No, no, no.

"Sparda! Please!" Eva was screaming.
I couldn't watch them. From the corner of my eye I could see a whirlwind of black and red, and hear the sickening wet sound of steel connecting with flesh. I smelled blood and tasted the rage and fear that clung to the air.

Traitor...traitor...

I slowly curled my legs up into the swing, and looked over at Eva. Bloody Eva. I glanced at the bloody handprints against the glass door, and Sparda coming through that door with his sword held ready.

No, no, no.

This wasn't happening. This couldn't be happening. I was back in my hellish nightmares. It had to be.

Eva was suddenly beside me, pulling me from the swing toward the house. I heard a roar and instinctively turned toward it. Eva stopped beside me, feeling the same compulsion to look. Vergil held Yamato in a motion that I knew, before he moved and before Dante moved, was going to disarm his opponent. It happened so fast but it felt like time had slowed down. Dante was striking at Vergil - and then Rebellion was in the air and Yamato was heading straight for Dante's chest.

No!

Sparda's blade came down and, in one strike, he removed Yamato ridiculously easily from Vergil, flicking it off to the side. In the same instant, Dante leaped for Rebellion, caught it, and would have driven it straight through Vergil's skull if Sparda hadn't deflected it with Alastor.

Dante let out an outraged cry as Rebellion was flung from his grip again, and then Vergil knocked him down in his haste to get to his sword.

"Enough!" Sparda shouted.

"Stay out of this!" Dante roared back and, in a streak of red, he was stalking toward Vergil with Alastor in his grip.

It took all of us a second to catch on what Dante had managed to do - Sparda especially looked stunned - and then Dante was wielding both Alastor and Rebellion as he headed right for Vergil.

"You want to fuck with me?" Dante breathed hard.

It was some show. Dante attacked and Vergil responded by deflecting the hits and teleporting. Neither of them were getting anywhere, and Dante was growing more and more agitated as he chased after his brother.

"What is going on with you?" Eva left her guard beside me to march up to them.

Dante was getting tired, but the fury behind his movements didn't waver. It looked like he wasn't going to give up.

"Please, Dante, whatever it is..." Eva started weakly.

Sparda was suddenly beside her, as if he expected Dante to turn on her, too.

"I told you to stay out of-" Dante started, and then he was launching at me with Rebellion. I saw him coming toward me before I felt the air stir next to me. I jolted away from the density of it, and watched Rebellion sink straight through Vergil's shoulder when he materialised beside me.

Dante gritted his teeth and withdrew the sword, only to stab it right through Vergil's gut. I watched him fall to the ground, and every ounce of me was reverberating with revenge.

"Dante, stop!" Eva cried.

"Still having fun, brother?" Dante ground out, digging the sword deeper.

Vergil choked in response, trying helplessly to pull the blade out.

"Dante!"

He leaned down on the hilt of Rebellion and glared down at Vergil. "We'll finish this one day," he hissed, and yanked the sword free mercilessly.

I watched Vergil struggling for breath, turning onto his side, staring wide eyed in disbelief and fury that Dante hadn't carried it through. Kill him. He had to die.

Eva grabbed Vergil by the arm, crouched down beside him, worry plastered across her face. She kept sending wary glances up at Dante as she eventually managed to get Vergil to his feet. Dante stood his ground, clutching Rebellion and Alastor in both hands, glaring back at Vergil. Sparda grabbed his sword, but Dante didn't even seem to notice. Eva was spouting things about 'crazy' and 'dangerous' and 'calming down'. I don't think Dante even heard her.

I put my hand to my head. I felt sick, sick to my soul. The implications of what this meant was revolting. How did I not see it? How could I have been so blind? I'd known there was something different, something off, but I'd never have imagined that-

But then, I had known. At the pub that first night. At that coldness he displayed. I had known, I couldn't have not known it was him. I simply hadn't questioned it. But why-

My stomach churned. Control. That was what his hold was over me. He'd always been good at getting into my head, pushing the wrong buttons - and knowing the right ones to push. Don't question. Don't talk. Do. I looked from an angry Sparda to a furious, teary-eyed Eva. My gaze fixed on Vergil, and I backed away to join Dante's side.

Vergil was wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, glaring back at Dante. They'd never looked more identical than that moment. I touched Dante's sleeve tentatively, and expected him to pull away, or shake me off. Instead he looked down at me, and every part of me started screaming at me that I didn't even deserve that. Not after what I'd done. He ought to hate me. I was disgusted with myself, and inexplicably angry with him when he put his arm around my back and pulled me closer to him. He should have better than me.

"Back away," Sparda stepped in front of us. His mere aura was enough to make me and Dante retreat a few steps. "Now that we are all calm and civil, who would like to explain what the hell just happened?"

There was a beat where everyone stared at everyone else: Eva at Sparda, Sparda at Dante, Dante at Vergil - and then Vergil smirked at me.

Kill him. Please, oh please, Dante, kill him.

I didn't realise I'd said it out loud. Dante let go of me and strolled up to Vergil, and kicked him down a second before Sparda could restrain him. It was so quick, at first I didn't know what he'd done. Vergil dropped to the ground faster than I'd ever seen, and Dante dodged Sparda's grip.

"You're a fucking asshole," Dante spat.

Vergil was rolling on his side, folded double, and I glimpsed where he was clutching just before Dante blocked my view and turned me around. "Let's blow this joint."

...yes he kicked him in the nuts.
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