-Authors Note: I do not own Black Butler or any of its characters nor will I ever. Emily (me) and Alex are real people and I have expressed consent to use them in this story.-

Chapter 1: Through the Looking Glass

"Alex, come on we need to get going or we're going to be late to the Black Butler Panel!" yelled Emily, lifting the long gray bangs out of her face and looking in the mirror to check her makeup. Emily smiled at how she looked. "Oh how I love cosplaying Undertaker." she thought and giggled. Emily's eyes went to the drawn-on scar that extended across her face and she lightly traced it with her nail, "I wonder how he got his scars." She smiled, letting the bangs fall back into her face, "Maybe someday I'll get to ask him myself." She knew it was stupid but Emily had always felt in her heart that the characters of Black Butler were real and she hoped that someday she would get the chance to meet them. Just then Emily heard the click of the bathroom door and spun around to see Alex emerge from the bathroom dressed in her Drocell costume, "How do I look?"

Emily took a minute to scan over her, "Great, just one more thing." The girl walked over to the hotel room's desk, picked up the music box that sat there and handed it to her friend. Alex took the box and placed the strap around her neck.

"Now you're perfect." said Emily.

Alex smiled, "Okay, let's go."

The two girls grabbed the rest of their things, their badges, bags and Undertaker's death scythe, and walked to the lobby of the hotel to meet with the rest of their group. Once it was established that they were all going to the panel they walked about 7 blocks to the Detroit Renaissance Center. They entered and were immediately surrounded by people in costumes, some they recognized others they had no clue. Smiles spread across the groups faces seemingly saying, "Today is going to be a good day." Emily checked her Youmacon booklet one last time before they were off to Panel Room 1.

-Time skip via Grell's chainsaw-

After the panel ended the rest of the group headed to the gamer's room, leaving Emily and Alex behind watching the torrents of cosplayers exit the room. There were Sebastians and Ciels and Grells (Oh my!) and so many other characters. Emily just watched with a giant grin plastered on her face; about ready to start laughing like a mad-woman she was so happy. "I'm having so much fun." she thought, "The only way this could get any better would be for the real characters to show up." She sighed and thought aloud, "If only…"

"What?" Alex asked, confused.

"Nothing, just daydreaming,"

"About what?" she asked.

"What do you think?" Emily said rhetorically. Suddenly, a cosplayer exited the panel room that caught her attention. This cosplayer was dressed as Sebastian from the Ciel in Wonderland OVA and he looked EXACTLY like Sebastian, same height, same hair, same face, everything. Emily's jaw dropped, "Oh my stars!"

"Huh?" her friend muttered, moving her eyes from the voice actor who was talking to fans in the corner of the hall. Alex's eyes fell on the same man, "Wow, he's either a really legit cosplayer or…"

"Or…" Emily chimed in, "I vote we follow him."

"Same."

The girls walked after him, keeping at least 5 feet behind him for fear of being caught. The man went up escalators, weaved through crowds and calmly walked down empty hallways not once looking behind him. "Well someone's cocky." Emily thought and giggled but quickly slapped her hand over her mouth as she realized too late that they were in an empty hall. Emily braced herself and tried to think up a good excuse as to why they were following him but he never turned around. She turned her head around to see Alex mouthing, "That was a close one."

"I know." She mouthed back and motioned her to keep following. "Does he want us to follow him?" Emily thought but quickly dismissed it, "No I can't imagine he needs us for anything. I'm not exactly normal but…" Emily let her thoughts fall into oblivion, she could think about it later but now she needed to focus on keeping close behind him. After a few minutes he turned into a room, closing the door behind him, a sign on the door read 'Staff Only'.

"What do we do now?" Alex asked.

"We go in after him." Emily said, smiling with absolute certainty. Emily slowly opened the door and tip-toed inside. The room was dark and empty with no windows, no doors other than the one they'd just entered and no furniture or knickknacks except for an object, covered in fabric, sitting at its center. Emily flicked the light switch and a small light flickered on, it didn't help much but it was enough to see clearly that no one was in the room.

"Did we lose him?" Alex whispered, standing right behind Emily.

"We couldn't have there's only one way out of the room." Emily walked up to the object in the center of the room and removed the cloth. What stared back at her was not what she had expected; before her stood a six-foot tall mirror with a beautiful gold filigree frame but it was not the mirror itself that confused her it was the image that shown back at her. Instead of seeing herself in a dark and empty room she saw herself in a well-lit old study.

"Hey Alex, come over here." Emily said, motioning her friend over.

Alex walked over, "What the… isn't that Ciel's study? Do you think he went into the mirror somehow?"

"That's what it looks like." Emily reached out and touched the surface of the mirror; it rippled like water. "Hmmm…" Emily pushed her hand into the mirror and waited for something to happen. One minute ticked by and she said, "I'm going to go inside. Are you coming with me?"

"Is it safe?" Alex asked.

Emily pulled out her hand, examined it and shrugged. "It's hard to say, it doesn't seem to have hurt my hand but that doesn't say much." Emily stated, "I'm going in regardless though."

Alex paused for a second, "I guess if you're going in I'll go too."

"You know you don't have to, it could be really dangerous." Emily said, suddenly serious.

"I know." The room went silent.

"Okay." Emily held out her hand to Alex, "Hold my hand; we're less likely to get separated that way." Alex took Emily's hand and Emily stepped halfway into the mirror, "One last thing."

"What?"

"GERONIMO!" Emily yelled, jumping the rest of the way in and dragging her friend through after her. Five minutes later the image in the mirror faded and changed to reflect the dark storage room in the Detroit Renaissance Center.