"Dante," He began, biting back a laugh. "Today's Valentine's Day." The look and his brother's face was priceless. He had gone pale, had gulped and his Nordic blue eyes widened in the one emotion Vergil had never seen: fear.
"Holy SHIT!!!"
Chapter 2: Plans and Surprises (Vergil's POV)
I had never seen my cocky younger brother like this before, well not since we were kids and he had broken our mother's crystal vase. He was sweating and even though he was focused on the mission at hand, he was also thinking of his lover.
"Dante, don't worry about the young man right now." I said sternly. "Let's focus on one thing at a time ok?" He looked at me and nodded, resigned to the fact that I was right, for once. When it came to business, personal things had to remain behind. We reached the address Dante had and we looked at each other. It was a brothel!
"Um….should we be here…?" Dante asked me, looking a bit nervous. "I mean…."
"We have to do our job." I said. "Let's go." I pushed him ahead of me, to make sure he didn't run away when he had the chance, (but then again, he never ran away from a job) and knocked on the door. A beautiful scantly clad female opened the door.
"Why hello, I see that you got our message." She giggled. "So which one of you is first..?" We looked at each other and shouted:
"RUN!" With that we were gone. There was no way we were getting killed. I knew Trish would have my hide and the way Dante had paled, so would Nero. We ran down the street and then stopped at a good ten miles away from the location. We both had to relax.
"Who would have guessed…." Dante panted. "That it was for a blow job!" I sat up straighter and looked at him for his vulgarity but I couldn't reprimand him, for either way, he was correct.
"So, now that we've dodged a serious bullet," I said. "What do you say we'd get ourselves out of the doghouse?"
"I'd say, let's go!"
We walked to the northwestern part of town and Dante was like a kid in the candy store. Everything was so alive and full of activity. Plus there were many stores and buildings, as a city should be. I had to make sure he didn't wander off too far from me. Just like old times. I thought.
"Dante, don't wander off too much, you'll get lost." Dante looked at me and rolled his eyes.
"Oh come on Verge, I'm having a blast, quick being a party pooper!" We were going to argue until a woman walked up to us and smiled.
"Excuse me, but are you interested on our free samples?" She passed us a flyer. I smiled. It was for Godiva!
"Dante! Let's go." I cuffed him by the collar and nearly dragged him down the block. Dante was swearing and yelling at me but I didn't care. When it came to a sale, you had to be there quickly! I let him go once we hit the front door of the shop.
"Damn Verge what's the big idea yanking me like that?!" He growled. "That was…" I cut him off by facing him to see the store.
"Shall we go in?" I asked. Dante grinned and nodded. We walked into the store and immediately we were confused. We didn't know which chocolates to take!
"Can I help you gentlemen?" A cheerful voice asked from the counter. We turned and even though I didn't know her, Dante did!
"Kyrie! What are you doing here?!"
"Dante?" She asked. "Oh wow you look great! I thought I was seeing double for a minute there."
"Well yea, this is my older brother Vergil." He said. "We're kinda in the same boat."
"Let me guess, you boys forgot it was Valentine's Day eh?" We nodded and Kyrie giggled. It was grating on my nerves but Dante rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.
"Come on 'Ryie, can you help us out?"
"Well…." She said. I was about to growl at her but Dante looked at me and mouthed 'cool it'. "Sure, I'll help. Let's see what we can hook you guy up with." We nodded and looked at the chocolates along with Kyrie. She set up two huge hearts in front of her and smiled. "Ok, since Nero I know practically all my life, we'll start with him first!" She looked at the candies and picked one shaped like a rose. "He'll love these; they're in the shape of his favorite flowers! Plus they're vanilla cream." She put six of them into the box and picked up another chocolate but this one was in the shape of a sealed seashell. "Chocolate covered cherries with a hint of brandy." My eyes widened at that, that one sounded sinfully delicious…Dante grinned and she put them in the box. Along with caramels, truffles, turtles, and double fudge… Soon she handed the two layered box over to Dante. I couldn't decide so I ordered the same. We thanked her and after getting roses, blue ones for Nero and red ones for Trish, at least two dozen, we took a breath as we made our way back to Devil May Cry, where we heard voices as we listened at the doors.
"Vergil has some balls," We heard Trish fume. "He snuck out this morning and I haven't heard from him all day."
"Dante left too!" Nero cried. "Before I even woke up… The bastard shot the alarm clock! That makes twenty of them in a month!" I turned to my brother and he shrugged as if to say 'shit happens'. We looked at each other and nodded. We opened the doors and walked in, shocking our lovers to speechlessness.
"Happy Valentine's Day!"
Oh well, how would the lovers react to this? Stay tuned!