Chapter Four – Dance With Her, Sleep With Me

Elizabeth stood in front of a mirror as Mey-Rin fixed her hair. Elizabeth was dressed in an elegant red dress with flowers in her hair.

Finny, Bard, Tanaka, and Grell were all dressed up for the ball, and their outfits were most ridiculous and feminine.

"I'm sure Ciel will look adorable in blue. I fell in love with the clothes when I first saw them!" Elizabeth exclaimed. Mey-Rin finished fixing her hair and stepped back.

"Alright, now let's make you adorable now!" Elizabeth said as she tried to remove Mey-Rin's glasses. Mey-Rin backed away in fear and clutched her glasses tightly.

"I am really farsighted, and I can't see anything with these, no!" Mey-Rin shouted. Elizabeth stepped closer as Mey-Rin continued to clutch her glasses tightly.

"You mustn't look at the dream world with your eyes. Feel it with your heart!" Elizabeth said.

"M—My heart!?"

"Leave her be." Everyone looked towards the stairs to see Ciel and Sebastian standing at the top. Elizabeth gasped.

"Ciel! You really are adorable!" Elizabeth exclaimed as she ran over to Ciel and spun him around. His blue hat fell off and landed on the ground. "I judged rightly!" Elizabeth looked down on Ciel's hand and noticed the blue Phantomhive ring.

"Oh, my. Ciel, where is the ring I bought you?" Elizabeth said with a stern expression. "There was a cute one to match your clothes!"

"This ring's fine." Ciel plainly stated.

"No! I went to so much trouble to make everything cute, but the ring isn't cute at all!" Elizabeth wailed. "So you don't want to wear the one I brought!? You're so cruel!"

"That's not what I mean, Elizabeth. This ring is—"

"Just kidding!" Elizabeth exclaimed, as she grabbed Ciel's ring. "Got it!"

"Lizzie!"

"Yes, it's far too big! The one I picked out is perfectly-sized and—" Elizabeth said before she was cut off by Ciel.

"Give it back!" Ciel demanded. Everyone looked at him with shock. Ciel extended his hand towards Elizabeth. "Give that back, Elizabeth."

"Wh—Why are you so angry? I went to such trouble. . ." Elizabeth got teary-eyed. "What!? All I did was try to make you adorable! So why are you so angry!?" She cried. She raised the ring up, high into the air.

"I hate this stupid ring!" Elizabeth cried as she threw the ring down to the floor with all her strength. Parts of the blue jewel broke and the band of the ring was broken. The sound of the ring echoed in the room. Ciel growled at Elizabeth and charged at her with his hand raised, almost ready to slap her.

Y/N looked downstairs and saw Ciel with his hand raised at Elizabeth. Her [F/C] dress flowed behind her as she quickly ran towards him and grabbed his arm before he could hit Elizabeth.

"Ciel!" She exclaimed. Ciel looked up in shock at Y/N. His expression changed into regret as he looked at Y/N. Sebastian came over with Ciel's cane and handed it to him.

"Young master, you forgot the new cane we had just made." Sebastian calmly said. Y/N gently set Ciel's arm down and handed him his cane. Ciel took it and held onto it as support, as if his knees were about to give out. Ciel looked at the broken ring and gripped his cane tighter. Y/N put her hand on his shoulder and gave him a small, sad smile. He stared at her and put one of his hands on hers.

"I apologize for the behavior of my young master. That ring has been passed down for generations by each of the Phantomhive headmaster. It was one-of-a-kind." Elizabeth looked at the shattered ring.

". . .I destroyed such a precious ring. . .?" Elizabeth whispered. Ciel let go of Y/N and walked over to the ring. He carefully picked it up and tossed the remains of it out the window.

"Ciel! How could you do that!?" Elizabeth exclaimed as she ran towards the window, desperately trying to search for it.

"It doesn't matter. It was just an old ring." Ciel replied as he walked away from the window. CIel stood in front of everyone and stared at them.

"Even without that thing. . .I'm still the head of the Phantomhives!" Ciel stated defiantly. Everyone stared at him with shock while Sebastian simply grinned at him. Ciel walked over to Elizabeth who was still crying. She looked up at him.

"How long are you going to cry like this?" Ciel asked as he placed his hat back on. "Your face is a mess. And you consider yourself a lady?" He took out his handkerchief and wiped Elizabeth's tears away. She blew her nose into the handkerchief.

"I don't fancy asking a lady with such a messy face to dance. . ."

"Ciel. . ." Elizabeth said. A violin started playing as everyone looked who was playing. Sebastian stood at the top of the stairs playing the violin swiftly and gracefully. Everyone stared in awe as Sebastian continued to play a waltz.

"H—How wonderful!" Mey-Rin exclaimed.

"So Sebastian can even play the violin!" Finny said.

"I shall join him." Grell ran over to Sebastian and started singing opera-like to blend in with the music. Everyone was shocked once more.

"What the hell!? He's sounds good!" Bard shouted. Ciel extended his hand towards Elizabeth, just as he did with Y/N during the dance lesson. Elizabeth stared at him.

"Soiree etiquette is to forget all the unpleasant things and dance the night away, right, my lady?" Ciel asked. Elizabeth smiled and gladly took his hand. The two began to waltz as Sebastian and Grell continued to play/sing.

~Later At Night~

Elizabeth was fast asleep in the carriage, all worn out from the day of dancing. Grell and Sebastian stood outside the mansion, as well as the other servants.

"I—I shall take responsibility for escorting Lady Elizabeth home!" Grell announced. Bard looked at him questionably.

"You gonna be alright?" Bard asked.

"Yes. I'm a more deadly efficient butler than I look." Grell walked over to Sebastian and hugged him. "That's right—Sebastian. I've learned from you what it means to be a butler!"

"They say that before a person dies, he/her life flashes before his/her eyes. I'm sure that if I died, the dreamland I saw tonight will flash before me over and over!" He exclaimed.

"You're saying that?" Sebastian asked.

"I have a feeling a man like him will never die, yes!" Mey-Rin stated. The servants and Sebastian headed inside as the carriage rode off the path towards Elizabeth's manor.

"What a day. . ." Ciel said tiredly. The rest of the servants had gone to sleep already, and Ciel was the last one to sleep.

"You seemed to be quite enjoying yourself." Sebastian said as he finished preparing Ciel for bed. Ciel looked at him.

"Don't be a fool."

"Which one of us is the fool?" Sebastian asked. He kneeled down next to Ciel and placed the 'thought to be broken' Phantomhive ring. "This is important to you, isn't it? And yet you decided to show off for Lady Elizabeth. . ." Ciel looked at him in shock.

"A Phantomhive butler who can't do this much isn't worth his salt." Sebastian stated. "This ring exists to be on your finger, please take good care of it this time, young master."

"True. . .this ring has witnessed the deaths of many masters." Ciel said as he stared at it. "My grandfather, my father, and. . .I'm sure it will be present at my death as well."

"I thought to myself, 'If I throw the ring away, maybe I'll stop hearing their dying screams.' At least, that's what I thought. . ." Sebastian tucked Ciel into his bed and took the candlelight away.

"You better rest now, young master. The moon is already high up and it will affect your health." Sebastian walked away and closed the door as Ciel snuggled into his sheets. The door quietly opened again and Sebastian peeked out from the corner.

"Young master. . .Miss Y/N wants to speak with you for a while, if it's alright." Sebastian said. Ciel looked up and saw Y/N standing behind Sebastian.

"Please, leave us be." Ciel said. Sebastian bowed and opened the door for Y/N to walk through.

"Yes, my lord." The door shut quietly once more and left Y/N and Ciel in silence. Y/N's expression had the look as if something terrible has happened.

"Is something wrong?" Ciel asked. Y/N nodded but didn't say a word. "Come, sit next to me and you can tell me." Ciel scooted over on the bed for Y/N to sit on. She carefully climbed up the bed and sat down a few inches away from Ciel. She brought her knees to her chest and looked down.

"I had a. . .really bad nightmare." Y/N finally spoke. Ciel cocked his head to the side.

"Do you wanna tell me what it was about?'

"I saw my family die again, but Alois, Claude, even Hannah had died. . .worst thing is, I feel as if it's going to come true." Y/N said as she buried her head in her knees. Ciel gently lifted her head up and smiled.

"Let me guess, you can't sleep now, can you?" Ciel asked. Y/N looked up at Ciel and nodded. Ciel chuckled a bit.

"Here, this is what my mother did so I could sleep. Place your head where my heart is and listen." Y/N followed Ciel's instructions and listened to Ciel's steady heartbeat.

'Thump, thump, thump.' Y/N smiled and sighed. Ciel looked down at her.

"Feeling better?" Ciel asked. Y/N looked up at him and smiled.

"Much better than before." Y/N yawned and rested her head on Ciel's chest again. Ciel smiled and laid down on the bed carefully with Y/N on his chest. Y/N slept soundly as Ciel continued to look at her. He wrapped his arms around her and closed his eyes.

"Could you possibly be the one to make me happy again?" Ciel questioned before he fell asleep.