I do not own Black Lagoon or any of its characters, I just think it and they are awesome ; )

So this is my first attempt at a Black Lagoon fic. I've been watching the Geneon/Funimation DVDs with English dubs and have written it in that style. If that doesn't sound like your particular brand of rum, no hard feelings I hope.

"Revy? Your cutlass." Rock demanded peacefully.

"Rock…" Revy attempted to reason with her partner but his temper was instantly lost and he cut her off with every bit of the same rage she typically displayed, "Gimme a fucking gun!"

His anger was unlike anything Revy had ever seen from him.

She reluctantly handed him a gun and he stared down at the man he had just leveled with a right hook, a slightly maniacal laugh beneath his tone as he waved the M92 about, "You'll have to forgive me as I'm new to these things."

"Let's see…" He racked the slide putting a round in the tube, "…did that, it's Two-Hand's gun so I'll bet the safety's never been on…"

"Rock…" Revy quietly interjected but he completely ignored her, "…finger on the trigger."

"Please…" The man begged.

bang

Revy watched on just unsettled as Rock discharged a firearm for the first time putting a hole through the man's thigh.

Rock knelt down in front of the man he had just shot and calmly addressed him over his screams; "Now that's a big hole I put in you isn't it? Normally I'm not one for guns but you know I've learned something living in Roanapur; you, me, nothing in this place matters. We're all gonna die sooner or later so like my partner says, why not just enjoy the ride while you can? I've never taken a life but I've seen it done and been an accessory to it multiple times on a near daily basis; how hard could it really be?"

Rock pushed the cutlass to the man's head once more and asked again, "Why were the Italian's after us?"

"The Verrochio family heard you gave passage to one of the brats who killed the boss."

"If your boss was so great how'd he get himself killed by a goddamned 6 year-old?"

"You don't…" Rock smashed the cutlass across his face and Revy flinched.

"I don't what?" Rock asked, "I don't understand? I understand those kids were born into the worst life imaginable and became a product of that life. If your boss couldn't handle what he was getting himself into then he deserved what he got."

"They're gonna find you. There gonna find you and they're gonna…"

Rock pistol-whipped him again and Revy finally lost her patience. She drew the other cutlass and with a single shot, decorated the alley with the man's gray matter.

Now enraged even further, Rock jumped from the ground pointing Revy's own gun back at her and hers at him.

"What the fuck Revy?!"

"Couldn't have said it better myself. What the fuck has gotten into you?"

"What? Can't deal? I finally get it and now you're upset that I've become you?"

"You think because you watched some brat get shot in the face and saw some girl put a sword through her throat that you understand what it is to be me?"

"Oh here we go again, poor fucking Revy."

She wouldn't shoot him, but she wasn't going to have this discussion again and simply winged her cutlass at his head knocking him to the ground. As he lifted his head from the ground he found Revy as he often had when they first met; sprawled on top of him holding him by his white collar looking very unhappy.

He hadn't dropped the cutlass and lifted it to her throat as she sat on his chest. She reached down to the slide and gracefully removed it in one fluid motion rendering the weapon useless.

As she stared him down, the sirens began.

Her tone was quiet and calm, "No poor me, poor you Rock. You're better than this you little shit, better than me and you fucking know it."

"No I'm not, I live in Roanapur just like you, and the only people that make lives for themselves here are the walking dead, remember? I'm fucking dead Revy!"

She didn't even wind up as she slapped him across the face, "No you're not…" she grabbed him by his hair and dropped his head back to the pavement, "…you're the only person in this fucking place that looks at me like I'm still alive. Like I'm still a woman and not some mindless 'two-hands' killing machine. You're the only one who…"

Rock had completely calmed and the pain she had caused him, he felt none of it, "Who what?"

Her somber expression told it all as she continued, "…who makes me wish for a normal fucking life. I look at you, and I think 'If things were different, maybe I could have made a life for myself with a guy like that.' I need that Rock. I need you to be you, so I can want to be normal."

"Revy…" As he attempted to get through to her, she leaned down and pressed her lips to his silencing him.

As she withdrew a few moments later, Rock remained attached to her as long as he could before his head fell back to the pavement once again with a thud.

"Oh…ow!" He groaned looking up to see Revy smiling slightly.

"Your heels cool now tiger?"

"Revy…" She cut him off as she stood from his chest and offered him her hand, "Oh shut up. Did you really think that was never gonna happen?"

Rock pulled himself off the floor and tended to the back of his head as he replied, "To be honest, no I didn't."

As the sirens came closer still, Revy and Rock leaned their backs up against the wall on opposite sides of the Italian corpse like nothing had ever happened. She pulled a pack of cigarettes from her pocket and offered one to Rock.

"Fuckin' Eda, she had this pegged from minute one."

"What do you mean?" Rock asked as he lit their smokes.

"You, me, she knew this was gonna happen."

"I think I'm still confused, she knew what was gonna happen?"

"Fuckin' dumbass." She turned and grabbed his jaw planting another kiss on him, this time a bit more delicately.

As she pulled away from him, she left him breathless and asked with a satisfied smile, "You get it now?"

Rock just stood there with his eyes closed and his mouth still contorted in the kiss.

"Rock!" Revy shouted as she smacked him in the side of the head waking him.

"Ah fuck! Okay I get it, so what now? Do I call you my girlfriend?"

"Why don't we keep it at partner for the time being?"

"Alright." Rock said with a somewhat frightened smile.

As they leaned to share their first mutual kiss, Watsap pulled up, "I should'a known. Can you go a day without discharging those things Revy?"

"Guy had it coming sarge."

"I don't care, now I need to get rid of a body!" Watsap calmed himself, he knew yelling at her was about as pointless as yelling at a wall, "C'mon get in the car, you'll be home in time for dinner."

"We're comin'." Rock and Revy replied in unison.