Wow, Glitch is so much harder to write than Ambrose! Maybe I should just go back to First Encounter……….

Just for the record, I DID separate the parts in the last two chapters, they must of got deleted while I was posting them. Sorry it has taken me so long to post another chapter, I , um, kind of got on to a Cumming Craze for a while. (guilty smile) but now I'm back! And desperately in need of inspiration!

One reason I am trying to keep close to the movie is two of the readers of this story has never watched Tin Man! That's right, Everybody gasp! (Thank You very much for reading though you have no idea what's going on!) (You know who you are!)

One last thing, before this becomes longer than the story, I am not aiming for DGxGlitch right now. Maybe later, maybe.

Second Encounter

Chapter 3

How big were these woods anyway? DG found herself wondering yet again. They must of already been walking for hours and there was no sign of the end or the old route to Central City.

Tiredly, she tripped over an exposed root for the fourth time in half an hour. And for the forth time in half an hour she heard the same response.

"Are you ok DG?"

She sighed and turned to face Glitch, who hadn't tripped once. Surprisingly. He just stood there with his head cocked to the side slightly, watching her intently.

"What?" she asked.

He blinked "Oh, nothing I was just trying to remember something." He said with a thoughtful look.

"Remember what?" the young, blue eyed woman was curious.

Glitch turned his wild head away, looking at the bark of a nearby tree. "I don't know."

His face turned blank. "I don't know." Blank. "I don't know." Blank. "I don't know."

"Glitch, you're repeating again." DG firmly stated, hoping that would snap him out of it. No such luck.

"I don't know." Blank. "I don't know." Blank.

She grabbed his arm. "Glitch?"

That didn't help, he just kept going and going like the Energizer Bunny. She was starting to worry, what if he would never come out of it? Time to panic.

"I don't kn--" SLAP!

The man with the tattered coat then fell silent. Um, did she hurt him? There was a bright red mark on his cheek………..

Glitch looked over at her. "Hi! The name's Glitch."

"Glitch! I'm sorry! You were glitching and wouldn't stop." She gave him a hug, hoping to amend the slap.

He glanced down at her in pure shock. Why was she hugging him? "I was?'

The thing that was at the rim of his mind, that he had been trying to remember earlier came forth.

A small girl in a nightgown came forward and gave someone a hug.

"Good Night, Ambrose!"

Who was this Ambrose? And why was there a sadness to that memory? Did something happen to the girl? Or this Ambrose guy? Why couldn't he remember?

DG was watching him.

"I-my noggin wasn't always this way, you know." Glitch started, gesturing with his hands, and they continued walking. "In my heyday, I was government advisor and numero one. I was the top dog's….." here he paused and figured out his directions. He stuck out his left hand. "…right hand man!"

DG stifled a laugh, he didn't seem to notice though and continued. "It would have all been fine, but her……"

Glitch stopped and glanced around with a confused, lost, look on. "The road is around here somewhere. I-I-I know it!."

The Inner-Zoner stopped and listened. She could of swore she had heard screaming and banging a second ago.

"You look familiar. Have we met before?" He asked with a smile.

She placed a hand on his shoulder. "Shh!" She listened again and this time heard a cry of help. "Did you hear that?"

Glitch nodded once "Yeah………No." he shook his head.

"Come on!" DG cried and drug him off toward the noise she had heard. Funny, that was familiar too.