Author's Note: A short chapter just to complete the first arc: The Activation of Plans part III

The next chapter will take some time to show up, so please bear with me.

And for all you alexis lovers, a pic of her (drawn and coloured by yours truly) can be found on my dA profile!

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Chapter 7:The Getaway

"Why don't you just use the window again, Alexis?" Mey-Rin pulled me up to my feet quickly.

"Too predictable." I said, straightening my black t-shirt over my skinny jeans. "I don't think Sebastian's gonna fall for one trick every time. On the previous occasion, I had this strange gut feeling that Sebastian knew I was under the sill…"

"Well, hurry and think of something, yes!"

"Lock the door first!" I panicked. "We'll need to buy ourselves some time to get out of this!"

"Lock the door, yes!" Mey-Rin agreed.

"Mey-Rin, doesn't this house have any air-vents or some shit like that?" I asked, out of breath as I cleared away the cleaning materials as Mey-Rin bolted the door, panting.

We could hear the steps getting closer. So damn close…

"Air-what?" Mey-Rin grabbed the broom, stowing them away into the broom cupboard.

"You know, the stuff running through the walls…wait, there's no way air-vents were brought about at this time…" I pulled on my discarded shoes, quickly tying them up. "I need to get to the kitchen quickly after, so that Sebastian believes that I've been there all along and you've been doing all the work yourself!"

"And he'll be impressed…" Mey-Rin started turning red.

"Not the time to fantasize, Mey!" I yelled.

"…Oh!" Mey-Rin said, coming back to earth. "…ummm…why don't you hide over in the dumbwaiter?"

There was a sound of someone outside the door. When the door didn't budge, a voice was clearly heard.

"Mey-Rin?" the clear, deep voice rang throughout the corridor and even the closed room. "Why is this door locked?"

"Anything!" I whispered desperately.

Mey-Rin quickly pulled open the small door in the wall. The dumbwaiter consisted of two chambers, one for plates and dishes at the bottom, and another at the top, separated by a wooden panel, for saucepans. She pulled the upper chamber down, which hid the smaller, lower chamber behind the wall. "Get in and hide!" She whispered. "I have to open the door, yes!"

As soon as she pulled down the cover, I could hear Sebastian call for her again. I used the string, loosening my grip to lower the chamber a bit. I decided to listen to their conversation. It was muffled, but comprehensible.

"The door was locked because…" Sebastian started.

"Oh! I…I…I…it-it was a m-mistake, ye-yes!" Mey-Rin stuttered, out-of-breath.

I peeped through the small slot in the dumbwaiter cover, which was used to pull the cover open. Sebastian looked around the dining hall. He walked around, looked under tables, chairs, examined the windows, the cutlery and plates and seemed to count everything.

"This is pretty impressive, Mey-Rin." Sebastian looked at her with a famous close-eyed smile. "No broken dishes, nicely set table, the floors are fairly clean and the windows are also cleaned. The trash is out and all materials cleared out without a single breakage."

I think Mey-Rin just died and went to heaven by the starstruck expression I saw on her face.

"Everything is good, except that one dish left out for Pluto on the window sill."

Mey-Rin's as well as my own eyes immediately swiveled over to the window. Indeed, there was a large, food-stained dish.

I could bet my ass it wasn't there when we were cleaning! How the hell did that get there?

"Oh…I'm so sorry, Mister Sebastian!" Mey-Rin exclaimed.

Sebastian smiled yet again. 'Don't worry. Just send it to the kitchen with the dumbwaiter, and Bard can take care of it. You have earned a well-deserved break. Get back to work within the next half-an-hour."

Sebastian turned to leave when he noticed Mey-Rin was rooted to the spot.

"Mey-Rin, did you not hear me?" Sebastian looked annoyed. "Put the dish into the dumbwaiter."

"…Y-yes, sir!" she quickly scuttered over and picked up the dish. I quickly yanked on the string to allow the lower chamber to slide into place behind the cover, hiding me above the chamber and away from view. I was really crammed in here…

Sebastian stood there, watching the crimson-haired maid's every move. Mey-Rin looked like she had just been sent to crucifixion.

I don't get the point. What's so horrible?

She pulled open the cover and saw my hair visible at the top. That's because my butt was to the top of the chamber, and my head was ducked down to hear their conversation better.

"Alexis, please duck down and don't kill me for this!" she whispered. "You'll be very angry, yes!"

"What-?"

"Mey-Rin, what's taking so long?" Sebastian's tone clearly indicated he was annoyed. Why did the bastard have to make sure she sent the dish? Doesn't he have stuff to do?

Without another word, Mey-Rin loosened the string. The dumbwaiter started to move downwards and Mey-Rin stood in front, blocking the view from Sebastian as she sent me in the lower chamber upwards. She discreetly handed me the string, and closed the cover, plunging me into darkness.

Without knowing any better and out of shock at the sudden darkness, I let go of the string.

The dumbwaiter shot through the vent(which was probably at an angle) full speed, before there was a sudden drop and I could hear Bard's voice…

"Ah…left the dumbwaiter cover open again…"

Splash. The dish in the lower chamber plopped down into the large sink in front of the dumbwaiter opening, and Bard moved it.

SPLASH!

I fell out onto the huge sink, spraying water everywhere. My ass landed painfully on the dish, but apart from that, I was all right.

Bard fell back in absolute shock.

"Alex?!"

"Hi, Bard!" I exclaimed. "Can we do that again?"

A/N: and that's that! Alexis gets away from the clutches of the genius demon Sebastian! Wonder what more trouble she brings with her...?