Defying

"Come with me…" Glinda and Elphaba left the Emerald City together to live a life of exile for defying the Wizard. The two of them realized that being outcasts together wasn't such a bad thing. Gelphie. What-if events after the "Defying Gravity" sequence. Based on the Musical with some references from the book.

A/N: I do not own Wicked. It was conceived from the undeniable greatness of L. Frank Baum, derived through Gregory Maguire's undaunting imagination, and turned into a magnificent musical through Stephen Shwartz's undying determination.
This story is in honor of Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth's magnificent portrayals as Elphaba and Glinda respectively. They introduced me to this amazing fandom XD.
I hope you can tolerate whatever I'm going to do here XD I simply worship this ship, because, as Gregory Maguire himself confirmed, this pairing is real and definitely canon.

Chapter One: Hold Out

"Elphie… You're trembling…"

That was all Glinda could say at that moment.

Elphaba just asked me to go with her, she pondered quickly, Oz be damned, what am I going to say to her! She can't be serious to go against the Wizard! He's called a Wizard for a reason!

She was irritated that she couldn't bring the words of rejection to her quivering lips. Elphaba was looking at her with wide eyes full of expectance and of fear. Those breathtaking, wonderful brown eyes… Silently begging her, pleading her to accompany her in a one way trip to certain hell.

She couldn't stand the sight of her heated gaze. Glinda averted her eyes and rapidly scanned the room, buying time to think of an answer.

Should she come with Elphaba, Glinda would have doomed her own fate. Her popularity will take form to a new meaning from being adored and worshiped to being reviled and repulsed. She would be branded as a traitor, a fugitive, and many other nasty names given to the enemies of the Wizard.

Should she refuse…

Elphaba.

Her poor Elphie had been hated back at Shiz, and now that hatred will spread rapidly like wildfire all over Oz. Nowhere is safe for her…

And Elphaba will be facing a life of damnation alone.

Glinda could imagine it in her mind's eye. Elphaba all by herself, sitting in an empty room, looking lost, looking desperate… looking so isolated and cut off from society.

The thought gripped Glinda's heart with an unpleasant, freezing sensation.

Elphaba didn't deserve such life. She had been through much rejection already. Her own father, her own sister, the students at Shiz, and even once, from Glinda herself.

Glinda's eyes fell on a stark midnight black cloak hanging by the side. It wasn't much. It was blatantly simple. It didn't look horrible or ugly, but it was nowhere near fabulous either. It had Elphaba Thropp written all over it.

Focus, Glinda! She reprimanded herself, You shouldn't be thinking about fashion at a time like this!

And then again, her recent words included the word "trembling".

Wordlessly, she went over the aforementioned object, and deftly approached the green girl, who silently watched her companion.

Glinda threw the vast, black coat over Elphaba's tense shoulders and fastened the clasp.

She stood back to admire her "handiwork".

Black dominated Elphaba entirely. The pointed hat and the new cloak worked well together as she had expected, but the sight was somehow unnerving. More than anything, (and as much as Glinda hated to agree to) Morrible's downright lie against Elphaba moments earlier had one correct description: Wicked.

"All right."

Elphaba looked up upon hearing Glinda's quaky reply.

Glinda curled her hands into fists to steady them. She was out of her mind! She wasn't ready to answer! She bit her tongue, as if willing to punish it for jumping into conclusions without the brain's affirmation.

"What?" Elphaba breathed, her voice laboring due to the frantic hammering of her heart.

"I'll come with you…" Glinda replied almost immediately.

She mentally kicked herself. Galinda Upland, what the HELL are you talking about! she impatiently snapped to her brain. How she managed to keep a straight face was beyond her.

To her curiosity, it was Elphaba who currently looked as if she's having a war in her mind. She bit her verdant lips, her chocolate brown eyes a bit glazed.

Finally, Elphaba said, "You can't".

Glinda blinked. "… What?" she inquired, tilting her head to one side like a child. What was Elphaba talking about? Hadn't she asked her to come?

Elphaba began to incessantly pace around their small, claustrophobic space in the attic, holding her broom with one hand as she wildly articulated with the other.

"It's a silly suggestion, Glinda! I'm sorry for bringing it up," she began, words spilling out like waterfall from her lips, tumbling over each other, "I can't bring this on you. You don't have to. It's dangerous, everyone will hate you because of me!"

"Actually, Elphie- "

"The guards will be after me. There will be a price on my head. They're going to torture me and kill me if they caught me-"

"Oh Elphie, honestly!"

Glinda rooted herself on Elphaba's path, stopping her by pressing her palms against her strong shoulders.

Elphaba did stop. She was breathing heavily through gritted teeth. Her hat was lopsided on her head, with one side falling over her eye.

Glinda smiled a little. She had always found Elphaba's rambling cute, regardless of the topic. She could have watched her rant on till the end of the day but they were kind of in a deadline here.

"It's a decision I made, Elphie," Glinda said gently, so tempted to tuck in a loose strand of ebony hair behind her Elphie's ear. Instead, she corrected the hat's position on her head, the hat that had meant so much more ever since that one night after the Ozdust Ball.

"And this is a decision I made for the both of us," Elphaba answered adamantly, gripping Glinda's arms and slightly pulling the smaller girl to her, desperately willing the blonde to understand her intentions.

Glinda felt herself blush a little to be in this close proximity to Elphaba. Their noses were almost an inch apart. She could see her magnificent eyes in detail, even the pain that lingered within them.

Her heart gave a tiny whirl when Elphaba released the words "both of us". She wasn't certain why, but she wished Elphaba would say it again.

There was a raucous chain of knocking on the door.

"Open the door! In the name of His Supreme Ozness!" came a muffled, but frightening command from the other side.

Elphaba shook the blonde again to direct her gaze to her eyes again. "Glinda, please," she said with such intensity of pain and agony that Glinda wanted to breakdown and cry. She was willing to take all of Elphaba's hateful emotions and experience them herself rather than let the green girl suffer mercilessly from it.

"What… What about y-you?" Glinda choked, tears brimming in her eyes.

Elphaba released Glinda, much to the girl's disappointment. But Elphaba didn't want to see the blonde cry.

"Tell them I kidnapped you, dragged you here—Oz, I don't care!" Elphaba snapped, turning to the wide window, "Get yourself out of this mess, Glinda, please."

"But I want to come with you, Elphie, I- "

Furious, Elphaba whirled to face Glinda and grabbed her roughly than she meant to. "I don't want you to come with me!" she practically yelled at Glinda's face, "I want you to be safe!"

Glinda stared back at her for a split second, before breaking down into Elphaba's arms completely.

"You mean thing!" Glinda sobbed into Elphaba's arms. She subtly felt Elphaba tighten her grip on her.

The knocking continued, along with vile threats. They were wasting time.

"Glinda…"

Elphaba gently pushed the blonde away. Glinda was ready to dive into her bosom again, but she was stilled when Elphaba pressed a gentle kiss on her forehead.

Glinda shivered and subconsciously pushed her head against Elphaba's incredibly warm lips. It felt like a final benediction more than anything. She pushed the thought aside.

"Hold out, my sweet…" Elphaba whispered, her hot breath unknowingly making Glinda weak in the knees.

The green girl swiftly pulled away.

Without warning, Elphaba madly rushed away from Glinda, and without looking back, threw herself out of the window, plummeting a hundred feet below.

"Elphie, NO!" Glinda shrieked, running over to the window. Her eyes worked like floodgates, releasing all the unwanted tears onto her pale face.

The idiot! Glinda's brain yelled unreasonably, Really! THAT'S her solution? Kill herself? Kill herself and LEAVE me alone?!

She barely got there when she saw a black speck in the sky, speeding away from the Emerald City.

Glinda balked and breathed out in relief. Well, she didn't die, and that's something…

The oak door gave an almighty groan as it swung to the floor before releasing an earsplitting crash on the stone floor, whisking dust everywhere.

Glinda jumped and froze as guards in verdigris uniform entered with spears and muskets aimed at her.

"It's me!" Glinda yelled all of a sudden, "I'm the one you want!"

Elphaba's escape was unknown to these men, for they were too occupied in breaking down the door. It was somewhat futile, Glinda knew that. Someone must've witnessed Elphaba's flight to freedom. Time will tell when the news will reach the castle, but for now, she was diverting their attention to give Elphaba time to distance herself. She certainly has hell to pay when they found out.

Glinda didn't even protest as they roughly grabbed her, forced her wrists into sharp cuffs, and unceremoniously dragged her out of the dingy attic.

For Elphie, Glinda said to herself as silent tears continued to cascade down her cheeks.

A/N: Oh well, I've tried. I thank you if you read all the way down to the bottom XD