A/N: Hello guys! I know this update is early, but thanks to a reviewer that asked me a question I will try my best to update twice a week maybe more depending on the length of the chapter, or if I have a writers block. I'm getting those quite often, so like I said no promises, but I will try my best, if it takes me longer than usual, then I have a writers block, it actually took me a while to get this chapter done too. Anyway, enjoy and keep reviewing! It will make me happy!
Ch.7
It's only 10:00 p.m., are the streets normally this empty? I thought to myself as I headed home.
It's going to take quite a long time to get back; maybe I shouldn't have spent such a long time with Elliot today.
I reached into my pocket to take out my notebook and began reading at a nearby light-post.
"Elliot Neil, age 9, born December 24. Loves to eat sweets, best friend, his brother and kitten. Family, mother, and elder brother."
His birthday is tomorrow. Maybe that's why he was so eager to meet up.
I was pulled out of my thoughts and drew my attention towards an ally. I heard a strange sound and cautiously walked over, quietly taking the knife from my shoe.
Pretty nice place to put it, I had no other spot besides my jacket which was no option.
I held the knife tightly and slowly walked into the ally only to find nothing.
Just my imagination?
I turned back and the light post was flickering.
Probably a good idea to head back now, hopefully they won't get too mad that I've been out for this long.
I quickened my pace and sped off to the manor. I clime doer the fence again and sneaked my way in through the back in an attempt to not get caught and lectured by Ciel.
"What the hell took so long?!" Ciel yelled from behind me as I was closing the door to the back entrance.
"I was doing my job! And try not to scare the living day-lights out of me next time!" I yelled back putting my hand to my chest trying to catch my breath.
"You know a simple 'Where were you?' could have been more than enough." I muttered.
"We don't have enough time for that right now, while you were out frivoling Sebastian and I got some important information too." Ciel said grabbing my hand and dragging me along.
"So then you were able to get a lead in this case without help from the Queen?" I said with a laugh.
"I have my resources, now I'm sure you got your part done as well?" Ciel said.
"Yep, he seems like a normal kid, nothing special, his family is just, normal, I don't see any reason why there would be someone that would want to kill his family." I said.
"Well, we're just going to have to find out." Ciel said letting my hand go and opening the door.
"Good evening." Sebastian said closing the door.
"It's a little late for 'evening' isn't it?" I asked.
"Well I suppose so, but it wouldn't have been if you came earlier now would it?" Ciel commented, sitting behind his desk.
"I wasn't talking to you." I hissed as I took a seat.
"Now, now, this isn't the time to be fighting." Sebastian said pulling out papers from a file he was holding.
"Unfortunately the killer still hasn't been found, and apparently your little hunch was right. There are several other murders linked to this case." Sebastian continued.
"No survivors were reported, in these cases, there are no specific similarities, like the families being related, the only thing is that there was always one family member that wasn't killed at the same time as the rest." Sebastian finished, Ciel and I were both confused at the information given.
"If there were no survivors or witnesses, how did one member survive each case?" Ciel asked confusion in each word he spoke.
"Shortly after," Sebastian continued.
" The remaining member was killed, in each of the cases. The murderer made it look like it was an accident, or a suicide." Sebastian said.
"Then Elliot is in danger!" I screamed
"If the killer is still out there, he is sure to kill him!"
Elliot, please be alright! He's been through so much already, he, he doesn't deserve to die!
"Don't worry he's safe in the orphanage, his uncle should be coming for him shortly." Sebastian said in attempt to reassure me.
"How would you know?" I asked.
"Once I gathered all this I noticed that too, so I contacted the orphanage and his Uncle should be picking him up. He was out at the time with you."
His uncle? But when I talked to him, he said he didn't have any other family members. I'm sure he wouldn't lie.
"Elliot doesn't have any other family members." I said in a hushed tone, but audible enough for them to heat and it stunned both Ciel and Sebastian.
"What do you mean?" asked Sebastian
"When I was talking with Elliot and asking him questions, he told me that he had no other family besides his mom and brother." I said still trying to figure out who this fake uncle was, and why he was coming.
"Oh crap!" I yelled and headed for the door quickly turning the knob and rushing into the labyrinth of halls.
I felt for the knife and noticed that it was still in my pocket from earlier when I put it back. I went out the front door and then escaped from the gates.
"Where are you going?!" Ciel screamed from behind he had been running with me and Sebastian was not far behind.
"I'll explain on the way! Sebastian, how did the other members die?!" I screamed trying to get as much information to solve the puzzle in my head.
"Two victims were children as well, one was age. 9 she had been killed in an ally in a foster home she had been sent to. The other was a boy age. 6 he was found hanging from the tree at his aunt's." Sebastian said.
He was perfectly audible, had he caught up already? Oh yea, demonic speed.
"That's terrible! Anyway, Elliot does not have any other family; I'm sure he tried to explain it, but the people at the orphanage might think that it was trauma from his experience. His uncle is the killer; once the carriage arrives for Elliot the supposed 'Uncle' will lead the carriage away to an abandoned location and kill Elliot!" I screamed.
"I think we just solved the case." Ciel said catching up from behind.
"No we haven't accomplished anything if Elliot dies!" I yelled this time even louder than before.
How far is the orphanage anyway? At this rate we won't make it in time!
"Are, we almost, there!?" I asked between breaths.
Damn! I can't let him die! Elliot, I swear I'll protect you!
I kept running and burst through the doors of the orphanage.
"Where, is Elliot?" I asked a lady at the desk of the orphanage.
"Elliot?" She asked me
"Look, we don't have time to talk about nonsense, Elliot, a little boy, light brown hair, green eyes, his family was murdered earlier!" I yelled, tears were starting to well up in my eyes, but I wiped them away.
I won't lose to him, if this is Derrick; there is no way in hell I'll let him get away with this.
"Oh that poor little boy, his uncle came to pick him up, they should be around the back." The woman said.
"What…." I backed away from the desk and ran towards the back of the building.
Indeed there was a carriage there.
Elliot! I'm coming!
The carriage started moving.
Crap!
There were screams coming from the carriage, I could faintly make them out.
'Let me go! I don't know you!' they said, they were screams coming from Elliot.
Bastard! If this really is Derrick, I'm going to kill him.
I ran after the carriage forgetting any other thing in the world. How long would it take for me to realize where I was? If Ciel and Sebastian had been following me? Ciel was running after me, he was yelling something, I couldn't hear him, or I just blocked any other thought besides saving Elliot.
C'mon! Faster, I need to go faster!
The carriage came to a stop, I hid behind an ally.
Damn I should just get him out of there! But we are dealing with a murderer. I have to be more careful.
Something grabbed me from behind and covered my mouth.
Crap! Who's there!
"Shhh! What's the matter with you? You can't just run off on your own like that, now do you have a plan." Ciel whispered.
Thank god, it's only Ciel.
"Nope, no plan at all, just save Elliot, and capture the murderer." I whispered back.
"You're kidding me right?" Ciel said.
"Oh well we've got no choice anymore." Ciel sighed lightly.
The door to the carriage flew open. Elliot was screaming and kicking, and I heard a cat hissing.
The killer must be making his move!
"Let me go!" Elliot continued to scream.
"Wait, a little longer then we make our move." Ciel whispered again.
Elliot screamed again this time more blood-curdling than before.
I can't take this anymore!
The carriage door shut again and sped off.
"Crap! Come on they're getting away!" I screamed.
We started to run towards the carriage, but I heard something from behind us.
N-No way!
It was Elliot. He wasn't in the carriage anymore; the killer had the carriage speed away, leading us in its direction.
"They tricked us!" I screamed and headed back to where we originally were.
"What do you mean? C'mon they're getting away!" Ciel said.
"There isn't anyone in that carriage, the murderer knew we were following them and redirected us!" I yelled.
Damn it! We fell for it! Elliot hold on I'm coming!
Another scream had been let out near dark ally.
"Elliot!" I screamed and headed in the ally.
"No, don't come any closer!" Elliot said, he sounded exhausted, or falling asleep.
What happened?
A nearby lamp-post turned on, and shed light in my direction, revealing what was lying ahead. Elliot was on the floor, bleeding from a gash across his stomach.
"E-Elliot?" I said as the tears welled up in my eyes.
There was a figure behind him, and his little kitten on the ground as well, crumpled, I guess he was protecting him.
"Elliot, I-I'm sorry!"
I yelled as I ran towards the figure, and hit as hard as I could, but he was too fast. The figure avoided my attack and hit me from behind, I fell to the floor. All the air in my chest had been knocked out by that single blow. I struggled to get up, but pushed myself either way.
"W-Who are you? Show yourself, you, you COWARD!" I screamed at it.
"Killing innocent people, what reason do you have to take innocent lives!? These families, these children! Why do they have to die at your feet!? You bastard! I'll kill you!" I pulled out my knife and ran straight to the man.
I don't know what I was doing, I didn't know how to use a knife I guess I pulled it out the wrong way because I felt like blood was running down my hand. I grabbed the hilt of the knife and felt it tear something, but I don't know what. The world was spinning, and there wasn't even the sound of wind blowing, only the sound of gunshots, three of them. I was on the ground, and there was a body next to me.
"Clary! Are you alright?!" I heard someone scream.
I didn't pay attention to the voice; the only thought running through my head was Elliot. "Where? Where is Elliot?" I asked under my breath.
"I-Is he alright." I said getting up and walking to where Elliot had been lying.
"Elliot? I'm sorry, I-I couldn't protect you." I said crying, hot tears ran down my face as I embraced Elliot's limp body.
"I-It's alright, Clare, I hope you don't mind if I call you that." Elliot said, and I started to cry even more at the fact that he was suffering.
"Please, don't cry, I want to see you smile. Before I go, I'll be fine, mom and, and my brother will be with me. I'll tell them so much about you, how you cared for me, and helped me. So please don't cry." Elliot said.
"Sure, you're a tough kid Elliot," I said with a smile choking on my tears
"I'll miss you." Elliot said.
He leaned up a little to whisper something in my ear; those last words will always stay in my heart, once I put Elliot back down. His eyes darkened, and his body grew cold and stiff. Trying to wipe the tears from my eyes when I heard a faint sound behind Elliot, like a moan, but a soft one. His kitten was trying to move toward Elliot.
"He's still alive!" I cautiously grabbed the kitten and checked its injuries, no outside injuries, but it felt like he had a few broken bones.
"Elliot, I'm sorry you had to leave this way."
I stood up with the kitten in my arms, and saw Ciel standing there, with his gun in hand.
"So that was the gunshot I heard, so then, who was the body?"
I looked down to see the figure that was on the ground lifeless.
"We should probably head back." I said.
My voice was emotionless, it sent shivers down my spine, but at that moment, I really didn't care.
"Clary, your hand." Ciel spoke softly.
Blood was dripping from my hand from where I grabbed the knife. "I grabbed my knife wrong that's all. Come on lets go." I said.
"Where's Sebastian?" I asked.
"T-That's a good question. Sebastian where are you?" Ciel said.
We stood there for a good five minutes and still no sign of Sebastian.
"Oh well we can figure this out once we head back to the manor." I said, and started to walk home.
"Hey are you feeling alright?" Ciel asked as we were walking through the gates of the mansion.
"You haven't said a word the whole walk here." Ciel said.
"What exactly do you talk about after finding someone dead." I asked, though it came out more like a statement.
"Elliot is dead and it's all my fault, the killer is dead and that was also my fault, I didn't get any answers, this case will be unsolved because of me, there were no witnesses, no leads, our killer is dead, along with his last target, and you expect me to bounce back from this like nothing ever happened?" I said.
Ciel just kept walking and said nothing.
"Ciel, I'm sorry, I've just got a lot of things on my mind, I really didn't mean to snap at you." I said apologetically.
"It's all my fault that Elliot died, it's my fault." Tears started to form in my eyes and fall down my face.
"It wasn't your fault. I'm sure that Elliot wouldn't want you to blame yourself, so don't" Ciel said.
"By the way, Sebastian still hasn't come has he?" I said, trying to forget the previous problem.
"I'm sure we shouldn't ignore that problem, after all he is your servant." Wiping away my tears and pushing back the waves of hair that had been covering my face.
My forehead was hot and the back of my neck as well, my hair stuck to the back of my neck. My clothes were wet, and dirty.
How many times are my clothes going to get ruined anyway?
I ignored the spot where there was some of the blood that had come off Elliot, I gave the kitten to Mey-Rin who entered a room and started to bandage him up.
"At least the kitten is alright." I said while Ciel had been thinking of something. It looked like he was trying really hard to process something, I couldn't figure out what.
"It really is suspicious that Sebastian hasn't come yet, maybe he is waiting in the study?" Ciel said trying to find out why his butler was so late.
"Let's go check then." I said snapping Ciel out of his thoughts, grabbing his wrists and dragging him to the study.
"Is this supposed to be happening?" I asked Ciel.
"After all, I still don't know much about this whole contracting thing." I said, still confused.
Ciel really is trying to figure this thing out.
"Well I don't really know how to explain, but, this is definitely not supposed to happen." Ciel said walking ahead of me.
We finally reached the study, and Ciel opened the door slowly, as if he were trying to be cautious. To his surprise, no one was in there, I looked closer, and something just didn't feel right.
"I guess he isn't here after all." Ciel sighed.
"Hold on." I said.
"Something doesn't feel right." I continued in the room and started to observe the surroundings.
"Someone's been in here, the window isn't closed the way it was before, and there were documents on your desk wasn't there?" I asked as Ciel nodded.
"Well these are different documents; they were placed here to make it look like nothing happened. I think whoever came in here knew that you would be too agitated to even notice a difference. Sebastian isn't here, there was a murder, and someone broke in here looking for something." I stated, and Ciel was shocked at my hypothesis.
"How could you come up with something like that?" he asked.
"Well it's simple really, Sebastian is supposed to grant your every order am I correct?" Ciel nodded.
"Well it is suspicious that he hasn't showed up, he was there with you in the orphanage wasn't he?" Once again he nodded processing the information he was given.
"Someone broke in here looking for something, if not looking for something, then to take something. You are the Queen's watchdog, and have a successful company. You are bound to have enemies. The only thing I can't figure out is where Sebastian is, and why he hasn't showed himself." I finished and Ciel came into the room to observe for himself.
"You're right, someone has been here, but I don't see anything misplaced or missing. As for the documents, they are in the drawer. I left them on the desk, and the documents on the desk are-" Ciel stopped in the middle of the sentence.
"They were the plans on finding Derrick, before we had met officially, me and Sebastian got a message from the Queen about Derrick." Ciel said.
"Why would the Queen be involved with Derrick? He is a demon isn't he?" I asked.
"I didn't know he was before I actually saw for myself. In fact I was going to ask for your help; since you were going to be transferring dorms you would have a chance to get close enough to get information. We now know what Derrick is, and why he wouldn't show up in school anymore, but I don't know what we can tell the Queen." Ciel said.
Obviously the matter was very important; he does have to uphold his title.
"Let's not forget, he is contracted to me." I said.
"That's right!" Ciel said.
"This changes everything!" he shouted with happiness.
"Uh, I'm not following, care to explain?" I asked.
This whole subject just passed over my head leaving me to understand nothing. Then there was a knock at the door.
"Who is it?" Ciel asked.
"It's me young master." Sebastian said from behind the door.
Sebastian's here?
"Come in, quickly! You have some questions to answer." Ciel said his tone was a mixture of anger and relief.
"Where were you?" I asked the demon butler that came into the room.
He looked different, like he was tired.
Do demons get tired?
"What happened? Did you run into Derrick?" I asked the weary demon.
"What would make you think that?" Ciel asked.
"Sebastian, you look hurt, err, well that isn't the right word I'm trying to say. You just look, like, tired or something."
I said trying to figure out the right words to describe how the demon looked.
"Yes, I did run into Derrick, trust me he put up quite a fight, but ran away afterwards. He isn't that smart, or strong. I sensed him after Ciel had ran after you." Sebastian said.
"What was he doing?" Ciel said.
"I still don't know, but he was coming from the direction of the manner." Sebastian said.
"That would explain everything!" I said.
"Derrick had broken in here, looking for our location. The documents that were originally here were on the case of the murders am I correct?" I said and both nodded.
"He must've meant to distract Sebastian while Ciel and I went for the culprit. I think he was testing us." I said.
"To see if we would be able to solve the case, and rescue the last victim." I said in a slightly lower voice, my emotions still haven't calmed down, but I was strong enough to hold them in.
"Did you manage well without me?" Sebastian asked.
"Yeah, we killed the killer, although I don't think that we accomplished anything." I said.
"What about that little boy?" Sebastian asked and Ciel coughed signaling for Sebastian not to ask about that certain subject.
"We weren't there in time." I said bluntly.
"Anyway, Ciel thought of some plan for the case with Derrick, you two talk it over, and I'll go to bed. I'm exhausted." I said with a yawn.
"Well it is 12:00 a.m., good night, or morning." Ciel said as I left.
I left the room and went directly to the room where the kitten was kept. Mey-Rin had been there to observe how he was doing.
"Oh hey Mey-Rin, how's he doing?" I asked.
"He's doing quite well yes, would you like to see him?" She asked.
"Yes I'd love to." I said overjoyed that I was allowed to see him.
"He's my best friend, I love him." Those words played over in my head and stung my eyes a little.
"Do you like kittens?" Mey-Rin asked snapping me out of my thoughts and back to reality.
"Huh? Oh, I guess so, I've never had any pets, and the first interaction with any animal was with one of Snake's snakes." I said.
"Oh I hope he didn't cause you any trouble, so how did you come across this little guy?" Mey-Rin asked.
"He belonged to a good friend of mine, but he can't take care of him anymore so I took him in." I said trying to hold back tears.
"What are you planning on naming him?" Mey-Rin asked.
That's a good question. I have no clue, how to even take care of a kitten.
"I'm not so sure." I said.
"Well he is pretty cute, I'm sure you could figure something out, for now would you like to take him to your room with you? I'm sure if he is that important to you, he'd appreciate it too. I'm sure he wouldn't want to spend this night alone." Mey-Rin said happily.
"Sure. Thank you, oh um, I kind of don't know where any of my clothes are...-" I started.
"Oh don't worry about that, you'll have some clothes by tomorrow morning, for now your nightgown should be in the second drawer of your nightstand." Mey-Rin said.
"Thank you very much, goodnight, or morning." I said as I left the room with the kitten in my hands.
He had a bandage wrapped around his torso, and his fur was as black as night. I didn't get a look at any other features the first time I saw him, and Ciel was allergic to cats.
How was I supposed to keep a kitten without Ciel getting irritated?
"Oh well he is just going to have to put up with it." I said as I went into my guest room.
I changed into my nightgown and put my hair in two braids.
"Looks like we are going to have a long day ahead of us since I'm going to be the new apprentice of the Queen's guard dog."
I set the kitten next to me and fell asleep.
Who knew that I'd be solving crimes for the Queen? I guess I've got a lot of work to do. Maybe being contracted to Derrick isn't such a bad thing. Why did I think it was bad in the first place? I was willing to do everything before Ciel showed up. Argh! Never mind I just won't think about this, I'm tired.
I feel like a terrible person for this chapter, a good friend of mine was balling her eyes out when she read it. She called me heartless, but she still loves reading which makes me happy, please don't hate me for this chapter, and keep reviewing! =^w^=
