Sorry for the long wait but here is the next chapter!

Okay, short a/n but that's okay.

I would like to give all the credit to my beta: Carrie2Sky! She is a hell of an awesome beta so everyone- be jealous! Now, set forth my cockatiels and read this chapter. Oh and I would like to thank a special person- DeliciousKrabKakes! Thank you, Darlin' for loving my story enough to make me a video on Youtube. I love you!


Ciel still had trouble saying simple words, but he had a feeling things would now only continue to get better. As he was carried on the shoulder of his butler, he leaned his head into the palm of his hand while still gumming on his thumb with his other hand and thought about what Sebastian's punishment would be when he returned to normal.

After he was deposited in his office, he turned to face Sebastian. "Seh-bah-stan." He still had trouble pronouncing some of the syllables of his butler's name. "I am hungry!"

Hearing this, Sebastian sighed knowing that the whole ordeal was coming to an end. He huffed a bit knowing what would come later for his punishment.

...

Throughout that whole day, Ciel kept ordering his butler around, happy at the new found fact that he could now gather his thoughts and pronounce words with more clarity.

Though he was the only one was that was happy at the fact; Sebastian on the other hand was dreading every time he came into contact with him knowing that Ciel always had a new order that was slightly getting better with pronunciation as the day progressed.

...

It was late in the evening when dusk was pulling in, smoothing the clouds in waves of pink and fading blue. Ciel sighed a bit as his stomach rumbled its complaints.

Growl. Growl. Gurgle.

Ciel sighed as he sat on his desk even though he couldn't do his work he could still draw and attempt to do the unfinished papers. He grabbed his pen in his hand clumsily and attempted to practice his signature.

... Ciel Phantomhive...

The letters came out sloppily instead of the usual sloping cursive which made him disappointed, but not for too long because soon after that Sebastian appeared at the door with a knock signaling his presence.

"Excuse me, but I've come to tell you that dinner is served." He stood in front of the door with a pleasant smile that looked normal on him as if he always been smiling his whole existence which Ciel knew was not true. The only time Sebastian may have smiled in his earlier existence was from sadistic humor.

But one does wonder, why doesn't Sebastian smile with his teeth showing?

As soon as Sebastian approached and picked up Ciel, he turned and poked at Sebastian's cheek before his hand was taken away. "Do we really need a repeat of what happened earlier?" Sebastian didn't turn his head when he said this and Ciel was left looking up at him.

He scowled and whined before he pressed his hand again on his butler's face. "Why don't your teeth show?" Sebastian sighed and flicked his eyes over to meet Ciel's questioning look.

"They do. You just don't see them." 'Whatever' Ciel was going to say, but that was lost when they reached the dining room.

The table that was centered in the middle of the dining room had a certain amount of food that was on the end of the table and had a slight amount of steam rolling off it in slight waves.

Ciel's eyes practically widened at the sight, but as he got closer he saw that it was all mush looking food. Scowling, he turned and looked at Sebastian. "What is this?"

Sebastian smirked a bit before he went and set down the toddler on the seat with stacked books for his small height. "It's food, remember earlier you were complaining of having a tooth ache?"

The adorable toddler pursed his little lips. "I did not ca-ca-plan." At his little mishap of pronouncing complain correctly, his right hand butler chuckled a bit under his breath.

"Are you trying to pronounce complain, Young master?" He mocked, his graceful shaped eyes twinkled with mirth at which Ciel ignored his wit and squirmed a bit on the stacked books before he gripped a spoon clumsily and attempted to feed himself, but that plan failed when his mashed food missed his mouth and fell with a soft splat on the edge of the chair.

A few snickers sounded from his servants who were quiet until now. He shot his head over at them and glared at them until they shot up straight as if a sting of electricity went through them.

Ciel smirked a bit and turned towards his food, unknown that the reason his servants straightened up was from the glare Sebastian shot at them from behind his master. He then mimicked Ciel in expression before he bent over to help the toddler eat.

He huffed a bit at this, but complied with the hand that held the spoon over his own hand and directed the food into his mouth instead of it falling and feeding the chair and floor instead.

...

It took at least 15 minutes for Ciel to successfully finish his meal and all the while the servants were snickering before Sebastian finally sent them out of the room. They were useless and had no purpose there; he could do the rest himself while making sure his master was all set.

Ciel huffed a bit with his full stomach and watched as Sebastian cleared his place. While the butler was in the kitchen, he precariously tried to climb his way down, not really wanting to wait for butler to help him.

He had almost had his foot down close to the ground when the books tilted and along with them, he too fell to the ground with a loud thud, with pages whipping as they hit the ground.

A loud cry sounded through the air as Sebastian was washing the dishes. He sighed and flicked his hands to get rid of the runaway droplets before he dried his hands completely. When he finished this process, he rolled down his sleeves and left the kitchen glad at the fact that he had already finished the dishes.

He appeared through the door in a silent fashion and came upon the sight of a crying Ciel who had books on top of him. With a click of his tongue, Sebastian walked towards him and bent down and began picking up the few big books and only when he was complete, he picked up his still crying master.

Trying to soothe him with pats on his back, he pressed him against his shoulder with a slightly annoyed look before he started towards his master's bedroom.

At times like these, where he would cry, it was better to put him to bed than for him to be up fussy and crying. On the way upstairs, he passed Mey-rin who was dusting and had the rail-wood polish at the bottom of the stairs.

"Mey-rin after you finish dusting this, make sure that is not black polish." With that Sebastian continued his small trek upstairs.

Upstairs on the second level was much quieter if not eerie for Ciel who had stopped crying once he saw Mey-rin. He didn't need to make a scene for himself and have them remember him as a bawling child.

He shifted his tired body against Sebastian in an attempt to be released only for Sebastian to pat him on his back as a warning. Taking no heed to the warning, he tsked and tried to push away only for him to be smushed against his black butler. His face was smashed against the starchy clean jacket of Sebastian's and when he tried to speak his voice came out muffled.

"Now, now Young master. We're almost to your room, I know you're tired so be still and we will be there in a moment." Apparently Sebastian decided to play the fool's part and ignore Ciel's struggle to get down.

The little boy sighed and stilled before he got uncomfortable with the close proximity of his butler. He pushed his body away from the older man, glad that he was no longer suffocating and shifted upwards a bit so he could rest his head on the large shoulder.

All too soon, he tried to sleep and was rewarded with an easy transcend into the darkness of a peaceful sleep.

...

Sebastian looked at his master's body when he had finally stilled and before he even got a peek at the sleeping boy, he already knew he was taken into sleep's grasp.

He sighed with closed eyes briefly before he opened them and continued walking down the carpeted hall in a peaceful air that made Ciel slip deeper into sleep.

When he reached the door, he went in with no problem. Not needing to knock to announce his presence since he had a miniature version of his master swiftly asleep in his arms.

With smooth precise steps only a butler such as him could have, he approached the wide bed with sheets that were cool especially on the other side where Ciel's body did not yet reach anymore.

The little boy mumbled briefly before he leaned into his cool sheet's touch and wrapped his arms around a pillow almost the size of him and curled around it all while his faithful butler watched the scene with bemusement before shaking his head.

Before he left the room, he went and closed the curtains as usual so the morning sun tomorrow would not disturb Ciel's sleep until it was time to wake up.

And before he left the room, he turned once more at the small sleeping form and once more at the window and then left with a small click.

...

As soon as Sebastian left the room, he went towards the first room that was closest in order to start cleaning it. He knew all the spots where dust usually accumulated and got to work on dusting it.

After he dusted that he went around the room quickly in a matter of minutes, dusting every surface leaving an imaginary sparkle. Once he was done with that, he put the duster down and went and fluffed the pillows and dusted them from the dust that had gotten on them from his dusting. He then changed the flowers that were in the vase, which was situated on a stand by the couch's arm.

After all that was over and done with, he left the room to go and finish the night's task while everyone in the mansion slept soundly not even on edge from the fact that there was a creature roaming the halls.


The night had passed well into the next morning and already the mansion was coming alive with the morning chores. Everything changes; dust gathers so surfaces need to be dusted, pillows sink into themselves so they need fluffing, and flowers grow so they need to be tended to.

The sun was already bright in the morning and made the usually dark and dank manor dead. But on days like today, it didn't matter if there only a few people that occupied the house. Sunshine radiated through the clean windows and birds chirped as they flew overhead.

After Sebastian had finished doing his nightly activities, the sun had already started to rise so then after he made sure all the servants were awake, he started for the direction he knew his young master was in.

The butler was just going up the stairs, planning on waking up Ciel seeing as it was 7 but there was no need for that for Ciel was waiting for him at the top of the stairs. Sebastian was surprised he had woken up that early, seeing as he never liked to be awakened in the first place.

A single sentence left Ciel's mouth.

"I'm hungry, Sebastian." He smirked proudly after that and the elder was surprised to realize that Ciel had grown 2 inches taller as well as gaining a better speech.

Sebastian smiled falsely up at him. "I was just going up there to wake you since you-"

Ciel had cut him off by waving a hand at him. "I don't care what you were going to do. I'm hungry, Sebastian." He laughed at the end in his childish voice that came out to sound a bit more devious. Oh, he was glad he was finally growing. That damn potion or whatever the hell it was, had finally ran its course through his body and by tomorrow, it would most likely be reaching its end.

He would soon go back to normal and be able to deal Sebastian his proper punishment. His eyes shone with glee at the thought. As of right now, his thoughts were slowly knitting themselves back to normal, the only problem was still his speech but soon that would be over and done with.

Sebastian inwardly snarled at his master's rudeness but on the outside, his face was smooth and expressionless, a reaction Ciel knew was to keep his real thoughts from showing. Sometimes he wondered just how far he could push Sebastian, how far he could go to make that expressionless face morph into anger.

His butler bowed and turned to go down the stairs but was stopped by Ciel. "Sebastian, I'm bored and I still can not read or spell. Take me to the kit-chan."
He muttered at the fact that he messed up his last word just when he was doing well.

But nonetheless, he was still making progress.

The elder turned with indifference and walked up the stairs to grab Ciel unless he wanted him to fall. He knew there was no point in arguing with his master. As long as Ciel was slowly growing out of the elixir, he would slowly start to order out his punishments to him.

He bent down and grab Ciel's hand, which he was sent a glare for, and helped the toddler down the many stairs. Ciel had almost tripped due to a balance issue but Sebastian held him up.

Once they reached the bottom of the stairs and when they were safely on a flat surface, Sebastian released Ciel's hand and took a step away to a respectable distance.

"Shall we go, Young master?" Sebastian inquired with a motion of his hand towards the kitchen.

Without answering, Ciel went ahead with Sebastian following behind him in his quiet manner. No matter how quiet, Sebastian was, Ciel would always know the hunter was there waiting for him slip up so he could snatch up his meal.

...

By the time Ciel had reached the kitchen, his feet were cold. He whined and looked around for a place to sit but saw none. He looked up at Sebastian who had already left him at the door and was now taking things out. Looking around, Ciel saw no one else in there so he had no one to talk to. He looked straight at Sebastian, "Where are the others?" he questioned.

Without stopping his work, the butler answered. "There was a shipment that came in today so I sent them to go retrieve them."

Still he didn't have to send all of them. "You had to send all of them as well?"

Sebastian smirked a bit. "Is the Young master lonely?"

That made the toddler's cheeks heat up and he huffed indignantly. "No!"

"Very well, I'll tell you. I did have to send them all. There were quite some heavy things that required Finny's strength. Bard went along to make sure he didn't accidentally destroy anything, as well as drive the carriage and Mey-rin went in order to shop for some things."

Ciel mumbled under his breath, but stayed silent and once more the silence stayed there. Still his feet were cold so he looked up at Sebastian and saw him chopping some carrots.

He decided to leave him be and left the kitchen in search of something better to do seeing as all Sebastian was doing was mundane things.

Also he made sure to keep in contact with carpeted areas; his feet were cold on the morning, unheated tile of the kitchen's floor.

He wandered the halls and entered his drawing room and saw nothing. He entered his study and saw nothing of importance, but he still went in anyways and went to sit in his chair.

After doing some test swings from side to side, he went around in a full circle before the chair lost its momentum and came to a stop. He did it again. And again, and again.

After he went around in a circle multiples times, he stopped with a feeling of sickness. He gagged a bit before he got off his chair and went and lay down on the floor, too sick to his stomach to even want to venture to his room.

His head had started hurting and a few heaves left him before they stopped. So he just lay there with a headache.

Stupid chair.

He was hot so he went to a new spot on the floor for a cold one before he relaxed onto it. My stomach still hurts.

He froze when he heard a knock on the door before he relaxed. Getting up on his hands, he stopped and lay back down; he wanted to see what Sebastian would say when he saw him on the floor.

"Excuse me." Then the door opened and he heard Sebastian approach his desk and heard the click of the tray as it was placed upon his desk. "You're having-"

Ciel growled and sat up. "Sebastian!"

That made the butler turn and look at him. "Yes, young master?" He smirked a bit at the end, knowing why Ciel had gotten riled up. He knew when he saw Ciel and the askew chair, what exactly had happened. But he chose to ignore the fact that his young master was on the floor and instead just recited what he was having for breakfast.

"I was on the floor and you didn't even do anything!" Sebastian winced a bit when Ciel's voice turned high at the end.


Hehe I sort of realized that it was a bad place to end off with. My bad. Well thank you for reading and hopefully reviewing. Please? Oh and before I forget, I made a Facebook for this (even though it's pointless) I don't know, I was a bit conflicted about making one. So everyone, go and add me as a friend. It's should be on my profile already and if it's not then just type in my username: Jezebel Strike.