Chapter Eleven:

Glinda felt Elphaba pull away as soon as her lips touched hers. Some water being thrown on the floor by someone not Elphaba or Glinda extinguished the candle that had fallen to the floor. The lights were turned on, and Glinda looked at Elphaba with tears in her eyes, and looked at the other figure in the room with even more tears in her eyes.

"Fiyero… you're here too?" the blonde was confused.

A dark skinned man with blue diamond tattoos nodded his head, "Hello Glinda," he said softly.

Glinda now realized that he had a blanket over himself to cover his body, as did Elphaba. She knew what that meant.

Her lips trembled; this was not how it was supposed to be. She had always imagined that when she found Elphaba that they'd take each other into each other's arms and kiss all night long.

"You… and him," stuttered Glinda as a tear ran down her cheek, and she hiccupped, "But I thought-"

Elphaba fixed the makeshift clothing she had on her as she made her way over to Glinda.

"Galinda my sweet, listen to me. You need to leave; you need to pretend as if you never saw me. Go back to Chuffrey and live your life with him."

Glinda started sobbing now and she staggered against a wall and crumpled to the floor in a crying mess.

"Don't make me go back, Elphie! I can't do it anymore! I hate him, I don't want him and I never want to see him again! Ozdamn it Elphaba Thropp I love you!" screamed Glinda to Elphaba who stood in front of her now with Fiyero's arm wrapped around her waist.

"Galinda-"

"It's Glinda now," corrected Glinda with a wail.

"Glinda," said Elphaba softly as she knelt besides her, "I am not supposed to exist anymore. I can't, not with the line of work I do. You need to leave."

Elphaba's words hurt Glinda and she cried even more.

"I've been searching for five years trying to find you!" snapped Glinda angrily as she unsteadily walking out of the room, got her bags and came back. She opened up one suitcase and took the bottle of wine out. She uncorked it and started to drink it.

"You know why I drink now, Elphie?" asked Glinda not really waiting for an answer, "Because I'm a wreck without you. After I had my first miscarriage Chuffrey forced himself on me so hard that I was sure I was going to die as punishment for us kissing. Then I got pregnant again, but I had another miscarriage. Same thing happened again with Chuffrey and this time it was a stillborn. And I kept waiting and waiting for you to come save me from the torture I have to call my life and you never did!" screeched Glinda as tears ran steadily down her face and she sniffled a million times.

She buried her head in her knees and arms and stayed like that crying for a long time.

"I was alone with that monster of a husband, foolishly thinking that one day you would come for me! Thinking that you really did love me. But you don't, you're screwing Fiyero aren't you?" Glinda asked with her head still buried.

"Glinda-" started Fiyero.

"ANSWER THE QUESTION!" she shrieked.

Elphaba had had enough. She forced Glinda to her feet and slapped her straight across the face.

Glinda reeled from the blow and she stood there fighting back tears as she looked at her long lost love interest.

"You need to get sober," Elphaba commanded as she took the wine away from Glinda and got her some milk, "Here, drink this."

Glinda refused.

"Glinda, please drink this so we can talk," encouraged Elphaba. Her black-coiled hair lay flat around her shoulders, and Glinda looked at that hair, realizing how much she had missed every little detail of Elphaba.

Finally Glinda drank the milk and slid against the wall, sipping it quietly.

She entangled one hand in her own blonde hair as she drank the milk while Fiyero and Elphaba watched her.

"I'll leave you two alone to talk," said Fiyero glancing at both of them as he went into the next room.

Elphaba now sat herself besides Glinda on the wall, and stared straight ahead.

"I hate you," muttered Glinda as she finished the milk. She set it down and noticed the white cat or Cat that was roaming around the flat.

"I'm sorry, alright," snapped Elphaba.

"Where did you go?" asked Glinda quietly, glancing at the green woman.

"Underground," sighed Elphaba slowly, "I've been working against the government."

That seemed to force Glinda into silence for a bit.

"Against me?" she asked suddenly.

Elphaba gave her a shrug, "I don't know. Last I heard of you was from Fiyero a couple of weeks ago just saying that you were still married to Chuffrey, had a chapel named after you, and were a public figure of some sorts…" Elphaba trailed off not knowing if her facts were right.

"They call me Glinda the Good now," laughed Glinda slightly, "I work with the Wizard."

Elphaba snorted, "You?"

The blonde nodded and Elphaba seem to grow angry, "Do you know how much he lies? Do you know that he is personally responsible for corrupting Oz from the inside and out? Galinda I thought you were smarter than this! I thought you were smart enough to see through their lies!"

I'm not you, Elphaba! I am not someone who sees people with knives behind every little corner!"

Her comment made Elphaba pursed her lips together in thought.

"So… are you?" asked the blonde after a moment.

"Am I what, Glinda?" asked Elphaba impatiently.

"Are you and Fiyero sleeping together?"

Silence filled the room for a moment as Elphaba paused to answer.

"Yes."

That word broke Glinda's heart.

"But I thought-"

"Whatever you thought, Glinda, was wrong," Elphaba said quickly with no emotion, "Whatever you felt was not real. There is nothing between us. There can't be anything between us. You are working for the government and I am trying to corrupt it. It's not right!" said Elphaba bitterly.

"You're wrong," said Glinda hoarsely as she fought back tears, "It's because you don't know what you want yet. You're trying to convince yourself that you want him, men in general but Elphaba let me remind you of something. You were the one to kiss me at Shiz, you made the first move. Not me."

"It's not like that!" Elphaba snapped as she glared at Glinda. She couldn't believe the blonde's accusations.

"Yes it is," Glinda smiled sadly at her best friend, "Don't tell me that you have been so isolated that you've forgotten how love works."

"Love doesn't exist."

"If anyone should be saying that, I don't believe it should be you," pointed out Glinda as her face drained of happiness and color.

"Leave," commanded Elphaba getting up and opening the door for Glinda.

"What?" the blonde was shocked.

"You heard me, Glinda the Good. Leave!" hissed Elphaba.

Glinda bit her lip, stood up shakily, and grabbed hold of her bags. She walked slowly to the door as Elphaba stood near it.

She turned once she was in the doorway and looked at Elphaba.

"You know dear, underneath all that toughness you're crumbling. You're crumbling just like I am. But together we can stop crumbling, we can make the future better for ourselves if you want."

Tears gathered in the blonde's eyes when Elphaba said nothing to that. She swallowed hard and blinked rapidly, "Then I guess this is… goodbye," she leaned forward to kiss her cheek when suddenly the alcohol made her brain go black and she nearly fell to the floor in a faint.

Elphaba caught her just in time, and held her in her arms, "Glinda wake up you blonde idiot!"

But Glinda didn't and she stayed unconscious. Elphaba momentarily considered putting Glinda on the street but then she thought of numerous horrific scenarios of what could happen to her and she decided against it.

So instead, she carried the blonde to the couch, put a blanket over her and let her rest while she went into the other room with Fiyero.

The next chapter is so long! But I won't post that until I finish writing Chapter 13 and 14. So enjoy this for a while! Any guesses as to what will happen next? Thanks for the reviews? Also this is for xMegxGiryx: The Chuffrey Hunters have now gathered for a later chapter, care to join them? :)

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