the stray tear that has escaped her barrier and focus on finding this person Hope described. Her eyes swept the room and saw that it was empty. The tension in her body drifted out a bit but Elphaba won't be satisfied until this whole room was searched. She checked in the closet, underneath the bed, every crook and nanny in that was in the room. There was nothing there to suggest that a person was in this room. But Elphaba wasn't going to write this off as Hope's imagination. The fear in the crystal blue eyes was so raw and real Elphaba couldn't deny it. The raven haired beauty turned around to the open door.
"It's all clear little one. Come back in so you can go back to sleep." Elphaba called out. Hope poked her head into the doorway, her eyes moved around the room as if she was scanning as well. Elphaba chuckled and waved in her daughter. Hope's body soon fallowed her head and she padded into her room still holding on to the ring. When the green girl got close enough to her mommy, Elphaba picked her up and put her underneath the warm, pink blankets.
"There we go snug as a bug." The green witch whispered with much affection as she tucked her daughter snug in the bed then pushed off the dark locks off of Hope's face, her eyes glowing with love for the little girl below her.
"Or a Bug" Hope chimed in.
"Or a Bug." Elphaba repeated with laughter in her voice. Hope's giggles mixed in with her mother's deep chuckles and the two ended at the same time with a breathless 'Oh'. When they were done laughing Elphaba leaned over and pressed lips to the green forehead, crystal blue eyes closed at the sign of love from her mommy. Then the green witch gave her daughter an Eskimo kiss making Hope laugh out loud.
"I love you so very much" Elphaba whispered. Hope put a hand onto top of a bigger version of her own. Elphaba swallowed hard and looked in to the eyes that were Glinda's.
"I love you too, mommy. Can you tell me the story about when you and mom met again?" Hope asked widening her big, blue eyes to the puppy look that way her mommy would give in and tell her the story again even though she heard many times. The minute those eyes turned into the new look Elphaba couldn't help but do what Hope asked her to do. The green witch had a tradition when she put Hope to bed. After she had tucked the green girl underneath the covers she would tell her one story about Glinda. That way Hope would know about her other parent and never forget where half of her genes came from. Sometimes Hope would request a certain story that has already been told or let Elphaba tell her a new story. The raven haired beauty smiled softly and nodded her head. The green squirmed excitedly in her bed and waited for her parent to get started. She loved this story and requested it the most out of all the stories she has heard. Elphaba shifted her body until she rested a leg on the bed and she could see her daughter better.
The green witch licked her lips and opened her mouth to begin to tell the story. Elphaba got to the part where Morrible just assigned them as roommates and neither one was really happy about it when soft snores reached her green ears. She looked down and saw Hope was fast asleep, the ring now lying on the moving chest. Elphaba jerked a bit when the emerald gem sparkled again. That was starting to creep her out just a tiny bit. Pushing that aside Elphaba kissed her daughter on the forehead and whispered her love for her.
She closed the door behind her and dropped into a serious mode. Elphaba strode back to her own room and closed the door. She needed to talk to the Lion about what happened to Hope. She didn't want anything happening to her daughter at all. She couldn't live life anymore if something happened to that little girl resting in the room that was two doors down from hers. Elphaba walked to the desk that was near the window and opened the middle drawer. In the middle of it was that unmarked paper that had Glinda's writing on it and next to it was the pink flower Glinda gave her in Shiz.
"You're dead and not coming back. I need to accept that." Elphaba whispered in a thick voice as she closed the drawer then grabbed the key that rested on top. The green witch slide it in the lock that was on the middle drawer and locked it. It was time to move on and live in the present, no more thinking that Glinda some how survived and was going to come back to them. Elphaba took the key, went to the window, opened it up to the breezy night and tossed it out into the darkness with all her might.
The green witch managed to see where it landed and lost her breath when she saw it land near a cloaked person. The person's cape was flying in the wind and wrapped around the body like a blanket. The brown eyes watch as the cloaked person bent down and picked up the golden key. They then looked back up to the window were Elphaba was almost hanging out of the window shaking like leaf. This was the person Hope saw in her room, how did they get outside of the palace so fast and by the guards? The person waved the key in the air as if to thank Elphaba and then turned around, their back now to the highly shocked green witch.
Elphaba tried to control her erratic breathing as the cloaked figure limped their way into the forest. When the person was gone Elphaba stumbled back on to her bed and clutch her forehead. Thoughts were racing a mile a minute in her head. Who was that person? and what the hell were they doing in her daughter's room? Elphaba staid up all night trying to figure out this mysterious person and got nowhere. It consumed her mind so much she burned herself out and nodded off when the sun peaked the over the horizon. Today was the day of Glinda the Good's memorial service.
Who is this cloaked figure? Is it Glinda back from the dead or someone else that is watching over the family? Well you will have to wait and see. Stay tune for the next chapter of A New Hope.