I'm very very sorry that this is so LATE! My life had been so crazy, filled with stupid people and work. But I have it and I promise that I will keep updates accordingly. So please enjoy the next installment. I know it's not that long but I left a surprise in there. See if you can find it.

Over the course of the next two days things did not change. The young lovers would hold hands look into each other's eyes and feel love but there were no other physical aspects. Glinda said I love you but it was never returned always answered with an "I know". Together they were emotionally and physically exhausted.

The carriage pulled up to the south gate of the Emerald City and the bubbly blonde looked out the window with the enthusiasm of a child. It was greener then she imagined—and she had imagined it as deep as Elphaba's skin. After the driver was allowed through Glinda's ecstatic smile was lost. Beggars dressed in rags asked for money and tried to keep warm by tiny fires. The buildings were tarnished and brown, some even falling apart. Glinda shook her head back and forth wanting so much not to believe her eyes.

"Come here," Elphaba whispered opening an arm. Glinda buried her face in Elphie's darkly clad shoulder. Elphaba laid her head against Glinda's curls and smiled at how her friend had changed since that first loathsome moment. From a polished Gillikinese darling to an understanding and heartfelt woman. Elphaba was proud.

Then Elphaba looked out the window and saw a few Animals in a dark alley trying to hide in a box. A sharp pain went through her chest. The wizard will change this, she thought. He must.

"It'll get better the further we move into the city," Elphaba whispered. She wasn't sure if she was reassuring herself or Glinda. The blonde nodded her head but didn't look up.

The carriage stopped about 20 minutes later at a stable for the horses and everyone stepped off and went their own way. Glinda looked up at the soaring emerald buildings and her child smile returned to her face. She saw salons and shops and quaint little cafés. All of the things they could be doing rushed to Glinda at once and her smile grew until it was ear to ear.

"C'mon Elphie," the blonde giggled pulling Elphaba in the direction of a beautiful shop.

Elphaba's eyebrows shot up when they stood directly outside of the door. She turned her gaze to Glinda who was pouting her perfect lips at Elphaba. The green girl took a deep breath.

"Lets go," she sighed.

Glinda shrieked in delight and they went into the shop. Elphaba sat outside the dressing room as Glinda changed into… well to many outfits to count. Some pink, some red, some blue, even some green. But it made Elphaba laugh and smile at her friend and lover, the simple pleasure in watching Glinda in her own world.

There was one outfit though, that Elphaba liked in particular. It was a faded red dress that showed just the right amount of cleavage and ended just above her ankles showing her pretty little feet.

"I like this one," Elphaba said not meaning to let her gaze linger in certain places.

The blonde gaze a small smile and blushed. "Thank you," she replied and went back into the dressing room to change back into her clothes. She was going to buy it.

After making her purchase the girls went out and walked on the cobbled streets enjoying the city, watching the strange people. Glinda's hand found Elphaba's in the middle of all of this and the green girl replied with a gentle squeeze. Then the girls stopped and looked at a bright very large building before them. Grand stairs led up to double wooden doors with lions on either side of the doors.

"Is that," Elphie asked a little breathlessly.

"Yes," Glinda smiled.

A pause, "Can we?"

"Yes," Glinda smiled again and they crossed the street and crossed over the threshold.

There was no better smell to Elphaba—other then Glinda, of course—then a library filled with old books, new books, and all of the dust in between. Elphie shuddered as she stared at all of the books. Where to start, Elphaba asked herself.

"Go on," Glinda urged in Elphaba's ear. "I'll find something to do."

Elphaba opened her mouth but instead of talking she closed it and nodded walking off toward the west part of the library. Glinda watched her love walk away shaking her head as Elphie had done earlier with her shopping.

The bookworm went down very hallway of books and pulled out at least one and in no time at all she had a stack she couldn't see past. She walked as carefully as she could to a table, set the books down then sat down. Where to start, Elphaba asked herself. She decided on a life sciences text that must've been as old as Oz itself. She opened the book carefully and began to read. Elphie memorized ever paragraph, every sentence, and every word. Nothing was quite more fascinating to her.

Glinda had decided that the only thing she could do in a library was look at the architecture of it. It was something different, new, and spectacular. The halls of Shiz were old but this building was something else.

The columns were each carved intricately with what looked like stories of past Ozma's. The ceiling was covered in faded paintings that one couldn't quite make out. And the bookcases were coated in some kind of sap that made them look completely gold and smooth. It was the one building that ever brought a tear to Glinda's eyes.

Then a book caught Glinda's eye—yes a book. It was a torn, leathery and worn out book that was at least 600 pages thick. But what caught her eye were the glowing, golden pages. Glinda tilted her head to the side in curiosity and she plucked the book from the shelf. The leather had some kind of picture inscribed in it, but the leather was to worn to make anything out. The young blonde opened the book carefully, as if it were an illusion, and gasped at the glowing pages. The letters were an emerald green that looped and swirled into illiterate words and pictures. Glinda was fascinated by the language she could not read and sat on the floor watching the intricate letters dance.

Elphaba had moved on to a book about the history of Animals and their place in Oz when she noticed the clock. If she wanted to see the wizard they would have to leave now. We have to find an inn to stay at before we go though Elphaba thought to herself. Sighing with disappointment, the green girl closed the book and picked up her stack to return them to their proper place.

As Elphie returned her books Glinda was still watching the letters swirl. The color reminded her of Elphaba and just as the green girl popped into her head her name appeared on the page. Glinda gasped and looked harder but the name had disappeared and the letters were twirling again. The blonde didn't know what to make of it. Then a splash of pink appeared and the two colors dance and spin around each other. Glinda's blue eyes sparkled as she stared. Her finger reached out of its own accord and brushed the page. The two colors then gathered by her finger spinning around in a circle of pink and green. When she lifted her finger the colors retreated. She tried the action again but this time harder. Her fingerprint left a mark where the colors spun around it continuously. Then with Elphaba in mind the blonde pressed her two forefingers against the page and brought them up then down in the shape of a heart and in the middle she drew an E and a G.

Glinda watched the colors encircle the letters and the heart feeling warmth enclose her own heart. "Glinda."

Elphaba stood at the end of the row of books looking at Glinda on the floor with a book in her lap. The green girl rubbed her eyes. There was a book in Glinda's lap. Ozma must have returned because there was no other way Glinda Upland of the Upper Uplands would be reading.

Chuckling quietly to herself she called, "C'mon Glinda! We have to go see the Wizard!"

"Coming," she replied closing the book and putting in its original place. She brushed off her dress and skipped over to Elphaba looping her arm with Elphaba's. She rubbed her golden curls against Elphaba's shoulder.

"So… What were you reading," Elphaba asked jokingly.

"Oh, nothing important. Just something on fashion," She said kissing Elphie's cheek.

"You know what I learned," she questioned Elphaba. "Pink and green go good together."