Coming to Terms Chapter Two, a dark angel fanfic

Title: Coming to Terms

A/N: You guys ever seen that movie 'Black Sheep'. Man that's good stuff.

Unfortunately, he had been right on all accounts. Max had found out, Max was pissed off, and no matter how hard he tried to deny it, she was incredibly hot. That's what he thought as he sat in the back room of Crash as Max lectured him on the differences between stealing from a bad guy and stealing from people who had probably never done anything wrong. 'How the hell had she found out anyways' he wondered. There had been nothing on the news about it, presumably because the bank didn't want the world to know that their impenetrable bank vault had been penetrated.

"Are you even listening to me?"

"Of course!"

"Oh yeah, then what did I say?"

"I believe it was something along the lines of 'Alec bad…blah blah blah…don't steal it's bad…blah blah blah…You know I get it Max. You don't appreciate what I do. Well guess what? Just because you don't steal anymore doesn't mean I have to stop making a living as well. "

"I don't steal anymore because it's wrong, and in case you hadn't realized, wrong is bad!"

"That's not what you thought a year ago. You even admitted to me that you used to steal. So why all of a sudden did you decide that being who you are, being what you had been born to be, was wrong.?"

"I grew a conscience. That's what happened."

"Oh that hurts Maxie. Really."

"I doubt it."

Sensing that she had calmed down, at least for the time being, Alec decided to probe the question a little. At least until she freaked out again. "So why did you stop Maxie?"

"I told you I--"

"And don't give me that conscience crap. That's bullshit and you know it. What made you give up that rush. I know you must have liked it. We're bred to feed off of adrenaline. What you do now can hardly give you what you need. So what was it, huh?"

"I had better things to do."

"Better things say for Eyes Only?"

"So what? What I decide to do with my personal time is my business and not yours."

"But my personal time is open to your ever forthcoming criticisms, right?"

"Shut up."

"My point exactly."

"I just don't see why you always have to get into trouble. It's like you're not happy unless you have a SWAT Team crashing in your front door. Do you do things like this just to piss me off?"

"Would you believe me if I said no?" Truth was sometimes he wondered if she was right. He did enjoy seeing her mad. Part of him wondered if it was because he wanted her to be more comfortable with the kick-ass , hot tempered killing machine he knew she could be. He assumed that ever since she had met Logan, she had begun to try to be just a little too human. Then again the other part of him knew that he just liked to piss her off. Hey, at least she was talking to him.

"Of course I wouldn't believe you. That would go against everything I stood for."

"Ouch. Now come on Maxie. How about next time I go out on a job, you tag along." The look on her face was priceless. "for old times sake."

"Alec, we don't have old times."

"Then what a better time to start something new."

And with that he left her standing there, undoubtedly trying to figure out what his next move would be. Truth be told he didn't even know. He'd need sometime to think about this one.

A/N: Better…worse…should I be shot? Let me know and I'll let you know…or something….HA!