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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 19, 2008 8:59:49 GMT -5
"Elphaba hasn't changed one bit. You know it's true. Except for the first couple of months at Shiz she most certainly could control her powers."
Boq's demeaner changed. "Oh, but none of that matters now. Now that we can be together..."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 19, 2008 17:33:38 GMT -5
"But I didn't--" she didn't know what to do, what to say. She didn't want to hurt him anymore, but she just didn't feel that way about him. She hardly knew him! "Boq, i'm not looking for a relationship. I've been by myself a very long time, and i'm not sure I want it any other way. I didn't mean...I want to be your friend. Can we please be friends? We hardly know each other now...we hardly knew each other then...I want to get to know you." she tried to seem as kind as possible, let him down easily. It's not that she couldn't ever see herself with him...or anyone else for that matter...but she wasn't ready for something like that right now. She just wanted to get to know him as a person.
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 19, 2008 23:17:36 GMT -5
"Of course Glinda! My darling! Of course we should get to know each other. Well, I already know everything about you..."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 19, 2008 23:24:33 GMT -5
"Boq this doesn't mean we're going to be together...I don't want to mislead you. I want to be friends with you, and then we could maybe see where it goes. Ok? I don't want to mislead you in anyway...get your hopes up...please. Ok?" she was concerned. What had she gotten herself into?
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 19, 2008 23:29:13 GMT -5
"You still just think of me as a silly munchkin, don't you? I know I'm made of tin now - no one could ever want me. But I love you Glinda. If you had only known...if you only realized how much you mean to me."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 19, 2008 23:47:23 GMT -5
She touched his arm. "This make no difference to me. Whether you're flesh or tin or anything, it makes no difference to me. Don't think that. I don't see that, I see you." her brows furrowed. "you were never, nor are you just a 'silly munchkin.' You are very much a person who means very much to me, but Boq I haven't been with anyone in such a long time. Can I warm up to it at least? Can we be friends and let me try to see you that way? See anyone that way..? I haven't been on a date..with anyone at all since Fiyero left me. That was eighteen years ago. Love is a lot...a lot to jump to after eighteen years of alone. I've just...please just be my friend. And then we can see. Alright?" her eyes plead with him. She loved him as her friend. As a person. As anyone else. But she couldn't love him like that...not now....maybe not ever.
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 20, 2008 7:10:10 GMT -5
"I'd do anything for you Miss Glinda."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 20, 2008 12:49:18 GMT -5
"Thank you, Boq." she leaned forward, hugging him close. "So then...let's get to know each other. Shall we?" she smiled, hoping this venture wouldn't turn into a disaster. He hated her best friend. He seemed so bitter about so much. Maybe as they got to know one another she could change his mind.
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 20, 2008 18:48:46 GMT -5
"You know...we never had that dance at the Ozdust..." Glinda smiled and soft music began to play in the room. "No time like the present, hmm? May I have this dance?" Glinda stood, offering her hand to Boq. Could they start over? Could she change his mind and convince him that Nessa and Elphaba weren't evil? Could she love him? She didn't know, but maybe they could at least have a few moments of happiness between point A and point B.
((OOC: Point/Question. Boq (now the Tin Man) is no longer any shorter than Glinda, correct? Because Dorothy/Scarecrow/Lion/Tin Man were all roughly the same height...very little difference. So he would be Glinda's height-ish now? He was always a tall munchkin, never much shorter than her, and he wouldn't necissarily have stayed that short when transformed. Correct?))
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 21, 2008 16:41:00 GMT -5
OOC: Yeah, I would assume Boq would now look like the classic Tin Man from the film.
"W...Would you Miss Glinda?" Glinda dance with HIM?
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 21, 2008 16:50:17 GMT -5
She offered her hand, taking his own, positioning the other hand on her waist, her arm on the cold metal of his neck, stepping into him, dancing close, enjoying just for a moment the feel of a man's arms around her...even if they were a little colder than seh remembered...still, swaying gently in time with the music. "Almost like it might have been..." she smiled at him, truthfully enjoying herself. She couldn't really remember the last time shed danced. She'd gone to balls as social functions to make appearances, but the girl who had once been the life of the party, stealing the dance floor and commanding the attention of every man in the room, actually couldn't remember the last time she'd been in someone's arms like this. "No better way to get to know someone than dancing. At least, that's what I used to think. You can tell a lot a person about the way they dance, how they hold themselves, how closely they stay to you, the position of their hands..." she closed her eyes for a moment, and she was back at the Ozdust in the arms of Fiyero...to be eighteen again...but she opened then and was once again in a classroom at Shiz, almost forty and dancing with a man made of tin. "So Boq tell me all about your life..."
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 23, 2008 15:49:09 GMT -5
"There...there's not much to tell. I come from an upper class Munchkin family - my grandfather was Winki though. I came to Shiz...and then I met you."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 23, 2008 16:21:32 GMT -5
She smiled a little, knowing how much he truly cared for me. "I'm a turning point in your life? And what after me? Is teaching all you've done lately? Don't you ever have fun? Wouldn't you like to?" she took a step in closer, really enjoying herself. She hadn't had much fun in a while either. Maybe they could be good for each other.
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 23, 2008 19:16:35 GMT -5
"You ARE my life. Everything I've done since I met you has been for YOU. I took care of Nessa like you told me, I took this job so I would make sure every future generation would know of your goodness. I teach history - I teach YOUR history."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 23, 2008 19:51:32 GMT -5
"Boq...you have to live your own life..." even as she said it, she realized she'd lived her life to make up for things instead of living for herself. She was really one to talk. "Boq, it's very sweet that you did all of that for me, but you can't live your life for someone else. You have to learn how to live for yourself..." She shook her head. "I'm being an awful hypocrit here, comdemning you for what I've done. You've lived your life for me, and as horrid as it is to say it, I'm glad someone had. Because I never did. I lived my life to correct all the wrong I'd created, including but not limited to yours. I told you to take care of Nessa, and you did. And you suffered because of it. I didn't stand up for Elphaba, and she suffered because of it. My reason for loving Fiyero was for popularity...and though I fell for him eventually...we both suffered because of it..." her heart sunk. She had tried so hard to move on.
"I'm tired of being alone..." she whispered, more to herself than to anyone else. She looked into his eyes. His eyes were still the same, the same Boq. Maybe she could love him. Maybe he could love her enough for the both of them. At least she wouldn't be alone..."I don't wanna be alone, Boq." she pressed her soft, gently lips to his cold metal ones and closed her eyes tightly.
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