(Glinda’s POV)

I sit by Elphie’s bed watching her, and feel absolutely horrible. I know it’s my fault she is laying there unconscious. She has a bandage wrapped around her head with nasty purplish blue bruise that can just be seen around her right eye and down the side of her face from the horrid cut she had to have stitched up over her eye. It makes me want to cry because aside from the bandage on her head her left arm is in a cast that runs all the way to her shoulder. The doctor said she had broken it in several places. Elphie also has various bruises, bumps and scrapes covering her, and not to mention the burn marks that she has from the rain. Thank goodness that I had found her! The doctor said had it been even ten minutes later she likely wouldn’t be her, and even now he said she is fading quickly.

“Elphie, my wicked, mean green thing,” I cry a little gently taking her good hand. “Please wake up! Don’t leave me!” I whisper. The doctor said if she should wake up it is hard to say if she will be okay. He said Elphie has a severe concussion and could have brain damage. I don’t know what I will do if that happens. I cry even more. I wish there was some way I could tell her just how I feel, and just how sorry I am.  As I look at her and her suddenly it seems as if the words come to me, and so I quietly begin to sing.

I was as wrong as I could be

To let you get away from me

I'll regret that move for as long as I'm livin'

But now that I've come to see the light

All I wanna do is make things right

So just say the word and tell me that I'm forgiven

You and me, we're gonna be better than we were before

Loved you then but now I intend

To open up and love you even more

This time, you can be sure

I'm never gonna let you go

I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever

Gonna try and make up for all the times

I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine

From this day on, we're gonna be together

Oh, I swear this time

I'm never gonna let you go

Lookin' back now, it seems so clear

I had it all when you were here

Oh, you gave it all

And I took it for granted

But if there's some feeling left in you

Some flicker of love that still shines through

Let's talk it out

Let's talk about second chances

Wait and see, it's gonna be sweeter than it was before

I gave some then but now I intend

To dedicate myself to giving more

This time you can be sure

I'm never gonna let you go

I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever

Gonna try and make up for all the times

I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine

From this day on, we're gonna be together

Oh, I swear this time

I'm never gonna let you go

Oh, so if you'll just say

You want me too

I'm never gonna let you go

I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever

Gonna try and make up for all the times

I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine

From this day on, we're gonna be together

Oh, I swear this time

I'm never gonna let you go

Never gonna let you go

Hold you in my arms forever

Gonna try and make up for all the times

I hurt you so

Hold your body close to mine

Oh, we're gonna be together

Oh, I swear this time

I'm never gonna let you go

I finish singing and close my eyes. I wish that I could say all this to Elphie. I lean down and ever so softly kiss her forehead. “Come back to me again, Elphie, please. I can’t go on without you!” I choke out closing my eyes. “I… I love you, Elphie! I love you!” I bury my face against her gently and cry.

(Elphaba’s POV)

I don’t want to return. There is nothing for me to live for so why bother? The one person I thought loved me and returned that love, she betrayed me! 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 know that because I have paid it or at least I am going to as soon as I let go of this pathetic excuse of life. That is the problem though. I can’t seem to let go. I want to. Oz knows I want nothing more than to leave my pain behind me, and finally feel nothing. My inner being seems to struggle between my physical body and just walking into that welcoming silence.

Just as I am ready to let go though I hear something. Is that a voice? I listen, and it is! Not just any voice though it’s Glinda! What is she singing? I pause and listen. I don’t even realize it but I find myself returning towards my body. I can see me laying on the bed, and I see Glinda. She is crying and singing a song that makes me want to hug her and tell her I forgive her and love her.

I suddenly find myself desperately going towards my body. I must reunite with myself. Glinda, my sweet, needs me! Now that I think about it, I am not ready to leave her. Sure she hurt me, but I understand why she did it, and honestly how is it any different than what I did with Yero? It isn’t. I am sure she just wanted to feel loved like I had or just feel at all. Anything but the pain of being away from the one you truly love.

I watch has she finishes singing, and I hear her say she loves me. Glinda loves me! I watch her bury her face against me, and I don't hesitate to return to my body.

I feel dizzy, like the whole world is spinning. My head is pounding, and I hurt all over, but I ignore it for now. I am having trouble seeing, but I can feel Glinda holding my hand so I squeeze her hand the best I can. “Gli- Glinda?” I barely whisper and she is instantly comes into my view. She is very blurry, but I know it's her. “Elphie! You're awake!” She says in a loud whisper. “You had me so frightened! I was afraid I lost you again, for good this time.”

“You almost did, but then I heard  your song, and I knew you needed me, and I,” I begin to cough from the effort of talking and Glinda carefully rubs my chest till I calm down. “I am not going to leave you, my sweet. I forgive you, and ask you forgive me for leaving?” She nods overjoyed and kisses me gently. I return the kiss, and smile a little at her. It hurts, but I try not to show it. She must have noticed because she stops. “I am going to let Momsie know your awake. The doctor will want to check you.”

“Please don't.” I whisper. “I just want my girlfriend for now. Later you can get them, but for now… I just want… want… you.” My eye closes and I drift off to sleep.

(Glinda's POV)

Elphie woke up and she forgives me! I smile as I watch my beautiful girlfriend go to sleep. I carefully lay down beside her, and kiss her gently and close my eyes feeling her hand still holding mine.

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Thank you for reading this chapter. I just wanted to say the song Glinda sang was entitled Never Gonna Let You Go by Sergio Mendes. I do not own it.