DISCLAIMER: I do not own Tin Man just my character.


CHAPTER SEVEN

As Summer laid on the floor tears dripping down her face. It even hurt to breath, let alone cry. Laying their she didn't want to go like this. Tears streaming down like a river wondering what Cain was doing now. They were going to have lunch together for the first time.

"Cain…..Cain" She faintly cried.

Cain waited at the gazebo that was across the lake from the castle. He was throwing rocks in the lake wondering where she could be. As the minutes ticked on he became more and more frustrated with Summer. She better have a damn good reason for standing him up. After two hours he slammed his fist against one of the poles attached to the gazebo and left. All day long people began to wonder where Summer had gone. Last thing they remembered was she left to scout the land before lunch. Cain went to bed that night thinking it was odd he hadn't seen her since that morning. Cain gotten up early that next day, seeing she didn't crawl into bed with him last night he got dressed and went to her room, she wasn't their either. He figured she will show up before or during breakfast if anything before lunch. Cain was in the middle of breakfast when one of his men shown up.

"Sir" The man said

"Yes, Stevenson?" Cain set his fork down

"I just got information that one of the maids said she saw Summer land yesterday about a half maybe a miles north of here."

Cain snatched his hat off the table "Why didn't she say anything sooner?"

"She was on her way traveling to see her daughter when Summer was out. Her daughter went into labor yesterday. She just returned this morning."

"Get me a few men." Cain demanded.

Ten minutes later they were heading north. Summer was now going in and out of consciousness. She was so cold, so very, very cold and tired. Time dwindled away as Cain and his men searched for Summer. It was going to be dark soon and they still had no sign of her. Summer wasn't sure how much longer she can hold on. She thought now things took a bad turn because she now thought she was hearing things. She could swear she was hearing Cain call her name along with a few other voices. Cain's and the other men's voices were becoming strained from screaming for so long. He was about to call it quits.

"Sir Look." One of the men cried as he pointed to the right of Cain.

Cain looked and spotted what seemed to be a hand. Cain's stomach did flip flops as he scurried over to it. His eyes fell upon a very bloody person and for a second he didn't think it was Summer. But if it wasn't for the ring on her thumb he wouldn't of thought it was her, she was beaten that bad.

"Summer….Summer." He called as he hopped off his horse and rushed to her.

"Cain it hurts." Her voice was faint and strained.

Kneeling next to her "I know, hold on just a moment longer. Everything is going to be all right." He held her hand.

She looked like she was about to say something when she passed out. They were afraid to move her onto a horse, not knowing how bad the internal injuries were. Two men raced back to the castle. Everyone thought she must have nine lives or something for someone to be hurt that bad and live, and before that being shot as well. Cain never left her room, even Raw had been keeping Cain company. Summer always would put time aside no matter how busy she was for Raw. Reading him a book or just spending time with him. DG and Glitch stopped in from time to time. DG was busy with princess lessons and getting to know the history of the O.Z. Glitch was busy tending to the Lavender Eye' needs as well as the rest of the royal families needs. Summer was always nice enough to stop what she was doing to help Glitch if he had misplaced something or was stumped on a problem. Cain was asleep in a chair that was next to her bed. He had her right hand in the palm of his left hand, Raw had taken up residence in front of the fire.

Summer stirred "Ugh" She moaned.

Cain woke immediately turning to Summer. Raw cocked his head up, seeing Summer awake, he moved to the end of her bed.

"Hey their sunshine." Cain smiled, his hand still held hers.

"Raw sorry." Raw said.

"For what?" She said just above a whisper.

"We needed to find out what happened to you. So I had Raw check you." Cain place his other hand on the same hand he was all ready holding. Making a sandwich with her hand in the middle.

"It's ok Raw. You did what you thought was right." She tried to smile but it hurt

As a matter of fact everything hurt. From breathing to smiling. Raw went to tell the others Summer had woken up.

"How long was I out?" Summer slowly moved her head to Cain.

"A little over three weeks. You were beaten some kind of bad."

"How badly injured am I?"

"Your left ankles broken along with one of you ribs. We believe you might have a few bruised ribs as well. And your right arm has a slight fracture. Raw healed all your cuts and bruise's but he is not a strong enough healer to do bones yet."

"Did you go after them?"

Cain looked away "No, Raw found where they were in your mind. But when I went after them, they had all ready packed camp and left."

Summer placed her hand on his cheek "I knew the first day we met that we were to meet again."

"How did you know that?" He looked back to her.

"A physic in Central City told me that a blonde man with amazing blue eyes and a bruised heart was going to play a big part in my life. I thought she was full of it, because she was half in the bag on vapors." Summer smiled at Cain

"About the day we met. After you kissed me your eyes went from blue and green to brown."

"It happens when I am about to turn into a hawk."

They didn't get to discuss it any further, because Raw walked in with DG and Glitch close behind. Summer didn't last long, about ten minutes after they arrived she fell asleep.


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