Epilogue:

A/N: From my planning I still had some cute ideas, or well I thought they were cute... aha. But anyways, I still had some left, so that's what I'll be using in the epilogue. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has reviewed! : )! I will be back with more new fictions soon, I promise! After school starts which is like, really soon, oh man. Summer has been filled with fantastic theatre and chilling and writing and school will be rehearsals and chaos. Look forward to THAT ahaha. ANYWAY, on with the story!

Disclaimer: Still do not own anything!

"Do you suppose, my sweet that we should get out of bed? Or rather off the bed." Elphaba asked languidly, tracing small circles on the back of Glinda's hand which was intertwined with her own. Glinda, once again, swooned at the endearment passing through Elphaba's lips.

"But I like being on the bed with you." Glinda smiled sweetly, brushing her lips against Elphie's briefly as if to remind her why that was.

"I also like being on the bed with you but Glin, it's nearly one thirty in the afternoon!" Elphaba pointed out.

"But it's Saturday, Elphie!" Glinda argued. "Who does anything before evening on a Saturday? Besides, nothing out there can be more fun than anything we can do in here."

"I fear that may be true, my sweet." There it was again! That nickname! Glinda didn't know what it was about it. Fiyero had called her a countless number of things without inducing such a reaction. Perhaps, Glinda decided, it was the way Elphie said it; such love, such care, such... desire. "But it's a beautiful day, look outside! The sun is shining, the grass is green..."

"And so are you!" Glinda giggled, pressing her lips, once more, against Elphaba's. "You're all the green I need to look at, in fact. So let's just stay inside."

"Mmm..." Elphaba mumbled. The cognitive portion of her brain was attempting to spew out a witty or sarcastic retort whereas the rest of it, and consequently her body, were at Glinda's mercy. "But what about the sun? And the birds? The sun and the birds and the water? I, being the grass, feel inclined to share you with them."

"But my darling Elphie," Glinda pulled away far enough to look straight into the green girl's eyes. "I only want you."

"Well that's a relief." Elphaba smiled playfully. "I was beginning to become concerned with your interest in the sun, you know. It nearly rivals you in brightness and in beauty."

"Perhaps I'll be the sun," Glinda went along with Elphaba's silly analogy. "In which case you can't be the grass. The grass and the sun can't have an affair it's too... not realistic. You can be... the moon."

"The moon, Glin?"

"Yes, the moon, my darker counterpart! You take my brightness and reflect it in contemplativeness and are equal in beauty." Glinda finished by laying her head down on Elphaba's shoulder and relaxing into their embrace.

"Contemplativeness is quite the word." Elphaba teased. Is that what Glinda saw this as, an affair? It was a silly analogy, albeit an uncannily accurate one but she couldn't help but let the question linger in her mind.

"Quite the word, indeed." Glinda smiled happily, blissfully unaware of the questions brewing in Elphaba's mind. It was not until the circles Elphaba had been lazily drawing, now on Glinda's stomach, slowed and then came to a halt that Glinda pulled away to notice the look of sheer concentration on the green girl's face. "Elphie?"

"Yes, Glin?"

"Is everything alright?" Glinda knew perfectly well that is was not.

"Not quite, I suppose." Elphaba answered honestly.

"What's the matter?" Glinda was concerned. Was she having second thoughts? Doubting that this was right?

"It's just... it's really silly; petty and ridiculous." Elphaba shrugged. Sure, it was one thing to fixate in her mind on something Glinda absentmindedly said in reference to some silly analogy but to speak it aloud was entirely another.

"You can tell me." Glinda murmured, fearing what Elphaba had to say.

"I... it's just... earlier, when we were talking about the sun and the grass and all of that, you said that it wasn't right for the sun and the grass to have an affair Glinda. Is that what this is? Some clandestine happening that will never quite be real?" Elphaba closed her eyes and almost opened them in shock when she felt a pair of lips connect firmly with her own.

"I don't really do secrets." Glinda remarked as she pulled away from a still somewhat shocked Elphaba. She had been fearing the worst but this she could handle; this was easy. "And I'm not ashamed of anything, well nothing like this, anyways." Glinda did, however, realize that with Elphaba's doubt earlier as to how Glinda could like someone like her (clearly Elphaba still did not see what Glinda saw when she looked at her) coupled with her mentioning of affairs and lack of enthusiasm about leaving bed that it was almost reasonable for Elphaba to be having these doubts. There was only one way to fix this. "We're going out."

"Well, I guess one would consider it so... with the confessions and the kissing..." Elphaba shrugged. Glinda burst into a fit of giggles.

"I didn't mean that, silly!" She explained. "I mean, we are going out. I like you and I don't want to be with anyone else in the world! But I meant that we're literally going out."

"And here I thought we were coming out." Elphaba teased, her wits finally back about her. This pleased Glinda immensely as another bout giggles overtook her. She was also more relaxed as this joking, she knew, meant that Elphaba was okay; she was comfortable with things, and that was good. Beyond good, even.

"Well, that too. But we're going to go out for the rest of the day! We can go for a walk along the river, sit on the grass and admire the sun and the birds. That way no one is neglected!" Glinda bubbled. "And of course we can have dinner at the cafe! Oh it'll be divine!"

"Won't Pfannee and Shenshen be looking for you? It is, after all, Saturday night. And what about Fiyero? We can't just suddenly go out and about pretending no one else exists?"

"Sure we can!" Glinda replied nonchalantly. "I do it all the time! Just let me go fix my makeup. Are you coming?"

"Glin, I don't wear makeup."

"Which is precisely why you should follow me and wipe that lipstick off of your face." Glinda giggled. "You can leave it on if you want, but I don't know if it's your colour."

"I'm coming." Elphaba smiled as she allowed Glinda to take her hand as they crossed the room towards the pink vanity. Elphaba was quick in wiping the smudges of lipstick on and around her mouth off. Glinda sat down at the vanity and began her makeup routine which Elphaba watched with interest. "Why do you do it?"

"Do what, Elphie?"

"The makeup. The power and the pink power and the other stuff that looks like it's stabbing you in the eye. Why bother?" Elphaba asked after several minutes of quietly watching Glinda apply the various products.

"To look pretty, of course." Glinda shrugged. "Ever since I was old enough to notice boys my Momsie had me wearing makeup, coordinating it with my outfits... my daily routine doesn't feel complete without putting it on, I guess."

"It's just so unnecessary." Elphaba touched Glinda's cheek, trailing the path of pink the blush brush left across her cheek. "Make up is for girls like Pfannee and Shenshen who have blotchy skin tones and unfortunate features. You, my sweet, are beautiful. No; you're perfect." And Glinda swooned. Again.

"Oh Elphie." She sighed. "You don't know what you do to me, do you?"

"What I do to you?" Elphaba was confused. "I'm sorry, Glin. Have I made you upset?"

"No, not upset Elphie. Quite the opposite, really. Every time you say these sweet, perfect things or call me my sweet... you're so honest and sincere, more so than anyone else I've ever been with before. It's just overwhelming in a good way." Glinda explained with a weak smile.

"Every time that you look at me or say my name... every time you kiss me it's unbelievable. It's unfathomable that you feel the same way." Elphaba was silenced by Glinda's lips against her own.

"I knew there was a reason I put lipstick on last." Glinda smiled against the other girl's lips before fervently meeting them once more.

"The sky," Elphaba managed to mumble as they pulled away slightly to breathe.

"What?" Glinda giggled.

"The sky and the birds- they're jealous." Elphaba smiled wickedly. "And your lipstick awaits you." Also, Elphaba added silently, she didn't know how to deal with these feelings inside of her. They were quite unlike anything she had felt before and she feared that if Glinda continued to kiss her so passionately for such a length of time things may get a little too heated.

"Our walk, yes!" Glinda, her mind having been only consumed with thoughts of Elphaba and desire, was reminded. After a moment of debate, she decided on the appropriate shade (and flavour) of lip product to apply and they were off. Glinda slipped her hand into Elphaba's as the green girl finished locking their dorm room door.

"Not that I mind, but are you sure that's a good idea?" Elphaba asked, referring to their handholding in public. "I mean, anyone could see us!"

"And I hope they do!" Glinda smiled broadly. "I wouldn't want anyone thinking they could come after you!" Elphaba smiled weakly as she decided that maybe it shouldn't be Glinda who was in charge of fearing that.

"As coveted as I am, I was thinking more along the lines of your friend's acceptance of well, us." Elphaba stated.

"Ah, don't worry about them." Glinda waved it off absentmindedly.

"Glinda they don't even accept me as a human being! I hardly think they will find me suitable to be with you and all that is ignoring my gender." Elphaba struggled to remain calm as she attempted to emphasis the direness of the situation to Glinda who seemed not to care.

"Oh, you worry too much, Elphie! I've always thought of you as a human being. I did loathe you remember, and one must acknowledge another's flaws and therefore their presence to loathe them, silly! And loathing turned to curiosity which turned to fondness which turned to well, this."

"This indeed." Elphaba replied, effectively dropping the topic. She had made her attempt to impress on Glinda the impact this outing may have on her future social life at Shiz and Glinda had certainly impressed her lack of concern regarding the subject upon Elphaba and therefore the green girl had no choice but to resign herself to the chance that Glinda may, in the near future, be hers and only hers.

"Oh birds! Where are you?" Glinda called playfully, still holding Elphaba's hand tightly in hers as they escalated from a walk to a run. "To the river!" Elphaba laughed and had no choice but to follow the smaller girl towards the river. Elphaba couldn't help, as she watched her blonde companion run and sing along the river, calling to the birds and taunting the water in a playful manner, but be amazed. In a world where there were so many bad things, where Animals were being further silenced every day and everyone was corrupt and fuelled by self interest and greed... how could such a world produce something so innocent? Something so happy, carefree and sweet? "Elphie! Elphie, come here! You're far more talented at singing than I am- sing something to the birds!"

"How do you know I sing?" Elphaba asked, pulling herself out of her daze to join Glinda.

"I heard you, of course. Whenever. You sing sometimes, or hum rather, while you read or study." Elphaba, at this, blushed.

"I didn't know. You should have said something."

"And risk you biting my head off? I don't think so!" Glinda laughed.

"And what makes you think I won't bite your head off now, huh?" Elphaba teased.

"Because my head is now of use to you." Glinda smirked, pecking Elphaba lightly on the lips. "Also, you love me."

"That I do." Elphaba smiled lightly. "Now come, my sweet. I've shared you with the birds and the river for long enough; it's time for dinner!"

"All of this interacting with nature did make me rather hungry." Glinda giggled as they strolled, hand in hand, towards the cafe.

"Glin, I'm just going to ask you this one last time." Elphaba began as they rounded the corner before the cafe.

"Yes Elphie, I'm sure I want to be holding your hand. I'm sure it's you," She paused here to pull the green girl into a quick kiss, "That it is you I want to kiss. I want you and only you. You aren't having doubts about me, are you?"

"No! Of course not!" Elphaba answered quickly. "You're just so much more..."

"Stop thinking like that Elphie, please! If I'm good enough for you, you're plenty good enough for me!" Glinda ended that argument there. "And here we are, at the cafe. And oh look, Pfannee and Shenshen are inside!" Elphaba closed her eyes in what, anyone who didn't know Elphaba and her beliefs, would have taken for a silent prayer as they shut the door to the cafe behind them. "Shenshen, Pfannee!"

"Glinda, dear! We wondered what you'd gotten up to today!" Shenshen smiled, beckoning Glinda over to them.

"Indeed, Glinda! We were quite concerned that you would be absent from tonight's festivities." Pfannee nodded not seeming, to Elphaba, the least bit concerned.

"And you were so divinely entertaining last night!" Shenshen added with a smirk. "How did you feel this morning?"

"Quite fine, thank you girls!" Glinda smiled brightly. Elphaba couldn't understand for the life of her, the games these girls played. "In fact, Elphie took care of me quite nicely."

"Elphie being... the cabbage?" Pfannee wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Poor thing, you're clearly not quite alright!"

"I should say, Glinda!" Shenshen added, "Referring to such a girl in such a manner... I didn't expect that from you."

"I will refer to anyone in any way I please!" Glinda defended herself. "In fact, I'm rather ashamed that I didn't stand up for my roommate at an earlier time. Shenshen, Pfannee, this is Elphaba. She has a name, and it is expected of you to use it."

"What has gotten into you?" Pfannee stood, raising her hand to Glinda's forehead as if to feel for a temperature. "Hm. You don't feel fevered, but maybe we should help you along to the nurse's anyhow?" Shenshen, Glinda decided, looked rather unbecoming whilst attempting to piece things together.

"Pfannee," Shenshen began finally. "I would suspect, if our Glinda here wasn't with the ever elusive Master Fiyero, that she and the green... she and Elphie, sorry, were well... together. Look at the way they're holding hands! And I've never seen that shade of lipstick on a frog... I mean, rather, I've never seen you hold an interest in cosmetics before today, Elphaba."

"I'm not." Glinda answered quickly, nearly cutting Shenshen's accusation off.

"Well that's a relief!" Pfannee sighed dramatically. "To think that you and the green..."

"Oh no!" Glinda smirked, "I mean I'm not with him. I'm not with Fiyero."

"Sorry, what was that?" This time from a new voice behind Glinda; from Fiyero.

"Fiyero! Hi!" Pfannee smiled, eyelashes batting. Elphaba took a sudden interest in the ground as Shenshen and Glinda both looked at Fiyero in surprise.

"You're not with me, Glinda?" Fiyero sounded well, hurt.

"I'm not sure we were ever together, Fiyero." Glinda shrugged.

"We went out just last night, or did you not remember that much?" Fiyero asked in an accusatory manner. "I'm sorry, Glinda, that was uncalled for."

"No, maybe it wasn't. I behaved abominably last night Fiyero, and I apologize. However that was one date and, in the scheme of things, means very little. I'm in love with someone else."

"Who?" Fiyero asked, fists clenched and eyes narrowed. Certainly there was no other boy here who was more fitted to Glinda than he. Fiyero the Prince; the handsome, charming, overly dashing young man who swept women right off their feet! He could not be outdone. No; he would not be outdone!

"No." Shenshen's eyes grew wide in shock more than anything else while Pfannee made some sort of squeak.

"Elphie." Glinda whispered, squeezing Elphaba's hand tightly. Maybe she should have taken Elphaba's advice and thought this through more thoroughly; planned it more effectively.

"You can do it Glin; you can do anything, my sweet." Elphaba whispered into her ear. Glinda stepped forward.

"I'm in love with Elphaba."

"But Glinda..." Fiyero began. "She's... she's a she! A girl! It's preposterous!" He laughed. Pfannee joined in.

"How you can find such a situation amusing is beyond me!" Shenshen chastised. "Glinda, listen to me, please! I don't know what sort of cast Elphaba has put you under but you're not that sort of girl! You don't like other girls! You like boys like Fiyero and Avaric!" Glinda wrinkled her nose. Fiyero continued to laugh.

"Fiyero please stop laughing at me!" She stomped her foot and tossed her ringlets only causing his laughter to increase in volume.

"Fiyero, she asked you nicely." Elphaba put in, finally entering the conversation.

"I... I'm sorry... sorry Glinda." He got out finally, taking deep gasps of air. "It's just... you... you're perfect. Perfect in every way, everything I ever wanted in a girl! And you... you like girls!" Fiyero continued to laugh. "It's too much! It's unbelievable."

"Oh Fiyero." Glinda giggled. "You'll find some other girl who's perfect for you, I know you will! You're fabulous and handsome." Elphaba poked her. "Though not as fabulous oras handsome as Elphie." This caused Glinda to giggle more.

"I don't know Glin, you are one of a kind."

"Well I hope so! You wouldn't want to find another girl who's as perfect as me only to have her like girls as well, silly!" Glinda rolled her eyes at Fiyero who continued to chuckle silently to himself.

"I can't believe you two! Laughing at such a thing is improper!" Shenshen scolded.

"Oh do shut up." Glinda muttered, moving closer to the redhead. "Or would you prefer," This time in a whisper, "That I tell everyone about your little secret." Shenshen paled.

"You wouldn't dare, Glinda!" She hissed back.

"Wouldn't I?" Glinda smiled innocently. "I'm sure everyone, especially the boys, would be thrilled to hear that you stuff your bra with..."

"Stop; please stop." Shenshen pleaded. "It's just hard to think about. I mean, you're so... pink and blonde and girly! I thought girls who liked girls were supposed to be more well... butch!" Pfannee snickered at this.

"And you," Glinda rounded on her making her eyes go wide with fear.

"I don't have any problem with your preferences, Glinda, as long as you understand that I don't feel the same way!"

"The feeling is mutual, dear." Glinda smiled. "As I said before, it is Elphie who holds my heart and it is my understanding that she plans on keeping it for quite some time."

"Quite some time, indeed. So I wouldn't worry your pretty head, Miss Pfannee." Elphaba smirked at the wince the adjective brought about.

"But you do think I'm well... attractive, don't you, Glinda?" Shenshen asked bluntly. "I mean, since you are into women."

"I am only into one woman, Shenshen." Glinda replied, attempting to keep her giggles inside.

"Oh Glinda!" Pfannee exclaimed suddenly, "Being well, as you are, you can help us get boys! You'll know exactly what they'll like!"

"Just because she has a girlfriend doesn't mean she becomes a boy!" Elphaba countered. "In fact, I'm counting on the fact that she doesn't." Glinda and Fiyero both burst back into laughter at this.

"Glinda turning into a boy." Fiyero, now red in the fact, was nearly in tears. "Great Oz, if my pride weren't so shredded I would be having the time of my life!"

"Now if you'll all excuse us," Glinda began, "We are quite hungry from the day's activities and are in need of dinner. I take it that all is well with us and that Elphie and I will face no later trouble?"

"You assume correctly." Shenshen answered, Pfannee nodding aggressively in agreement.

"I will see you girls tomorrow for tea, then." Glinda smiled as she bid her friends goodbye before following Elphaba over to a table at the other end of the restaurant.

"You're really something, Glin." Elphaba smiled proudly.

"It was cute how concerned you were, Elphie, but I told you I could handle it!" Glinda bubbled proudly.

"I never have and never will understand the world of society." Elphaba shook her head.

"I always find," Glinda smirked, "That honesty is the best policy."

"That only works because everyone loves you, you know. Marketing that one isn't the best idea, my sweet."

"As true as that may be, the only person who matters is you." Glinda answered sweetly.

"Just out of curiosity, Glin, as we are on the topic of honesty, what would you have done had I not expressed my orientation to you?"

"Why pursued you as I would anyone, of course!" Glinda answered as if it were obvious.

"But... what if I didn't like women that way? What would you have done then?" Elphaba smirked.

"What difference does it make? You do!"

"You would have converted me!" Elphaba accused, feigning shock.

"Drama queen," Glinda teased.

"Converter." Elphaba shot back. Fiyero, who was still chuckling across the room, was finally silenced as his blonde ex... date pulled her green girlfriend into a passionate kiss.

"Shenshen," Pfannee asked, a little too curiously, "Do you really stuff your bra?"

SO AHAHA, I am feeling that the ending maybe sucked a little bit? I'm quite tired now, hopefully that was enjoyable and not too... extended. I am not by any means a sane person; don't blame me! Haha, I spent my evening making a silly movie at a carwash, ahaha. NOT sane, by any means!

Reviews are muchly appreciated and I love you for reading : )!
(I will be back with more Gelphie soon, and I adore suggestions and/or requests!)