What Would You Give

The Job

He really needed to stop upsetting Patty with his idiotic words. 

Dante washed off his face after being hit with a mop several times in the face by the little girl he considered family at this point. It wasn't that he was annoyed, he was annoyed, but it was the fact that he had been in a bad mood since the night before when Roe came in to tell him about the job he should accept. Well, that and the fact he was currently kicking himself in the ass for being an ass to someone he actually cared about. 

Patty had run out of the shop faster than he could move and honestly, he decided it was best not to go after her because she needed to cool off on her own. The girl was eight years old and probably wouldn't go too far or she would go back to the orphanage only to show up again tomorrow. He did feel guilty for the things he said to her about cleaning up his messes and he would make it up to her somehow. That wasn't the worst part of it though, it was that she was alone and she needed him. Just like Cade needed him. 

He sighed wiping his face with a dry towel before leaving the bathroom and finding Morrison sitting on the couch waiting for him. The Devil Hunter sat down across from his agent as the black man lit up a cigar and began to smoke it down. 

"She should be here shortly." He said leaning back on the couch and letting out the smoke he had inhaled. 

"Any idea what this is about?" Dante said picking up a magazine and looking through it before putting it back down and leaning back against the couch he was sitting on. 

"Well, from what I know, this lady has been followed by demons since she was a kid all because of some necklace or something like that." Morrison took another drag from his cigar and huffed. "I heard Roe was back in town." 

"You remember her?" 

"How could I forget the lovely young lady that had you acting like some lovesick puppy." Morrison gave Dante a grin and the younger man grunted at the thought of being seen as a lovesick puppy. He had never been a lovesick puppy. "The moment she enters the room she lights it up and then you follow her around making sure no one else touches her." 

"That was a long time ago." Dante tried denying it, but the look in his eyes betrayed him. 

"I also heard she has a kid." Morrison was digging in deep to make the younger man squirm and while Dante wasn't going to rip the other man's head off for it, he was definitely going to make Morrison pay for it later. "Looks just like you." 

"I know." 

"So, you did the deed with her then?" Dante glared.

"It's none of your business Morrison." The younger man stood up and walked over to his desk and sat in the chair. 

"I never thought I'd see the day when you would have a kid." Dante didn't say anything, he just picked up an empty beer can and threw it at Morrison to get him to shut up, however all it did was make him chuckle when it missed him. "Times are changing for sure." The older man smiled as he took another drag. 

"His name is Cade." Dante said putting his feet up on the desk and leaning back in his chair with his hands behind his head. He actually felt some sort of pride talking about his son to Morrison. "I just don't know how to really connect with him." 

"It's because you came late to the game." The older man said with an all knowing smile. "Give it time, you'll figure it out." Morrison told him with a sure tone in his voice as the door opened to reveal a blond headed woman. "Ah, here we go." 

"I'm sorry I'm late, traffic was worse than I thought it would be." She told the two men in the room as she shut the door behind her and went to sit down on the couch across from Morrison. Dante didn't move as she made herself comfortable and he found there was a certain familiarity with her.