A/N: Hello to everyone who has found this and has decided to read it. I welcome you to my newest fict! My first Kuroshitsuji fict too. Now that I am on my break from university and while I am on hiatus from writing my Loveless fanfiction I decided to write this one. I have actually had the rough idea for this fict for a while but never wrote it down. So here it (: I am not sure what to rate it as later on there will be Sebastian x Ciel. If Yaoi/shonen ai/BL offends you or makes you squeamish, please do not read any further. I warned you. For everyone else please enjoy. Sorry if I missed anything and there are grammar/spelling mistakes I went over it several times :/ If you can help feel free but don't be blunt about it.

-Freya01

The twenty five year old earl sat at his desk looking through piles upon piles of paper as usual. The Queen was getting on in her old age and had asked Ciel, as her loyal guard dog to look over some papers she would have normally looked over. Ciel continued looking through the numerous piles wondering why couldn't have she gotten her servant to do this. Surely they would have been more suited for this type of menial work and hey they get paid for it.

"Papa, Papa!" A boy an around four years pushed open the door and ran into his office. Ciel groaned as he lost track of where he was. "Louis didn't I tell you to knock before entering a room!" Ciel said sternly.

The young boy looked down at his feet. "But mama said to tell you that she wanted to talk to you."

Ciel sighed, and picked the young boy up and put him on his lap. "Alright, sorry for yelling it's just I have so much work to do." Ciel's frown turned into a smile, ever since his son had been born he had a much better outlook on life, he smiled for the first time in years. " Go out and tell your mother that I'll be out in a minute."

Louis beamed and ran out of the room enthusiastically. "Okay!"

"And afterwards we'll all have lunch together in the garden." He yelled out, smiling to himself. Ciel slammed down the papers and thought he would finish up for today. He wanted to spend some quality time with his son who he hadn't seen for over a week, also to spend time with his wife, Elizabeth.

"You said you wanted to talk to me?"

Elizabeth turned around. The once enthusiastic young girl no longer had her hair tied in curly pigtails it was tied up neatly in a bun. She also sported an elegant blue dress reflecting the new era they had entered.

"Yes." She said while stirring her tea, her tone of voice suggested she was slightly irrigated.

"May I sit down?" Ciel asked hoping not to anger her more.

Elizabeth nodded stiffly. Ciel sat down, awkwardly looking at the cup of tea that was put before him. "So why was it you wanted to talk?" he asked her

"You've been spending too much time cooped up in that study, doing meaningless work for the queen."

"It's important!" Ciel retorted. "Without the Queen I would be no where, we would be no where"

"I don't want to hear it!" Elizabeth yelled, slamming her cup onto the table, it shattered into many pieces. A maid quickly scurried over and cleaned up the mess in a matter of time that made it look like it never happened.

'Elizabeth!" Ciel clenched his fist.

"Lizzy! How many times do I need to tell you not to call me by my full name."

Lizzy sighed. "We've been married for seven years, we have been engaged since we were children, how many times do I need to!" she yelled again, exasperated.

"Lizzy." Ciel interrupted. "What was it you wanted to tell me about?" Ciel felt that this was going nowhere, they had been arguing like this for the past two years.

Elizabeth sighed. "I'm going out tonight." She said flatly.

"Again?!" Elizabeth, I mean Lizzy you've already been out five times this week plus I promised Thomas that we would have tea together in the garden."

Elizabeth tightened her fist at the mention of her full name. "Why does it matter when I go out, but when it's you it's perfectly fine!" Elizabeth briefly turned her head then looked back at Ciel. "I'm going out with some friends of mine we're going to see a performance, there's this magician performing in London that everybody is raving about."

"You know how I feel about you going to middle class events."

"I'm a grown woman I can do what I want!" she snapped, she hated how controlling Ciel tried to be.

"But you still belong to me." Ciel added. Although Ciel didn't consider Elizabeth his property like many other men of his status did, he particularly disliked it when she went out without him. Who knows what could happen, what if there was another series of murders not on prostitutes but on upper class women.

"Okay, but tomorrow we're having lunch with Louis he's looking forward to it."

"Fine, but remember he needs discipline we don't want him to be clingy for the rest of his life he'll be the laughing stock of our family let alone society."

Elizabeth briskly walked off inside. Ciel sighed, then rested his head on the table and began to think over how his and Elizabeth relationship had deteriorated over the past few years. At first it was the occasional odd argument about what they wanted for dinner, then how to discipline their son and now this. Ciel thought he was finally getting past his hardships especially when he began to smile again, but now it seemed it was all crumbling apart.

The sky began to rumble then preceded to rain. "It will pass." Ciel mumbled to him just thinking it was going to be light shower. It proceeded to pour but the earl did not move he felt like drowning in his sorrows, the weather mirrored everything he was feeling.

"Ciel…." He heard his name echo as he felt himself drift off.

Ciel rasped. He found himself in his bed; he swore that he was sitting outside in the rain. He shivered; he felt his wet clothes sticking to his skin despite being wrapped in towels. Ciel looked around, coughing.

"Ciel?" He heard his voice echo again. Ciel looked up to see his butler.

"Sebastian!" Ciel exclaimed, coughing.

"Master, should I get the doctor?" Sebastian asked. Ciel swore he sounded worried or maybe he was so out of it that he thought he sounded that way.

"No it's fine, and please call me Ciel I am not longer a child." Ciel groaned he hated it when his butler called him 'master.' Just as much as Elizabeth hated when he called her 'Elizabeth' and not 'Lizzy.' Ciel wanted to be on closer terms with his butler, he had been with him for years. Despite Ciel no longer wanting revenge therefore making the contact null and void Sebastian continued to stay by his side. It baffled Ciel, but he was glad, he was glad he had someone who he could talk to especially now when his relationship with Elizabeth was at its worst.

"Just stay with me for a while." He exhaled, wheezing slightly.

"As you wish." Sebastian nodded, standing by Ciel's bed. Ciel briefly looked up at him, he really would have liked it if he sat down near him. He didn't order him to do it so of course he wouldn't, stupid Ciel, he thought to himself. "You can sit down if you like?"

"Is that an order?" Sebastian asked. Ciel nodded stiffly, he wished it wasn't an order and Sebastian would just do it on his own accord.

"So warm." Ciel said to himself.

"Demons also have blood running through their veins making us warm too." Sebastian responded.

Ciel blushed; did he just say that out loud? Ciel quickly slipped under his covers similar to what he would have done when he was twelve. "Sebastian I want to go to sleep."

"As you wish." Sebastian nodded and left, Ciel wished his butler could have stayed or was it he just wanted a replacement for Elizabeth. He pondered on that thought as he fell into a deep sleep, which he thought he would never wake up from.