Meyrin's Secret
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters
Hello, my name is Meyrin Sohma, and yes, I am part of the Chinese Zodiac like the rest of the Sohma family. The odd thing about me is that I'm not the only one born into the year of the cat. Once my family figured out that I could transform into a creature they decided to hide me away. They sent me to an orphanage where a nice family from England adopted me. Before they sent me to the orphanage, however my father abused me and told me that I was an ugly creature that didn't belong in his family.
I cried because I was only so young and didn't understand how the world worked yet. The only thing I did know at the time was that my mother loved me very much. She told me one day, "Meyrin I love you so much and I know it hurts your father to be around you but I want you to stay my secret princess. Please May stay just as you are don't ever change." At that point, my father came over he had been drinking heavily those days because of me, and he hit her.
"Why do you treat that thing like it's a person it should be thrown out with the trash!" He then hit me, as if I hadn't gotten enough beating from him already. My mother just clung to me as if I was going to vanish all of a sudden.
"She is human and she should be treated like such," My mother said back that day she was weak from his beatings as well. My parents hadn't told the main house that I was a cat there was already one and they had known what type of torture the animals of the zodiac go through. My father was happy to get rid of me, but it was hard for my mother to just leave me at the orphanage. The last I saw their faces was when my parents had dropped me off at the orphanage. My mother and I clung to each other for what seemed like a lifetime before they left.
Years later after I had grown up in England for a while, I was recruited as an assassin and killed for a living. No one knew nor cared that I was really a monster whenever someone of the opposite sex hugged me. Since I never had a single friend growing up or in my job, I just kept that as my secret. It wasn't until one day when a strange man cloaked in black come to visit did I start to feel uncomfortable.
The man was incredibly handsome and dressed in a nicely tailored suit. He was a butler for a noble family and he was trying to get me join him as his maid. I blushed and looked at him with a confused smile.
"You don't need any formal training I'll teach you everything you need to know miss just come with me." Like every other man in the world I didn't trust him and his silky smooth voice or that he was getting quite close to my personal space. I ignored his request and picked up the sniper rifle again aiming for my target. "Your eyes are quite good if you don't need the periscope attachment why don't you come to work with me?" he asked he had moved behind me. I whipped around to look at him, the bangs of my red hair covering my eyes.
"Will I get my own room?" I asked a little curious on the offer. He smiled a smile that I knew had some lie to it. "But of course, and you'll have your own maid's outfit." He said I don't know why I liked the offer so much, maybe it was because this man in black was incredibly handsome or the fact that I got to wear a maid's outfit. I told him that I would think about it. I took the job and for the first time in a while I didn't have to kill someone.
I was given my own room, which was huge compared to the other places that I've stayed at before. I had one little bed with a wardrobe and a dressing table. I was given a maid's outfit to change into. I hadn't met the master of the house yet but I assume that he was strict. There was a knock on my door as I had finished dressing. "Meyrin have you finished dressing yet?" It was the butler I opened my door to let him in. I saw that he was carrying a pair of spectacles on a pillow. "The young master wanted to give you these as a present." I took them gratefully and put them on. I looked in the mirror at my reflection and I liked it.
The hardest thing was walking with theses glasses, I couldn't see out of them clearly so I kept on tripping and falling. I broke everything that I touched and Sebastian the butler I talked about earlier would yell at me. We got other servants to help around the mansion but they were just as clumsy as I was. One day in particular it was snowing out that day so Finnian our gardner and Bardroy our chef went outside to have a snowball fight with each other. I was going to join them outside. I had put on my winter clothes and was running down the hall to the main entrance, when I tripped over one of my shoelaces on my combat boots right into Sebastian, who was dusting the banister. My folly caught the both of us off guard. As he tried to catch me and protect the both of us from falling off the banister I turned into a cat.
"Meyrin are you alri_" before he could finish his sentence he noticed that I had turned into a cat. I was ashamed of myself but at the same time I was completely happy that I was this close to Sebastian. I had grown to love this perfect butler of mine. He blinked at me wonderingly for a minute wondering how this person had turned into a cat. But then his expression lightened and he began to play with my paws. I was content and annoyed at this reaction, I loved him but I never wanted him to find out that I was a monster that could transform from a human into a red calico cat. He kept on saying things like "those big round eyes, the slender smooth fur and perfect little paws." The sound of me changing made the other servants come and see what the noise was.
The young master who had been helping Lizzy make a snowman came running as well. What they found was Sebastian playing with a cat; my clothes were stuffed in his black tailcoat, while sitting on the edge of the banister. "Sebastian! What are you doing?" The young master Ciel asked him quite annoyed by this action "Get back to work now Sebastian and say goodbye to you little cat friend! I am not paying you to laze about do you hear me Sebastian?" Ciel yelled at him. Lizzy's big green eyes had grown bigger at the sight of me.
"Aw a kitty can I pet it too Sebastian! Please pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eezzzzzzzz!" She squealed as she rushed forward to pet me almost knocking the both of us off of the banister. She held me in her arms like she would hold one of her dolls and began stroking me. Seeing that he wasn't going to win this battle Ciel just walked away. After a few minutes I dozed off and fell asleep in Lizzy's arms. Then she gave me back to Sebastian or that's what I think she did, because next I, still being a cat, woke up in my room. Sebastian was sitting on the bed next to me, if I had skin it would be turning a bright pink seeing him this close to me.
"Meyrin, why didn't you tell me that you could turn into a cat?" he asked me quite happy that I could do this. I felt upset; he was in love with me but for all the wrong reasons. In my days with the Phantomhive family, I had learned that Sebastian loved cats. I had grown up despising what I was, what I could turn into.
The pile of clothes that belonged to me was folded neatly on the bed behind Sebastian. I looked at them hoping that I would transform back to my human form and change quickly before he noticed anything. It was nothing like that. "It's a curse, my family had this ancient curse put on them where every other generation would transform into the twelve characters from the Chinese Zodiac, twelve and the cat." I answered misery clearly in my voice. "I transform when I'm hugged by someone of the opposite sex or under tremendous stress. I do transform back into a human but_" at that point I transformed back a puff of smoke covering some of my body parts.
Sebastian turned the brightest shade of crimson I've ever seen come to his pale face and he turned around. "I'm naked." I finished he had put his gloved hand over his eyes as to not see my naked body as I changed into clothes. I dusted off my blue dress and then looked at him. "Alright you can look now, I'm sorry for not telling you before but I never wanted you or anyone else to find out that I could transform into such a creature." I said putting on my glasses and wiping a tear that had rolled down my cheek as I remembered the days when I was younger.
I felt a hand on my shoulder on my shoulder and saw that Sebastian had gotten up to put a comforting hand on my shoulder. He gave me a small smile which mad me feel better. We sat back down on the bed and then he said "A curse you say? Sounds interesting, I think I know how to suppress such a thing, but it would take me some time." I didn't listen to most of that all that I heard was that he could stop my curse which made me look hopeful at him. There had been so many days that I had dreamed of him coming into my room to steal a kiss or two but now that he knew what I am, now all he would want to do would hug me so I could stay a cat.
"really Sebastian can you really keep me from transforming?" I asked hopefully he sighed like he regretted what he was going to tell me next. "yes I can, it wouldn't look good if you were to transform in front the young master, this time was a close call but the young master needs his maid." Then he got up and walked to the door, before leaving me alone he winked and then said "I never lie Meyrin, we'll keep this our little secret." From that day forward, even though I was clumsy I made sure that I wouldn't transform into a cat in front of the young master. It was hard as clumsy as I was, I kept on transforming, but luckily Sebastian was around to cover up. The young master really doesn't care for cats all that much, the holiday season came up fast and soon it was Christmas morning. Finny had chopped down a really big tree to put into the mansion and I had helped decorate it as well. Christmas morning all the servants got the day off and the young master gave us small toys that we could play with. Me and the other two servants never bothered to change into clothes, we usually did that after we had gotten our presents.
The only ones who dressed for the occasion was the youngmaster, Sebastian, Lizzy (except on Christmas morning she never turned up till nine) and Tanaka. I noticed another wrapped present under the tree; I reached for the green and white present and noticed it was addressed to me! I blushed quite hard when I saw that the person, who gave me the present, was none other than Sebastian. There was a small card on the box, I read it to myself and blushed even harder. 'For my secret little kitty ;)' I opened the box and noticed that it was a necklace. A beautiful blue diamond necklace. He came over and whispered in my ear, "this is the demon's hearth necklace, it suppresses curses like yours it matches your outfit as well." He helped me put it on. I just stood there my insides squirming with excitement that he was touching me like this. He then gave me a hug and whispered into my ear again. "Merry Christmas Meyrin." I pushed him away and blushed, I looked down at my body I wasn't a cat.
"Thank you Sebastian!" I said happily hugging him and accidently knocking him to the ground. I giggled I was finally free to be me and that's all I was happy about. "Meyrin can you get off of me?" Sebastian asked me politely, I hadn't even noticed I was still kneeling on this chest. "S-sorry Sebastian." I said apologetically and helped him to his feet.
Some months later as I was cleaning up the mansion with the help of Finny and Bard, there was a knock at the front door. It was the post man. I got the mail and went to give it to Sebastian to give it to the young master. He stopped me before I got to the door. "Meyrin?" I turned around to see that he was holding out a letter to me. "This is addressed to you." It was odd I've never gotten mail before, it was either Sebastian or the young master who had gotten the most mail this is the first time that I, a servant got mail.
I finished the laundry and made up all the beds just like Sebastian told me to do before I had some time to myself. I opened up the letter and was amazed at what I found inside.
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