Chapter 10!

After Sir Chuffery had had his fun, he called Glinda back in. The blonde came and gasped when she saw Elphaba.

"Look! This is your green warrior. What do you think of her now?" Sir Chuffery asked. Glinda approached Elphaba and stroked her face softly.

"Nothing will ever change how I feel. You're the monster." Glinda said, turning to face him. She was trembling and still somewhat in shock from what had happened, but she wanted to be strong for Elphaba.

"Glinda…" she heard a voice say. Glinda turned back around.

"Elphie."

The green girl had her eyes open weakly and she smiled when she saw the blonde.

"I'm sorry… I couldn't protect you." she said.

"You suffered for me. I couldn't ask for more from you." the blonde replied, running her hands down the emerald chest. Elphaba winced and Glinda pulled away.

"If I kill her, you will only see her, won't you?" Sir Chuffery asked.

"Yes. Only her." Glinda said.

"That is why I will let her live. You will never know if she is alive or dead. Or with another. Now, look upon each other for the last time."

Glinda's sapphire eyes filled with tears as she looked into Elphaba's dark chocolate brown ones. Her pink lips met Elphaba's green ones and the two stayed there for a while. Finally, Glinda pulled away and left the room, head down.

Elphaba watched her go and pulled at the chains half- heartedly, but she knew it was hopeless.

She and Glinda just weren't meant to be together.

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Elphaba was thrown into the streets of the Emerald City roughly. She winced as she hit the ground, aggravating her wounds. She stood up and pulled her cloak tighter as she started walking away from Sir Chuffery's house.

She couldn't believe this was it. She couldn't believe she was giving up. Glinda had been counting on her and she had let her down. Now Sir Chuffery had the blonde and there was nothing Elphaba could do about it.

She arrived at Glinda's house and went inside, expecting it to be empty. She found Liir sitting on the couch.

Elphaba was filled with rage when she saw the boy.

"You." she growled. Liir jumped up. "You started all. This is al your fault!"

"I'm sorry! I didn't expect-"

"Shut up!" Elphaba shouted, knocking a vase off the table. It shattered as it hit the floor. "Because of you, I had to watch while Sir Chuffery defiled the only person I ever loved! Do you know what that feels like?"

Elphaba had the boy by the front of his shirt now and was holding him off the ground.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" he kept saying over and over, but Elphaba didn't want to hear his excuses. She dropped him and suppressed the urge to kick him.

"Don't you EVER try to talk to me again, do you hear me? I don't even want to see your face again. Understand?"

The boy nodded before running to his room and closing and locking the door behind him.

Elphaba went up to Glinda's room and sat on the blonde's bed.

"I'm sorry, Glinda. I'm so sorry."

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It was a prison. Even though she was free to walk about the estate, Glinda was still in a prison.

It was hard to live with the thought that she would never be able to see Elphaba again. And if life with Sir Chuffery was going to be like it was last night… she would never make it past a week.

Either he would kill her… or she would do it herself.

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Elphaba couldn't believe it had been three days since the incident. It was torture, thinking about all the things that Sir Chuffery could be doing to Glinda. She yearned to go back to the estate and rescue the blonde, but she knew it was impossible. There were too many guards and it would destroy Glinda if Elphaba were killed.

So she was helpless. She could think of no way to save her love. Every plan she came up with always ended the same way: with her death.

It frustrated Elphaba to no end. She was so irritated that many of Glinda's things were broken over those three days when Elphaba threw one of her angry fits.

And the whole time, Liir stayed in his room. Elphaba was sure he came down at night to get food or use the bathroom, but she never saw him. He had taken her words to heart. A small part of her felt bad but a much larger part if her told her that to was exactly what he deserved. After all, it was his fault that all this had happened, wasn't it? If he hadn't told Sir Chuffery she was the witch-

But what made him do that, O green one?

This caused Elphaba to wonder if maybe it was her own fault. Maybe if she hadn't been so harsh to Liir… maybe if she had just told him that she was his mother… could this have been avoided?

Elphaba didn't want to, but she needed to have a talk with her son.

"Liir?" she said, knocking on the door. No response. Elphaba pushed the door open gently. Liir was huddled in a corner, head down. "Liir? Listen, we need to talk."

The small boy turned slowly to face her.

"It's my fault."

"No. It… it's my fault. I should've been… less blunt when I told you that I was your mother. I guess… I'm not used to handling children. I think that's why I didn't want you. I didn't want you to grow up with someone like me for a mother. I… I wasn't ready to have a baby."

Liir looked up at her, tears in his eyes.

"I'm sorry." Elphaba said, opening her arms. The boy's eyes grew wide before he ran to her. Elphaba embraced her son tightly, running a hand through his hair. Under any other circumstances, she would avoid this kind of contact, but right now, Liir was all she had.

"I love you, mom." he said. Elphaba's breath hitched in her throat. She had never been called that before and she found, to her surprise, that she kind of liked it.

"Ditto." she said.

There was a knock at the door.

Elphaba released Liir and went downstairs, her son right on her heels. When she opened the door, she had to stop her jaw from dropping.

"I heard you were in a bit of a fix."

Fiyero Tigular was standing in the doorway.

Fiyero Tigular, the father of her son whom had been murdered by the Gale Force, was standing right in front of her.

Fiyero Tigular, the prince of the Vinkus and the man she never wanted to see again, was still alive.

End of chapter 10. Hope you enjoyed it and I hope I'm not destroying this story… you would tell me if I were, right? Anyway, please, please keep sending in those reviews! Thanks to all who are still reading!