Max is in her hotel room trying to think of a way to stop Nexus when she hears a knock on her door. She gets up to open it.

"Hey Maxie". It was Alec.

"Alec what the hell are you doing here?" asked Max, a little in shock and a little mad that he was there.

"Look I just wanted to help and I talked to Jaimie about coming here because I knew she was trying to find Chris and Nexus."

"Your supposed to be helping by looking out for Terminal City while I am gone, you know, my 2IC."

"Look, Josh and Mole know what they are doing and I know they can handle it. It's just that I always have your back and I feel like I'm not when you're here and I am there. Please Max, I know you still think of me as a screw up but I really would like a chance to prove to you that I'm not."

Max knows how he feels, she herself trying to convince her family that she is trustworthy.

"Ya fine stay, I hate to say this but I guess your right, you've always had my back even when I didn't ask you to. I guess after our talk about Ben that night made me realize your not so bad, even though you got an ego bigger than your brain, but I guess that's just a normal guy thing anyway, right pretty boy?

"Of course Maxie, you really don't expect anything else do you. I mean, I am pretty hot and it's not my fault the chicks dig me. Oh and I always knew you thought I was hot."

"Ah, and here we go, see I never said you were hot"

"Oh but you were thinking it."

"Hey Hel, you alright." Asked Reese.

"Ya of course, just thinking. This whole thing with this Max girl, and the whole not being able to know anything because of future consequences. I mean is it that bad there that we can't know about the future. Or is it just her way of keeping her secret"

"I know, and part of me agrees with you and Barbara and Dinah about not trusting her. There's also this other part of me that says to, because I should've trusted you in the first place, and maybe it's the same type of deal here."

"Ya, I know. I should know better to I guess, I mean I didn't trust Dinah when she first came here, but then she ended up proving to me that I could. I told her that trust was a gift, and maybe I need to give Max that chance. She did kind of save me out there."

"So what we are saying is that we've both grown a lot in the past year or two huh?"

"Ya, I guess we have." Helena leans her head on Reese's shoulder. They stay like that for a while.