Devil May Cry

Dimensions to your world and the next

Chapter 35

Warnings: Language, and violence

*Author's Note: Hnn~ The dudes are sure to catch up sooner or later. Let's see if it's today or tomorrow they find 'you' again....

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You felt life come back to you, your body feeling a little more energized and less exhausted it had been when you blacked out. You fluttered your eyes open, feeling the coldness of water above your forehead. Blinking groggily, you touched the object on your forehead, feeling wet fabric. It was a wet cloth.

"Good, you're awake." Dante's soft voice echoed in your ears.

You starred around you, trying to figure where you were at the moment. It seemed to be a room, poorly plastered green wallpaper on the walls, the ceiling cracked. You were lying on a mattress of a bed, Dante's weight beside you. "Dante, where are we?" you asked.

"After you were unconscious from giving all your energy to me, I was fit to fly off. I turned Devil Trigger, and carried you towards the next town. Seeing as we don't have money on us, I got some help from the old woman that lives here. I told her you fainted and that we were broke and had no where else to go. She offered us in, and besides it began to rain heavily outside," Dante answered.

You nodded your head, taking the entire information in. "Didn't she wonder about your weapons?"

Dante chuckled lightly. "She hadn't even notice--probably poor eye sight or something--and I was too preoccupied on worrying about you, that I forgot about them, too." You blushed lightly, a tiny smile appearing on your lips. "How are you feeling?"

"Better...I'm still a little tired. I guess the touch in energy transfer wasn't so smart after all..." you trailed off at the idea of Dante's lips to yours. You brought your finger tips to the softness of your lips. "Maybe you held on too long."

A smirk appeared on Dante's face. "Sorry, I was enjoying it."

You flushed, averted your gaze from his, his flirtatious attitude overriding his worry in a matter of seconds. Dante will be Dante, and you knew you were going to have to get use to his common flirting and try not to blush and be shy as much.

You didn't want Dante to think you felt uncomfortable to him, you didn't, if anything you were more comfortable with him then anyone, which kind of scared you. Breaking yourself from your thoughts, the door opened. An elderly woman stood at the door way, her short silver gray hair styled in a perm, her skin pale and her arms blue veined. She wore a tattered old pink golf shirt with a long faded yellow skirt. A smile was set on her lips.

"You are awake, that is good, and I hope you're feeling better. What had happened, dear?" The woman came up and sat by your side. You nibbled on your bottom lip, thinking for something to say, any lie that could explained your black out moment. As if to your rescue again, Dante spoke for you.

"She hasn't been having rest ever since we lost all our cash. We've been traveling day in and day out, and she hasn't slept one night. Exhaustion made her collapse." You nodded in agreement to him.

"Why, that's terrible. You two can stay here for as long as you'd like. I came up to tell you that I have supper made," she said. "Please, come downstairs and have a bite. If you're not up to it, I'll have Dante bring up your food."

"No, that's not necessary, I can make it."

She watched you with concern then stood up. "You two can sleep in this room for the night; I'll be serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner for you both. It has been a long time since I had any company." She strode out of the room once she finished speaking, leaving Dante and you alone once again.

"We're not going to stay here long, are we?" you asked in a whisper.

Dante shook his head. "Just for the night, once the sun comes up, we have to book a ride back to Maxis' house." You gazed at him with confusion, he continued, "There isn't much we can learn from ourselves, looking through his house might give us some ideas on how to get you back home...maybe we could go back to Lucinda's place and check up on her, too. Hopefully she isn't in such bad condition as Aeon said she was."

You nodded your head guiltily. "Is it possible to call her?"

Dante blinked at you a few times. "We could try." Why hadn't he thought of that before? "After we eat something, I'll call her. She could be at the hospital though."

"Then we'll visit the nearest hospital. I can't help but feel this is my fault. She got hurt because they were looking for me."

Dante grabbed your hand, squeezing it affectionately. "Babe, it's not your fault. We wouldn't have known that Aeon would go as low as hurt Lucinda in order to get some answers on your whereabouts. They probably caught her off guard, Lucinda is a strong woman, and they probably waited when she was vulnerable."

"Maybe it's because the fact that she's blind?"

Dante shook his head. "That's never stopped her before. Her senses are far stronger then they are if she had eyesight.

Knowing her, she is doing well...anyway, I'm hungry, can you stand?"

You laughed nervously. "I might need some help."

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*Author's Note: Guess I'll go work on that Youtube video that's taken two days just to get past the halfway point, now. Might not be as fast work as putting up chapters, but, oh well. It's something to do while you guys are reading.