The beautiful ray of sunset evaded the surrounding of the room with a glorious golden hue. Ciel Phantomhive, the boy who died and was reborn as a demon, stared blankly outside the glass window of the mansion he once lived in. He caressed the blue diamond crested on the ring that circled his left index finger. Memories flooded his mind with pain and longings. He knew he shouldn't have said that to Scarlet. He knew he should apologize. Ciel Phantomhive walked out of his study and slowly pace the corridor. Being weak and puny, Ciel had forgotten. The feeling that you get of knowing that someone is going to hurt you yet you're too weak to even struggle, not to say save yourself. The feeling of helplessness and fear, like a rabbit surrounded by hungry carnivores... The worst was when you're played and used as if you're just a life-sized doll that serves only the purpose of entertaining and satisfying those who are stronger than you. All he knew too well, but forgotten. Decades of life as a demon were care-free and relaxing. No worries, no trouble, and no pain nor aim. Strolling leisurely from countries to countries and sampling every type of human soul...

I should probably apologize...

An all too familiar voice interfered his train of thoughts. His eyes widened, mouth slightly parted.

"It's her... No, no! It couldn't be... Impossible! Simply ridiculous!" Ciel shouted loudly to himself yet his legs refused to stop running towards the direction that he was sure the source of the voice he confirmed was not his hallucination.

That voice… I remember… I remember! It brought back many reminiscences. It's been over a century since I last heard her voice.

It's the same voice that he had heard from the dearest person he had wished to protect and ended up leaving behind. The same person who he had shared his childhood with, the same girl who he had told lies to all those years, the one who worked the hardest to bring back happiness into Ciel's life.

The door was slammed open, revealing a blonde young woman. Her green eyes stared widely and vigilantly at Ciel, obviously startled by the dramatic entrance.

Elizabeth...

''Impossible... No-'' Ciel whispered with trembling lips and large eyes.

''Ciel...'' The expression on the blonde was immediately replaced by a pair of glassy eyes and a grateful smile. ''Ciel!'' she literally stumbled on Ciel. ''You're back! You're finally back! Over a century of waiting, you finally came back!'' The words were barely audible of its meaning as it came out between sobs and gasps.

''It couldn't be... Impossible... Elizabeth?'' he asked softly.

''For how many times have I told you decades ago to call me Lizzy? Oh, Ciel!'' Elizabeth couldn't stop the tears that flowed from her eyes. She wrapped her hands tightly around the boy that have been pronouced missing and dead. The fiance that she had spent all her time searching. The cousin she have loved and cared for a hundred years and will love for a hundred more. The boy who had left her.

''Do you know how many years have I been waiting for you?'' She hugged Ciel tighter. ''Do you have any idea how long I've been searching for you? Do you know how excrutiating it is to find that you have left me without a single mutter of word? Do you know that- that I love you?'' There were a mix of pain, anger, joy and relieve in her voice.

''How can you be so cruel to me, Ciel? How can you abandon me like that?...'' Her words softened into whispers. She landed a few forceless punches on Ciel's chest before knelting on the carpeted ground, sobbing.

'Elizabeth, no, Lizzy, how can- can u still be alive?'' Ciel asked, his brain furiously seeking for any acceptable excuse of how his cousin is still alive after 137 years.

''I-I... I don't know...'' The sobbing had stopped. ''I honestly don't knowhow or why I am not able to age like everybody else,''

''But...''

''I was searching for you... I knew there was something you hid from me. When we had that very last dance, when you have your memory back, your eyes flashed red; glowing and the grandmaphone just went off. And when you hold my hand, your nails, they're black, entirely black. I knew something was wrong. Later on you annouced your long trip to an unknown destination and I knew. You're leaving me... Years later, your absent was noticed widely and it triggered the police and media. At first they assumed that you're missing, kidnapped or lost but soon after, since you're no where to be found, they claimed that you died either murdered, accident or suicide. Every cell in my body had have doubts. My instinct screamed that you're alive and I knew it's true. I conducted researchs on my own and realized the truth behind your dissapearence. I was shocked and broken. A frightening thought crossed my mind then,''

''What is that thought then?''

''That I might actually hope you're dead instead of becoming a monster, a...''

''Excuse me?'' Ciel puzzled, partly offended.

''Demon,'' Woah, that hit straight in the heart. She deserved credits for this... accuracy.

''Elizabeth... I went away because I wanted everyone else to move on. I wanted you to move on. Why didn't you do that? Why can't you forgot about me and accept that I was dead in the first place?'' That was a part of the truth, a big one.

''Because you're not...'' As simple as that '' You think I can just forget you and marry a random man who I don't even love? You think I will just let you die without a good evidence of your death? Think, you idiot! How can you be so stupid? To believe that I'll move on without you?''

''I...'' his words were cut off by the knocking of the unclosed door. Ciel and Lizzy turned.

''Lady Elizabeth. Oh, and Master too... I've prepared some sweets and tea in the garden. Would ...'' Ciel noticed all the proof of tears on Scarlet's face had vanished except her eyes. They're still a little red and bloodshot. Just a little.

''Sure...'' The fact that no one in this household needed human food is simple enough. Though, a maid worthy of working in Phantomhive shall preview the best of hospitality to any guest at any time.

Hm, she passed very well, Ciel thought.

Elizabeth rubbed away the tears and stood. Ciel weren't really sure of what to say to the fiancee who had suddenly appeared, no, reappeared back in his life after a century. Something that was totally unexpected... He reached out a hand as if he's asking for a dance, and smiled warmly, exactly the way he had asked Elizabeth to their last dance...

''Shall we, Lizzy?'' Elizabeth slowly reached for Ciel's hand, unsure but nodded anyway. Whatever she turned to, she's still Elizabeth... Always Lizzy...

The setting was absolutely... romantic. Under the newly rised moon, various brightly lit colorful lanterns were hanged in a zig-zag order. A table for two was set. The flame of the candles on its holder danced gracefully in the middle of the table.

''Sebastian informed me to prepare them earlier...'' Scarlet politely lifted the silver cover up to review the delights hidden under.

''Sebastian?'' asked Ciel.

''Yes,'' It wasn't Scarlet who answered but Elizabeth. ''I ran into him the other day. It was early morning, about 2am... I was walking by the alley when I saw a dark silhouette closing in... I thought it was just some random thief or drunk but the closer it got, I found the figure oddly familiar. So I followed him when he made a turn. He caught me and I saw his face, at first I had thought that he was just someone who looked like him... Well, until... until... His eyes glowed pink and there were weird lights in them. The pupil of his eyes morphed into slits... I got so terrified. Though because of that, I confirmed that he was indeed the Sebastian Michaelis who was your butler.'' She chuckled before placing a scoop of soup into her mouth. '' He was so surprised to see me. He looked damn stunned!''

''Lizzy, what happened after I left?'' Ciel asked. There was a long and uncomfortable silence before Elizabeth's answer.

''The box you gave me... Your parting gift... When I saw the signature candy of Funtom and the card which wrote 'In the memory of Ciel Phantomhive' I immediately ran after you... But you're gone. Vanished just like that...''

Ciel looked down at his food, guilt immediately invaded his heart.

''As I said, I conducted researchs and found out the truth. The puzzle in my head pieced theirselves together... Wandering by an empty road late at night, I was desperated and confused. I don't know how but suddenly I was in a road that I've never seen in my entire life. There were no other shops but one.''

''And what shop is that?''

Elizabeth explained what happened that day, puzzling Ciel with every detail. Everything that Elizabeth had been thru was so surreal, not that he himself is considered real... but... The whole encounter, the entire event, was not but a plot by someone. It's not a coincident, it's a trap... Elizabeth's reappearence was not rejoicing but simply...

Suspicious...