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~Charlotte
The rest of the evening was mostly dinner, reading in the library, and eventually take about half an hour to get to my room. I had avoided Sebastian wherever possible, he was quite pissed off. (Probably because of me, no he WAS pissed off because of me,) I was walking through the corridors as quick and quiet as possible. I had taken the book with me because reading for bedtime (if you had light) was delicious. I let me fall on the bed, which was also incredibly large, but in this case I was totally ok with it. I pulled on the nightgown, which was neatly folded on the bed. But when I tried to get it over my head I heard two short knocking on my door. 'Wait a minute, this frikkin' nightgown won't cooperate with me! ' I yelled to the person behind the door. Still struggling with the thing. I pulled harder and finally I got the nightgown over my head. 'Ok, come inside! ' "Everything alright milady?" Sebastian slowly came into the room. In his left hand he held a candlestick His eyes glowed even redder under the light of the candles. Fascinating. I stayed a while staring into those eyes, curious if something would happen, he stared back. 'Yes, yes I'm ok, nothing to worry about. 'I broke my trance of glancing into those eyes and crawled under the covers. 'I came to bring some more candles, since I saw you take your book to your room, I thought you were still planning to read. 'So he had me seen? That was weird, I surely knew that I had seen nobody on my wanderings through the house. But I left it at that. He would not answer, he avoided any kind of answers fully, from the beginning . So I let it be . It was late, and I was tired. ' Thank you, you can put them on the Cabinet. " I pointed to the locker next to my bed, where I had deposited Alice in Wonderland. He put the candlestick gently on the table and looked surprised at the book. ' Alice in Wonderland? What an interesting choice milady. " He wasn't pissed off anymore? Or was this the interested, perfect butler act again? 'I think it is a very interesting and amazing story. ' He raised a brow at this. ' But, milady isn't this supposed to be children's' book? ' I shook my head. ' I understand that you might think that, but there are a lot of philosophical views interwoven in the story and the lines of the characters. The world where Alice ends up, consists of madness and strange figures who completely tangle her mind with deep sentences for a girl of old. That makes the story so fun to read. ' I yawned unwilling, I didn't know exactly what time it was but I knew almost certainly that I soon would fall asleep. "You should rest milady." Sebastian nodded me and bowed. "If you would exuse me; I have some preparations to make. ' 'On such a late hour? Ciel sure makes you work then. Is this is way of torturing?' I smirked. He sighed at this. ' Well, go then! ' He bowed again. ' Sweet dreams milady. " He said quickly, and walked out of the room, carefully closing the door behind him. I yawned again and curled myself up on in the large bed. I almost slept when something new came to my mind . ' We didn't fight this time, we had our very first normal conversation. ' I chuckled at myself, that sounded ridiculous. ' It's the fault of his eyes. They're very distracting. ' I mumbled to myself before falling into a deep slumber.
– Dream-
The room was filled with feathers, they fell down from the ceiling and formed a black layer on the floor and the furniture. It was beautiful, like black snow, but the only thing I thought was that they were not supposed to fall down, they would die. So I started to catch them. In the beginning it was easy, but then all the feathers stuck on my body and I could only move slowly. I began to cry, because now I could no longer save the poor feathers. I saw how they fell down, one after another, and died and I cried even harder. Nothing worked anymore more and eventually I found myself in complete darkness.
I startled awake. Panting and with a heart pounding I grabbed the blankets. The candles had gone out so it was almost completely dark. Wincing I thought back to my dream. Vague. It was all vague. Something with dying feathers. And then, complete darkness. I shivered and moved slowly out of bed. Light, that was what I needed. And not candlelight. I ran to the window and gently pulled the curtains open. Moonlight. Sighing, I sat down on the windowsill. It was a clear night and the moon gave the gardens a bluish glow. I felt my breathing and my heart rate slow down to a more normal level. It was only a dream. Feathers don't die and I just don't cry. I never do. I remained a time watching the Moonlight, but eventually my eyes almost closed and I went back to bed. But I left the curtains open.
-next morning-
I woke up from the sound of breaking things and screaming voices. ' It's over here! Get it! ' A loud CRACK, an ' Oops ... ' and a ' FINNY ' of the other two. ' There! There it goes! ' ' Catch it! Quick! ' shouts and footsteps that were probably of Meyrin rush past my door.. Heavily annoyed that those three idiots had woken me I ran to the door, pulled him open a little too harsh and yelled: where in God's name do you think you are doing?! The three froze in the middle of the corridor, which was filled with dust and debris of 'something' that might have been a statue in its better days. Inches away from my feet a small grey thing ran over. ' A mouse.. ' I slowly looked back to them. ' This whole scene, all of this (I pointed at the debris) , for a mouse.. ' Meyrin turned all the way to me to first and stumbled with a red head. ' I-I am so sorry milady, it just ran and we thought that we'd better catch it.. ' 'it just ran a little out of control... ' Bard completed. , while he scratches his heads a little sheepishly. ' You demolish the whole house, and wake me up because there's a mouse walking? ' embarrassed, they nodded their heads. I gritted my teeth. ' Where is Sebastian when you actually want to have him here? He could clean all this up in an instant. Sure of that. ' 'Sebastian is away with the young master to London for business. ' Meyrin stuttered. I swore and frustrated I rubbed my temple . So I was stuck with those three, for a whole day. They would undoubtedly cause more destruction if someone didn't watch over them, and right now Sebastian was not here. I sighed. It would probably be the best, for my own safety, that I would play for baby-sitter. 'You should clean up this mess.' I called over my shoulder, while I raced back to my room. "Y-yes! ' And behind me, I heard them move. I dressed myself like usual and when I opened the door I saw that the three tried in vain to the debris and the rubble of the statue. I half-heartedly swore (in case I would damage their ears with my crude words) and walked to Meyrin, who was bungling with a broom. When she saw me watching, she trembling, and with a red head, tried to hide behind the broom . I ignored it and snatched the broom from her hands. 'Finnian, grab a dustpan and brush and start to sweep the small pieces, but do not pick up any stones, because they may have some pointy ends.' I pointed with my head to the debris. ' And Bard, grab a garbage bag or container where everything can be put in and put it down here. ' All three looked kind of crestfallen ' G-guest ... " Meyrin muttered . ' Why are you helping us? ' Finny asked rather confused. ' We are the Phantomhive household after all. ' "Because, Meyrin, you had no idea what you were doing until now , Finnian, you almost wounded yourself to a piece of stone, and Bard, you probably just planned to dump this somewhere, didn't you? ' Ashamed they nodded their heads. "Well, then go! ' They gobble on and ran in some random direction. ' Meyrin! ' I called her, a little frustrated. ' R-right.. I will get a second broom.. ' And they ran away. I wiped the dust on a heap. Why on earth were they hired? They didn't seem to have any kind of experience ... Didn't Ciel have enough on only Sebastian? He could get from one to another side of the house, within a minute, which of course isn't quite normal, but ok, he cooked great, let not all crockery and didn't wreck the mansion by just hunting mouse.. A little annoyed I grabbed the broom even firmer Tsh. . It bothered me. It just wasn't possible to do all of that without some form of assistance. (because he had nothing to those three failures of course) and then there was also that incredibly disturbing attitude of him, happened to innocent, if but an ordinary butler, as if it is perfectly logical that someone moves so quickly, and can do so much in so little time. And what bothered me the most of all was his smile, already from the beginning. his smile seemed quite innocent and none meaning, but it was so obvious that he had so much to hide, alone by that smile. That lopsided chuckle. I felt my heart rate go up and hated myself. You couldn't deny it, he was handsome. More than just handsome. To him everything was just, well, perfectly hot, no use to deny it. I could now go an mention everything that is attractive of him, but I refused to waste even one second to that butler anymore. It was bad enough that I found him so attractive. I didn't like him, or love him, I mean GOD NO, but he definitely WAS attractive, just a fact he was. Fortunately Meyrin came running to me, with a broom in her hand, followed by Finny and Bard. I gave them a few instructions (which they clearly needed) and so we started to clean up all the junk that was caused by a small stupid mouse. It took long, but it was pretty cozy, to cooperate with such idiots. Soon we were done. The debris dumped in the container, the stone and such was cleared away, and the dust swept up. We were relieved. Meyrin went to do dishes, Finny still had to go weeding and went to search for the weed exterminator. I had no idea what time it was but they were probably behind schedule because of this ' accident ' because they sprinted immediately off, dragging the bags with junk behind them, calling things as ' The dishes! Oh dear, I still have to do the dishes! ' and ' exterminator, exterminator. Where aaarreee you. ' Bard tried in vain, to push the container or lift it up, but he couldn't handle it alone. I chuckled and grabbed the thing from behind. ' We better get it down on the stairs. ' I said to Bard while trying to face him, he nodded. He followed my example and I counted to 3. ' One, two, three! ' The container went up slowly and then we had him firmly. He was heavy, but it was bearable. Bard was panting and huffing under the weight of the huge thing, probably because he held it less high, and so had to carry more weight. Half tripping, we hobbled down the stairs. Meanwhile, still carrying, we heard screaming from outside, a loud crack. Finny was probably once again moving something in the garden, that kid was strong, very strong. We gave no further attention to it and lifted the heavy container down the stairs. By the back door, which led outside, stood the other containers. I stood with my back to the garden when we dropped the heavy thing. How did Finny get this thing up? I heard Bard grasp for breath and instinctively I turned around . Shocked of what I saw. The entire garden, ruined. More than half of the plants were trampled, or withered away and cracked, and so many trees were fallen. In the middle of all the chaos sat Finny, weeping between all the dead plants, with a kind of fallen bottle beside him . I quickly ran over to him, closely followed by Bard, who already started with scolding him. ' You stupid ba-' I silenced him with one penetrating look. ' 'Finny, How on earth did you manage this?' He sobbed and rubbed his eyes . "-I'm s-so sorry! ' ' There was a bug in my shirt, and I got a little panicked, and then I started to run, and when this happened ... " He pointed to the bottle, which had a skull painting on it. ' Weed Exterminator. 'Bard read out loud. ' Tgh, Idiot! Did ya spill this stuff all over the place? ' He asked angry, pointing at the bottle. Finny nodded and there appeared tears in his eyes again . "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I ran against the trees, and when they fell, and against each other, and I got even more panicked and, and ... ' He started to cry dramatically. ' WEEEHHHEH. ' I knelt down to him. He was a clumsy novice, he was a sweet kid. I tried to hold back and took a deep breath. ' Listen Finny, you are a real idiot, and you screwed this up pretty badly, but we can fix this. ' ' We can? ' Bard sounded truly surprised. I gave him an irritated look and he stepped back, afraid for hits from me. ' Yes, we can. If we continue working hard. Finny, if you clean up the garden and evict all the dead plants and trees, then Bard and Meyrin can replace them. There is a store that sells flower bulbs, somewhere in London, am I correct? ' Bard nodded vehemently and Finny looked up. ' By the time you guys are back, we're ready here and can move the plants, Finny, can you get some new trees somewhere? Doesn't matter where they are from, just get them out of the ground. with you power it is a cinch, right? ' He nodded enthusiastically. ' Ok uh, GO. "they saluted and went off. Bard ran away to get Meyrin, who was again trying to catch mice, and Finny and I started pulling all the dead plants out of the ground and threw them in a big bag. Finny ran back and forth with trees he tried incredibly hard to fix his failure. I often had to be careful that I didn't get hit by a tribe, or branch, but he did his best. I had no idea where he got the trees, but actually that interested me nothing at all. After two hours of hard work in the Sun Bard and Meyrin came back. I was just busy with putting the last plants in the bag , when they stepped in my sight, grinning, with their poor full of flowers. ' Ok, you guys are here. That's nice, we were just finished. 'FINNIAN! YOU CAN NOW GO!' I yelled over my shoulder. You know which plant goes where, right? ' They nodded their heads and Finny came trotting, with his one hand carrying a bag with tree branches, in the other he took the bag with dead plants. Meyrin and Bard had already gone to work and I took a hand full of flower bulbs from the large crate, where the two had transported them in. And just in time I could prevent from planting the bulbs upside down. She looked down and blushed a little embarrassed. Even though she was very farsighted, I never thought that she would do something that stupid. Tanaka sat in a corner somewhere, drinking his tea. I walked towards him and gently plopped down beside him on the ground. ' Tanaka san, how do you keep up with those three? ' I looked at him full of sympathy. ' I know that they are sweet, and mean it well, but seriously, they suck at doing their jobs. ' ' Ho-Ho. ' Was his (usual) answer. I nodded. ' Yes ok, they have Sebastian, but aren't you getting totally mad of them sometimes, even Sebastian? ' 'Ho.' What do you mean with that?! ' ' Ho, Ho' 'Oh, right! . I need to go back to work. ' Sighing, I stood up and ran over to Bard, who apparently had lost his patience and was now grabbing his flamethrower. Who, for goddamned heaven had given him that thing? I felt like a total babysitter. While I was planting I periodically had to look back to see if everything wasn't going incredibly wrong, but time passed, Finny came back (with trees) and nothing disastrous happened. Yes I was almost crushed by a tree, had to pick it up all the flower bulbs from the ground because Meyrin had dropped the crate but furthermore nothing happened. The Sun was getting lower and lower in the sky, and we went faster and faster. It was dusk when the last plant finally went into the ground . The garden was saved. It wasn't stunning, or beautiful, but much better than what it had been first. It looked pretty normal. ' Let's go, we're done here. ' Oh so tired we walked into the house, and tried to get to our rooms, change into some clean clothes, bur Bard didn't get any further than the stairs. Everyone was whacked and also I gave up at the top of the stairs. Sighing, I let my painful body rest on the ground, which felt like a four-poster bed. ' We have saved the garden pretty damn well. 'Bard said to no one in particular. I was just going to throw something to his head when the door clicked open and Ciel's irritated voice filled the hall. ' What the hell do you all think you're doing? ' Nobody was able to reply, so I hoisted myself up and went in to sit cross-legged. ' Why are all your clothes so dirty? ' Sebastian asked, the curiosity in his voice was very clear. ' Hunting mouse. ' I replied, smirking at him.
