Chapter 4. Stay, Just A Little Bit Longer
Rifiuto: Non Miniera
Fae met her parents outside the Wilted Rose.
Her mother looked gorgeous as always, with the black heart hanging between her collarbones, the two silver roses holding it between the stems. Fiyero had given it to her the night of Kumbrica's Ball thier second year at Shiz, and Elphaba rarely took it off.
Both women were gorgeous, but Fae always felt that her mother outshined her in beauty. But tonight, Fae didn't think about that. She just thought about spending time with her family. Liir was there with his girlfriend, Candle, a pretty girl from Quadling Country, that he'd met at Shiz almost six years earlier. Soon, the small family sat down to dinner, and enjoyed a pleasant conversation.
It was as they were heading back to Shiz, that Fae asked the question that had been on her mind.
"Mama, Daddy, do you have to go back to the Vinkus tomorrow?" Elphaba looked at her daughter, as they walked through the Shiz Green. Fiyero gently brought his lips to the back of his wife's hand. They had laced fingers, and spent time walking close, talking softly.
"Fae, sweetie...." She stopped, when Fiyero tugged on her hand. Looking back at her husband, she allowed him to pull her towards the benches, giving his daughter a sly smile as he did so.
"Yero, what is it?" Elphaba asked, once they'd perched onto the bench.
"Let's do it." He said.
"FIYERO!" She cried. They could hear their children's laughter from the bench.
"Not that Fae." He said, stifling his laughter. "Let's stay a couple more days."
Elphaba's teeth slid out to grasp her bottom lip.
"I don't know Yero. There's so much we have to get done....."
"Fae, that can wait. Let's stay and spend a couple more days with our children. We can spend some time with Fae, now that she's at Shiz we don't see her as often as we did when she lived at home." Elphaba sighed.
"I do miss hearing her laugh. I miss her. I miss my daughter. A....All right." Elphaba agreed, allowing Fiyero to place a gentle kiss on her lips.
Fae, Liir and Candle looked up, to see their parents coming back to them.
"All right. We'll stay another week." Elphaba said. Fae's eyes lit up.
"Really?"
"Yes." Fae threw her arms around her parents, and then dragged them to her dorm. Once they got there, Elphaba stopped, and gently ran her fingers along the number on the door.
2003.
Elphaba Thropp.
She blinked, to see her daughter's neat scroll where her name had once been.
Fae Tiggular.
Then, she took Fae's key, and unlocked the room, before stepping inside. Instantly, Elphaba felt like she was being thrown back to her days at Shiz. One look told you why.
One side of the room, was covered in dark blue, black, and navy, a stack of books on a desk, reading glasses on the bedside table. Elphaba's side.
The other side of the room was decked out in pink. Fluffy pillows, piles of shoes, clothes, and fashion magazines littered the floor. Glinda's side of the dorm.
"Auntie Elphie!" Elphaba was soon engulfed in a ball of pink fluff, as Makinla threw herself into the older woman's arms.