This is set when Caine has returned to Perdido Beach in Plague after he was at the island but there are a few bits that don't follow, for example in this we're going to pretend Dekka already told Brianna her feelings and there are no giant bugs about to attack.
Caine smiled at Diana as she entered the room. She ignored him and walked right past. It felt like she was walking out of the door with his heart. King Caine. He laughed at the irony. He was king, he had everything he wanted; but not the thing he needed. Diana.Her name sent a shiver through him. He was hopelessly, utterly, pathetically in love with her. It was ridiculous but he yearned for her and their island home like a puppy yearns for its mother. He cursed himself for his stupid power complex. Diana. He screamed and threw a table against the wall as he stormed out.
His blood was boiling, he hated himself, he hated her for making him choose. Diana. He could hardly breathe as the red rage clouded his vision and choked him. Then he was there in his path. "SAM!" Caine bellowed. Sam the Hero. Sam had everything. Their mother had kept Sam as a baby and now he was the brave boy who everyone respected. The one in charge with the beautiful, intelligent Astrid who was in his arms right now. It's not fair cried the childish part of his brain. Sam pushed Astrid out the way. "Caine?" Caine let out a cry and threw a car at him but in his rage he missed which gave Sam enough time to roll and aim his deadly hands at Caine. "What do you want Caine?" Sam asked. Caine saw the confusion in his eyes but mainly he saw the fear. The fear he craved, the power he held over people, the sadism that caused him to lose her. Diana. "Go to hell!" Caine snarled throwing a telekinetic punch at Sam. This time Sam was quicker and Caine felt a searing pain in his leg that caused him to fall over as Sam went hurtling through the air. By this point a crowd had gathered at a safe distance. Little faces peering curiously at them. Caine could see Edillio considering whether to help Sam or not. Sam hopped forward, his leg bent at an odd angle. Caine was still on the floor, fighting the tears as the pain washed over him. It burned, literally, but it felt good – it stopped him feeling so numb and reminded him he was alive. "Come on, Sammy. Do it. Kill me" he teased, not sure if he wanted him to or not. "DO IT!" he yelled. He saw the crowd stirring and he saw her face. "Diana" he whispered. He saw the confusion in her eyes. He stood up and staggered to the edge of the crowd, away from her accusing looks. All the kids just stared dumbly at him. "Bow to me" he hissed. They stared. "I said, BOW!" he lifted a car as a threat. They all hastily dropped to their knees. "Get out of my way" he spat. They all hurried scrambled to the side and Caine ran out of town.
Diana. The pain was becoming unbearable, but not as bad as the way she had looked at him. Diana. "Diana" he whispered as tears streamed down his face. "Diana, Diana" he moaned her name as he ran. He ran for an hour, or two, or five, until he saw a pond. He dived in, feeling the pain in his leg decrease. He stayed under until his lungs were screaming. His head surfaced but the rest of his body stayed in the cool water. "Caine?" he whipped around.
"Dekka?" Stupid lesbian. What was she doing here. "Get lost" he snapped. She stood there. He lifted a rock in the air. "You don't scare me, man" she wasn't bluffing, he could see it in her eyes. She knew he would do it but she didn't care. Just like he'd felt when fighting Sam. He laughed. "What?" asked Dekka guardedly. "You and me, Dekka. We're the same. We both love someone who doesn't love us." She pulled a face.
"This is about Diana?" he nodded and suddenly she saw the burn on his arm. She was on him, pushing him down. "Did you hurt Sam?" she demanded. Caine tried to smile but his burns were hurting. "Get off me"
"I said, did you hurt him" she howled.
"No, he'll live now get off me!" he yelled throwing her with his telekinesis. She caught herself with her own power. "You attacked Sam because Diana won't have sex with you? You're even more childish than I thought."
"Well I hear you withdrew and snapped at anyone after Brianna rejected you" he saw her recoil like she'd been physically hit. They both sat on the ground, wrapped in their own thoughts. "Why don't you just go back and be happy?" she asked.
"Why do you care?" he was nervous around Dekka, she was very intimidating.
"Because you have a chance to be happy with Diana, I don't even have that with Brianna" Caine shifted uncomfortably, he didn't like talking about Dekka and Brianna, it was weird. In fact, Dekka in general made him uncomfortable; he wished she'd just go away. He wanted to just be alone and self-pitying, Diana. He let the shiver rush through him. He almost forgot about Dekka until her heard a sniffing beside him. She was crying. He never thought he would see that in his life. Maybe she wasn't weird. Maybe she really did love Brianna. Unfortunately, crying also made him very uncomfortable. He just sat staring at her. "What are you looking at?" she barked. "Go on, get out of here, go back to Diana" he didn't want to leave, this pool was so cold but Dekka wasn't someone you messed with so he got out. Under the hot Californian sun Caine walked back to Perdido Beach. Back to her. Diana.