When Ciel woke up for the second time the lights were on low making it easier to wake up too as his back ached and his arms and legs were stiff from lack of use as he sat up slowly on his elbows, his muscles stretching painfully but he blew out a breath feeling eager to stretch and when he did he gasped at the sweet painful sensation of all his muscles stretching out and he closed his eyes letting out a high pitched moan of relief as he arched b hick up feeling it pop and rack lightly and he stretched his arms over his head sighing and opened his eyes. He felt like he was devoid and light as a feather, like he wasn't real until he got up and walked; he just didn't feel solid but it was an unpleasant feeling so he swung his legs over the side of the bed standing up stretching again.
He blinked then looking at his arms then down at his legs before walking over to a window staring at his reflection. He wore black dress pants with a belt slid securely through the hoops of his pants with the metal twinkling softly in the low lighting, his button up shirt was pitch black with a soft gray vest over on top of it with a white silk tie at the base of his throat drifting down his chest and then he jerked taking in his appearance. His dark circles were completely gone! He lifted his fingers touching the skin under his eyes staring in wonder at the pale smooth flesh then moved his fingers down pressing the pads of his fingers to his lips feeling how soft and smooth they were rather than dry and chapped; his hair seemed dark and silky just barely hitting his shoulders, his lashes seemed darker and thicker while his eyes appeared and alert, truly burning like the azure sky itself. How did...?
"Like how you look? I always find it rather humoring when humans stare in the mirror, marveling at themselves." Ciel spun around immediately turning his attention to Sebastian his surprise melting to tense anger as his eyes met Sebastian's, who lounged across the bed smirking humorlessly.
"And what about yourself, you seem plenty vain without staring at yourself!" Ciel snapped narrowing his eyes on Sebastian who looked back at him still with that smirk curving over his full lips.
"Ah~ I may be vain but being a Demon, well, that's how it is." Sebastian replied with a low shrug grinning wide as he looked to Ciel before sliding off the bed, moving like a cat, lithe and graceful. "Little Phantomhive, you understand your circumstances do you not?"
"Of course I do, you own me and I have no will." Ciel tonelessly said as he looked up at Sebastian when he walked up to the eighteen year old, who was seething that he was short on this man and Sebastian seemed to smirk wider.
"You have a will, little Phantomhive, just no say." Sebastian's long, slender fingers gripped Ciel's chin tight tilting her head back forcing their eyes to remain locked. "You will be my servant, my property and you do as I say. First things first," Ciel was left dazed when the demon walked across the room stroking his black nailed fingers over the edge of a dresser. "You will not have contact with the usual humans you used to. For I feel they are just too...influential on you. Besides, don't you think it's best they do't know? That you're owned by a demon, but a man no less? Oh imagine your poor father! His little son being owned by a man! Is he liking it? Is he being beaten? Is he being screwed by this demon? Is my little son gay? Is he a raging homosexual?"
"My father would think nothing of the sort!" Ciel shouted clenching his fists tight as Sebastian smirked anew, satisfied with the reaction he got when he looked at the Phantomhive boy. His eyes danced at Ciel as he paused by the door the pads of his fingers bouncing off the corner of the dresser.
"Oh, but we both know your father is exactly of the sort. So, little Phantomhive, will you want me to get in contact to them for you?" Ciel jerked hard at Sebastian's purring voice as the demon turned his head smirking wide at Ciel now, unabashed and rather smugly.
"You fucking asshole." Ciel hissed out on a breath as he glared at Sebastian who gave a soft laugh then turned facing Ciel again walking forward with long, solid steps.
"I might be, but to solidify our...arrangement, there's one last thing you must have." Sebastian mused slowly as he lifted his left up stroing his pale fingers across Ciel's cheek bone and covered Ciel's right eye with his long hand making the teen to glare at Sebastian with his left when Sebastian smiled.
"No! No fucking way are you doing anything else!" Ciel shouted stepping back with jerky movements as he slapped Sebastian's hand away from his face his stare like a molten hot sword that sliced through Seabstian and his jaw was clenched tightly.
"Oh yes, I will be doing something else. This will be the last thing and you have no right to say no to this, or do I need to instill an punishment for you?" Sebastian tilted his head with his words making the bluenette tense up as his eyes widened when Sebastian outstretched his left hand again covering Ciel's right eye again. "You will be mine, for the end of time and you'll serve me well as I will serve you." Ciel blinked feeling a slow burning starting up, it was muted against his eye like something was in his eye and bothering him making him blink but it was growing in intensity making him blink in surprise when he tensed opening his lips when the pain burst from that ache to a blinding, hot needle pain.
"Wait!" Ciel gasped out as his eyes widened with the sudden pain, his hands flying up grabbing Sebastian's wrist tight with his fingers digging his nails in as his body quivered with the pain and he felt tears actually welling in his eyes as the pain burst and reburst over and over again, forming and breaking repeatedly as the tears rolled down.
"From now until the end you, Ciel Phantomhive, will be mine, Sebastian Michaelis', until your last dying breath."
Ciel screamed when the pain seemed to revolt and burn anew, so differently from the slow burn and repeated pain, this was like the demon was shoving a branding iron tied to a hair straightener while being set ablaze with a torch with a blade all sliding into his eye and he clung to Sebastian's wrist as his head fell back with his screams. He clung to Sebastian's wrist, his vision tunneling with darkness that was pain and he screamed, screamed, screamed while the pain just burned, burned and burned through him. It was a rippling, living thing that seared through his eye and he screeched until the sounds got clogged in his nose making loud, choked noises leave his lips instead as his body jerked hard as his lips trembled gently. Then it was gone. He gasped when Sebastian's hand left his face, the pain leaving with it as he gasped stumbling back a step slamming to the window then slid down as tears gushed down his cheeks and he lifted his hand touching his wet cheek while staring up at Sebastian who leaned down and he flinched hard.
"It is done, little Phantomhive. You are now marked and branded, you will be known as mine as long as your eyes are open. As long as you breath. It will always be known you are mine." Sebastian explained picking up the eighteen year old who just sniffled gently then shoved past Sebastian when the demon helped him up and he fled the room, his gasps leaving his lips loudly as his feet hit the floor with solid, firm thumps that trembled up his legs feeling good as he made his way to the bathroom he remembered and slammed his hands onto the sink. He stared at his reflection with wide eyes as the tears, which wet his cheeks, never stopped when his inhaled hard then shook his head slamming his hands up and down on the sink.
"No! No! No! No!" Ciel screamed, actually screamed, his eyes wide as he balled his hands then pounded the porcelain that was the sink over and over as he screamed until the sides of his hands began to throb with head downward slam of his hands.
There, branded bright and clear for all to see, was a contract mark in his right eye were the whites of his eye were blood shoot and a line of blood ran down the length of his cheek as he stared at the mark lifting his fingers towards his right eye only to stop. Could he really tear out his eye right now? In reality he could wear an eye patch but that didn't occur to him at that time, not one bit, but stared wide eyed and insanely at his eye as he let his fingers hover in front of that eye like a knife as the tie ticked by with his heart beats.
He trembled hard with his anger and horror, his hand quivering with his fingers out stretched when they curled in to his palm and his jaw clenched; then, with a screech, he swung his fist forward straight into the mirror shattering it as the mirror cut into his flesh easily as butter and he pulled his arm back then punched the mirror again inhaling hard. Then he punched the mirror again. And again. And again. He did it over and over until there was large shards along the edges of the mirror but nothing remained in the center, except for some blood stamp marks from his knuckles which burned like a motherfucker and his fingers trembled when he lifted his right hand to pluck out the thick pieces of glass from his hand when a long slender hand clamped down tight an his now mismatched eyes slammed up meeting intense scarlet ones.
"Are you finished with your little temper tantrum now?" Sebastian asked dryly as he looked at the eighteen year old then down to his bloody hand when Ciel growled swinging his good hand up nailing Sebastian hard in the side of the face but the raven haired male didn't even wince in pain making anger well in Ciel like a deep well with a bucket moving down and up only to dig more anger out.
"You fucker! You sick fuck! Motherfucker! Son of a bitch! Cunt! Bitch! Pussy! Fucking asshole!" Ciel screeched as he glared at Sebastian backing up gasping in loud breathes as he looked at the demon when Sebastian stepped forward lifting his hand in a stiff movement before, while stepping forward, brought his hand down on the side of Ciel's hand hard making the bluenette's head snap to the side and his eyes widened.
"You do not speak to your Master that way!" Sebastian firmly spoke with so much dominance Ciel looked at him with wide eyes when Ciel squirmed shoving against Sebastian as the demon glared then, glared in such a way Ciel felt a shiver of fear. "Oi, what the hell did I just say?"
Sebastian remained glaring even as he turned the water on, blocking the sink first letting it fill then pushed Ciel's hand in making the teen hiss as the demon began plucking out pieces of glass with zero mercy, the blood moving in the water like red ribbons as Ciel clenched his jaw. Sebastian continued this process with the water before lifting Ciel's hand out of the water with a towel squeezing it hard making Ciel hiss. Sebastian dried his hand firmly before grabbing a large band aid along with peroxide and an antibiotic ointment, he mercilessly dumped the peroxide on making Ciel gasp before patting his hand dry when the cuts fizzed softly cleaning the cuts and when it was done he squeezed and patted his hand dry again. He put the ointment on, squeezing it on the band aid then slapped it onto Ciel's hand and knuckles before grabbing some medical tape and began tapping the band aid, moving the tape between his fingers and along the band aid until it was one securely. Sebastian then stood up and Ciel shoved at him lightly even while his hand throbbed softly.
"Let me go!" Ciel weakly shoved at Sebastian again who dragged the teen from the bathroom, his steps long and firm making Ciel struggle to keep up as he was dragged down the hall. There were so many doors, the ones on the right had an alternating pattern of black and even deep violet while the left side alternated between black and red in a dizzying way as Ciel walked.
He hated going along with this but he had to as he stumbled and Sebastian just kept going as they walked down the hall when Ciel noticed double doors coming up and he felt a deep stab of fear as he was yanked forwards towards those doors, about four feet away and he tugged at the hold on him but Sebastian kept walking. He wasn't going to apologize but when the door was then three feet away he inhaled hard looking to the raven haired male. Two feet. The doors became less frequent near these double doors, there was only one more red door and one more violet one making Ciel's heart clench as they finally stopped in front of those doors, the hall seeming long but the trip short as he stared up at the doors when Sebastian turned a knob pushing the door open.
They stepped into the room, Ciel hesitant but Sebastian confident and Ciel's mismatched eyes widened greatly. There room seemed to be huge, bigger than he was used too with a whole second walking floor and a third one above it but the main thing about this room? Books. There was nothing other than books! His eyes were wide when he made a light noise as he was yanked forward to five large piles of thick, black books with a few gray or deep blue ones. He looked at Sebastian curiously who looked at the books with such boredom and he looked to Ciel then making the bluenette jerk.
"You will sort through each of these piles, label and categorize them to the categories in this library, which I have taken the time to write out for you, and after you sort it I want them put away in their designated places. After that is done you will find seven books I've written down that you will be required to read and you will report to me on each book once you finish and we will discuss any highlighted areas I marked within the books. Do you understand this?" Sebastian looked evenly at Ciel as he spoke with such a flat, even tone making the teen blink in surprise at how evenly Sebastian was speaking when the raven haired male took on a spark of irritation in those red irises and even his brow crinkled with irritation. "Understand?"
"I understand." Ciel mumbled out looking down at the stack of books as he looked at the five stacks of books feeling dread already. He wasn't going to even begin to get this all done in one day but at least he wasn't given a dead line to get it all finished...
"Good. I'll come get you when it is dinner time for I'm sure you're rather hungry." Sebastian commented as he turned walking a few steps away then over the threshold of the doors grabbing the door handles then looked at Ciel over his shoulder. "You ought remain clean, there is acquaintances of mine coming for dinner. You are to be respectful and present, understand me?"
"I understand!" Ciel snapped out in a mumble keeping his back to Sebastian listening the light groan then click as the doors shut. God, how was this even going to be SEEN as different to living with his father? Ciel sighed picking up a relatively thin book from the top of the first stack then sat down grabbing the paper then a pen and small stickers then, with a deep chest rising breath, began to get to work.
Ciel jerked when the doors opened downstairs, his head turned to look towards the railing when the loud steps of maybe three or four people walked in when Sebastian made a soft noise then looked up in what Ciel felt was his direction exactly. "Come on down, little Lord, it is time for dinner."
"A-Ah I'll be right there!" Ciel stuttered out in surprise as he pushed the final book into it's slot before turning brushing his hands off on the back of his black pants and straightened his tie out of habit, plucked and pulled at his own clothes until he felt even. He then walked to the stairs with even, slow strides going down the stairs with thumping steps as he inhaled in and out feeling surprisingly afraid as his heart thumped light against his chest and when he hit the last he lifted his eyes to meet Sebastian's. Ciel had arranged his hair so it felt over his right eye as he then shifted his left eye to see at least two pairs of green eyes staring at him and then looked back to Sebastian.
"So this is the little human you picked up, eh, Michaelis?" The man that spoke had bright orange hair with the hair close to his ears and the back of his neck were jet black meeting up halfway to the orange and his grin formed much like the gleam of a blade-sudden and there. This man walked forward straight to Ciel while resting his hands on his hips as he grinned widely leaning forward a bit while leaving six steps space between them and grinned even wider if possible. "How old even is this kid, Michaelis? Sixteen?"
"Eighteen!" Ciel snapped glaring at the man who blinked gaining a look like he couldn't begin to believe that Ciel could speak and the teen clenched his jaw tight as he looked at Sebastian.
"Aww~ You're still a baby then! How about-" Crack! Ciel blinked when a long pincher of some sort of a metal rod slammed down on the man's head making him wince then fall down on his knees with his hands raising and holding the spot where this rod hit him.
"Enough, Ronald. Now is not the time." A man said with a bored tone, acting like he could give to shits in the world as he looked at the man on his knees but something flared in his eyes like a warning as he looked at the two tone haired man. Then his green eyes lifted to Ciel taking him in, his dark hair was short but seemed a bit shaggy yet those eyes burned into Ciel making the eighteen year old violently uncomfortable as he looked at the man then down shifting his weight from side to side once.
"Let us go and eat, shall we? Is the Undertaker along with Grell coming, do you know?" Sebastian said after a silent moment as the two males turned walking out of the room already making Ciel blink in surprise as the man, known as Ronald now, got up he walked up on the other side of William; while they proceeded down the hall when Ciel blinked at being left behind before making a soft noise and walked forward quick until he was behind the three men when the door, wherever that was, was knocked upon as they three walked.
Ciel blinked rubbing his cheek bone just under his right eye beneath his hair as he walked. The doors of black, dark violet and red moved past him but he kept his eyes down, glued to the floor as if this carpet was the most fascinating thing in the entire world as the little group walked and he was dazed, getting lost in his thoughts that he didn't felt Sebastian's hand on his elbow turning him and he blinked. He'd been so dazed that the time from the library room to the stairs was just a big hiccup of time but he didn't speak when he lifted his azure eye to Sebastian's scarlet ones then looked down before pulling his arm from Sebastian's hold and descended down the stairs. His steps were heavy for he didn't have the care to hold out on the railing to make his steps light, he just let his weight roll onto his feet making his steps loud as he moved down the stairs with his eyes glued down.
"Don't worry, you may eat your fill and return to the library if you so wish. That room can be open to you for whenever you wish." Sebastian murmured making Ciel look up in surprise as he blinked parting his lips but could't speak at that moment. Little did Ciel know that at that moment it was the very first nice thing Sebastian would do for him.
"Thank...you." Ciel said slowly as they reached the bottom of the stairs and Ciel just stared in amazement at Sebastian when the raven haired demon walked to the door but when it opened Ciel's eyes widened greatly and he backed up but couldn't for the stair was behind him so he crashed back on the stairs as he stared in shock at the man standing on the door step. "Un-Un-Un-Undertaker?"
"Ahaha!" With a flash of black and white arms were thrown around the eighteen year old as the Undertaker held the boy tightly making Sebastian blink in surprise "Little Ciel! So this is where you have been!"
"W-What do you mean?" Ciel asked blinking in surprise as he was stood up and Undertaker patted his shoulders then brushed at his upper arms cackling gently but looked at the Phantomhive teen curiously.
"It's been a month, dear Ciel. Your father has been going insane and, thus so, bothering the hell out of me." Undertaker sighed out looking at Ciel with a look in those green eyes that made Ciel's eyes widened and he jerked when his hair was pushed away from his eye and Undertaker frowned then looked to Sebastian. "You've forsaken this boy, Michaelis."
"Wait...It's been a MONTH? You've had me fucking sleeping for a month? And didn't think it'd be fucking important to tell me it's been a month?" Ciel whispered when his wide eyes looked to Sebastian and his breath came in with a hiss as he glared pulling from Undertaker turning and he sped up the stairs without a second thought. Undertaker and Sebastian watched the teen disappear as Sebastian smiled slowly but surely then looked to Undertaker, a mischievous look in his eyes.
"Undertaker tell me, what is it this boy is capable of doing. I want to know as much as I can about Ciel Phantomhive."
