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Chapter 14. A Demon Father

In the morning Dante and Lucia met Darkhid in his office. He was there to talk with them before they went to practise their roles. The day would be busy, so he kept it brief.

"Vergil told me Mary gave his medallion to Milkou" Darkhid said, staring at the two.

"So, it was as I thought" Dante said and sat down in the sofa. Lucia wasn't sure what were they talking about.

"You know what it means, don't you?" Darkhid said, looking at Dante.

"Yes, and I also know that it's not enough, even if Milkou works for Pokka, they can't do anything as long as I still have mine" Dante said. He glanced at Lucia; she was totally an outsider.

"I just don't get it, why haven't you told her?" Dante wondered, looking at Lucia. She was slightly surprised.

"Told me what?" she asked. Dante raised his brows; she really didn't know.

"You should tell her before she hears it from someone else, because that's going to hurt her more than if she hears it from you" Dante said, looking back at Darkhid.

"Don't you tell me what I should do with my daughter; she's not ready for that" Darkhid said smoothly, his eyes closed.

"What are you talking about?" Lucia asked. She was very curious now.

Dante saw that from her eyes, but knew he couldn't tell her. He hoped Darkhid would tell her before the mission, and watched the two. Lucia was waiting for her father to say something. Dante felt kind of worried. If Pokka told Lucia something she didn't know, their mission might be put in danger. It seemed to him she had no idea who she really was.

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Meanwhile, in a testing room Vergil, Mary and Theo were waiting for Ani and Kadir to show them the machinery. They were late, and Vergil was getting nervous. Mary tried to calm him down, though she knew he wouldn't listen to her that easily, after what she did. Theo followed their movements, keeping an eye on Vergil. He wasn't sure if he could trust him after what Darkhid told him. It seemed like Mary didn't know what he knew.

"What's taking them so long?" Mary asked, yawning; she was tired.

"Ani told me she'd get me something I can put in my ears, because I have to be in the same machine delivery van as you two" Theo said, grinning slightly.

"And what's that supposed to mean!?" Mary raged at him, but Theo just smiled.

"You should know" Vergil said knowingly.

Mary glanced at him; something wasn't like it used to be. Theo was supposed to hate Vergil for some reason, and now they were thinking the same way. At least that's what Ani told her a few days ago. So, why were they acting like they were best friends if they didn't like each other?

The door opened, and they turned to see who it was. Ani came in first and her brother Kadir followed right behind. Ani walked to Theo and gave him something that he put in his pocket. Kadir brought out and gave them some notebooks to read about the machinery. Mary took a look at one and sighed.

"Do I really have to read this?" she asked. Kadir shook his head.

"No, you don't have to read it; it's given to you just in case, if you're having problems while on your mission" Kadir answered, and Mary felt relieved.

"So, let us begin" Ani said, and started laying the smallest notes on a table.

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Meanwhile, in the office, Darkhid started talking again after a few minutes of silence.

"I know what you've been wondering Lucia" he said, his eyes still closed; it got her attention.

"You'd like to know if I knew Sparda, wouldn't you?"

"How do you know what I'm thinking?" she asked. Her father smiled slightly.

"Because I knew him... Actually, he was my friend, just like Gigero was. You remember Gigero, don't you?" he said, looking at his daughter.

"Galeo and Theo's father..." Lucia said, sighing hard.

"He was a demon right?" she asked quietly and glanced at her father.

"Right... And his father?" he asked, pointing at Dante who was smiling to himself.

"A demon..." she said carefully, looking at her father and saw him lowering his head.

"So am I" Darkhid said shortly. He really wasn't good at these talks.

"... What?" Lucia asked quietly, shocked, her eyes wide open. She could hardly believe what she'd heard. All these years and her father never told her, until now.

"As I said, I'm a demon. That means you have the blood of demons as well, Lucia" Darkhid said.

He wasn't sure if it was such a great idea to tell her, but Dante had a good point as to why he should do it now. Lucia could only stare at her father for a moment. Then she took a few steps backwards and sat down in the sofa, next to Dante. She was confused, but somehow she knew her father wasn't lying.

Dante smiled, he was satisfied now that Darkhid had finally told her.

"Daddy?" she asked, glancing at her father.

"Yes?" Darkhid asked. Lucia jumped up from the sofa.

"Can you show me your demon form, please daddy?" she asked kindly. Darkhid was totally surprised.

"Why do you want to see that?" he asked.

"I wanna know if I'm going to be a cute or ugly demon myself. I'd like to be a cute one" Lucia wondered.

Dante glanced at Darkhid; he seemed uncertain what to do.

"I'm a black one with coarse fur and a grey horn on my forehead. I also have a tail and I can confuse the enemy's head with my voice. But, to show you... No, I won't" He said decisively. Lucia was disappointed.

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Vergil tried to listen carefully to everything Ani and Kadir told them. Earrings, necklaces, hairclips, sunglasses, gloves, shoes... Those were supposed to be explained to Dante and Lucia. He shook his head, this way would surely take the whole day before they have finished with the machinery. Vergil glanced at Mary; she seemed to be listening more carefully.

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Lucia seemed very disappointed that her father didn't show her his demon form. Dante tried to cheer her up while they were walking to a costumer. Their clothes for the mission were waiting there.

"If I were you, I would be happier that he told the truth, than being disappointed over something I don't know" he said. Lucia just glanced at him. Dante sighed and smiled.

"Can you dance?" Lucia asked suddenly. Dante laughed.

"Maybe, but I'm not that great" he replied.

"Good, I can beat you in a contest then" Lucia said smiling.

"A contest? Hey, I love contests!" Dante said.

"If you can't dance, you can't win, and you can't come to have your night at my flat" Lucia said satisfied.

"That's not fair!" Dante disagreed with her, when Lucia started running away from him.

"May be I'll change my mind if you'll catch me before the fourth floor" she yelled while going. She felt slightly happier now. Dante smiled; he was probably never going to understand the redheaded girl.

"Can I use the elevator?!" he asked, but Lucia was too far away to hear him.

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Vergil sat in a chair and turned on his computer. Mary and Theo did the same thing; they were finally in the delivery van. Ani and Kadir were giving guidance, and the three did as they were instructed. Finally there was some important information, although Vergil soon realised he wasn't so great with computers.

"Need some help?" Mary asked, as she was sitting next to him. Vergil snorted, but didn't say a thing.

"You need to have at least three programs opened at the same time while following Dante and Lucia on this mission. Theo, you're going to need the recorder program, voice program to listen in and an outside camera, to follow what's happening outside this car, at the same time. Vergil, you need to keep the voice program for listening, and microphone program for talking with Dante and giving him the guidance he needs. That's why you have to search the map for him, and follow his movements with floor plan program. You'll see where he is in the house and you can tell him where to head, understood?" Ani asked, emphasizing the last word.

"Yes, miss omniscient" Vergil said, having the programs open already. Ani shook her head, Vergil seemed to be in a bad mood to her.

"And Mary, you're working with same programs as Vergil, we need to follow Lucia's speech and movements too" Kadir said.

"Okay" Mary said.

"Alright then, let's practise. Vergil and Mary, put your headphones on and open the floor plan of this building. Theo, you open all three programs. Here are the rules: Vergil guides figure A, you'll find him on floor 10, and Mary guides figure B on the 20th floor. You'll guide them past each other so they won't meet on any floor. Figure A needs to get to floor 20 and figure B to floor 10. Theo you'll record everything on this tape, and so that this won't be too easy you have 20 minutes as a time limit. Have fun and good luck!" Ani said, and then she left the delivery van with Kadir. The three of them started practising.

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After visiting the costumer, Dante and Lucia met their dancing masters on the dance floor. Lucia was excited, since she'd never had dancing lessons. They greeted the other two there, then listened carefully to what they had to say before the dancing lessons started. At first they danced with their teachers as they taught them to dance better and showed them a few new dances. After a few hours they had a break, then they needed to dance together.

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Inside the delivery van, Theo was losing his nerves. They had only five minutes left to finish this practise mission and those two were fighting about 'that'.

"Can you please stop that ridiculous fighting and focus on this exercise?" Theo asked, turning his head to see the two as they were sitting on the other side.

"He started saying I was acting like a doll!!" Mary yelled, glancing at Theo. Then she blushed when she saw Theo raised his left brow as an answer, and turned her face away. Vergil tried to hold his laughter.

"I'm not interested to hear about your 'Barbie & Ken' moments, so could you please focus?" Theo asked, and when the two had nothing to say, he nodded in satisfaction, and turned back to his programs.

"Dolly..." Vergil said, laughing quietly, and got a touchy glare from Mary's direction.

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Elsewhere, the break was over, and it was time for Dante and Lucia to dance together. They walked onto the dance floor and started getting ready. A female dancer put the music on, and right at the beginning of their dance Dante started laughing quietly. Lucia sighed.

"You need to focus" she whispered, so only Dante was able to hear her.

"Sorry, it's just a silly memory" Dante said quietly.

The dancing masters followed their movements and techniques. The first two dances were mostly clear, but the third one seemed a little more difficult. The last ones went alright though. After they had finished their practise, the female dancing master came over to them.

"I think that was great. You're learning fast, but we need to focus more on music type three and talk about a few things on music types four and five" she said helpfully.

"Thanks. I'm surprised it went so well after all" Lucia said, glancing at Dante with a smile on her face.

"Since we haven't got much time I think you were just great" the woman said.

"She likes you too" Lucia said with a grin, though she wasn't sure if it was a good thing for her to notice.

"I'm used to be popular" Dante teased her, and avoided Lucia's playful hit to his head.

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The three had one minute left and Mary was having a hard time guiding her figure down the floors. Vergil had completed his guiding practise just a while ago and was talking with Theo.

Mary tried not to listen to them, but she was lost with her task.

"Would you guys stop talking? I'm trying to work over here" she asked.

Vergil glanced at his computer screen and saw her problem.

"Why don't you tell him to go right?" he asked. It seemed so clear to him do it that way.

"Great..." Mary sighed. Why she didn't notice that.

She guided the figure to the right and had her mission completed just in time. Ani and Kadir came in and they told them the training went well. Mary was relieved when she came out from the machine delivery van right after Vergil.

"I thought you weren't good with computers" Mary pointed out.

"Maybe, but I learn fast" Vergil replied. He glanced at her while walking.

"Are you nervous?" he asked, and slowed his steps, so he could wipe her hair with his hand, and noticed something at the same time when she replied to him.

"Kind of... I have a feeling something bad may happen tomorrow night" she said quietly.

"I don't" he said and played with her hair when she pressed up to him, stopping him.

"But I do" she mumbled and hugged him. He sneered, but smiled.

"You've got funny stripes here in your hair" he said then.

"You like them?" she asked and raised her head so she could see him, still hugging him dearly.

"Yeah, but why? Didn't like your black hair?" he asked, stroking her hair softly.

"Of course I did. It's just that... Well, it's a girls thing" she replied, a smile on her face.

"Right..." he thought, more to himself than anything.

"Do you have any plans?" she hinted to him.

Vergil looked at her, waiting for her to say more. She saw it in his face and the way he looked at her. She knew he would like to, and winked at him to follow her.

He followed Mary down the stairs and all the way to her car where they kissed for some time, before they continued on their way to Mary's flat.

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The sun had set and it was getting dark outside when Dante and Lucia set off back home. They took their time walking and talking about the coming mission. Lucia seemed a little worried so Dante decided to cheer her up.

"I think that gala dress they chose for you is perfect"

"Really?" she barked with laughter; as she did, a warm feeling filled her heart.

"Yeah, very cute" he said and glanced at her. She kept her head down, and took a hold of his hand.

"You know what?" Lucia said, raising her head to look at him, and stopped them.

"Even if that was a kind of old-fashioned way to cheer me up, I think it worked" she said, smiling slightly.

"Good, because I have a strange feeling there's something you'd like to share with me" Dante answered, watching her.

"You have, why?" she said quietly and raised her arms onto his shoulders, looking him deep in the eyes.

"Just a feeling..." he said and smiled.

Lucia felt more relaxed than she had for a long time. She hasn't had any boyfriends after Galeo, nor did she want one. She felt Dante's arms behind her back, and felt him hugging her. She heaved a deep sigh in his arms, and then raised her head up, and kissed him emotionally.

The end of chapter 14. I hope you like it :)