A/N: Oooooh! Cliffhanger on the last chapter! Yeah don't worry, Alois will find out Ciel is a demon eventually, but not now. Now lets get to the story!

Chapter 7

"Stop! Don't!" I bolt up and find myself on a soft bed with my leg in a cast; I wipe cold sweat off of my forehead. Another dream about the rape. When I look around, I find a hand stroking my back and immediately freeze, until I recognize Ciel sitting next to me. His eyes look puffy and heavy dark circles cloud his youthful look.

"Are you alright Alois?" He asks.
"Y-Yes I'm fine, just a bad dream."
"Sounded more like a nightmare by the way you were screaming. Good thing I was here to keep you sleeping."

Guilty floods me. "I'm sorry, they've been coming ever since my brother and parents died. And now they're all about my...my..."

"Shh, it's alright. I'm here to help you. Whatever you need, just ask and I'll bring it immediately. Oh, and these are for you." Ciel holds up a gorgeous bouquet of red roses. "A get-well present."

"Oh...no ones ever given me anything before." Ciel gives me another gift. A kiss on the cheek. Then he waves goodbye and leaves the room.

I can't believe it's taken me this long. It started with the stuttering, the blushes, but it's so painfully obvious now that we're growing closer.

I think I'm in love with Ciel

This makes a warm fuzzy feeling grow in my chest were my heart should be. For the first time in years, I really do feel happy. Joyful. Loved. It makes me smile like I used to with my parents such a long time ago.

But then something else takes over, a sudden lust to be with him. It's a huge wanting and it floods through my body so much that I end up masterbating to it. Wow, no matter what, I'll always be a huge damn pervert. I can't really help it. I mean, I even watched this old video called Boku No Pico to get some techniques. But this is different; this is what they call love.

I don't know what to do. What would happen if I told him? Would he like me back? Or just ignore it and stay in awkwardness? I don't even know what his sexual preference is, if any. That kiss felt good and real, but was it really a sign of affection? Don't European people kiss each other on the cheek all the time?
Frazzled, I fold my hands on my head and fight the headache brewing in my temples.

~Morning~

When I come to, I'm wheeled by Ciel's three servants into the dining room. Said boy and Sebastian are there politely waiting for me to arrive.

"I'm starving!"

I flick my head around and see Grell standing in the corner with a fork and knife in his hands. "Of course I love bacon and eggs, but what I'm really craving is SEBASTIAN!" Just as Grell is arm length from tackling him, Sebastian holds his arm out and stops Grell with his fingertips on the redheads forehead. His eyes flash a glittering red.
"Oh my dear Grell, must I kill you again?" I glance at Ciel and he's looking at Sebastain angrily.

"Sebastian."
"No please! Don't kill me!"
"Very well. But get out before I really do kill you."
"Okay! I will!" Grell runs quickly out of an open window before I even blink.

The two then sit to acknowledge me. "Sorry," says Ciel, "that pestering Grim Reaper has been bugging us ever since my Aunt's death. He's hopelessly in love with Sebastian."
"Um...what's a Grim Reaper?"
"It's a magical being that ranks between human and god." says Sebastain. "They reap the souls of the dead, hence the name Grim Reaper, except this one has nothing better to do and chases me."

"Oh." What else is there to say? But this mystical world of gods and Grim Reapers intrigues me. "How did you know?"
"Hm?" Ciel looks at me politely.
"I mean, how do you know all that?"
I'm not sure if its my imagination, but I could've sworn I saw Ciel swallow. He glances at Sebastian, who in turn gives me a smirk.
"We've been studying these things for quite some time now. Very fascinating. Except for that hunk of junk."

Ciel gives me a curious face, one I usually give to people to see how they react to something; suspicion bubbles inside me, but I cleverly hide it. "Oh, that sounds cool. Maybe I should go with you guy-"

"Master Trancy, it's time to take your medicine." I turn around and see Maylene, the funny maid, with her arms extended to help me up. I stretch into her arms and she carries me to my room, gives me a dose of morphing in a tube in my arm, and lets me be.

Okay, what just happened? It seemed like Ciel was trying to avoid the topic of Grim Reapers, and waited for my reaction. And he got mad at Sebastian when his eyes flashed a glittery red. What was that anyway? And what's up with the whole Grim Reaper thing? Then there's Maylene interrupting me to take my medicine. Was that real or staged? It might have been real, she doesn't seem malicious in character; but she could have been obeying Ciel's orders. I can't sort it out. In a short while I'm wondering why Ciel saved me in the first place. It all seems strange, and soon I'm clamping my palms into my temples to retch out an answer.

I wake the next day to find a yellow sticky note pinned on my dresser with a smudge of something red. M3ET M3 !N TH3 N!GHT MY R00M. N33D 2 T LK T0 Y0U. (Meet me in the night at my room. Need to talk to you.)

At first I'm frightened, because I have a severe phobia of the dark. Then curiosity floods in. Why would we meet? For what? What is there to say? I don't know. But whatever it is, I decide to keep a knife in my pocket in case someone who would love to kill me wrote it.
All day I'm a mess. Not eating, slitting my wrists again, begging for a bigger dose of morphine, crying, forgetting my anti-depressants. These are all side effects of terror, at least in my case. Because I take terror to the extreme. It isn't until it's the dead of the night when I'm seriously considering killing myself.

But I still drag myself up at midnight and wander around the dark hallways, lead by candlelight. Billions of thoughts zoom at a zillion miles per hour as I tread by. And when the arms grab me and drag me into a room, I almost scream; almost meaning my mouth is clamped down with a hand smelling of soap.

Then the door shuts closed and the lights go on. But just as I'm about to cry for help, I see Ciel and suppress it. But then a new terror seeps in, because this is the male who saved me, and he could just as well be the male who kills me. But I don't see a knife anywhere, and I don't think he would anyway, so I let my muscles relax.
"Let's make this fast. I'm not any normal human being, alright? I'm a...a...just let me show you!" His eyes flash blood red and he swoops up in the air. Black wings grow on his shoulder blades and fangs appear on his teeth.

And that's all I see before I run for my life.