A/N: Woo! The last chapter for tonight! Thank the gods! I'm almost caught up on everything, now hopefully I can stay on top of it all now that I have kinda settled into a rhythm in my new job and my new apartment. By the way, if you didn't know! I got a full time engineering position! I'm in the medical field just like I wanted and yeah! It's pretty great, anyway, I'll get on with the rest of what I need to be doing.

Disclaimer: Devil May Cry is too old for me to have owned it, I would've had to own it when I was… like, six.

Pleasantries

The trio sat around the table and spoke for a couple hours, exchanging stories of growing up and Vergil was quite enjoying the amount of embarrassing tales that Ashley had about her friend and how much it caused the brunette to blush. He also appreciated how easy it was to deter her friend into another topic, he told the truth where he could, as it was much easier to keep track of your lies when most of them weren't lies but there were many things that he'd rather not reveal about himself.

"So that's why you came to Fortuna." Ashley said and Vergil nodded

"Yes, your knowledge on demonic lore is much greater than that in much of the world. I was hoping that I could learn a thing or two. Your friend was kind enough to allow me to stay at her place while I tried to get in contact with the Order." he said. Even that had bits of truth interspersed in it. He had been thinking about contacting the Order since he couldn't seem to convince himself to leave and go seek out his old master in the demon world, if she still was even alive. Positions like hers tended to change hands fairly quickly. He stood then, taking the bowls to the kitchen to rinse them out and to put them away along with the remainder of the soup. He seemed to have gotten carried away with his cooking, as even though they'd had to feed an extra person they still had plenty to spare. Both girls got to their feet then and Ashley let out a yawn, her arms stretching up above her head.

"Oh, I better get going back home if I want to make it back before curfew. It was very nice meeting you Vergil." she said with a warm grin. Vergil nodded

"And yourself, have a safe walk home." he said and she nodded

"I will!" She put her hood on and then was gone, the door clicking behind her. Vergil let loose a heavy sigh then, his shoulders and posture finally relaxing.

"I forgot how tiring that is." he said and Amelia tilted her head at him.

"How tiring what is?" she asked as she spooned the rest of the soup into a tupperware container.

"Making small talk with people." the half devil said "And dancing around topics." he set the cleaned dishes on the towel next to the sink as Amelia loaded more dirty ones into the soapy water. She laughed as she did.

"You're not much of a people person are you?" she asked and he looked over at her, his eyes glowing lightly.

"No, what gave it away?" He let some of the echo from his demonic form creep into his voice and Amelia just rolled her eyes. He'd been doing that, letting himself just… be. Sometimes she'd come back to find him practicing in his demonic form or there was one time that he'd been reading on the floor, laying on his stomach, wings splayed about him but otherwise human looking. She'd laughed at him then, saying that he looked like a little girl with his ankles crossed in the air like that. He hadn't been nearly as entertained by that statement. But despite the fact that it was a very heavy reminder that he wasn't entirely human she enjoyed it, it was like he was able to just relax to let himself be the bit of both that he was instead of pretending to be just one or the other.

"The fact that you're comfortable with silence and that you find company and small talk just as exhausting as I do." she said and he paused, a spoon in his hand.

"Yeah… usually Dante was the one to approach people, he was the one to make friends quickly. Mom always thought it was weird that we were twins but had such different personalities." he said, looking down and returning to the dishes. Amelia rubbed a gentle hand on his shoulder.

"Y'know, I think you've talked about your family more tonight than the entire time I've known you." he looked over at her.

"Really?" she nodded

"I like it. It's good to hear about them, plus you have some very entertaining stories of you and your brother." he gave a small sad smile, pulling the plug on the dishwater.

"Yeah…"

"You miss him don't you?" she asked and he sighed

"In a way, even now, even after he nearly killed me, it's hard to be alone even if I've been doing it for years now. When we were kids we used to share a bed, mom kept telling dad that it was silly and that they could certainly afford two but he just laughed at her and told her that it was wrong to try to separate nestlings like that." He shook his head and turned to the table with the damp rag and began to wipe it down.

"I can't say that I truly understand, but… you don't have to be alone anymore." He paused, straightened and turned to look at the human woman who he couldn't deny he was falling for anymore. She was looking off to the side, her cheeks red. He stepped up to her, tossing the rag back in the sink as he did, put a finger underneath her chin, tilted her head up, leaned down, and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.

"Thank you."

A/N: Awwwwwww…. :3

Till next time,

-Winged Element