A/N: So yeah, I know it's been a couple weeks again on the update for this but… yeah I'm just ridiculously busy, but I am keeping a running tally for how long I should make my make up chapters for all of my work and I do intend to keep my word on that, who knows, it might work this right up to the end of itself. Cause there isn't a ton left in this particular work before I move on to the next one, I'm thinking about doing part of Dante's side next, or maybe I'll continue with Vergil, I don't know, let me know your opinions in a review, or drop me a pm, I don't care
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It's Good to Have Friends Again
Vergil continued to go to school and come home and practice his fighting, just as he had his first day of class. He enjoyed school well enough, it was a little easy for him… well it was a lot easy for him, but it was surprisingly nice to be around other kids his age, even if they didn't really know him, or he them. The half devil never thought that he would miss the yells out on the playground, or the yammering in the morning before the class actually started but he found it comforting to be a part of all the same. Perhaps it was because he missed his mother and the normality he had with her, or perhaps it was because he just wanted some place to belong again. Either way, the young boy found himself settling down into a routine.
He continued to find himself hanging out with the Ernest boy during recess and, remembering the young girl that he and Dante used to hang out with after school, invited him over to his house after classes one day. He had asked Madeline permission of course and the older woman had been so delighted to hear that Anthony had made enough of a friend to invite over that she had immediately said yes. She picked them both up from school and immediately the boy stuck out his hand to make her acquaintance. She wanted to laugh, he was so polite and it was frankly adorable.
"Hello, Anthony's mom, I'm Ernest." She was about to correct him on the whole mom thing when Anthony just shrugged and she blinked, surprised that it didn't bother him, but if he was okay with it, then it certainly didn't bother her.
"Please just call me Madeline." She said, taking the young boy's hand, he was mature in a different way than Anthony, where the half devil had seen and experienced too much for his young age, Ernest was just a very polite young man.
"Okay." Ernest said happily, buckling his seatbelt.
Madeline started the short drive home, asking both boys how their days were at school, asking Ernest about his family, where he lived before Morris Island, how he liked the new school, how he liked his classmates. The young boy asked her a few questions in return, like where they lived before the island, what she did for a living, how she liked it.
The conversation had just started to die off when they reached the house and both boys tumbled from the car and into the house, dumping their backpacks by the door. Madeline followed slower, watching as they tumbled into the backyard, kicking around a soccer ball that Ernest had brought with him.
"You boys hungry?" she yelled out and both of them shouted their agreement, coming tumbling back into the house as she pulled out peanut butter and an apple, a good snack, she thought to herself as Anthony instructed Ernest to wash his hands first. They were both just sitting down as she brought out a snack and, taking a piece or two for herself, went about her afternoon routine of cleaning up around the house and settling down with a good book.
The boys played outside for a while before coming back inside both complaining of hunger, Madeline laughed and they all started on dinner, she had picked up ingredients for personal pizzas as she figured there was no way to go wrong with that. Neither boy seemed to disagree with her as they helped prepare the food and then when the pizzas were in the oven to cook they drove into town to the movie rental store and she let each boy pick out a movie. Ernest picked out Inspector Gadget and to her surprise, Anthony picked up a Scooby Doo movie. It made her smile though, she had to remember, that deep down, despite all he had seen and experienced, despite how old and mature he acted for his age, he was still just a little kid.
They took the movies back and were just in time to take the pizzas out of the oven, they all sat, content and pleasant, in front of the TV and watched the Inspector crack the case and Scooby and the Gang unmask the monster. Madeline couldn't help but smile along with the jokes that were made in the movies, they were awfully cheesy but all the same, it was a lighthearted day, a very normal day in the house. There had been no talk of revenge, of monsters and demons, just two boys playing and having a good time together. Maybe, just maybe, Anthony was starting to heal from the trauma he'd been through.
-The Boy in Blue-
Madeline had spoken too soon, She heard Anthony scream in the middle of the night and she was up and moving the second she remembered it wasn't only herself and the half devil in the house. Ernest was sleeping in Anthony's room as well. She nearly flew up the stairs to find Ernest sitting up in his sleeping bag, looking beyond baffled and Anthony was curled up into a ball, simply whimpering now.
"It's all right," she whispered, pulling him into his arms as he sobbed "it was only a dream."
A/N: Slightly awkward end point it awkward but it's the best I got at the moment…
Till next time,
-Winged Element
