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Chapter 1
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It had been two weeks.
Ciel Panthomhive was frowning. That was not an unusual sight of the young grey haired boy actually, but what made it unusual was the reason of why he was frowning this time. The young earl let out a heavy sigh as he looked at the paper on the table. He hadn't made any significant progress since he started doing this two hours ago. At this rate, he might not be able to finish the design for the new product today and it wasn't good since he had no time before the deadline.
He was the one who made the deadline and he didn't want to prolong it for whatever reason. He had to finish the design today. Alas he couldn't concentrate at all to do the work. He had tried as he might but he could not concentrate on whatever he tried to do.
Actually, he could just ask him to help finishing his work. He knew he could do it. After all, he was a demon and there was (almost) nothing a demon couldn't do.
"Sebastian,"
The demon, or the butler, smiled, "yes, Young Master?"
"...tea, please."
In the end he couldn't manage to get himself said it.
"Of course," the black butler prepared a cup of his master's favorite kind of tea skillfully and placed it carefully, in front of the frowning young earl, "is there anything else?"
"No, you may dismiss now."
"Very well then," he bowed deeply, "I shall take my leave."
Ciel was taking a sip of his tea when Sebastian paused before he closed the door behind him and smiling knowingly, "oh before I forget, Young Master, I have a letter for you this morning."
Ciel narrowed his big blue eyes, "why didn't you tell me earlier? Where is the letter."
Still smiling meaningfully, the black haired man answered, "it's on your desk, now I shall take my leave."
Then he left the room, closing the door with no sound, leaving the Earl Panthomhive and his letter.
There was a letter. He had been there for two hours and he didn't see the letter before. He didn't even see when Sebastian put it there. He could swear it hadn't been there before, but it was Sebastian anyway. He had his own way to do things.
Ciel took the letter after he put down the tea cup, carefully so he wouldn't spill anything on to the papers scattered on the table. Actually there were very few people he expected to send him letter at this time. One of those people was her Highness Queen Victoria. It was not like he had anything against the queen, it was just that the Queen's letter would almost always mean dirty work for him and he was not really eager of any kind of these dirty business right now.
Once he saw the paper, he was glad there had been no royal kingdom stamp which mean it was not from the Queen. He sighed in relief, but then he saw the familiar signature on the right bottom of the paper and he groaned.
It might be even worst from the Queen.
It was Lizzy.
It had been two weeks since he heard anything from his fiancée. At first he didn't care, he was relief even, that he could finally spend his free time with no one trying to strangle him to death. It wasn't like he hated Elizabeth or what, he just liked being alone sometimes. He had so many things in his head and being with Lizzy, he would be kind of... Distracted.
Yeah, he couldn't say that his fiancée was annoying, but he had to admit it that the girl was really distracting and he didn't really like to be distracted. But however after two weeks he started to wonder what had happened to the girl. It was not like him to wonder about things like this but it was not like her to be 'disappearing' either. He didn't say, or do, anything about it anyway. He knew, this topic was a sensitive matter. He knew very well how overreacted his butler when it comes to his master's relationship with his fiancée.
Though judging from how he had postponed giving him the letter, it seemed like Sebastian had known it.
Ciel let out a heavy sigh. His mind had wandered too far. He focused back on the piece of paper on his hand and started reading it.
Dear Ciel,
Long time no see, I hope that you are doing good. I have many things to do at home now that we have a guest, my cousin, well he is practically your cousin too. He is the second son of Duke Byrne of Wales. His name is Shane, have you ever heard about him? Oh and my brother, Shane, and I would have a picnic this Saturday. I want to introduce you to Shane, so if you have time please come.
I miss you.
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Love,
Lizzy
Ciel put back the letter on the table. It seemed like Lizzy was doing okay, she was just too busy to contact him. He almost smiled bitterly at the irony. Normally, it was him being too busy to have time for her. Now that she was too busy to contact him, for some weird reason, he felt a little lonely.
He took the cup of tea and took another sip. It was almost cold now but he didn't care. He was trying to remember what kind of person Duke Byrne was. He thought he'd met him years ago when he was young. The duke's wife was his father cousin. He didn't remember much about the man, he didn't even know if he had any son.
Shane Byrne. He tried to remember the name. Maybe he did have a cousin with that name.
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"Does the fish not satisfy you, Young Master?"
Ciel tilted his head to see his butler who stood next to his table before then he looked back at his dinner. He almost hadn't touched anything. His head was full of other thing.
"Say, Sebastian, you read the letter right?"
Sebastian didn't have to pretend that he didn't read it. He knew that his Master knew about it. So he smiled and nodded.
"The one from Lady Elizabeth? Yes, I did."
Ciel knew it. For some weird reason, Sebastian seemed to be interested with his relationship with his fiancée. Well maybe it was not that weird at all. Sebastian was a demon that thought everything about human was interesting to him. Especially one about, what he often called, 'young love'. He was exaggerating there though, because that wasn't love.
Or so Ciel thought.
"Well, is there anything bothering you, Young Master?"
He smiled. Actually, he knew exactly what had bothered the young Earl. He was just playing his part as an amazing butler.
"Lizzy asked me to go for a picnic with her this Saturday," he put the knife and fork back on the table, "she said she wants to introduce me to this Shane Byrne. It seemed like she really likes him that she wanted to introduce us."
A small smile was formed on the butler face and quickly disappear when the Young Master look at him. Sebastian put his serious face on once again.
"I don't think Lady Elizabeth would like another boy than you," Sebastian somehow managed to keep his voice even, hiding a surfacing chuckle with a small cough.
Ciel scowled, the butler could saw faint blush on his cheeks, "that wasn't what I mean! I mean, she must like him that she was spending her time with him and forget about me..."
He didn't plan to say it like that.
This time, the demon couldn't stop himself from smiling. Yes, young love was interesting to watch indeed.
Realizing his mistake, Ciel tried to added with some cool voice, "I don't remember much about Duke Byrne and his family. I want you to search some information about them."
"Is it really necessary, Young Master?"
A butler wasn't supposed to talk back at their master like that, but this question was important.
Ciel, however, looked determined, "protecting my fiancée is my job as the head of Panthomhive family. Just do as I say."
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Ciel wasn't sure if what he did was useful. He didn't actually think that this guy, Shane Byrne, would harm Lizzy. It was not like he would be able too. Midford family members was welknown for their inhuman power. Ciel did not think that the guy would survive the angry father and overprotective brother, let alone a super intimidating mother. Ciel didn't have to worry about Lizzy.
Besides, this guy was accepted in Midford which mean Aunt Frances and Uncle Alexis believed him. He could trust his aunt's ability in juding people.
He shouldn't have been worried.
He had decided that things were alright and he needed not to be worried. Lizzy was strong and she could proctect herself.
He shouldn't have been worried...
...Then why he, Earl Ciel Panthomhive, tried as he might to no avail, couldn't sleep at all.
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To be continued...
Author's note:
I hate the anime, I didn't acknowledge that piece of shit. I only based this on the manga.