"Y-oung m-master " the words were hoarse and broken. He was freezing and dying. Dying. He could feel it. No. No he can't die. He has a contract to fulfill.
It had been hours since the Campania sunk. The Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his butler, Sebastian Michaelis, are still drifting in the middle of the freezing Atlantic waters. Sebastian is clinging to life by the mere threads of the contract. Undertaker will pay for what he did. Ciel keeps drifting in and out of consciousness . His breaths ragged from the cold and asthma. His ankle feels like someone is hitting it with a hammer. He looks up to see his butler sitting on the other side of the life raft with his knees drawn to his chest one arm around his torso and the other covering his mouth.
"Sebastian. ..."
"Don't mind me, My Lord. Please, just try to stay awa..." He didn't even have time to finish his sentence before he leaned over the side of the raft and coughed up blood. Afterwards, he groaned in pain, barely able to sit back up.
Ciel must have drifted off because he awoke to something nudging his knee. It was Sebastian's weak attempt at kicking him.
"My Lord... stay awake" Sebastian managed forcing himself not to pass out.
"That goes for you too... Oh and by the way... don't you dare ever kick me again."
"Ye-yes s-sir." Sebastian replied holding on to what consciousness he could . Ciel could see the demon's struggle for life.
"Sebastian... don't go to sleep... you still have a contract to fulfill ." Ciel said trying not to sound concerned.
"I-i de-deeply. A-ap-apologize... My bo-body is b-becoming too weak..." the butler rasped out.
Ciel moved over to the demon's side, who was too weak to move, and gently swept hair out of his butlers face.
"Sebastian. .. stop trying to force yourself to live. You're making it worse. If you can not go on any longer, don't. " He hated seeing the pain on the man's face.
"But You-" Sebastian was cut off.
"NO! No buts... it's an order."
"Y-yes My Lord. .." he said quietly. "Oh have failed as the Phantomhive butler... and for that I can not apologize enough. "
"Enough, Sebastian." Ciel said. He then turned back to his butler and saw his eyes drooping. A whistle of a ship was heard, and Ciel turned to the sound. A rescue ship! He thought.
He stood up in the boat waving his arms the best he could to wave down the ship.
"Sebastian don't go to sleep yet! Please!" He turned to see Sebastian already asleep. Not sure if the man was breathing. He kneeled back down next to his butler.
"SEBASTIAN! SEBASTIAN WAKE UP! PLEASE! I know what I ordered but please the rescue ship is here! Please wake up!" Ciel shouted as the small rescue boat from the ship arrived to their life raft.