Chapter 12: Baby

Opening the door of Devil May Cry both Vergil and Anne were greeted by Dante who sat on his chair, his trademark feet proudly resting above his desk.

"Where have you been Verge? Had fun?", while winking to his twin.

Anne started explaining facts right away, so Dante wouldn't take what he was seeing in front of him the wrong way.

"So you're telling me you two went out so Vergil could pay your debt?"

"Yeah, he paid fifteen thousand dollars that I owed the former owner of my parent's house."

Dante who was drinking a can of beer, almost had beer flying through his nostrils when he heard the amount of money Vergil had like that, to give for charity. Hearing how much his brother paid made him spit all of his mouth's contents on his table.

"HE DID WHAT?...He's really into you...that's the only logical explanation.", Dante said that while he shook his head, incredulous. He wished Vergil was that generous towards his own twin.

"No, it's not like that", Anne quickly retorted, starting to feel the heat creep up her neck. "I'll pay everything back. I am eternally grateful to him though, but I will pay every penny as soon as I can."

"I see...", Dante said with a hint of playfulness, which made Anne blush even further."You could have asked me for your wages in advance."

"I thought it wouldn't be a nice thing to do."

"Well, anyways here's your money.", he handled her her wages in a beaten up envelope.

"Thanks, Sir."

"Come on! Quit calling me me Sir already...It sounds like I'm old, ya'know."

"Ok", she giggles, "Thank you, Dante". Calling them by their first names always seemed weird, even if she did that in her head.

"Way better, now go play with my brother.", he snickered.

Anne just blushed, but went upstairs to give Vergil part of his money back.

xxx Upstairs xxx

Anne knocked on Vergil's door receiving an 'enter' from its inhabitant. She then proceeded and entered the premises. As soon as she stepped inside she closed the door behind her, money in hand, thinking of a nice way to thank him once again for that huge favour he granted her, even though they barely knew one another. In fact they were barely past strangers.

"Here's part of the money I owe you, sir. I thank you once again for what you did. I have no words to express how thankful I am."

There Vergil sat on his bed deep in thought when hearing the girl's voice, a girl, who by the way had been a lot in his thoughts lately. He sat facing the wall. The side of his face was still visible though. He rose from the bed and went towards her taking the money from her hands and, before she could open the door and exit the room, Vergil kissed her lightly on the lips. For some it could have been considered just a light brush of lips, not even a kiss per say, but when it came from the man that it came from it was definitely a kiss. Anne's only reaction was to blush and to excuse herself exiting the room, or better...storming out of the room only thinking how smooth his this cold lips were.

"Just like I imagined."...she sighed and went to do her chores. She could feel the phantom of that kiss lingering on her lips.

Vergil didn't know what had gotten into him, kissing the girl all of a suddenly.

She was worse than a demon, oh that she was.

xxxlater on that afternoonxxx

Lady and Trish arrived to invite, or in better words, summon Dante and Vergil to go on a mission with them. A hard but rewarding one.

"So then you will finally make it even, Dante"

"In your dreams", he stated.

Then the quarrel began, and when it started they couldn't see the end of it.

"I swear those two will end up together.", sighed Trish, making some conversation with Anne and Kyrie.

Kyrie who was now around 4 months pregnant, already had bought some things for her baby, and Nero to everyone's surprise just drooled over her, or to be more specific, he would pamper her all day long, treating her if she was a rare jar of crystal. If Kyrie sneezed he would ask if something was wrong, if she felt any pain...and so he would go out, he would come back with a teddy bear, some baby garment or even a dress. He did everything to please the soon-to-be mother. He wouldn't even snap anymore, only as to not worry or upset her. He was the only one she had now. There was no more Credo or Adrienne to support her. He needed to step up and do the best that he could as a new father to be.

Dante said he got soft and was now licking Kyrie's path...only teasing of course, since he was pleased he cared for the girl's well being, along with their newborn. Anne was thrilled as well since she loved babies and everything related to them. She would always interrupt the couple to ask some silly question; thank God they didn't seem to care.

After some small talk (regarding how much Dante would earn from that job, since he loved to earn a lot, only to waste all of it instead of paying Lady.), the five left to actually get something done.

The girls (Patty, Kyrie and Anne) remained home doing some chores (Anne's case).As Patty and Kyrie chatted about baby names, if she thought it was a boy or a girl, how did she and Nero meet, if they were going to marry, if she could hold the baby when he/she was born. Kyrie answered these questions happily since she enjoyed talking with the small child, it sometimes relaxed her and made her see the sweet side of parenthood, forgetting all about labor pain, sleepless nights, baby poo, crying and stuff that came in the same package.

The afternoon went by and it was already around 11.p.m, the girls were at the living room watching some TV, when they were startled by a rushing Nero and Dante caring no one other than an unconscious Vergil, all bruised and dirty with a lime green substance.

"What happened?", asked Anne at the sight.

"We'll explain later. Actually we don't even know exactly what the heck happened to him. Let's just put him upstairs."

"He can't rest let alone heal without getting this dirt and blood off his body.", she heard Nero saying from afar.

"No way I'm going to bathe him!", Dante didn't seem to be willing to do it himself.

"Put him in the bathtub. I'll take care of the rest.", said Anne trying to help."But tell me what happened to him?"

"We are not sure, he is having some sort of reaction to some chemical or some sort of poison, so he can't move nor talk until its effect has stopped.". Of course Anne didn't really know the nature of their job. She did think It was something secret, something that she should not put her nose in, after all it was none of her business. She really didn't care to say the truth. It wasn't her place to go asking.

"Fair enough.", she stated before heading upstairs to clean the ailing victim of only God knew what. It was the least she could do to repay what he did to her, not that she wouldn't help anyone who needed her, but anyways.

She then started to undress him and clean his wounds using rags and some medicines to help him heel nicely, it seemed to be more than just a simple allergic reaction. Kyrie decided to help her boyfriend, otherwise she wouldn't be able to hide the blush that appeared on her face from seeing Vergil with his birth pyjamas. He had lots of bruises and lime green stuff everywhere, she had to use a sponge to get it all off; she hoped he wouldn't wake up before she finished, cause then it would be really, really embarrassing.

She started scrubbing his chest and his arms, then she had to scrub his intimate parts (she almost turned purple from embarrassment), and when she was shampooing his hair he woke up. At first he was groggy and moaning a bit, she decided to keep doing her job since he just fixed started at her.

After he was totally clean, she took a towel and dried his hair and torso, followed by his lower parts, what caused her to blush profusely as he watched her do so, and then managed to take him to his bed, did put a boxer on him as well as a blanket telling him she would soon be back with something for him to eat.

She went downstairs quickly prepared some soup and went back to his room to feed him.

Now she too had a baby.