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"Dante, Dante wake up for me."

Dante opened his blue eyes. There in front of him was his mother, Eva, with a gentle smile on her face. Dante blinked a few times as she began to pet his hair and move it away from his face. The gentle feeling of her fingers against his forehead overwhelmed Dante enough to close his eyes and drop his guard.

"So there you are Dante," Eva said. "I've been waiting for you to wake up for awhile now."

"Mother?" Dante asked softly.

"You've lost something Dante," Eva began. "You've lost the gift I gave you at birth."

Dante opened his eyes once more and looked up at his mother. "What?"

"Your name…and your humanity," she finished.

"Dante!! Get up already! Dante!!"

Hezen's voice ran through Dante's head, and reminded him of what he had lost. With a heavy sigh, Dante closed his eyes once more. He could still feel his mother's touches but suddenly, her touches stopped. He tired to open his eyes once more to see her but he couldn't open his eyes. Over and over again he tired to open his eyes but he just couldn't get them to open. Panic began to run through his body but it wasn't helping.

"Goddammit!" Dante yelled.

xXx

"Dammit!" Dante woke with a startle. He began panting to catch the breath he had lost in his wake and as he looked around, he found that he was lying down in a hospital room.

His eyes fluttered as he looked around the room, and found Hezen lying down in the bed. She was in a hospital gown with a sling holding her right arm over her stomach. After Pena's nagging, Dante had spent one night at the hospital with Hezen. He waited for her to wake up just so he could tell her what happened.

He looked down at his crossed arms, and placed his head back down on top of them. The overwhelming feeling of drowsiness took Dante, and he began to close his eyes to fall back to sleep when Hezen stirred.

"Uh," she groaned. "What the…hell?"

Dante's eyes opened once more. "You alright?"

"No!" she hissed. "What the hell happened?"

"You don't remember?"

Hezen blinked. The memory of what happened days earlier came back to her all at once. All of the pain she had gone through hit her as a small wave of pain ran through her broken arm. But as she searched her memories, a warm, gentle feeling began in her stomach and worked its way through her body. She moved her good arm to her stomach and bent forward.

"What's inside of me?" she whispered.

"A baby."

Hezen shot Dante a glare. Dante grinned back at her with his usual, sarcastic look. Hezen looked away from him and rubbed her forehead. Dante sighed, it seemed like nothing he ever did even made Hezen crack a smile.

"I mean it," she said with a growl behind her voice.

Dante leaned back in the chair he was sitting in and crossed his arms behind his head. He tired to remember everything Pena had explained to him earlier but he couldn't remember every little detail that Hezen would most likely want to hear.

"Well," he began, "you and I are in some kind of contract now. I've lost my human side and now it's inside you."

"And?"

"I…uh." Dante rolled his eyes to the ceiling. He couldn't remember anything else. "That's it."

"How do I get rid of it?"

Dante shrugged. "Dunno."

"Dammit Dante!" Hezen slammed her left fist onto the bed. "Can't you find out something more!? Who the hell told you all of that?"

"Your cat."

Hezen's face drooped. "My…what?"

"Oh…" Dante blinked. He had forgotten that Hezen didn't know about Pena's ability to talk. How was he going to explain this one?

"Bring him in," Hezen demanded.

"What?!" Dante twitched. "You want me to bring a cat here? Into a hospital?"

"I'm worried about my child!" Hezen snapped.

Dante stood. She was right; Dante had forgotten that she was pregnant through everything he had gone through himself. He walked over to the door but turned around to her instead of leaving.

"I'll throw that snap to your mood swings," he said.

"I don't care!"

With that, Dante walked out of the hospital room. Normally he wouldn't take being yelled at from anyone, but he knew that her hormones were getting the best of her. After being housed by the woman, Dante thought that he could at least put up with her snapping at him once in awhile. After all, if was his fault that her arm had been broken.

xXx

Dante arrived back at the apartment he had been calling home and walked in. He walked into Hezen's room and took a single pair of clothing for Hezen to wear when she came home. As he stuffed her clothing into a small pink gym bag, Pena walked into the room with a yawn.

"What are you doing?" Pena asked as he closed his mouth from his yawn. "Is Hezen alright?"

"She's just great," Dante said in a sarcastic tone. "She wants to talk to you about this contract thing."

His jaw dropped open once more. "You told her that I can talk?!"

Dante nodded. "What else was I supposed to say?"

"I don't know…something else!!

"Like what?" Dante snapped. It seemed that Hezen's mood swings were contagious.

Pena puffed up his cheeks in frustration. "Fine I'll go. There's something important I've got to tell the both of you anyways."

As Dante stuffed more clothing into the bag, Pena spotted something that he knew Hezen would like to have. He walked over to the dresser against the opposite wall and pulled open a lower drawer with his teeth.

Dante noticed what the cat was doing. "What are you doin'?" he asked.

"Getting something," Pena answered.

The cat jumped into the drawer and shifted through the clothing until he found a small picture. He pulled it out in his mouth and hopped back onto the bed. Dante looked down at the picture, and took it from Pena's small mouth.

"Hey!" Pena hissed. "I wanna give it to her!"

Dante ignored the small animal and allowed his eyes to look over the picture. It was that of a man, the same man Dante had seen on the dresser when he first arrived in Hezen's apartment. The man was leaning against a wall with a cigarette in his mouth, and his brown hair covering his right eye. He was wearing a black leather jacket and tight blue jeans that tucked down into thick black boots. A chain hung down from his waist that just amplified the 'bad ass' look.

"It's Evern," Pena said.

"She's got a thing for bad asses doesn't she?" Dante laughed and tossed the picture down into the gym bag.

"You're here aren't you?"

"Shut up."

xXx

Once Dante had finished packing Hezen's clothing, Pena slipped into the bag. Dante zipped up the bag but left a small air hole so that Pena would be able to breathe. He sunk Pena into the hospital and got in once the visiting hours were over because Hezen was a doctor. He came into her room and tossed the purple bag onto the bed.

"Did you bring him?" Hezen asked.

Pena popped his head out of the bag. "Dammit Dante! Quit throwin' me around!" he hissed.

"So you can talk," Hezen said.

She leaned back against the pillow behind her and rubbed her forehead with her left arm. Thousands of thoughts were running through her head, so many that she couldn't choose which one to ask first. As she thought over everything, Pena crawled out of the bag and over to his master.

"Hezen," Pena said in a gentle tone. "I've been lying to you about who I really am. I have to talk to you about how I got here…it involves Evern."

Hezen took a deep breath inwards and then released it. "Go ahead; tell me your story."

Pena sighed. He thought that Hezen was going to decline hearing his story after the mention of Evern.

"One morning your cat was down in the parking lot, looking for some way to get out to patrol. Evern was leaving to go demon hunting when he ran over your cat with your car. He didn't want to leave your beloved cat of ten years out in the lot like that so he took a demon soul he had killed hours before and placed it in the cat," Pena explained. "That cat was me."

"Alright." Hezen nodded. "I can believe that."

Dante cocked his right eyebrow. "You're takin' all of this pretty easy."

Hezen moved her good arm to her forehead. "I think my fever is having an effect on my thinking ability right now. I don't know anymore…I need a damn cigarette." She shook her head. "Fine, whatever, just tell me about this contract thing Dante has been talking about."

"There is something called a contract that demons need to come into this world," Pena began. "Every demon needs a name; Dante's mother gave his human and demon side the name of Dante. That man you were fighting has the ability, apparently, to withdraw human sides of half breeds."

"You…can do that?" Hezen said as she blinked, confused.

Pena nodded his head. "It's rare but it must have something to do with his sword. I'll get back to the sword later. His demon side remained unnamed and was going to go back to Hell when you renamed him and took his human side inside of you."

"So how do I get it out?" she asked.

"Get it out?" Dante chuckled. "You just got me in!"

Hezen threw Dante a glare. "I'm way not in the mood for sex jokes."

"Hey cool it," Dante said as he sat forward and placed his elbows on his knees. "I'm just as annoyed as you are."

"I'm the one sitting here with a broken arm dammit," Hezen snapped.

"And I'm the one sitting here without my human side," Dante countered.

Hezen decided to get back to the matter at hand. "But how did Dante lose his name for his demon side? You said his mother named both of his sides so why was he nameless when he lost his human side?"

"Dante's entire being was named Dante." Pena walked closer to Hezen and sat on her lap. "When he lost half of his being, he lost his name as well. He's lucky that his human side is within you, your body is very capable of holding another soul at the present moment."

Hezen sighed and moved her good arm to her stomach. She had gotten a bit larger, now that she thought it over. Her stomach was growing everyday, and soon she would begin to pick up more and more weight while her baby began to look more and more human. The second trimester would start in a week, and left Hezen hopeful that her morning sickness would subside.

Seeing Hezen move her arm to her stomach reminded Dante that he had forgotten to ask about the child.

"How is he?" Dante asked.

"Who?" Hezen looked in Dante's direction.

"The kid." Dante pointed to Hezen's stomach.

"Oh…I didn't know who 'he' was," she said with a slight laugh. "I don't know what sex it is yet. But it's fine, thank God. The doctors said that no harm was done to him when we were getting robbed in the parking lot."

"Robbed?" Pena asked.

"Yeah I made that up," Dante said. "I told them that we got robbed in the parking lot underneath the broken light. Whatever, they bought it."

"Will having Dante's human side hurt my child?" Hezen looked back up at her cat.

Pena shook his head from side to side. "It shouldn't."

"So how I do get it out?" Hezen waited a moment to hear of Dante would say another remark but he remained strangely silent.

"We'll have to find the sword's opposite partner—"

"Great!" Dante threw his hands up into the air. "And how the hell do we find that?"

"We've got to get the other sword," Pena answered in a serious tone.

"We?" Dante laughed. "You mean me?"

The hair on Pena's tail stood. "Whatever Dante!! When you get the sword we have to take it to someone who can read Latin and figure out its opposite sword."

"I can read Latin," Hezen said; the two boys turned back to her with looks of confusion on their faces. "I'm a doctor; most medical terms are rooted in Latin so I should know some."

Dante sighed. "I hope it's enough to get us by."

"Anyway," Pena glared at Dante, "once we find the opposite partner Hezen will have to shove the sword through her stomach to free Dante's human side."

"What!?" Dante and Hezen yelled at once.

Before Dante could yell anything more at the cat, Hezen broke out into tears. She moved her working arm to her face and tired to cover her tears as her breathing picked up. She fell back against the bed and rolled over, away from Dante.

"Hezen—"

"Just GO!" she yelled, interrupting Dante.

Dante stood and picked Pena up off of the bed. He grabbed the gym bag and dumped her clothing and the picture of Evern onto the chair he had been sitting on, and then stuffed Pena inside once more. He moved the strap over his right shoulder.

"Hezen…" Dante sighed.

"Just go," she whispered.

"Fine," Dante spat. "We'll come by to see you in the morning."

With that said, Dante walked out of the hospital room with the gym bag. He closed the door behind himself, and walked down the hospital hallways with a sigh and an extreme feeling of guilt weighing down on his shoulders.

Mood swings suck. Dante thought.

xXx

Once Dante had dropped Pena off at home, and picked up his guns, he decided to check up on Enzo at his usual bar. He walked down to the bar, walked in, and found Enzo sitting at a table with a pale face for once.

"Somethin' wrong?" Dante asked as he walked over to the small wooden table.

Enzo sighed. "I've got a job for you Dante…it's gonna pay ten thousand dollars for one night of work."

"Great." Dante grinned. "Give it to me."

"It's back at that Hilton Hotel," Enzo admitted. He shut his eyes hard and waited for Dante to deny the job offer.

But instead Dante moved his arms out in front of him and cracked his fingers. "I'll do it!" he announced. "Don't worry about anything Enzo, I'll get this job finished tonight."

Enzo's eyes flew open. "Are you serious Dante!? Oh thank God! I didn't think you'd take the job after what happened there last time!"

"Don't remind me." Dante twitched. "I'll get that son of a bitch tonight and have the money in my bank account in the morning!"

"Yeah…" Enzo shifted his eyes around. "Did I mention you'd only be getting five thousand?"

xXx

Even though he was only getting half, Dante left the bar to go and finish the job at the hotel. Once he reached the hotel, he stood outside of it on the sidewalk and looked up it in awe. The hotel had changed quite a bit; all of the lights were shining brightly as people walked in and out of the hotel. He could see people inside of the hotel through the glass doors running around with suitcases behind them, and merchants chasing after them for money.

Wow. Dante blinked in awe. This place as really turned around from the last time I was here. I might wanna get a room here.

Dante walked in through the glass doors and into the lobby. He looked up and watched people walk around for a few minutes before he began looking around for the demon he had fought with before. There wasn't a single trace of the demon around. Everything seemed normal.

"Dante," a male voice said.

He turned around and froze at the image behind him. There stood the man Dante had come to know as Evern. Through the pictures Dante had seen, this man looked exactly like Evern, down to the chain around his waist.

"What the hell are you trying to pull?" Dante growled.

"So you can finally see me?" Evern asked with a laugh. "I've been wondering when you were going to see my true form."

"True form?" Dante cocked his right eyebrow.

"He's got a gun!" a woman screamed from behind Dante.

"Someone call security!!" another woman yelled.

"There goes my cover." Dante rolled his eyes. "So what are you doing here Evern? Aren't you supposed to be dead?"

Evern laughed. "That's the good thing about having a demon body; it's hard to die when you've been stabbed through the stomach."

Dante grinned. "You would think that killing a thousand angels would turn you fully human these days. Damn old legends."

"No the legend worked." Evern shook his head back and forth. "I have your brother to thank for the body I'm using now."

Dante's eyes grew wide. "My brother?"

xXx

Hezen walked down the dark streets near her apartment with a hurry in her step. She hated being out this late in the dark but she had to get home. She had discharged herself from the hospital and wanted to get home now. A deep missing tore away within her to get back home and to see Pena…and even Dante. It was the picture of Evern Dante had brought to her that made Hezen want to return home. She just wanted to sleep in her own bed and eat her own food. Being in the hospital as a patient instead of a doctor gave Hezen an uneasy feeling that she couldn't rid herself of.

Almost there. Hezen told herself. Just a little while longer.

She stepped under another streetlight and felt safe for a few seconds before she stepped back into the darkness she feared. She soon entered the parking garage of her apartment complex and as she walked up to the elevator, she heard the sound of boots clunking on the ground behind her.

Don't be a wacko, don't be a wacko. She repeated in her head.

The clunking behind her grew louder and louder until Hezen couldn't hear them anymore against the cement. A hand came down on her left shoulder and spun her around violently. She hissed in pain when a large hand grabbed her throat.

"Why do I sense Dante on you?" a male voice asked in anger. "A mere human?"

Hezen opened her eyes as pain shot down her broken arm and saw a face that made the color drain from her. Adrenaline began pumping through Hezen's body as the instinct to run overpowered her ability to think. This person who was holding her and now choking her was the man she never wanted to see again. Never.

Vergil.

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