Prologue

"Reveal to me your past."

That had been it, his final request. Now Gilbert was seeing it as all else dimmed and the world he once knew turned black. He saw young women in outdated clothes, face reddening as a tall, dark, handsome figure kissed their hands and smiled a Devil's smile. He saw a young girl with curly brown hair sitting at a writing desk with the same tall man with red-brown eyes bending over her, showing her words and phrases that he could not make out. Then, he heard a voice. His voice.

"You are my Master." He said. "and to you, I give my most precious memory."

Gilbert watched at Sebastian bend over a boy with bluish hair and an eye patch over his left eye. The other, uncovered eye was closed as the boy tilted his head up to meet the others lips. Gilbert watched as Sebastian kissed him hungrily. If he had not been dying, he knew he would have felt a pang of something that could have only been identified as jealousy.

"There are so much more." His voice continued. "But those are the ones I have memory of."

You cannot remember any more of your past? Gilbert thought as he felt himself falling out of body and downward, still wrapped in the suffocating embrace of the demon.

He felt rather than saw him as Sebastian shook his head. "We can only remember so much. Memories mean attachment, which is forbidden amongst my kind." Those words sounded sad as they echoed through what was left of Gilbert's being.

The embrace of darkness and death tightened around him, and the feeling of suffocation and loss was all there was left to feel. Gilbert knew he had asked for this, he knew he deserved this. Hell was where he belonged, and that was where he would be.

He had killed and lied, betrayed and broken lives, and most of all he had chosen the kiss of sin over the smile of an angel.

A/N:

Ah, the joys of writers block. You all can blame it and lack of time/energy for taking so long to put up something new that might actually be worth reading.

I am afraid to say that Servant has come to a bitter end, or at least taken a very, VERY long break. It might be another year or so before I come up with something that doesn't totally suck.

Now, about this story: If anyone bothered to notice, I have been putting updates on my profile every once and a while. And as you can see by the late date, I have been working on this particular story (the idea of it, anyway) for quite some time. It will be short - only 3-4 chapters in total - but hopefully it will turn out all right. I'm planning a heart-wrenching first chapter, an 'omg-must-go-take-hot-shower-right-now' second chapter, and maybe even in bittersweet/happy ending.

I know that my description was kind of veuge, but basically Gilbert has been dealing with shit his whole life, and when Oz is killed he can't take it any more. As he puts the barrel of the gun to his head, Sebastian, who has always been in the backgrounds/borders of his life, comes and offers him a deal to guarantee that Gilbert will go straight to where he deserves to be. What he doesn't know is what Sebastian is planning to do with him once he gets there.

Okay, LONG authors note. But I felt it necessary. Not like anyone will read it anyway. xP

As always, comments are welcome.

~Thorn of the Rose