So, I haven't read Black Butler in quite a while so this is based off the end of the anime, where Ceil turns into a demon (I didn't see the movie either). I don't own Black Butler.
Chapter 1 - An Offer He didn't have Time to Refuse
Finny didn't know where to go. The young master was gone and he didn't have a job now. He sat across the road from the Phantomhive manor. He couldn't help but cry silently. He thought that he was going to serve his master forever. He barely even noticed when it started to rain.
It wasn't until he stopped feeling the water on his head that he looked up. Above him was the beautiful face of Lady Lizzy. She was holding an umbrella above the both of them. "Hello Finny," she said softly, kneeling down so that she was eye level with him.
"Are you OK?" she asked. The umbrella shifted as she went to touch his face but he leaned back out of the way, exposing himself to the rain even more. "Finny," she said a little more firmly. When he met her eyes she spoke in her soft voice again, "I know that Ceil meant a lot to all of you but you can't just stay here." Instead of her normal, bright colors, she was wearing all black. That made sense, the funeral wasn't that long ago.
He heard her voice but her words weren't registering with him. Her lips were moving and it was a soft noise to him but that was all. His world had completely fallen apart and he didn't know what to do.
"M'Lady," came a lady's voice from a short distance away. "We should head inside soon." Elizabeth looked over to where Paula was waiting for her by the carriage. "I'll be there in a moment." she called.
She pulled Finny to his feet. "You're coming with me." He wanted to pull away but he was afraid that he would knock her over so he ended up following her to the carriage.
Once they were inside the carriage she looked at him and crossed her arms. "So, Bard went back to America but where did the others go?" Finny looked back at her, "I don't know." his voice was quiet and weird, like it wasn't his at all.
They sat in silence for a while. She didn't quite know what to say and was content to just stay quiet for a while. "What about Mey Rin?" she pushed. He just slowly shook his head. She wanted him to react to something, anything, but he just wouldn't.
As they were nearing her manner she decided to come right out with her reasoning. "Listen Finny," she said, and waited for him to give her his full attention. "the reason that I really came was for you. Your strength is incredible and you could be a very useful addition to my household."
He actually reacted to this. His head perked up slightly and he finally looked her fully in the eyes. She continued, "I want you to work for me directly. You will be my personal servant."
He looked down again with a perplexed look on his face, "My reason for living was my master. I was supposed to serve him for the rest of my life." She frowned at him. "Sometimes," she said gently, "we can have more than one purpose in life. I thought it was going to be my purpose to stay by Ceil's side but that didn't happen. Now we must find some other purpose. There is something that me just have to find out for ourselves."
She didn't know if what she said got through to him but she didn't talk again for the rest of the trip.
As they were getting out of the carriage, he looked around in awe. Her brother met her at the door, that definitely wasn't a good sign. He was so overprotective, even when he didn't need to be. "Where have you been, Elizabeth?" he asked, eyeing Finny. "I just needed to wrap something up." she said, making her way up the stairs.
"Finny," she said as he walked alongside her, "the first thing we need to do is to cut your hair." "What!?" Finny yelped, holding his hair close to his head. "Well," Lizzy retorted, "you can't go around looking like that."
Finny was looking at her nervously, "I don't want to lose my hair." Lady Lizzy patted his hand, "You're not going to lose your hair. We're just going to make it look better, I promise." She took his hand and led him up the stairs.
