AN: I started this with no intention of making a big ass fanfic, but I think that if more than one person likes it I could continue and see where it goes... please read and review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Tin Man. Obviously.

Prologue

DG roamed around the palace of Finaqua, while a soft rain poured outside. She was restless. It was official, she missed her house on the Other Side so damn much -- where there was a TV, a radio and she had things to do to pass the tedious times. In the palace all she could do was sleep, read a few uninteresting books (ok, not all were, but she was too bored to read), talk to Azkadellia, Glitch ("Er-Ambrose, sorry, keep forgetting you got your brain back!"), and... Cain. But today was Cain's day off, and everyone else seemed extremely busy to chitchat with her. Which meant, one less thing she could do that she'd actually enjoy. She considered drawing but lately she had no inspiration for it... all of her drawings came straight from her heart, to portray a world in which she belonged but didn't reside. Now that she was there... her mind was blank. Like the white papers that stared at her whenever she attempted to sketch anything.

Even though DG was so straight forward with her matters, there was one she couldn't help but keep to herself. No one was to know what her heart bugged her so often about. A little spark that lit up and made her get goose bumps every time she caught an unexpected glimpse of that man. Those broad shoulders, strong arms (which she could enjoy the view much better when he didn't wear that run-down coat of his), built chest and crystalline blue eyes that made her knees wobble every time she stared into them and saw that he looked back at her own.

Damn you, Cain!, she thought to herself, walking through a random corridor, looking at her feet. How dare you behave so chivalrous, and then call me a kid! I'm no child... I'd love some respect, not as a princess, but as a woman!

Cain became her personal bodyguard. It was settled, since he was determined to get back his job as a Tin Man and the princess needed a trustworthy protector. The Queen and Ahamo came to the decision without asking DG, believing it to be the best choice, specially since Glitch seemed so sure it was the perfect idea. But DG didn't seem all that happy when she discovered this. She said she would rather be free than have someone tailing her every move. The Queen explained she wouldn't be tailed, she'd simply be watched over. But DG was a thick-headed person when she wanted to be, so everyone left matters at that. Cain took the job, and took his time to talk to DG and tell her that it was her fault that he was giving up his career as a Tin Man, as a protector of society to be hers. To watch out so that nothing happened to her. So she should make him feel like he did the right thing, and not be a baby about it. DG was outraged on the inside, but nodded to Cain and avoided to look him in the eye for the following few days. She got easily used to having him around all the time, and there were days in which Cain would disappear off to help with other matters around the palace and she'd be left biting her lip, wondering if he wasn't too bored with this so called job her mother gave him.

In days like these, when she had nothing to do, she would usually sit and talk to Cain all day. He was a great listener, it appeared. He gave good advice too, sometimes. She was more than happy to share with him the details of her life on the Other Side, and the difficulty she's been having to adapt to this new world. He would also share his past with her, since she obviously wanted to ask and felt afraid to hurt him by doing so. Cain was a smart guy, noticed this very easily, laughed it off (making DG blush and feel treated like a kid all over again). So he'd tell her amazing stories from when he was a child, and tell her all the adventurous fun he could remember having. He told her that as a child he'd always known he wanted to protect people. He had this belief in his heart that he was a knight sent to defend the world, and that drove him to aspire the Tin Man job. Once he was old enough he went on to training and that's where he met his late wife, Adora. She was a nurse where he was training, and he suddenly found himself getting injured on purpose just so he could be treated by her (even though she could be busy and he wouldn't get the chance to see her at all). Hearing this, DG had mixed feelings. It filled her heart with warmth to know that he HAD a heart after all, he did love, he did do stupid teenage acts... And when Cain said to her that he thought he and Adora were meant to be together, because both wanted to be helpers in this world... that made DG's heart sink. DG felt alone again... but just for a while. Her heart felt half empty, but it would soon fill up again. He began talking about some other memory from his Tin Man days and DG went back to smiling and forgot about her heart.

Today she walked around the palace feeling light-headed but at the same time very much tormented. Cain had a day off. This wasn't normal. First of all, since when do bodyguards take days off? What if something happened TODAY, when he wasn't there to help? And then she remembered he said he was going to visit Jeb, and visit Adora's grave. And she felt childish. She didn't have the right to be mad at all. And with that in mind she shut her inner self up. No more thinking. DG looked through the high windows of the palace to see that the rain had died down and the clouds were opening up with the sun making it's grand appearance, just like a summer day back home. Suddenly outside was a beautiful day. No one said she had to stay confined in Finaqua (well, her parents did say it was better for her to stay inside because Cain wasn't there, but she couldn't handle it anymore, she needed the fresh air), so she went to the garden, which was filled with the most weird looking and sweet smelling flowers she'd ever seen. She knew this was the O.Z., so it was only natural that there would be weird nature around... she just didn't expect multicolored flowers with different shaped petals. She felt like she was in a crazy person's dream. It felt nice, for some unknown reason.

AN: Guys... this is a prologue to something I'm not sure will be good at all. I need feedback. Like, SERIOUSLY. I need to know if this is ok, if that background I've created for Cain is alright and if that off-beat personality I gave DG is fine. This is zero-action, so you know that the whole fic will probably be very slow too. Anyone care to share opinion on this?! Pretty please?