Hey, animalcrackersoup here. I understand I messed up a little with my grammer and punctuation and such in the last chapter. I apologize. I promise I did better in this chapter. By the way I keep forgetting to thank you all for all the reviews I'm getting! Thank you so much! I didn't think I could do this well on my first story. I also want to apologize for not updating in a while. All you writers out there know what I mean when I say I had writers block. Anyway, thank you so much for reading! Enjoy!

"Come on Lucifer, you don't have to be so harsh on them all the time." Even though Fang made the comment, it meant nothing to Lucifer.

"I'm the devil. I have the right to be evil all I want Nicholas." As he started to walk away, he turned back around with a smirk that not even Fang could understand most of the time. "Why don't you keep an eye on our new resident?" His smile dropping, he added, "Also, stop calling me Lucifer. I wish for you to call me Father. I am your father, am I not?"

Finally leaving with Fang muttering under his breath, some very unkind words might Lucifer add, he entered his office.

"Reggie!"

"Yes master," Reggie answered as he entered the domain.

"Keep an eye on Nicholas. I wish for him to do what I ask, when I ask it. Now leave me. I have some taxes to file."

As Reggie went back into the hole in the wall, Lucifer leaned back into his chair.

His own laughter breaking the silence around him, he commented to himself, "I love it when a plan comes together."

Max POV

Looking around the small apartment, Max decided she'd decorate it in her own way. It looked too much like a man cave. And by golly, she was definitely no man.

Getting into more comfortable clothes, blue jeans, a baggy T-shirt, and sneakers, she headed out to the hardware store.

Finally getting there, she made her way in, looking around the large room. Shelves were stocked with tools, wood, nails, paint, and many more things she could use.

Walking over to the isle with all the nails, she picked the first pack she saw. Inspecting it, she thought they would be okay. When she turned around to go to an isle that had hammers and screwdrivers, she ran into a big wall of muscle.

"Oops, sorry. I made you drop your stuff," Max said when she saw what she did. Without looking up at him she kneeled down to pick up his materials.

The man kneeled down, too. Once they finished, Max finally looked at him, almost screaming out of shock. She covered her mouth.

Fang's face was inches away from hers. The corners of his mouth were turned up slightly, and his eyes were colored with amusement. Those dark, dark, dark, beautifu—what was she thinking! Max! Stop thinking about his eyes! Max snapped at herself.

"I didn't know I was that unattractive. I actually thought I was kind of handsome," Fang said, trying to make a joke out of her almost scream. "Look away if you must. I wouldn't want to burn your eyes."

Furrowing hers brows, Max glared at him. "I didn't say anything about you being ugly."

"Oh, so you think I am handsome?" He raised his left eyebrow slightly in question.

"Ha ha, very funny. Now if you will excuse me I'm trying to shop here."

Standing up straight, Max walked around him and into the next isle. Hearing footsteps behind her she turned. Fang was following her into the isle. By the looks of it he was already done shopping. So why was he following her?

"What do you want, Fang?"

Looking at the box of nails she had in one hand and the small hammer she had in the other, he looked at her like he was annoyed. Taking the hammer out of her hand, he put that back on the shelf and got another one down.

This one was a lot heavier. The handle was a bright orange, meaning it would be easy to find. The head of the hammer was very round and flat, making hanging things easier.

"From the looks of it you're trying to hang something up. This hammer is more efficient to put nails in walls. The other hammer you had was better for repairs. Now the nails you have are pretty good for hanging small things. If you want to hang something large…you'll need these," he said as he led her back into the other isle. Then he handed her a pack of large nails.

Seeing his toned muscles, Max guessed he did a lot of 'projects'.

Nodding and thanking him, Max went to another isle to find a nice picture frame. She found the perfect one with butterflies, birds, and flowers. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. Max seemed to be doing that a lot now. Noticing things that didn't have much meaning but were beautiful all the same.

Fang was standing behind her and she knew it, but truthfully, she didn't care. All she cared about was how this was the perfect picture frame for the picture of her mother.

"Wow. What's with women and their weird ways of fashion?"

Way to spoil a moment, Fang! Max thought.

Turning to go to another isle, knowing that Fang was following her again, she went to get a nice green color of paint. Picking up two buckets, she tried to get to the front desk. Almost dropping one of the buckets, Fang ran and helped pick it up.

"Careful babe, wouldn't want you to have to clean up any messes, would we?" Fang asked.

Looking at him like he had two heads, she put the other bucket of paint on the front desk, along with the hammer, picture frame, and two boxes of nails.

"That'll be $30.64," said the cashier after she checked out everything. From the looks of her name tag her name was… Sinbeusuy. But Max was pretty sure that meant Sindy.

Paying Sindy the money, Max left the hardware store with Fang right behind her.

"Why are you following me? And why did you call me babe back there!" Max questioned him as soon as they got away from the windows of the store.

"Well first of all, I'm just trying to make the next answer I give you seem more real. Second of all, I only called you babe to make it seem like I was your boyfriend."

"Why?"

"Because, Miss Sinbeusuy was getting onto my master plan to kidnap you and take you away to my secret castle and throw you in with my evil monkeys." At Max's blank look Fang rolled his eyes. "She saw that I was following you around the store. Which don't get me wrong I was, but I just called you babe so that it seemed like we were a couple and that I wasn't some weird stalker guy."

"Well you kind of are."

"Harsh," Fang whispered. When she started walking away he still followed her.

"What do you want!" Max yelled into the night.

"Okay, okay, I was just thinking it would be a good idea to walk you home," Fang told her, trying to look innocent.

"Fine. Just no more acting like we're a couple. Got it? It's just really weird."

"Who ever said I was into you that way?" he said with a look of victory. For some reason though, his words hurt.

Thanks for reading. I hope I did a lot better in this story. If you have any suggestions for what I should write next please put it in a review. It took me forever to just come up with this hardware scene. Review please! I'll try to update soon. Bye!