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    “Galinda,” Elphaba starts, but the blonde cuts her off sharply.

    “It’s Glinda now.”

    “I apologize. Glinda.” The name sounds foreign in Elphaba’s mouth. She clears her throat, “Thanks for meeting with me,” she begins again and suddenly it all makes sense.

    But bursting into a room that contained Elphaba Thropp with only Fiyero as backup felt like an exquisite sort of trap. A personal, private torture. But Glinda does what she has always done: straightens her spine, looks at Elphaba, and lies.

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    Elphaba is a novelist and Glinda is her editor. But there are years of hurt and tension that might make this project impossible.

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    She didn’t even really ask a question when she told Elphaba what she’d done, when she told her about the house, the biggest purchase of her life: a safe place; a place where, if she’s horrendibly honest, she imagines that maybe they could grow old. Galinda never saw the appeal of it before, of the ache in her bones or the aging lines on her face.

    But looking in the mirror lately, they’re there— and she doesn’t hate it. She doesn’t hate knowing she’s changed. That they both have.

    (Or, a post-canon fix-it. Elphaba comes back to her. Galinda buys them a house. The eroticism of a gentle life.)

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    It’s five months after the worst day of Glinda’s life that she wakes from one terrible nightmare into a new one. It’s the barest whisper of a sound, the smallest flicker of a shadow in the low light, and Glinda springs awake.

    “Elphie?”

    Or: Elphaba is alive. She and Glinda have some stuff to work out.

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    “Houston, do you copy?”

    Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the damn push to talk button…

    “Hellooo? I said Houston, do you copy?”

    Caitlyn fiddled with her headset, having finally found the green button on the side and hastily letting out a rather breathless reply. “Um, yes. Hello? This is Houston. I copy.”

    There was a long pause in which Caitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs, anxiety pushing the frantic pulse of her heartbeat through her eardrums. Was that wrong? Did she already fuck up? She took a steady deep breath, finger hovering over the talk button until the familiar voice of the astronaut came through her headset once more.

    “Damn, Houston. I didn’t expect you to sound so sexy.”

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    Caitlyn has been assigned as the personal capcom to one of the astronauts currently on a year long expedition at the international space station. Cue long months of pining and desperate longing.

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    31 Jul 2025

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    to read later, perchance

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    Pretty, Elphaba thinks. It shocks her, how easily it comes to her, but there’s really no other word for it. No one, in all her life, has ever looked at Elphaba like Galinda is right now. No one, in all her life, has ever looked this happy to see her.

    “Welcome to Shiz University, Elphaba Thropp. I have a feeling we’re going to be very good friends.”
     

    or: glinda travels back in time to the day she first met elphaba. and elphaba hasn’t got a clue

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    31 Jul 2025

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    glinda goes back in time altering major events during shiz era to save elphaba