Love, in Elphaba's experience, was a very questionable field. She found herself believing the girl before her, in spite of all that she had learned. Her immediate response to love was generally to pretend it didn't exist, to convince herself it just couldn't be. Many nights, she lie awake thinking about Glinda, how it would feel to run her hand down the blonde's spine, what it would be like to kiss those lips, to bring their two bodies together as one...those same nights, she would dismiss this as ludicrous: Glinda was with Fiyero. What would she ever see in the green...dare she say, freak. In spite of all of this, Glinda's eyes, the blue, grey, green of the ocean's depths, drug her below the surface. She was completely drowning in these eyes, and yes, she believed her. What she felt, though, she was still afraid to say.
"Elphie...I love you." Glinda insisted, sitting up straighter in the bed.
Elphaba smiled, unable to find the words she wanted to say. She had wanted to hear Glinda say those three words to her for so long, had imagined exactly what would happen after the sweet sentence had rolled off Glinda's tongue, how they could make each other feel alive. She had thought it too much to ask, too much to hope for, and yet...here it was. She struggled to find the words and to her surprise, they came.
"You don't know how long I have wanted this," Elphaba almost whispered, caressing the side of Glinda's perfect white face, "How badly I wanted this...Just this moment. Just to be with you, just to see you smile, see your eyes light up and see past my...imperfections. To know that I love you and you love me in return...this is all that matters Glinda. We're all that matters. I know it, I know it right now. I prayed for it then, but now I know it."
She moved her left hand to Glinda's right cheek and with The Princess's face in her hands the green girl leaned forward kissing the love of her life. She lightly sucked on Glinda's top lip, sending a chill through the blonde. As she moved to the lower lip, she pried Glinda's mouth open with her tongue, running it along the velvety lining of her mouth. Glinda let out the softest of moans, and Elphaba knew in that moment that she loved this girl beyond all comprehension, that this girl loved her in return and would do anything for her.
They made love that night for the first time, and it was beautiful, it was magic. Glinda's eyes pulled Elphaba in again and she knew she was drowning, but oh, what bliss it was to drown! If she had to go down, she knew that she would want to go down this way. She had never been happier in her life. For some moments in life, there are no words. The two girls lay together all through the night, perfectly content in the silence for the first time in days, perfectly content to drown together.