Ciel's P.O.V

I watched Harper start to walk away after she had found Sebastian and I looking at her, but stop short of walking into another person. The man who she had almost collided with looked at her with a friendly smile; Harper on the other hand looked at him with a death glare with her nostrils flaring.

"What do you want?" She snarled at him.

"Well besides you and a billion dollars nothing. I just came to say hello."

"Hello, now leave." She said.

Reed ignored me and looked down at Simon. "Why hello, what's your name?" he asked him.

"Simon."

"Simon, I like that it has a nice ring to it." Reed said, "but Simon can you do me a favor?" Simon nodded," make sure you protect Harper and keep her safe for us okay? She's all so important to us all, promise?"

"Ok." The clueless little eight year old said not knowing who he was talking to.

"Good boy." Reed reached to ruffle Simon's hair but she grabbed his wrist before he could even touch him.

"Don't touch him if you want to live", Harper growled at him.

Harper held the man's wrist keeping it from touching the young boy's head. She looked like she was about to try and rip his throat out.

I listened in catching most of the conversation and noticed that Sebastian also did so after the cat he had been watching left.

"She is very protective of the boy, don't you think?" Sebastian observed.

"Yes, but I'm more interested why she looks like she is about to kill that man and how she is connected to Azazel."

"I've pondered that as well, I don't know what to think of the man, but Azazel from what I have heard, is a very powerful demon almost royalty in hell, with powerful legions under his command, also he is not a demon which eats souls or makes contracts with people which has me puzzled."

"Hmm."

"There is another thing that mystifies me." Sebastian said.

"What is that?" I responded.

"Her abilities are very similar to ones that Azazel has been known to have."

"I, wonder why that- "I was cut off by the sudden movements of the man in Harper's grasp. He was desperately trying to be released from her grip and looked as though he was in pain. Finally she let him go from her grasp and the man hurriedly ran over to the alley which we were blocking clutching his arm to his chest.

He squirmed trying to wriggle between me and Sebastian, but we did not move. At least not until we saw his wrist which had a horrible burn where her grip was. I stepped aside giving enough room for the man to slide through, he jogged down the alleyway behind us, and we watched him disappear into the system of paths between streets and alleyways.

I suddenly felt a sharp wave of heat on my shoulder while my back was turned and I flinched along with Sebastian. Worried to move I stood still waiting for what would happen.

"You know," she said," it's impolite to stare, and I find it even ruder to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, don't you think?"

She then released us and I was a little afraid to move at first but then got over it.

"She gets more puzzling by the minute." Sebastian said.

"Yes, so it seems, but first there is a piece of information I need from her." I said, running after her and the boy accompanying her. "Harper! Harper!" I called out to her.

Harper stopped and hesitated before turning around to face me; Sebastian was already at my side. The boy Simon looked up to Harper with a worried look on his face from what had just happened, she patted his head making him instantly calmed.

"And what is it that you would like to talk to me about now." She said.

"What's your name, your full name?" I asked.

She smiled at me non-menacingly." Harper, Harper Delaney."

"Thank you." I said and turned away heading the other direction.

Sebastian and I headed back to the carriage where he sat in the back with me. The carriage started moving and I looked out the window at the busy streets bustling with people. Turning to Sebastian I spoke.

"Sebastian, this is an order find out everything you can about Harper Delaney and bring your findings to me immediately." I said putting a hand over my right eye, the one covered by and eye patch.

"Yes my lord." Sebastian said jumping out of the still moving carriage.

Soon I arrived at a small vacation house that had served for my living space for the last few months. I settled myself into the study looking over the newspaper which in turn was very uneventful as of recent. Not much later Sebastian came back with a file of papers but instead of handing them to me, just told me his findings aloud.

"My lord, I have found the information you requested, would you like to hear it?"

"Yes."

"To begin with there is very little recent information about her since she disappeared after her family's death when she was about 21 years of age. She lost both of her parents and her little brother Mason in three separate accidents within four months of her birthday."

"Oh, I was expecting something a little more sinister."

"That's not all; her birth certificate and family records show that she was born almost ninety years ago."

I looked at Sebastian perplexed.

How is that possible, she's only about 24 tops? I think Sebastian said it best; she gets more puzzling by the minute.

"Also," Sebastian continued, "She has four death certificates all signed and authorized by both police and the undertaker and those are only from the public records she has many more in her sealed files."

"How could she die at least four times and still be alive, I don't understand it." I said aloud," You know what I bet that fool undertaker would know more about this, I believe that we should pay him a visit don't you think?"

"Yes my lord, however it will have to wait the undertaker's will be closed by now."

I sighed. "I guess so, but we will pay him a visit soon."