After the nice reviews of Whole Mind, I decided to post the other Tim Man fic I had. this one will be longer, and more emotional. Set after the show, and I mean right after. I'm a little rusty from not buckling down on my fan fiction for a while. First part came together and it seems to glue things for continuation. Basically what Cain says he remembers something, that's my input, but there is still that gap in time that Cain was unconcious so I decided to play off it.

Enjoy.

Cain sighed as he looked at the setting suns of the OZ. He stood on the balcony of the palace that a former witch that had possessed a young woman. Former witch because she was gone. The witch had melted and her remains were gathered and sealed with powerful magic in a place only the sister princesses knew.

Cain leaned against the wall near the stone railing, letting out a relieved sigh. Raw had healed his arm so he could use it again. He would need it for hunting down the rest of the long coats that had run away. Most of the long coats were captured and placed in jail for turning against the queen. Word was already being spread through the resistance that the fight was done and he was sure Jeb was celebrating. Cain smiled lightly; everything was going to be ok…

"Hey, Cain." Glitch popped out onto the balcony, shutting the door behind him. Cain let out a ragged breath between his teeth; so much for peace. Glitch was still Glitch. There wasn't any time to put his mind back in his head immediately. There were too many other things to do. Glitch didn't seem to mind either, at least he knew right where his mind was now, and no longer being used to operate a machine to destroy the OZ. Simple things like that made Glitch happy.

"Hey, head case." Cain greeted and Glitch rolled his eyes, taking Cain's brash comments in stride. The gut was a tin man after all, he couldn't expect much more than that. Glitch took a seat on the stone railing near Cain, facing the tin man.

"I have a name now… or rather you know my name…" Glitch said. It had actually slipped his mind, go figure. He still couldn't remember many things, even with all that he'd learned.

"You'll always be a head case to me." Cain said with a smile and Glitch put his hands on the railing, making sure he didn't slip backwards, that would be bad. He hated heights, but as long as he didn't look he could at least act cool in front of Cain. The tin man leaned against the man on the railing, "Everything seems to be going back to normal." Cain commented.

"Yes," Glitch agreed, finding a poetic moment in it all, "the sisters are reunited; families once apart can grow closer; and again to be ruled by a kind queen," Cain opened his mouth to comment, but Glitch continued, "the long coats banished, the witch slain, the resistance freed and peace spreading from the southern Fen-aqua to the northern palace…"

"Which reminds me," Cain said abruptly, remembering something that had happened only a few days ago, "In the north, when I was unconscious with cold… I remember someone lying next to me in bed." Well, technically he had been drifting in and out of consciousness at the time. He wasn't even sure why he'd brought it up, but it had been there in the back of his mind since then.

Glitch's hand slipped some on the smooth stone in surprise, "Y-you remember someone lying next t-to you?" He tried to sound confused, but it didn't work well. Cain glanced at Glitch with a raised eyebrow.

"More or less, lying against me… " Cain said. He remembered more feeling than sight. He remembered being on his back surrounded by the weight of covers, but then there was something warmer laying against him on one side, almost lying completely on his chest and body, a pair of hands running up and down his skin, bringing life giving warmth to his body. The other person was mumbling things that he couldn't recall, but now that he looked back on it, it couldn't have been anyone other than Glitch, "did you…"

Glitch looked like he was about to stutter something out but his hands slipped again because of his nervousness. Cain caught the slip up, catching Glitch around the waist before he could fall to an untimely doom. Glitch blushed and was out of breath when Cain pulled him off the railing and onto his feet.

"Glitch…" Cain gave him a look. He wasn't going to get out of answering just because he almost fell off a balcony.

"Well… you were so cold and I did get the heat going but it didn't help." Glitch shuffled his feet, looking down; his face was a bright red, for Cain still had his hands round Cain's waist, keeping him close until he answered, "So… after I got you out of your wet clothes I had to warm you up somehow… and since I produced body heat more conductively to another human being… I laid down with you." Cain nodded, that answered some things, though… Again glitch continued without prompt, "And then, well… I couldn't really stop it, I mean, I wanted to, but it was sort of an impulse." His feet shuffled faster and Cain was confused. Something else had happened?

"Glitch…" Cain tilted his chin up so that the other man had to look at him, "what happened on impulse?" Glitch looked at him with a familiar but also foreign look in his eyes, and it wasn't until Glitch leaned up and kissed him on the lips did he realize what that look was. Cain's eyes widened, though Glitch's were shut, and he immediately pushed the other away. Many things clicked in Cain at once; fear, shame, anger, remorse. He clenched his fists and glared at the other. Above all other emotions, he could show anger; not the raving lunatic anger he wanted to release on Zero at one point, but a cold one. Glitch looked up only in surprise from being pushed away, and then looked away from the cold look.

"I'm sorry," Glitch murmured, hands gripping one another behind his back. Cain walked over to the inventor, jabbing a finger into Glitch's chest, a squeak of hurt from the jab, but he didn't look up.

"Don't do that again." He said and Glitch nodded quickly, knowing already that he'd crossed a line, maybe one that had erased all the time they had had together. But he had been aching to kiss the man while he was conscious. When he last did it Cain was so cold. He hadn't done anything but kiss him in self mourning, hoping that Cain woke up soon. He thought maybe that Cain had remembered and was ok with it, but that was not the reaction he had been hoping for.

Cain didn't stay anything more but swept past the other man, into the palace. It wasn't just the fact that Glitch had kissed him but the thought of what else Glitch did to him when he was conscious. Maybe it was wrong to think that Glitch could every think about taking advantage of him, but that thought had already slipped into his mind. Another fact was that he was still not over his wife. He had only found out about her death recently. How could Glitch be doing this to him now?

Cain didn't look back and he walked through the castle to get out. He needed to find his son and join the celebration of the witch's defeat. He missed the scene of Glitch sinking to his knees and covering his face with his hands trying to will away the tears. His brain may have been taken from his body, but his heart and soul were whole and they seemed to break with the rejection. He felt that Cain should have just let him fall off the balcony.

Tell me what you think. And yeah, the blow to poor Glitch had to be done. Everyone loves a little angst. Positive feedback makes Usagi want to update