Once Upon a Dream

Chapter 2

Sebastian could be called a patient demon. In any normal case he could be as quiet and willful to wait as long as possible so long that benefitted him in the end, or it was an order from his master, in which case he had no choice in the manner.

Sebastian's patience was being tested.

A few weeks had passed and his new master, Lord Finnian Oisin, had recovered from his surgery and was now walking about the manor with much ease and pleasure. Having him run around the manor though was more nerve-wrecking. Like a child, Finny wanted to play around with things as much as he could and since finding out that the previous master had made toys, he wanted to play with them greatly, only to be disappointed that there, in fact, no toys around the manor. So he tried his best to play with his butler, hide and seek was the game, but Sebastian would find him too quick and when it was Finnian's turn to hide, he had refused.

That morning, prior to him wanting to play games, he had met the staff that had agreed to stay around to meet the new master. Finnian was dressed in the master's pervious clothes that had been tailored (by Sebastian) to fit his slim figure but taller figure more. The blonde was wearing an olive green color suit with a blue tie on, making the blonde uncomfortable.

The cook was a bit rough around the edges, and Finnian noted his cigarette in his mouth. His accent was a bit off, and his mannerisms wasn't something he knew to be "gentlemanly etiquette" as Sebastian had been educating him while he was in bed.

The maid was a bit strange herself. Her red hair in pigtails and she stood clumsily, if not a bit nervously.

The elderly man...looked more like a small person rather than a normal person would appear.

"Hello milord." Mey-Rin spoke first.

"Yeah, hi. I'm Bard."

"Ho ho ho."

Finnian smiled happily to the servants and went down from the stairs yhay he had been standing on and pulled them into a big huge. "Hi everyone. It's great to meet ya!" He said as he would rather have friends around then servants. While they were being crushed (Finnian having his strength) Sebastian went over to pull him off. "That is not how a lord greets his servants." He said roughly and cleared his throat to straighten himself out, "A lord greets his servants with courtesy and acknowledgement, not bear hugging them into oblivion."

Finnian was forced to let go and sighs to himself, then directed to his servants, "sorry I hugged you."

"You're a...strong one milord." Mey-Rin spoke as her body, much like Bard's had been crushed and needing to fix his back.

Finnian laughed nervously, "I'm really sorry."

"Now lord Finnian, they do not need your apology. If anything they should be glad to even be touched from their master." Sebastian spoke strictly. "Now let us begin your lessons."


That was hours ago and they were beginning with step one: learning how to read.

"Tae cat wak layed on her sid?" Finnian read aloud and Sebastian, who was dressed as a proper educator, corrects him, "the line says, the cat laid on her side." He says and tells him repeat.

Finnian gets frustrated and slams his head on the oak wood desk, "why must I know how to read?"

"You cannot be called a true gentleman if you do not possess the skills to be a gentleman." Sebastian says clearly. Finnian says and looks again and began to read as much as he could aloud, the stutters and unknowing how to enunciate the words was driving the patience demon mad.

But that is known as progress of man.


"Dinner is served." Sebastian says as he lifted the lid, revealing sliced glazed turkey with sidings of mashed potatoes, green beans and a glass of champagne since he was old enough to drink.

"Wow! This looks delicious!" Finny's eyes gleam in how delicious it looks. The aroma was divine as well. There were no words. Finnian knew that the food was delicious since every day and night, he was fed until he could burst. He was about to chow down as he usually did when his hand was slapped. "Master Finnian," Sebastian stops him, "this is another lesson in etiquette. Knowing your table manners."

"But I'm hungry." Finny cries out childishly with watery eyes.

Sebastian wasn't fazed by the sight, "master, you must be presented in as a noble to the public. Your entrance into the world must show that your name rings with nobility." Sebastian's voice rings with truth.

"When will I be out in public?" Finnian asks. "Does that mean I can go outside finally?!" Since he had been recovering, he hadn't been permitted to go outside by his butler, who made sure that he took his medicine and rested with ease, even if he did wake up crying from nightmares.

"Yes. There is a private party that the former master had been invited to and you will be in his place. Let's call this your "entrance party" of sorts."

"But I'm not a party kind of person. What if I make a fool of myself?" Finnian says.

"That is why we must practice our lessons and know how to be a gentleman. We only have a week so lessons are the most importance." Sebastian says and began his lessons for how to properly eat food with utensils.


"Time for bed now young master." Sebastian says and leads Finnian to the bedroom. Once arrived, Finnian goes over to sit on the bed and was about to climb right in when Sebastian stops him.

"Now young master, is that any way to dress when doing to sleep?" He asks in a suave tone of voice, though Finnian didn't even catch the tone.

"Whaddya mean Mister Sebastian?"

"A proper gentleman dresses for the night." He says and goes over to the dresser and pulls out a fitted dress shirt that would reach down to his knees. It was clean white, ironed and ready for his master. "This should suit the tastes of acquiring ones sleep."

"Isn't that the one I wore last night?" Finny asks softly.

"No, those are in the laundry, which Mey-Rin had messed up…again." He sighs a bit. "So I will have to do them tonight." The butler goes over and just as Finny was about to dress himself, trying to remove his tie for starters by yanking it off (which he tried not to rip at the same time), he was stopped by Sebastian, yet again. "Allow me." He says and gently takes Finny's calloused hands away from the fabric, and began to untie them.

Finny blushes at this attention, and looks away with red on his cheeks. "Mister Sebastian. I can-"

"It is a butler's duty to serve his master. Make sure he's cared for." Sebastian starts off slowly, then he moves down, unbuttoning his vest and white dress shirt, revealing his scar-covered chest and stomach, which sported a large capital 'I' scar from his surgery prior to his arrival to this manor. Finny was ashamed and looks away, fearful that he would be judged. Sebastian goes over and grabs a bottle of lotion that had been buried in the drawer, pops the lid open with one hand while the other was getting his gloved removed with his teeth.

That was the first time that Finny had seen the seal that was in the back of his hand. "What's that Mister Sebastian? A tattoo?" The blonde was naïve and hadn't even asked the most obvious question that would have burned anyone else's mind.

Sebastian looks down at the back of his hand and a sly smile appears on his hand. "This is our contract. I'm surprised that you never asked about that sooner." He says and puts the bottle. "You see, I am your butler, I obey every command, only need to ask. However, it comes at a big prize." The demon's eyes opens his eyes, revealing glowing, red eyes with black slits in them. "I'm a demon. Once our contract is up, I shall eat your soul as it was our agreement."

It took a full ten seconds to let that all sink in, and then Finny's widen. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" He asks and backs away. "You-you're a demon?!" He asks. "And you wanna eat my soul?!"

Sebastian should have figured he would have reacted like this. "Please master, do not shout."

"But when did I make this contract with you anyways?! I don't remember signing anything!"

Sebastian removes his other gloves, and then turns away from Finny for a moment to place lotion on his hands, "you yearned for someone to rescue you. You wished it. You dreamed for it." His voice was so soothing that it was rather cruel. "I came to you when you were getting that surgery…I believe that were implanting something in you." Sebastian starts off. "I visited you, and killed those scientists once you accepted the terms when you had woken up from the anesthesia the first time around." He says.

"I don't remember that at all!"

Sebastian turns back around and though the boy was frighten, he still would need lotion for his chest and stomach. Sebastian began to rub the soothing lotion onto Finny's skin, making him shake a bit, but not from the cool texture of the ointment. "I freed you from those scientists...and you have the seal to prove it a well.

"Really? Where?" He asks since it wasn't anywhere on his frontal half of the body. Sebastian leaves to go to the restroom and when he returned in under a minute no less, he had two hand mirrors. One he holds to reflect off the back of his neck, and the other to reflect the mirror's image to show Finnian, which surprised him greatly as there was supposed to be his prison numbers on them.

"With this seal, you can summon me and I will be there, milord. Now, shall I return to preparing for the night?" Sebastian asks and sets the hand mirrors down on the night stand.

To that, Finnian nodded curtly with his eyes lowered.

Sebastian resumed, removing his shoes and socks, revealing his feet that was callous-ridden and cracked. To Finnian, they didn't hurt as much as they did when he was forced to run as much as possible, or force to fight his friends to death. "Sebastian, can you skip the massage for tonight?" He says and Sebastian looks up. "Of course." Sebastian grabs the button for his shorts, and unbuttons it, and began to lower then even as the blonde remained sitting. It didn't even seem like he could look Sebastian in the eye anymore since being told of the contract.

Sebastian puts the dress shirt on for him, buttoning up the delicate buttons and Sebastian stands up straight now. "Is there anything else I can do for you master?"

Finnian looks up at Sebastian, fearing to face him. His jade eyes glowed from the candle light. "Please stop calling me master…I'm Finny now remember. I mean…in private. If you have to call me master in public, you can…but call me Finny, or Finnian. Call me by my name."

"Yes...Finny."