When she woke he was already up and shirtless. Actually to her shock he was wetting himself with a water bottle trying to get clean. She peaked her eyes open and stared in awe of him. It would be wrong to stare, she told herself that anyway but didn't take her eyes off of him.

"Good morning." He said with a smirk on his face. She mentally slapped herself in the face, sitting up she rubbed her eyes and yawned.

"Morning." She said quietly and embarrassed. He handed her the bottle and she took a sip out of it.

"Wait, you didn't poison this did you?" She asked. He chuckled.

"No, poisoning you would be undignified, I'll kill you when people are watching."

"You're the Dark Ace, you play dirty."

"True."

As they started to walk Piper was shocked when she walked out to find a giant creature of some sort in her way. She gasped as it raised its paw, Dark Ace quickly jumped in front of her protectively putting her behind him and covering her with one arm.

"Where is your weapon?" She shrieked.

"On my skimmer!" He shouted angrily. Compromising he picked her up in his arms and ran the other direction away from the beast. Piper was a tiny bit scared now but was just mostly confused as to why he had just saved her life. He placed her down, his hands were on her hips and there was barely any space between them.

"Why didn't you let it kill me? I thought you wanted me dead." He considered what he was going to say next.

"I need you to get off this terra, then I will let whatever is on this terra kill you." His words didn't match his eyes, and Piper knew it. He turned away and she felt disappointed when his fingertips left her body, she shivered knowing that she felt that.

Angrily she pushed him.

"What the hell? I am trying to help you, the least you can do is be nice to me!" She yelled angrily. He was in shock that she had just stood her ground against him, she put her hands on her hips and looked at him.

"I know you don't like me, and I don't like you but right now we have a common goal. So maybe you should consider not wanting to kill me for about five minutes."

"And you? Like you're any better, you would kill me in a heartbeat if you had the opportunity."

"No I wouldn't! You have goodness in you whether you like to admit it or not."

"Shut up."

"No."

"You don't know anything about me, I'm not some project Piper, you can't fix me like you would a object, I can't be saved." He yelled centimetres from her face, she had her hands crossed and she inched ever so closer forward.

"Anyone who is capable of feeling something is capable of being saved." He blinked at the girl who believed there was still goodness in him. He stepped back and cleared his throat.

"We should keep going." He walked off leaving Piper standing by herself, shaking her head she followed the man. The day was hot and tiring, they came closer to the mountain where she could at least get a signal to contact Aerrow, what would he do to Ace?

Great, I'm calling him Ace now. Piper thought to herself slapping her forehead. The terrain was mostly jungle but occasionally it would come to open plains of nothing. Ace looked back to her, there was so much goodness in her, how the hell could she see anything in him?

"There is a small cave up ahead, we should stay there for the night." He said quietly she nodded in approval and followed him. It was lucky they had made it in such good time because the rain started to bucket down. Piper made a fire with some old crystals she had found and sat in front of it warily.

The heat made her feel good against the bitter night, her teeth chattered while Dark Ace felt guilty about her feeling cold.

"I was weak."

"W-what?" She chattered through the coldness. He scooted over next to her and opened up his arm. She didn't argue, she was freezing. She slid into the space he had opened for her and settled in nicely. One hand went on her waist and the other around her shoulders and she settled in.

"I wanted more power and I wasn't going to get it through what I was doing, so I joined the cyclonians." She was still freezing but she felt somewhat warmer. She tilted her head up to look at him.

"So turning into an evil body guard was how you did it?"

"There isn't goodness in everyone Piper." She didn't know why she did it. Maybe because she missed Aerrow or maybe because she was lonely but she thrust herself onto him smashing her lips to his. Once she realised what she had done she backed off.

"Oh my god, I should not have done that." Dark Ace was still staring at her in shock, not that he was complaining. She ran her fingers through her hair.

"Crap, holy god crap." She mumbled to herself. Looking up to him he had almost a stunned look on his face.

"That-that never gets out to anyone, ever, I was lonely and you're here and-" She was cut off by him smashing his lips to hers, this time she kissed back. She kissed back with intensity and fire, something that she hadn't felt in a long time. He was a man, and she had always thought of herself as a girl until the moment he had kissed her.

She quickly pushed him off of her and panted for air.

"No! God you're the Dark Ace, and I'm just Piper! Storm Hawks Piper!" She yelled angrily at him, he grabbed her waist and pulled her in for another kiss. She pushed off him and moved to the side of the cave.

"No, no I swear to god we aren't doing that again."