Demon Marcus, Monday

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Tea fixed everything

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Talk to Alluka

[that_oldsaying]

If you'd rather!

Re: Talk to Alluka

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Because two weeks ago hadn't been confusing enough, last weekend had hit Dante with another whopper that made his last conversation with Alluka already feel hopelessly out of date.

So he showed up to her workplace. It made sense.

He'd even brought a strawberry cake. (Saving his money was still not really something that came natural, here.) "Alluka, hey."

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She was never going to argue about cake. And saving money was still a hard concept for her to grasp anyway.

Alluka looked up from her tea and smiled at him. "Dante, hi! Come in, come in!"

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"You want some cake?" Dante asked as he walked into the store, lifting up the plastic bag in his hands. "Figured we could both use some."

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"You bought an entire cake!?" Her eyes went big as she sat up straighter. "Oh, yes, please! I'll get plates and, and you'll need tea, of course!"

Between the two of them, they were probably going to eat the whole thing, weren't they?

Alluka slid off the counter to get everything. She paused, hand on a tea cup, to look at him. "Are you okay?"

Alluka was fine!

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Dante proceeded to take the box out of the bag and set it down on the counter. He flipped it open, revealing a really nice cake decorated with white and red icing and strawberries.

"I'm fine," he said. He looked up from the cake. Casually, he added, "Just found out some weird shit about myself last weekend."

Re: Talk to Alluka

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That didn’t really help her figure out if he was okay or not. He was sending mixed signals and… and Alluka was willfully oblivious a lot of the time, but she wasn’t stupid.

“Oh,” she said lightly, setting plates on the counter along with a knife for cutting and forks for eating. Alluka had… well, she had everything for a tea party here, so that wasn’t a surprise, right? Tea parties involved cake sometimes. “Is that why you missed Kathy and Raven’s housewarming party?”

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"I got stuck back home for a couple of days," Dante said.

He ran his fingers through his hair. "Did I ever tell you I don't remember anything about when I was a kid?"

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He was definitely not okay, no matter what he said, Alluka decided as she set his tea--made just how he liked it--near him.

"No," she said, big-eyed. "Does that, does that mean you remember now?"

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"Yeah," Dante said softly.

He reached out for the knife. "I don't remember everything. But enough."

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Since she didn't think Dante would want a hug, Alluka hugged Mr. Bubbles instead.

"And what you remember is weird?"

She was so confused.

"Isn't it a good thing to remember your memories?"

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"It's a really good thing," Dante said.

He was grateful that he got to focus on cutting the cake into (clumsy, irregular) slices. "It's just not what I expected," he said. "My dad's a demon, my mom's an angel. What even is that?"

Dante, Vergil probably didn't appreciate you telling all and sundry about that.

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Vergil was just going to have to cope.

Alluka watched him cut those slices quietly. Being half demon/half angel didn't really mean a whole lot to her. He still seemed like her Dante, just a bit off today.

But it was the off-ness that bugged her.

"Does it bother you? To... to not be human...?"

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Yes.

"Does it matter?" Dante asked. He stole a strawberry off a piece of cake and shoved it into his mouth. "I'm nothing like a demon."

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"Your mommy loved your dad enough to marry him, despite that he was a demon," Alluka said, looking up from Mr. Bubbles. "That doesn't sound like she thought your daddy was evil."

Alluka studied him for am moment, then said, "I love you." This was not a romantic confession. It was just... a fact, that she thought he needed to hear. "I don't care if you're part demon. Or part angel. To me, you're just Dante and I love you."

That probably was going to embarrass him, but too bad.

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The very idea she could've meant it as romantic hadn't even passed Dante's mind for a second.

The idea that it was embarrassing, though... "Uh," he said.

Yeah, that one was on the money.

"... Thanks."

The embarrassment didn't take away the part where hearing it was important to him. It just meant he wasn't likely to full-on admit it.