"Transmogrification"

Some days Lizzy wondered what the world would be like if Ciel were the one standing in her place. Would he be desperately watching and hoping, as she was, that the night would not end with the loss of another family member? Would his mind, like hers, be racing and pouring over the past for any hint of when this began or any way that it could have been prevented—any way that he could have been enough for Madam Red? Would his hand have been braced on his weapon as both he and Auntie Ann poured their hearts out, as he admitted that she had always been another mother to him, a gentle hand in a ferocious world that would never turn him away when he had no one else to be weak in front of? And would Ciel's eyes have been as cold as Lizzy's as Angelina Dalles pulled out her knife and he was forced to defend himself? Could he have been able to kill his own aunt, like she had?

Would Ciel Phantomhive have been a better, stronger, more capable human being that Elizabeth Phantomhive?


A/N: Our first glimpse of manga plot! And look, it's already diverging!
(And yes, I love the irony of Lizzy thinking that Ciel would be more brave when in reality he couldn't kill Madam Red. :) )
Anyways, from now on I'll pretty much be posting this in the order that I've written it. So, this is the stuff that I wrote before I even posted chapter one—meaning that I was still doing some world-building in my head. I'm still figuring out how various aspects of the story need to change, big or small—and, for this arc, I'm thinking big. Lizzy doesn't have a demon, after all. Also—non-linear! There's more of this arc to come, but not immediately. Whereas I kept "Nexus" together to provide a solid background, this arc doesn't really need that and will likely be scattered or at least have interludes between the chapters. It depends on what I feel like writing, honestly.

"Transmogrification," as in a grotesque or horrifying change