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Scarlet: Where am I?
Scarlet realized that she is not wearing anything at all but luckily tugged tightly by a warm and comfy quilt. She tried to rise.
Scarlet: Ugh!
Her body is too weak and it is agony with every slightest move she make.
A boy cross-armed appeared to be the same age as her in a very expensive looking black shirt and dark blue cashmere scarf on top of a pair of short black denim come to view from out of nowhere. Under his midnight blue hair, his eyes are the same colour and his complexion was fair. His nails were black.
Scarlet thought to herself: I should have sensed another human being standing there, should have felt his warmth or at the very least heard him. But he, this child whom looked as if he is not any older than thirteen, wasn't human.
Ciel: You're awake
Scarlet: Who are you?
Ciel: I am Ciel Phantomhive, your new master.
Scarlet: What happened to...Ugh! My head hurts.
Ciel: Yes. My butler, Sebastian, he took and washed you while you're unconscious. He realized that there are bruises and wounds all over your body and so went out to buy some medicines for it.
Scarlet: Why didn't you kill me along with the rest of those servants? I know you are not a human. I can sense that you have something...
Ciel: Similar to yourself, yes? You don't smell entirely human. That's the main reason I took you in. What are you?
Scarlet: I... It's complicated.
Ciel: Complicated how? I demand for an answer.
Scarlet: I am... a human
Ciel: I don't fancy those who lie to me, girl
His eyes turned red, sharp and it's practically glowing
Scarlet: I didn't lie! I was born a human, vampire and demon.
Ciel: ...
Scarlet: Like I said, it's complicated. I was born by a Halfling father and a demon mother. My mother genes are weaker than my father, strangely.
Ciel: Then how did you end up becoming a slave?
Scarlet: It's a long story... Since you didn't kill me, which I wish you would, I owe you myself. What do you want me for anyway?
Ciel: Sebastian said that since you aren't human, it would be interesting to have you here... I didn't really comprehend what he meant. That wuss.
Suddenly, a man appeared behind Ciel. He was dressed in black. Soft black boots, black jeans, black sweater and leather jacket. He has shiny black hair and pale skin. His hair is straight and his eyes were reddish brown, no, it's brownish red but what's keep barging in her mind was not his hair or his sharp and alluring eyes, it's his disturbing good look and his cruel smirk.
Sebastian: Who are Young master calling a 'wuss'?
Scarlet: How'd you?
Sebastian: Ah, I see you're awake.
Ciel: This is the 'wuss' I've been talking about.
Sebastian glared at Ciel and then almost instantaneously, he smiled warmly at Scarlet
Sebastian: Nice to meet you. It's not often we are graced by the presence of a lovely lady such as you here...
Scarlet: Yes... I guess... umm...nice to meet you too.
Sebastian: Ah yes, I bought you some clothes on the way back from the pharmacy at the city downhill.
Sebastian waved gleefully the shopping bags on his hands.
Ciel: You seem to be in a good mood today, Sebastian.
Scarlet: Umm...thank you, Sebastian... Why are you both treating me so well?
Ciel ignored her.
Ciel: Sebastian, bandage her wounds now. Don't stand here chitty-chatty.
Sebastian: Master, there's needless to rush. It's not like we doesn't have enough time or we have a full schedule...
Ciel: Don't argue with me.
Sebastian: Yes, my lord.
Sebastian took out some medicines, some clean towels and bandages and placed them on the side table.
Sebastian: I will fetch some hot water.
Ciel rested in an armchair a meter away from the bed.
Scarlet: Umm...Master?
Ciel: ...
Scarlet: Master, what are you and Sebastian?
Ciel: We? Same as your mother.
Scarlet: Oh.
Ciel: What's your name?
Scarlet: Scarlet. Just Scarlet.
Ciel: How old are you?
Scarlet: I was born in 1881, my lord. My time stopped when I was thirteen because it was when my...umm...inhuman sides awaken. I killed many on the night of my transition. To stop me, the one I loved deeply sacrifice himself while trying to save me from my own destruction...He was the only guy I ever loved and the only one who had loved me. After I've realized myself, I was captured by the council professional vampire-slayers but none of them success in killing me. It was my fault he died. Wherever I go death just follows.
Ciel: Tell me everything. Your childhood and such. And don't make me regret on taking you in. Now's a good time for me to know about you considering the fact that you'll be stuck with Sebastian and me for as long as we still exist.
Scarlet: Oh, please don't say that, master.
Sebastian walked in with a kettle of hot water.
Sebastian: Carry on, don't mind me.
Sebastian dipped the dry towel into the hot water.
Sebastian: Do you mind?
He signalled Scarlet about her quilt.
Scarlet: No, umm...no...
He uncovered the quilt from Scarlet's shoulder down to her waist and from her feet to her thigh showing the upper-part of her body and her whole legs. Scarlet and Ciel blushed while Sebastian remained unmoved. Ciel is surprised by the number of wounds and bruises on Scarlet's body. Ciel's eyes follow to the mark crested on the side of her body. Scarlet swallowed her cry and managed not to scream as Sebastian gently wipes her wounds with the hot towel
Ciel: It's them.
Sebastian: It seems so.
Scarlet: My childhood memories were almost sealed by the council. They tried to erase all of it when I first arrived but my will are too strong. They did not succeed completely. I can only tell as far as I can remember, is that alright, master?
Ciel: Of course.
Scarlet: I forgot how my father looked...My mother and father kept their identity well hidden so that they could live as a normal couple. No one ever suspect that they are not human, not even me. I was born a year after their being together. They were both surprise by my mother's pregnancy. My father's company was very successful. It could be one of the biggest companies around during that time. My uncle was also a vampire. He hated my father and envied his achievements. He sucked in business...He sucked in everything...He pretended to be a nice brother to my father but mum never believed him. 'Something's not right about him,' she always claimed to my father. My father trusted him too much to listen to my mum. It was merry until on my sixth birthday...Something happened...
Ciel: What is it?
Drops of sweat visible on Scarlet's forehead as Sebastian rubbed the dried blood on the wounds of Scarlet's chest. Scarlet flinched.
Scarlet: The day just before my birthday, my mansion was on fire. In a storm of confusion, I ran around looking for my parents and found my father lying on a pool of blood. I went to him and realized he was staked deeply through the heart. Well, he did not turn to ashes like in the book but he is horrified just to look at. I knew he was dead even in my young age...My mother was nowhere to be seen inside the mansion, so I went outside. I opened to main door and saw my mother in a cage. She looked weak and helpless. Though, her eyes were red, and she has black wings. My uncle was beside the cage. There were blood on his hand and his eyes were red too yet they are different from mother's. My mother kept shouting for me to run away but I so irrationally rushed to her. I was knocked from behind and fell unconscious. The moment I woke up, I was tied in chains in a cell.
Sebastian & Scarlet: My lord, are you alright?
Ciel: Yes, yes I am.
He slowly calmed.
Scarlet: What is it?
Sebastian: You see, my lord's past was not really different from yours. It is such a surprise for you to have such a common past. It was his and your beginning. How fascinating...
Scarlet gasped. Sebastian put the dirty towel down and opened the medicine container. He started applying it on Scarlet's wound.
Scarlet: Ah!
Scarlet tighten her teeth
Sebastian: Please hang on for a while longer...
Scarlet nodded
Sebastian: I don't understand... Why is the speed of your wound healing so slowly?
Scarlet: Most of my genes are from my father's human side. I can't help it, can't I? And the council, they dipped the whip with vervain before...you know... Ah!
Ciel: ... I can't believe it's been a century and yet they're still not extinguished.
Sebastian: It's almost downright generations of that syndicate we failed to wipe out.
Ciel: ... I lost interest in those pigs...
Scarlet: They...they knew that I was not a human... You see... I am defenceless because I do not own any special ability yet my wounds from any normal damages without the contact of vervain or wood could heal easily. They have passes down the job from generations to generations on researching my weakness and points. They enjoy my suffering. Throughout the century I was sold repeatedly to different pigs. They would just hunt me down again and lock me in chains... again and again
Scarlet hugged her body tightly on the bed. Sebastian finished bandaging her chest and abdomen. The wounds have been sweep with medicine.
Sebastian: But didn't they try to kill you during Victorian era since you're both a vampire and a demon?
Scarlet: I was staked in the heart from times to times. They also tried holy water, bible, silver bullets, wooden bullets and such. They're idiots. From which experiences I remembered the most were the time when I was thrown into a pot of acid, burned on a cross, buried alive and was force to consume different types of poisons every hour. My stomach burns in pain and agony in that whole year.
Ciel's blue eyes widen
Sebastian: Humans can be cruel as demon or worse if drowned in excessive greed, envy, wrath, pride or glutton.
Scarlet smiled bitterly to herself
Scarlet: The seven great sins of humans...
A drop of diamond like liquid falls from Scarlet's eye
Scarlet: Forsaken by my dear God. Betrayed by my own uncle. Burdened by a curse of eternity. I am truly damned
Ciel: We are all damned.
Sebastian: I am too given a burden eternity of hell
Sebastian glanced at Ciel. Ciel replied by a slight smile of triumph.
Sebastian: I will be preparing some dishes for you, Scarlet. You should have a rest first.
Scarlet: Umm...Master?
Ciel looked back.
Scarlet: Thank you.