A short time had passed, a few days or so, and Ciel was given more news, by the Queen, he had a duty to stop a gruesome serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Though of course he wouldn't want to be caught dead being seen dressed as a girl, though he had Sebastion invite her to Lord Aleister Chamber's party, that of course whom they had concluded at that time to be the only human capable of being Jack the Ripper. Tesla looked completely terrified of going, shaking her head as soon as sebastion started talking about it to her, "N-no, I'd rather stay here, out of everyone's way." That being an odd response, her being a Grand Duchess, she should have been going to such parties since she was of a small age, but she seemed utterly terrified, declining to go with him.
As we all know, that party didn't excatly go as planned, the lord turning out not to be Jack the Ripper, leaving the boy and his butler to start from scratch. they soon looked down the list of victims, and found the woman most likely to be the next victim, leaving the manor to go stake out, though it already late in the evening. Ciel was not dressed as he usually was, wearing his newsboy outfit, and lower class clothes so he could blend in, as well as Sebastion, who still wore a suit, though wearing a trenchcoat over it, them not easily spotted as high society men (or man and boy) but just as they were about to leave, there were stopped, Ciel even jumping, thinking no one else was awake, hearing the abrupt, "No!" him blinking and looking up the stairway, where Tesla was already halfway walking down the steps, though in her sleeping clothes, she wasn't fully covered, in a black nightgown, that had a semi-modest neckline, sleeveless, and only came down to just about halfway down her calves. "Please don't go out there, it's dange-" "Go back to bed!" Ciel practically barked at her. Her so timid seeming, she flinched just at his words, "But you could be-" "You are a GUEST in this house, I would suggest you learn your place, you haven't been a trouble until now, so dont ruin it." he said with a straight face before walking out, telling Sebastion to come with him, the girl left on the staircase watching them go, helplessly.
Soon after, the stake out turned out to be a sucess, well, sort of, they didn't save the girl, but Jack the Ripper was revealed as Grell and his aunt. after a quick conversation, a fight broke out, Madame Red having a knife in hand ready to kill Ciel, though she trembled, not bringing herself to be able to do it, Ciel yelling out for Sebastion not to kill her Madame Red's head in her hands, not being able to kill the boy. Grell blinks seeing the opportunity she had and yells at her, commanding her to kill the boy, though when she admits that he can't He jumps from where he had been, fully aimed with his chainsaw to slice her open, and to take her life, but he stops short upon hearing his name called, "Sutcliff!" a familar voice yelled in a scolding tone, at the end of the alley way was Tesla herself, wearing her nightgown, and a simple black coat over it, obviously one of Sebastion's, it just reaching over her hands.
Grell paused looking to her and smiled a wicked smile with his shark like teeth, "Weeeeeeeeeell if it isn't the grand duchess with the kiss of death. I'd recognise those beautiful ruby red eyes anywhere." he grinned shifting his position to face her, his back to the boy and Madame Red, as if he now saw her as the prime threat to his plans. Tesla frowned, in the cold night her breath was visable as she panted, having ran all the way there, and her feet were bloody, not having time to put shoes on, the gravel and glass of the dirty London alleyway scraping her with each step. Grell still smiling, "Sorry Dearest, but this time, the kill doesnt belong to you." he said, attacking her with the chainsaw. Of course Ciel not knowing what the hell was going on, ordered Sebastion to make sure the duchess was safe. The reaper of course going to resume his fight with Sebastion, making his flirtatious remarks much to the other man's disgust. Though given the time, Madame Red closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to see Ciel's face, pulling the knife up and moving to stab him.
Sebastion, caught between a rock and a hard place having to save his master though, was there in an instant, holding Madame Red's wrist up so she couldn't harm the boy, the woman reduced to tears, Grell rolling his eyes, "You are just as useless as the the women you killed." he snapped a little and in the same instant cut her, revealing her cinematic record, Grell just laughing afterward, "Humans hold to the stupidest things.." Then raising his death sythe to Ciel, which Sebastion stopped, Grell still having that mostly insane smile, "Oh come now Bassy, As much as I'd love to cut you open and see all your dirty little secrets I can't let the boy get away!" Sebastion glared at the nickname about to retort as Ciel clenched his fists, "Sebastion! Kill him! That's an ORDER." he got out through gritted teeth forced to look at the closest thing he had to real family dead on the floor. Of course at that Sebastion's eyes turned their bright violet red, with the slitted pupil, "Gladly." he said as he threw the red head off him, though the reaper just lifting the chainsaw higher to bring down on the butler, using a low level trick of stepping on Sebastion's foot, crushing it with pressure so he couldn't dodge, "It's a shame Bassy, I was saving you for la-" he stopped short, immediatly frozen as Tesla stood between them, her arms outstretched, protecting Sebastion, for some reason, the reaper pausing,
"You had your chance girl, if you want to die so badly, I'll put you out of your misery." he said pulling the chainsaw to him about to thrust it through her. Tesla seemed unmoved, unscared and unintimidated, "Sutcliff... it's time to stop." she said softly reaching out and touching his face. Grell instantly making a soft choking noise before falling to the ground, his beloved chainsaw cracked on the gravelly asphalt, turning a bright white, glowing before disapating into small particles. There was a long sigh, "Fair Tesla, why do you have to make my job so much harder than it has to be?" William Spears seemed to appear out of nowhere, his fancy dress shoes making a soft clank noise as he walked over to the group. The girl frowned, "You know I don't mean to William." she said in an almost sad tone. The supervisor from the Dispatch Management Division of Shinigami crossed his arms looking at the seemingly dead Grell on the floor, "This is going to be a lot of paperwork... though I suppose it would have been just as much paperwork anyway... altering a death sythe without the proper forms, killing without higher consent..."
The superior reaper looked to the girl through his rectangular glasses, "I thought you said that you wouldn't go causing me any more trouble.." "I'm trying." the girl's voice almost cracking, holding back tears, never liking it when someone died, much less when it was HER who had done the deed. Spears sighed then looked to Sebastion as if he JUST now noticed him there, "Well I can see how the situation could get out of hand with a demon involved." The girl jumping, "No! N-no! it wasn't his fault! Sutcliff went off, he would have kille-" Spears raising a hand to silence her, as Grell's body faded in the same manner that his sythe did, Spears sighing, Tesla looking guilt-ridden, "I will fill out the paperwork for you, I truely didnt mean for this to happen..." she said softly. To that Spears smiled to her and placed a gloved hand on her head affectionatly, "Don't worry, I will take care of this. You go home and warm up, humans will get sick if they run around in the cold dressed like you are." Tesla blinked, "I-I'm staying with Earl Phantomhive. He doesn't live far." she said giving Ciel a sideways glance then back to Spears who paused and then lifted his hand from the girl's head, looking to Sebastion seriously,
"You've quite the little treasure to keep safe. Just because you're a demon fiend, doesn't mean I won't hold you or the boy accountable for whatever happens to her." a glint to his glasses as he looked back down to the girl, placing his white gloved hand on her forehead, placing a kiss on his glove, of course him knowing that he, even as a reaper couldn't touch her skin to skin, but showing her affection, in a fatherly figure way, because of her strange *ability* they had met many times in the past, and with her father dead when she was just growing, he truely had become her father figure. "Go rest, it's been an eventuful night." he said, walking off, dissapearing, leaving the three of them in the cold dark alley with Madame Red's body to take care of and all.
Sebastion made an annoyed face to the grim reaper as he walked by "i'll be sure to do that...just make sure you do your job as well" Ciel had put the butler's coat over his aunts body giving a small sigh giving the butler a look " I thought I had ordered you to kill him, instead SHE had to take care of him Sebastion." frowning looking to Tesla "and you, shouldnt you be at the mansion..and what the hell happened to grell?"
The girl jumped, frightened by the boy's raising his voice, her mouth fell open to speak but the words didn't come, "I-I.." tears coming to her eyes, seemingly as they always did, her looking so frail, starting to tremble, but keeping her voice at the very least, "I knew when you left! I knew you were close to death. I-I was j-just trying to help! I was just trying to make sure you w-were safe, H-her Majesty s-said she won't relocate me again.. this is my last chance.. If you died th-they would blame me!" her breath still shaky, panting lightly her breath still hot in the night air, visible, pausing at his next question, her throat closing up on her as she pulled the borrowed coat over her, her arms shrinking back into the large jacket, "H-he's dead." she said, her voice faltering at that, her lip quivering looking to the lady on the ground and back to Ciel, "I-i'm so s-sorry I just came to help.."
Ciel sweatdropped seeing the girl yet again burst out into tears getting rather annoyed with the whole thing. 'i simply asked for an explination...not a sob story..." he said with a uneasy face holding out his hankerchife to her like he had done lizzie 'now clean your face...a lady shouldnt have a tear stained face as much as your's is..." walking back over to the body. 'what a mess...but no matter the case is solved...come now...let's return home"
She trembled a little bit before taking the hankerchief very careful to grab the other end not to touch his hand at all "Th-thanks.." she said softly "I'm sorry.." she said softer, of course the three of them walking home, Tesla holding the coat close to her to her, holding it shut, nervous. her feet continued to bleed, pausing as she realised that she was leaving bloody footprints heading towards his house, stopping on the sidewalk frowning looking into the small puddle of blood she was now standing in, "I'll.. figure out a way there... you two go on, I don't want to hold you back.."