"So what brings you here Dante? The music? The girls? The spirits? Or does it have something to do with that little broken flower mundus has come across?" Lilith asked and Dante eyed her. He already disliked this woman, despite the fact she wasn't human, that was another reason he didn't like her. The way she spoke so tauntingly of Kat being beaten and abused made him hate her all the more. "No, I'm here for you. So get your ass down here." He said and she laughed. "I would...but how do I say this...you're beneath me." She said taunting him. He rolled his eyes, that insult meant nothing to him.

"Yeah well...the angel Mundus kidnapped alongside my friend Kat, has got some friends of mine extremely pissed off. So if you don't mind, I would like to get some negotiations going. There is a possibility you may just make it out alive." Dante said looking up at her. "An angel? Where did he find an angel?" She asked in shock. Her eyes showed the fear that is usually hidden within demons, but she actually seemed scared of the fact mundus had taken yet another angel. "Well I would tell you, but you won't get down here so you can hear me. Kinda make it a problem doesn't it?" Dante sneered. He was going to get the girls back one way or another, their lives depended on it.

Later…

Vergil was passed out on his couch when Dante returned with Lilith. Dante put Lilith in a chair and looked at the alluring silver haired man. "This is the man mundus kidnapped the angel from. You two took Kat from me. You two really screwed up when you took Violet from him." Dante said and put a blanket over his brother. Lilith rolled her eyes. "Because she's an angel?" She asked sarcastically. Dante shook his head and smirked. "No, for nearly fourteen years he thought she was human, and because she gets something from him that you wish mundus would give you. As you said, you're nothing without the brat. He loves her; he tries to hide that fact because he thinks it would get in the way of his work." Dante said and Lilith frowned.

"He's going to kill her, the Angel. He won't let her go without a fight." Lilith said and eyed the sleeping man. Dante knew she spoke the truth, but they now had her for leverage. So figuratively speaking mundus was in a tough situation. He was going to let both Violet and Kat go, or he was going to lose his heir and Vergil would attempt to rip him limb from limb. Dante eyed his brother, that was just how Vergil was…a silent killer.

With Violet and Kat…

Violet struggled against her bindings mundus came closer. She continued to cry, she knew she wouldn't leave here alive. "Violet, hang in there, they will find a way. Just don't be afraid. Be strong." Kat said and violet sobbed more, she knew the girl was trying to help her, but it was only making things worse. Kat figured that the guys would find a way to help them by finding a way to get them both out alive, but she knew how demons were with angels, they killed them all. "It's useless trying to sooth her, girl. She will not be leaving this place, ever. Angels are creatures of beauty, and beauty does not prosper in a world of hatred and chaos." Mundus said stepping closer to the beat up Angel.

It was dark and the only thing Kat could see was the electric blue glow of Violets eyes in the dark. "Get away from me! Get away!" She heard Violet scream at mundus, Kat's eyes went wide with fear as she heard the woman scream out in pain. Then she heard choking noises, and mundus' chuckle. Tears began rolling over her cheeks, she had given Violet false hope and now…he was going to kill her. "Angels are beautiful, but feeble weak creatures. That's why demons rule the world now." Mundus said and Kat began to cry even more. She looked up to see a blue glow coming from between the bandages on Violets right arm. She heard the chains break and mundus stepped back to watch Violet in amusement.

"So that's your dirty little secret." Mundus chuckled as the bandages burned away and revealed her arm. "You're wrong mundus. My dirty secret was that I wasn't human. He'd always figured I was, so what did it matter?" She said and eyed her arm. It was white with bright blue glowing claw-like fingers that were long and thin, her entire arm gave off a spectral blue glow. It looked demonic, but angelic all the same. "You have the arm of a demon. How did you come across that?" Mundus asked and she spat on him.

"I'm special. Assiel even thinks so, seeing as blue rose is her katana; which she gifted to Sparda and Eva. Blue rose is a blade that a select few can even think of being able to touch." Violet sneered, and then she gasped in pain as mundus shot forward and dug his nails into her chest trying to rip her heart out the moment he got close to her. "Sir, Vergil and the nephilim have made contact." Someone said from the dimly lit doorway. Mundus pulled his hand from her chest and walked out. Violet heard mundus yell in anger, then the next thing she knew she was crammed away somewhere even darker than before.

The tradeoff…

Vergil pulled the rifle from the back seat of his car and flicked the lights, he didn't particularly like guns, but Dante said that it would be better than trying to run at them with a katana if something went wrong. They tossed Kat onto the ground and stepped away from her. Kat fought to get to her feet and when she did Dante urged Lilith out. Dante looked to the swat team to see if they were going to make a move to let anyone else out, but they made no move to do so. He looked to Vergil who apparently looked ready to shoot everyone there.

"Where is she?! Where is Violet?!" Vergil yelled actually getting out of the vehicle and ramming the barrel of his rifle into Lilith's back. The lead member of the swat team nodded and shoved Violet out of the vehicle and kicked her to where she hit the pavement harder than Kat had. He grit his teeth and made his way to get back in the car. Violet drug herself across the ground for about four feet until Kat walked back over and helped her up. Lilith looked at violet, fear in her eyes. Violet locked gazes with her, fury and hate in her own eyes.

Violet pushed Kat ahead of her gently and used blue rose as a crutch. Violet pulled her right arm from her jacket where it had been hidden from the view of Vergil and the others. Lilith shuddered when she felt the dark aura resonating from her bone white arm. "If..." Violet began, breathing hard," If it were up...Up to me..." She hissed, still breathing hard. "I would rip you to shreds with by bare hands. To show...To show you what it's like to be tossed around like a ragdoll, abused, and scared." Violet said and shoved Lilith, which made the Swat team aim at her. Violet hobbled on, ignoring Lilith's fearful whimpers and the angered swat team behind her. Vergil aimed at Lilith's back and fired the moment Violet got close to Kat, surprising everyone there. He fired again to silence the demon's screams.

The swat team began to fire and Dante ran to get Kat. Vergil took out the swat team one by one as Dante ran back out to help Violet into the car. "You need to go. I'll meet you there!" Dante said and shut the door. They sped off and Vergil looked into the back seat at violet. "Is it true?" He asked and both Kat and violet looked at him. She furrowed her brow in confusion; she didn't know exactly what he was asking. "Me being an Angel? No. I'm not fully Angel, but I'm not nephilim either. My ancient ancestors were nephilim, Assiel. She had a child with an Angel. That child was my grandmother-" "That isn't what I'm talking about." He growled and she saw the despairing look in his eyes.

She smiled despite their situation. "We are hardly in a position to talk about that right now...but yes. I love you Vergil and I always have." She said and sighed. He grunted softly, showing he heard, but gave no reply. Violet glared at him for a moment then watched as Dante followed alongside the car. They pulled up to Vergil's apartment and Dante helped Kat out of the car saying something about having pizza for dinner. Violet drug herself out of Vergil's car and used blue rose to hold her up. She started towards the door but stopped and fisted her right hand around the banister of the steps, the sturdy metal bending within her grasp. She bit her lip and squeezed her eyes shut, hoping the pain in her chest would fade.

"How could you... How could you just sit there and say nothing? How could you not even acknowledge me when I told you! You wanted to know and I gave you a Goddamn answer! What, am I not good enough for you? Am I still a liability? Or do you just hate me because I never told you what I was-" violet sobbed angrily. Vergil's glare turned on her now instead of the wall. "Shut up! You have no idea!" Vergil yelled and Violet looked at him with tear filled eyes. The pain in her chest only got worse with his harsh tone towards her.

"I love you. I would die for you...and you sit here and yell at me?" Violet hissed; her tear filled eyes clashing with his angered ones. Vergil opened his mouth to speak but she had already turned away from him. "Maybe I should have just given in, let the demons kill me. I mean I don't really have much more to live for than this, now do I?" she asked and his eyes went wide. He fisted his hands and frowned, what she was saying wasn't right, and neither was what he had done. Vergil did what he figured would be the best way to show her how he felt. He walked over to her and grabbed her shoulders and turned her to him.

"You don't understand...I don't know what to say to make this right, because I don't think there are any words that could make this right. I'm sorry I yelled at you, pushed you away, and ignored how you felt for me. I just thought...I thought it would be better for you if nothing were to occur between us...but I only now realize that I was wrong. For once I'm admitting it, I'm wrong. I just can't describe how sorry I am." Vergil murmured, it was hardly intelligible, but Violet understood every word.

She glared at him and looked him straight in the eyes. "Yes...you are sorry. You've always been sorry..." She said and wiped her eyes, her long white hair hung limply around her bruised face. She wrapped her arms around his waist and she laid her head on his chest. He gripped her shoulders tightly before he hugged her and craned his head to put his cheek atop her head; it wasn't hard he was an entire foot taller than her. "I love you violet, this time I actually mean it." Vergil said and violet looked at him with a stern gaze. "You be-" she began but Vergil crushed his lips to he broke away from her she glared at him. "Ass. It's rude to interrupt people..." She said and he smirked. "Well if you wouldn't be so-" she pecked him on the lips and hobbled to the door quickly. "Doesn't feel good, does it?" She asked and he grabbed her and tossed her over his shoulder.

"Are you two ever going to come in or are you going to film a damn romance movie?" Dante called from the kitchen. Vergil carried her inside and wouldn't put her down until they reached his living room. He tossed her on his couch and walked away. She glared at him and fought to get off the couch. She limped into the kitchen and began to laugh, when a flying pepperoni became stuck to her forehead. Dante was covered in flour while Kat had pepperoni stuck to her forehead as well and pizza sauce splattered on her face and chest.

"This it's not what it looks like. We refuse to say we were having a food fight in the kitchen." Dante said defiantly with a smirk. "No you're just making a mess because you can't cook." Violet said with a laugh as she plucked the pepperoni from her forehead and tossed it in the trash. Violet searched through the fridge and frowned when the only thing in it was supplies for pizza kits. " Vergil...who restocks your fridge?" She asked with a sigh.

Vergil leaned out his bedroom doorway a bit and scratched his head nervously. "Everyone said Dante liked pizza so I kind of prepared it for a visit from him. And…there was also that one day at the order where he was trying to rip everyone a new one because no one had time to make or order pizza. I figured I would just make preparations ahead of time." Vergil said, not really paying attention anymore. "Yeah well I'm not cleaning up their kitchen romance mess." Violet said and Kat laughed while Dante glared at her.

"Kitchen romance, my ass." Dante muttered while Violet took the pack of pepperoni and stood in Vergil's doorway and began throwing them, one by one onto the ceiling so they would stick. She stretched and her arms and wrists cracked with each move she made. "Well I'm going to bed. Dante you get the couch." Violet said with a fake yawn and then as quickly as she could, made her way to her room. "Dammit violet! This is not even remotely funny! I had to pay for all this!" Vergil yelled and Violet laughed from behind her door. "Well duhh! I ain't got the money for food or anything like that. I don't get paid Vergil!" She laughed and flopped onto her bed.

The next day…

Vergil rolled over once more; it was getting hard for him to sleep. There was this massively annoying 'thunk. Thunk. Thunk.' He kept hearing he grit his teeth and shot up out of his bed and opened his door and saw it was still early and everyone else was still asleep, so far as he could see anyways. He heard it before it could hit him. "Dammit violet quit playing around with those damn throwing knives." He growled and she phased into the human realm and flopped on his bed.

"I see you're doing better. Always the fast healer…" Vergil sighed and slid back into bed. Violet snuggled up next to him with a contented sigh. "I couldn't sleep, traversed limbo, Mundus is still looking for us, obviously." She said with a yarn and wrapped her arms around his bare torso. "You look good with bed head." She said her eyes drooping shut. He rolled his eyes and rolled onto his side to face her. He ran his fingers through her white hair. "That still gets me...you're not Violet any longer…You're more like a snowflake." he said teasingly.

"Whatever." She yawned, and then her drowsy eyes followed his line of sight to where he found her glowing right arm. "Is it as repulsive as everyone says?" She asked her voice shaky as her brilliant glowing fingers fisted against his stomach. He frowned and placed his palm against her demonic one. "It feels oddly normal...not hard and callous like my first impression of it had been. He ran his fingers over the blue underside of her arm then up and over the bone white top. Her eyes followed every movement of his fingers with an odd fascination.

"It's warm, not cold like I thought it would be, and although you can tell the skin is tougher, it's still soft and smooth." He said as he ran his fingers down the top of her arm just to reach her ghostlike fingers to entwine his fingers within hers. "Your fingers look rough and rigid, but they are smooth, like glass." He said and pulled her closer to him. Her lips curled into a smile and he smiled lightly as well. He knew he was saying all the things she needed to hear, she always was one for hiding things from him. He could tell that she had been hiding her fears from him since they had gotten her back, he knew she was not really wanting to tell him her worries either. She was just the type of person to worry too much over the tiniest things, but yet force everyone else to worry about more important things than her.

"It may be a demon arm, but it's more angelic in appearance. It's not repulsive in the slightest Violet, stop worrying." He whispered to her as her light snores reached his ears. "We have arrangements to make. Strategies to plan out, so sleep well, V." He sighed as he drifted off as well. He had to admit it was far better having her, this close to him, rather than her being somewhere else, far from him. He liked how it felt having her by his side, it actually made him worry less about what could have happened and made him happier to think about the beautiful angel by his side and what can now be. Her presence alone made it easier for him to sleep, she made him worry less and enjoy things a bit more.