Epilogue: Or is it?

As promised, a fluffy epilogue to counter-balance all the angst I wrote xD. Maybe look forward to a sequel, seeing as I kind of thought one up already hahaha!

Life was good- No, life was more than good, life was excellent!

But let's back up, here. The escape from Oz took four weeks. Two to travel past the Glikkus borders in the north, two to find the necessary supplies Elphaba needed for her spell to find the Other World. And they did find it- the Other World. And it was just as Glinda had dreamed it to be; bright lights, buildings taller than quoxwood trees, a place called 'Hollywood' in 'California'. At first it was scary, as all things new turn out to be at first, but then they had left the dazzling lights and sky-high buildings for the countryside, a beautiful place.

"Let's call this place home, Elphie." Glinda tilted her head up to Elphaba's as the green woman encircled her waist with her long green arms, her words breathed softly in the green witch's ear.

Elphaba smiled indulgently, "Of course, my dear, of course." she leaned down to plant a small tender kiss on the perfect pink lips before continuing, "Now, let's pick out the perfect spot for our house." And so the weeks went and the house seemed to grow in phases, like a blooming flower, and it was perfect for the both of them, every room decorated to the tastes of the blonde- Although the green room with the pink trimming that Elphaba took for her workshop did earn an eye roll from the emerald woman, and giggles from the blonde- and it had a magical, yet homey air about the place.

And there the two of them stayed, taking care of Chistery as he re-learned speech, and taking care of eachother. If there was anything to dampen this perfect existence it was the pesky journalist who kept popping up uninvited. Her name was Riley. And she was the most annoying pest ever. She had showed up one morning with her camera and took a snapshot of Elphaba through the window as she made a surprise breakfast for her love. The green witch wouldn't have even known the reporter was there if she hadn't have forgotten to turn her flash off. And the sudden light caused her to turn and scrutinize the scenery outside. And there was Riley, too slow to find a good bush to dive behind.

Elphaba had run outside quicker than she ever had in her life and had the poor woman by the collar before she could make a safe getaway, "How many pictures of me did you take?" she asked in a tone that meant business.

Riley started to babble, "I-I only got one, but it could easily be called a fake! No one believes the conspiracy theories anyways, they all think I'm crazy with my talk of energy bursts and freakish green people and-"

"You think it's funny to have a skin condition? How would you like me to say your freckles make you look like a freak?"

"No no! I didn't mean anything by it, I didn't! I just had to see for myself if my research was true or not!" Elphaba dropped the woman, opting for her wrist instead as she dragged the reporting inside and sat her down in the kitchen with a few quick words of, 'don't move'. The green witch didn't say anything for awhile as she added another egg to the pan she had been frying up and finishing up breakfast.

"Elphie, dear, it smells like breakfast, what are you up-" Ginda said as she descended the stairs to find a strange woman sitting at the table with a look of impending doom on her face. "Oh... I didn't know we had... a visitor?" quickly the blonde pulled her robe tighter around her, looking to her love for an explanation.

"Been snooping around." She offered, waving in the reporter's general direction as she divvied up the eggs onto four plates and cradled them all expertly in her arms to the table. "Chistery, breakfast!" Elphaba called and pounding somewhere above them could be heard as the two witches sat down across from the confused Riley. "So, What research?"

Glinda looked confused, but turned to Riley for the answer, "Oh, well, there have been strange energy spikes up in this region and I had pinpointed the spikes to this area and ah, so I came by this place once without my camera to check things out- see if they were newsworthy?- and I saw... um... you I guess, out in the garden." here she turned to Glinda, "How come you're not green?"

Glinda opened her mouth to give a curt reply about skin color not mattering but was cut short by a shrill scream as Chistery bounded into the room and literally flew into his chair to scarf down his breakfast.

"Holy mother of... What is that?!"

"His name is Chistery, and he is a winged Monkey."

"I... see that." It seemed Riley couldn't decide weather to be shocked or excited. She settled on excited, which in turn shocked the two witches, "This is... amazing, this is... this is front page worthy!"

"No." Elphaba stated firmly, recovering first from her shock. "No, or I'll make sure the rest of your life is living hell." she added, in case the point hadn't been put across strong enough.

"What Elphie's trying to say is..." Glinda tried the gentler approach, "We can't have a whole lot of publicity."

"Why not?" it was a childish thing to ask.

"Publicity and I have tried this dance before," the green woman said slowly, "and it turns out stepping on publicity's toes only does damage."

"So... you want me to keep this all quiet?" Riley asked, as if the information was taking an eternity to process.

"Yes." the two said in unison, while Chistery continued to eat his eggs messily.

"What do I get out of it?"

"I don't hex you." Elphaba stated.

"Hex? What are you some sort of new-ager?" Riley shook her head, her auburn locks bouncing as she did so, "Never mind- Can I visit you guys?"

"What?" Glinda was confusified, this woman was strange.

"Visit? Have tea, or whatever you new-agers have? Coffee?"

Elphaba sighed, "Well... if it will get you to keep things under wraps..." And the two witches knew that their future would be interesting...

xXx

Bahhh rubbish. That's about as fluffy as I could get- I suppose it's all the angst that's getting to me.... I need to write a sequel.... (Edit: Sequel is UP! follow the white rabbit- er.. link xD .net/s/5486386/1/Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes )