Disclaimer: I own my ideas, not the characters. I also own my own words.

A/N: So this is my reaction to all the "DG courts Cain" and "Cain courts DG" fics. I sort of have trouble picturing that, so this is my alternative.

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Az clung to her sister after the eclipse. For months, DG was the only one she trusted anywhere near her. Despite DG's protestations that it was her fault the witch had been released, Az saw her only as the one who'd finally freed her, and she needed the newly formed connection with her sister to stay sane.

By the time she was comfortable enough to spend significant time with other people, Az figured she knew her sister pretty well.

And that was why she was completely shocked that DG quietly announced her engagement to Wyatt Cain over breakfast one morning about a year after the destruction of the witch.

Staring open-mouthed at her sister, she tried desperately to remember anything that would give any indication that they were more than just friends.

Sure, so DG hugged him, but she hugged everybody. And she'd always done that; Az remembered the first time she'd smiled was when DG had gotten some particularly interesting item from her home in Kansas (via travel storm and the roborents) and had proceeded to squeal loudly and jump at Cain, who'd brought it to her. The tin man had flushed bright red to the roots of his hair and muttered something about not knowing what was so special about an eye pod, whatever that was.

Since Az had been spending time away from DG, she knew her sister had been spending a lot of time with Cain, but he was her bodyguard. And they generally just walked, the tin man listening to DG's excited babbling of her life in Kansas and how different the O.Z. was and all the things she'd discovered or learned that day.

They didn't hold hands or kiss anywhere anyone had ever seen them. They weren't sleeping together. They weren't even really dating, as far as Az could tell. So what had changed?

And then, as DG turned and glanced nervously at Cain and he smiled back at her in support, Az realized that she had the answer. Nothing had changed. They were exactly the same people they'd always been, and they acted the same way they always had, because they'd always known there was something else there.

And Az realized, as she sat there and blinked at the couple while her parents and Glitch offered surprised congratulations, that it didn't matter. Because she knew her sister, and this DG...

This was a DG in love.