A/N I apologize for the shortness of this chapter, I will make up for it next chapter I promise!
Dante swore under his breath as he kneeled down in front of Vergil who was still mumbling something that Dante could not make out "Vergil! What the fuck! What were you thinking? Why would you do this to yourself?"
With that said Vergil slowly lifted his head up and looked up at Dante with glossy eyes "I... I Can't get his voice out of my head..." Dante had to keep the anger that was bubbling up in check once those words left his brothers mouth. Even in death that bastard has some sick hold on his twin.
"Verge I can't even imagine what you're going through, what you've been through but you have to fight this, you're the most over powered bastard I know! Hell, you're still one of the only people who can take me down in combat, so I know you can beat this."
Vergil then closed his eyes tightly wishing he could believe that "How am I supposed to beat something I can't see? Something I can't physically fight?"
Dante then smiled softly "I didn't say it was going to be easy but you're not fighting this alone this time, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere."
Vergil didn't reply this time, just kept his eyes closed as he tried to ignore the voice booming in his head and Dante sense this so instead he brought his attention down to Yamato sticking out of his brothers chest and moved to lightly touch the hill of the sword "This has to come out." He said more to himself as he lightly pulled but stopped when Vergil hissed out in pain
"Yeah it's going to hurt like a bitch but maybe next time don't stab yourself in the middle of the night." Then without warning he yanked the sword free from Vergil's chest causing a fountain of blood to spray out from the gushing wound. Vergil gasped and moaned and if he wasn't so weak at the moment he would have punched his brother in the face but all he could do was curl into himself as he tried to ignore the pain.
"Nope." Dante said as he grabbed his brother's shoulders and forced him to sit up "You don't get to bleed all over my floor." He then began to peel off the older male's vest getting a groan and hiss as he did so "Just work with me here, you're self-healing seems to be taking its sweet ass time and I don't need you bleeding out." He then stood up to go fetched a towel making it back as quick as he could not trusting Vergil by himself anymore
"Alright now hold still." he shook his head as he applied pressure to the wound causing Vergil to swat at Dante's hand weakly "Stop." Dante then used one hand to pin Vergil's arm down and the other to keep pressure on the hole in his chest "Getting stabbed with Yamato hurts like a bitch, trust me I know." Vergil then stopped struggling as he whispered
"Sorry…" Dante wasn't sure if he was referring to all the times he stabbed him or about the struggling but either way Dante smiled and the chuckled
"It's alright, all is forgiven." And he meant that to "Just don't pull anymore stunts like this, if you're having an episode please try and find me, I won't be far so try and fight it." Easier said than done but Vergil nodded anyways as he finally opened his eyes again and stared up at his brother who smiled at him but his attention was then brought to the front door as it was slammed open
"Dante!" An angry blonde demon known as Trish yelled as she stood in the main entrance with her arms crossed "You were supposed to meet me at the jobsite a half hour ago, did you over sleep again Lazy ass?" she the raised a brow at scene in front of her "Really? You ditch a job so you could kill your brother? If you wanted him dead you should have left him back in hell to rot with the rest of them." Vergil tried to glare at the woman but of course it failed and he looked more pathetic than intimidating. Dante however gave a quick laugh before shaking his head
"I didn't do this, he stabbed himself this time around and Sorry about that, guess it slipped my mind but have Lady fill in for me today alright?"
This caused the blonde to scoff out a laugh "Whatever you say Dante but you know Lady, this will end up costing you."
Dante just waved her off "Yeah, yeah I know the drill by now, but thanks Trish I do owe you too."
"Yeah you do and no problem." And like that the two sons of Sparda where once again alone and Dante let out a sigh of relief as he removed the towel to find that the wound had mostly closed but Vergil made no movement to get up so the younger then slid one arm under his legs and the other around his back and hoisted him up
"Heh, you're lucky you're so scrawny and easy to lift up!" Dante smirked at the look he received from his brother "Don't look at me like that! You have any idea how much Lady is going to charge me for doing my dirty work because of you?" he then softly placed him down on the couch before looking around the office "Not to mention the mess I have to clean up because of your episode."
Vergil then turned his attention to the state of the office as he tried to recall what happened "I honestly can't remember doing any of this.. I remember reaching for Yamato and that's it, I don't recall the rest."
"That seems to be the case every time you have one of these episodes." Dante pointed out.
"I know, it's a weird feeling I feel like I loose complete control over my body then everything goes black and all I can hear is his voice laughing and tainting me." Vergil sighed deeply "I thought if I stabbed myself with Yamato the voice would leave me alone either that or if I priced my heart it would be enough to kill me for real. Clearly, I went with the first idea, but next tim-" He didn't even get to finish his sentence before Dante cut him off
"There isn't going to be a next time! I'm officially putting you on suicide watch till I feel like you can be trusted alone again." This caused Vergil to groan
"You can't be serious."
"Oh, but I am! I have to go back to my jobs eventually so I think if I work on Nero's day's off and he works on my days off one of us can be here with you."
"Ugh! No! I don't need to be babysat! I'm perfectly cable of being alone you know!" Vergil growled out
"Yeah maybe when you're like this you are but these stupid attacks happen randomly and without warning and you can either hurt yourself again or accidently hurt someone else and we can't risk that!"
"Then let me go back to the underworld! That's where I clearly belong! I don't belong here with humans."
"You belong right here with your family; you've been alone for far too long and I'm not going to just toss you back into hell, we've already lost so much time and I'm not letting you slip between my fingers again so stop talking like that. Things will get better and I'm NOT giving up on you." The younger didn't really give the other a chance to respond as he turned away from his brother and began cleaning the mess around the office.
Vergil actually didn't have anything to say after that anyways so instead he just laid on the couch watching his twin clean up his mess and he had to internally chuckle at that. 'Seems like you're always the one cleaning up my messes huh?' He didn't think he spoke out loud but he heard Dante chuckle
"Pay back from all the times you had to clean up after me when we were kids huh?" he was going to add something but then stopped to look over at the phone on his desk as it started to ring "Have to take this." He then walked over to answer "Devil may cry, how can I help you?" He calmly spoke into the phone "Oh? Okay well what do you think it is? …. uh huh... I mean..." He glanced over at Vergil and sighed "Alright if you think it's that big of a deal, I'll have Nero come over and keep his old man company, he had early shifts today should be done with his jobs anyways so see you guys soon." He hung the phone up and turned his attention to Vergil
"So, the girls found something interesting and they want me to have a look so I have to meet them there but I'm going to call Nero and have him stop by here."
"I heard." was all Vergil said as he sat up on the couch his dizziness finally fading
"Don't sound so grumpy! You two could really use some bonding time anyways so this works out perfect." Dante smiled as Vergil sighed
"If he wants to kill me, I might actually take him up on that offer." Dante just shook his head as he began to diel his nephew's number. This will defiantly be an amusing experience and Dante was kind of disappointed he was going to miss it all.
A/N So next chapter will you get very awkward father and son moments! Yay! lol