I had taken advantage of the vacant Mansion to make my way to the pool in the basement. It was most interesting how this place had so many rooms and that the pool was literally underground. Seeing as how when I had decided to follow Vergil, I hadn't though about buying a swimsuit, I had to swim naked. This was definately the reason why I was grateful everyone was gone. The brat, Alice, that Arkham had introduced to us, was most irritating. All she did was look for approval or praise from Vergil. It almost made me sick. Her and Dante's first encounter had left her a little different than she already had been.
Dante...
I wondered what he was up. He had to be all sorts of angry right now. Vergil had said they had crossed paths but Dante hadn't noticed. In order to watch out for Vergil, I had to abandon Dante.
"Oh Eva, what have I gotten myself into?" I sighed.
"Talking to yourself?"
"VERGIL!" I was about two decibals away from a scream. . GOD! I was NAKED!
"It's your own fault for swimming naked," He said.
"The least you can do is turn around," I scolded.
"If you were looking at me, you know that I am,"
"Did you see anything?" I hid my entire body beneath the surface and cast the room into shadows.
"I saw what I saw, does it really matter," He scoffed. I could hear that arrogance in his voice.
"You pervert," I illuminated two of the old torches that weren't used that hung on both sides of the room. I could now see him clearly. In the dark I could see anyway, but with the little light, I could see even better.
"Lovely," He replied sardonically, "I see you've really learned to get a grip on those powers of yours,"
"Blowing all the lights out was an accident. I panicked," I admitted.
"If it makes you feel better, I didn't see anything ... "
"You saw it all," I snipped.
He huffed in defeat.
"Whatever, it's not like I haven't seen you naked," I swam over to his side of the pool. He'd frozen stiff at my words.
"I don't recall," He said, curiosity burning.
"Oops, I probably should have said I've seen Dante naked, but if I've seen him naked, then I've seen you. You guys are identical twins. You got what the other has, physically speaking," I smiled and looked at the back of his coat. He was so tall. I was tall, 5'11 to be exact. I felt like I was normal heigth next to him. However, at the given moment I was in the water and having to look up at him.
"Real nice," He said.
"Maybe I'm wrong," I smiled when he turned his head ever so slightly backwards toward me and saw that I was watching before turning forward again, "but you know what you're problem is?" I dissapeared.
"What?"
"You don't have any fun!" I let my arm reach out from my shadow and push him full strength into the pool behind him. I fully materialized where he had been standing, keeping the shadows as my cloak around my body. He came to the surface with an incredulous look on his face. Like someone had just managed to slap him. He peered up at me, a gaping fool.
"What the hell was that for?" He was angry. How I loved it when he was angry. He was so much more fun when he was angry.
"I'm just an annoying acquaintance," I dove in and came up for air in front of him. He stared back at me with unimpressed eyes then sweeped what could be seen of my body- just my head to right above my breasts which weren't far enough underwater so basically they were visible too- and rested his gaze on my chest where the locket rested.
"I don't understand why she gave it to you," He sounded confused, as if the matter really nagged at him.
"You've never opened it have you?" I said more than asked.
His hand outstretched to the locket but hesitated and looked at me,"Do you mind?" He was itching to touch it. He wanted to know.
"She was your mother," I shrugged.
He gripped the small pendent in his hand and opened it. The picture of the four of us stared back at him. Eva, Dante, me, and him all smiling. We had been so little then. Eva had said that if the time and circumstances had been right, she'd wished that she given birth to me. That was the daughter she never had. I loved my mother, with all my heart, but I loved Eva too. She had been the most kindest of people besides my mother. Her and mother were identical in personality. Perhaps that was why I identified Eva as a second mother.
"Those days are far away," He said, almost remorseful.
"Not as far as you think. I'm still here aren't I?" I touched my hand to his at the locket. His hands were cold, but somehow gentle in the way he held the locket. His eyes came up to meet mine and we stared for a long moment.
"Whatever that is supposed to mean," He looked away then back at the pendent, pulling his hand away.
"What it's supposed to mean is that the past is the past sure, but even still, I'm here. Whether you like it or not, I'm here. A remnant of the past is standing in front of you, therefore how far away could it really be? I'm not her, and I'm not Dante, but you know I was there all those years. I was always there, and I'm here now, and Dante is out there somewhere in this city too. We're not so far away from each other. Granted I'm sure you would rather not think about Dante but still. Do you understand Vergil? I'm here..."
He looked at me again with that remorse. Vergil didn't feel remorse. He didn't feel sorrow. He didn't feel at all. He locked those feelings away and piled over it with his coldness and sardonic attitude. Those feelings though, they always seemed visible to my eyes. Was I the only one who could see through him? Had Dante-
No. Vergil hadn't been this way when they were younger. He and Dante had shared a bond, but now Vergil only seemed to despise Dante. Bringing up Dante brought back memories for him though.
"The question still remains unanswered. I still don't understand why she gave it to you," He finally said.
"She wanted you and Dante and I to live on. She never wanted us to all drift apart. She wanted me to remember you two and stick by you two. Even after you dissapeared I still hoped that you weren't dead, though that was what Dante and I believed. What we suffered. To lose a mother and a brother, a twin at that, it killed him. This was her way of keeping us together no matter what happened. We are together in this picture and that was what she wanted. She even made me promise that if anything were to happen to her while we were still young, that I wouldn't leave you two. I'd watch out for you two the way a friend does. Dante and I were friends, were even boyfriend and girlfriend, and I feel horrible for abandoning him,"
"Then leave. Go to him,"
"I don't want to!" I exclaimed, "Gah, don't you get it? I stay because I don't want to leave! Dante doesn't need me anymore, that's why I don't go back to him. I may not feel that way about him anymore, but I don't want him dead either, damnit. And you, you're far more gone than I would have thought, but I won't change you. I can't. But at least I can be there the way Eva wanted me to be." I was borderline angry now. Or frustrated would be a better way of describing it. Couldn't he just understand? His mother and brother...
And I ... loved him.
Perhaps there was some bad blood between him and Dante now, but he was causing it. Had he not shown up willing to kill Dante, Dante would have welcomed him back with open arms, because he loved him! Eva wouldn't want this for him! Not even Sparda, who i could barely recall his face, would not want this for him.
"You stay because you think my mother would want you to?"
"That, but I stay for my own reasons as well," I snipped.
"You mean to get stronger,"
"Damnit, you know you want me to stay so just say it!" I cursed.
He smiled. That cocky smile. He was amused!
"What makes you think I care," His tone of voice was completely different from Dante's. Where Dante's was the voice of a rebellious teenager, Vergil's voice was more velvety. A different kind of music but so nice to listen to. There was darkness. So cool. It was ... pleasant.
"You think that nobody can see the vestige of your feelings. I can. I think I'm the only one that can read you, and I'm not that good at it. You asked me to come back here so that I wouldn't get hurt. You may appear the demon half, but you really can't help the man that you are." I gave him a sidelong glance and smiled.
"I asked you to stay because you would only cause trouble,"
"Ha, tell that story to someone else, cause I'm not buying it," I laughed at him.
"If I did hold some form of intimacey toward you don't you think I would have taken advantage of it by now? You are always here. It would be easy to," He looked down and realized that Yamato wasn't there.
"I pulled it from you before you hit the water. It's up there," I nodded toward the chair at the poolside, "and the reason you don't take advantage is because you don't want to admit to yourself that you still have feelings. Even though you fight against it, you can't help that instinct of yours. That human instinct,"
"Shut up," He said it coldly. He didn't like me saying that.
"Besides, isn't this taking advantage right here? You're standing in a pool with me while I'm naked. I don't think you can take much more advantage than as you are right now." I added.
Before I had even realized it or that he had even moved at all, he was kissing me! His strong hand slid down to the small of my back and held me to him while his other hand wound itself in my hair. I couldn't help but react. I responded the way I'd always wanted to. With pure tenacity. I molded myself to him and tangled my fingers in his wet tendrils of snow white hair.
Had I pushed him to the edge? Had my words made him snap? Well, then it was a good thing. Heat coursed through my body everytime his lips changed.
Then he let go.
Fuck! Damnit I wanted more! My entire body was whining and pleading for him but I didn't make any advance. He just stood there, body rock firm against mine and his forehead pressed to my mine. I wouldn't have noticed that if it had been anyone else. His cool breath hit me in minty wisps. My entire being was screaming for more. Yelling at me to grab him again, but I didn't. He'd stopped for a reason, besides, my breathing wasn't controlled yet.
"Was that taking advantage enough for you?" He said seductively. Oh hell no it wasn't enough!
"Not quite," I breathed.
"If anybody wants to take advantage it's you," He replied with that same velvety voice.
"So what if I do? I'm a woman, I have desires," I chuckled lightly.
Those sensuous lips met mine again and the heat coursed strong again through me.