Chapter 8
Vivian's P.O.V.
I sat in silence. I wasn't tired, I wasn't hungry, and I just sat there, with Sebastian staring at me. I'll admit, it was pretty freakin' creepy.
40 minutes into our… time together, I asked Sebastian To hand me the T.V. remote. Since it was almost midnight, there wasn't much on, so I flipped over to Adult Swim. An episode of Family Guy that I had already seen was on, so I handed the remote back to Sebastian.
"Here," I said, trying to gauge the reaction, "you can watch whatever. I've already seen this."
He smiled, and took the small black object from my hand.
"I'm going to try to sleep, but I don't really know if I will."I looked at him. "You should too. Unless you demons don't sleep."
He smiled wider. "We can sleep, but it isn't exactly necessary, and I don't usually watch television, I just enjoy the background noise."
I looked at the TV guide. Family Guy would be on until midnight, then Robot Chicken at 12:30, then Bleach 'til one, and then a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood special until 2.
" , Sebastian, whatever your name is-,"
"Please, it is Sebastian." He chuckled to himself, "no formalities since you know my deepest, darkest secrets."
God, he was so beautiful and-
"Er, okay, um, Sebastian? Could you make sure I'm awake for that special? I really love Fullmetal Alchemist."
"Of course," he said, dipping his head.
I sighed and looked at my phone, and checked all my social networks, but slowly switched over to my kindle app. I tried to read one of my books, Divergent, to calm myself, but all of my effort was in vain. Damien's burning hatred was keeping me hyped on adrenaline, and my gut told me /I wasn't going to sleep any time soon.
Damien's POV
I trudged into the night from the hospital. The nurse told me that my precious Vivian was going to have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, and the fact that she already had ADD and ADHD wasn't going to make matters any better.
Now, she would be staring off into space in her own little world all the time. I had so much to mull over, and while I was growing too attached to my delicious meal, I knew that any relationship other than the one we already had was unacceptable.
My only hope was that my Lady would forgive me for abandoning her like this, and leaving her with that evil wretch Michaelis, but I didn't think she would mind all that much. Hopefully she would retrieve the note I left her under her pillow.
As more of Vivian's pain washed over me, I started to run into the darkness.
Vivian's POV
I finally gave up on reading.
I got my laptop and called my nurse for the wireless password. She gave me a disapproving look, but told me the password.
I checked my email and facebook, (checking it on my phone just isn't all that great. I like the normal sites), but they were both empty. My feeling of popularity had long since vanished.
I switched tabs to Netflix, knowing that reading wasn't going to do me any good, and hoped that I would find a good anime.
I had recently finished Death Note, and Inuyasha, and was currently in the middle of Bleach, but I couldn't find all the episodes. So, I just browsed all of Netflix's anime selection.
Getting tired of reading summaries, I clicked a random one without looking and plugged in my ear buds as it loaded.
Suddenly Sebastian's eyes widen and his muscles tensed. I was about to ask what was wrong, but he just laughed to himself.
"I wonder what she will think of that," he mumbled. I looked at him, but he just closed his eyes and shook his head at me.
Stupid demons keeping secrets from me….
As the Aniplex and Funimation logos flashed across my laptop screen, I realized that this anime was in English, and the level of desire to watch it went plummeting. (It's not that I don't like English animes, I just prefer to watch it with the original voice actors/actresses).
As the screen turned white with the faint outline of feathers, I thought I heard Sebastian's voice. I paused the strange new anime and looked at him.
"What?"
There was something odd about his expression. Was it… smug? His eyes had started to do that weird demon-y thing and turn pink.
"I haven't said a thing, Vivian."
I rolled my eyes and clicked play on Netflix, and heard his voice again, but this time I kept watching.
What?! This is exactly like when Damien came to me to make me his contractor… What the hell is going on here?
Then a boy with an extremely strong resemblance to Ciel flickered on the screen.
I was absolutely, positively, and undeniably mesmerized.
Then, as the introduction theme played, I realized it really was Sebastian and Ciel. I paused it again, shaking, and said, "S-s-sebastian? W-why are y-you in my laptop?!"
He laughed. "Haha! You've figured me out!"
I looked at him, with my confusion surely swimming around in my eyes.
"So… you're an anime character?"
"Oh no! Oh heaven's no!" He smiled, "Please excuse the pun. My master kept all of our adventures together documented in a journal, and some manga writer in Japan got a hold of it. Once Ciel found out they were going to make an anime out of our adventures, he allowed them to. He made them a copy of the journal, and made sure that I could not do anything. I was not very pleased."
I was… astonished. There, that's the word. "Is… is Damien in here too?"
"No, but there is another demon. You may use that to gauge the destruction that might befall this world if two demons cross one another. As an example."
I was freaking out. I didn't know why. The more I thought about it, the more I thought Sebastian and Ciel belonged in an anime.
I blew through the first episode and immediately thought that this show would be dark and morbid, and I should probably just read a Wikipedia summary. But then I couldn't take the curiosity. I had to know.
I clicked the 'next episode' button, and began the second episode of Black Butler.
~oOo~
