"Ciel... please stop crying... its okay... "Meirin comforted the crying youngster as Jessica continued to throw her guts up all over the pavement out the window of the carriage.
Ciel just shook his head. Meirin sighed, feeling useless and not knowing what to do. She really cared about the young master as if he was her own son, only he had more authority than her. She just wanted to find a way to cheer him, but how could you cheer someone up after seeing that?
The carriage stopped outside of the Phantomhive manner. Meirin helped the young master out as he was still crying.
"Ho...ho...ho." Tanaka greeted them and sipped his tea.
Ciel dragged his feet up hi s front lawn to his house with Meirin's hands on his shoulders in a comforting gesture. Jessica ran into the house at the speed of light, fleeing to the bathroom.
"Ciel!" Someone called from behind them.
Ciel turned and saw someone in a red dressing gown, red slippers and flowing red hair. Ciel growled loudly. He desperately wanted to swipe the shinigami.
Grell doubled over, panting heavily. "I ran... all this way... to say... to... say... sorry..."
"Just leave me alone! I don't want to see you on my property ever again! Do you understand me? Baka!" Ciel screamed through tears. Ciel ran inside his mansion crying.
"Young master!" Meirin ran inside the mansion after him, leaving a bewildered shinigami behind her.
Meirin caught Ciel pulling himself sluggishly up the stairs. "I wish to go to bed now." Ciel said in a weak voice.
Meirin hurried up after him to help get ready for bed.
Jessica came out of the bathroom and trotted down the stairs. "After all that vomiting, I feel tons better." She claimed to herself. She heard the bell ring and walked to the doors to answer it.
"Stephy!" She exclaimed when the blond haired girl appeared at the front door.
"Hi! Are you going to stand there grinning at me or let me in? It's freezing out here!" She said whilst shuffling from foot to foot to exaggerate the coldness.
"Oh... yeah right." Jessica held the door open for Stephanie.
"So, which room can I have?" Stephanie said as she pulled a large camping bag through the door.
"Whichever, I don't even know my way around here yet." Jessica Laughed.
(Upstairs in Ciels bedroom)
Ciel was sitting on his bed, weeping into his hands when he heard a timid knock at the door of his bedroom.
"Come in." Ciel sniffed and sat up straight, wiping his eyes roughly with his sleeve.
Meirin poked her head around the door. "May I come in, young master?"
Ciel cringed at being called young master; Sebastian had always called him that. Despite this, Ciel managed to nod reluctantly.
Despite Ciel's efforts to hide it, Meirin could tell that Ciel had been crying, his eyes were all red and puffy, his face was blotchy and his nose was red.
"Umm... I was wondering if you needed assistance in getting prepared for bed... young master..." Meirin stammered unsurely.
Ciel just nodded and stood up to make it easier for Meirin to change his clothes. She was done quickly, in a rush to finish the embarrassing task. She said goodnight to Ciel and he fell asleep fast, trying to escape reality as soon as possible.
(Meanwhile downstairs with Jess and Steph)
Meirin nearly tripped as she pushed the tea cart towards Jessica and Stephanie who were having a conversation about Ciel and Sebastian.
"...just worried about Ciel." Was the first thing Meirin heard when she was able to hear the two teenagers.
"Yeah, me too... where is Sebastian now?" Steph asked.
Meirin made a loud clashing noise with the cups and cringed. "Gomensai!"
Jessica glared at Meirin while Steph told her not to worry about it. Meirin cautiously poured the girls their tea and began pushing the tea cart away.
"What the hell is this?" Jessica shouted, outraged.
"Meirin looked confused. "Tea..."
"And?" Jessica scowled.
"N-nothing." Meirin swallowed.
"MMMM!" Steph moaned happily as she necked the warm drink down quickly.
"Exactly. How do you expect me to drink this tea... without biscuits?" Meirin quickly hurried into the kitchen, apologising over her shoulder as she scampered away. She grabbed some chocolate digestives that she grabbed when she fell inside the Undertaker's time machine and sprinted back to Jessica and Steph.
Jessica ignored Meirin as she devoured half of the packet. Steph held a biscuit in front of her face and stared in awe. Meirin took this opportunity to leave before she got her ass chewed off by Jessica again.
(The next morning)
Stephanie stirred in her sleep as she unconsciously tried to shield her eyes from the warm sun beaming through the window and onto her face. Stephanie rolled over again and fell heavily out of bed with a loud thud.
"Gah! Dang flabbit!" She exclaimed as she sat up and rubbed her sore elbow. She rubbed her eyes and looked around the room to see Tanaka sitting in the corner watching her as he drank his tea.
"Tanaka...why were you watching me sleep?" Steph asked eyes wide.
"Ho, ho, ho" Tanaka replied and sipped his hot tea.
Stephanie ran out of the room screaming something about paedophiles and Edward Cullen.
(Ciels room)
Ciel woke up and called to Sebastian drowsily. "Sebastian? It's morning. Seb-oh right... he's gone...
Ciel sighed sadly and climbed clumsily out of bed.
Meirin knocked the door and offered to dress him again. Ciel mumbled a yes and, as she went to get his clothes out of the wardrobe, he stood up and tried to compose himself. She laid them out on the bed and opened the curtains to let some light into the dark room. This action reminded Ciel painfully of how Sebastian would open the curtains in the morning for him.
A sob erupted from Ciel's chest and he collapsed to his knees, hands over as his face as he sobbed into them. He couldn't help it, he missed Sebastian so much and didn't know when or if he'd see him again. The last time he'd seen him he was with another man, fucking him senseless. He didn't want Sebastian to leave Ciel with that to be their last memory of each other but he didn't have a choice, he didn't know where he was. If Sebastian cared, then he'd come to the mansion and speak to Ciel or at least tell him goodbye.
Ciel's tears dripped through the spaces between his fingertips and onto his white bedclothes.
"Young master, don't cry!" Meirin cared a lot for her master and it hurt her to see him in this state. She ran over to him and put her arms around him. Just when she realised that she was doing something inappropriate, Ciel leaned into her before she could pull away. Ciel cried into Meirin's apron.
"I could speak to him for you, if you like..." Meirin suggested.
Ciel pulled back and looked up at Meirin. "You know where he is?"
Meirin shrugged. "He isn't that hard to find. All I have to do is trip and he comes running to stop me from breaking something. He's a very good butler." Meirin sighed.
"Yeah he is..." Ciel sniffed nostalgic.
Meirin stood up abruptly and picked up some plates from the cupboard.
"I'll have him here in no time." Meirin promised Ciel as she rushed out of the room and started running down the hall, balancing ten plates in her hands.
(In kitchen with Steph)
Stephanie was snooping around the kitchen as if she owned the place. She was currently holding 5 different packages of cake in her hands when she opened a cupboard to be so shocked that she dropped all of the cake. Sebastian was hiding inside the cupboard and smiling sheepishly at Stephanie who stared back wide eyed.
"Hi..." Sebastian said after about a minute of silence.
"What are you doing here?" She asked bewildered.
Sebastian looked down into his lap. "I-I had to make sure Ciel was okay..." Sebastian looked up abruptly. "Please tell him I'm so very sorry. Please... I miss him so much..."
"It didn't seem like it when you were screwing Grell... so I don't think he'll want to see you..." Steph commented.
"He doesn't need to see me... I-I just wanted to send him a message..."
"I can't." Stephanie sighed. "I think it's better if I just keep you two away from each other so you can't hurt him again..."
Sebastian startled Stephanie as he stood up quickly as her heard something in the distance. "Meirin is dropping plates!" he said before rushing off to help Meirin.
"Woah!" Meirin shouted as she headed head first into the ground, plates flying everywhere above her head.
Something gentle was wrapped around her waist and she stopped mid-air and she didn't hear the clatter and crash of the plates smashing.
"Sebastian?" She asked as he set her down on her feet and put the plates down in a neatly stacked pile. "Thank you."
"What can a butler of the Phantomhive household do if he can't do this?" He smiled thinly.
Meirin cleared her throat. "May I have a word, sir?"
"Of course." he replied politely.
Meirin dragged him into an empty guest bedroom and closed the door behind them. Sebastian began to get confused.
"This is going to be a serious talk about the young master..." she began.
"The young m-master?" Sebastian looked down, ashamed. "I've betrayed him. We can't be together after what I did. I no longer deserve him... not that I ever did in the first place..."
Meirin patted Sebastian's shoulder gently. "Don't say that."
"Oh Meirin... what do I do?" he sobbed.
"You should just tell him how you feel about the situation." she suggested.
Sebastian hesitated. "He doesn't want me. He can't want me after that..."
"He was in tears this morning." Meirin contradicted.
"W-what?"
"I was going to have the same conversation with him this morning but then I thought it'd be best to see you before. He's in love with you."
"If... if you're going to talk to him, please, tell him I'm sorry for all the pain I've brought him..." tears ran down Sebastian's face as he pleaded with Meirin.
"I will." Meirin sighed. "I'll help you both...I promise."
"Thanks for everything, Meirin." he said whilst smiling through tears.
"It's my pleasure, I'm just happy to do something useful in this household apart from smashing plates..."
Sebastian laughed despite himself. "You were always useful Meirin. Just a bit clumsy."
"I'd best go talk to the young master now then."
Sebastian took a painful deep breath. "O-okay."
Meirin knocked on Ciel's door. He told her to come in. When she came in she saw him sitting in the middle of his bed, hugging his knees still in his bed clothes. He was still crying.
"Master?" she asked timidly as she approached the bed.
"Yes?" Ciel's voice was thick with tears.
"I spoke to Sebastian and I need to talk to you, if you'll let me." Meirin hesitated.
"W-what? He- he was here? Where? Where is he, Meirin?" Ciel shouted as he stumbled off of the bed, trying to go look for him.
Meirin stopped him by pulling him into a hug and back to sit on the bed.
"Let go! I have to go find him!" Ciel exclaimed.
"Please, just let me speak first, sir." Meirin begged.
Ciel was still indecisive when he finally agreed to listen to Meirin.
Meirin sighed in relief. "Thank you." She loosened her grip on Ciel but was still hugging him gently. "I spoke to him and he was in pieces. He was coming out with all this nonsense like he doesn't deserve you and that you must hate him. He asked me to tell you that he's terribly sorry for the pain he's caused you."
"Is this some kind of joke?" Ciel stared wide eyed at Meirin.
"Of course not." Meirin objected.
"But I don't understand... Sebastian was really here? And he really said those things?" Ciel asked.
"Yes he did." Meirin said happily.
"Where is he? I have to see him!" Ciel pulled away from Meirin and hopped to his feet.
"I can take you to the room we spoke in to see if he's still in there, but before we go, would you like me to dress you first?"Meirin suggested.
Ciel shook his head quickly. "No, I just want to see him, now!"
"Okay." Meirin led Ciel out of the room and down the halls until she came outside of the room she left Sebastian in.
Ciel started to get nervous and butterflies flew frantically around his stomach.
"I'll leave you to it, young master." Meirin said and then left.
Ciel stared at the closed door for a long time. He knew Sebastian knew he was there just as much he knew that Sebastian was inside the room. He was so nervous he considered running back to his room but the image of Sebastian's smiling face invaded his mind and pushed him closer to the door, it dragged his hands to the doorknob and twisted it, then forced the door open.
As soon as Ciel's eyes locked with Sebastian's - who was sitting on the edge of the bed with his head in his hands but had brought it up to see Ciel enter – it wasn't just Ciel's imagination or memories that dragged him into the room. He walked forward because he wanted to, because he loved the raven haired, tall man.
"Young lord?" Sebastian gasped hopefully as he stood up and stammered forward a step.
"Sebastian..." Ciel whispered.
"C-Ciel..." Sebastian suddenly fell to his knees, tears automatically sprouting from his eyes. "I'm so sorry m-master!"
Tears rolled freely down Ciel's cheeks as he gazed at Sebastian. He was sure he'd never see him again. Seeing him cry pained him but seeing him at all brought him so much joy it was criminal. Ciel remained silent, not knowing what to say.
"I can't expect you to forgive me..." Sebastian sobbed. He looked up and saw the tears crawling down the youth's face. "Please... don't cry..."
Ciel couldn't control himself any longer. The urge to be closer to Sebastian was too much; he left like he was trying to resist a strong magnetic pull. Ciel ran across the room and threw his arms tightly around Sebastian's neck and sobbed loudly.
Sebastian was shocked but quickly wrapped his arms around Ciel. "M-master..."
"Ciel" Ciel whispered.
Sebastian knew what he meant by this. He knew he didn't want Sebastian as a servant any more, but as a lover. He wanted them to be treated as equals, not master and servant. Not man and child, not demon and human, but lovers together forever. Sebastian knew that he would outlive Ciel, but he didn't plan on living too long without Ciel, the pain of his loss would be far too excruciating. So Sebastian would stay by Ciel's side until he died, and then follow through straight after.
"I love you, Ciel..." Sebastian whispered.
Ciel pulled away but kept his arms around Sebastian's neck and looked him deep in the eyes through his tears. "I love you too."
Sebastian leaned in to gently press his soft pink lips to Ciel's.
As they kissed, sparks of desire shot through them both and controlled them as they ripped their clothes off and made love right there. The next morning, they vowed to always be together. Even death could never part them.
The End.
Hi, people! :D I hope you enjoyed this fanfic of mine, Lizzie and Jess's. If you want to know what Jess's fanfic name is, it's XJessicaCullenX and Lizzie's account is XLizzyinwonderlandX
We may be making other stories together in the future, so watch out for them! :D See yaaaa! :3