Chapter 1
There is fire everywhere. To be honest I don't know how it got here. one second I am asleep in a cold iron cage and the next the familiar feeling of burnning and hot metal hit my leg, it felt like my skin was burning off.
I get up and and with minimal effort somehow manage to brake the mettal bars. Soon enough I have broken enough bars that I can fit though and escape.
I run out of the building my head hurts and I am exhasted. I soon find shelter and fall asleep.
I wake up to a sunny morning. The smell of smoke has died down a bit and the fire has been long put out. I search through the rubble and manage to salvage just enough cloth to cover my wounds.
I have no one, what am I going to do now, I don't know where I am either. I should of just died that's probaly what fate had instore for me to begin with. Fate has never been kind to anyone but I controll my life not some suppernatural occurance.
Firstly I'll need to change my name, Grace is a nice name I suppose, yeh I'll go with that.
I walk over to a road and begin walking. This road will have to lead to somewhere and I would rather not don't be around this place. Its funny I can hear the screaming of the dead's souls along with my families. Gun shots echo through my mind. Well lets hope I don't have to walk for too long!
2 years later
I stand by my masters desk recaling the events leading to my currrent employment. Its been two years since that night and I find myself wondering what lead to it.
I suppose I was lucky that road lead to london, when I first got here I tryed to steel what I needed to get by, the problem was that I was not the pest at it but soon after alot of close calls and practice I became quite good at it. I knew I could'nt steal forever so I searched for work.
Now I work for the underground eliminating people; no one expects a little girl to kill them. It is not my choiceto work here I was forced to when I was caught when I temporally paralysed a man so he wouldn't see me, I thought i'd gone unseen but sadly I was spoted ,he watched me for a couple of months as I snuck in to partys and crime scens but not to long ago he confronted me. Thats why I'm here now nothing more nothing less. Well its this or jail or the workhouse. To be honest I rather this.
"Grace i have a job for you." My employer snaps me from my thoughts as he looks at me sternly.
"Yes master, what would you like me to do?" I despise calling him master but if don't he gets angry and well I'd be better off dead for a few days but i still keep a smile upon my face it makes me look a little more like a normal kid.
"Well little one I have someone with a death wish you could grant,"he pases me over a folder, I open it and look at the picture
" You want me to kill a child?! We agreed that I would not kill children!" Adults are crewl and sometimes deserve it but children are young and have a whole life ahed of them
He glares at me and his eyes reflect hatred and anger, " YOU OBAY ME, YOU BRAT!"
I jump back before caring on reading the document, Ciel Phantomhive ,born 14 December 1875, parents died in a fire, blah blah blah. He's also the Queens gard dog interesting.
Within a week of me ariving in London the the Earl Phantomhive's heir ,who is now the Earl, mysteriously returned but not alone but with a new butler, there's something unworldly about that especially after everyone expecting him to be dead. He was gone 3 months! "I'm guessing you want to kill this kid because he's the Queens guard dog,"
my employer looks quite pleased liked you had just given a kid some candy. "I'll tell you what the plan is but first you need to get ready for the party my friend is hosting."
I look at him puzzled then it clicked, "but i can't -"
"Are you saying a beautiful young lady like your self doesn't know how to dance?" Why has he got that big of a smirk on his face its kinda creepy.
"no I can dance but the problem is-"
He cut of my sentence again. "No buts, now go run along now and get ready" I may as well I'm not getting out of it even if I begged.
a while later
I hate parties and now I have to go to them as part of my work. My employer usaly has me to stand in the room and talk with other guests to find out infomation. I finish getting ready pulling my gloves on my hand. I am wearing a long flowing light blue dress with a white bow around the waist. I had my long brown hair in pigy tails , just to make me look more innocent . I also had on a small pair of white heals.
"Grace are you ready?" My employer shouts from behind my bedroom door.
"Yes I am ready sir," I head down the stairs towards the carrage.
"ladys first." My employer opens the door for me.
"Why thank you," I give him a little smile before getting in to the carrage.
"Do you remember the plan little one?" My employer gets in the carrage and takes his seat.
"Yes master I remember." We fall sighlant as the carrage begins to depart. The rest of the jurny was complete silence not that I'm complaining.
30 minutes later
We finaly arrive and I take my first step out the carriage. I gasp at the beautiful manor I stood before.
"shall we go in my lady?" He had that twisted grin on his face again.
"Since when did you call me your lady master." I look up at him curiously.
"We have company now." He glares at me and we enter the mansion.
The inside was just a beautiful as the outside. It was a very grand manner which showed grate suffistication. I walk around and towards the left side of the room, I go unnoticed for a while untill i notice someone out the corner of my eye.
I stay alert but they continue to look at me for awhile. I glance over to see who was staring at me and from just one look I could tell it was the Earl Phantomhive.
I walk over to see why he was staring at me." Is there any thing wrong? ."
He gives me a confused look , "no why do you ask?" His butler comes even closer than he was before. I can tell he dosn't trust me.
"You have been staring at me for the last couple minutes, I just wanted to know why, is i because Im beautiful." I say the last part in a teasing manner.
He blushes, it's kind cute to be honest."no... I just wondering why your standing on your own. I also don't think we have met before so I Was wondering who you are."
I giggle before composing myself. "I'm not to fond of social events so I don't go to them often. My name Lady Grace it is an honour to meet you."
He still has that grumpy look on his face but replies trying to smile " Im Earl Ciel Phantomhive of the Phantomhive estate."
Before we could say any thing else, a young girl comes running over "CIEL!" she wraps her arms around Ciel. She has blond hair and is wearing bright pink dress.
"Hello Elizabeth," he doesn't seem very pleased with this dilemma.
"How many times do I have to tell you call me Lizzy!" She turns around noticing me. "Who is this Ciel?"she asks while she looks intently at my dress.
"Lady Elizabeth this is Lady Grace." The earl sighs as the girl lets him go.
I smile, "Just call me Grace." look behind me and see my master walking to wards me then beckoned me to come out side with him. "I must apologise My companion eishes to speak with me." I quickly walk away before they can protest.
"What information have you got." My employer glares at me.
"Nothing yet master," I sigh and look at the floor.
"Well why not?" I stay quet with no excuse to give. "You are nothing more then useless brat!" He yells as he hits me across the face knocking me off my feet before heading back inside.
I got back up and looked around, "You can come out I know your there." Right enough Ciel's butler came down from the roof."What do you want."i say as blood runs down my face like I was crying a dark red liquid.
"Your hurt." He looks at me blankly.
"Like you care." I rip a pice of cloth of my dress and tried to clean up myself as best I can.
He looks at me confused."If you don't mind me asking, what where you getting information about?"
"If you realy need to know it was on your young master."I give him a cheeky smile as I walk towards the entrance of the manor.
"Why is he wanting information on my master?" He still sounds monotoned.I simply turn around and give him a devilish but kinda cheeky grin and continue walking.
My head soon stops bleeding as I enter the hall once again but you can still see the wound. I take my long wavey hair down and sit it so it covers the wound. I'm surprised at how long I have managed to avoid dancing for. I'm not usally this lucky.
I really nead a new job my current ocupation is bringing me more harm than I would like. I just need to take care of my 'late' master, I'm sick of getting knoked around.
I take out the dagger of his I stole earlier and wait for a clean shot where no one will see me. Once the opertunity comes I take it, then throw the dagger. It flys straight through the air and straight into his skull.
Everyone imideatly started panicking it was quite funny , everyone was in shock and began to leave the building. I had to stop people expecting that I killed him so I ran over to his body and started crying and trying waking him up. Behind me was ciel looking very confused about what had happend and was now whispering to his butler.
After the hole dilemma was over I just walked out with no emotion, I'm jobless now and i think im going insane. I walk over to an abandoned house which has been my home for the last two years. It's not much but its home.
The Next Day
I decide to go find work the minnet I woke up. The streets had few people around to day and luckly I mixed perfectly with everyone else.
As I walk for awhile when i cross a crime seen, I was curious to what had happened so I snuck my way through, I walk towards the dead body but somthing was off about it, I couldn't put my finger on it until I could smell the poison.
"Hey kid you shouldn't be here,"A man looks at me with worry in his eye.
"This mans been poisoned and the poison that he has had takes a couple of painful days to kill you." I smirk walk away.
"How do you know of that poison?" It was that young Earls butler again..
"None of your bissness and it would be nice to know your name."
"oh sorry, I am Sebastian Michalus butler to the Earl Phantomehive" he seems to have a devilish grin every time we speek it's kind of creepy.
"Nice too meet you I'm grace. I realy must be off now I need to look for a job."
He stares at me a moment then asks,"would you like to work at the manor?"
I'm not to sure if it would be a good idea but i don't have any where ells to go "If that is not too much trouble, thank you very much sir." Sebastian starts to lead me to the summer manor in London.
He leads me in side, its wonderful. We walk up the stairs and enter what seamed like a games room.
"Sebastian who is this," I'm suprised he dosent recognise me.
"I thought we could do with another maid, this is Grace." As he introduces me I curtsey.
With hearing my name Ciel looked at me more carefully,"Your the girl I met yesterday at the party."
He sounded surprised, I smile and answer, "yes lord but as you can see I'm no lady, im just a commoner."
He looks puzzled,"Then why where you there?"
I chuckle, "well thats a story for another time." I looked down at the chess board on the table, "do you want to have a game of chess, or are you scared you'll be beat by a girl."
"ok then Sabastian make some tea," He smirks at me almost as devilish as his butler. You know the whole thing about me being insane? scrap that these people are insane.
The game went on for ages," You know ciel, your never truely stuck you can always move one spase more, checkmate."
His face was priceless, it made me giggle and I think it made Sabastian too.
Ciel glared, "whats so funny!"
I stop giggling strait away, "nothing just you puled a funny face when you lost. Sorry if I offended you,"
"I'm going to retire for the night,good night." I see sebastiampn and him go to leave the room.
I smile "good night." I head down to the survents qurtrs and go to sleep.
Later that night
All i can hear is screaming all i can see is death. I can see the night my parents died and I am forced to watch it over and over again. I can't stand it any more. I cant stop crying. I can't escape watching my brother blead to death and cant do any thing. finaly it snaps and I wake up screaming as I carry on crying you'd think i'd get use to the same dream almost every night.
Every one came running in probably to see what happend. I'm too much of a mess to do any thing.
The three other servants try comfort me,"What happend?!"ciel sound generally concerned.
"It-s no-nothi-nothing,i-im f-fine," I try to talk but it comes out in shambles, I hate people seeing me like this it makes me feel weak and I'm not weak. I'm realy not, am I?
End of chapter 1
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