"Will it hurt?"
"I'm afraid so, love."
She pondered for a moment more.
"It shall be worth it, since I'll be with you," she declared.
He laughed.
"Forever and always."
And then he leaned in for the kill.
/
"We need to fire Mey-Rin," Ciel Phantomhive, heir of the (in)famous toy company Phuntomhive, announced to his butler, Sebastian Michaelis.
Sebastian looked at him from the floor, and stopped tying Ciel's shoes.
"Why, young master?" he said, great concern in his voice.
"She's too clumsy. Ever realize how many dishes, how many tea sets, how many anything we go through in a day because of her slip-ups?" Ciel replied, a look of distaste on his face.
Sebastian paused, considered this, then nodded. "I supposed you are correct, my lord. I shall relieve Mey-Rin of her duties and hire a new maid immediately!" He pulled the knots tight in Ciel's black shoes, stood up, and flew out the door.
Ciel sighed. "Can't live with him, can't live without him, I suppose," he thought out loud.
/
She stepped out of the carriage door, onto Phantomhive property. Her black shoes clacked on the concrete stairway and her bags heavied her arms. A dark violet overcoat was draped over her bags, and her wavy brown hair fell over her face.
"Ah! You must be the new maid!" a cheerful boy's voice called out from in front of her. She set her bags down and pulled her bangs out of her face. Standing before her was a blonde boy with 5 red pins in his hair. A yellow peasant's shirt trimmed with red hung loosely on him, and yellow plaid pants ended just before his black galoshes started. "I'm Finny, and I'm the gardener here!"
She smiled a hauntingly beautiful smile. "I'm Delilah Taylor, and apparently I'm the new maid."
/
"...And this is Tanaka, but he really doesn't have much energy so he just drinks tea all day, and over here..." Finny dragged Delilah all over the Phantomhive Manor, popping in and out of rooms too quickly for Delilah to even see anything. After a few rooms or Finny babbling nonstop about every little detail, they encountered Ciel and Sebastian, talking in the study.
"...And this is the young ma-Oh! Young Master! I am so sorry to have intruded!" Finny bowed apologetically and kept babbling.
"I brought the new maid around for a tour, even though I still don't see why you had to fire Mei-Rin..." Finny's voice trailed off as he considered what he'd said to the Young Lord.
"Well don't just stand there, introduce yourself!" Sebastian said to Delilah.
She snapped to attention after staring at the black-haired man for quite some time. "O-oh! I'm Delilah Taylor, Sebastian called for me? I guess I'm the new Phantomhive maid!" she said, glancing nervously between Ciel and Sebastian.
The young blue-haired boy, clad entirely in blue and black, toyed with the oversize ring on his finger. The dark-haired man, although very familiar, studied Delilah while his master thought things over. She was wearing a very simple light pink dress, with longer queen-style sleeves. Her dark red-brown hair was loose and flowing over her shoulders, down to her collarbone. She caught Sebastian staring, and blushed. He smiled a handsome smile, and cleared his throat. "Well, my lord, have your reached a conclusion? Will Miss Taylor be staying?"
Ciel looked up at his trusted butler, then to Delilah.
"And you picked this one out?" Ciel looked back to Sebastian. The tall man nodded.
"Alright, we'll keep her." Ciel decided. "Sebastian will show you your room and your duties every day. Goodbye for now." Ciel shooed them out, returning to a paper on his desk.
Sebastian grabbed her luggage and motioned for Finny to open the door for them.
"Just follow me, Miss Taylor," Sebastian stated. "I suppose Finnian already showed you some of the Manor?"
Before Delilah could respond, Finny piped in.
"Oh, yes, of course! Only some of the main rooms, though. And she hasn't met Baldroy yet."
"Alright, thank you, Finny. You've been a great help," Sebastian said as he opened a door. "Right in here is your room, Miss Taylor."
"And per our agreement, my colleague shall be joining me tomorrow," Delilah said as she looked around the room, unpacking her things.
Sebastian nodded. "Good. That's when we'll need her. Tomorrow evening, there shall be a small get-together, shall we say, here, at the Phantomhive Manor. We will need all the help we can get, and the sooner Pluie Parket can get here, the better," he said as he helped her with putting away everything. Sebastian pulled out a book on birds and scoffed. "There shan't be much time for reading, Delilah. You may try to in your free time, I suppose," Sebastian murmured.
Delilah grabbed a pair of tall boots and set them in the wardrobe. "I only brought what all was mine, Sebastian," she said, seemingly deep in thought. "Sebastian. Never thought that was the name you would be given this time around."
Sebastian looked at Delilah, first with a look of shock, then with a look of understanding. He smiled.
"It's been a while, Jane," he said, smiling and drawing closer to her.
"So it has, Eli. So it has," she smiled as well, staring into his red eyes. He grabbed her hand and brought it up to his lips, and she blushed. "Once a gentleman, always a gentleman, hm?" she laughed, and wrapped her arms around him in a loving embrace.
"Of course, my love. You know me too well, even like this," Sebastian said as he wrapped his arms around her.
Delilah pulled back first, after a few long moments, and looked into Sebastian's glowing red eyes.
She blinked, and hers looked exactly the same.
/
AN: i'm following the storyline, kinda, not really.
but Delilah belongs to me, Pluie belongs to Plu-Plu-Pluie 3