A/N: I've found my muse once again and will try to update more regularly. Enjoy this chapter. Thanks for waiting so patiently.
Chapter 5
Elphaba looked on helplessly as she watched the blonde woman crying. She didn't know whether she should say something or give the woman a comforting hug. Her question was answered for her when the blonde woman quickly jerked her head in the green woman's direction. Elphaba had expected to see saddened eyes but instead she saw angry ones.
"You have no right! No fucking right Elphaba!" The blonde yelled angrily as she shot up from the bench. "You can't just say all of this stuff after four years and think that it changes anything."
Elphaba looked on somewhat frightened. She hadn't seen furry like this from Glinda in a while. Sure they fought all the time but that was anger, not furry.
"You think you can just say that you forgive me and all of this will magically go away?" Glinda continued to yell as she began to pace. After a couple of seconds of pacing her expression changed. The light bulb went off in her head. "Magic." Glinda whispered underneath her breath so that Elphaba could not hear.
The green woman sat helplessly on the bench; this is not what she expected out of the blonde. She thought that once she forgave Glinda things would be okay again. Apparently not.
A small smirk began to appear at the corners of Glinda's mouth. She had thought of an idea to fix all of this. She was going to use magic to help her.
"I didn't mean to upset you." Elphaba finally spoke as she stood up to stop the blonde from pacing. She was beginning to wish that she had never said anything. Maybe they could have worked things out differently.
"You damn well meant to upset my Elphaba." Glinda glared back at her taller companion. "But I'm not going to let you upset me anymore!" There was determination behind those words that frightened Elphaba.
"What do you mean? Glinda…what are you going to do?" Elphaba's voice cracked a little as she began to back up. Glinda followed after her and soon the both of them were captured in a dance that required no touching. Glinda was leading and Elphaba was the unwilling participant.
The small smirk appeared across Glinda's lips again. She was enjoying this power she was having over the green witch. She could almost smell the fear in the air from her. It was fulfilling Glinda's need to feel powerful and in control at the moment. The two continued to walk, every step they got closer to the fountain.
"I'm doing something I should have done long ago." The blonde narrowed her eyes at the green woman as Elphaba began to stumble on her own two feet. She had bumped into a little stand that held a plant on it, knocking the plant to the ground.
The blonde was really beginning to frighten the green witch. She didn't know what to do because she didn't know what to expect from Glinda. Elphaba had to keep reminding herself that Glinda would never hurt her physically, that just wasn't her.
She was wrong.
When the two women finally reached the fountain Elphaba stopped walking because there was nowhere to go, her legs were touching the cold marble. Glinda on the other hand continued to pursue the green witch until she was an inch from her.
There was fear and wonder in those chocolate eyes of Elphaba's as she glared into the cold and furious blue eyes of Glinda. She didn't know what the blonde thought she was going to do but it wasn't funny anymore.
"Glinda wh…what are you doing?" Elphaba leaned back as Glinda's chest pushed forward a bit.
The blonde smirked as she raised her arms up in the air positioning her hands right at the green woman's shoulders.
"This." The blonde let out as she shoved her hands into the green woman's shoulder causing Elphaba to lose her balance and fall backwards.
Elphaba's eyes went wide as she was pushed back into the fountain full of water. There was a loud splash, louder than Elphaba alone would have caused. That's because right before she fell she grabbed a hold of Glinda's arms and pulled her down with her. The two women were now submerged and soaking in the water fountain.
Glinda let out a gasp as her head sprung out of the cold water. She wasn't expecting to go down with the green witch. She looked down and saw Elphaba pinned underneath her with her eyes closed.
"You bitch!" Glinda yelled as she grabbed onto the side of the fountain. It was a pretty deep fountain and was a little difficult to get out of once inside. She looked at Elphaba who still remained underwater. "That's not funny." Glinda huffed as she wrung out her wet hair.
The green woman was still not moving.
"Elphaba!" Glinda yelled at the green woman. "Drowning yourself isn't going to make me feel sorry for you." The blonde sighed heavily before going back over to where the green woman had fell. "Elphaba!" Glinda yelled again although this time she was a little less forceful. There was a twinge of fear in her voice.
The green woman was still not moving underneath the water and Glinda noticed she hadn't seen any air bubbles come out of the green woman since they had taken the plunge.
"Elphie!" Glinda yelled fearfully when she finally realized the green woman was not okay. She ducked down underwater and put her hands on both sides of the green witch pulling her up to the surface. It was a little hard for the blonde since Elphaba was taller and a little more muscular but eventually she hoisted the green woman's head above the water.
Glinda expected Elphaba to wake up and start breathing once she was no longer submerged but that was not the case. The green woman wasn't breathing. Her body was limp in Glinda's arms.
"Help!" The blonde yelled out hoping her palace guards would hear her. "HELP!" She yelled louder. Tears were now streaming down her face as she watched Elphaba's body begin to lose color. She remembered something she had been taught at Shiz once, it was something called CPR. The blonde wracked her brain trying to remember how it was done just as two of her palace guards rounded the corner at a sprint.
"Over here!" Glinda yelled frantically as she held her lovers lifeless body in her arms. She couldn't gather herself long enough to remember how to perform CPR. She hoped her guards knew how to do it.
Tahj was among one of the guards to arrive. His eyes were filled with terror as he saw his best friend lying in the fountain not appearing to be alive. He didn't waste any time with what if's, instead he dashed in the water and pulled the green woman from Glinda's grasp. With the help of the other guard they laid her down flat on the grass. Glinda remained in the fountain, unable to move.
Tahj immediately began to perform CPR on the green witch in hopes that it wasn't too late. "Breath damn it." The guard's eyes began to water as he pressed down on the witch's chest with both of his palms. "Come on Elphaba." He said as he bent down to give her air. The other guard and Glinda watched on in anticipation. Both were too shocked to move or say anything.
"Come on Elphaba." Tahj yelled at the unconscious witch as he continued to perform chest compressions. "You can't leave us like this!" The guard was losing his concentration, but he knew he had to keep it up for Glinda and Elphaba. He bent down to her lips and once again gave her air. This time when he pulled back he saw water seeping out of the woman's mouth.
Glinda's body jerked violently as tears overcame her. She was the reason Elphaba was in this predicament. If Elphaba died it would be her fault. She murdered her. The thought was too much for the blonde to think of and so she sunk down into the water to escape reality. She deserved the same punishment that she had inflicted upon Elphaba.
Only this time it wasn't just her and Elphaba. The unoccupied guard saw the blonde slipping away and grabbed her and pulled her out of the water.
"No!" Glinda yelled as she flailed her limbs about. She wanted to be back in the water. She wanted to punish herself.
The guard kept a steady grip on the blonde as he looked back towards where Elphaba was lying. She didn't appear to be breathing still even though some water had been removed from her lungs.
Tahj's eyes began to cloud up impairing his sight. He couldn't be losing his best friend, he just couldn't. It wasn't fair. "Breath Oz damn it!" He yelled as he pressed down hard on the woman's chest once again. The force of his last compression was the one that did the trick. Elphaba spit out the rest of the water and Tahj could see his friend's chest moving. This elated the guard until he looked to the green woman's eyes. They were still closed.
"Elphie!" Glinda yelled as she managed to get away from the guard and run towards the green witch. She dropped to her knees beside Tahj and reached a hand out to grab Elphaba's.
"She's breathing." Tahj said with confusion. "But I don't understand why she didn't wake up."
"But she'll be okay?" Glinda's tears were hard to see because her face and body were still wet. The only indication she was crying was because her face was turning red and you could hear it in her voice.
"I can't tell you that. She should have woken up." Tahj sounded unconvinced that his friend was out of the woods. He then looked to the other guard with him and told him to go get the doctor. Once the two of them were alone he looked towards Glinda suspiciously.
"What the hell happened out here?" Tahj asked the blonde. He needed to know why his best friend was perfectly fine this morning but now she was unconscious and had almost drowned.
Glinda never moved her eyes off of the green woman's face as she spoke. "It was an accident." Her voice caught as she squeezed onto the green woman's hand a little tighter.
Tahj eyed the two suspiciously. "What kind of accident?" He needed answers.
Glinda's tears began to worsen as she finally looked away from Elphaba and towards Tahj. He could tell she was sorry for whatever it was that had happened. He hadn't seen such regret in those eyes in a very long time.
"Glinda…what did you do?" Tahj said in a softer more calm voice. He knew that that's what Glinda needed at the moment.
"I pushed her." The blonde's voice cracked and her body shook as she continued to cry. She couldn't help but feel like all of this was her fault.
"You pushed her in the water?" Tahj needed clarification. He couldn't see Glinda doing something like that but if that's what she was saying then he had to believe her.
"I wasn't trying to hurt her or drown her." Glinda shook her head trying to explain she never meant to kill Elphaba. "I only meant to get her wet."
The blonde looked down at the green woman checking to see that she was still breathing. She leaned her head down over her chest and placed her ear there to make sure she could hear a heartbeat. She smiled sadly when she could hear one but it was faint.
"So let me get this straight." Tahj needed the full story. "You pushed Elphaba into the fountain, but taking in your appearance she dragged you in as well?"
Glinda only nodded her head yes as she continued to listen to the green woman's heartbeat.
"Glinda…that was a very dangerous thing to do." Tahj said as he looked towards the marble fountain.
"You don't think I know that now!" Glinda yelled a little angrily as she too looked towards the fountain.
"You falling on top of her must have pushed her head down onto the bottom of the fountain." Tahj concluded that this was why the green woman was unconscious. She had hit her head pretty hard from the sound of it.
"I realize that." Glinda replied a little sourly as she looked towards Elphaba. "Can you leave us alone?"
Tahj couldn't believe that Glinda was asking this request of him after he saved Elphaba's ass. "No, I will not leave you alone with her." He replied.
"What do you mean?" The blonde was beginning to get furious with Tahj. All she wanted right now was to be left alone with Elphaba.
"How do I know you won't try to finish the job if I go?" Tahj implied that Glinda would try to kill the green woman again. He wasn't going to allow that to happen.
The blonde's eyes got wide at the accusation. "It was an accident!" Glinda yelled towards Tahj. "I would never kill anybody."
"The unconscious woman on the ground would have to disagree." Tahj pointed towards what Glinda had done to Elphaba. He was not going to let anything happen to his best friend.
"I didn't mean to do that." Glinda fought back. Why was she suddenly getting blamed for trying to kill Elphaba? She hadn't meant to…had she?
"I don't believe that. And if I had enough sense I'd arrest you right now for attempted murder. But I'm not because Elphaba is still alive. But mark my words Glinda…if anything, and I mean anything, happens to Elphaba then I am blaming you. You will go down." Tahj had a sort of vengeance in his voice that Glinda had never heard out of him. It scared her.
Glinda couldn't understand what was happening to everyone's emotions around here. First she had gotten overly angry and now Tahj. It didn't seem right. Was she under some kind of spell?
"I won't hurt her." Glinda clarified just as the doctor came rushing over with two nurses in tow.
"What do we have here?" The doctor asked as he knelt down and put his stethoscope to the green woman's chest.
"She knocked her head on the bottom of the fountain pretty hard. She was under water for a minute or two." Tahj spoke as the doctor examined the green woman. He was eyeballing the blonde the entire time waiting for her to make one false move.
"Let's take her to the hospital wing. I can examine her more fully there." The doctor motioned for Tahj to help carry her. He gladly picked the green woman up in his arms and walked up the front lawn with the doctor and nurse. Glinda was left behind wondering what the hell happened. One minute she was thinking about something involving magic and the next she was in a fountain with an unconscious wife. Was there something magical going on or were peoples emotions just really this intense? She needed to figure this out but sitting here on the lawn was doing her no good.
"I'm sorry my love." She whispered as she glanced back towards the fountain before following the doctor to the hospital wing.
In a nearby bush there was a rattling noise of leaves. This went unnoticed as Glinda passed and went inside the manor.
What Glinda didn't notice when she passed was that there were actually two people sitting in that nearby bush. Both looked on to the spectacle with admiration and awe.
"Do you think she saw us?" A male about thirty years old asked to his companion, a striking twenty-five year old female.
"No." She said confidently as she strutted out of the bush to observe the area where Elphaba's death had almost just occurred. The male came out from the bush and stood next to her.
"We have set the trap in place, and now it's time to wait it out Dexter." The female said to her male companion.
Dex looked all too excited to be a part of this, but it was obvious the female was the leader of the duo. "You think it'll work Astor?"
"I know it will." Astor replied. "Human emotion is the most vulnerable thing. Mess with that and you are guaranteed to win." The woman smiled evilly.
"You are a genius." Dex complimented the beautiful blonde. "How long until they destroy themselves?"
"It won't be long." The blonde smiled. "Not long at all."
And with a snap of her fingers the two of them disappeared into thin air, as if they were never there.