Title: Ziggit zaggit iggit boo

Author: T'PeeJ

Fandom: Tin Man

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Summary: DG's magic goes a little wrong and poor Cain has a wee problem

Words: 811

Beta: erinm_4600

The princesses of the OZ entered the Queen's office, without knocking.

The Queen looked up from her work to see her daughters coming in, though she wondered why DG was carrying a mouse in her hand. "My dears," said the Queen. "What can I do for you?"

"Mother," DG started, then faltered. How the heck was she going to explain this one to her mother? She looked at Az.

"Mother," said Az. "DG turned Mr. Cain into the mouse in her hand. She isn't sure how she did it, either."

"You haven't been going the books and just trying spells?" asked the Queen as she got up moved toward her daughters.

"No, Mother," said DG. "I was talking to Mr. Cain about Tutor's lessons and I thought they might be too hard for me, so I suggested a spell from the other side and, the next thing I know, Mr. Cain is a mouse. I didn't touch the books." Walking over to a chair in front of the Queen's desk, DG sat down and put her hand over the desk, letting Cain jump off her hand.

Wyatt Cain didn't know what to do; he was a mouse. A MOUSE! Oh, thank Ozma that Zero wouldn't ever see or hear of this. That man wouldn't let him live it down. The surprising thing was that he could understand what was being said between the princesses and the Queen. Cain was still trying to figure out what a peanut butter sandwich was. It had to be something from the other side.

Wyatt was so angry, though he couldn't be angry at DG. She didn't mean to change him into a mouse. ONCE he figured out who he was going to be mad at, he was going to kill them. Cain realized he had stopped paying attention to what was being said and watched as the Queen got a key out and unlocked a drawer. She opened the drawer and pulled out a book, put it on the desk and started to flip through the pages.

"There was something written in this book of spells about using the otherside spells here," said the Queen. "This book was written by Dorothy."

DG and Az came around the desk.

"Dorothy wrote in here, somewhere," the Queen continued. "Here! That ninety-eight percent of the time, magic from the otherside won't work in the OZ, but, sometimes, it does. So, if it works one time, that doesn't mean it will work again to fix the problem. You will need to find some other spell to try to reverse it."

"So, if I used 'Ziggit zaggit iggit boo, Ziggit zaggit iggit I love you,' it might change him back?"

With that, Wyatt Cain - the man - stood on the Queen's desk.

"DG, you did it!" yelled Cain. He jumped down off the desk, grabbed the princess and hugged her while DG started to laugh. She couldn't believe it worked.

Cain let go of the princess and stepped back. The Queen just smiled at the ex-Tin Man, wondering if he was ever going to stop denying himself DG's love.

"So, DG, where did you come up with that spell?" asked Az.

"Ohhhh," said DG. "I wrote that when I was seven years old. I was trying to find the man of my dreams with it." The princess was embarrassed. How did she explain a childish dream, when you still believed in magic? "Hey, be glad I didn't try the 'little tea pot spell'. Now, that would have been scary." DG smiled and headed out of the office before Cain could think of anything to say. She knew that he would come looking for her, at some point.

DG got out to the garden and stood in a random spot, enjoying the feel of the suns beaming down on her.

"Your highness," said Cain. He was standing behind the princess. DG closed her eyes and turned around to face him.

"Yes, Mr. Cain?" said DG.

"Did you really write that spell to find your true love?"

"Yes, but I was a child. I still believed in magic. Who knew it was real?"

"Do you think, Princess, that you might have..."

"Hey, guys," said Glitch as he came out into the garden. "So, I heard there was some trouble earlier and no one came to get me to help out."

"Sorry, Glitch," said DG. "Yes, there was some trouble, but it needed magic to fix it."

"Oh," said Glitch. "Well, maybe next time." Glitch reached out and took Cain and DG's arms and headed out into the garden. Cain looked over at DG, but the princess acted like she didn't see it.