Chapter 1: obsessed with you!
This is my third story and I must say I'm really surprised that so many people noticed my work. So, yeah, even if you don't like my idea/writing, constructive criticism would be duly recognized :D
Ciel was sitting on a comfortable chair which faced a study desk. A lamp was illuminating his text-books, as he wearily studied for his exam.
'Math's exam', was scribbled in the top-right corner of the page, and crude drawings filled almost 99% of the sheet.
"Young Master", Sebastian entered the room.
"You should knock, you know", Ciel suggested. Making his best diligent face, he scribbled a few more drawings into his sheet, making it look like he was working meritoriously for his assessment.
Sebastian said, calm as the judge of truth, "Should I help you? Or should I check your work?"
Ciel wondered what to say.
"Rather than that, I'd like to know, as a demon, when did you study all this?"
"Hmmm...all I can say is, I'm one hell of a butler."
"You sure are egoistical." Ciel smirked, even the cold winds blew his loose nightgown and hair.
"I wonder how Lizzy is..."
"I mean, she is much better at studies, but she doesn't believe in herself. She studies as much as I do."
"You don't understand, young Master. You are missing your fiancée, but you just can't admit it."
"Shut up, Sebastian."
"You're a tsundere, ne?"
"Go pick up the phone. That's an order", commanded Ciel, hiding his flustered tsundere face almost fully with his sleeves.
Coincidentally, Elizabeth's name flashed on the screen, and Sebastian teased Ciel further in his mind.
"Ohh...is that so? How unfortunate", Sebastian concurred.
"Sebastian, give the phone to me!" Ciel exclaimed, feeling anxious.
"How is she?"
"Shoo, young master. I want to listen", Sebastian lightly pushed Ciel away.
"What is she saying? Give it to me!" Ciel tried to jump up to Sebastian's height, but failed.
"I need to talk to her", Ciel desperately pleaded. First off, he was feeling inquisitive about what Lizzy had to say, 2 am in the night. Second, he wanted to know if she'd help him for the mathematics exam.
"So...she'll be alright? I understand. No, we'll support her. Yes. Money isn't the problem. What do you think about the Phantomhive estate? Of course we have the money. Now?"
Sebastian shifted and fidgeted on the phone. For fifteen minutes he remained hushed.
"Yes, I will inform master as soon as possible. We will come there, yes...Take care, bye."
Sebastian looked crestfallen and poignant.
"Young Master", Sebastian closed the door and walked in," I have to tell you something...significant."
Exactly ten minutes later, Ciel pushed aside hordes of people, jumped over minor obstacles, as Sebastian hurried and recurrently shouted, trying to keep up with his upset Master's pace.
Finally, Ciel skidded into a white room, which smelt of chemicals and of, well,
cleanliness.
Paula, Lizzy's lady-in-waiting, dabbed a handkerchief at her tear-stained eyes.
"Sebastian, thank you for making it on time."
Ciel was fuming . Gritting his teeth, he saw Sebastian and Paula continue their small talk.
He iterated," Don't ignore me, you know! If it's about Lizzy, I'm the first one to know!"
Sebastian stared at his master, amused. "Just now, you denied that you missed her."
"Sebastian, aren't you a tad bit calm? Ciel, aren't you over-reacting! She's still fine."
"She's not fine!" Ciel's face crumpled, and thought," Tears will not stop flowing for someone who is crying for himself!"
"I want to meet her..."
"Doctor!" Ciel ran up to the old, experienced , wise man.
"Yes...so you are here for patient no.34556?"
"Err...is she a mere number?" Sebastian asked, and whispered to the doctor," Young Master won't like you calling her that.
"Umm...ok, so you are here for Miss Beth?"
"She is Miss Elizabeth", Paula's wavering voice rang out.
"And", said Ciel with a certain conviction," she is very precious in my regard, ergo must be saved."
"Or else...", Ciel shot the old doctor a glare.
"We have been able to save her...though, there will be some complications. Ah, yes, we need to start those treatments, therapy...blah, blah...You want to meet her before we start all that?"
"Of course", Ciel agreed.
This whole episode was proving to be nightmarish to Ciel. He felt like he was being sucked in, to a whirlpool, and was inevitably drowning. He couldn't believe this was his fate, and his sinking, shattering heart kept trying to remind him to hang on to the last sunbeam of hope. Even so, a part of Ciel knew it was never going to be the same.
How had he taken the cheerful, optimistic, lovely, Lizzy for granted? What would he do for the assessment? No, how did the assessment matter at all?
Against this heartbreak, against this tragedy, could he measure a thing as trifling as reality? He could almost picture the whole scene, Elizabeth running across the road, tripping over a pebble, her face filled with trepidation as the car zoomed closer, and then blood...a rain of blood.
And her scream.
Ciel could just hear her shrill, panic-filled shriek.
And the shriek rang in his head like a scratched, stuck cassette.
Ciel held his arms to his ears, trying to blot out the overwhelming feeling of loss; senseless and void.
"Young Master?" Sebastian asked, concerned.
But Sebastian's voice, which came just near Ciel, was faint compared to the screech in his head. Only after seeing a glimpse of his beloved fiancée, did he calm down.
Ciel looked enraptured. A powerful, remarkable, smile flitted on his face for the first time since he had made that contract with Sebastian.
"I knew it", he thought, "I knew that there was no more space in my life for more angst and catastrophes."
He saw that familiar golden wavy hair. Her face was nakedly masked with fear, and her expression was of a scared doe which was about to be hunted.
Ciel took a step forward, gulping, ready to embrace his fiancée, however she was.