After Ever After

Chapter One:

"What do you want to do with her?"

Chuffrey stared at the woman he called his wife as the doctor repeated his question for the second time.

His thoughts drifted to the numerous times he had witnessed his wife and that green freak of a woman together in compromising positions and it had been more than once. Now that he and he alone, not counting Glinda, knew that the Wicked Witch was still alive he had to think about the reaction his decision would cause him to get from the witch.

"The operation would be tricky and would not come without dangerous risks if something should go wrong but-"

Pulled out of his thoughts, Chuffrey looked at the doctor and finished his sentence, "You believe it's for the best."

The doctor looked hesitant about answering that.

"Well, sir she's been here for ten years now and hasn't changed at all. Her behavior is still the same and she is refusing to face the truth," he finally said after a brief moment to gather his thoughts.

"But will she? Afterwards will she accept the truth?" persisted Chuffrey and his eyes were averted away from Glinda to the doctor.

"There's no way to tell for sure but-" the man with the doctorate stopped short when he heard a low disappointing growl escape Chuffrey's lips.

"You can't force her to forget what she believes now?" asked Chuffrey.

"We have no idea what part of her brain is holding onto the belief that her friend is still alive, so no I'm afraid to say that's a long shot," the doctor explained as he went through his notes on the patient and her psychological history while she had been at Southstairs Asylum.

"But if we do operate on her, there's a good chance that she can forget all of this and start over," the doctor continued with a reassuring smile towards the highly regarded man who had put his own wife in a mad house.

Chuffrey merely looked at Glinda again who was on the other side of the glass window that he was looking into and sitting on top of the table as doctors asked her numerous questions.

She was too pale, too far crazy, and too unstable for him to handle anymore. He never knew if she was going to snap or ramble on about Elphaba at any given moment. To tell the truth, Chuffrey was figuring out that she was becoming quite dangerous. What if one of the nurses actually believed her story and investigated into who she was. Chuffrey had made sure that Glinda's primary doctor and nurse had been paid off generously to keep their silence but what if Glinda slipped up to a nurse that wasn't her primary nurse or another doctor and forget that her alias name was Galinda Lou Freebush? Chuffrey's actions would be exposed if they found out that she was Glinda the Good and that she was supposed to be dead.

On the other hand, Chuffrey didn't just want to get rid of her. She was too valuable for him to dispose of just yet. He needed her for a purpose that had not yet been even recognized by Chuffrey himself yet but all he knew was that killing off Glinda was a bad idea.

"Could it kill her?" asked Chuffrey as his eyes connected with the blonde's and she merely looked the other way the second she realized it and played with her hair as the doctors asked her more and more questions from the room she was in.

"Every procedure has that risk, Sir Chuffrey but I've had highly successful surgeries when I've done this before and the risk of dying is minimum but-"

"But what?" snapped Chuffrey. He was in no mood for games or secrets.

"But the risk of brain damage and other afflictions like that are possible…" the doctor seemed to be forcing the words out of his mouth, obviously he hadn't wanted to tell Chuffrey of this.

The older man took one last look at his supposedly 'dead' wife and suddenly thought on Elphaba's words that she had left him with a week ago. This wasn't over and it was never going to be unless action was taken. Right now Chuffrey was presented with a plan to end this relationship between Glinda and the repulsive green witch and he would be a fool not to take it.

"Well I guess we'll have to find out if that happens," said Chuffrey coldly as he pulled out a pen to sign the papers to allow the lobotomy to happen.

"Yes," said the doctor suddenly thinking that this might not be the best idea, suddenly sounded hesitant, "I guess we will."

Chuffrey glanced at Glinda who was now coming out of the room, after being rammed with question after question about her well being and a small crude smile spread over his face. He wasn't thinking of the extreme pain he was now going to put Glinda in, the fact that she was probably going to have to be restrained and awake while they operated on her, or the sick realization that they were going to try and remove parts of her brain with an ice pick all for the slight chance that they might be able to permanently force her to forget about Elphaba forever.

No, Chuffrey was only thinking the imaginary future he had created in his mind. One where Glinda would never speak/ think or remember Elphaba ever again, a future where Elphaba was gone forever and he had Glinda all to himself.

In Chuffrey's mind he was just one step closer into making that future a very real and very cruel reality…

Hey! Long time no see right? So as you all know this is the sequel to So Close And Still So Far! I hope you all liked it! Also just so everyone knows what lobotomy is I'm going to explain it without being too graphic. Lobotomy is a surgical procedure in which they basically pick at the brain's nerves with ice picks/other tools to try and rid a person of obsessions/delusions and other sorts of conditions that they could consider to be mentally insane. It was banned in the 1930s I believe. If you want to read more up on it just look on Google. But basically doctors thought that it would get rid of a mentally insane person's problems by taking away the part of the brain that they thought held the problem. But most of them were not successful and left patients paralyzed or brain dead, or even worse dead.

Sorry for the really long author's note but I felt like I had to explain that...

Stay tuned for more! :)

Bubble