(A/N: yet another chapter for you! my fans! ...who happen to have pitchforks?

Disclaimer: once again...i do not own anything except Billie.)

Cain had searched high and low for that damn girl, and he had yet to find her. After she left the kitchen, the rest of them stood there and soaked in this new information, DG looked like she was blaming herself for it all. Sure none of them knew Billie well, or at all, but they still felt bad for her.

Az had comforted DG as Cain went to hunt the girl down. He loved DG like she was family, but not everything was about or because of her.

As he passed a continuous hall of bedrooms, he heard shuffling to his left, and silently pressed his ear to the door.

"God, you're stupid! You should have just stayed away from that damned farm and then you would have stayed in Kansas, and no one would have known about….dad." he heard something hit the wall and decided now was the time to intervene her little self berating.

He knocked and opened the door without waiting for a response; she was standing in the middle of the room, staring at the wall, clutching her left shoulder. "You're not the bad guy."

That was all he had needed to say to unleash the torrent of tears. She crumbled to the floor, sobs raked across her body as she clutched her shoulder even tighter, trying to bring the pain back, thinking she deserved it.

He knew all to well that when you blamed yourself for something, and held that in, it eventually led to self hate, which led to this. He kneeled down and slowly embraced her, but she pushed at him and then began to pound her little fists on his chest. It hurt a little but he didn't care, he knew this was needed. He had went threw something like this himself, but since it had happened inside that suit, he hadn't had a proper purging like she was going threw.

"I'm the bad guy! I deserved it! He is dead because of me! Because of me…" Her pounding slowed to a stop as a new wave of tears came, he brought into his lap and just sat there, alternating between stroking her hair and her back, telling her what he had wanted to hear when he went through this.

This was a proper purging, the purging of all the blame and hate that you heap onto yourself over the annuals, flushing it out of your system. It was difficult and painful, but a necessary process. His had been a bit more gradual than this, it first started when he was in the suit, and then it continued after DG released him, that was when he truly learned to stop hating and stop blaming himself.

After she finally calmed down, she crawled out of his lap and sat in front of him. "You okay, kiddo?" he said it so gently that she almost didn't hear him. She nodded and wiped the moisture from her face. "Thank you." The smile that curved her lips was one he hadn't seen before, it wasn't forced and it reached her eyes this time and it was meant just for him.

He stood and helped her to her feet, noticing how tired she looked, and kept a hand on her back just in case. "Come on, kiddo, the others want to talk to you." He opened the door and saw her small smile of amusement. "You do realize that I'm 24, right? I haven't been a kid in a while." His eyes went wide; he hadn't thought she was older than DG, especially not by four years. 'Well at least now I don't feel as much like a dirty old man.'

O.O.O.O

After exchanging apologies and agreeing to start over, they all sat by the fireplace once more, this time they were laughing over some story that Billie and DG were telling.

"Well, at least we didn't have Gulch on our tails that time. I swear that man would have done anything to see us go to jail." Billie chuckled as she remembered her and DG's several run ins with that awful prick. She was glad to have her friend back, or at least her potential friend. Billie still wasn't sure if things would ever be fully repaired, but she hoped that they would find a way to get along.

"Do you remember that time we snuck out and stole your uncle's truck?" DG asked as she smiled at the memory. "Oh, yeah. We went to a party that night, oh man, most of what I remember was puking my guts out and then the cops showed up. We had to hide in the loft of this old barn for three hours, we were so sure we were gonna get caught. I remember, we were laying up there and DG suddenly found something extremely funny, she almost got us caught." Cain watched with a grin as the girls giggled and smiled.

"I was only laughing because you kept trying to tell me about animal crackers, and how the monkeys were always French and always had pants on, and you were like 'and the hippo is like "where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity"' you just kept whispering about it. Sad thing is you were starting to sober up at that point." Billie barked out a laugh as she too remembered telling her about the animal crackers. "Yeah, I bet you would have found it funnier if you had grown balls enough to drink with me." Billie and DG stuck out their tongues at each other and giggled some more.

The door swung open and one of the engineers walked up to Az and whispered something in her ear, she nodded and thanked him as he left. "Well it looks like we'll be able to open a storm in the right place now, you should land right next to DG's farm." she looked at Billie and DG and decided for them that they deserved another day. "But we won't have enough energy for another travel storm until tomorrow." She smiled at the way their eyes lit up and they grinned at each other. Ambrose raised an eyebrow at her but she just answered with a wink, she just wanted to see her sister happy.

O.O.O.O

As the night wore on, one by one the inhabitants of the library went to bed, Cain being the last besides the two girls who were still reminiscing. As he stood and stretched, DG saw Billie's eyes were discreetly glued to his form, her lips spread into a small smirk. "You girls might want to move this to your bedroom princess, the fires dying. Did you want me to show Billie a guest room?" DG shook her head, Cain helped them stand, and they walked to the door, DG trailing a bit behind to watch the two interact.

"So old man, when are you gonna let me hold that gun of yours?" She teased him with a double meaning, his eyes widened a fraction, and then he smirked. "Soon as you can handle it without gettin' hurt, kiddo." He winked and opened the door for them. As they parted ways, DG could see a bit of a blush creeping up onto Billie's cheeks, she smiled and knew exactly what was going on.

"So…Wyatt Cain, huh? He's a whole lot of man." She laughed at the look on Billie's face, one of shock and embarrassment. "I don't know what your talking about." She smoothly regained her composure and tried to make it look like she really didn't know what she was suggesting.

"Besides I thought you and he had a thing for each other." DG blushed, ducked her head, and quietly gave her reply. "Wrong Cain"

"Oh, wow I didn't expect that. Although I have to admit, Jeb is very easy on the eyes. To young for me but for you I would say go for it. Has he shown interest?" She watched the younger girl nod and smile. "Than what's stopping you from mauling him once he gets back, he is coming back here right?" She nodded again. "Then what's stopping you."

"The other Cain." Billie laughed and shook her head. "Don't worry about the old man; I'll sway him into being alright with it. I met him four days ago and I've already got him rapped around my little pinky." She held up her little pinky for emphasis, making DG laugh once more.

"So…you're sure old man Wyatt is fair game?" Billie didn't want to go down that road again, even if the first time wasn't quiet the same. "Definitely, you go for it that old Tin man needs to get laid. I think his girdle is laced too tight." Billie shoved her lightly and giggle along with the young princess.

Behind the door, Cain had been passing by and heard the tail end of the girl's conversation.

"….I think his girdle is laced to tight." Then he heard profuse giggling. He walked away with a scowl; he knew exactly what they had meant. 'So they think I'm old and too up tight. Well so much for that hope.' He stomped away to his room, slamming the door, and shed his hat, coat, holster, and vest; he unbuttoned a few buttons of his shirt and started pacing.

'Oh, please, did you really think a young beautiful free spirited girl like Billie would want a stuffy old Tin man? Yeah I didn't think so. Besides, it's too soon. You shouldn't even be thinking about this.' He plopped down into a chair and held his head in his hands, still arguing with himself. 'She's the complete opposite of Adora. Adora always held this air about her, an air of innocence and sweetness. While Billie was seductive and wild, she could break a man with one sway of those round hips, in fact that's her job isn't it?' He growled at himself. 'She seduces men for a living; she's one step up from a brothel girl; she's around men all day long, younger men, men who had more to offer her.'

He had been so busy arguing with himself, he didn't even notice when the door to his room opened, and the very thing he was arguing with himself about, silently tip toed in. She stopped in front of him and just waited until he was done grumbling to himself. Billie was a bit surprised at what she heard little snippets of what he was grumbling about.

"...you stupid old fool, she's young and beautiful with her whole life ahead of her, your just a dirty old man who's already lived his life..." His head sunk deeper into his palms.

Her eyes softened at this, she knelt in front of him and placed her hands over his; his head shot up in surprise, and his eyes caught hers. Then suddenly he took his hands away, stood and walked to the other side of the room. "What are you doing in here? Do you make a habit out of coming into men's bedrooms?" That had come out a bit harsher than he had meant it to be.

She stood, knowing that he was trying to push her, make her storm, make her go away, but what he didn't know is that she couldn't, it was obvious that he was still blaming and hating himself, no matter what he said. She caught his shoulder and made him turn toward her. "Oh, you stupid old man." She gave him a soft smile even when she could see the anger in his eyes she still smiled.

"So not only am I old, I'm stupid too. Is that it?" His eyes burned into hers but lost there fire a bit when she just shook her head a giggled. "Yes, you're stupid and old and completely hopeless." She pulled his head down to her own and their lips pressed together. His arms soon found their way around her waist and hers around his neck and shoulders; he slid his lips against hers and his tongue brushed her bottom lip, her lips parted and they began to explore the caverns of each other's mouths.

Barely coming up for air the two continued, never wanting it to end, and by then Billie had backed Cain up against the wall. He broke away and trialed kisses along her jaw line, slowly working his way down her throat. She decided to turn the tables and took his earlobe into her mouth, nibbling on it before pressing a kiss the shell of his ear. She smirked as he groaned, but was suddenly pressed against the wall, Cain's mouth once again on hers and his hands grabbed a hold of her thighs and lifted her until her legs wound around his waist.

He pressed his pelvis into hers; she gasped and broke the kiss. "Whoa, cowboy. Didn't think a man you're age had all that in him." She grinned and ground her hips into his; he grunted and pressed into her again. "You'd be surprised what a man my age can do. Especially a man like me." He winked at her and went in for another kiss, when the door beside them flew open.

"Cain, I need your he-….. Did we interrupt something?" DG, Ambrose and Raw stood in the doorway, eyeing their compromising position. Billie's legs fell from his waist and the both straightened blushes very evident on both of them. DG stifled a chuckle and gave Billie a meaningful glance at the buttons on her shorts. Billie looked down and quickly buttoned them back up; she playfully glared at Cain and gave him a smack in the stomach. "Dirty old man…" Billie muttered as they walked out of the room.

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(A/N: and there you have it, it was a little quick, yeah. But I couldn't help myself, I wanted some smexyness :3

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