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Glinda consistently held the place of the excitable puppy-type in the relationship, and today was no different as she kicked off her heels at the door and bounded into the lounge at an inhuman speed, lobbing herself onto the sofa, and the lap of a poorly prepared Fiyero.
"Glin, really?!" He huffed playfully, placing a sweet, chaste kiss on her lips.
"Mmhm." She giggled; she was in her late twenties and hadn't lost her twinge of immaturity, but it livened up the relationship. Besides, Elphaba had enough maturity for all three of them.
"How was your day?" He asked her, as she settled herself on his lap.
"Good, but I want to talk about something." She stated. This immediately had Fiyero's full attention; wanting to talk about something usually resulted in lengthy conversations, careful to take in everyone's point of view. The three of them struggled to see how couples could have such large arguments over simple decisions when they could calmly make the same decisions with one extra, and usually vary varied, viewpoint.
Fiyero stared attentively at Glinda, but Elphaba, for her part, was lost in a book. She was sprawled across the other sofa, clueless as to her surroundings, with the fluffy white mass of fur on her chest that was known as Malky, their cat.
"Fae!" Fiyero called, snapping the green girl from her imagination.
"Oh, hey my sweet." She smiled at Glinda.
"We're holding a meeting." Glinda informed her, to which Elphaba responded by swinging her legs around to sit normally on the sofa, removing a disgruntled Malky from her place. Elphaba placed her book beside her, and her reading glasses on top of them.
"The issue on the table?" She asked, instantly betraying her occupation as a politician. Malky crawled back onto her lap, and welcomed Elphaba's absent minded strokes.
"One that we've brought up once or twice but never... truly discussed." Glinda offered. Elphaba and Fiyero stared blankly at her.
"I want to discuss... a baby. I want a baby." She told them. Fiyero nodded, clearly considering the proposition but Elphaba's eyes widened.
"A baby?!"
"Yes, Elphie. A small human thing."
"Yes but... a baby?!" Elphaba exclaimed.
"Yes, Elphie. A literal, real life baby.
"But we have a cat!"
"Yes and I don't know if you noticed but cats and babies are pretty different." Glinda retorted, with more sass than was typical for her; that was usually Elphaba's strong point.
"I mean... I think we could more than support one." Fiyero shrugged, looking pointedly at Elphaba.
"Exactly. We're stable in jobs, we're mature enough-"
"But why now?!" Elphaba interrupted, still shocked by the suggestion. She held Malky close; to her, she was their baby. And even if the other two wouldn't admit it, they doted on her.
"Why not now? We've spoken about maybe one day having a child but we've never discussed it. At this rate we'll put it off over and over and it will never happen." Glinda responded.
"She's got a point." Fiyero shrugged.
"Shut it, Yero."
"Obviously it's not a straightforward decision. There's layers of plans that need to be made. We need time to think, so after we get through the first issue of whether we are going to seriously plan for a baby or not, we can then decide, if there is going to be a baby, whose it is biologically, if anybody's." She added.
"I need some time to think." Elphaba agreed after a moment's pause, already calmer in the face of the idea. She loved the way that Glinda broke plans down bit by bit so that she could cope.
"I say we think on this overnight and reconvene tomorrow. Fae? Glin?" He checked, receiving a calm assent from both women.
"Any other issues to bring to the table?" Glinda grinned, poking fun at Elphaba.
"Yes. You're on dinner, my sweet." The green girl replied with the waggle of her tongue.
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Most people expected bedtime to be an issue, but given that Fiyero was strictly non-sexual, it was really quite simple. They had a large king size bed for the three of them, and if Glinda and Elphaba were having sex, they would go to the room next door with a double bed. Usually though, Elphaba would sleep in the centre of the large bed, with Fiyero on her left and Glinda on her right. They'd usually end up a mass of multicoloured limbs; dark brown, green and white entwined. Glinda's head normally ended up rested on Elphaba's chest, Fiyero more often than not laid on his stomach with an arm slung across Elphaba's midriff.
That night though, nobody had Elphaba pinned, so she found herself able to slip out of bed in the early hours of the morning. She went down to the kitchen to get a glass of water, and then with the knowledge that her mind was too active to sleep, she made her way through the drawing room to the balcony. The moonlight shone bright through the bare skeleton of a tree that stood just meters from the window. The view of Oz was beautiful, highlighted by the moon. She was lost in thoughts when she felt small, gentle hands massaging her shoulders before running down her back. She spun around smoothly, and wrapped her arms around the blonde she knew would be stood there.
"Sorry, I tried not to wake you when I got up." Elphaba muttered. Glinda shook her head gently.
"No, it's fine. I was awake anyway, I couldn't sleep."
"How come?"
"Because I could hear from your breathing that you were awake, and I only usually sleep when you sleep. That's something I've done since Shiz." Glinda admitted, laying her head on Elphaba's shoulder. "What was keeping you awake?"
"Thinking. My mind wouldn't shut up." Elphaba sighed, running her fingers through Glinda's long, wavy golden hair.
"About the baby?" Glinda asked, to which Elphaba nodded.
"Elphie, if it's something you really don't want, we don't have to-"
"No, it's not that I don't want to, my sweet. It always used to be. I used to think that because my mother never loved me, I'd never love my baby, and that terrified me. I didn't want to wake every morning and look at a child I was supposed to love but couldn't." She explained, near to tears. Glinda nodded, understanding, stroking her fingertips down Elphaba's arm and grabbing her hand.
"Elphie." She whispered, reassuringly.
"But then I imagined.... your baby, a little you, or Fiyero's... I would love them. I've never felt such a sense of protection over something that's not in existence. Even without a physical baby, the thought of having one is overwhelming." Glinda smiled and wrapped her arms tightly around Elphaba.
"Elphie, you're not incapable of love. You love Fi, and you love me, and that's more love that most relationships have. And you are not your mother. Elphie, if our child was green, would you reject and hate them?"
"No. But there's no way, is there? It couldn't be mine, I don't want to carry."
"There's a way... but that's for the meeting tomorrow. Let's go back to bed." Glinda smiled, taking Elphaba's hand and pulling her gently.
"I bet Yero is still asleep." Elphaba chuckled, allowing Glinda to lead her by the hand to their bed, where Fiyero slept soundly. Elphaba got in through Glinda's side and waited until the blonde was sat beside her to lay down, taking Glinda down with her. They kissed softly, before settling in to sleep.
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"Fae agreed?! To a baby?!"
"Yes!"
"Yes, ok, I agreed to a baby. Order at the table, we have other issues to raise. Glinda, take the stage."
"Thanks, Elphie. Right, we have the matter of parentage to discuss. First things first... I would love to carry the baby." Glinda offered, on their second meeting on the issue. They found that the democratic style meeting was effective in making decisions, so it was common in the household.
"I have absolutely no burning desire to carry a baby at all." Elphaba stated.
"Yeah, me neither." Fiyero grinned, earning a laugh from the girls.
"Ok. So are we saying that we can rule out adoption, surrogacy, and Elphaba... And Fiyero?" Glinda giggled.
"Well, Fiyero could still father the baby. That could work out." Elphaba pointed out.
"Yes, but there's something else." Glinda smiled, crossing the room to one of their large filing cabinets and taking out a file from the top drawer. She placed the dirty yellow folder filled with paper on their coffee table.
"What in Oz?" Fiyero asked.
"Research that I've been working on. It's... it'd allow Elphaba and I to have a biological child."
"You've been researching this?! For how long?" Fiyero asked, awestruck.
"A few months. Now... the procedure is experimental, and no babies have been born from it yet, but there are women with healthy pregnancies, and animal trials have been 100% successful." Glinda explained, as Elphaba began to read through the file.
"It'd probably take a few courses for the cells to implant and grow, but we might get lucky. We can more than afford it." She added.
"So... they'd take some of your eggs, fertilize them using one of Elphie's miscellaneous cells, and it becomes a baby?!" Fiyero exclaimed, reading the pages over Elphaba's shoulder.
"Yep. It's pretty amazing!" Glinda laughed.
"It would involve a few weeks of hormone injections and a minor surgery, my sweet. Are you sure you want to do that?" Elphaba asked, almost excited at the prospect of their child.
"Absolutely. It's a small price to pay for our baby." Glinda confirmed.
"It'd be a girl. We both have X chromosomes, it could only be a girl." Elphaba pointed out.
"Our daughter." Fiyero laughed, ecstatic.
"Our daughter." Glinda agreed, gripping Elphaba's hand and leaving all three of them grinning like idiots.
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The clinic was warmer and friendlier than any hospital facility that Elphaba could have imagined; she'd only been into cold, hostile, sterile surgeries. Here, there was a sunny meadow painted on a wall, and a couple were grinning talking about what they would name 'it'- clearly the baby they had found out they were expecting.
Elphaba decided that she preferred fertility clinics to any other form of clinic.
They walked up to the desk and rang the bell for the receptionist.
"Hello?" She asked, already giving them strange looks; they weren't the most normal relationship.
"Hello, I'm Glinda Upland. We have an appointment with Doctor Karnas." She smiled..the receptionist nodded.
"I'll phone through and let her know that you're here. Please take a seat." She offered, gliding her chair into the next room with a clearly practiced grace.
Glinda sat on the cushioned blue chair between Fiyero and Elphaba, leaning her head on Fiyero's shoulder and gripping Elphaba's hand.
"Nervous?" Fiyero asked Glinda. She shook her head.
"Not yet. Give it a few weeks."
"Fae?" He asked.
"Hell yes." She sighed, sending the other two into giggles.
"It's fine, Elphie. They're just going to put me on the drugs to stop my period today. It can't go wrong." Glinda reassured her, leaning her head over to rest on Elphaba's shoulder instead. A few seconds later, Doctor Karnas, a middle aged woman with beautiful auburn hair and bright blue eyes came through the door.
"Glinda Upland, Fiyero Tigelaar and Elphaba Thropp?" She smiled, spotting the three most unusual people straight away; Fiyero with his dark skin tattooed with bright blue diamonds, Elphaba and her unusual complexion, and Glinda with her average Gilikin appearance.
"Come with me." She smiled, beckoning them to follow her.
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"At least there's only 5 days of this!" Glinda exclaimed on day two of the menstrual cycle suppressants. They had to be injected into her thigh, which wasn't her favourite.
"Yes, and then 10 days of egg stimulation hormones. And then a few weeks of progesterone, depending on how long it takes for the embryo to take." Elphaba grinned, taking the needle and disposing of it in the medical waste bin they'd been given. Glinda slapped at her playfully, and Elphaba figured that having to inject herself made up for the punch she'd have got in revenge otherwise.
"Now now, ladies. What day are we going back to the clinic?" Fiyero asked, holding up the calender they'd brought for the purpose of recording baby related dates.
"Monday." Glinda told him, and he promptly marked the day with a star and a small note.
"Do you notice the looks we get in there?!" He asked, turning to the girls. Elphaba snorted.
"They probably wonder what in the name of Oz the baby will look like!" Elphaba joked.
"Oh, but that's a good point! What will she look like?" Glinda gasped.
"Well, the doctor said that she couldn't ethically test for green skin in an embryo because it's not a life limiting medical condition. But I'm the first green person, so we have no idea If it is hereditary." Elphaba sighed.
"I'd love a green baby, Elphie. I'm going to love her no matter what happens, and so is Fi, and so will you." She insisted.
"Well, whatever happens... I hope she has your eyes." Grinned the green girl.
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The waiting was excruciating, knowing that each step was just days away. Finally, after over 2 weeks of daily injections, the day for the surgery was here.
"It's a minor surgery, with very few complications. The most dangerous thing is the general anaesthetic, which generally has very few side effects. You'll feel groggy for a while." Doctor Karnas explained. Glinda was in a hospital style gown. It had been decided that Fiyero would stay with her, as Elphaba found the thought of Glinda in surgery distressing. She waited outside, more nervous than either of the others.
It took just over an hour, after which time Elphaba was pretty sure she had no fingernails left. Fiyero came into the seating area and hugged her tightly.
"She's fine. They got 16 eggs, which is brilliant. She wants to see you, and the doctor needs to collect your skin cells." He smiled. Elphaba grinned back, pulling him down a little to kiss him.
"You're too tall. Let's go!" She grinned, taking his hand and letting him lead her to the room.
Glinda sat in the chair, just shaking off the last of the anaesthetic. Her smile was wide as she spotted Elphaba, opening her arms for a hug. Elphaba crossed the room and held her girlfriend close.
After taking Elphaba's skin cells, Glinda was discharged.
"We'll call you in just over a week and let you know how many embryos we have!" Doctor Karnas promised, sending the trio off, eager to find out how many were successful.
It took 11 days for them to call, but the news was well worth it. It was Fiyero who picked up the phone. Neither Glinda nor Elphaba were home from work yet. He scrawled down the information given onto a piece of paper, before tucking it into his pocket. He then set to cooking dinner; he was the only one in the household that could cook well.
"Fiyero, did you forget to pay the electricity bill again?" Elphaba called before the door had even closed behind her.
"No, they've probably misplaced our payment again, Fae. I'll call them." He huffed, placing the peas on to simmer and leaving the kitchen to find Elphaba in the hallway. He took the green girl into his arms and kissed her gently. It lasted for a few minutes, simply standing in each others arms, soft kisses being shared.
"How was your day?" Fiyero asked his girlfriend, stroking her hair.
"Same old, some crusty middle aged white guy starts creating trouble with problematic views, another one goes completely on a tangent in on a rant about a meeting with a different subject to what he thought, nobody cares about what anyone else has to say, and nothing gets accomplished." Elphaba complained bitterly, before reminding herself that it was over for today.
"And you?"
"I only did a half day, we were studying the effect of the loss of a bird population on the mosquito count." He sighed.
"Nice!" Elphaba laughed, knowing that Fiyero actually enjoyed what he did.
"Oh, and we got news, but we'll wait until Glin gets back!"
"What kind of news?!"
"Good news. But I'm not telling you what until Glinda is back." He repeated firmly. Elphaba groaned comically, but agreed to not badger Fiyero any further for the news. Instead, she laid the table for dinner and helped Fiyero with the rest of the food.
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"I swear if one more client asks why I can't extend their house without planning permission I'm going to actually hit them in the face!" Glinda yelled the second she'd closed the door behind her. She leant against the wall to kick her insanely high heels off. She only wore them so she came to a decent height.
"We're through here, my sweet. Dinner's almost done." Elphaba called through to the hallway from the kitchen, pouring lemonade into some glasses.
"Did the clinic call today?" Glinda asked, walking through and immediately grabbing Fiyero into a hug. Fiyero brushed some of her messy curls back and kissed her forehead.
"They did." He smiled.
"What did they say?!" She squeaked, an octave higher than should be humanely possible.
"I'll tell you when we're sat down. Fae doesn't know yet either."
"Oh Oz, Fi, are you trying to kill us?"
"Something like that." He grinned, taking the pie out of the oven. He cut it into three, placing it on plates while Elphaba followed with scoops of vegetables. Glinda snuck up behind Elphaba and wrapped her arms around the green girl's waist.
"Hey my sweet." Elphaba purred, holding the saucepan of leftover vegetables in one hand, and covering one of Glinda's with the other.
"I missed you, Elphie."
"You can't possibly miss me every day, my sweet. It's only 7 hours." Elphaba chuckled, feeling the blonde press her forehead against her back.
"It's very easy to miss you, Fae. You're our everything." Fiyero smiled, kissing Elphaba on the cheek. "For once, I'm agreeing with Glin." He added.
"'for once'?! Hang on a minute, you guys are always ganging up on me. At least when you're not being sappy like this, anyway. I mean I love you guys, but really?!"
"Oh come on Fae, we've got to be those embarrassingly in love parents!" Fiyero whined comically, but both Glinda and Elphaba jumped at his words.
"So it was successful?! They've got some embryos?!" Elphaba exclaimed.
"Fiyero I swear to Oz if you don't tell us, we'll kill you!" Glinda shouted.
"Fiyero in the name of Oz just-"
"Whoa, whoa, ladies! Whose getting ganged up on now, huh?"
"To be honest, Yero, you had it coming." Elphaba shrugged playfully.
"Right, sit down and I will tell you. Minimal complaining, please." Fiyero grinned. They all sat at their seats: Fiyero commanded head of the table, with Glinda at his left and Elphaba at his right. Even Malky sat in view of all three of them, though that was probably more to try and scavenge food than anything else.
"Out of the 15 harvested eggs, all of them were mature. They fertilised all of them, and 8 of them have survived the 5 day period. We're going in tomorrow!" He grinned. Elphaba grinned widely at Glinda, who looked set to cry.
"We're going to have a baby!" she sobbed happily, laying her head on the table, barely missing her dinner plate.
"We are. Come on, you need to eat. It's going to be a big day tomorrow." Fiyero smiled, despite the fact that everyone was rather too excited to eat.