Ok, this is the next chapter for you all…and I hope you enjoy it. At one point Elise say's a quick prayer…seriously quick and this is the disclaimer for it - (Psalm 147:3)

I am not that religious so don't start thinking I am some God lover cause I'm not…but I thought a lovely prayer in the right moment might make things nice. You'll need to read to see why there would be the need for a prayer.

Warning: Things start to come together with the children…best be thinking about those ratings now. :D

Disclaimer: I don't own the prayer or the characters belonging to Wicked, the sets, the backgrounds, the places…though one day I plan to run OZ…mwah ha ha ha …so tell I'm sleep deprived right? Ok…On with the story J

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Chapter 10

It was a long trip back to the Upland manor, and for a few weeks, with schooling and social events, the girls found themselves through their first year. And then years followed that.

Elphaba went to the Academy for Powerful Youth every holiday, much to Galinda's displeasure. She loved her time there and was happy that, for the time being, Galinda had been able to come with her every time.

Elphaba wasn't learning new powers or magic spells. In fact, she would say over and over again 'I am learning nothing.' and Elphaba found herself getting frustrated and a little tired of doing nothing at the Academy. But she always attended not knowing that in doing so, she was learning the best way to control her magic from happening when she got emotional.

Elphaba was classified as an Empathy witch. There were many groupings at the Academy, the Scar Witch, The Wrath witch and countless more as well as groupings for sorcery and psychic beings. The Empathy witch was a being who's powers tied in considerably with their emotional states. Knowing this, Taylor had sent Elphaba back to the Upland Manor with her own personal manual, stating that, if at anytime Elphaba was getting emotional they needed to run through her calming exercises and get her to focus.

Elphaba hated the attention.

We enter seven years on. The girls are now sixteen years old, a long jump forward but their lives are changing now at this fragile age. Galinda has been pursued by many boys yet none grabbed her attention. She was vying for the attention of someone special, yet who, she couldn't say. The frustration of her countless feelings towards Elphaba and her disinterest in the boys was starting to take its toll on the blonde who became more and more depressed as the days wore on.

The girls no longer share their bedroom as their parents believed they were old enough now to not want to share their bed. But they were wrong. The girls weren't sure why they wanted to stay together at night, but the split seemed to make Galinda's sleepless nights worse and helped her deterioration.

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'Elphie, please! Go away!' Galinda sounded somewhat stressed, her legs jingling in anticipation.

Galinda had been needing to get away from the noise, from the stress, from the green girl who was pacing in front of her. She needed her space and Elphaba was usually good at giving it to her, but the green girl was nervous about her next trip into the Emerald City in three days, her first magic test.

'Lyndie, I don't know what I am going to do? What if I blow something up or make a complete idiot of myself, or get emotional? What if I can't do anything?'

Galinda felt the strangest need to scream, but her Elphie was in need of comfort so, taking a deep breath she replied, but her reply was swift.

'You will show them how talented you are and, if you are going to blow anything up, hopefully blow up Taylor in the process.' Elphaba knew Galinda had some unknown dislike towards Taylor, so the abusive comment wasn't a surprise but it was enough to snap Elphaba out of her little thought rut and an apologetic smile graced her features making Galinda's heart sputter for a second.

'Oh Oz Galinda, I am sorry. I must be making this hard on you. Let me leave you alone.' Elphaba flashed her rare but beautiful smile at Galinda, knowing that every time she smiled at Galinda , she was forgiven. As if on cue, Galinda let out a soft sigh and smiled at Elphaba.

'It's ok Elphie, I'm just…'

'Confused…' Elphaba supplied, having had this conversation with the constantly depressed blonde. A small, sad smile graced the pale blondes features as she nodded and Elphaba put an arm around the trembling girl not knowing that this was only making things worse. 'It's ok Lyndie, you'll figure this out.' But the blonde couldn't only nod as she slumped against Elphaba deciding that, just for this once, she can enjoy the warmth that Elphaba supplied.

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When Galinda began to deteriorate, her face had become more drawn, her eyes lost their sparkle, her appetite (something she was always proud of) almost ceased to exist, Elphaba knew something was incredibly wrong with her. Elphaba had been debating with herself about telling their mother, who had noticed Galinda acting strangely but was not fully aware of the blondes suffering. But when Galinda stopped giggling, talking and wiggling, Elphaba knew she needed to do something quickly.

Rushing along the corridors late one night, after making sure Galinda was sound asleep and safe, Elphaba searched for her mother. Having not been in her bedroom, there was one other place her mother liked to be and it happened to be Elphaba's favorite place as well. The library. Peeking into the large room, Elphaba could faintly make out her mothers form in one of the arm chairs. Her eyes were twinkling with the flickering of the candle beside her as she read a book. Obviously having trouble sleeping tonight. Elphaba stood up straight and tapped lightly on the sturdy wooden frame.

Elise startled at the sound of tapping and instantly looked at the door not expecting to see the tall, thin green child standing there shifting from foot to foot in mild discomfort.

'Elphaba darling, what's the matter? Why aren't you in bed?' Elise went to rise from her chair but Elphaba rushed across quickly.

'Please mother stay seated.' Elise lowered herself back into the chair watching her daughter warily.

'Elphaba, speak to me child. What is wrong?' Elphaba sighed and looked at the ground.

'It's not me mother, it's Galinda.' Had Elphaba been looking up at her mother at that point she would have seen the concern flash briefly in the blue eyes before being quickly masked.

'What about her darling?' Gaining courage, Elphaba looked up Elise and, clasping her hands tightly, began to explain.

'Mum, she's not eating, not drinking, not sleeping, not talking, not anything. She's void of life. It's starting to scare me mum and I don't like it. I miss her and she won't tell me what's wrong. Why won't she talk to me? I miss her. I miss Lyndie.' Elphaba couldn't control the tears that fell from her eyes not caring about the burning they left in their tracks.

'Oh Elphaba.' Elise opened her arms surprised when the green child placed herself in the arms and continued to sob. Elise had never held Elphaba like this. Elphaba had always been one to stand on her own. This was obviously taking as much toll on Elphaba as it was on Elise and Ukre. 'My child, this might be hard to understand right now but you must listen to me ok? Galinda is fine. She is going through a hard teenage patch at the moment where her heart is saying something whilst her brain says another. She is confused and very irritated but she will be fine.'

'But what can I do?' Elphaba sobbed.

'Be yourself my child. She needs her sister and her friend. She will talk when she is ready I promise you. And when she does, you need to be ready to talk back.' Elphaba found all this to be a bit cryptic but nodded her head in agreement anyway. 'Good girl. Now are you feeling a bit better.' Elphaba wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her nightgown and nodded with a smile

'Yes mum, thank you.' And knowing that Galinda was okay, and that she had something to do to help, Elphaba headed off to bed with Elise's prayers following her.

'He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.'

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Galinda's eyes fluttered open to the blinding sunlight that was filtering through her blinds. With a groan, she rolled over to find the brown chocolate eyes of Elphaba staring back.

'Morning Elphie.' Galinda whispered. Elphaba smiled but did not reply. She wasn't going to say a word, just sit here with Galinda and make her feel loved and special. Galinda snuggled in closer to Elphaba wanting to feel her comfort and not caring that her brain, for the most part, was screaming at her to stop. 'Elphie, this is so hard.' Elphaba looked down at the blonde and kissed her softly on the forehead encouraging her to continue. 'I feel so many things. So many confusing things. My heart tells me to just go for it but my brain tells me I'll just get hurt, Ill end up scaring them away.'

'Why would you scare them away?' Elphaba asked softly, not wanting to push the issue too much.

'Because I shouldn't be feeling these things for them.'

'Love?' Elphaba ventured dangerously. The blondes eyes seemed to suddenly tear up and Elphaba knew that for now the conversation was over. 'Come on Lyndie, lets go get something to eat.'

'I'm not hungry.' The blonde whined lying back down and pulling the covers over her head. Elphaba shook her head.

'Uh, uh, uh… you haven't eaten properly in weeks. You need to come downstairs and eat something. Cooks been worrying about you so much her food is starting to taste flavorless and she even burnt the dinner last night.' Elphaba dramatized her voice making the revelation seem like the most shocking news ever. Galinda let out a small giggle from under the sheets. A sound Elphaba had missed terribly and melted at.

'She missed me that much.' A small blonde head poked out from the top of the quilt and sparkling blue eyes appeared. Elphaba began to smile widely. Her Lyndie was coming back to her.

'Yes, she even said that if you eat properly for a whole day, she will make a surprise desert.' Galinda giggled again and slowly sat up.

'I guess we could go downstairs and have a small breakfast.' Elphaba smirked at the blonde.

'I think that's a wonderful idea.'

'I know, I can't believe I came up with the idea all on my own.' Galinda tried to hide her smile.

'Oh? It sounds like you had help from a green genius.'

'Surely we would have seen some green genius if they were here.' Galinda giggled.

'Touché' Lyndie. You are such a worthy opponent for a game of witty remarks.' The sarcasm was evident in Elphaba's voice making the blonde giggle harder and suddenly she wiggled and smirked and Elphaba almost melted completely at the sight. Galinda caught Elphaba staring at her and smirked.

'Like something you see?' It was a jab but it caused Elphaba to blush and stammer.

'I…I…just…sorry I didn't mean to…I was just thinking…' Galinda giggled again and put a finger to Elphaba's lips to silence her.

'It's ok Elphie I was joking.' Elphaba nodded.

'I know, I just…I was so happy to see you wiggle and giggle and smile again. Your eyes, they're sparkling again. I missed that Lyndie. You were starting to really scare me.' Galinda's smile slowly faded as tears re-appeared in the blue eyes. 'Oh Lyndie, I didn't mean to upset you.'

'No, it's not that. I didn't mean to make you so worried. But you, you notice those things about me?'

'Of course. They make you beautiful.' Elphaba's eyes became downcast as the floor became increasingly interesting. Galinda's breath hitched.

'You…you are the one I want…' It was whispered so low that Elphaba missed what she said. But it wasn't meant for Elphaba, it was meant for Galinda only.

It had hit her like a ton of bricks. Galinda didn't want some random boy who chased after her night and day. Who only saw her for her beauty on the outside. She wanted someone who loved her for who she was. The small things that made her who she was. She wanted someone she could love and who loved her in return. And that someone seemed to be standing right in front of her. Elphaba…the green girl who, seven years ago became her sister. She didn't want a boy, she didn't want anyone else. She wanted a girl…

…a green girl…

…she wanted Elphaba…

And that was not a good thing at all.

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Now that Galinda knew what she was feeling, she was emotionally feeling a whole lot better, but now there was the problem of loving her sister.

'Sister, for Oz sake Galinda Upland. Sister! It isn't that hard for other people to understand. No one else likes their sister like this.' Thoughts raided her head constantly and although she seemed to be recovering on the outside, her eyes shining once more, her giggle, wiggle and smile returning with her appetite, Galinda's mind was becoming increasingly run down.

Elphaba, none the wiser, stayed closer to her now recuperating sister who seemed to be doing so much better. Elphaba didn't want to loose her sister again after she had just gone through that scare. This new found closeness that Elphaba had adopted seemed to only make Galinda's new found desire more intense. She needed help…parental help…and that thought was scary.

She had to wait till Elphaba was asleep to find her mother. Elphaba had stuck by her side all day and although that was something very nice, it was also annoying to a teenage girl who was trying to curb their new found, very bad, desire. Finally, soft snores could be heard coming out from Elphaba's room. Galinda slowly padded down the hall to her mothers bedroom hoping to catch the woman awake as Galinda hated to wake her mother.

The room was pitch black but shapes were still distinguishable and it became clear that Elise was not in bed. Swiveling around Galinda padded down to the library, knowing her mother liked to read on nights of insomnia. On inspection though, that room was also empty. Galinda frowned. 'Great, I manage to escape Elphie and I can't find my mother. Lurline is laughing at me right now.'

'Why's that dear?' Galinda whirled around at the sound of her mothers voice behind her.

Elise had just gone to the kitchen for a glass of water after reading for a time being. She was returning to her book when she spotted Galinda standing at the doorway talking to herself. She managed to catch the last line about Lurline.

'Galinda, my child, why are you not in bed? You girls like to run about lately.' Elise smiled and Galinda blushed.

'Sorry Momsie, I just needed to talk to you if you have time.'

'Of course I have time dear. What's the matter?' Elise led Galinda over to the other armchair that sat opposite the one she was previously occupying. Once they were seated, Galinda took a deep breath and exhaled.

'Momsie… I think I'm falling for someone.' This was not quite what Elise was expecting but she hid her surprise well.

'Oh?'

'Yes, but this isn't just anybody.' Elise didn't need to hear what her daughter was going to say next to know who it was. The look on her daughters face said it all.

'It's Elphaba'…

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And I am going to be a real pain in the arse and leave it there for you all :D Am I mean? I am, I am sorry. This chapter was a little sad and a little exciting cause the relationship is going up a notch…now we need Elphaba to become involved cause so far it's a one man thing and I hear they don't work as well.

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