crackinthecloud



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    "See?" Elphaba said after a beat, only needing to whisper because she was right beside Galinda's ear now. The grip of her hands around Galinda loosened, but she didn't drop them. "You won't be doomed after all. You'll be able to steer yourself home."

    "I think I'd rather have you there with me," Galinda said, without really thinking about it. “Just in case."
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    Galinda Upland boards the RMS Titanic, returning to America with her newly acquired fiancé.

    She meets Elphaba Thropp.

    Things progress.
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    Titanic AU

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    28 Feb 2026

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    Elphaba doesn’t believe in ghosts.

    She wants that on record, preferably carved into stone, or at the very least immortalized in a well-reasoned essay, except no one’s ever going to read it because she’s not writing one.

    Because ghosts aren’t real.

    That said.

    That said.

    She is currently pacing her apartment, burning sage, because she has, in a moment of weakness, googled “signs your apartment is haunted” and, upon reviewing the evidence, has decided that -- purely for the sake of argument -- she should cover all her bases. Just in case.

    (or: the just like heaven au)

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    26 Feb 2026

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    “You say you want forgiveness…” Glinda’s voice drops, precise and low, cutting cleanly through her thoughts. “Is that all you really want from me?”
    Elphaba swallows thickly, “I—I just…I didn’t mean to hurt you, I—”
    “That’s not what I asked,” Glinda murmurs, quiet but unyielding, her thumb softly but deliberately stroking the skin beneath her cheekbone. “What is it you really want?”

    After 'As Long As You’re Mine', instead of a vision of Nessa, Elphaba has a devastating vision of Glinda’s breakdown mid-heartbreak and is compelled to go make things right. Canon fix-It of sorts.

    Or: can you keep me close but act 2 flavored

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    23 Feb 2026

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    Celine’s rules have kept her alive. Celine’s rules have kept her safe and warm and loved. Celine loves her, and because she loves her, she tells her that she can’t bond with her pack, her girls. If they found out— if they found out, it would be over. Celine tells her that it would be over because they’d kill her, that they would use their weapons against her, but all Rumi hears is that it’d be over because they would stop loving her and maybe that would kill her before their blades ever could.

    Rumi has always kept a tight leash on herself—until her control starts to slip.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    Hermione gets tired of waiting for Harry to make a move.

    Or, five times Harry and Hermione almost became a couple and the one time she did something about it.

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