Okay, chapter three of Haunts and Hurts is up. I feel kind of bad for giving you guys two agnsty chapters in a row so I made this a happy one. But I can't not give you a promise that this in the next chapter. So read and enjoy. :)

"Elphaba."

Elphaba groaned softly as she moved her head about the pillow. She has just gotten done with surgery and was now waking up from the anesthetic that put her under.

"Elphaba."

The green witch's eyebrows drew together slightly at hearing the voice call out to her again. It sounded so familiar but she couldn't put a name to the voice. When she heard it the third time Elphaba thought it was Glinda calling out to her. Her heart started to beat faster Glinda was up and about. Her friend was all right and when she wakes up she can tell the blonde about this horrible nightmare she had about her getting badly hurt. Slowly green eyelids moved upwards and a smile started to appear on her face at getting a head of golden locks in her vision first.

"Glinda, my sweet." Elphaba whispered out loud as she tried to move one of her hands to cup the blonde's cheek but both of her hands felt like lead and she could barely lift a finger. The raven haired beauty cursed at this and felt tears welding in her eyes at not being able to touch the one person who has captured her heart. She gasped softly at feeling fingers gently wiping away her tears and something very warm landed on top of her left hand.

"Oh Elphaba, it's me Sarah. Glinda is still in ICU."

Reality crashed in at that one sentence. Brown eyes suddenly became alert as Elphaba quickly sat up in her bed. Pain shot through her chest at this sudden movement. The green witch clutched her chest while hissing in pain. That stung. She looked to the area where she was clutching and the memory of what happened came flooding back into her mind. A deep growl escaped her lips as her eyes harden in anger. That bastard stabbed her. She was about to get off the bed to go and find him again to teach him another lesson but Sarah was there to intervene.

"Stop, sit down and rest." Sarah responded in an authoritative tone of voice knowing that once Elphaba hears this she will do as she says. The green witch quickly laid back down on the bed and put her hands on her stomach then gave a nervous smile. Green eyes lost it's fire as Sarah observed Elphaba lying on the bed with her eyes sneaking a glance to the slightly ajar door. The green witch either really wanted to see Glinda or kill the driver who did this to her and Glinda or both. Sarah didn't know just yet. If Glinda were here she would be able to tell that in a second. Those two have gotten so close Sarah, at some times, swear that maybe they weren't just friends but have crossed that line into something more deep. Elphaba sighed heavily breaking Sarah's line of thought.

"So what is the damage for me?" The green witch asked quietly as she twiddled her thumbs together because she didn't like lying down not when Glinda wasn't with her at the moment. She wanted to know how injured she was because if she wasn't hurt that bad she will leave this room and go be by Glinda's side while ignoring everybody else who says she can't.

Sarah pushed back that horrible memory of what happened just hours ago and looked to Elphaba with a strong mask over her face. A dark eyebrow twitched slightly at seeing a forced smile on Sarah's face. That looks exactly how Glinda's does hers when she doesn't want her to know how she was really feeling inside. Elphaba suppressed a frown at this horrid habit that the Uplands women seem to naturally have. She rather people be up front to her about their emotions rather then hide behind a plastic smile that seems to fool everybody but her.

"The knife managed to knick a major blood vessel in your chest. Even with a cut so small you lost a lot of blood. They just took out the needed for the blood transfusion."

Elphaba looked to her left hand and saw a little bit of bandages there to show where the needle was at. She made a soft humming noise as she looked back to Sarah. Well, she felt fine and Glinda was in the ICU all by herself without her. She needed to see the blonde just to be able to see her.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Sarah exclaimed in shock when Elphaba slid off the bed and stood up while her legs wobbled a little bit but the green witch held strong. Elphaba looked to Sarah with determine in her eyes. She doesn't care about her own injury she will live, Glinda might not. There was no way she was going to rest her own injury at all. Glinda needed her or at least that what she wants to think. Glinda might never want to talk to her ever again but Elphaba still held onto the little bit of hope that was still left in her body.

"No, I need to see her. I will live but Glinda might not. I need to tell her something and if she dies before I get that chance I will regret it for the rest of my life." Elphaba replied strongly before leaving the room and a slightly stunned Sarah. The blonde gently sat on the bed that Elphaba just occupied and gave a soft chuckle. She was right after all and Sam now owes her fifteen bucks.

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Elphaba peeked around a corner to see if there were any doctors or nurses scurrying about. She didn't want them to see her out of her bed and make her go back to her own room to rest her own injury. Glinda needed her damn it and her injury was small. Seeing that the cost was clear Elphaba streaked down the corridor until she got to the last room on the left. The green witch stood in front of the half open breathing heavily at hearing a machine going on in the room. Tears pricked at her eyes at what thing was making this noise and what it was doing to Glinda.

"Elphaba, come inside before you get caught." Sam's voice came from inside the room. Elphaba was highly that Sam even knew it was her. For all he could have known it was Sarah behind this door. The green witch sneaked in and didn't get far into the room when her eyes landed on Glinda. Her breathing became erratic as tears were already flowing down her face at what Glinda was like lying in the bed.

Tubes were shoved down her nose flowing life giving air into the only working lung at the moment, her left leg was in a white cast while being suspended in the air with a sling underneath it so the leg could properly set, her right hand was in a cast as well and was just limply resting on the blonde's chest as if Glinda put it there during one of her lucid moments and her right eye looked bruised and swollen shut while a cut ran across her left eyebrow. The worst part was seeing all the deep bruises on the face and arms some even looked like horse shoe prints. Elphaba wished she just got a couple more minutes with that driver and really fuck him up now after seeing what Glinda looked like. Sam turned his head around when he didn't hear Elphaba coming near him. His blue eyes soften at seeing the horror mixing in with anger on the green witch's face. Those feelings he knew all too well just hours ago he felt the same way as Elphaba was now.

"Fabala, come here and sit down. It's better for you at the moment." Sam whispered as he removed his cane from the other chair and patted it gently. The green witch looked towards the man she considered a father to her when she heard her nickname that she only let Sam use on her. She nodded her head and started to walk to the open chair. Carefully she sat down on the chair before scooting it closer to where the blonde was at.

"How did you know it was me? A door was in front of me." Elphaba questioned while never taking her eyes off of Glinda. She wished she had more magic in her to be able to heal all those wounds that are making the blonde lay in the bed like this. Sam gave a chuckle or two while patting her on the thigh.

"The Uplands aren't the only ones famous for their magic. I come from a powerful line of wizards and witches myself. That is why Glinda is so adept at magic. I don't really care to use my magic but I do tap into now and again just like now. I sensed you." Sam explained as he twirled his cane a couple of times before resting it against the wall. Elphaba looked to him with shock. She didn't know he had magic flowing through his veins. He didn't seem like a person who had magic. He was a retired police officer turned lawyer because he wanted to stay within the justice system after an injury that forced him to retire early. It was mind boggling at the moment for her.

"Really, you just don't seem the type to have magic in you." Elphaba replied while breaking her eyes off of Glinda for a second. Sam chuckled again and shrugged his shoulders. That is true just because people see his profession and just assume he was a normal person and every thing.

"You're not the first one. People know that I'm a lawyer and still get that image of them being boring, stuffy, and having no fun at all. I do like to show them up when I do some magic but I don't use it to manipulate the system. I don't abuse it all." Sam responded back with a smile. Elphaba nodded her head up and down in understanding while turning her sight back onto Glinda and felt her chest tighten up at seeing those bruises again. Life was not fair to Glinda. This never would have happened if she just said that they could be together. This was all her fault. She needed some alone time with Glinda to be able to get out all her feelings but with Sam next to her that couldn't happen. Despite them being so loving and accepting of her Elphaba didn't want them to know what her true feelings were on their daughter.

Sam leaned closer to the green witch and decided to use his magic to see what Elphaba was feeling. He was knocked back by a brick wall that has surrounded the green witch's mind. It must have been all those years before Shiz that Elphaba built this wall up around her to protect herself. There was one thing that he did get and the need to be alone with Glinda. So the dark haired man got up from his seat and grabbed his cane. Elphaba looked to him to see what he was doing.

"I'm hungry and I'm going to go to Sarah and get some food. We will be back soon with some food for you as well. Don't say you're not hungry we are bring you food anyways and will be force feeding you if you don't eat." Sam said seriously before leaving the room to do just that. Elphaba pursed her lips together but let it go because Sam was just looking out for her and that was all. When the green witch knew that she was alone she scooted to the bed as close as she could then reached out to grab hold of Glinda's non injured hand. She gave a small gasp when she felt how cold Glinda's hand was to her own. Now Elphaba was truly afraid that the blonde might not make it through the night. Nobody's hand should be as cold as ice this after just having surgery and with the room being so warm.

"Glin, my sweet don't leave me please. I won't be able to live if you do." Elphaba started to speak in a thick voice. She gulped hard and looked to the blonde to see if she was going to awake at the sound of her voice. Tears pricked at her eyes at getting nothing but the machine pumping in air to Glinda's lung. Well, maybe if she said something else it might bring Glinda out from her sleep or was she in a coma? She couldn't remember much after the man stabbed her.

"Glin, my sweet. I'm sorry this is all my fault. If I wasn't trying to protect you, you wouldn't have been out that night and got hit by that asshole. I want to take it back." Elphaba whispered as her emotions started to get the better of her at this moment. It was getting hard for her to speak and soon she might not be able to speak at all. But the green witch pulled through her grief to last a couple more minutes to finish her little speech.

"The truth is I do want to be with you. I want to hold you in my arms and never let go. I want to kiss you on the lips until you are weak in the knees and your lips are swollen. I want to some day down the road to marry you and have kids and watch them grow. I love you Glinda Upland and please come back to me." Elphaba barely managed to finish as she put her head to the bed and her shoulders started to go up and down as sobs escaped her lips. The green witch continued to cry for ten minutes when something lightly squeezed her hand. Her breath hitched as he quickly snapped her head up, wincing at whip lash and her chest wound getting too much strain on it. She saw the pale hand in her own flex again in a soft squeeze. Her heart started to beat faster at seeing Glinda's eyes moving underneath the eyelids as her hand squeezed the green one again before moving her fingers around to feel the green flesh.

"Elphie, is that you?" Glinda's voice sounded hoarse as she spoke for the first time in awhile. Elphaba squeezed Glinda's hand to show that she was right next to her. The blonde squeezed her good eyelid as it slowly began to open up. The green witch felt her breathing get heavier each second that has passed with the blonde opening her eye. Finally a light blue eye connected with tearful, brown ones.

"Elphie." Glinda whispered happily at seeing her friend right next to her. Elphaba sniffled while nodding her head up and down. But before the blonde could give her next response the green witch leaned down and pressed their lips together for a loving, tender kiss.

I think that is a good way to end this chapter but like I've said in the beginning the next chapter might not be so happy. It depends on which road I want to take. So I hope you enjoyed reading this one and I will see you guys in the next one. Until then.

DWK