Author's Note: I decided against making this a series of one shots. Though at times things might not make sense trust me they will once you keep reading. I might jump around a bit as my ideas flow but it will all come together. :D I'm working on drawing what Alice Cross looks like. But I promise to describe her here. Enjoy numbah two!
The sun was trying to shine its bright rays through Alice Cross' curtains. Though they were navy blue, she still got some sun in her face stirring her awake. She stretched and looked around, spotting the little hole in the curtains that let the sun come in to interrupt her beauty sleep. Her only day off in a week, and the sun decides to wake her up around....Alice looked at her clock on the wall....8 am.
"No...not yet." Alice whined as she covered the pillow over her face, trying to get at least a bit more sleep before eventually having to get out of bed to pee or eat. Alice fell asleep for about 10 minuets when the first of the options to wake her up happened.
"Damn it...gotta piss..." she mumbled in a grumpy tone. She sat up and ran a hand through her mussed long chocolate brown hair. Her almost matching eyes looked tired. Okay, she might have had a bit of a hangover. She got a little drunk last night and came home about 1 am.
Alice shuffled too her room, and did what she usually did in the morning. Took a Luke-warm shower, brushed and dried her hair, brushed her teeth then went back to her room to get out of the damp towel and get dressed. Her hair was now in a turban like wrap on her head to keep it from dripping all over her black tang top that slightly revealed a sapphire belly button ring, and long blue jeans that rested just below her waist.
Moving to her small kitchen, Alice grabbed a box of cereal and milk, then some nice warm coffee. Today was a chilly morning, spring was just beginning to appear in the beginning of March now. It was cold, but the weather was starting to warm up. After breakfast, she dried her hair and ran a brush through it. What would she do now?
Alice passed by her coffee table as she caught a glimpse of the rose that Dante at the diner the other day gave her in a small vase. She then spotted the card on the table. She picked up the card that flashed in red letters "Devil May Cry" and the address. Maybe she'd pay her rose giver a visit. Alice shoved the card into her jeans pocket and grabbed her long black coat and made her way out of her apartment.
As Alice walked up to the place, she felt something wrong, like something or someone was coming up behind her. She looked around quickly and started to walk faster to the building. As her fast strides turned into sprints she felt something hard hit her back. She fell over and clutched something in her inner coat pocket. As she drew the pistol, and rolled over, the man she met at the diner had the devil that attacked her in a headlock, and her pistol barrel pointing straight at them.
"Wow, a pretty girl and she's packing heat." Dante said shooting the demon in the head then when he threw it, it seemed to disappear.
Alice panted slightly then sighed in relief. "Uh thanks." she said sitting up. Dante put his hand out and Alice took it and pulled her up swiftly and she landed on her stiletto boots.
Dante nodded to her. "I thought I wouldn't see you again till I came back to the diner, what are you doing around here?" he asked folding his arms across his well toned chest.
"Well I uh..." Alice said looking around, she really didn't have any reason to be here but because she had nothing better to do besides sit at home on her day off all day and eating a whole carton of chocolate ice cream / cookie dough.
"Its my day off and all...and I didn't have anything to do so I thought I'd come to the address on the card and see if I could find you." Alice said, digging herself out of the hole she almost buried herself in.
Dante nodded and scratched the back of his head. "Well then, I guess you can come in. I ordered a pizza." he said.
Alice smiled sweetly. "Sounds good to me." she said walking towards the building along with Dante along side of her.
Dante opened the door and walked over to the desk by the end of the room and Alice followed him. He sat down in the chair and put his feet up on the desk. There was no other chair's near by so Alice took off her jacket and sat on the desk, crossing her legs she looked over at him. "How long till it gets here?" she asked. Dante just shrugged, unknowing of when it would show up.
Alice swung her legs a bit. "So...you live here alone?" she asked.
Dante shook his head no. "A little girl named Penny lives here. She was an orphan, I saved her and took her in." he said then looked over at Alice like taking in an orphan girl was no big deal. "She does get annoying but hell, she's nice to have around."
Alice nodded. "My sister was the same way till I moved out." She said with a laugh. Just when Dante was about to say something, the pizza came, and he took it and paid the man. He sat it on the table, grabbed a piece and took the same position he was in previously and took a large bite out of the pizza. Alice did the same and smiled. "This is good." she said with a nod.
Dante and Alice soon finished the entire pizza when the door opened again and a girl with blond hair walked in. "Dante! I'm back!" she called. Alice looked over and smiled at her. "This must be Penny." She said.
Penny looked at Alice. "Who are you?" she asked. "I'm Alice Cross, Dante and I met at the diner where I work the other day." Alice explained.
Penny then remembered. "Oh your the girl Dante keeps tal-" Dante had jumped up and covered Penny's mouth. "Why don't you go get something to eat." he said picking her up and putting her in a different room.
"HEY THIS IS THE BATHROOM!" Penny yelled as Dante closed the door and came back out.
Alice laughed softly. "So you've been talking about me?"
"No one said that."
"But Penny just-"
"Look at this!" Dante quickly ran over to the window pretending to look at something, which there was nothing there.
Alice just laughed, then noticed a picture of a pretty blond woman sitting on the desk. She gently lifted it up. "Your girlfriend?" she asked. Dante looked too her. "Uh no...she's my mother."
Alice blinked then smiled. "Uh sorry. She's very pretty." she said sitting down the picture.
"Thank you."
Alice got up and stretched. "Maybe I should go, I have work tomorrow and I still need to clean my apartment."
Dante walked up to her, boy she was short compared to him. "If you need too, you're welcome to stay."
Alice was feeling a bit awkward about being there now, and she did need to clean up her apartment a bit. She usually kept it pretty clean, but it needed picking up here and there. "Thank you but I need to be going."
"I'll walk you home." Dante said grabbing his jacket and sword, damn that was a big sword...
Alice smiled then slipped her jacket back on. "Thanks, I appreciate it." she said and they both made their way out of the building.
It wasn't too long until Alice and Dante came to her apartment building then to her apartment. She noticed a note on her door. In big red letters read "EVICTION NOTICE". Alice stared in shock at the note. She was up on her rent and everything.
"What's the note say?" Dante asked in a bored tone, he had been expecting a kiss for walking her home.
"Eviction notice...I don't get it, I'm up to date on my rent." Alice said completely confused.
Dante looked up and down the hallway. Alice's apartment was the only one with the note. Alice opened the door, only to be knocked back by a dark form of energy. Three demons were in her apartment. Dante quickly caught Alice and set her limp body against the wall. "Well, looks like we have some new evicts." Dante said and drew Rebellion and jumped into battle.
Alice woke up on her couch, Dante gently shaking her. She looked around, there was blood and broken things all over her apartment. She shot up. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" She screamed.
"Saved you and what's left of your place. Apparently your land lord wasn't evicting you, but the demons wanted some fresh Human." Dante said putting a gloved hand on her back.
Alice's face was in shock. "Why me though? There are other people on this floor, why did they single me out?"
Dante stood looking to a blood smeared wall. "Might have something to do with me."
Alice was confused. "What do you mean do with you?"
"I'm the son of the demon Sparda who betrayed his own kind, Alice. I'm a half-devil, and I hunt devils. I guess I'm a danger to you." He said then looked back to her, his ice colored eyes staring into her brown ones.
"Well that doesn't mean I'm gonna stay away." Alice said firmly. Dante blinked, staring at her in confusion. "What do you mean...?" He asked.
"I'm not gonna stay away from you." Alice said getting up and running a hand through her hair.
Dante shook his head. "Foolish Human." he said then let out a laugh. "Do you have a death wish? If you stay friends with me you'll be targeted by demons all around who wanna get back at me to get back at my traitor father."
Alice shrugged. "Still don't care."
"Why don't you?"
"We wont discuss that." Alice took a step and heard a piece of glass crunch under her boot. It was from the crystal vase she had Dante's rose in. She saw the rose under the table and got on her hands and knees to retrieve it. She picked it up, cutting her right index finger on a shard of class. "Ow." she said standing up, putting the rose in her other hand and looking at her finger as a drop of blood slowly oozed out of the small puncture wound. Dante walked over and took her right and and put her bleeding finger in his mouth, sucking the blood off. Alice's face turned completely red.
Dante removed his mouth from her sore finger. "I'll find some bandages." he said, walking down the hallway leaving Alice there dumbfounded. Dante returned with a cotton ball and some gauze. He put the cotton ball on her wounded finger, which the pain was now pulsing with her rapid beating heart, and wrapped the gauze around it and tied it in a small knot. "All better." he said.
Dante released her hand and it fell to her side. "Well since you won't stay away, I'm going to have to keep a closer eye on you. So that means your moving in with me, grab a suitcase and pack something for tonight, I'll wait outside. We'll get movers to move the rest of everything in the morning." He said, then walked away, not giving Alice the chance to object to his proposition.
Alice stood there with the red rose still in hand. She sighed, well hell, apparently she had no choice in the matter. She went to her room and packed one of her bags and returned to Dante. He grabbed the suitcase from Alice without a word and started for the stairs. Alice locked the door and ran after Dante, completely confused by the events that just took place.