• when the devil cries

dante/nero "There weren’t that many whores working the stretch tonight; too cold. Only the really desperate ones were out, the one’s that were thin and battered and needed the money, no matter the weather."

• the gatecrashers

dante/nero "No good deed ever goes unpunished. It wasn't like Dante didn't know that, but sometimes he forgot."

• loveless blue

dante/nero "This is a fantasy. Dante thought. A fantasy. It was a nasty trick played on an old man’s starved mind. He’ll blink and look and the sign on the van will say anything else."

• behind the yellow curtain

dante/nero "They’re still demons, sweetheart. They don’t have the same kind of morals that we do."

• hollowman

dante/nero "Nero follows Dante home after Fortuna, but things don’t go as planned. A snapshot of an extremely dysfunctional relationship."

• glass castles

dante/nero "Dante knocks on both Death and Nero's door. With great reluctance, Nero is the only one who answers."

• primo

dante/nero "Dante is very experienced. Nero is not."

• days passing by

dante/nero "He was doing a damn good job at coping until nineteen-year-old Dante showed up."