The Errands
It started off as a regular day at the Phantomhive manor. Sebastian was making his usual morning rounds, he always had to wake up the other servants or nothing would ever get done. He was walking down one of the many long hallways until he stopped at the door leading to the servants' quarters. He opened the door to find three of the four others fast asleep in their beds. He gave out an exasperated sigh, this was not the first time that this had happened. He clapped his hands twice and said "Come now all of you, you were all supposed to be awake and working two hours ago.
Mey-Rin let out a loud piercing scream then shot straight out of her bed as soon as she heard Sebastian's lovely voice. On the top bunk of her bed was Finny, who was still in a deep sleep when Sebastian walked in, he rose out of his bed quickly smashing a hole in the ceiling above his head, again. On the other side of the small, cramped room, was Baldroy who was somehow sleeping with a lit cigar in his mouth. He was much more laid back than Finny and Mey-Rin, who were in complete chaos on the other side of the room. He sat up, then finally he groggily got up and out of his bed. And finally Tanaka, who was actually out of bed and sitting on the floor, drinking his tea.
Sebastian let out another exasperated sigh, then said "Alright then, all of you get ready in a quick and timely fashion, then get downstairs into the main hall and I will give you your assignments for the day now, quickly please!" As he finished talking, Sebastian left the room and made his way down back to the main hall.
Meanwhile back in the servants' quarters it was complete and utter chaos. Mey-Rin was running around frantically looking for her uniform (She was in a night gown at the time). "Oh no, Oh no, Oh no! Where is it, where is my uniform! Oh my whole day is ruined and Mr. Sebastian will be so angry with me!" "Hey Mey-Rin?' Baldroy said plainly. Mey-Rin turned around and her eyes got wide and she jumped for joy as she saw what Baldroy was holding up, kind of. "Oh you found it! You found my uniform! Thanks Baldroy" Baldroy, still half asleep, gave her the uniform and said "Yeah no problem Mey-Rin, just get down there so we don't all get it later." She quickly changed, and left the three others upstairs.
As soon as Mey-Rin left, Baldroy finally woke up completely, at about the same time his ears stopped ringing from Mey-Rins' awful screaming. He walked over to the small closet and pulled out his shirt and apron, then put out his cigar and grabbed his lucky blowtorch he kept under his bed. Then as he walked out the door, he noticed Mey-Rin left her glasses upstairs so he picked them up thinking to himself "Better bring these or else I'll hear the nuke alarm go off again." He laughed at his own joke the put the glasses in his apron pocket, and as he walked out the door, lit another cigar and made his way downstairs.
Finny finally opened his eyes after five minutes to realize that his head was in the ceiling. "Great, Sebastian will be furious and this time he'll make me fix it." Finny pulled his head out of the hole and jumped down from his bed and walked over to the closet. He pulled out his gardening uniform, put it on, and got his hat off the bedpost and walked out, leaving Tanaka, who just sat there, still drinking his tea.
Twenty minutes had passed by the time the three servants met with Sebastian, who was waiting there the entire time. "Well now that the three of you have finally made it downstairs, you can go off and get to work, here on these papers are what your jobs are for the day, I will not be here for most of the day, so please, try to not cause trouble, now all of you get to work." Sebastian gave all three of them there work, then they all walked off.
With the rest of the sorry excuses for servants up and working, Sebastian could now get on with his jobs for the day. The young master had ordered Sebastian to go out to the city in order to pick up numerous items for the young masters upcoming social event. Sebastian lived by the motto "A Phantomhive butler never fails in his duties." And he was happy to live by it, for the prize at the end of this awful pact would be well worth all of this. Sebastian quickly put on his winter coat, and swiftly made for the carriage waiting right outside the giant doors of the manor. He made his way to the carriage right outside when he got there, he opened the left door to the black carriage, hoisted himself inside, closing the door simultaneously, and after he was securely inside, the carriage made off for the city of London.
It took about an hour and a half before the carriage pulled up to Sebastian's first destination. He jumped out of the back and walked up to the driver saying "Wait here for the day I'll walk to the rest of my stops and meet you back here later." The driver nodded then jumped down from the reigns and pulled two apples out of his pockets, giving them to the two horses that were pulling the carriage. Sebastian turned from the carriage and made his way to the first shop he was sent to.
Sebastian pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper from his left jacket pocket, which contained the list of items and where they were to be picked up. He scanned the list closely, and found he item he was looking for "The first item on my list is a jade colored tea set with magenta and yellow flowers, to be picked up at the Madame's Tea Shoppe. Hmm, the name is interesting but I believe I've already found the place." Sebastian looked up to see a sign that read, "Madame's Tea Shoppe" with a tea pot pouring tea downwards on the sign, He quickly examined the storefront, then walked inside, a look of slight suspicion on his face.
End of Chapter 1
