Well, Chapter two is up!!! GO ME!!! I'm usually horrible at reviewing, but i think i can keep up with this one, i love the story and i've got it mostly planned out.
As per usual, I don't own Tin man. Glitch may, however, own whats left of my attention span.
"DEEEEEEEEEJ!" Glitch came bounding down the stairs of the apartment building, skidding to a stop just before hitting Cain. "Watch it, Zipper head," muttered the Tin Man, as he scanned the area for anything he would consider "suspicious".
Deej just rolled her eyes. She knew that, while protection was what the two men were technically there for, DG had chosen them for their companionship.
"I'm not sure I like this idea, DG," the queen looked over at her youngest daughter. So much of her father, had she always been this much of a headache? "We just got the two of you back, and now you want to go away again."
DG spun in a frustrated circle. "I know it's hard knowing that we'd be on the Other Side, but I-we NEED to go to school. Besides, if Az took off for a while, it might be the best thing; people are still pretty sore about what happened, and she can't just keep trying to prove herself. One day she's going to be queen, and she's going to need whatever help she can get."
Ahamo threw his wife a glance. They'd never truly discussed it, but neither believed Azkadellia would be capable of taking the throne. But there was no way they'd be able to convince DG of that, especially if the replacement was to be her.
Emily sighed. She loved her daughters, but the thought of them being away for ten months frightened her. She couldn't help thinking of all the invitations she'd received from newly reinstated royalty regarding eligible sons, even though the royal family itself was notorious for not arranging their marriages, there was always some conditioning that went on. It was hard for your child to fall in love with someone less than eligible if all they saw was royalty. But, she sighed, she herself had been an exception, taking an Other Sider as her husband, and she had never regretted it.
"Fine, but I want protection for you. I'll assign a guard to take care of you while you're over there." Emily pinched the bridge of her nose, trying to relieve the headache the conversation was giving her.
"Actually, I already had one in mind." If the queen had thought that an arguing daughter was cause for worry, it was nothing compared to the suck-up she had on her hands now. Her response was apprehensive, "who?"
"wellll," DG snuggled closer under her mother's chin. "I was thinking of Wyatt Cain-"
Emily raised an eyebrow. "We don't even know him! All we know of his past was that he was a Tin Man, you expect me to trust him wi-"
"Em," Ahamo's voice was soft, and because he rarely contradicted his wife, the pet name was enough to silence her. "Love, he helped her get to us. He's part of the reason we're all here. I think that if DG trusts him, we can as well. Besides, you can't handle the thought of being away from the girls that long, how can you ask one of your men to leave their families?"
The monarch sighed; she knew defeat when it stared her in the face. And she'd always lost when those two ganged up on her. "You're on her side," she accused.
"Of course, so are you," Ahamo gave a cheeky grin. "Besides, I remember a time when you were all too eager to spend a day riding horseback rather than listen to boring governors."
Az felt like slamming her head on her desk. Repeatedly. She heaved a sigh, knowing it wouldn't help, and wandered downstairs to find Glitch fiddling with an old computer that he'd found some time ago.
"If I just knew how these two pieces communicate with each other, I'd be able to reconnect them," he muttered, holding the parts in question under a large magnifying glass. "AHA!" Glitch exclaimed, bringing his tiny soldering gun into play.
"Gliiiiiitch," Az whined, sitting across the table from the former advisor. "I need help."
"Sweetheart," Glitch replied. "I am in no way qualified to give you the help you require."
Az stared at him for a moment, then brightened. Glitch had been one of the first people to truly forgive her, but then, even as a child, it had been that way.
This was the third time in a month Azkadellia had disrupted the Queen's morning meeting with her advisors, this time interrupting Sir Ambrose in the middle of a discussion of the Guilds' allegiance. Now, she waited in Ambrose's sitting room to apologise, just like Nanny said she should.
When the advisor of only 19 annuals wandered into his room several hours later, it was already cold, and, being on the east side of the castle, nearly dark. Part way in, he paused, bemused by the sound of sniffling. He swiftly turned on a lamp, and came across the bedraggled princess, and quickly dropped to one knee.
"Azka-D, what on earth are you doing here? It's freezing," Ambrose scooped the young girl up in one arm, and quickly started a fire, wrapping her up in a blanket to warm her. That task done, he turned towards a machine he'd invented for the girl when she came to his chambers. He soon returned to the bundle that was his monarch's daughter, carrying two steaming mugs of rich chocolate. He placed one in Azkadellia's hands, and led her over to his couch.
"Now," Ambrose stated, pulling Az onto his lap. "Why did you come down here?"
"Well," Az began, twisting her blanket in tiny hands. "Nursie told me to come and 'pologize for innuruptin' you today. So I came down here, to find you and you wasn't there, so I sat to wait for you. I guess I fell asleep" she blinked huge brown eyes at him mournfully. "I'm sorry."
Ambrose felt a rush of sympathy for the young girl, and hugged her. "Come on; let's get you up to your room before they start looking for you."
The queen looked in horror at her husband. "Are you quite sure of this?"
Ahamo nodded softly, pulled her into a tight hug. "We need to get them back."
Please REVIEW!!! And if you love Tin Man like me, check out Brown Eyes. Its a little twist, and not related to this story AT ALL!!! But leave me suggestions, tips, love, cookies, dust, you name it!!
Awahili: Thanks so much!!! I'm always told that starting a story is the hardest part, and i am so SICK of reading DG/Cain, lol :)
Scheree: I'm going to give this thing as much plot as humanly possible. Too much fluff in a multi-chap fic can get old. And as you can see, this chapter is a bit longer!! :)