"How did they do it?" One of the children asked.

Nessa smiled so brightly she lit up the room as she answered simply, "They defied gravity..."

"How did they do that?" Another child asked.

Nessa smiled. "Like this..."

The images of Chistery and the other monkeys flashed in Elphaba's mind as she stormed away from the Wizard's palace with the Grimmery clutched tightly to her chest, and Glinda's hand firmly in her own. He tricked her! He used her! She didn't stop, pulling Glinda along with her, until they were well out of the city. Falling to her knees in the soft dust of the road, Elphaba clutched the book to her with both arms now. Her breathing was ragged and her heart was pounding painfully in her chest.

Glinda stood there and watched as her best friend clung to that old spell book, her shoulders shaking. Was she crying? Stepping closer to her friend, Glinda put her finger under Elphaba's chin, raising her face up to look at her. "Oh Elphie!" The blonde gasped as she saw the tears running down her friend's face. She quickly pulled a linen handkerchief from her purse and wiped the tears away knowing that they must be burning Elphaba's skin badly. "Elphie?"

"I hurt them, Glin. That spell hurt them!" Elphaba said when she finally looked up to meet her friend's eyes.

Glinda nodded sadly. "But you didn't mean too, Elphie. He tricked you."

Elphaba sat there stone still simply looking into Glinda's eyes for a long moment before quickly turning her head in shame. "I wanted everything he just offered me."

"You could still have it, Elphie, you could still be with the Wizard." Glinda said carefully.

Raven hair danced around black clad shoulders as Elphaba shook her head. "I know, but I don't want it anymore. I'm different, Glinda. I can't do it anymore."

There was a sudden flash of panic in Glinda's heart. "You can't do what anymore, Elphie?"

"Play the game by their rules." Replied the green skinned woman, in that moment, after what just happened, she wasn't a girl anymore she was a woman. In a quick, elegant, sweep Elphaba was on her feet and looking down at Glinda. Her mind, as muddled as it was, couldn't drown out her heart. Dear Oz she's beautiful, she thought. Reaching out her hand Elphaba offered it to Glinda.

Glinda took the soft green hand happily. Had there really been a time when the thought of this green skinned girl repulsed her? Had she really, actually hated her? "What are you going to do, Elphie?"

What was she going to do? Elphaba looked at Glinda for a moment and then down at the book tucked under her arm. There really was only one thing to do. Looking back up at Glinda she replied, "Fight him."

"What?" Glinda asked, her bright blue eyes wide with surprise. "Fight him? Fight the Wizard? Are you mad!"

Elphaba shook her head and nearly smiled. "I'm thinking rather clearly actually. I'm done with limits, Glinda. I'm done doing things, living my life one way or the other, just because someone said to do this and that."

"But it's the Wizard!" Glinda protested.

"So?" Elphaba replied as she walked over to a tree stump and flipped open the Grimmery. She quickly started looking over spells, chewing on her lip as she did so.

Glinda loved Elphaba's passion, she even shared it, but in that moment she thought her best friend had lost her mind. The Wizard might not have any real magical power but he was powerful in other ways. He had people like Horrible Morrible and Oz only knew who else on his side. Who did Elphaba have on hers? Nessarose? Boq? Fiyero? Her? Yes, yes she had her, but she was hardly enough. Was she? "What are you going to do?"

Elphaba read over the spell she'd found and then looked around their surroundings. Spotting a small shed she walked over to it quickly, the hem of her black dress dancing around her legs. Snatching a broom that had been leaning against the shed she walked back over to book. She looked at the broom, at the spell, at the broom, and then up at Glinda.

The look in Elphaba's eyes both trilled and scared Glinda. "Elphaba. Elphaba, what are you doing?"

"Defying gravity." The green witch replied before turning back to the book. She held the broom out before her and chanted the spell. The broom started to feel heavier and heavier before finally becoming as light as a feather. When Elphaba let go of it the broom hovered in mid-air.

"Elphaba?" Glinda asked as she stared at the hovering broom.

Elphaba turned to look at the blonde and smiled. Holding out her hand she asked, "Glinda, come with me? Think of what we could do together!"

It all came down to this moment. The weeks of loathing, the weeks of growing close, the hours spent watching the other when each thought the other wouldn't notice. All the late nights whispering about what they would do. Neither one pointed it out, but everything they'd ever planned for their futures had included the other. The problem was that even with the soft touches, the caresses, the holding hands, the smiles and the laughs, the tears and the arguments, the nights falling asleep in each other's arms, their feelings were never spoken of out loud.

Glinda stared into Elphaba's dark eyes for several long moments before looking at the offered green hand. Snapping her gaze back up to Elphaba's eyes she asked, "Why should I?"

Elphaba blinked. "What?"

"Why should I come with you?" Glinda clarified with her arms primly crossed over her breasts.

Elphaba smiled brightly and took a step closer to her friend. "We could be unlimited together, Glinda, can't you see that? We'd be the greatest team Oz has ever known! We could be… We could be them!"

"Them who?" Glinda asked.

"Green goes good with pink, don't you think?" Elphaba asked as she closed the distance between her and the woman she loved.

Glinda smiled for a moment but stood fast. "Not good enough."

Elphaba blinked again. "Not good enough?"

"No." The blonde replied primly.

The tall raven-haired woman huffed and strode over to her broom.

Glinda watched as Elphaba gripped the broom, her heart stopping in her chest.

With her broom clutched in her hand and the spell book tucked into her bag, Elphaba turned back to Glinda. She walked over to her and stared down at her. "Come with me, Glinda."

"Tell me why I should, Elphaba!" Glinda insisted. "Say it!"

"Come with me! Please!" Elphaba replied.

"Why?" Glinda asked, nearly begging for her Elphie to say it.

Every moment shared between them all built up inside of Elphaba. She had never been shown affection, or love, and that made this hard. But she couldn't, she wouldn't, loose Glinda because of her own faults. "Come with me… because I… Because I love you!"

Glinda yelped in pure pleasure and joy, as threw her arms around the taller woman's neck. "I love you too, my Elphie!" She had to stand on tiptoe but Glinda managed to kiss Elphaba. She relaxed and deepened the kiss when she felt Elphaba wrap her free arm around her. She didn't even notice when she and Elphaba started to slowly leave the ground. When the kiss ended and Glinda realized that she was floating in the air, for real and not just in her head, she yelped and clung tightly to Elphaba tightly.

There was a huge smile on Elphaba' face when the kiss ended and when she felt the air all around them and nothing solid under her feet. She held Glinda tight, threw her head back, and cackled blissfully.

The laugh startled Glinda. She'd never heard her Elphie laugh that way before. She smiled brightly. "Ooo I like that."

"Do you?" Elphaba asked as she lowered them back to the ground.

"Very much so." Glinda replied as she kissed Elphaba again. "I like that too."

Elphaba smiled as she reached up to caress Glinda's face. "Me too." Leaning down she kissed the smaller woman again. When she pulled away this time she leveled out the broom and sat on it. Holding out her hand she asked, "Well, are you coming?"

Glinda smiled brightly and took Elphaba's hand. "Where too?"

"Somewhere safe, somewhere we can work this all out." Elphaba replied as the broom began to rise. It was an amazing feeling. The freedom of it was unlike anything she'd ever felt, and yet it couldn't hold a candle to how Glinda made her feel.

Making sure to keep them out of sight, knowing that the Wizard's people would be looking for her, Elphaba headed west. Fiyero had once told her of an old castle in the Vinkus, Kiamo Ko, that belonged to him but he never used it. It would do for what she had in mind. She smiled a little as she felt Glinda holding tightly to her with her pretty blonde head resting on her back. She'd been terrified at the thought of taking on the Wizard alone, but with Glinda with her, well she was still terrified but she also felt hopeful and strong. Of course she'd never let Glinda get hurt, so that added a new twist to all of this, but she'd have it no other way.

By the time the two woman made it to Kiamo Ko the moon was high above their heads. Elphaba landed with a bit of a thump in the courtyard and flinched. "Sorry. I'll have to work on that."

Glinda nodded but smiled. "You do that." Wrapping her arms around herself to ward off the chill of the night air she looked around at their surroundings. "Where are we?"

"Home." Elphaba answered as she led the way into the castle. "At least for now."

Following Elphaba inside Glinda created a bubble and filled it with light to light their way. As they ventured further and further into the deserted castle she looked at the tapestries and paintings on the walls. "These are Winkies in the art work."

Elphaba nodded even though she wasn't sure Glinda could see her doing so. "This is Fiyero's palace."

"Oh." Glinda replied simply.

Something in the tone of her love's voice didn't sit well with Elphaba. "Oh?"

"Well it's just he never mentioned to me about..."

"Were you really going to marry him?" Elphaba asked cutting Glinda off.

Glinda was really glad that the soft pink light coming from her bubble hid the pink warming her face as she shook her head. "No."

Elphaba stopped and turned to look at the smaller woman. "No?"

Pink quickly became deep red as Glinda's whole body blushed. "I was… I was trying to... Well, you know…"

Elphaba laughed again and threw her arms around the small blonde. "You wanted to make me jealous?"

Glinda nodded.

Leaning down Elphaba kissed her wonderful little pink lips. "Your to cute my pretty one."

That statement made Glinda smile brightly. "So I'm yours now?"

"As much as I'm yours." Elphaba replied.

Glinda titled her head up and looked into dark eyes that sparkled with bits of pink light. Reaching up she caressed Elphaba's face, which made the taller woman close her eyes a little. "Oh Elphie, we just have to come out of this for the better."

Elphaba placed her green hands on top of Glinda's creamy ones. "We will, Glinda. I promise." I hope, she thought to herself. Leaning down she kissed Glinda's forehead and then took her hand again. She led the other woman through the castle until they found one of the bedchambers. Standing in the large room Elphaba just kind of stared at the bed. After all the day and night dreams of what she wanted to do to Glinda to show her how much she loved her, and now that they'd admitted to each other that they were in love, it was hard not to carry her love to the bed and live out her dreams. But it just wasn't the time yet.

"Elphie?" Glinda said softly.

"It's getting late." Elphaba replied. "And cold, we can't risk a fire."

Glinda smiled and hugged Elphaba. "That's ok we can keep each other warm."

Elphaba smiled in return. "Come on then."

Each woman stood on an opposite side of the large bed as they undressed. They'd shared a bed before but it was different now and each of them was feeling rather shy all of a sudden. After slipping into the bed and under the dusty old duvet the two women snuggled close together. Glinda loved how she seemed to simply fit into Elphaba. Sighing she asked, "Elphie?"

"Hmm?" Came the reply.

"When this is all settled and we're all safe..." Glinda began softly.

"Yeah?" Elphaba said, waiting.

Glinda laced her fingers with Elphaba's and sighed again. "Will you… Will you make love to me?"

"Every night for the rest of our lives." Came the heart felt reply and a tight hug.