4. He's My Familly

Anime: Devil May Cry
Title: He's My Family
Rating: G
Pairing/Character(s): Dante
Warning(s): Spoiler for those who's just starting DMC
Summary: Dante reminisences over his childhood days
A/N: Inspired by Divine-Star's drawing of Sparda sleeping with his kids... Sigh... If only my familly was like that.. and if only my dad was Sparda.. or like Sparda... (cries) Pic titled Sweet Dreams. Link: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29349209
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Dante could remember the times Sparda tucked him and Vergil into bed when they were still kids. How nice it was then, to have a familly that loved you, even if your father was missing most of the time; Sparda made it up sometimes by getting into bed with the twins to tell them a bedtime story. Eva always found him asleep with his arm draped over the two boys, like any father would do.

A bitter smile cracked the corner of Dante's lips. Those were nothing but memories. Their mother was dead, Sparda too... though he sometimes refused to belive it, and his older twin Vergil was rotting in Hell with Mundus.

What had happened to those happy times, he wondered. What had changed everything? He was too young then to remember, and he knew that he probably didn't want to remember at all. To hell with it, he thought. I don't even know why I still care for Vergil... no, Nero Angelo. He wants to be with the damned, let him. Why do I even care?

Somewhere at the back of his head, a small voice said,

Because he's family. Because you care. Deny it as much as you want, Dante Sparda... you need and want to be loved again.

Strangely, the voice sounded very much like Jade's.