Pairings/Characters: DG/Cain, Dorothy Gale; brief mentions of Az, Glitch, Raw and the Queen
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Tin Man is not mine. I'm going to borrow this world for again though.
Spoilers: All three parts
Summary: Even though she is back in the O.Z. where she belongs, DG doesn't feel at home. With no one else to turn to DG visits her namesake and gets a little help…

Author's Note: First of all thanks everyone who reviewed my last story. I am beyond flattered! Next, this is going to be a short multi-chapter fic. I'm thinking maybe 3 or 4 chapters not including this very short prologue. The story's not completely written yet but I'm going to try and have it all posted by the end of next week. Enjoy!
DG couldn't believe she was feeling this pain. Again. She had finally returned to the place where she belongs, to the O.Z. Yet she couldn't rid herself of the pain. The same pain she had lived with day in and day out back in Kansas. The pain that told her she wasn't home.

DG had no idea what to do. She didn't want to hurt her family or friends by telling them that she didn't feel she was home so she tried to hide it as best she could. Which wasn't hard to do in the beginning.

It was easier to hide the pain here than it had been on the Other Side. Here the feeling was smaller and could be ignored for the most part. Then someone would say or do something and it would be all DG could do to stop the tears.

When this happened DG would throw herself into her studies or the rebuilding of the O.Z. She would do anything she could to ignore the pain and soon it would fade and DG could go back to ignoring. However, as time passed it got harder and harder to pretend the pain wasn't there.

A few months after the Witch had been vanquished the others began to notice something wasn't quite right with the Princess. She brushed off their concern though and said she was just feeling homesick for Kansas. Which was kind of the truth. DG was feeling homesick, but not for the Other Side. She was homesick for a place she had never been to before. And how could she explain that to her friends and family?

They had always been home in the O.Z. Even when the Light had gone and the Dark had ruled they had been home. The only person that might understand what she was going through was Ahamo, but DG knew how he looked at her mother and she knew he could never understand because he had found his home.

Finally, just when DG had almost convinced herself that she was never going to get rid of the pain she found her salvation. Or rather her salvation found her.