Chapter 9.
When Nero woke up, he was in someone's arms on the couch. He looked up and saw it was Dante. He heard slight laughter and turned his head to where he heard it and saw his father sitting on the couch across from them.
"Dante was holding you while you slept, to make sure you'd be okay. But it looks like he fell asleep himself." Vergil said with a light smile. He got up and calmly walked over to them. He placed his hand on Nero's shoulder and asked "Are you okay?" When the young teen nodded, he asked "Do you want to talk about your dream?" That caused Nero to furiously shake his head.
Vergil smiled sadly and said "Well, if you want to talk about it, I'll be willing to listen." He turned to walk towards the kitchen but turned around again and said "You should wake up Dante now, he said he'd look stuff up for you so you could better at Skyrim."
"I am good at Skyrim." Nero said with a huff. Vergil laughed and said "I don't know what kind of player decides to take on a giant at level 3." He then headed into the kitchen to work on the late night snack.
Nero gently shook Dante but he didn't wake up, so he shook him a bit harder. Nothing. Nero huffed and tried shaking him as hard as he could. Still nothing. Nero tried tickling Dante, but his efforts were fruitless.
"What? Did you die of old age, old man?" Nero said with a miffed tone. Then his eyes went wide, it doesn't look like he's breathing. Nero immediately put his ear to his uncle chest. As soon as he heard a heart beat, that's when Dante grabbed and flung him back onto the couch, causing the young teen to let out a terrified shriek.
Dante laughed and said "Got ya, kid." Nero punched Dante's shoulder and said "Not funny." Dante smirked and said "You wanna go there, kid?" Nero got into position that made him look like a wolf ready to attack and said "Bring it!" But before either of them could make a move, Vergil quickly called out from the kitchen "No wrestling. If you hurt Nero's leg then you'll be dealing with me." Dante laughed and said "Fine, but you know I can kick your ass."
"Keep it up and we'll see about that." Vergil called out.
Nero started to set up his Xbox and said "Okay, let's play Skyrim. Though I have to start over."
"Why do you have to start over?"
"I screwed up. I royally fu- Don't finish that sentence." Vergil interrupted through the other room. Nero sighed and said "I screwed up by allowing a guy to come with me to see the Eldergleam Sanctuary but I couldn't find a way there without an encounter with a giant. He didn't even have a weapon. I was no mach for a giant and it was impossible to sneak by. I couldn't complete the quest and the guy kept following me. The only way I could continue through the game was to kill him, and I didn't want to do that." Dante laughed and said "What a pretty big fu-Don't say it." Dante laughed again at his brothers censorship and started to look up tips for Skyrim.
Nero played the beginning of the game with no tips, it being so easy he doesn't need them. When the dragon landed on top of Helgen Keep and stopped the execution, Nero said "There is a mod where the dragon is Thomas the tank engine. I saw a gif of it on Tumblr." Dante just laughed, being amused.
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Vergil smiled lightly as he heard Dante and Nero joking around. He mixed minced garlic, butter, and parmesan cheese to make a yummy garlic butter that he would spread on sliced french bread to make homemade garlic bread. Nero loves this stuff, he especially likes it with scampi. Though it's too late in the night to make scampi, but not too late to make garlic bread. Vergil spread the garlic butter over the sliced pieces of french bread, put them on a cookie sheet, and placed in the oven and pushed the broil button. They will be ready when they are golden brown. Vergil grabbed a Jack Reacher book and started reading while he waited for the garlic bread to be done.
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Dante laughed as a dragon killed Nero, not by breathing flames on him. but by biting him, swinging him around, then throwing him. Nero glared and said "It's not funny."
"Oh, I beg to differ." Dante said with a smirk. Nero was about to tackle Dante but then Vergil came in and said "Calm down, lets just eat the garlic bread before it gets cold." Nero smiled lightly and said "You're safe this time, old man." Dante just smirked and rolled his eyes. Vergil gave them both a piece of garlic bread.
They ate the garlic bread through the course of an hour, and by the end Nero was obviously tired but he was fighting sleep as best as he could. Vergil gave Dante a look, and he instantly understood what it meant. When Nero was young and to scared to sleep, Dante and Vergil would have Nero sleep in between them to make him feel safe and in case he woke up from a nightmare they would be there for him.
Dante walked over and picked up Nero, saying "Come on, kid. bedtime."
"I don't want to sleep, I refuse!" Nero said and yawned soon after. Vergil smiled lightly and said "Well you have to, and you're not getting out of it." Nero let out an audible whimper and that made both Dante and Vergil sad. Dante quickly carried Nero upstairs to Vergil's room. He set Nero in the middle of the bed and got in on the right and Vergil got in on the left. They got close to Nero and wrapped their arms around him. Nero was kind of shocked but relaxed, feeling much better. He listened to their soft breathing and eventually fell asleep, feeling safe and happy.
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