Okay, second chapter is up and I finally decided what to name this story. I want to thank everybody who gave me such great titles to chose from. It was a hard descion but one had to be picked. The person who gave me this title is JesseMacGirl the Flinda Freak. So she gets the Elphaba plushie that sings 'Defying Gravity' when you push the stomach. But since everybody else also has helped me and reviewed get a Glinda plushie that says 'Pink goes good with green.' or sings 'Popular'. This chapter just goes down hill and I got the idea from Love That Wicked. Like I've said this chapter isn't a happy one but the story will improve...hopefully. Now read and enjoy. :)
Elphaba couldn't stop shaking despite hearing words spoken from Glinda's mother. The horror and guilt of what she remembered wouldn't let their grips on her go away. She was the reason why Glinda got hurt. Her protectiveness of the blonde may have cost Glinda her life. She will never be able to live nor forgive herself if Glinda gives in to her injuries. Her heart was hurting so much Elphaba wished she had some kind of medication to make her stop feeling the immense pain throbbing in her chest.
The green witch barely heard Sarah say to Sam that she was going into shock at this horrible incident. She wasn't going into shock because of that one event but from realizing why Glinda was out in the middle of the night. Tears were mingling in the with the sweat and gave Elphaba a taste of double the saltiness when a drop landed on her lip. Glinda was in the hospital fighting for her life because of her. This was something that she might not forgive herself even if Glinda did. How the green witch wished she could go back in time and redo this whole day by saying to the blonde they can be together forever and ever.
"Elphaba, come on now. It's all right. Everything is going to be all right." Sarah whispered as she stroked the dark hair. Elphaba wished she could really believe those words but she couldn't not ever. If Glinda survived she didn't how the blonde will take to her now or even want to be her friend or lover. A doctor came into the room with a small cup filled with a clear liquid with Sam right behind him trying to walk as fast as his legs and cane can do. The doctor was a middle aged woman with her blonde hair up in a ponytail and her dark, cobalt blue eyes were harden with no emotions in them after all the years of working at a hospital and seeing some horrible things have made her jaded. She sat on the couch and handed the cup to Sarah.
"It's a calming agent. She drinks this and she will be much better." The doctor informed and sounded very technical like she's said this too many times to count. Sarah nodded her head in understanding and brought the little cup to the trembling green lips. Sarah whispered some words before pouring the liquid into Elphaba's mouth. The shakes started to slow down and Elphaba's erratic breathing pattern was slowly beginning to even out into calmer, deeper breaths. It soothed the physical symptoms but it didn't stop from the green witch's heart from hurting nor the guilt that was eating away at her in this moment.
"Now onto Miss Glinda here. She is still listed in critical condition. Her liver and spleen were ruptured, one of her lungs have collapsed, her right hand is broken, her left leg is broken in two places, and she has suffered a medium blow to the head. Tonight is a very critical night. If she makes it through then her chances of survival will increase exponentially but her recovery will be a slow and painful one. It will take her at least a year to a year and a half to fully recover from her injuries. Miss Glinda was lucky that the horse missed her chest and didn't hit her hard enough in the head to cause a quick death." The female doctor informed what was going on with Glinda after the blonde has spent nearly nine hours in surgery. Elphaba felt her heart clench at absorbing all this information.
There was a huge chance of Glinda dying tonight and even if she did made it through the recovery process was so long. The raven haired beauty started to silently cry again as Sarah and Sam got hit with the awful truth. Sam slowly sat in a seat his blue eyes filled with unshed tears. He wanted to get his hands on that driver and rip him limb from limb for hurting his precious daughter. Sarah exhaled softly and rubbed Elphaba's shoulders in a comforting way. She knew Glinda was going to make it through the night. Her daughter is too strong willed to give up without a fight.
"What about the driver?" Elphaba questioned in a cracked voice. She wanted to know if he was going to get charged with anything. She wanted him to rot in jail for harming a hair on Glinda's head. The doctor smacked her lips a couple of times as her eyes roamed listlessly around the room.
"I've heard he was driving while drinking but there will be no charges against him since Glinda stepped in his way first. If he would have veered onto the sidewalk and hit her that would be a different story." The doctor told everybody what was going on with the driver because the police informed her this information as she treated his minor scrapes and bruises. Anger filled Elphaba's green body at hearing that the driver was not going to be put in jail for this because Glinda stepped in front of him. The man was drinking while he was driver. A sober driver could have stopped the carriage before it would even of hit her friend. Elphaba leapt to her feet and started to storm out of the place so she could find this man and teach him not to mess with her or Glinda again.
"Sam, she's going to find him. We have to stop her." Sarah exclaimed with shock. She has never seen such fire burning in those brown eyes before. This was beyond anger. Elphaba looking out for blood and revenge. Sam got to his feet and grabbed his cane. He understood they needed to stop Elphaba from her tirade before she loses her innocence. The dark haired man limped as fast as he could out of the room with his wife right behind him. They couldn't let this happen Glinda wouldn't forgive them if they did.
Elphaba stormed through the hospital as her wild, brown eyes looked for a drunk man stumbling around with his eyes all shot and his breath smelling of booze. This man was going to pay dearly. Her green hands curled into fist at the thought of this man behind a carriage not noticing a small blonde walking in the middle of the street and then running her over with not a care in the world. Her green nostrils flared at seeing the man slightly stumbling towards the entrance of the hospital. That was him. The man who caused her love her severe injuries. Elphaba slowly started to walk but soon her walk went into a run as she felt her blood boil.
The driver didn't even sense that there was somebody out for his blood as his hand reached for the doorway so he could leave and sleep of his drinking. Elphaba growled softly as she leapt towards the man. Her body smashed into his and with that momentum the two went crashing through the door. The door busted off its hinges as the two of them went flying through the air and the man, being on the bottom, hit the ground first and very hard. Elphaba gave a huge grin at hearing a moan of pain. This bastard deserved each and every prick of pain she was going to deal to him. The green witch got off his body and kicked him in the side to flip him over on his back.
"Get up." Elphaba commanded with venom as she harshly pulled the man to his feet only to give him a swift punch to the stomach. As the driver hunched over in pain Elphaba gave him a hard uppercut right in the face. Blood spurted out of the man's nose as he fell back down to the ground. The raven haired beauty saw the man eagle spread against the ground and her mind flashed to Glinda in this similar position with blood leaking out her head and her eyes glassy. Her body started to shake as she gave out shout and pounced on the poor man. Elphaba grabbed him by the shirt and started to punch him right in the face with her teeth clenched and blood starting to place on her hand.
The driver maybe slower to react then usual but he always has his insurance policy tucked safely in his boot. His hand clumsily reached for his boot and reached in. He pulled out a five inch knife that glinted in the light that was around them. He brought it up and blindly slashed Elphaba. The green witch felt a burning sensation on her right side then registered the pain. She gave a yell of pain and rolled off the man while clutching the side he cut. Her blood started to leak onto the ground as the driver stumbled to his feet with his blood caked knife in his hand. He was ready if Elphaba was going to attack him. The green witch gave a huff of pain as she got to her feet and inspected the damage.
The cut was bleeding but not so much where she was in danger but it was kind of deep. The anger intensified at this. First he hurts Glinda and now he dares to try and harm her. Elphaba snapped her head towards him with her top lip curled in anger. Now he must pay ten folds. Sarah and Sam came running out of the hospital to witness Elphaba charging at the man. Sarah saw that the driver had a knife on him and it looked like he was about to stab Elphaba.
"Stop!" She yelled out as she started to run towards the scene before anybody else gets hurt. She would lose it completely if Elphaba gets harm in any way. Sam dropped his cane at once and ignored his bad leg as he sprinted towards Elphaba. Sam quickly passed up his wife and got closer and closer to the area where Elphaba and the driver were squaring off. His blue eyes watched in horror as the driver pushed his knife forward and Elphaba screaming in pain before her body collapsing to the floor. His eyes harden at seeing this.
This man has now harmed a girl he thinks as his second daughter. Sam put his shoulders down and pushed his body even faster. Within seconds Sam tackled the driver to the ground like he has done it many times before and wrestled the knife out of the man's hand. While he subdued the man he watched his wife tend to Elphaba. Sarah knelt next to the green witch and gently turned her on her back. Her green eyes widen at seeing blood covering Elphaba's chest and Elphaba, herself, was taking shaky breaths as she clutched the area where she was stabbed.
"Sweet Oz, Elphaba. Stay with me. Just stay with me." Sarah whispered as she put a hand on top of the bloodied green one. Elphaba had this apologetic look on her face as her eyes slowly began to close. Sarah cupped the green witch's face and kept on talking to her to keep her awake. She didn't want Elphaba to close her eyes there might be a chance that she will not wake up. The eyes closed all the way as Elphaba gave a soft sigh and her head limp fell to the left.
"Elphaba, Elphaba." Sara called out with her voice getting thicker with each call. Tears splashed the green skin as Sarah used one of her hands and put pressure on the bleeding wound.
"Somebody help!!" She screamed as she tried to contain her sorrow. Sam looked up and felt tears spring into his own eyes as he watched his wife cry out in grief at having another person she cared for deeply was hurt who knows how badly. His teeth clenched in anger at having the man who did this try to escape his tight hold and give squeaks of protest.
"Shut up." Sam hissed as he pushed the man's head into the ground and kept it there for thirty seconds then let the man come up and get a breath of air. The nurses and doctor's reacted immediately with Sarah's cry for help making Elphaba lie on the ground in her own blood for only a couple of minutes.
"This man stabbed her and needs to be detained." Sam said to the police who were still at the hospital. The dark haired man got off the drunk driver and let the police handle him. The driver tried to say that Elphaba attacked him first but Sam was there to step in and work his words a little bit to make it seem just the opposite. Sam gave a smirk at watching the man being cuffed. If he couldn't get this man in jail for hurting his daughter then he be damned if he was going to let him get off free for hurting Elphaba even if she was the one who started the whole thing. Sam never even felt any guilt in his body as he watched the driver being taken away. He hopes that man will rot in jail for a long time. Sam snapped out of his drink of revenge when Sarah came running up to him with blood shot eyes.
"Sam, they are taking Elphaba into surgery." The blonde whispered with great sorrow. Sam pushed aside his own grief as he wrapped his wife in his strong arms around her and pulled her into his body. He whispered words of comfort while stroking her hair. His blue eyes landed on the hospital and prayed that the two people who mean the world to them make. The world wouldn't seem just right if these two people were taken tonight and all because of one person who decided to drink too much. Sam buried his face into his wife's hair and soon his tears leaked into the blonde hair.
'Please let them make it.'
The end of a sad, sad chapter. Yep, very sad indeed. Elphaba now gets hurt as well and is in surgery just like Glinda. Like I've said this story might improve as it goes along but there needs to be a lot of angst before that happens. It's better to get it over with now then it happening in the story later. I will see you guys in the next chapter. Until then.
DWK