His King chapter one: The Incident

"Wuaaaa! I destroyed the garden, again!" Finny cried out, hands gripping his hair in shock; he burst into tears, looking around at all the trees and plants he'd just accidentally killed. "What am I going to do?! The Young Master will be upset...!"

Finny was the gardener at the Phantomhive mansion, hired by the Earl Ciel Phantomhive to protect the estate. The blond boy had to admit- he owed the young master his life. Finny was once used as a human experiment; he probably would have still been in that place if not for Ciel. The boy began to fret on how Ciel would react to this. He decided to fix the mess before his Master saw it. As he began to clean up, his mind started wandering to everything Ciel has done for him.

Finny twitched, hearing someone walking near by. Pausing in his work and raising his head to see, green eyes widened a bit, watching Ciel roaming. Finny couldn't help but wonder why the Young Master was just wandering about, but then assumed it must have had something to do with Lady Elizabeth. Finny shrugged but for some unknown reason was unable to keep his eyes off Ciel, as he watched Lady Elizabeth bounding down the stone path happily.

"Ciel!" Elizabeth sang out in delight. jumping and throwing her arms around her fiancee, who just tensed up a bit from her hug.

Finny attempted to resume working before Ciel noticed the dead plants and trees but he just couldn't stop staring. Heaven knew why he was suddenly acting like this; Finny couldn't understand why. The gardener managed to look away and quickly cleaned up the yard before Ciel noticed anything. He hid behind a random tree and continued to spy on them although he was mentally yelling at himself for doing so. Elizabeth started rambling on about how he should throw a ball.

Finny recalled seeing a letter that was from the Queen; she had wrote that she wanted Ciel to throw a ball and entertain a special guest. If Elizabeth thought she could use this as an excuse to spend time with Ciel, she was sadly mistaken. Ciel would be too busy entertaining the guests to pay the blond girl any mind.

Unfortunately, Ciel had played a dirty trick a few weeks earlier involving the kidnapping of several children. Ciel had been led into a trap that triggered a panic attack because the scenery around him reminded him of those people who had kidnapped him and used him as a ritual tool. Ciel had told Sebastian to burn the place down, killing everyone including the children.

Little did they know that the queen found out about the little stunt and was setting Ciel up. Finny kept eavesdropping against his will. Why was he trying to avoid Ciel? He couldn't remember...

Elizabeth was all but gushing about the ball and she grabbed Ciel's hands, twirling around the yard as she did, paying no attention to the displeased look on Ciel's face.

Unable to take any more, Finny ran off into the manor without being seen and went to his room to think. Why was he acting so strange? Finny shook his head, a small whimper escaping his mouth. Finny was beginning to scare himself, but he eventually got the hint...He loved his master. It hurt though. It hurt knowing Ciel was engaged.

It was settled- Finny would just have to try and keep avoiding him... It would be difficult, but Finny didn't want to have his heart broken anymore then it already was.

Meanwhile, down on the grounds of the Phantomhive Manor, Ciel had finally managed to break away from Elizabeth, getting Mei-Rin to distract her so he could have some peace and quiet.

The dark-haired boy went to his room. Ciel had began to wonder why Finny was avoiding him, having noticed his gardener hiding behind a tree earlier. It was unknown to Ciel why Finny had been avoiding him. Glancing over to look at the grounds more, Ciel noticed Finny's hat hanging off the pole outside his window; it must have blown away without Finny realizing it. Ciel headed for it, an idea sparking in his young, brilliant head.

That gave him the perfect excuse to confront Finny.