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"So he put up an obstacle?"

"Yes , my dearest."

There was a smile. "This ought to be interesting.

"So," Count Agustuszad Everett sat in his wheelchair in the large office, on the other side of the of a carved desk from Sebastian and Ciel. The office looked as if no one uses it more than twice a month. The papers were neat, organized, and not piled up high. There was even dust on some of the small stacks of papers and shelves. "I guess you want clarification on what I need you to do for me."

"Yes, you were not quite specific enough. Some extra details would certainly h-" Ciel.

"I cannot give you any more information than already."

Ciel stared at him "What?" he said stupidly.

"Walls have ears." He pressed his finger to his lips. "It would be bad luck" The Count had a determined look on his face, like a child refusing to reveal his birthday wish.

"Now, please, Master, be reasonable we-"

"But aren't you demons? You can figure it out can't?" Count Everett fidgeted in his chair. "Please," he whispered. "It frightens me to even think of the details."

Sebastian sighed. "We will solve it with the information has provided."

"But-" Ciel started,

"Young Master, please do not argue." Ciel sighed.

As Sebastian and Ciel were excused from the office, Ciel still a little ticked off from that the Count refused to reveal any more information, could of sworn he heard Count Everett whisper a quiet "Thank you".

"Well that was helpful." Ciel stormed down the hall, as Sebastian walked fast-paced to keep up.

"Now, Young Master, you must be patient; not every contract is fulfilled as quickly as the past few we had."

Ciel only grunted. He knew Sebastian was right. "But that girl, the one we have to watch over, Mallory, She's just so, so-"

"Fascinating?" Sebastian offered, with a teasing smile.

"No, I was thinking something more along the lines of annoying."

"Well, this family seems rather intriguing. I prefer my meals to have an air of mystery." Sebastian replied. "I gives them texture."

Ciel stared at him. Sometimes, Ciel didn't quite understand his butler and new demon life.

"Michealis, Liepththetheht, whatever the hell your name is." Mallory was leaning on the side of the hall. Shit, Ciel thought Did she hear?. "May I have a word with you in my office?"

Having no choice, Ciel and Sebastian and Ciel followed her up the hall into a dark room. Mallory's office was far more used than that of her father's. Papers and books lay everywhere, stacked up high. There were several mannikins half clothed with rich cloth like satin and silk. She sat in a leather chair with the same fashion she did in the parlor: confident and in control.

"I think you know why you are here." Her face was stern and unemotional.

"I'm afraid that you will have to tell us." Sebastian told her.

She slammed her fist on the table "Do don't play dumb with me. I know you're trying to eat his soul. I know what you are." Mallory stared the two straight in the eye, unwavering.

"Now, that may be true." Sebastian gave her one of his signature smiles. "But seeing as you find your father rather useless-"

"I never said he was useless!" She objected, "I love my Daddy." Her face showed no sign of wanting to cry, but her grey eyes looked distressed. She quickly realized what she had said sounded very childish and tried to cover up any signs of vulnerability "I mean, He is just incompetent; he has his uses. They just aren't helpful business-wise."

There was a silence. The only noise was Mallory tapping on her desk. Ciel was the first one to speak up. "Well, I apologize for your loss in advance, but what done is done. The contract has been made." Ciel showed no sign of sympathy, his face a cold a determined as Malory's.

"I'm not stupid." She said, leaning back in her chair, a little smirk creeping on her face as she folded her arms. "I won't take the both of you on now. I'll wait. You won't get my father's soul. I swear you won't."

"Very nice, young miss." Sebastian said. "I'll be looking forward to see how you carry that out, but until then, his soul belongs to my master." Ciel did a swishy turn, in his theatrical way.

As he walked out the door, Malory spoke out again. "Which one of you ate Ciel Phantomhive?"

Ciel stopped. He stood there for moment, then turned to her and said "Ciel Phantomhive is dead. I killed him."

Malory leaned forward and gave him a sarcastic smile. "Congratulations. My only regret is that I couldn't do it myself."

"What the hell?" Ciel was pacing around the kitchen, while Sebastian finished up dinner. "Why does she hate me, as far as I know, she's never even met me!"

"Perhaps she knew an acquaintance of yours." Sebastian started to plate the salmon. "You had many enemies."

"Um, excuse me?" Sebastian and Ciel turned to see the blond woman from earlier, standing at the door.

"The food will be ready in just a moment." Sebastian told her, giving a little bow.

"Oh, no, I just haven't been able to introduce myself." She held out her hand "I'm Helena Everett , the Count's wife."

"It is a pleasure to meet you ma'am." Ciel shook her hand. "I am Camon Liephithe, your son's tutor and this is Sebastian Michealis, the butler."

"That's wonderful," giving a sunny smile "You must to eat dinner with us."

"No thank you, ma'am, that would be-"

"No, no, I absolutely insist you must. It'll help you become comfortable here."

"Will your husband approve?" Ciel said "It isn't common to let the tutor dine with you, even less the butler."

Helena waved her hand as if to shoo away the thought. "Nonsense, he would love to have you at the table! The only one who would have a problem is..." Her face falter, as if she realized something. But her face perked up second later. "Don't worry, she will learn how to cope."

"Well then we would be delighted to join you for dinner." Sebastian said. He could imagine exactly who would have problem.

"Splendid." She said, giving a little clap and she left the kitchen, as two other women. They were both average height, rather curvy, one had brown curls and the other straight ginger locks. They both wore maid uniforms, but unlike Nora's old conservative style dress, theirs were an inch or two shorter and had ruffles and ribbons.

"I'm Ari," said the Brunette "and this is Darcy."

"Well it's nice yo me-" Sebastian started.

"Ms. Molly told us to make you lives difficult." interrupted Darcy. "But we really don't want to go through all the trouble, we don't even get up to clean very often, maybe once a week we'll help clean? So, could you just complain to her every once in a while?"

"Thanks!" they said in union, with out allowing the two to respond, and took the dinner plates out the room.

There was an awkward silence until Ciel broke it. "you know, she's not gonna relent. That is inconvenient, but can't be anything like those idiots we had at the Phantomhive manor."

Sebastian sighed. "I hope she isn't naive enough to think that will be enough to keep some demons at bay. It's a shame if she does."

"Why the hell do you care?"

Sebastian smiled, and started to clean the kitchen. "A meal is always more exciting when there is a chase.

"As if is not already I chase, we don't even know what we have to do," Ciel grumbled "We don't need to deal with those little inconveniences caused by a spoiled little brat." Ciel sighed and walked toward the door. "Well, we wouldn't want to be late for dinner."

"What the hell are these bastards doing at the table?"

"Now Molly-" The Count began. He sat at the end of the table, with the Duchess on the other side. Ciel sat next to the child. Lysander, who Ciel found to be very dissimilar to his sister. Whee as Molly was entirely hostile, Lysander was more than happy to tell Ciel about hes toy ships and a injured sparrow he found. Ciel wasn't quite used to children, but this boy was very well mannered and polite. He was relieved he wouldn't have to deal with an obnoxious brat.

"I mean, honestly, Why are we the only noble family who would even think about having servants at the dinner table!" Correction: Ciel still had to deal with an obnoxious brat.

"But you didn't mind when Corbett, Nora, Ari, and Darcy sit at the table with us." Helena pointed out. Mallory did ask the rest of the maids to sit with her, but all of them rejected, giving excuses like having agonizing period cramps (Ari), having a gripping mystery novel to finish (Darcy), or just not wanting to sit through the drama Molly was bound to create (Nora).

"I actually like them, and Corbett isn't relevant anyway." Molly replied, not disrespectfully though. "If they can sit at the table, then so can Daisy and Pansy."

Which is how Sebastian ended up sitting between two large hunting dog sloppily eating mincemeat. Having to eat human food was bad enough, having to eat with two dirty creatures completely put Sebastian of his dinner.

Mallory cupped her face in her hands and gazed at Sebastian, with a smug smile on his face. "Do you like dogs?" She clearly saw his discontent.

"No, I can't say I do."

The dog in between Sebastian and Mallory tried to lick Molly, but she furiously resisted. "I can't stand these filthy mutts.." Sebastian heard her mutter, and smiled. She really is going out of her way just to make small inconveniences. Only enough to drive away a person with normal noble's standards and a short patience.

Mallory suddenly stopped resisting the dog and froze in her seat, staring straight at the fruit bowl. Her eyes were as large saucers and she slowly grabbed her knife. "No. Body. Move." Mallory plunged at the fruit bowl. But she continued she kept jabbing at the table.

"Mallory, please, stop." Her father weakly told her. "Calm down..."

Molly pulled her hands to near her chest, her eyes still wide with fear. "Sp-p-pider. There, right there, w-was a Sp-pider." She let out a sigh of relief and slumped back in to her chair.

Her father turned to Sebastian "Could you take care of it, please?"

"Yes, my lord." Sebastian, quickly and confidently, scooped up the spider and presented it to Mallory. She squirmed in her chair and pulled her face back in horror. "Do you like spider?" Sebastian asked her with a smug smile on his face.

"No, I can't say I do." She said with her eyes still staring at the spider. Sebastian gently took the spider and walked over to the window and released it outside.

"That wasn't very nice." Malory said, regaining her color and confidence.

"Neither was letting those things sit at the table." Sebastian said with his polite but arrogant smile missing from his face.

"Mine was justified, besides, it was nice for the dogs."

"Now, Molly..." Her father said. He obviously wanted to stop the fighting, but he couldn't pick aside, making it frightening to stop it. Ciel realized that Mallory was right. The Count was a bit of a drip. But no way he was going to admit to her that she was right.

"Two wrongs do not make a right. M'lady"

"Actually mathematically, they do. A wrong can be seen as a negative and right can be seen as positive. And since two negative numbers multiplied make a positive number, two wrongs do, in fact, make a right." Before anyone could say anything, Mallory smiled at her father and said "I apologize, but I have thing I need to do."

She walked out, leaving the table in another awkward silence.

Mallory sat in her study, going through business documents. After dinner, she was exhausted. Working on business had always calmed her down. The satisfaction that she was earning to support her family since her father was incapable, always put her at ease. All of the large numbers of income were like a safety net, catching them if their financial position were to fall again.

There was a knock on the office door.

"Who is it?" She muttered. Sebastian opened the door and entered with a tea carriage, with dessert.

"I asked who it was, I didn't say come in." Mallory growled, not looking up from the stocks.

Sebastian gave her a little bow. "I apologize, but your mother asked me to bring you dessert."

"don't refer to her like that, it's disrespectful" Mallory looked up and leaned over to see what was in the carriage. She sighed and slumped on her desk. "I don't deserve to have be called my mother."

"Oh?" Sebastian raised his eyebrows.

She cheekily raised her eyebrows back and turned back to her papers. "That lovely woman over there is my mother." she said cocking her head to her left. Sebastian turned to see a huge portrait, taller than Sebastian himself, of a woman who looked nearly identical Mallory. Every feature was same, except her for her eyes. The eyes of the woman were practically the only feature Sebastian could pick out that was different. Mallory's eyes were a stormy gray, whereas the woman had golden eyes, that seemed to glare at you intently.

"Died in childbirth." She said, putting a spoonful her dessert in her mouth."That picture gives me evil glares all the time."

Sebastian gave her one of his overly polite smiles. "And why are you telling me something so personal? I thought you didn't like me."

"It is not that personal, it's a fact you were bound to know anyway." She took another scoop of her dessert. "Besides, you should know Helena isn't my mother. The only person who deserves the burden of having me as a child is my father."

"You seem to have a low ideal of yourself."

"Oh, no. I hold a very high opinion of myself." Mallory licked her spoon. "I know I'm a handful and no one wants to deal with me. Daddy is a screw up though, so we deserve to have the other one."

Sebastian took out his pocket watch "Are you not going to prepare for bed?"

" I don't find any use for sleep."

The butler smiled. "Well, I hope have a good night." He pushed the cart out of the room, but stopped before, and turned back to Mallory. "Oh, and, I apologize for asking, but do you always eat melted dark chocolate after dinner? It isn't particularly good for your health."

She gave him an irritated look and stuck out her tongue. "I don't care I have never gotten sick for a day in my life." Mallory took another spoonful "And half of what I eat are funtom cookies."

Once Sebastian had finished washing and drying the dishes, he went to his room. Ciel was lying on the bed, not yet dressed to go sleep, reading a book.

"Where have you been? I need to get dressed." Ciel told him, with an irate glance.

" I was delivering desert to the lady." Sebastian took of his coat and hung it on a hook. "And don't you think you should start learning to dress yourself? You are seventeen and I also will have to give more attention to the Everett family, I cannot keep babying you."

Before Ciel could respond, there was a knock at the door. Sebastian went to open the door, and their stood the little master of the house, Lysander. He stood there looking at Sebastian with his mouth wide open. He was in his sleeping gown, with his messy blond hair over his bright electric blue eyes. Once he realized he was staring, he closed his mouth and mumbled some thing along the lines of an apology.

Sebastian smiled at the boy and knelt down. "Is there anything you need, Young Master?"

The child smiled back at the demon. "I came to say good night." Lysander stood on his tippy toes and planted a kiss on the butler's cheek. He then tottered to Ciel's bed. He struggled to get on.

"Preying on little children as well as old men?" At the door was Mallory, her eyebrow furiously twitching.

"He came here on his own accord." Ciel snapped, closing his book.

Malory smirked "So you're saying you seduced my little brother into coming in here?"

Ciel was speechless for a minute. "What? No, I-"

"What does seduced mean?" Lysander asked Ciel. "Molly never tells me."

Before Ciel could respond, Malory went to pick up Lysander and said, "Get some sleep, tomorrow is gonna be a long day." She winked and then left the room, with Lysander waving happily at the two demons.

Minutes after she left, Ciel spoke, "Sebastian,"

"Yes, my lord?"

"I don't care if I'm a hundred, you will dress me."

Sebastian sighed. "Yes, my lord."

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