xXEarlCielIsMyMasterXx: Hey everyone!!
Sebastian: So, you've decided to do a pre-talk of sorts, my Lady?
xXEarlCielIsMyMasterXx: You could say that… Hey, where's Ciel?
Ciel: Here. And I have a few words for you. *evil glare*
Sebastian: *glances at xXEarl* Um… I think you should run.
xXEarlCielIsMyMasterXx: Good idea. Enjoy everyone! AIIIYAAAAHHHH!!! *runs away screaming*
Ciel: Come back here!! How DARE you make me so vulnerable!! That's completely outside of my character!!.........
Sebastian: *watches, sweat dropping* X.X; Um, anyway, xXEarlCielIsMyMasterXx doesn't own Kuroshitsuji… Just Aurora, I guess…. Please enjoy our finest hospitality!
Chapter 2
+|Stories In the Dark|+
Ciel released Aurora and stepped back. She looked somewhat better after a day of rest at the mansion. She looked up at him; joy the dominant emotion in her eyes. "Aurora… Tell me, where were you all this time?" She raised an eyebrow.
"'All this time'?" she asked curiously. "It was only five years." Ciel turned away.
"Five years, and I thought you were dead the whole time." He said in a strangled voice. He whirled on her. "How could you do something like that to me?" He cried. She sighed, placing one hand on his shoulder and gently leading him to sit on the bed.
"Would you like me to tell you what happened that day? What really happened?" She asked him, her voice soft and gentle. He nodded, still looking away from her, arms crossed in anger. She smiled slightly. "Alright then; I'll tell you…"
Aurora and Ciel were sitting at the dining table, talking and eating while her parents discussed whatever it was adults discussed. It floated right over the heads of the ten year old children. Suddenly, a maid, Aurora's maid Castella to be exact, rushed in.
"Master Schultz!! There's a fire burning in the kitchen downstairs! The servants are saying that we need to evacuate everyone in case it spreads." She gasped. Aurora watched as her father leapt out of his chair and ran out, Castella following hurriedly, tailed by her own mother as well. She looked at Ciel and they ran to follow, but Edward, the Schultz family butler, grabbed Ciel from behind.
"Watch out, Master Ciel!" Aurora turned, and almost ran straight into the inferno in front of the staircase. She stopped as a wave of intense heat washed over her and gasped, falling backwards onto the ground, eyes wide with shock.
"Father! Mother!! NO!" She screamed, then spotted a path through the flames and turned to follow it. She only turned once to tell Edward to get Ciel out of the house, and then she was covering her nose and mouth with one arm and squinting as she ran, flames marking her path on either side.
Once up the stairs, she listened, calling out to Castella and her parents occasionally, trying to find them. Suddenly, she heard a bone-chilling laugh and knew what was happening. She hurried down the hall, stopping in the doorway of the burning master bedroom where the servants were running screaming from. She saw her parents against one wall, Castella collapsed in another corner, and almost screamed aloud when she discovered who was penning her parents in.
It was her older brother, Raymond.
Raymond had gone missing many months ago and had just returned to the family this week, but he was different. He had come back, quiet, but cold, cruel and calculating at the same time. He seemed to have a certain passionate lust for blood, gore and violence, and now she was seeing it in action as he raised a knife and began to laugh, threatening her parents.
Aurora screamed as he slit each of their throats then began to suck their blood. Eyes wide, she fell to her knees in complete, overwhelming shock. Then, she almost vomited when she saw that her brother was taking the bodies of her beloved mother and father and chopping them into small pieces. "No…" she whispered. "No no no no no…." Then Castella was dragging her out of the room, urging her on as Raymond threw the pieces of her parents into the raging flames in the room, then turned at the sound of her sobbing, screaming tears, blood dripping from the knife in his hand, the scarlet teeth in his mouth, his eyes wide and wild with the bloodlust that had hold of him…
Aurora shuddered as she finished describing what her brother had been; a monster of the greatest horror. Ciel was quiet, but hugged her closer as she began to sob.
"Castella and I have been traveling ever since. It didn't occur to me to come to you until recently. That's what we were doing in London when Sebastian found us. I didn't realize he was working for you, so I was rude to him…" She sighed softly, as if relieved to have finally told someone what had happened five years ago, even less time to her, since she was two years older than him.
"Aurora, wh-what happened to Raymond after the-that?" Ciel asked her. She started, surprised.
"I-I don't know…" she whispered, looking away. Ciel resisted the urge to shake the truth from her, for he knew she was lying. But he let it go.
"Never mind that, then. You need rest, Aurora. I'll see you in the morning." She understood the order behind his dismissal. She rose and was at the door, when she turned.
"Oh, Ciel…" He looked up from where he was putting away the book he'd been reading earlier.
"Yes, Aurora?" She hesitated for a second.
"I want to talk to you more extensively tomorrow night." She said quietly. He nodded and she left. He glanced once more at the title on the spine of the book.
"London Bridge Is Falling." he whispered. He smirked. "It certainly is… It certainly is…"