The Black Maid
I absolutely love Black Butler! I can't get enough of it! Especially Sebastian.
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Her maid, the different
In the largest bedroom of the Varnhar mansion lays the sleeping form of its current mistress. Sun light flooded the room from a window on the left of the room. The mistress stirs and looks on her bed to see the familiar shadow that awakes her every morning.
"Good morning young mistress," the shadows owner voices.
The voice is only slightly high and has a sweet tone to it. The young girl wakes all the way up and sits up in her bed. A white, elbow-length gloved hand hands her a cup of tea.
"Today's tea is a simple cup of Earl Grey with a small amount of sugar. For breakfast this morning we have a salad with small bits of ham. Would you like scones or a crepe with that?" the voice asked again.
"Crepe of course," the mistress replied.
From the reply, you would be able to tell the mistress was at least younger than twenty but older than ten. In fact, she was just a little older than thirteen. Yes, this was the young and talented Aleaxa Varnhar, with her ocean blue eyes and deep brown hair. The gloved hand returns along with its twin to help Aleaxa stand up. The gloved hands then undo the small buttons just below the collar of her gown and pulls the gown up over the young woman's head. The gown is folded neatly and laid at the edge of the bed. A green dress with a built in corset replaces the night gown almost instantly. The nimble fingers of the gloved hands quickly do up the laces, tying them tightly but still giving the girl some breathing space.
"What's the schedule for today Midna?" she asked the owner of the hands.
Their owner was the lovely Midna, with her endless black left eye and fire like hair. She had been serving the Varnhar household for over sixteen years now, serving the former mistress and her husband for three years before their sudden and unexpected passing's and serving the other thirteen for Aleaxa, including nursing the young mistress when she was a baby.
"For the morning you have a clear schedule up until two o' clock when the earl Phantomhive comes to see if your, and I quote, 'worthy of working with such people as I'," Midna explained.
"He really said that?" she exclaimed surprised.
"Yes. Right into my ear on the phone milady," her maid answered.
"Men!" Aleaxa scoffed while walking out of her room.
Midna smirked lightly before following her mistress out of the room and down the stairs.
At the Phantomhive manor, a similar conversation was taking place between its master and his faithful butler.
"This woman, the lady Varnhar, who is she exactly?" Ciel asked his butler.
"No one really knows young master. She is a mystery to every one of the other lords and ladies I asked. I even asked your fiancée, who also knew nothing of her," Sebastian answered.
"So, Lizzy doesn't know of her either? Quite interesting," Ciel noted.
"Yes, considering the fact that she knows all the ladies of London," Sebastian added.
"We had better go soon," Ciel said blankly.
"As you wish," Sebastian said while bowing.
Back at the Varnhar mansion, Midna was preparing for the arrival of the earl of Phantomhive. She knew that Ciel was just a teenager, only a few months older than Aleaxa, but she thought she would have some fun and surprise the young mistress. She smirked lightly to herself before checking the grandfather clock that sat in the main hall.
"One-fifty eight," she said to herself.
Precisely two minutes after saying that there was a light knock at the large wooden double doors. She walked over and opened them immediately. She saw a boy about thirteen and a man dressed in black on the other side.
"Ah! You must be the earl Phantomhive and his butler. My mistress has been expecting you. Please do come in," She said opening the door wider for them to come in.
They walked inside cautiously. Midna shut the doors behind them. She walked over to the large stairs, her heels clacking on the tiled floor.
"Please come this way to the study," she said gesturing with her hand to the stairs.
They all walked up the stairs to the Varnhar study where Aleaxa did all of her work. Midna knocked on the door three times and waited.
"Enter," came Midna's mistress's voice.
She opened the door and said, "Forgive my intrusion but Lord Phantomhive is here to speak with you."
"Send him in," Aleaxa said, not looking up from her paper work.
Midna bowed her head and allowed Ciel and Sebastian into the room. Both of them walked into the room and Midna closed the door to the study. Aleaxa looked up from her work and raised an eyebrow at the sight of Ciel. She stood up and walked around to the front of the desk. Ciel gaped at her height. She was a few inches shorter than he was. Aleaxa's eyebrow stayed in its raised position.
"Are you going to stand and gawk all day or are we going to finish what you came here for?" she asked him, bored.
Ciel snapped back to reality at the sound of her voice and replied quickly, "yes of course."
"Midna, fetch us some tea and whatever sweet you made for today," she ordered, shooing her maid off.
"Yes ma'am," Midna replied with another bow of the head.
"Wait. Sebastian, go with her to ensure she doesn't need any help with that," Ciel said, hinting the butler to check for anything suspicious.
Sebastian placed his left hand over his 'heart' and bowed slightly while saying, "Yes, my lord."
The two left the room to head to the kitchen, Midna in lead. Aleaxa kept her attention on the teen standing in front of her before motioning to the chair placed in front of her desk. Ciel sat and Aleaxa walked around and sat in her chair behind her desk.
"So you really want to help me with the funtom company?" Ciel asked her.
"Why else would I have asked you?" Aleaxa retorted.
Ciel slightly flinched before continuing to ask the girl questions.
Down in the Varnhar kitchen, the maid and butler just walked through the door. Sebastian immediately began following his orders and looked around for anything that might bring harm to his master. Midna noticed this and sighed.
"Do not fret. My mistress would intend no harm upon your master and neither would I," she stated calmly.
Sebastian looked at her warily before walking to stand beside her. On the counter in front of her was a chocolate cake. A knife was in her right hand. Sebastian sniffed, the scent of the chocolate from the cake filling his nose. It was, dare he say, an intoxicating scent. Midna smiled at him happily.
"Would you like some?" she asked.
He looked at her before answering, "No thank you. I am not very hungry."
Midna nodded her head in response. Sebastian looked at her again and began to trace her features. Her black left eye. Her fiery red hair, which covered her right eye. He questioned himself about what was under those strands of hair covering her eye. He watched her delicate, dainty fingers cut the cake with ease to serve to his master and her mistress. He let his ruby red eyes travel down her body a little. He noticed that she was quite… thick in the chest and hip division. He moved his vision back to her face.
"May I ask you something Miss… um…" he trailed off unknowing of what to say.
"Sarah Lee. Midna Sarah Lee," she answered his unasked question while holding out a hand for him to shake.
"Sebastian Michaelis," he said taking her hand and shaking it.
"And of course. Ask away," she stated happily.
"What can you tell me about your mistress, Aleaxa Varnhar?" he asked.
Midna got a sudden look of sadness on her face and Sebastian noticed this.
"But if you do not wish to talk about it, it is fine," he added quickly.
"No, I'll tell you but the only other person you can tell is your master and then please ask him not to tell anyone, understand?" she told him.
He nodded.
"My mistress's mother, the lady Gertrude, was my previous employer. We were very close and I was slightly close to her husband as well," she began.
"I thought we were talking about Madam Varnhar?" he interrupted her.
"We are but in order for you to understand it fully is for you to hear this first," she stated.
He nodded for her to continue. Before doing so, she lifted herself on her arms to sit on the counter, crossing one of her legs over the other and placing her hands in her lap.
"Any who, about two and a half years after I began serving them the lady Gertrude announced to her husband and I that she was with child. I was happy for her as any maid would be and her husband was so proud. However, about a month later the carriage carrying Sir David, Lady Gertrude's husband, crashed unexpectedly. The doctors and surgeons did all they could but, alas, they could not save him. Lady Gertrude was devastated but still continued to be happy of the baby, which we would later learn would become babies," she continued.
"Babies?" Sebastian asked her.
"Yes. It turns out she was to have twins. Again a however came up. She got very sick the month that she was to have the children. None of the doctors knew what was wrong with her. Her health improved as she had the children but got even worse than before the children came. Three days after the children were born; Lady Gertrude was on her last hours of life. She made me promise to protect and love her children and I agreed. She died an hour after she told me that, my mistress and her sister sleeping against the warmth of my chest. I grieved and mourned her death. Two of my friends helped me to take care of the tiny babes. My mistress and her sister, even at such a young age, hated each other. It was so bad that when the two of them were walking, they would knock each other down for amusement. Finally, I decided on a solution to fix that problem. One of my friends took mistress's sister away to the second Varnhar mansion. My Mistress never learned of her sister, nor do I intend to tell her until she is ready. Anyway, several years later my mistress was kidnapped. I searched everywhere for her but could not find her for about two months. Finally, I received a letter detailing who had her and where. I went there immediately but I was too late. Several men there beat, branded, whipped, cut, and…" she trailed off.
"And what?" Sebastian pressed.
"And raped her," she concluded.
Sebastian was in shock. The teenager that was speaking with his master got raped. It was unreal to him.
"Her happiness faded away because of that day. I learned that one of the maids had taken her to that beast of a man and fired every single one of the servants in the Varnhar household. I had no sympathy for any of them and did not want my mistress to wish to kill herself because they kept betraying her. So I sent them all away. She thanked me repeatedly."
"What of your other friend?" he asked.
"Oh, she still lives here with us. She sometimes brings her friend to stay over as well. Her friend and her friend's parents are not really on… speaking terms. But it is fine. There is plenty of room here in the Varnhar mansion and it means that I do not get lonely."
She smiled widely before remembering what they came here for.
"OI! We need to take the sweets to the young mistress and lord Phantomhive!" she exclaimed, jumping off the counter.
She set the cake, now sliced into sixths, on a tray and went to get the tea and some cups and plates. After she placed the tea on the tray, she began to head for the cupboard. However, the knife she had used to cut the cake moved when she picked up the cake. She sliced her left arm open on the blade.
"Ouch!" she hissed.
Sebastian rushed to her side and looked at the cut.
"Does it hurt too badly?" he asked her.
"It does sting very badly but that's about it," she said, clutching her arm and added, "Although I did like this pair of gloves."
"I do know of that feeling," Sebastian said, sighing.
"Come let us take these to the study Mister Michaelis," she said.
He pushed the tray while she walked close behind. They entered the study and served the snacks. A few hours later, Ciel and Sebastian left the Varnhar mansion. Aleaxa approached Midna.
"I see that you cut your arm," she inquired.
"Yes, it is fine though. Already almost healed," Midna said cheerfully.
"You did not let them see you healing yourself did you?" Aleaxa asked, quite curious.
"No, of course not. I'm a demoness, not stupid," Midna retorted calmly.
"Just prepare me for bed," Aleaxa commanded her
"Yes, young mistress," she replied.
Sebastian and Ciel just pulled up to the Phantomhive manor as Sebastian finished telling his master the story of Aleaxa.
"You wouldn't imagine a girl like Madam Varnhar to go through all that," Ciel said.
"Quite," Sebastian agreed.
"I'm not allowed to tell anyone?" Ciel asked him.
"Miss Sarah begs that you do not. Can you please respect her wishes?" Sebastian almost begged.
"Yes. Prepare me for bed," he finished with an order.
"Yes, my lord," he said.