Chapter 5

Glitch was in his office going over the plans to demolish The Tower. He and his brain had been reunited successfully and he had reassumed his position as Royal Advisor. Most people called him Ambrose but to DG, Cain and Raw he was still Glitch. He had taken it upon himself to teach DG how to dance and he was just waiting for Cain to bring her. He looked up from his papers at a knock at his door.

"Come on in." he called. Cain opened the door and he and DG walked in. Glitch smiled. "DG, Cain, good to see you. Are you ready for your dancing lesson, DG?"

"As ready as I'll ever be." She replied with a slight groan.

Cain smiled, "Oh, come on, Princess, It's not that bad."

"Speak for yourself, Buddy." This makes Cain and Glitch laugh.

"Ok, so off to dancing we go," Glitch said to DG.

"Glitch, I mean Ambrose. Sorry I'm still getting used to that." Cain said to his friend.

"Don't worry about it, Cain, I'm still a bit glitchy and to you and DG, I'll always be Glitch. Any way what did you need?"

"I need you to stay with DG for the rest of the afternoon and probably part of the evening."

"Why?"

"Because, Jeb and I have some… business to finish and I can't take DG with us."

"Sure, Cain, no problem. But what…" Glitch started, glancing from Cain to DG, but Cain cut him off.

"I am not talking about it, Glitch," Cain stated simply.

"Ok, Ok, I get it, Tin Man stuff. No problem. And don't worry, DG and I will be fine."

"I know, Glitch. DG?" Cain said turning to her. "I'll be back as soon as I can. Remember what I said and get that lunch over as soon as possible. And when I get back we'll talk and try to work something out. Ok?"

"Ok. I'll be fine. Just take care of your self and please be careful, Wyatt."

"Hey, it's me…"

"That's what I'm afraid of." She said rolling her eyes.

"I'll see you later, Darlin'," Cain said as he leaned down and kissed her.

"What is going on here?" Glitch asked.

Cain glared at him, "If you say anything about this, I'll hang you by your feet for a week."

"Sheesh, Cain, no need to get violent."

Cain let out a low growl. "See you both later. And, Glitch, take care of her." Cain kissed DG again before they all walked out the door and went their separate ways.

DG and Glitch walked to the Grand Hall but every once in a while she would glance behind them in the direction that Cain had gone.

"He'll be fine, DG. He's smart and strong and Jeb will be with him. He'll come back." He said trying to comfort her as he finally got her into the grand hall for their lesson.

"I know, Glitch, but I can't help worrying. I… Glitch, I love him."

"I know, Doll, I kinda heard you and you mother earlier this morning. I acted like I didn't know 'because I wanted to see what Cain was going to say about it."

"I don't know what to do, Glitch. I love him, but Mother won't approve. There has to be a way. I'll die without him, I don't know how I know that, but it's true. I cannot live without him."

"The two of you are two halves of a whole. You are smart and resourceful and together you will think of something."

"I really don't feel like dancing today Glitch. Do you think we could take a walk in the gardens instead?"

"Sure, DG, we can do that." With that Glitch led DG out of the Palace and into the gardens. They talked about how he was now that he had been reunited with "his marbles". They talked about how her other lessons were going. They also talked about what happened between DG and Cain. They had been walking for a while when Glitch suddenly stopped.

"Glitch? What's wrong?"

"Shh, I thought I heard something…"

"Wha…"

Suddenly there was shouting and someone had grabbed DG from behind and dragged her away from Glitch. Glitch was trying to fight his way to DG but there were 5 LongCoats attacking him at the same time and finally one got in a lucky hit. He went down and wasn't getting up.

"Glitch!!" DG shouted. "Let go!! Let me go!!" She struggled against the LongCoat that held her. One of the LongCoats raised some sort of weapon and aimed it at her. Fearing the worst she squeezed her eyes shut. The weapon fired but instead of blinding pain she felt only a small sting. Opening her eyes she looked at her left shoulder and saw a dart of some kind. As DG started to feel sleepy she did the only thing she could think of. She called to Cain with her mind and magick. --WYATT!!--