Chapter 2

She is... Authentic

"Master, it is time to wake up-" He said in a calm tone as he tapped the child's shoulder. It was roughly after 10 and the sun was out in all its glory. The birds chirped in distance and breakfast was prepared, everything was set and running, except, his main focus, was still soundly asleep.

"KYAAAAAAA" Even though she was tired from last night, she immediately switched in to defense mode.

She finally stopped hitting the person with the pillow. It turned out that Sebastian who had entered the room to wake his master who was soundly asleep and wasn't expecting anyone to wake her.

"Eh?"

She tilted her head sideways, the bang slowly falling over revealing her left purple eye staring at whom was under the pillow, which was sadly… Sebastian. He stood there motionless taking the full force of the hit, which didn't hurt since the pillows were very soft and her strength wasn't even enough to make him budge.

"You?" she said almost too surprised and out of character to be the same person he had seen murdering people from night to night. He smiled. He went down on one knee and bowed. It was formal. He made her feel so, worthy

"You are awake, my master" He said sounding relieved. He looked as if he was waiting for days, the scene behind him changed into glimmering background and in his crimson eyes she saw a glitter of light followed by sparkles around his body.

Her eyebrow twitched.

"A-Alyce Chan who else is in the room?" Izabell said from in her sleep turning in the bed. The girl got up and exchanged eye contact with Sebastian for what seemed like an hour. He stayed there looking at the little girl paused in her sentence while she on the other hand was awed by his appearance and her little gullible cheeks danced in a shade of red. She clutched on to Alyce hand nervously. He got up and walked over to the bed, leaned took her hand, and kissed it.

"You must be my beloved master's acquaintance" he said looking up from the kiss into her sparkling eyes. She had a light blonde hair in two ponytails and now it looked trashy from her sleep along unlike Alice's that was in better condition. She gasped; his lips were on her hand. Izabell's cheeks went into a deeper tone of red. Her blue eyes glimmered as she looked down at the etiquette butler who was kissing her skin. The upper half of Alyce face went blue; she was going to be sick, really sick. Plus, why was he acting like this all of sudden. Was it apart of the contract? Should she pretend too? She already was, she was pretending she hadn't first-handily murdered someone last night while Izabell was sleeping inside the house downstairs.

Sebastian~ my master has such a wonderful friend

Izabell~ He-he just kissed my hand, awwwww how romantic

Alyce~ D-did he just say beloved

"A-Alyce, who is this"

"He's…my butler"

From under his tilt head, he smiled. Alyce saw it, his pleasing satisfaction.

"So does that mean he's a part of your game too?" Izabell said slowing down between each word

Alyce sighed

"Yes"

"Then-then, like how he kissed my hand…w-will you kill him like the dogs" Izabell was unaware of the fact that the joke Alyce made last night was actually the truth and, a past event.

"Unfortunately, this one, can't die" Her eyes narrowed on Sebastian who gave one of his sarcastic smile.

"So you accept him just like me!" Izabell said happily

"I don't know yet"

She got out the bed and walked to the window.

"Gahhhhhhh, I just realized, Alyce chan, what happened to your eye"

"Oh, um, something got in it"

She gasped. Her face expression changed from happy into a sad one.

Alyce just remembered that around her eye was bandaged due to the contract Sebastian had made with her.

"Master your clothes has been prepared for you already" Sebastian said changing the subject

"Mm"

"Would you like if I undress you?"

"Don't be foolish" She said in a dead tone.

"You can undress me!" Izabell said lightening the mood.

She pulled her body to the edge of the bed and Sebastian neatly removed her clothes. He did it with such perfection she was amazed at how quickly he had dress her.

Alyce on the other hand watched from over her shoulder, only because he's a demon, he will do all things to my liking to obey the contract, in the end, my soul is his prize.

"Master" He said turning to Alyce who already turned looking back out the window. She quickly occupied her time by unlocking the notch and pushing it open to let in the breeze.

"I have prepared tea for you"

"Well why don't you go to the kitchen and get it-"

Too late, he was already standing in front of her with the tray in his hand. So fast

He lifted the tray and she took up the tea and brought the cup up to her nose and smelt it

Don't worry, I didn't poison it.

"It has a nice scent"

"Yes it is Midnight Hormel's tea extracted from the very sacred leaves of Mount Fuji, only found every four years in infinite amount properly and nicely prepared for you…my master"

"I see, it's so pure and sacred, special and almost endangered," she looked at the tea then at Sebastian, "but, I hate tea"

She tilted the cup out the window and down went the liquid.

Just like that.

She threw it away.

Out the window.

Just like that.

"Oh look at the time…Izabell parents should be here any minute now." She said changing the subject

Ah, a troublesome one isn't she

Izabell ran down the stair in her light blue dress that Sebastian had dressed her in at the sound of the doorbell. She was followed by Alyce who merely walked down the stairs.

The door opened and she jumped on her Papa.

"Hey there my little Izabell"

"Hey Daddy!"

He looked up and saw Alyce standing on the staircase looking down at them. She never came further down and as far as he could remember every time he came to pick Izabell up, Alyce would be standing there watching them.

"Ah" he cleared his throat.

He had spotted Sebastian beside Alyce who gave him a straight dead ass stare that made him shiver.

"Is that your new caretaker?"

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"N-no, what happened to Miranda"

"I don't know"

"Does your father know you've received a male caretaker?"

Her stare sharpened at him

He grabbed Izabell in his hand and straightened his posture trying to look serious.

"Izzy won't be coming over so often like one time"

Her eyes widened, she was about to descend the stairs when she remembered and took her stance, a hesitating step, that's all it was, but Sebastian saw this and smiled.

"Why?" She said covering her anger with a soft innocent voice. Meanwhile at her side her she clenched her fist releasing the anger, this, Sebastian saw too.

"I do not trust male caretakers, and once Miranda returns, she will be coming back over frequently"

Izabell lips wobbled. She shrugged out her Dad hands and ran up the stairs and hugged Alyce. She hesitated, and then hugged back.

"It looks like this is goodbye"

"Re-really?"

She patted her head

"Maybe"

They exchanged stares.

"Well how about from now on we have something to remind each other"

Izabell stood there guessing.

The breeze blew in through the door and one of her blonde ponytail flew over her shoulder and on Alyce's face. Alyce stood there as the hair ferociously attacked her face taking advantage of her skin only revealing her eyes.

Izabell gasped pulling back the hair.

"I know"

"…"

"Do your hair like mine and I'll do mine's like yours"

She smiled at her intelligent plan

"That's stupid"

"Huh"

"I would never waste my time in doing something so lowly important and incredibly foolish"

Izabell lips wobbled and there was a glistening of water in her eyes.

"What she means, is that she'll make sure she does it and keeps it as her promise to you, young mistress"

Izabell smiled

"Yeah! Don't brake our promise now Alyce Chan"

She turned around to go back down the stairs.

She was about to step off when Alyce grabbed her hand.

Izabell turned around

"Alyce-Chan?"

Alyce's head was down and her bangs covered her face, she stood there motionless as her friend looked at her surprised. Sebastian looked at his young master, she was shaking, shivering, scared, afraid. She wasn't planning on losing Izabell.

They take everything away from me. My freedom, my childhood, and now, her. How far…how far will they go to make me murder every one last of them, I'll do it, I'll split their throats and rip them apart, and that beloved father of hers, I'll make sure I kill him slowly so he suffers enjoying every last moment of his harsh malicious death in his worthless disgusting life-

"Alyce Chan?"

"J-just make sure…you come back when you get the chance to" As she said this she looked up at Izabell with closed eyes and a broad smile. She wouldn't watch, she won't look, she will not see…when her love, walks away from her.

She only heard when the door slammed shut and after a couple minutes or two the galloping of horses that seemed to slowly fade away.

She finally released her fist and felt the warm liquid run through her fingers and began to drip on the floor.

"My my, young master, we'll need to dress that"

She followed Sebastian back upstairs.

She sat on the edge of the bed while Sebastian dressed her palm that had about for slices in it. She watched him as he gently wrapped it and then finally he looked up to her.

"You shouldn't get so angry"

"I'm not angry"

"Then why did you do that to yourself, young master" He looked back down with a smile on his face continuing tending to her wound

"Why should that concern you?"

He simply gave one of his sarcastic smiles and stood up straight.

"Your well-being is everything to me" He placed his hand over his chest and looked at her.

Her cheeks turned red, how can you say that to someone who you're planning to kill in the near future.

She sighed and folded her arms over her chest.

"I need to know more about you" She demanded

"I will not accept a complete stranger" she continued

"Ask, and you shall be given an answer" He stared at her. She got the message. He was giving her all his attention making sure not even the end of the world would tear his eyes away from her.

"Fine, how old are you?"

He smiled, "age does not matter…I've been living for countless ages, even before the beginning of your generation began"

Well that surely shut her up, but she wasn't done yet.

"What about your mark"

"Where is it on you?" she continued.

He simply took the gloves off his hand and revealed his hand that had a black sign on it. Not only that caught her eyes but his black polished finger nails.

Now that she thought about, all he wore was black. He wore a black tailcoat, black trousers, black vest, except for the white shirt inside, and on top of it his hair was black.

"Do you like black?"

He chuckled.

She amazes me, he thought

"Oh yea, what happened to the corpse" she said fingering the frill of her collar with folded legs.

"I disposed it"

"I see, oh now that I know a couple things about you, (which was actually one and a half; does he like black, he chuckled, not a straight answer), you must wanna know something about me"

He looked at her with a serious stare. That was true, he did want to know.

Usually through contracts he would find information about the person who he made the contract with, but instead, she was different, He couldn't get any information on her past, He could hardy find anything about her, she was actually, trace less.

"My name…Is Alyce Labrineth, I am eight years old and they say I'm weird, barbarous, evil, wicked, abnormal and an outcast"

He smiled, "Is that all I should know about my master, what about what you think of yourself?"

"Hmph….fine….I love all animals except dogs which disgust me, I'm not allergic to anything and I find fellow human being quite interesting"

At first he was shocked by what she said but then he asked

"Aren't you a fellow human yourself?"

"No Sebastian I'm a demon like you" she said sarcastically, "It's just that, I can never seem to understand some of the things they do"

"I see, my young master"

"Didn't I tell you to stop calling me that?"

"Then what do you want me to call you"

"You can use my given name"

"I rather not"

She sighed.

"Fine do as you please, plus weren't you wearing that yesterday"

"Yes, I will dress formally when attending to you in your presence"

Her eyebrow twitched, it's not like I'm a queen or something.

"That reminds me" He added

"When are you willing to change into one of your lovely dresses?"

He walked over to the wardrobe and pulled the door to reveal a shower of dresses for her

Correction, frocks. She noted to herself.

"Who the hell wears those. You can throw them out the window like the other ones" She said flopping back into the bed and closing her eyes.

Ah, that explains the heap of clothes behind the mansion, Sebastian said to himself

But that was the least there was a bigger problem here

"As your butler, I will not tolerate you saying such unpleasant words in or not in the presence of others"

"What" She said, closing her eyes, mocking Sebastian pretending she didn't hear. She opened her eyes to find him inches away from her face his hair falling over touching her skin and tickling her nose as a dark shadow formed in the center of his face while his voice sounded wickedly sarcastic, but still creeped her out enough to almost wet the bed.

"As your butler, I will not tolerate you saying such unpleasant words in or not in the presence of others" he repeated

She squirted over to the side of the bed in nano seconds and landed on her butt.

"Tetetetetete" She rubbed her rear standing up.

She then felt her collar being dragged by Sebastian.

"What are you doing?"

"Turning you into a lady"

what the hell? By dragging me!

"Why" she said instead

He leaned over once again inches away from her face, but this time he sounded normal

"Your contract…"

"Eh"

"Pleasure"

"Huh"

"If you want it, you must then inherit a partner who can properly give it to you, am I not right"

Sounds like you thought about it overnight to me.

"But to earn him, I will make you into the beautiful woman you truly , I will turn you...into a splendid woman"

"And your food" she said under her breath, but Sebastian heard, smiled and simply ignored, he continued pulling her.

"But where are you bringing me!"

"To the bath, it has been prepared already"

Her cheeks burned red, "Wait! I can bathe myself"

"I will not have you doing that young master"

"But-but-but, I'm a girl"

He looked at her confused.

"I don't want you to see me naked"

He sighed, there's not much to see, he said in his mind

Unfortunately these weren't thoughts alone, but actually came out as words

Alyce went stark white in epic embarrassment

"Oops"

He gently undressed the de-colored Alyce and carried her to the tub and began by washing her hair first.

"You have wonderful hair"

"Aumm, you mean the dark navy blue strands on top of my head"

He smiled

"I hate the color, Izabell's blonde hair seems better"

She felt Sebastian over her shoulder and close to her ears

"But, I prefer yours more"

Her cheeks burned red again and she titled her head away from him.

Sebastian smiled and continued washing her hair, Even so young, you're already quite tempting. He looked at her light scar less skin, how smooth and soft it was.

Alyce was now in front of the mirror in one of the dress she had received from her father. Also, she realized how wonderful toned she was,.

Maybe if I had spent more time bathing properly I would have seen how nice my skin was

She did stay long in the bath, however, it was more on scrubbing off blood on her body and washing out the bloody clothes let them dry and then put them in the wash so that Miranda would wash them.

Sebastian was brushing her hair when he felt for the head wrapped bandage and started unwrapping it.

He pulled it off and revealed her left eye that had what seemed like a glowing purple sign.

She stared at it for a while in the mirror as Sebastian watched her reflection.

"Will it always look like this?"

"Yes"

"Then what happens when people see it"

"Would you like to cover it, young master?"

"No, I hate things on my face"

"I see…then do you mind"

Without further ado, he took from the dresser, a scissors and made a couple trims on her bang and then combed it down.

"Does this suit you better"

He stepped aside to reveal that her eye was now covered by part of the bang, which she had to admit looked cuter, but she had no intention of complimenting him.

"Yes"

He smiled.

"Is there something wrong?"

"I was expecting a different answer" He said walking to the bed straightening the sheet

"WELL DON'T EXPECT-" her sentences were cut off when she turned around and got off the chair but sadly as she was about to walk, stepped on the hem of her dress, and slipped.

Of course, Sebastian could have caught her, but having her trip and embarrassed was too much of an opportunity to miss.

"You could have caught me"

"My apologies, young master" he said sarcastically

He walked over to her and lifted her up, to let her sit up in front of him.

He looked at her in the dark green dress. It was beautiful, decorated with light blue flowers and a nice pair of matching shoes that made her look quite diligent. She, on the other hand was blushing.

"What are you looking on, Se- sa umm Sevi- anou aumm"

She forgot his name.

He smiled as she held down her head in embarrassment

He lifted her chin up to his face in a perfect angle.

"Sebastian" He said,

He said his name in the most nicest and sexiest way ever! So freaking hot! I love you Sebby ( author's edit) sorry ^^

"Se-"

"Bastian" He finished, rubbing his finger over her bottom lip

"Sebastian" she repeated, the light dancing in her eyes, her voice light and her cheeks red, she was slowly falling into an abyss that was bottomless in his touch.

She could feel his hand slipping around her waist slowly pulling her in closer to him while he smiled.

A bid came and laded on the window pane and began chirping

"KYAAAAAA!" She snapped out of it

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING TOUCHING ME LIKE THAT!"

He chuckled while releasing her. He face was red and her back was turned to him.

"Am I your first male caretaker?" He said changing the subject

She turned to him, "Yes"

"Well…" He pulled her up to her feet, "I'll be sure to look after you to the fullest"

"Th-thank you"

"And from now on…" he leaned over to her ears, "no more killing, that will be unnecessary"

She sighed, she shrugged out his grasp and walked over to the bed, he looked at her with wide eyes. Had he upset her?

"My tutor will be here any minute"

"That too…will be unnecessary"

'"What?"

"I will teach you everything you need to know and no one will interrupt"

"Fine, but you didn't have to make the last part sound like that"

He smiled and walked over to her and held her hand and started pulling her.

"Hey! Stop…where are we going"

"To teach you proper etiquettes"

"Fine, but you don't have to be pulling me like that; I'm not your property you know"

"Oh, is that true? You are my property and I am yours, do not forget, we own each other"

She sighed

"When are you going to leave"

Of course he wanted to say when you lie in your grave but instead-

"I'll be by your side forever"

"Tsk, sorry, humans don't have forever, neither…eternity"

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