Back at the Phantomhive manor the cloaked figure had landed over the wall of the estate grounds and was running quickly towards the entrance holding their red stained glove to their head to try and stop the bleeding. The cloaked figure banged heavily on the door three times and fell to their knees in exhaustion and pain.
The door opened slightly and bespectacled girl peered out, at first she saw nothing but then looked down and saw the figure of a boy shivering and bleeding on the floor.
"My goodness!" Maylene squealed, "Are you alright? How on earth did you get in the grounds without Pluto noticing?"
"Ciel...I need to see...Ciel..." the boy pushing himself up to his feet, Maylene looked hesitant to let the boy inside.
"It's alright Maylene, help them in, I've been expecting you." Ciel said coming down the stairs as Maylene hooked his arm across her shoulders and helped them inside. Ciel came close to the cloaked boy, much taller and older than himself.
"My god you look awful Alex." Ciel said looking at the huge gash next to their left eye and then up and down the boy's ragged appearance.
"Damned reappears trying to collect me." Alex said smiling slightly.
"Maylene, take Alex upstairs and help clean up and attend to this wound, lay out some clothes." Ciel said and Maylene nodded furiously, "Do you need to rest before we talk?" he said turning back to Alex.
"No, it's only a cut, I'm more exhausted from running that anything else, I just need to sit for a while, we need to talk." Alex said trying to stand on his own but he needed Maylene's support more than he thought.
"Good, I'll have some refreshments waiting in my study when you're ready. Take your time." Ciel said and went back up the stairs to wait.
Maylene took Alex up to the guest bathroom and she flitted about running a bath and attending to his head while he began to undress.
"I hope that these clothes are suitable, I had to borrow a shirt and trousers from Sebastian, he seems to be about your size." Maylene said laying out the clothes and blushing furiously as he stood up and pulled down his trousers and underwear so that he stood only wearing his blood stained shirt. "May I remove your shirt? It'll need a right good scrubbing to get out all that blood." Alex nodded and Maylene shakily started to fiddle with the buttons until they were all undone then she pushed the shirt off his shoulders and body and squealed jumping back in alarm.
"Oh my! I'm so sorry, I thought...oh, you're, you're..." Maylene trailed off.
"Alexandra." The naked girl said pulling her long red hair free from the black ribbon.