Hello everyone! I started writing this story a long while back when one of my best friends told me to try a challenge of sorts for a fanfic of something I liked (I was also in the middle of a bad writer's block at the time with all my other stories). So I was thinking of things and since I'd gone and (re)watched Black Butler for like the fifth time (because it's that good), I thought about what could have happened at the end of the second season of the anime (at the time I hadn't read the manga yet when I started this). So this is what became of it. I've only got a couple of chapters written honestly but I thought I'd at least put them up and get some feedback and see where it goes from there. So, enjoy!
Final Farewell
-Chapter One-
"Well would you look at that Master. There's still a Funtom Company toy shop open."
Ciel turned and looked with his one eye that wasn't covered by his black eye patch in the direction that Sebastian pointed at across the street as a bus passed by. Sure enough, there was Funtom printed across the small shop's glass window in white fancy letters.
"Interesting. Let's go take look Sebastian," the boy replied as he went to the edge of the sidewalk and glanced both ways before going across the street with his black clad butler right behind him. He too was wearing all black with a pair of black jeans and black t-shirt on. Sebastian wore black pants with a slightly more formal long sleeved black shirt on.
Opening the door, the shopkeeper looked up from the register and smiled as Ciel and Sebastian stepped inside and looked around. Ciel decided to head for the back part of the store to look, passing between a couple of shelves that hid him from sight of the shopkeeper. As he rounded the corner of a tall shelf full of stuffed animals, he bumped into someone and took a couple steps backwards almost falling over himself before Sebastian caught and steadied him. He looked to the girl he knocked into who'd fallen to the ground with her face turned away before starting to look up towards him.
"L-Lizzie?"
Blinking in utter surprise, Ciel looked to the girl with bright green eyes and golden blonde hair that was pulled up in the same fashion that Lizzie always had worn it. She started to get up with a confused look before Ciel snapped out of his surprise and held a hand out to help her up.
"No. My name's Rebecca," the girl replied as she stood up fully and brushed herself off. She was wearing a violet blouse and a black skirt that went to her ankles and appeared around fourteen years old standing a couple of inches taller than Ciel. She paused and looked at Ciel with a confused look on her face. "But my great-grandmother's name is Lizzie."
'Great-grandmother?' Ciel thought blinking in surprise. Could this girl be Lizzie's great-granddaughter? Her appearance was so similar they could be twins.
"What my master wishes to know, was your great-grandmother's name Lady Elizabeth Midford?" Sebastian spoke up causing Ciel to throw a glance at him.
"Y-yes her name was Elizabeth Midford before she got married," Rebecca replied. "Why do you ask?"
"She was a family friend," Sebastian replied with a soft smile.
"Which family?"
"The Phantomhives," Sebastian replied and Rebecca gave a paused look.
"She's talked about them before in her stories of her childhood," she replied. "She told me a story about her fiancee once when she was my age just last week."
"Last week?" Ciel asked blinking. "You mean she's still alive?"
"Of course. She's a stubborn woman," Rebecca grinned. "Always did baffle the doctors with how long she's lived my mum says. She'll be one hundred twenty six tomorrow since it's her birthday."
"Do you know where she resides?" Sebastian asked.
"Yeah. At the old Phantomhive mansion. She's lived there for most of her life."
Ciel and Sebastian exchanged looks with each other then looked at Rebecca again. Lizzie was still alive. Ciel knew she was a stubborn girl but even he had no idea she was still alive after all these years since he'd gone off with Sebastian when he'd become a demon. And now he wanted to see her once more now that he'd run in with her great-granddaughter who was a spitting image of her.
"Rebecca?" a woman's voice called from down another row of shelves.
"Yes Mother?" Rebecca asked as she turned her back on the two and her mother came down the row towards her.
"There you are. I was wondering where you went off to," her mother spoke up as she came up to her daughter.
"Sorry Mother. I was talking to..." she spoke as she turned to find where Ciel and Sebastian had been standing empty. She blinked and looked down the row of shelves on either side but they weren't there.
"Talking to who dear?"
"A boy about my age and a man that was with him." Her mother shook her head. "They were right here a moment ago."
"Well come on and let's go now. Your great-grandmother will be expecting us to show soon and get ready for her party tomorrow."
"Okay..." Rebecca gave a small pout and followed her mother towards the front of the store for the door.
"Miss," the shopkeeper behind the counter spoke up and both Rebecca and her mother stopped. The shopkeeper held up a little bag with pink tissue paper sticking out of it. "I was told to give you this."
"Oh?" her mother blinked confused as Rebecca took the package and peered inside to find a little note card with Lizzie's name printed on it.
"Yes. The young boy bought it and told me to give it to the young lady," the shopkeeper spoke up.
"I told you I was talking to a boy," Rebecca replied looking at her mother.
"Well then...I suppose you may keep it," her mother replied with a sigh then nodded to the shopkeeper. "Thank you. We'll be on our way now."
"Have a good day."
Nodding, Rebecca and her mother headed back outside and down the street for the car. Rebecca got into the passenger's side while her mother turned it on and headed down the street. "So what's in the bag?" her mother asked.
"It's a white stuffed deer," Rebecca said pulling out the white deer with a pink ribbon tied around its neck. She looked at the note card again with it addressed to her great-grandmother.
"What an odd gift," her mother said glancing to the little deer. Rebecca didn't say anything but put the stuffed deer back into the bag and looked out the window at the passing scenery as they headed to the old Phantomhive mansion where her great-grandmother lived and she'd spent most of her childhood playing at. Her mind drifted back to the boy and the man again asking about Lizzie. He'd had such a surprised look on his face when he'd first seen her.
'Oh drats. I didn't even get their names,' she thought to herself with a silent sigh. There had been no name left on the note card either. Just it being addressed to her great-grandmother.
Later that evening as everyone was getting ready for bed, Rebecca looked to the gift that the boy had left sitting on the dresser in her room she was staying in at the mansion. She picked it up and headed down the hallway towards her great-grandmother's room and knocked on the door.
"Come in," her great-grandmother's voice called softly from behind the mostly shut door. "Oh Rebecca. What brings you in here? Shouldn't you be getting to bed?"
"Grammy Lizzie? Um...I-I brought you this present," Rebecca spoke up as she came over and stood in at her bedside where she was already tucked in for the night and propped up by her pillows.
"Oh?" Lizzie took the little bag with her wrinkled hands and gave a confused look at it before pulling out the little note card with her name on it. Then she pulled out the little white deer with a little pink ribbon tied around its neck. She knew the meaning of the white deer from long ago when she wanted to find it with Ciel and gave a small gasp. "Where did you get this Rebecca?"
"At the Funtom Toy Shop. I ran into this boy there and a man but I didn't get their names," Rebecca replied quietly seeing her great-grandmother's surprised look and confused by it. "They'd bought it and the shopkeeper told me to take it. It had your name on it."
"A boy? And a man?" Lizzie tilted her head and looked at her great-granddaughter with her matching green eyes set into an old face now. "Tell me what did this boy look like? And the man?"
"Well the boy was a little shorter than me and had dark hair. And his eyes were blue...well one was. He had a patch over the other. And the man was tall and had dark hair too and unusually red eyes."
Lizzie gave a small gasp as she put one hand to her mouth in surprise while still holding the deer in the other hand. Rebecca gave a tilt of her head confused.
"Grammy? Is something wrong?"
"Oh no dear," she replied putting her hand back down to the deer and looked down at it longingly. "It's nothing."
'It couldn't possibly be Ciel and Sebastian could it?' Lizzie thought as she looked to the deer recalling the time they went looking for the white deer she so desperately wanted to find.
"Oh there you are Rebecca," Rebecca's mother spoke up coming in the door to find her daughter. "You should be getting to bed."
"Okay Mum," Rebecca said as her mother came over to give Lizzie a hug and kiss on the cheek goodnight.
"Why don't you stay here tonight with me dear?" Lizzie said to her great-granddaughter.
"Really?" Lizzie gave a smile in reply and patted the spot in the large bed next to her. Rebecca looked to her mother who nodded before going over and climbing into bed next to her.
"Here. I'll take care of this for you Mum," Rebecca's mother said taking the bag and note card and started reaching for the deer.
"That's fine Margret," said to her granddaughter as she held onto the deer but let her take the other stuff.
"Goodnight then," Margret said shaking her head as she placed the bag on the little reading table there and came back over to give her grandmother another hug and then her daughter as well and headed for the door. "Sleep well. Don't keep Grammy Lizzie awake now Rebecca."
"I won't Mum," Rebecca replied before her mother shut the light off and shut the door and snuggled up beside her great-grandmother. "Goodnight Grammy Lizzie."
"Goodnight dear," Lizzie replied holding onto the deer still and closed her eyes.
"It's clear Master," Sebastian whispered as he jumped easily to the balcony where Lizzie's room was. Ciel easily jumped up beside him, cloaked in the darkness of night with only the stars and the almost full moon above in the sky.
"Good," Ciel replied in a whisper as well before going towards the doors and testing them to find them locked. He gave a slightly irritated look with his uncovered eye before using a bit of magic that Sebastian had shown him over the years and unlocked it before going inside silently.
Following inside with Ciel, Sebastian handed Ciel the two white boxes he had been carrying. Ciel looked at them and went over to the little reading table easily seeing in the dark and set them down on it before looking towards the bed and seeing both Rebecca and Lizzie there.
'Lizzie,' he thought as he went over to stand at her bedside. He could see her holding the little white deer in her arms while Rebecca was snuggled up beside her. And despite seeing how old she'd gotten, he still could remember her young, smiling face with her hair all tied up in her pigtails. Though now it was longer and braided laying down her side all white as the snow.
"Come Master, we best not linger too long," Sebastian spoke in a whisper still standing beside the balcony door with the drape over it pulled back enough to let in some of the moonlight.
"Just a minute," Ciel whispered back looking towards Sebastian as his showing eye gave a quick flash of red before returning to normal. He looked back to the sleeping Lizzie and sighed softly before taking a step back and glanced to the packages left before going back over towards Sebastian again. "Now we can go."
"Yes, my lord," Sebastian whispered with a nod before letting Ciel walk back out to the balcony and followed him out, shutting the door behind him and locking it back up with his magic. Then going to the edge of the balcony with Ciel already perched up in a crouch, jumped off the edge to the ground below easily with the smaller boy and took off into the shadows of the night again.
Well that's the first chapter. I've got a couple of more written as I've said above but no idea where it's going at the moment. I'll see as time goes I suppose. I'll try to get the second chapter up soon. And I'll try my best to work on this some more when I get the chance. (glares at her muses) Anyways, any and all feedback/critiques are welcome! Thanks!
Oh and also, I've searched around for Lizzie's birthday and I could never find what day she actually was born. I just know she's at least a year older than Ciel was (so she's born in 1874, early 1875) and I just chose a summer birthday for her. And this is set in the year 2000 (yeah I know, she'd be pretty old but there's quite a few people that live to be that old and still pretty mobile and such).