Chapter 9
"What!" Glinda shot up in bed. "It's here?"
Elphaba nodded and began pacing back and fourth across the small room's quarters. She had sat the food down on the bed, though neither were hungry. A sudden panic, fear rose in both. What were they going to do with that thing? It was all seeing, all knowing, and whatever it found out Madame Morrible would also find out. She was pretty much the brain behind it, Elphaba had discovered.
"What are we going to do?" Glinda whined, watching helplessly as Elphaba paced.
"I don't know." Elphaba replied rather distractedly.
Glinda glanced outside, happening to catch a glimpse of a lightening bolt as it lit the horizon. She shuttered, utterly scared out of her wits. She had no idea how they were going to get out of this little fix. She was depending on Elphie to pull them out of this one.
"We have to attack it without it seeing us." Elphaba plotted, thinking the situation through. "The rain might deteriorate it a little too. I wonder if we could get it outside and then somehow break it apart."
"It could work, but Elphie," Glinda looked away from the window and back at Elphaba, "you're forgetting that you can't go outside. Not in a thunderstorm like this."
"But you can, or at least your magic can." Elphaba sat down on the bed.
Glinda looked at her as if she had just insisted she go lay out in front of a train and die. "How-how do you propose I do that?"
"I'm not sure, but I do know that Madame Morrible sent the Grommetik on the next carriage knowing, somehow, that you would become ill and we would have to stay here."
"Are you saying Morrible put a spell on me?"
"Possibly, yes." Elphaba nodded.
"Why that little…witch." Glinda cursed under her breath as she tossed the covers off of herself, pulled on her dress and pulled her cloak around her.
Elphaba watched, a bit dazed, yet amazed, by Glinda's sudden eagerness to beat this thing. Elphaba watched as Glinda tried to conjure up what spell to use, for however bad she may have been in sorcery, she still knew a few tricks. Elphaba watched as Glinda began making ordinary objects do the most extraordinary things. She made one of Elphaba's books momentarily hover in the air, and then turn in to a box, and then a pen, and then returned it back to normal. She shook her head, knowing none of that would help. She then hovered a bowl in mid air and succeeded in bursting it to bits. She turned to Elphaba and smiled.
Elphaba smiled back, hoping this would work. It was once again Glinda's turn to show her strength, show off her ability. Both walked out the door, creeping a long the rather dim hallway. They glanced down the stairs and Elphaba pointed to where the Grommetik was. Glinda nodded and the two inched closer to the device. Glinda, pointing her wand at the thing, seemed rather focused. It suddenly began to move, but did not turn to see who was causing its movement. She moved it all the way to the door where Elphaba was left to watch through the window as Glinda stole behind a bush and succeeded in blowing the mechanism to pieces.
She raced back inside once it was all over and tossed her arms around Elphaba. "I did it!" She exclaimed.
"I know!" Elphaba grinned, noticing the few awkward glances they were receiving from several of the other passengers. "Come on, let's go back upstairs."
She grabbed Glinda's hand and the two raced back to their room, closing and locking the door behind them. "That was so amazing." Elphaba smiled, relieved that the Grommetik was no longer a problem. They fell on the bed together and snuggled in to each other, Elphaba wrapping her arm around the incredible blonde.
"Thanks." Glinda smiled, resting her head against Elphaba's arm. "I wonder if Morrible will know it was us."
"I'm certain she will, but I'm pretty sure she didn't expect you could pull it off." Elphaba kissed Glinda's forehead.
Glinda smiled. Morrible always had underestimated her. Well now she'd proved her wrong. She'd beat this sickness Morrible had cast upon her, and she had beaten the Grommetik.
They ate their dinner and then fell asleep in each other's arms, both still amazed by what they had accomplished. It seemed as they grew closer to the Emerald City their powers were getting stronger. Elphaba could feel it, she sensed she might be able to move a mountain if she needed to.
The next morning, Elphaba awoke and put on her clothes. She gently awoke the sleeping Glinda and urged her to dress. They didn't want to be late for the carriage. Glinda was quite groggy, for she had slept in the morning before and she wished to do the same that following morning, but she couldn't. She and Elphaba ate some porridge and then claimed their seats on the carriage. Elphaba wrapped her arm around Glinda and theirs hands found one another's. Glinda fell asleep on Elphaba's shoulder moments later.
By that afternoon they began to approach the Emerald City. Elphaba could see it on the horizon, they were almost there. She nudged Glinda who stirred and came out of her sleep like state. She glanced ahead, where Elphaba' attention was, and noticed the green skyline.
"Is that…?" Glinda didn't need to complete her sentence. Elphaba nodded and the two watched as the carriage approached the green city. As they entered it Glinda scooted closer to Elphaba, disgusted by the slum they had entered through. She buried her face in Elphie's shoulder when she saw a poor homeless woman begging.
Elphaba held her closer, but then urged her to look up as they entered the center of the city, one of the busiest, high priced parts of the city. They approached a rather exquisite hotel where the weary carriage riders would get off and claim a room, or if they didn't have the money, they could go to the small inn down the road.
Elphaba assumed they would be staying at the inn. So she began to walk away from the ritzy hotel, but Glinda stopped her. "Elphie, where do you think you're going?" Glinda hissed.
"We don't have that kind of money." Elphaba pointed at the hotel.
"Of course we do. Really Elphaba, what do you take me for? Don't you know my father sends me a weekly allowance and I, of course, brought most of it with me if something like this were to happen?" Glinda whispered in Elphaba's ear, dangling her purse in front of Elphaba.
Elphaba smiled, even more amazed by Glinda.
"Come on, Elphie." Glinda grabbed her hand and pulled her in to the hotel.
When they got to their new room, Elphaba was astonished. It was the most beautiful room, complete with green and gold everywhere. Glinda had splurged so that they could finally be comfortable. All those cold nights in those awful inns had paid off.
Glinda tossed her bags down and flew to the window, which she thrust open to reveal a beautiful view of the city. The sun was beginning to set and both she and Elphaba stood at the window watching it go down. Elphaba slipped her arm around Glinda, kissing her gently. "Why don't you go take a bath and I'll go get some food." Elphaba suggested, knowing Glinda was probably dying to feel clean again. All those days on a tight, little carriage made one feel very dirty.
"Here take this and get something good." Glinda handed her some money. She reluctantly took it and raced out the door, leaving Glinda alone. She watched Elphaba go, and instead of taking a bath, she had plans of her own. She would bathe later. Quickly she slipped out of the hotel and went to a place she saw several blocks away from the hotel.
She went in to the little shop and looked around, knowing exactly what she wanted to get. She found just what she wanted at the back of the store. It was shimmering, shining, and radiating the most beautiful emerald color. Yet, when Glinda held it in her hand it seemed to change colors, it turned in to a light pink. It so transfixed her that she hardly noticed the person standing beside her.
"That necklace is very pretty, yes, and very rare."
Glinda glanced over, startled by the voice beside her. She found the owner of the store standing next to her. She nodded in agreement and looked back at the mesmerizing stone. "How much?" Glinda inquired, noticing there was no price tag on it.
The owner pointed to the sign above it, and Glinda nodded. It was quite pricey. "But I'll knock off some of it. I believe you will put good use to it." He said rather prophetically.
"I'll take it." Glinda decided, hardly able to keep her eyes off of the stone. Soon she had paid for it, and the man placed it in a beautiful green box.
With her purchase, she walked quickly back to the hotel, hoping Elphaba had taken a long time getting them something to eat. Luckily she had not returned by the time Glinda got to the room. She quickly hid the necklace and then undressed, running the bath water for herself. She slid in to the water, just as she heard Elphaba enter the room. Perfect timing, she thought, as she slid under the water, her blonde curls becoming loose strands of wet hair which swirled around her. When she reemerged from under the water, making it seem like she had been in the bath tub longer than she had, she saw Elphaba at the door, watching her clothes-less body floating in the warm bath tub water.
She was so breathtakingly beautiful, Elphaba thought as she watched her from the doorway. Their eyes met, and there was an exchange of unsaid, loving words.
Glinda spoke up first. "I'm almost done. What did you get?" She allowed herself to remain visible.
"Oh…I just went around the…um…corner." Elphaba bit her lip, she was sounding so childish. Did Glinda really have to lie in the water like that? "There was this little place. It took forever to finally get the food." Elphaba explained, trying to get a hold of herself.
Glinda nodded, inwardly smiling at the power she possessed over Elphaba. "I'll be out in a second and we'll eat."
Elphaba nodded, turning to go put the food out. She didn't ever want to leave Glinda's side, the girl was so beautiful. To think that she loved Elphaba, it seemed almost silly. She was so gorgeous it seemed unfair that she was with Elphaba. Elphie felt she didn't deserve the blonde beauty. It was almost too good to be true.
Glinda watched Elphaba go and then quickly washed herself as quickly as she possibly could. When she felt clean, she stepped out of the tub and draped a towel around herself. She emerged from the bathroom to find Elphaba, sitting at the table with the food placed out on top of it. Glinda smiled and moved to get dressed. Elphaba watched, longingly as her beautiful lover dressed herself.
Soon Glinda sat down at the table and the two commenced to have a wonderful dinner. Thus began their first night in the Emerald City.
TBC...okay now this story really has no plot...jk I'm coming up with something. And if this story doesn't work out I have something up my sleeve. :)