Epilogue

Epilogue

Eva Fay

Dante sat in his office, reading a magazine. Trish walked gracefully into the room, holding a silver brief-case her right hand. "Another job well done, it would seem," she said as she put the case on the desk.

Dante looked up from his magazine to the case, then grinned at Trish, "So it would seem…" he answered.

"Any news?" Trish asked.

"Nothing yet," Dante admitted, "Just waiting for Lady's call really."

"Are you sure that you don't want to go and check on her?" Trish sat on the corner of the desk, "I can handle things here for a while."

"Nah," Dante put down the magazine, putting up his feet with his hands behind his head, closing his eyes and looking extremely relaxed, "She can handle it."

The phone rang and Dante sprang up, launching for the phone. Trish snatched it up before he could get it, leaving Dante laying on his stomach on the desk. Dante let his head drop, hand still upraised for the phone.

"Devil May Cry," Trish said into the phone with her coy voice, smirking at Dante as he sat back in his chair, crossing his arms to sulk. "Really? Hmm…" Trish smiled at Dante, "Well, I'll be sure to tell him that. Yes, I'm sure he'll be there very soon. Alright…of course I'll come by too. Alright, goodbye." She hung it up.

"Well?" Dante pushed, "Who was it?"

"It was Lady," Trish said, looking at her nails.

"And?" Dante pushed again.

"And she's at the hospital with Eden."

"AND!?" Dante stood up, looking very impatient now.

Trish huffed, "Calm down," she said, waving her hand at him, "You have a new baby girl."

"A girl?" Dante smiled, looking like he was beaming.

"Yep. Lady says she wants you to come pick them up, and that Seth will be coming by to with the twins."

"Right," he stood up, "Coming Trish?"

Trish sighed and followed him out the door.


Dante walked out of the hospital with Eden, who was busily talking to her two eight year old sons, Dominic and Leon, her four year old son Isaac walking hand-in-hand with "Auntie Trish", his other thumb in his mouth. All three boys had Dante's hair, the twins had Eden's old transparent green eyes, while Isaac had his daddy's ice blue. Lady and Seth walked out after Trish and Isaac, Lady talking to him about something that Seth was only pretending to be listening to, like he normally did.

Dante carried a small little baby wrapped in a pink blanket, with a hospital bracelet that read Eva Fay Sparda. Eden had named her after her and Dante's mothers'. She had a small crown of fare hair like Eden's and her eyes were a transparent blue-green. She was sleeping now, holding tight to Dante's finger as he watched her. She was so small and fragile, but she was so special to him. His first daughter.

"Dante?" Eden had let the twins go with Seth to his truck, the back filled with Lady's guns and his swords, even a couple rocket launchers (that were all hidden under a tarp, of course). She walked slowly back to him, smiling as he stopped to look at little Eva sleeping in his arms.

She leaned on his shoulder and looked at her daughter as well, her hair back in a messy pony-tail, looking rather tired though she felt better than ever. "She's beautiful, isn't she?" she said, gently smoothing Eva's very little hair.

Dante looked at her, "As usual, you did great Eden."

Eden smiled and kissed him, "Well, I had a little help…"

Dante grinned, "Glad I get some of the credit."

"I wasn't talking about you," Eden smiled, "Lady and Seth where here coaching me through the delivery."

Dante blinked, "Oh." He sounded a bit let down.

"I'm joking, Dante," Eden sighed.

Dante shook his head, "I'm sorry, I should've come, I know…"

"No, it's fine," Eden said, "I knew you had a job to do. By the way, how'd it go?"

"Fine," Dante answered, "But you did a better job than I did. And you got better results." Eva stirred in his arms, squeezing his finger tighter and yawning.

"She's so cute," Eden smiled, kissing Eva's head, "She's going to be a real heart-breaker when she grows up."

Dante stiffened, then glared at Eden, "She's not dating until she's thirty-five."

Eden laughed and patted his shoulder, "Good luck with that one, cowboy." She walked toward the truck.

"Mama!" Dominic yelled, "Leon is pulling my hair again!"

"Am not!" Leon yelled back.

"Daddy!" Isaac yelled, sounding like he was going to cry, "Daddy! Leon hurt my arm!!"

Dante sighed, rolling his eyes. The twins were always rough housing, and little Isaac somehow ended up caught in the middle. This time, it was litteral, seeing as Isaac was fastened to a car-seat inbetween the twins as they reached over him to get at eachother.

Eden walked up to the truck's back seat, "Okay, the next one to hurt anyone is not going to get any cake tonight when we get home!"

All three boys sat back, Dominic and Leon crossing their arms and pouting, while Isaac only blinked, his thumb in his mouth.

"Don't suck on your thumb, Isaac," Dante said, reaching over and took Isaac's thumb out of his mouth, "You'll get buck teeth."

"Do you want us to head to your house, Eden?" Seth asked.

"Yeah, it's past the boys' bedtime," Eden said, then looked at the boys, "Don't give Uncle Seth a hard time, got it? Or I'll hear about it. Be good."

"Yes Mama," all three boys said at once. Eden nodded and closed the door, walking towards her car with Dante.

Dante let her take Eva as she went towards the passenger's door. Dante quickly went and opened it.

Trish crossed her arms, leaning over to Lady, "So, what do you think?"

Lady huffed, "I can't wait until that little baby becomes a teenager," she said, turning to the truck, "I wonder how Dante will deal with that one."

Trish chuckled, "Yeah…that's going to be real entrusting…" Trish turned and went to her bike that Dante had driven here.

Dante helped Eden into the black Corvette and once she was all safely in, went to the driver's side. Trish watched the truck pull out with Lady turning around in the seat to yell at the twins as they started to fight from either side of little Isaac's care seat, and then Dante pull out while glancing over every twenty seconds to talk to Eden, who kept reassuring him that she was fine.

Trish sighed and shook her head, "Yep…this is definitely going to be real entrusting…" she revved the engine and while the truck and care went right, towards the house Dante had bought for his family to live in, she went left, back towards the office.

Sitting on the wall around the parking lot, a large cream colored cat licked his paw. He looked up as Trish's bike lights disappeared, the light slowly faded around him until it was just his glowing gold eyes that showed that he was still there.

Slowly, those golden eyes faded to a bright crimson, and he chuckled before jumping to the other side of the wall and trotting back towards the ruins of Temen-Ni-Gru. If you watched in the moonlight just right, you would swear you saw the ghosts of Hector and Helena walking on either side of him, gliding along with the strange cat.

The End


A/N: Yes, this is the real, real end. I have no plans for a sequel, though whether or not I really make one might depend on how bored I get... Though, looking back, I might have to re-write some of the earlier parts of the story XP. Anyway, thanks for all who read this. Even though it wasn't the best thing ever, I really enjoyed writing this. Hope you liked it.

-Alma Theresa-