Vergil's OneShots (DMC Fanfiction)

Confrontation and Conciliation

A/N: Last update of 2017! The past year has been rather kind to me, and I hope that everyone will be kind as well and continue reading, voting and commenting on my stories :) Have a happy New Year up ahead!

This story is dedicated to @rey_asha who requested for a heartful reunion of the Sparda family. I hope this is what you wanted!

[Confrontation And Conciliation]

The couple in their 20th year of marriage was spending another childless day sitting around in the living area. Jerlyn Sparda approached her husband from the back, holding a health booklet that she thought had gone missing 20 years ago.

"Look at this. I found it hiding in the cupboard where I keep my picklocks." She said with a sad smile, taking her husband's attention.

"Why are you still keeping them?" Vergil asked, receiving the booklet anyway and opening it up since he couldn't recognize it, nor the significance of it at face value.

"They are useful tools to keep around the house." She replied, not wanting to admit that her thieving desires had come out again, and she had been itching to touch the tools of her old trade for even just a short moment.

"Isn't this..." Vergil's short sentence faded away when he saw the name written on the first page, as well as the details written on it.

"It's his 20th birthday soon, isn't it?" Jerlyn answered sadly. "20 years without his parents celebrating with him."

"You still sent him presents anonymously until he was ten." Vergil answered, closing the booklet. The man did not like to admit it aloud, but Jerlyn knew that he hurt as much as she did when they decided to give their son Nero to the orphanage in Fortuna 20 years ago.

It had been a difficult choice to make for the both of them; to give Nero away or let him grow up in an environment that was completely horrible for a child's growth -with a father; an infamous demon hunter and a mother; a notorious theft and con artist with her name on many wanted lists internationally. They had made the rational choice that was the best for their son, but it didn't mean that it had hurt any less.

"I wonder how he is doing. I hope he wasn't caught in the fiasco of Fortuna." Jerlyn answered, taking back the health booklet that had been issued by the hospital when Nero had been born. She didn't remember if it had been hiding in the cupboard because she had put it there on purpose to ignore the fact that she had given birth to a son that she could not acknowledge. Still, now that it was found, she wasn't really sure what to do with it because leaving it lying around made her sad, but she didn't want to throw away the only thing left in the house that reminded her of a son she was forced to forget.

"He must have inherited his mother's abilities to get out of tight spots by himself."

The conversation was stalled when the doorbell rang and Vergil went to answer the door as Jerlyn returned to their bedroom to keep the health booklet in somewhere more visible now. She emerged from the bedroom to find their visitor a familiar man.

"Dante, you're back!" Jerlyn exclaimed with surprise. "Where were you? You went missing two weeks ago. Any longer and I would have had Vergil to lodge a missing case on you."

"Bad case in Fortuna involving idiots trying to get demonic power with all the wrong methods and reasons." Dante answered as a reply, taking an uninvited seat on their couch as Vergil returned to his seat, picking up his book again as if completely uninterested about what his brother had been through.

"Fortuna?" Jerlyn repeated with surprise. "Does it have anything to do with whatever that's being reported on the news? Fortuna being ruined by a demon-possessed priest who had been trying to open a Hell Gate beneath the city?"