Disclaimer – I own nothing of Wicked or the songs Defying Gravity or What Is This Feeling? They belong to their respected owners. I do own the plot. 'Nuff said.

Italics are song lyrics and thoughts.

A/N: I saw Wicked with my best friend on Sunday and have always wondered what G(a)linda and Elphaba were thinking during two of my favorite songs.

Summary: AU: Ever wonder what Elphie and Glinda are thinking during Defying Gravity and What Is This Feeling? Now, you can find out. Rated T because I'm paranoid. Two-Shot.

Genre: Friendship/None

Rating: T

CHAPTER ONE
(chapter title – Elphaba – Defying Gravity)

"She's up there! Get them!" I heard the Captain of the Guard call to the others. Glinda looked at me with frightened eyes.

I secured the doorway with the broom I had found and opened the Grimmerie. I recited a spell, not really knowing what I was reading and I didn't care.

"Elphaba – why couldn't you have stayed calm for once, instead of flying off the handle?" Glinda questioned, placing her hands on her hips. I looked up and jumped up when the pounding on the door grew louder. "I hope you're happy! I hope you're happy now! I hope you're happy how you hurt your cause forever! I hope you think you're clever!"

"Ha!" I retorted, I then turned on my best friend. "I hope you're happy! I hope you're happy, too! I hope you're proud how you would grovel in submission! To feed your own ambition!"

We then turned on each other.

"So though I can't imagine how! I hope you're happy right now!" We sang to each other. I then went back to reading from that blasted book while Glinda applied more makeup. Honestly, I think she could live without it.

"Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry." Glinda spoke in a calm and assuring voice. I rolled my eyes – I would NEVER apologize to the Wizard, not after seeing all those monkeys locked up in cages. "You can still be with the Wizard, what you've worked and waited for. You can have all you ever wanted."

I closed the book and sighed, knowing that my best friend was right. I looked to the door – the pounding had stopped, for now.

"I know." I assured her. "But I don't want it – no. I can't wanted it anymore."

The pounding suddenly resumed. I placed a quieting spell on the door, hoping it would help.

"Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes and leap." I sang, hoping Glinda understood where I was coming from. She shot me a small smile.

"It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!" I told Glinda. She took a couple strides over to me. She put her hands on my shoulders and stared into my brown eyes.

"Can't I make you understand? You're having delusions of grandeur!" Glinda told me. I backed away from her, holding the precious book in my arms.

"I'm through accepting limits
'Cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But til I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!" I told Glinda. I looked at my best friend and smiled a bit. "Glinda, come with me. Think of what we could do, together!"

"I-I don't know, Elphie." Glinda said. I rolled my eyes.

"Unlimited
Together, we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been
Glinda -
Dreams, the way we planned them." I assured her.

"If we work in tandem." Glinda told me. I nodded.

"There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity." The two of us sang in unison.

"They'll never bring us down." I held out my broom. "Well, are you coming?"

Glinda stared at the object as if it was something new. She shook her head after a moment, tears forming in her blue eyes.

"I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this." Glinda told me.

"You too. I hope it brings you bliss." I told my best friend, pulling her into a hug. Oz knew who when we would see each other again. If we saw each other again. I handed Glinda my beloved book, and mouthed 'take care of it.'

"Elphie, you're trembling." Glinda told me, slipping a black cloak over my shoulders.

"I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy my friend." The two of us sang. Just then the Ozian guards burst in, grabbing Glinda. I tightened my hold on the cloak and my broom.

"She's the witch!" a guard called.

"No! Leave her alone! She's not the one you want! It's me!" I told the guards, rising above them on the broom. I had never flown before and I was starting to feel a little nervous. I felt all eyes staring up at me as I floated higher and higher.

"So if you care to find me
Look to the Western sky!
As someone told me lately
'Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!'
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free!
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!" I told the crowd growing below me. I was now at least a hundred feet in the air. My nerves were gone and I could feel wickedness growing inside me like a virus.

"I hope you're happy!" Glinda's voice rang out above all the others.

"Look at her, she's wicked! Get her!" the citizens of Oz yelled.

"Bring me down!" I yelled back at them, now 200 feet in the air.

"No one mourns the wicked! So we've got to bring her-" The citizens of Oz shouted.

"Ahhh!" I sang, flying off into the horizon. I didn't know where I was going to go, but I hoped that it was somewhere safe.

"Down!" the last words of the citizens of Oz rang in my ears as I zoomed off. I secretly hoped that I didn't have to come back to that sort of welcome. If I came back to Oz, that is.