All the trouble started with the cat, that goddamned cat. It didn't matter how cute or how adorable it looked. That cat was the root of all evil. But it was a cat...and Sebastian couldn't resist cats no matter what evil aura it radiated.
It was on a partly cloudy day in London that Ciel sent Sebastian into town to pick up a teddy bear that he ordered for Lizzie. Why he couldn't get his lazy ass up and get it himself was Sebastian's thought, but he was the butler so he couldn't complain.
He promptly picked up the teddy bear in its box and started on his way back to Phantomhive manor, but something caught his eye. Something utterly magnificent. Sebastian froze, bear in hand, and peered into a dank alleyway across from him. "My, you are beautiful, aren't you?" He asked as he bent down.
What he was talking to was a cat. But not just any cat, but the cutest one in creation. It was silver-haired with gray strips down his back. One ear stood up while the other flopped down, the tail was bushy perfection, and it had piercing hazel eyes.
"I can't just leave you here in this alleyway. But Ciel doesn't like cats, in fact he's allergic to them. But such a delicate creature..." Sebastian said as he puzzled between taking the cat and leaving it there. After a few moments standing on the sidewalk and blocking other people's path Sebastian scooped up the cat and put him in the bag with the teddy bear. Then he continued to the manor.
When he finally reached the manor (periodically checking on his prize on the way there) it was the middle of the afternoon. He quickly made his way into the sitting foyer where Ciel and Lizzie were sitting on the sofa talking, well Lizzie was talking, Ciel was dozing.
"Oh Ciel! Look, your butler's back and he's holding a very large something. Would that something possibly be for moi?" Lizzie said excitedly as she shook Ciel awake. "It's not that teddy bear I've been eyeing for the last few days now is it?"
Ciel jolted out of his half daydream-half sleep and rose to meet Sebastian. "What in the hell took you so long? She damn near talked my ear off, give me the bag so I can give her the teddy bear." Whispered Ciel angrily as he marched up to Sebastian to take the bag.
But Sebastian still had the cat inside the bag. Mesmerized by its scalding beauty, he forget to pick out a hiding place for it. Quickly he tried to pull the bag back saying, "You wouldn't want to wait any longer? Perhaps after dinner or maybe till midnight?"
"NO. I want to give it to her NOW. Let it go Sebastian." Ciel said as he tugged the bag back.
"Maybe if you just wait while I wash it? I mean it's been in that window for who knows how long, it might have fleas...or something." He bargained as he pulled the bag back to him.
Looking at Sebastian like he had a screw loose Ciel said, "Fleas!? Sebastian, what's wrong with you? Give me the damn BAG!" And with that Ciel tried to pull the bag back to him, but with all the tugging and whatnot the bag split down the middle and the contents spilled on the floor.
Then Lizzie screamed. "OH CIEL! What happened to the BEAR'S HEAD!?" She screamed as the headless bear tumbled out of the bag and onto the floor. "What kind of gift is this?!"
A headless bear tumbled out of the bag along with a cat that was chewing on said head.
"That's what I want to know, eh Sebastian?" Ciel said menancingly staring at the butler. "I told you to get a bear WITH A HEAD! Not this-this-thi-ACHOO! ACHOO!" Ciel's tirade was cut short as he was seized by a sneezing fit.
That's when he happened to glance down to spot the silver-haired cat nuzzling around Sebastian's ankles. It glanced up at Sebastian and meowed without giving Ciel nor Lizzie a second thought. But apparently Ciel was not amused.
"Why is-achoo!-that cat-achoo-in the manor! Get it-achoo-out now!" Shouted Ciel as best he could as he sneezed into a handkerchief. Lizzie, on the other hand, had different ideas about the cat all together.
"But it's adorable! Ciel you're not possibly going to put it out onto the street, are you? It's scheduled to rain soon. Please keep it inside!" Lizzie pleaded.
"Yes young master! You can't possibly put it outdoors in the rain, can you?" Sebastian said following Lizzie's lead. "I will gladly take care of it! And not a spot of cat dandruff would disturb your studies!"
Still sneezing away Ciel saw no way he could argue himself out of this deal, especially with Lizzie on Sebastian's side. And all the sneezing was making it hard for him to get a word out anyways. "Achoo! Fine, whatever. Achoo! Just keep it away from me!"
"Yay! Come to me my beauty, I know just where to put you..." Sebastian cheered as he scooped up the cat and ran out the door with it. From outside you could hear him saying, "You're mine, and no one's going to harm you!"
But Sebastian shouldn't have been worried about that... He should've been worried about the cat harming the people...