A/N: Sorry it's a shorter chapter…but I just wanted to get something up for you guise. Thanks for all the reviews too!!!

Chapter 2

The words echoed throughout Ella's mind taunting her, teasing her, making her feel insignificant. She could remember back to a time when her parents didn't argue; a time when they loved each other unconditionally. She knew that the twins probably couldn't remember such times, but that didn't mean that they didn't exist. It felt as if a huge burden had just been laid on her by those few simple words. Divorce? How could her parents get a divorce? Sure they fought a lot but they still loved each other…right? Ella remembered her mother explaining to her about marriage and that it was when you promised to spend forever with someone. What were they doing getting a divorce? It didn't make any sense.

Elphaba meanwhile glanced towards Glinda to see how she was reacting to their announcement. The two had come to the decision the night before and were pretty confident that it was the right thing to do. The two hadn't had the heart to tell the girls that they hadn't slept in the same room in the last few weeks. It had just become too difficult to try and mend their broken marriage. It was too late.

Glinda accidentally locked eyes with the woman she once loved and immediately regretted it. She could see a deep pain beneath those chocolaty eyes that once would have broke her heart to see. Now she felt numb towards them.

Rowena's sniffles had dissipated entirely, but so had her breathing. In a couple of seconds the child lost consciousness but was thankfully caught by Ella and Kiora.

"Ro!" The sisters shouted, causing Elphaba and Glinda to finally leave their positions and run over to their daughter's side.

"Rowena!" Glinda squealed as she slid down on her knees and held out her hand to touch the child's face.

"Sweetie?" Elphaba whispered as she knelt down beside Glinda. "Sweetie wake up." She tapped the child lightly on the shoulder.

A couple more seconds passed before the blonde's eyes flicked open. When she finally came to she stared at Glinda and then back at Elphaba.

"Y…you…you're…get…getting…div…divorced?" Rowena's bottom lip began to quiver as her eyes darted between her two parents. She had always been the more emotional of the two twins. She got this from Glinda.

Elphaba frowned slightly before shaking her head. It was true. Her and Glinda were getting a divorce.

"B..but why?" The child's bottom lip began to quiver once again. She couldn't understand how her parents could separate. Was she to blame for this? She didn't understand.

Kiora was thinking the same thing as Rowena at that point. How could their parents get a divorce? Was their magic to blame? Kiora couldn't help but think it was. She could barely remember back to when their powers first began to manifest, but she did remember that that's when all the fighting began.

Glinda and Elphaba would fight about magic and whether or not to bind their powers or let them practice. Elphaba had always wanted her girls to be trained in the art of witchcraft. Glinda on the other hand didn't want them to have any powers at all. She was tired of cleaning up after little four-year-olds who had accidentally exploded their milk glass when they were angry. She was tired of having to punish her girls for using their magic. She didn't mind them having powers, she just would rather have them not use magic until they were a bit older. Elphaba didn't understand. But now a days, she didn't understand anything Glinda tried to say or do.

Glinda was the one to answer Rowena's question. "Your mother and I just don't feel the same way about each other that we used to. It has nothing to do with you girls. Nothing. We would do anything for you three." She knew she had lied, but she didn't want the girls to feel guilty about anything.

"We can still be a family. This isn't going to get in our way of that." Elphaba tried to look on the brighter side of things.

"But how?" Ella asked the question that she knew her sisters were thinking. She needed to be the strong one throughout this. Rowena and Kiora were too young to have this happen to them.

"Um…" Elphaba looked quickly towards Glinda and then back at the girls. "Your mother and I have agreed that I should stay in the Manor. I'm just going to be on the other side near the guard headquarters. So I'm still going to be around whenever you want to see me. The only thing that's going to change is family dinners and all. You're not going to see me or your mother together much."

Elphaba had hoped that this little explanation would make things better. It wasn't as if Glinda had completely kicked her out of the house. Upland Manor was so large that Elphaba could easily live on the other side and never run into Glinda ever again. The two had agreed that this was best for the girls. They didn't want to have to do the thing where they switched off the kids every other weekend or so.

"So you'll still be here? And mommy will still be here?" Ella needed to know that she had understood correctly.

"Yes sweetheart." Elphaba confirmed for her children. "I'm not going anywhere. Your mother and I just need to be apart."

Through out this whole exchange Glinda had remained quiet. She was trying to stay strong for her children but all she felt like doing herself was crying. She knew that things weren't going well between her and Elphaba but she didn't think that it was warrant for a divorce. She had tried to fix the marriage but it was just too difficult. She finally agreed to a divorce in surrender. Elphaba was the one to mention the idea first, not her.

"But why?" Kiora questioned with tears in her own eyes. She looked between her two parents hoping for one of them to falter or to say April fool's. Neither did.

"I can't keep your mother tied to a marriage she's unhappy in." Glinda finally spoke up as she looked towards Elphaba. "It's best for both of us." She said aloud as if trying to convince herself.

Elphaba looked into Glinda's eyes and for a split second saw something in there that didn't resemble the glassed over stare Glinda was now accustomed to giving her. She saw actual emotion coming from the blonde. The blue eyes seemed to soften causing Elphaba to shiver. This however went unnoticed by the blonde as she continued to take over the explanation to the girls.

It took about thirty more minutes before the two had finally calmed the girls down enough and answered all of their questions. When all was said and done the three Thropp-Upland children left Glinda and Elphaba's room with their heads hung low.

"Well that went well." Elphaba said sarcastically as she shut the door, leaving her and Glinda finally in their room alone.

"Well what did you expect Elphaba? If you knew your own daughters you'd have known they would have reacted that way." Glinda went straight to yelling. She had apparently missed the sarcasm in Elphaba's voice.

"Glinda, please not now." The green witch sighed as she sat down on the couch at the end of the bed they once shared. She didn't have any energy left in her to argue.

Glinda was going to continue despite Elphaba's request, until she saw the look in those eyes. It was the look of defeat. No matter how much she loathed her wife these days, she could not bring herself to continue the argument. Elphie looked as if she had been through the ringer and back. Elphie. The thought of that nickname saddened Glinda a little. She hadn't been able to use it for the past few months. It just didn't seem right anymore.

Instead of arguing, Glinda went and sat down beside Elphaba. She was sure to keep a safe distance.

"This isn't going to be easy." Glinda spoke up after a couple of seconds of silence.

"No it's not." Elphaba confirmed before looking in Glinda's direction. "But it's what's best. Glinda we can't even have a civil conversation anymore without one or both of us arguing."

"I know." Glinda confirmed before looking up and catching Elphaba's eyes staring at her. She quickly turned away. "The sooner we do this the better it will be." She said aloud to convince herself.

"I talked to Tahj earlier today and he explained the whole process to me." Elphaba tried to cover up her nerves with talk of her really good friend.

"You saw Tahj?" Glinda looked up again. "How come you didn't tell me?" And without even trying to argue, another argument began.

"It's not my job to tell you what I do every second of the day." Elphaba snapped.

Glinda didn't like this very much and so she fought back. The sounds of the two fighting could be heard from down the hall.