A/N: It's been fun writing all of these oneshots but since I am now out of idea's I think it's time for the end…so with that said, this is going to be the last chapter. I wanted to go out with a bang so tell me what you think! Oh and this chapter was inspired entirely by Scott Alan's song Home which is sung by Shoshana Bean. Any other Shoshana fans in the house?? Haha. So I recommend listening to that before reading this. You can find it on youtube.
So please enjoy the last chapter of I've Just Seen a Face!
Elphaba was lying on her bed with Glinda wrapped tightly in her arms. The green woman was asleep on her back and Glinda was asleep on her side with her head resting upon Elphaba's chest. The two had slept through the entire night wrapped in each other's embrace.
The green woman was the first to awake from their slumber. She smiled as she looked down at her lightly snoring love.
The blonde was so perfect and innocent when she slept that Elphaba couldn't help but love her all the more. She had been given a precious gift that she would never forsake for anything. She thanked the unnamed God every day that she had someone as perfect as Glinda to love and care for her.
Elphaba continued to watch Glinda sleep, thinking that she was the most beautiful creation she had ever seen. She took a deep breath and let the sweet intoxication take over her senses. Glinda always smelled of Gilikin rose petals and vanilla. Those were two of Elphie's favorite scents.
The green woman carefully brought one hand up and began to lightly comb through the blonde locks of her love, careful not the wake her. She ran her fingers through the untangled tresses as she thought about how her life had changed since falling in love with Glinda. She now had something pure in her life. She had something worth living for.
Elphaba couldn't help but think that she had changed a great deal since meeting Glinda. A light now shone within her that had never before glowed. She felt warmth and compassion towards people that she would have felt annoyance towards before. She continued to smile as she whispered into the air something that she was thinking in her head.
"You'll be mine completely. They'll be no darkness left to view." The green woman whispered as she leant over and kissed the blonde on the top of the head. Glinda was the reason behind Elphaba's light. She was the spark that connected all the circuits and caused the green woman to fill with life. There was no darkness left within her anymore.
The blonde shifted a little in Elphaba's arms but remained asleep. Elphaba was glad that she hadn't woken up quite yet. She was so peaceful when she slept.
"I never knew this form of love existed." Elphaba whispered into the abyss again. "And deep inside of me is where is all begins." The green woman's eyes began to water as she was suddenly overcome with love for the girl in her arms.
This girl within her arms now possessed the one thing that Elphaba had never wanted to give to anyone. She held Elphaba's heart, and in turn Elphaba held the blonde's. She wasn't planning on giving it back anytime soon either.
"When you lye inside my arms, I'll protect you for always." Elphaba promised the sleeping girl as she wrapped her arms a little tighter around the blonde. A single tear fell from the green woman's cheek. She wasn't going to let anything bad ever happen to her love.
"Never feel alone for I'll always be with you." Elphaba spoke softly once again as she promised the blonde to always be with her. She wasn't going to ever leave her.
The blonde in the meantime had actually woken up from Elphaba's tight squeeze but her eyes remained shut. She tried not to smile as Elphaba continued to confess her love for the supposed sleeping blonde.
"Home is where the heart is meant to be. Well guess what my sweet. You'll always have a home inside of me." Elphaba smiled as she reached her hand over and began to rub the blonde's back.
Glinda could barely keep herself from tearing up as she heard Elphaba confess that she always would have her heart open to her. The only thing that kept the tears at bay was the thought of hearing more confessions.
"We will walk this road together. I'll shelter you from burdens. Just lean your weight on me." Elphaba continued to whisper words of love as she continued to stare at the face she had memorized so many times. It was the face of perfection.
"Storms may bridge the distance but you will always have a home here. Right here inside my heart. There's a love waiting just for you." Elphaba reached down and placed a light kiss on the blonde's lips. She didn't care if Glinda was sleeping anymore. She needed the blonde to be awake for her next announcement.
The blonde slowly opened her water soaked eyes to look at the green woman. All of the tears that had pooled behind her closed eyes now began to spill freely onto the green woman's chest. Luckily Elphaba was wearing a chamois that captured the moisture.
"Glinda I love you." Elphaba reached out and wiped at the blonde's eyes. She didn't even care that Glinda had tricked her and been awake the whole time. She was too much in love.
"I love you Elphie." The blonde smiled as Elphaba caressed her cheeks. She didn't know what had overcome Elphie this morning but she liked it. She had never heard Elphaba speak so freely of how she felt about the blonde.
"I have something I want to ask you." The green woman shifted her body weight down so that she was now face to face with her love.
The blonde's heart race began to pick up speed. What was so important that Elphaba had to ask her?
"You can ask me anything." Glinda tried to keep her voice steady as she reached out her hand and took a green one in her own. She lovingly began to play with Elphaba's fingers, which seemed to relax the green woman.
Elphaba took a deep breath before looking into Glinda's piercing blue eyes.
"Glinda Upland I have loved you from the second I laid eyes on you. You have given me the life that I thought I could never have. You have changed me for the better. And throughout it all you have given me a place that I can call home." The green woman took another deep breath before continuing. "Now it's my turn to give you all that I am and give you a place to call home." The green woman reached under her pillow and pulled out two small boxes.
Glinda gasped as she saw the size of the two boxes. Both were small and could easily fit in the palm of someone's hand. Her heart could now be heard amongst the two of them it was beating so rapidly.
"Glinda Upland," Elphaba stated as she held up one of the boxes. "Will you marry me?"
The blonde watched as one of the small boxes was opened to reveal a diamond ring about the size of a small green pea. It was definitely one of the largest diamonds Glinda had ever seen in her life.
Elphaba was sweating profusely as she watched Glinda's shocked facial expression. Had she done this all wrong? She knew that when people proposed they usually got down on one knee and all, but Elphaba didn't want to do that. She wanted to do something that few people had done before. She wanted to propose to her love in bed.
Glinda glanced back and forth between the ring and Elphaba. She couldn't believe that Elphaba had proposed to her. This meant that Elphaba wanted to spend the rest of her life with Glinda. This meant that she wanted to grow old and have children with her. This meant that she was always going to wake up how she woke up this morning. Her decision was already made.
"Yes!" Glinda squealed as she reached forward to give her love a kiss.
Elphaba smiled into the kiss that she was sharing with her now fiancée. Everything seemed to be falling into place.
When the blonde finally pulled back she had the biggest grin on her face that Elphaba had ever seen. It made Elphaba smile in kind.
"What's in the other box?" The blonde asked curiously as she noticed that Elphaba still clenched on to one box.
In all the celebration Elphaba had totally forgotten that she still had one more surprise for her love. Her eyes continued to light up as she held out the other box.
"Open it." The green woman smiled as she handed the box over to the blonde.
Glinda nearly wiggled out of bed in excitement. This was the happiest day of her life. She carefully took the box and began to open it. Her eyes scrunched together in confusion as she pulled out a key.
"What's the key go to?" Glinda asked as she looked at the grooves along the side. It certainly looked like a key that went to something important.
Elphaba grinned as she explained what the key belonged to. "Our house." The green woman mirrored Glinda's squirm.
"Our house?" The blonde was still confused. Since when did they have a house?
"Glinda we are graduating soon and so I figured we'd need a place to live. People who are engaged usually live together in a house." Elphaba chuckled as she provided a quick explanation as to why they now owned a house.
"You mean we have our own house? Just the two of us?" The blonde's eyes were wide once again.
"We have a house." Elphaba smiled as she kissed her love softly on the lips. "It has four bedrooms and two baths if I'm not mistaken. I knew you said you always wanted a big house for a family and so I went ahead and got the four bedroom instead of just a one. I hope that's okay."
"Of course that's okay!" Glinda nearly screamed. "Oh sweet Oz Elphie, this is more than any girl could ever hope for." The blonde was overwhelmed with everything at the moment.
"Any other girl yes, but my girl deserves everything." The green woman smiled as she pulled the ring out of the box and slid it onto Glinda's ring finger. It was a perfect fit.
"Elphaba I hate to put a damper on things but how in Oz did you pay for all of this?" Glinda admired her ring on her left hand but didn't want to have to return it when they found out that Elphaba had no money to pay for it.
"The ring I could afford by myself. The house was a present from your parents." Elphaba smiled.
"A present from my parents?" Glinda was still confused. What did her parents now have to do with this?
"Well when I went to ask your father permission I found a nice little cottage nearby that was for sale. When I mentioned it to your parents they decided to get it for us for our wedding present." The green woman was having so much fun explaining all of this to her love. It had been hard trying to keep all of this a secret from Glinda for so long.
"The house is near momsie and popsicle?" Glinda still couldn't wrap her finger around the whole situation.
"It's about a twenty minute carriage ride but yes. I remember that you said you'd like to return north after graduation, and once I researched the area I learned that Gilikin was the perfect place to raise a family." The green woman's enthusiasm was beginning to waver as she saw the confusion that still lingered in Glinda's eyes. "I did this for us Glinda." Elphaba added in an attempt to feel better about what she did.
"You bought a house near my parents so that we could raise a family together?" The blonde asked for clarification.
"Yes." Elphaba responded. "But I mean if you don't like it I'm sure we can always sel…" Elphaba was cut off when pink lips fiercely attached themselves to her own.
The two continued to kiss for a little while before Glinda finally pulled back.
"I don't want to sell the house. That's the most romantic thing that you could have ever done." Glinda tried to wipe at a tear that had escaped her eyes.
"I love you Glinda and I want to spend forever with you." The green woman reassured Glinda that she wasn't going anywhere.
"And I love you Elphaba. I want to be you wife and your lover until we're both too old and senile to know what that is anymore." Glinda giggled a little bit as she pictured her and Elphaba sitting in matching wheelchairs playing shuffleboard on the porch to their cottage. Their kids and grandkids would be running around them as Elphaba yelled for them to slow down.
"That could never happen. I will never stop loving you." Elphaba grinned. "Even when we are old and senile."
"Promise?" Glinda asked.
"Promise." Elphaba smiled before repositioning herself so that she was on top of the blonde. She was going to make this engagement one to remember.
THE END