A/N: SOOOOO I thought it would be cute for Sebastian to have a daughter and for Ciel to be the parent who spoils her so yeah. ^_^ OH I couldn't imagine cute little Ciel having a daughter and being all fatherly at like thirteen so he's older like twenty.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kuroshitsuji (Sadly)
Sebastian knocked on the Young Earl's door "Come in." He opened the door tray in hand.
"I have lunch for today it's rather simple today a ham and cheese sandwich and some tea." Ciel glanced up at his butler and back down at his work.
"Yes." Sebastian poured his Master's tea and strolled out. Ciel swiveled around in his chair to face the large window, nibbling at his sandwich. The lush garden was well kept and the spring sunlight made the grass gleam. After sometime he noticed movement in a bush near the edge of the garden. Watching contently a child stepped out. A girl about the age of seven maybe eight, but what caught his eye the most was her striking resemblance to Sebastian; her hair swept across her shoulders, thought it was matted with dirt. She timidly stepped out of the bush, she wore a poor excuse for a dress it was a soft green that was ripped and covered in a mix of blood and dirty. She weakly made her way to a nearby tree, sitting down underneath its strong branches. Ciel stood and rang the bell, moments later Sebastian was knocking on his door, "Come in," he commanded. Sebastian obeyed stopped an inch behind his master.
"Yes?" Ciel's sight never left the girl as he clasped his hands behind his back.
"Sebastian, look do you see that girl?" Sebastian looked out, biting his lip to hold back a surprised gasp. After composing himself he responded,
"Yes." Ciel glanced at him for a mere second.
"Bring her to the house, feed her, and then I want to speak with her."
"But Young Master, She's-"
"That's an order!" Ciel snapped.
"She's my daughter." Ciel pulled his gaze from the now sleeping girl to stare at his butler.
"What?"
"She is my daughter."
"How do you know and when did you have a child?"
"Demons can sense their young and a long time ago I was young and got a high school friend pregnant and after the child was born I ran away terrified of being a father."
"I see, go along." Ciel waved him away absently going back to staring at the girl intently. Sebastian made his made his way to the door to the garden, question after question running through his mind. 'How did she find me?' 'How did she get here? Or out of hell for that matter?' 'Where was her mother?' Stepping closer to the sleeping child . . . his child. He stopped down picking her up in his arms she didn't wake but merely nuzzled her face into his chest. Ciel watched as Sebastian carried out his orders. Sebastian laid his daughter in bed and softly pulled the covers up over her and she shifted lightly. Sebastian quietly made his way out of the room latching the door behind him. Sebastian made a decent lunch from left-over's of beef stew and brought it to the room. She still lay sleeping as he set the bowl on the nightstand. He sat on the edge of the bed and lightly shook her shoulder.
"Huh." She spoke softly and groggily
"Good afternoon." Sebastian smiled at her, she jumped back a bit.
"S-Sebastian Michaelis?" Sebastian nodded at the question and she smiled widely.
"Oh you don't know me but I'm your daughter." She glanced around the room as confusion crossed her face.
"This is the Phantomhive Manor, here eat the Young Master would like to speak to you." He handed her the bowl and she nodded thankfully taking a bite.
"Um Sebastian, if I'm to see the Young Master do you have something else I could wear?" looking over her "dress"
"I'll get you something." He rose and went to his office and rang for Mey-rin.
"Yes." She asked stumbling into his office.
"Do you have one of your old dresses one of the smallest sizes?"
"Yes, but what for?"
"It doesn't matter just go get it!" She quickly brought back a small black dress. He thanked Mey-rin and headed to the quest bed room.
"Here um . . . I'm sorry I don't know your name." He said feeling horrible.
"Luci with an I. I don't blame you for not knowing my name." he nodded stepping outside you she could dress. After a few minutes he heard yelling, opening the door he had to hold back a laugh. Luci was in the maids dress but was fighting to get the corset ribbon back ties. "SON OF A BITCH!" she yelled.
"Hey hey hold on let me help you." Whirling around she noticed her father and blushed furiously at her outburst. He knelt down and calmly and tightened the ribbon and tied it in a large bow. "There." He breathed straightened
"Thank you." Luci mumbled. Sebastian led her to Ciel's study.
"Come in." Ciel said from behind his desk. "Ah hello." He looked up meeting Luci's eyes.
"H-hello." She hid behind Sebastian.
"Sit." Ciel jester to a chair in front of his desk. Luci sat timidly and Sebastian took his place behind his master's chair. "I am Ciel Phantomhive and you are?"
"I-I'm Luci Levi Michaelis."
"And why are you here?"
"Um … well I … Sebastian is my father and I had been living in an orphanage in hell because my mother died shortly after I was born."
"Why?" Luci shuttered in her seat and Ciel decoded to change the subject. "Never mind how?" She calmed some.
"this if the fourth time I escaped hell the first time Mother Maggie dragged me back to hell and the last two times I died before I got here." She was again starting to get emotional.
"So would you like to stay here?" Luci looked up at the unexpected question.
"YES!" She grew quiet, "But I'm still a ward and have to be legally adopted."
"Do I not get a say in this?" Sebastian finally interjected.
"Ultimately yes but I get final say." Ciel answered before any thought could cross he or Luci's mind. "We will go tomorrow and you will begin you lessons to be a proper lady immediately after."
"Young Master, I think she'd be better off with my family in hell, it's where she belongs."
"Well I don't care she wants to stay and I'm not going to rip a young girls heart from her chest because you don't want to take responsibility." Ciel had raised his voice as he continue his speech
"It's not that Bocchan it's just that demon children are very difficult to raise and that's why many don't make it to adulthood because their parents get sick of them and kill them."
"SEBASTIAN!" Sebastian stopped arguing in an already lost battle. "Now I order you to-"Luci had begun to tear frantically at a ribbon around her neck. Ciel hadn't noticed it until now, it was simply a silk black choker with some sort of family crest printed on the center.
"Luci!" Sebastian scolded softly.
"Um … sorry." Her cheeks burned red.
"Sebastian, what is that?" Ciel questioned.
"It's a choker. Demon children are unable to fully control their demon side so every family has one for their children it can only be removed by the child's father on their sixteenth birthday or else they die, but that's not my family's crest."Ciel nodded.
"They're annoying and stupid anyway it's the orphanages' but they don't remove them they can't unless your adopted you die." Luci humphed, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Sebastian, I order you to father your child properly."
"Yes Young Master." Sebastian bowed. The next day Sebastian woke Luci and Ciel at the crack of dawn. Luci marched in behind Sebastian and flopped down on Ciel's bed.
"Seba –Yawn-tion. Why am I awake –Yawn- so early?"Ciel demanded in a tired haze, resting a hand on the back of Luci's head.
"We have a lot to do today. We have a trip to hell and lots of shopping to do." Luci still laying face down on Ciel's bed in one of Mey-rin's nightgowns grumbled,
"URRRGGG."
"Stand up that's unladylike." Sebastian chided his daughter. Luci heavily lifter her head from the bed and Ciel chuckled at her mess of raven hair. The morning ran smoothly till it was time to leave. Ciel sat in the carriage and waited while Sebastian get Luci who was being difficult. He soon heard screaming,
"NO PAPA NO!" Sebastian held Luci under his arm as she screamed bloody murder and scratched attempting to escape his grasp. "PLEASE NO PAPA I'M SORRY PLEASE NO!" Sebastian stopped in his tracks half-way to the carriage,
"Sorry? For what?" She continued to sob
"I-I got –sniffle- got hungry last night –sniffle-so I got a piece of –sniffle- bread from the kitchen." Sebastian looked down at her confused.
"There's nothing to be sorry for" He stood her up putting his hands on her shoulders as he knelt down in front of her. "It's okay you're not in any trouble." She sniffled rubbing her nose with her sleeve.
"So you're not taking me back?" she whispered sounding very much like the child she was.
"No honey." He chuckled and wiped the tears from her cheeks with his thumb. She wrapped her arms around his neck in a tight embrace. He lighted her up and put her in the carriage with Ciel. As soon as the carriage rumbled away from the manor she looked up at Ciel.
"Um … Young Master -."
"Ciel."
"Oh Ciel." Her cheeks reddened a bit.
"Are you…um…like my… what are you… to me I mean?"Ciel was quiet for a while thinking, he felt like a parent to her even thought he just met her and he cared for her because she was Sebastian's.
"Well what do you want me to be?" she thought swinging her short legs back and forth.
"Could you be . . . Papa Ciel?" She blushed at the suggestion. She sat quietly watching Ciel; he chuckled,
"Sure." It wasn't long before they were in London and had come to a stop. Ciel peered out the window, "Sebastian why are we here?" They had stopped outside the Undertaker's shop.
"Nothing Bocchan I just need to get something you don't need to get out." Ciel sat back and began stroking Luci's hair as she slept her head rested on his lap.
"Alright." It wasn't long before an extremely loud outburst erupted from the small building and Sebastian strolled out and the carriage rumbled away. Ciel drifted off to sleep as the carriage rumbled away. When he awoke the carriage was pulling up in front of the town house. "Sebastian," Ciel whispered "Why are we here?"
"We are traveling to hell can you wake Luci?" Ciel nodded
"Luci," He shock her shoulder lightly "Wake up." Luci jumped up tumbling to the floor of the carriage with a scream. "LUCI!"
"Sorry papa." She rose from the floor as Sebastian helped her step down from the carriage. Luci followed Ciel into the house. "WOW papa this place is so pretty." Sebastian shot Luci a glance.
"Who are you calling papa?"
"Papa Ciel and your Papa Sebastian" She giggled.
"No, he is the Young Master or Bocchan you may call me papa" Sebastian scolded as Luci ducked behind Ciel.
"Sebastian, I told her she could." He put his hand on her head
"But Young master it's –"Sebastian stopped realizing what was going on. Ciel was treating her like his. "Alright." Ciel sat down in a large leather chair and Sebastian sat on the leather couch across from him. Luci crawled up and laid her head on Sebastian's lap and fell back asleep. 'She sleeps an offal lot even for such a young demon. ' When Sebastian was sure Luci was in a deep sleep he spoke, "Ciel we need to talk?"
Ciel set his tea cup down on the coffee table, "About what?"
"Well are you sure you're ready to adopt her," he glanced down at his daughter "Demon children can become very … unruly."
"I'm sure; I see so much of myself in her but at the same time she's so different." Ciel spoke with well thought out words.
"Alright but you need to know that she will not be anything near a normal child. She'll go through a stage where she will not be the same girl she is now. She'll be violent, manipulative, and querulous –"
Ciel chuckled interrupting Sebastian "Sebastian that puberty everyone goes through it."
"No it is much worse it's often during this period that demon parents kill their offspring."
"Well she has to great fathers and there isn't any reason to worry." The large grandfather clock in the corner tolled. "Now it's time to go." Ciel rose as did Sebastian lightly waking Luci.
Once they got to hell Sebastian hailed a carriage and the three got in. Luci sat next to Ciel tightly clutching his sleeve he seemed to not notice. Sebastian watched quiet intrigued. She tapped her fingers constantly sweating nervously. He was almost curtain that any sudden noise or movement would make her jump. "Luci?" She snapped from her dead stare on the floor.
"Yes Papa?" He grasp on Ciel's sleeve tightened.
"What's wrong?" Sebastian smiled comfortingly.
"Nothing Papa … Just a little nervous." She stammered. Sebastian decided it best not to further the conversation. As the carriage stopped in front of a large brick building Luci's body went rigid and her breaths slow and shallow. A large white sign hung in the arch reading 'Orphanage' in big red letters. Ciel stared at the building and he rose to get out of the carriage. Luci followed behind her fathers clinging for dear life to Sebastian's sleeve. "Papa?" She whispered at the base of the steps.
"Hm?" Sebastian leaned in to hear her.
"I'm really really scared." She began trembling violently her voice even more child like. Sebastian smiled trying to comfort her.
"It won't take long then we'll go home." Luci loosened her grip just a fraction of a centimeter on Sebastian's sleeve. The three walked into the lobby Luci hiding behind Sebastian. "Hello," He spoke to a tall woman who stood behind the front desk her face was a permanent scowl but she was otherwise a fairly attractive women. She smiled wickedly as she noticed Luci cowering behind Sebastian's legs.
"Hello have you brought back this trouble making tart?" She smiled evilly at Luci who buried her face into Sebastian's leg.
"No," Ciel interjected "We are here to adopt her."
"Well, I'm Mother Maggie and you are?" The children and everyone else called her Mother Maggie not because she was a priest but simply because to the children she was the only mother they would ever know.
"I'm Ciel Phantomhive and this is Sebastian Michaelis."
"Here are the forms," She handed a stack of papers to Sebastian. "You can go get her belonging while you wait." She spat out unpleasantly. Sebastian took a seat with the forms and began writing. Luci hid behind Ciel till they were out of the lobby and walking down a dark under lit hallway.
Ciel peered into the various rooms as they passed them each on as bad as the last. Children chained to walls, many looked as they were recently beaten, and some lay on the floor looking dead. Ciel glanced down at Luci who stared at the ground as she walked. She spoke after they had walked a while making Ciel jump just the slightest bit, "You know Papa it's not so bad. If you're good." Her voice was cold almost dead.
"But-"She continued like she hadn't heard him.
"I'm not good Mother Maggie says I'm the worst, but I know it's just 'cause she doesn't like me."
"Why doesn't she like you?" Ciel spoke as soft as he could hoping she heard him.
"Because on my first day when I was only about a week old she lost her child and was never able to conceive again she blames me." She stopped abruptly causing Ciel to almost knock into her. Her head still down she opened a solid white door. Inside was a small room that looked more like a jail cell. It contained a large dresser and two twin beds and a small barred window. "This is Cassie and I's room." Her voice wasn't as flat but it still sounded unhappy.
"Who's Cassie?" Ciel asked trying to lighten the mood.
"She's my roommate." Luci stepped inside the room and pulled open the dresser drawers, pulling out small dresses much like the one she wore when she appeared.
"Were is she?" He helped her place the garments in the suitcase Luci retrieved from under her bed.
"She is either in punishment or she's dead." Luci said with no emotion. She them moved to her pillow and lifted it up. She handed a note to Ciel and he placed it inside the case. The Luci ripped the pillow open and it began to snow feathers.
"Luci?" Ciel questioned. She finally looked up at him her face brightened as she snapped out of the trance being in this place put her in.
"Would you like to see my most prized procession?" Ciel smile warmly.
"Sure." She reached inside the torn pillow and pulled from it a small silk blanket, it was raven colored matching her hair almost perfectly and in the corner in red stitching was a bold letter S.
"It's the only gift my mother gave me. I had to hide it from Mother Maggie though so I stuck it in my pillow a sewed it shut." Luci carefully folded the baby blanket and put it in the case. Just as the latch of the case clicked a high pitched squeal erupted from behind him.
"LUCI YOU'RE ALIVE!" Ciel whirled around to find a short blonde girl about the same age as Luci. Her hair fell in a cascade of curls framing her face and pulling out the color of her tyrian eyes her face was upturned into a wide smile. Luci chuckled happily
"I'm better then alive Cassie I'm getting adopted!" Cassie's smile dropped to pure dread.
"But I'll die without you. Who will keep the older boys away from me?" Cassie sounded of the verge of tears. Ciel's chest ached.
"Cassie," He spoke softly his voice firm and steady, "Can you work say as a maid?"
A sniffle escaped the young girls frame "Y-Yes."
"My aunt has been looking for a new maid. I'm sure she would take you as her child." The girls face again brightened.
"Really? Oh thank you kind lord," She bowed and began to pack her things as well and the two girl chattered as Ciel steeped into the hall. Cassie was later adopted by Ciel's Aunt Angelia and continues to live with her. Ciel walked with Luci into the lobby her suitcase in his hand.
"Sebastian is everything ready to go?"
"No just one more thing than we can go home." Sebastian elaborated after receiving a questioning look from Ciel. Ciel nodded in understanding when Sebastian held up a raven choker with what Ciel assumed was his family check in the center and small chains stitched to the ribbon.
"Papa," Luci shifted as all eyes in the room; including Mother Maggie's fell on her. "Will it hurt?" She whispered so softly that Ciel had to strain to hear her. Sebastian shrugged but was unable to speak before the shrill voice of Mother Maggie wrecked trough the room.
"We can begin." She led them to a set of unlit stairs "Follow me." She lit a single candle and they travel down two flights of stairs that lead into an also unlit corridor. They walked in the stone corridor in complete silence with the only exceptions being the sound of clicking shoes and the occasional whimper from Luci. After walking for almost fifteen minutes a bright light eliminated the end of the hallway and upon reaching the large doors Mother Maggie stopped. "You may both go inside and have a seat, "She glanced down at Luci, pure hatred in her eyes. "I'll Take Luci and get her ready." Mother Maggie led Luci into a single door and Sebastian lead Ciel through the large double doors.
The room was quiet literally a small scale arena with three rows of seats around the entire circumference of the room. The walls were painted an orangey-red color with matching candles scattered around in the center of the room a black pentagram was painted. It all seemed rather scary to Ciel but Sebastian didn't seem to sway one way or the other on the entire situation. Ciel sat down in the first row and waited. Sometime later Mother Maggie walked in with Luci following close behind teary eyed her dress replaced with one similar to the one she arrived it. "Do you have-"
"Yes." Sebastian produced a choker from his coat pocket; Ciel assumed that that was the reason for the stop at Undertaker's shop.
"Good. Now Luci stand here."Mother Maggie pointed and Luci did as she was told without even a glance at her father or Ciel. "Now this won't take long but she will feel like she can't breathe." Mother Maggie took the choker from Sebastian and put it on Luci who flinched away from her touch. "Ready?" a nod from Sebastian was all that was needed and he took a seat next to Ciel. Mother Maggie began chanting some language that sounded like a mix of Latin and gibberish; both chokers began to glow bright blue constricting around the young demon's neck. A small cough started a sequence of loud strained coughs.
"Papa … I … can't … breathe." Luci spoke between sharp inward gasps and the chanting continued. Luci clutched her throat; the sound of hoarse gasps for breath filled the air and Ciel had to look away.
"Just calm down." Sebastian comforted but the gasps continued.
"Daddy … Daddy …" Finally a crack of energy ended everything Ciel looked back to see Luci's body limp on the floor a deep purple bruise forming around her neck partially covered by one choker as the other had fallen to the ground.
"Sebastian?" He nodded and smiled warmly.
"She's fine. She will be weak for the next two days or so if she gets a fever but her in a cold bath and if she gets to cold a hot bath. She should stay at one end of the spectrum but some go from one to another it all depends." Mother Maggie spoke with no emotion. Sebastian picked her up leaning her forward on his chest.
"Good bye." Ciel could hear the venom in Sebastian's voice. He turned and the three left. When they arrived at manor Ciel picked up his new daughter the same way Sebastian had and carried her into his room; gently laying her limp body on the bed. "Young Master Can you put her night gown on?"
"Yes I'm quite capable so something so simple." Ciel took the night gown and removed the dirty garment and carefully pulled the satin night gown over Luci's sleeping body. "See." Sebastian peered over Ciel's shoulder.
"Good Job Young Master." Ciel tucked his daughter in pulling the blanket up so she was warm.
"Sebastian," Ciel smiled warmly a genuine smile as his butler placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Young Master are you happy?" the smile brightened.
"Of course I now have a daughter." Whimpers tour the smile from Ciel's face. "Luci?" Concern filled his voice and he took their child's hand.
"Daddy," she rasped "Sleep here." Ciel chuckled the warm smile returning.
"Of course." He slipped into his night clothes and crawled into other side of the bed.
"Where's papa?" She whispered her eyes still shut. Ciel yawned and patted the bed for Sebastian to join them. He removed his coat and shoes and laid down sandwiching Luci between him and Ciel.