Disclaimer: I do Not own Tin Man it and all recognizable characters belong to their respective owners which isn't me i'm just borrowing them for a while :)

A/N: A big thank you to Hippo-Griff Tamer from being my Beta for this especially since i sent about four chapters to her all in one day. (Yes i am aware i do not paint Adora and Cains marriage in a good light in this story but just go with it after all this story isn't about them :))

Chapter 2

Certain that she was safe from all outside intrusion, she called up the spirit of Cain's beloved wife.

The spirit of Adora Cain sat on the railing of the porch of the cabin looking at the young princess whom her husband had fallen in love with and smiled. Having spent much of her time in the spirit realm, watching over her husband and son, she had come to discover that her husband's feelings for the princess ran deeper than she had ever thought possible. Her husband was not one to lose himself to his emotions. He had never allowed himself show his true regard even for her, but with the princess he had somehow let his guard fall and had let her in without ever even realizing it and now he was fighting himself and his deeply set emotions for the young woman. Seeing as the princess had yet to see her she took her time watching the young woman.

"Adora, I'm not sure if I did the spell right to call you or not but I really do need to speak with you," DG said in a soft voice. A voice the spirit detected was on the verge of breaking.

"And what does the young princess of the OZ wish to talk to me about?" she asked, hiding a grin on her face when the woman spun around to stare at her.

"I... that is..." the princess sputtered not quite believing that the spell had actually worked.

Adora stared at the girl. Her son was right; they were similar in many ways. Both in height and build. The only difference was their eyes and their hair color. "You what?"

To say that DG was flustered would have been an understatement. She wondered why she had chosen to come back here in the first place. Then finding her bearings she faced the ghost. Upon looking at her DG began to see why Wyatt was having a hard time letting go. The woman was gorgeous even in her ghostly form. Sighing she finally asked in a frustrated manner, "Was he always this stubborn?"

Adora knew to whom the girl was referring to and gestured that they sit down. Once settled Adora began, "Princess..."

"DG, please, I hate being referred to by my title."

The ghost smiled and continued, "DG, he has always been stubborn. It's just part of who he is. If you think that he has a hard time telling you how he feels you should have seen him when he was pursuing me," she laughed as the memory surfaced.

"What does that mean? He is deeply in love with you," DG said confused.

"No, he is deeply in love with you and always will be. He is your true love DG even if he doesn't quite understand that right now but he will."

"I don't understand...he said that he could never and would never love me."

"And had you stayed to listen he would have finished with but 'not in the same way'." Adora smiled at the girl beside her.

DG was in shock, her mind going back to the over heard conversation between father and son. She knew she shouldn't have listened in. She felt more than a little annoyed with herself at the moment for running off before he had finished speaking.

"I feel so foolish right now," DG stated.

"It's understandable, I did something similar when he was courting me. You are not the first to misinterpret his words."

"Adora, you said that he was my true love. How do you know this?" she asked changing the subject.

"I simply do and because as a spirit we can sense these things better than our human selves ever could but that is not all you two are to each other; you are also soul-mates. In the OZ that is something that rarely happens and that type of bond...well its special."

DG was thrown for a loop at the spirits words. She had always known that she had some type of connection to Cain but she never thought that it could be anything like Adora was talking about. "Soul mates?!" she squeaked out through a suddenly dry throat.

"Yes." Adora answered matter-of-factually.

The princess sat staring out over the field surrounding the small cabin by the white elm. She could not wrap her head around what the ghost was telling her. She had read something about the rare Soul pairing. The last one in Ozian history had been the one between the first Dorothy Gale and her own Tin Man. She also knew that once the bond was complete they would share something so profound that it would go beyond both friendship and love.

"Adora, do you think he will come after me? Should I just return to the palace?" she questioned the spirit in a voice that didn't sound like her own.

" Yes, he will come after you, especially when he comes to terms with his own feelings for you. And No, I think you should stay right here. Right now he's warring with himself on whether what he feels is love or simply his desire to protect you. He can't see that you are his one true love. He is blinded by his love for me and even if he did at this very moment wake up and see it, he would still refuse to tell you so."

"How do you know what he's doing right now? You're here with me," DG asked perplexed.

"I can sense him as I can Jeb. But I have been watching over them both since my untimely death, praying that Ozma would somehow heal the both of them and bring them both to their true loves." Adora answered truthfully.

DG listened to the advise and decided that staying put for the time being was a good idea. She hated being a princess but at the same time loved it. She knew that with her title came certain responsibilities but she just wanted time to herself. Time to get settled in and get to know the home she had once known.

Nodding she allowed Adora's spirit to fade as she used her magic to restore the land around the tiny cabin as well as the cabin itself before forcing the cloaked barrier to extend a bit farther out. When she was finished she went inside and finding a bed she collapsed sleep taking her instantly.