For the first time in what must have been a cruelly drawn out eternity Elphaba let her emotions out, let it flood out of her like it had never done before, her fear of losing Glinda again the taking the lion's share causing her to only hold onto Glinda all the tighter, just in case she manages to disappear in a cloud of glitter and bubbles.<br/><br/>This was it. This was home.. it had to be. The last remaining shred of her past she had worked so hard to eradicate had now come back to her, squeezing through her defenses and presented itself to her.  And she seized it like a starving child.<br/><br/>Her shoulders shuddered with silent sobs, the hot saline stinging her face and cheeks with liquid fire.<br/><br/>"I missed you, too..."<br/>She croaked back in a hoarse voice, the twined arms holding her as though Glinda might vanish at any point. Lifting her head she looked into Glinda's shimmering eyes, dark pools overflowing and suddenly she was completely overcome with another wave of knee-bending emotion. She chanced unwinding an arm from Glinda's hip and touched the flushed, skin of Glinda's soft cheek, and finding she wanted nothing more than Glinda... right here... right now.<br/><br/>In the next heartbeat, before her mind had time to process her desires and put down the necessary breaks to prevent it, she stooped down and snatched Glinda's lips in a kiss... not with a silly and shy schoolgirl kiss but one of nearly a decade-long longing, real need and fear only adults could understand, which had been pent up for far, far too long. The kiss was hot and needy, starved for affection, demanding and asking that Glinda never leave.