A/N: sorry about the wait, I have been away from my computer all weekend and only just been able to use it, but anyway I hope you enjoy the second part and I hope you all had a great Halloween and scary weekend :P
Elphaba stood back to admire her work and smiled at the result. She had spent the last hour getting everything ready and set up for when Glinda got out of her lesson, she hoped the blonde would enjoy what she had planned, after all the girl had mentioned it the other week and said she'd always wanted to try it since she never had chance as a child. Elphaba took the bowl of pumpkin innards and placed it in the kitchen for later, they could always use the leftovers to make pumpkin flavoured snacks, and if not the raven haired girl was sure she would find a use for them.
She returned to their coffee table where she straightened the cloth she had placed down to eliminate any mess, she smiled to herself and thought, 'perfect, now I just need to go and get Glin...' Her train of thought was cut off by the sound of the door opening behind her, she turned to see who it was and was surprised with the result, "Glinda?"
In the door way to their apartment was the very girl Elphaba had just been thinking about, along with their friend Fiyero. Confused the green woman looked at her watch and winced when she saw the time, it was half an hour past when she was meant to meet Glinda.
"Shit!" She cursed loudly causing her friends to jump at her unexpectedly raised voice. This seemed to bring her back to her senses as she rushed over to the blonde, pulling her into a tight hug and placing several kisses on her head. "I'm so sorry Glinda I didn't realise what time it was, forgive me?"
Glinda just giggled as she snuggled further into her girlfriend's arms, "of course I forgive you silly."
Elphaba smiled at that, then noticed Fiyero still standing there silently laughing to himself at his friend's forgetfulness. She turned to him, "thank you for bringing Glinda home, you didn't have to do that."
Fiyero just shook his hand and smiled, "its fine Fae don't mention it, what are friends for hey?" She smiled in return and gave him a quick hug as thanks, he pulled away and gave Glinda a quick hug as well before turning to leave the building, "hey you guys are going to the dance tonight right?"
Glinda nodded vigorously, "of course we are!"
Fiyero laughed at her excitement, "good well I guess I'll see you both later then, in costume! Yes I'm looking at you Fae, you can't get out of this one!" He heard his friend groan at his comment making him laugh more before he bade the girl's goodbye and started walking down the stairs.
Elphaba closed the door behind them as they re-entered the room, she was going to apologise again for not meeting the blonde at their usual spot, when she heard Glinda ask, "Elphie what's all this?" The blonde was pointing at the coffee table that was usually bare but now adorned two freshly gutted pumpkins, some plates, pens and two carvings knives.
"Well you see this is why I lost track of time my sweet, I was preparing this for you as a surprise," Elphaba said as she moved to stand behind the smaller girl, wrapping her arms around her waist, she asked, "I just remembered you saying you wanted to have a go at carving a pumpkin, so I thought what better time to try than today, do you like your surprise my sweet?"
Glinda squealed and turned around to fling her arms around Elphaba, "yes I love it, you are the best girlfriend ever!"
Elphaba just laughed, "I'm your only girlfriend ever."
The blonde playfully smacked her on the arm and pouted, "Oooh I take it back, you mean green thing, I compliment you and you go and brush it off." She tried to keep pretending to be upset with Elphaba but failed when she felt soft lips against her own, causing her to smile.
"I was simply stating the fact that I'm your only girlfriend, it doesn't mean I'm not the best, unless there's someone else I should know about?" Elphaba smirked and raised an eyebrow in question.
"Oh stop it you, of course there's no one else, now stop teasing before I change my mind about you being the best," Glinda replied, kissing away any doubt there could have been in Elphaba's mind.
They smiled when they broke away savouring the moment for a short while, before Elphaba guided Glinda to the couch with their hands entwined. "Well my sweet I suppose we had best get started, after all we have to get ready for that dance later and I've no choice but to dress up in some way or other," Elphaba said as she handed Glinda a pen to trace out her design on her pumpkin.
The blonde took the pen with thanks and laughed at her girlfriend's obvious distaste for needing to dress up, "oh Elphie, it'll be fun and you'll look amazing! But that's later, now it's carving time!" She exclaimed in an excited manner as she started drawing her idea. Elphaba couldn't help but laugh, Glinda always had that effect on her and she wouldn't have it any other way.
The two girls sat in a comfortable silence for a while, as they worked on their pumpkins. It was only at the grand reveal that they spoke, Glinda had finished her carving before Elphaba and couldn't contain her excitement at showing what she had done, "Elphie you ready yet?"
"Almost darling, just this last bit then I'm, finished," Elphaba said with a smile as she carved out the last of her design.
Glinda clapped her hands together and grinned, "ready to reveal then?"
Elphaba nodded, "as ready as ever."
"Ok then, three, two, one."
They both turned their pumpkins around at the same time to show the other what they had done.
Glinda beamed in pride as she exclaimed, "look Elphie, I made a witch, with a broom and everything!" Just as she had said, Glinda had carved a witch on a broomstick, considering this was her first time carving a pumpkin she had done a brilliant job.
Elphaba smiled back, "I'm very proud of you my sweet, you've done an excellent job," she leaned in to show how proud she was with a kiss, which the blonde appreciated as she giggled in response.
Still smiling Glinda looked at Elphaba's pumpkin and asked, "Elphie, is that a cat?"
"Hmm yes it is, why do you ask?"
Grinning the blonde continued, "Oh I don't know it wouldn't have anything to do with my costume would it?"
Elphaba grinned in return and laughed at getting caught, "ok my sweet, I admit I was influenced by your beautiful appearance, but can you blame me?"
"No not really, I am after all irresistible," Glinda smirked, she did enjoy their teasing.
It seemed Elphaba did as well, as she moved over to sit next to Glinda, pulling her into her lap and kissing her fiercely, leaving them both breathless. Elphaba pulled away laughing as she heard Glinda's protesting groan, "that you are my sweet, but we must put this on hold for later, we need to get ready soon or we won't have enough time."
Glinda groaned again as she knew her girlfriend was right, she stole one last kiss before removing herself from Elphaba's lap. Once she had collected herself Glinda started going round the room looking for everything they would both need for their costumes, while Elphaba moved there pumpkins to the window sill, placing electric candles in each of them. It wouldn't be long until it was dark enough for the pumpkins to shine in the night, while their creators went out and had some fun.
Elphaba looked down at her watch again and frowned, "Glinda are you nearly ready? We're going to be late if we don't get going!" her impatience was clear from her tone, and the way she was pacing up and down the room.
Before Elphaba had finished speaking Glinda had entered the room from the bathroom fixing her ear rings as she walked, "oh would you stop pacing, you're going to crease your dress!" the blonde ceased Elphaba's movements by placing her hands on her girlfriends shoulders, then proceeded to smooth out any disturbances in her dress. Taking a step back to check everything was in order, Glinda nodded to herself that everything was fine.
Elphaba was dressed in a long tight fitted black dress, which stopped just above her shins, along with black high heeled boots and the hat Glinda had given her a long time ago. It didn't really go with anything the girl would normally wear, but for occasions like this it was perfect.
"Find what you were looking for?" Elphaba smirked as she watched the small girl look her up and down several times, previously glossy eyes snapped up to meet her own, accompanied by a playful grin.
"Why yes I did miss Elphaba," Glinda replied as she stepped forward placing her lips on her girlfriends in a soft kiss, smiling as she heard Elphaba laugh. She moved back shortly after and smiled when a green hand cupped her cheek, softly caressing the skin.
Elphaba playfully asked, "I'm not too sure I know what it was you were looking for my sweet, remind me?" She laughed when she was lightly pushed away by the Blonde.
"Oh Elphie you tease, we don't have time we have to go, speaking off how do I look? Can you tell what I'm supposed to be?"
Glinda was wearing a blue dress that puffed at the sleeves, it was long enough that her shoes were only just poking out from underneath the skirt. She also had a silver tiara secured into her golden hair and held in her hands a matching silver wand almost as tall as herself, at the top it spilt off into several directions forming a sort of bubble shape.
Elphaba smiled and took one of Glinda's hands in her own and kissed the knuckles, "you look positively beautiful my sweet, as always."
The blonde smiled in return and blushed at her girlfriend's words, it didn't matter how many times she told her she was beautiful, it had the same effect on her each time. "Thank you Elphie, but do you know what I'm meant to be?" She questioned and waited for an answer.
"You could be any number of things darling, my princess being one of them."
Glinda's blush intensified and she felt a familiar warmth develop in her lower stomach causing her to squirm under Elphaba's gaze. She quickly replied, "No silly, I'm supposed to be a witch, a good witch."
This caught Elphaba by surprise, and caused her to tilt her head in question, "why a good witch my sweet?"
Glad to have a distraction to her previous thoughts, Glinda smirked, "because someone needs to keep you in check Elphie, and last time I checked that was my job."
Elphaba laughed, shaking her head at how her girlfriends thought process worked. The green girl took the blondes hand in hers and pulled them towards the front door, "come on then because wicked witch wants to leave before she's late, and if good witch isn't there who knows what she'll get up to." Glinda giggled and followed along willingly with her bag over her shoulder, after all they did at least need keys to get back in later.
It didn't take them long to make their way across campus from their apartment to the dance room. It was custom that every year there was a Halloween dance that every student attended if they could, it stopped the students going out all night and risking their safety, when they could have fun and enjoy the night right on campus and weren't too far away from home.
After asking around about their friends and getting away from some of Glinda's rather chatty classmates, they found themselves making their way over to one of the large tables at the side of the room away from the dance floor, were the rest of their friendship group was, or as Avaric liked to call them 'the charmed circle'.
The boy in question spotted the two girls coming over and loudly exclaimed, "ah finally, it's about time you two showed up!"
"It's good to see you too Avaric," Elphaba sarcastically replied as both of the girls sat down at the table. Glinda sat next to Fiyero with Elphaba next to her, and Boq on Elphaba's other side, around the rest of the table Crope and Tibbett sat next to Avaric.
"Just ignore him Fae, you know how he is," Fiyero cut in before they could start off on one of their arguments.
Elphaba just waved him off, "it's fine, there will be no arguing tonight, at least not on my part," she then turned to face Avaric, "but it seems we aren't the last to arrive, where are the girls?" She looked around to try and find the familiar sight of Pfannee and Shenshen, they were never too far when Avaric was around.
Before the boy got chance to answer Crope jumped up, his mummy bandages getting caught in the chair and tugging slightly, he interjected, "oh there just getting drinks, which is what we should be doing right Tibbett?" He looked over to the smirking boy whose face was hidden beneath black and white makeup, creating the illusion of a skeleton.
Tibbett nodded and stood up, he hesitated in following Crope in favour of watching his hips sway as he walked, only after Boq cleared his throat did Tibbett remember where he was. With a wide grin on his face, he turned back to group, "we'll be back with the drinks soon, the usuals I presume girls?" The group just laughed as they watched him hurriedly catch up with Crope, a hand snaking around his waist.
"What are we gonna do with those two hey?" Fiyero joked as everyone's laughter died down.
Boq joined in and added, "you do realise we won't be seeing them for quite some time, along with our drinks."
Glinda giggled and shook her hand at them, "oh leave them alone, it's really cute to see them act like that around each other," the blonde smiled at her friends and asked, "but since it seems we have some time on our hands, why don't you enlighten us to your costume Boq, what have you come as?"
Boq couldn't help but return the smile, it had been a long time since he was crushing on the blonde and he no longer liked her in such a way, but she was still very dear to him. He lifted his arms and moved them in a very controlled motion, bending them at the joints and back, "can't you see, I'm a man of tin." True to word, Boq was dressed up as a tin man, a silver top with silver trousers accompanied silver painted hands and face.
"Ah yes I see that now, how silly of me, and I see you stuck with your scarecrow costume Fiyero."
Fiyero nodded, "well you know how they say, don't fix whats not broken and what not," he spotted Avaric trying to hide his chuckling so turned to him, "what about you hey Avaric, what are you supposed to be a big fluffy cat?"
Avaric just scoffed at him, "don't be stupid, I'm a lion," Pfannee and Shenshen chose that moment to return and sat either side of him, he put his arms around them both and smirked, "after all someone has to look after these two kittens." The girls giggled and leaned into him, they were both dressed up as cats with whiskers and tails, while Avaric had a mane surrounding his face.
While the girls fawned over Avaric and he basked in the attention, Boq cleared his throat to gain the attention of the rest of his friends, partly to stop the sarcastic comments that would surely come from Elphaba, but mostly to stop himself losing his lunch. "Uh-hmm, it has come to my attention that we are a member short," Boq turned to his green friend and asked, "Do you know if miss Nessarose will be joining us tonight?"
"I'm afraid not my dear Boq, she was not feeling well and so nanny insisted that she stay home and rest, as she didn't put up much of a fight she must be in need of it," Ephaba saw that the young man was starting to worry and so smiled reassuringly, "But I'm sure she will be fine, no need to become distressed."
Boq nodded and returned the smile, "Well be sure to let her know I wish her a swift recovery."
"The moment I see her I will relay the message."
Fiyero roughly patted his friends silver back and grinned, "Now that we've sorted that out, I suggest we get this party started and have a good time, if I'm not mistaken I can see our mischievous friends returning with the first of many rounds." Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing and could indeed see the two boys returning with their drinks, once everyone had been given the correct orders they happily slipped into a relaxed atmosphere, chatting and joking and occasionally dancing.
After the night had progressed and a generous supply of alcohol had been consumed, the majority of the charmed circle found themselves slightly tipsy with lowered inhibitions, which is what lead to certain conversations starting that wouldn't normally happen due to the scary nature of their green friend.
Crope slumped against Tibbett, his drink sloshing in his glass spilling onto his trouser leg, more liquid threatened to escape its confines when he thrust the glass in Elphaba's directions, "So our darling green Elphie, I was wondering, well we were wondering," he motioned between himself and Tibbett, the last of his drink depositing onto both of their shirts, "you see we have a sort of bet going on, and well we wanted to know, that is I wanted to find out if I was right…"
Elphaba normally would be very annoyed at the fact her friends were prying into her private business, but she couldn't help but laugh at the amusing sight before her, she may also be a little light headed, but she would never admit that. The raven haired girl laughed, "Crope just spit it out will you."
The boy grinned and laughed in response, unable to help himself due to the light hearted atmosphere, "Ok, ok, we were wondering out of you and Glinda, who is the more dominant?"
Elphaba almost chocked on her drink, she coughed up the liquid that threatened to go into her lungs, once she was able to breathe again she felt herself blush under the wide grins she was getting from both of the boys. "It's a good job I'm in a pleasant mood, otherwise I would have knocked both of your heads together," she replied shaking her head slightly, she wasn't angry or upset though as was evident by the small smile she gave them.
"So you'll tell us then? Come on Elphie please, I got a lot riding on this!"
The green girl found herself laughing, "Like what, I'm assuming were talking more than money and such here, more along the lines of physical attention?" she laughed still when the boys blushed and smiled sheepishly at her waiting patiently for an answer. She shook her head and took a sip of her drink, "Well if you really must know, it may come as a surprise but I can reveal that it is mostly Glinda who is more dominant."
Crope frowned and Tibbett fist pumped, causing Elphaba to burst out into laughter again. Crope shook his head, "No come on, your telling me that our innocent little blonde dainty friend, is more dominant and possessive, I'm sorry but I'll have to see it to believe it."
Elphaba just shrugged and stood up, "So be it, I'm sure this will satisfy your doubt," without giving them chance to ask more questions, she moved from the table to the dance floor and spotted where Glinda, Fiyero and Boq were happily dancing to the beat. Making sure to keep herself in the blonde's line of sight, she asked a girl dressed in a rather skimpy nurse's outfit to dance, she made sure to keep her distance but as planned the girl was having none of it, keeping the distance between them to a minimum.
It wasn't long before all went to plan and the 'nurse' found herself being dragged away from Elphaba by her hair and shoved away quite forcefully, before she had chance to argue, Glinda had slapped her.
"That's my girlfriend you're throwing yourself onto bitch! If you don't want me to get really angry you'll do yourself a favour and piss off."
The girl didn't waste time making herself scarce and disappeared into the crowd before Glinda could do anything else to her. Elphaba wasn't given chance to explain about Crope's silly dare or what she was doing, because Glinda had pressed herself against her crashing their lips together in their own heated dance. They stayed like that on the dance floor for Oz knows how long, but Elphaba wasn't complaining in the slightest she grinned into the kiss and heard Glinda growl as a result.
The blonde pulled back after what seemed like a lifetime and huskily stated, "Miss Elphaba you are mine and no one else's, you would do well not to forget that."
Elphaba smiled causing Glinda to smile as well, "I wouldn't dream of it my sweet, I belong only to you, for it is you who has stolen my heart," she leaned down and offered a kiss to seal her words, "I love you my sweet."
Glinda grinned and wrapped her arms around her girlfriend's neck, "and I love you my Elphie, happy Halloween."
"Happy Halloween," Elphaba pulled Glinda close, her hands on the blondes waist, and melded their lips together in a sweet passionate kiss, it seemed dances weren't so bad after all.