As the light cleared and we were able to see again, we saw that the castle had disappeared, In its place was the Devil May Cry office, shrouded in darkness. I breathed a sigh of relief, seeing the familiar place. Patty collapsed to her knees from the force of her relief, and Dante just grinned and sat down at his desk.

"good to be home" he said, crossing his ankles on the desk and leaning back.

"that's it, that's all you have to say, after all weve just been through?" I wondered how he was relaxed after all that, he was acting as if nothing had happened.

"why?, what do you want me to say?" he asked, I shrugged.

"forget I asked" I said sighing and helping patty up and to the sofa.

"I should get home" she said, quietly.

"can I call my mother?" she sounded exhausted, but at least she wasn't scared anymore.

"sure" I said, retrieving my phone from my pocket.

"here use this" she took the silver phone from me and began tapping on the keys.

"wonder where that bell went" I said, returning to the desk where Dante sat, he shrugged.

"don't know, don't care" he answered.

After about half an hour of sitting around doing nothing, the bell above the door rang, signalling the arrival of a guest. Standing in the doorway, was a blonde woman, she smiled as she entered.

"mother!" Patty shouted, running over to the woman and hugging her tightly.

"hi there, Patty" the woman said hugging the girl back.

"nice to meet you, I'm nina pattys mother" she said turning to me and holding her hand out for me to shake.

"nice to meet you too, I'm Kayla" I shook her hand, and glanced over and Dante but he was pretending if not really asleep.

"well, shall we get going dear" Nina asked her daughter, Patty nodded.

"take care" I said, opening the door for them.

"see you soon, Kay" Patty said grinning, I didn't even notice she had given me a nickname until I had closed the door behind them. I spun round to face Dante, my hands on my hips.

"are you just gonna sleep for the rest of the day!" I shouted across the room, but he didn't even flinch.

"back off, I'm tired arent you?" he said keeping his eyes closed, I hadn't realised how tired I actually was until he had mentioned it.

"I guess so, im going to sleep" I answered, Dante merely waved blindly in my direction. As I climbed the stairs I began to realize just how tired I was, my legs felt like led and my head was heavy. I reached my room and collapsed on the bed, without bothering to close the door behind me. It wasn't long before I drifted of into a deep sleep.

"its warm" I thought as I woke, from my dream. Behind me I heard slow breathing and I froze, just as I thought it was the wind, an arm slid around my waist and pulled me closer to the person behind me. I turned slowly to see Dante lying there, he was fast asleep he actually looked peaceful for once. I thoug about waking him up but when I looked outside it was dark still. However I had no intention of staying here, it was just too close for comfort. I tried to escape without waking him, but his grip was too tight couldn't move all.

"not again" I whispered to myself. As I watched him sleep, Dante stirred moaning in his sleep before finally opening his eyes and staring into mine in confusion.

"why are you in my bed?" he asked me smirking.

"your in mine" I answered, this just made him grin.

"oh really, shall we continue our conversation from earlier" he said, leaning closer.

"I hoped you'd forgotten about that" I said, blushing at the thought.

"well your trapped again" he glanced down at his arm around my waist then back up at my face.

"you cant stay here all day, you'll have to leave at some point." I said defiantly, leaning as far away as I could, under his arm.

"I can trust me" he answered, pulling me even closer.

"the office is empty, patty's gone and no-one is going to disturb us" he said, in a low voice.

"what will it take for you to leave" I asked, but I knew what he would say.

"same condition as before" he answered, I decided to play dumb.

"what was that I forget?" I asked, looking anywhere but into his eyes.

"kiss me" he answered.

"you know this could be classed as sexual harrasment" I retorted, with an evil smile.

"you're the one who crawled into my bed" he answered.

"your in my bed!" I yelled back, he just smirked.

"if you say so"

"your half asleep aren't you" I noticed how he seemed out of it, and not coherent at all.

"maybe, but I know what I'm doing" he leaned in closer, smirking.

"I need to shower" I said, trying to change the subject and distact him.

"is that an offer?"

"you wish!" I shouted, blushing a deeper red.

I considered my options, staying here all day, trying to think of a way to distract him, or kissing him. I didn't really want to stay here all day, and I couldn't think of a way to distract him so that just left the one option.

"if I kiss you, you promise to let me go?" I asked.

"I'm a man of my word" he said placing his free hand on his heart.

"fine, but I;m going to kill you afterwards" I threatened, he just laughed at my feeble attempt to scare him.

"I know im gonna regret this" I whispered to myself as he leant closer to me, I closed my eyes and flinched when I felt his breath on my face.

"you're an idiot" he said, laughing making me jump. I opened my eyes to see him sitting up beside me.

"you really think I'm that kind of person?" he asked, smiling.

"you jerk!" I shouted, throwing the nearest available thing at him, which just so happened to be a pillow.

"what did you actually want me to kiss you?" he stood up and stretched.

"that was the nest night's sleep ive ever had, thanks babe"

"get out!" I threw another pillow at him but he had left before it hit him.

After taking a shower and changing my clothes, I decided to head down to the office even though I knew he would be there. As I walked down the creaky staircase I imagined Dante would be lounging at his desk, smirking to himself. However when I entered the office it was empty, Dante wasn't anywhere to be seen, it was weird to see the place so empty, the past few days someone had always been here if only just me and Dante. The office was kind of creepy when it was empty, it was too quiet so I turned on the jukebox to fill the room with at least some sound. I glanced over at the wall behind Dante's desk and noticed all the different weapons that hung there. It was quite an impressive collection, one I particular took my eye, a purple guitar, at least it looked like a guitar anyway.

"I wonder" I edged closer to it, taking in the incredible details.

"I wouldn't do that" I heard Dante's voice from behind me and jumped.

"nevan's not very people friendly" he continued, placing a pizza box on the desk and grabbing a slice.

"who's nevan?"

"that's nevan" he pointed to the guitar.

"you named your guitar"

"no. that's her name, she's a devil arm. Which means the soul of a demon lies within the guitar. Anyway its not only a guitar you know, she's a very powerful weapon as well" Dante sat at his desk as he was talking, taking a bite of his pizza after every sentence.

"right, so are all of these the same?" I asked, pointing to the wall of weapons.

"pretty much" he answered, he seemed to have forgotten what had happened earlier so I decided not to ask, at least not yet I needed to calm down some more first.

"hungry?" Dante asked, pushing the pizza bos toward me.

"starving" I answered, grabbing a slice and sitting In the chair opposite his desk.

"so where were you just now"

"getting pizza, why where did you think I was?, where you worried about me?"

"yeah right" I finished my slice, and grabbed another.

"hey don't eat it all" Dante moaned, moving the box away from me.

"theif, don't take it away" I argued, holding back laughter.

"too late" he said, with his mouth full of food.

"you ate it all?, you pig" I yelled, but he just laughed.

"what I'm a growing boy" he said, grinning.

"if you grow anymore you'll hit your head on the door" I answered, standing and taking the pizza box and placing it in the bin.

"I thought you were supposed to be cleaning my office" Dante said suddenly, I spun round placing my hands on my hips.

"yeah well, that was just to make you let me stay" I answered, sticking my tongue out at him.

"oh really, well the brooms over there." he said, smirking totally ignoring my statement.

"no thanks, I'll pass" I hadn't noticed until now how totally comfortable I was with him, I felt like I could tell him anything, and it scared me that I felt that way. I never trusted anyone except my family, but after my parents died and I felt abandoned by everyone else.I told myself I didn't need to trust anyone other than myself, and that feeling continued to this day, even after being forgiven by my twin and Christian I still couldn't let it now this man, this total stranger, had made me trust him it angered me slightly but more than anything I was afraid that I would be abandoned or betrayed.

"erm, why didn't you kiss me earlier?" I asked, surprising myself, Dante looked up at me as surprised as I was.

"why did you want me to?" he said standing and walking towards me.

"no, I just, I was." I stuttered.

"you were shaking" he said, stopping a few feet from me.

"when I leant in you were shaking, you were afraid" he continued.

"I….was…..shaking?" I asked in disbelief, he nodded slowly.

"you still are" he continued walking towards me. I looked at my hands and was shocked to see indeed I was shaking.

"but why, I'm not scared" I said this knowing I was afraid, but I couldn't tell why, it wasn't Dante, I mean yes he's intimidating at times but I wasn't scared of him.

"don't worry" he said, making me look up and into his blue eyes.

"don't be scared" he reassured me, and I felt safe again, but the fear of being betrayed was still there. He stood close to me but I felt like he was miles away, we were In two different leagues. I didn't even come close to being on the same level as him, but something deep in my heart wished I could be. I wanted to be able to let someone else in again but feared the consiquences that would mean.

"don't be afraid anymore" his voice was soft and close. He put his arms around my shoulders and pulled me close, hugging me gently. I gasped in surprise, blushing at how close he was.

"you don't have to be alone you know" he whispered.