Chapter 10: to catch a killer part 2: butterfly at the ball
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Once the coach arrived Alice stepped out to see a Manor that was equal in splendor to the Phantomhive mansion, and once inside she was surrounded by people, including Ciel, Madame Red, Lau and his female attendant and Sebastian all of them briefed on what they should do.
Hijikata and the others would patrol around outside in case the viscount tried to make a run for it, however Hijikata was anxious, he wanted to be inside where he could keep an eye on Alice, everyone knew that Hijikata was slightly jealous of the attention she gave Ciel, and he was afraid for Alice due to the damage this city has already done to her, it left her vulnerable and weak.
He tried to pass off as Alice's bodyguard, but was immediately turned away at the door with a metaphorical pat on the head and reassurance that everyone was perfectly safe at the ball, with a sigh of frustration he walked around the grounds watching out for and irregularities, until he was approached by Sebastian.
Sebastian needed to create a diversion, but he needed help with it, he'd noticed that the ringleader of the men in Miss Liddell's group seemed to be more protective of her than the others, he seemed to panic if the smallest thing happened to her, every interaction this man had with Miss Liddell amused him quite a bit.
"Excuse me, Hijikata isn't it?" Sebastian asked the stoic man.
"yes, what do you want?" Hijikata replied softly not even turning to look at Sebastian.
"I need to create a diversion, and I need an assistant in this public display" Sebastian requested with a smile.
"why me?" Hijikata asked raising an eyebrow at the request.
"the ladies like attractive and exotic looking young men like yourself, plus I noticed your pining after the young miss Liddell" Sebastian answered smirking, causing Hijikata to turn and look at him, as if to ask how did he know.
"So you'll help me, yes?" Sebastian said with a smile that screamed "I'll tell everyone about it if you don't".
Meanwhile Alice was being spun around the dancefloor by Ciel, attracting a lot of attention from many of the other men and women at the ball. However there was another pair of eyes on her that mattered more in this case, because they belonged to the ball's host. The viscount Druitt also known as Alistair Chambers, as flamboyant as he was had a good eye for pretty young women, and while there were many beauties at the ball tonight, but they all seemed to fade away once he laid eye's on Alice in all her splendor.
"What a beautiful little butterfly, fluttering about the dancefloor" he whispered to himself as he watched Alice and Ciel waltzed around.
Once the pair had stopped due to either dizziness or exhaustion, he decided to make his move and introduce himself.
"Young lady, you dance so wonderfully, care to join me for a dance" asked the viscount, causing Alice to jump and nearly drop her glass of sloe gin, Alice surveyed the man stood before her, he was a tall slender man who had sharp feachers that defined his aristocratic blood, he had deep blue eyes and a shock of blonde hair that reached his shoulders, and whore a pure ivory white suit, which only added to his attractive physique.
"Good evening, lord Druitt" said Alice curtsying politely, obviously trying to hide her shame with a bowed head.
The viscount smiled and gave a small chuckle, and hold out his gloved hand hoping Alice would take it. Alice looked at the outstretched hand for a few moments and then gladly took it, only to be escorted back to the dance floor for another whirl around. Meanwhile Ciel was surprisingly happy that everything was going to plan, the guests where being distracted by Sebastian and Hijikata with their magic trick, which was about to happen now, and Alice was distracting the viscount, he believed that once Alice get's the viscount to let his guard down enough to tell Alice anything no matter how small that piece of information was.
"you dance beautifully my lord" said Alice complimenting, the idiotic man who was leading her around the dance floor.
"why thank you, my little butterfly" replied the viscount, causing Alice to shudder in disgust.
The viscount let out a soft laugh and decided to lead her off of the dancefloor and up the grand staircase and down a long hallway.
"where are we going?" Alice asked in mock worry.
"just somewhere we can have a bit of fun" he replied nochelontly as he opened a door and escorted Alice into a dark room.
Once inside the room began to fill up with a heavily scented purple gas, feeling a sudden tiredness begin to over Alice staggered over to a table so she could hold herself up.
"What the?...Damn you!" She managed to growl out before she fell forward once the gas had rendered her unconscious.
"Sleep tight little butterfly" the viscount whispered as he caught Alice.
Half an hour later Alice woke up to find everything was dark as a factory chimney, she felt a piece of fabric across her face, a blindfold, after a few moments once her senses adjusted to the situation, she heard footsteps coming towards her, however they stopped a short distance away from her.
"now here we have a real beauty, this girl looks to be of noble stock, and appears to be in good health, she has some light scarring on her face, neck and upper torso, that may put you off, but for a true collector, this is a sign of true tenacity" said the viscount, like he was pitching a sale at an auction, then Alice released it was an auction, for human beings, and she was the next lot.
Just as bidding began a heavy banging on the door echoed from across the room, caused both the audience and the viscount to panic.
"Police! open up! you're under arrest!" Came Hijikata's booming voice came, terrifying everyone but Alice who was trying hard not to laugh at the pandemonium.
Suddenly the door flew off its hinges revealing Hijikata, Saito, Yamazaki, Okita, Shinpachi, Heisuke and Harada all with either furious expressions or evile smiles on their faces. This was when the viscount became truly terrified for himself, while he knew he'd been tricked, by these men but he could see that they were dangerous, judging by the weapons they carried.
It was just then when Hijikata walked up to the stage that displayed Alice who had been bound and blindfolded, like a princess about to be thrown to the dragon, he looked at the viscount with absolute hatred for his treatment of Alice, it was like she was livestock to be sold in the man's mind.
"How dare you treat another human being like that, I should kill you for this atrocity" Hijikata said in a angry growl raising his blade so he could cut the viscounts head off.
"Don't Hijikata! We need him alive!" Cried out Alice at the realization.
"Yeah boss, if he dies we can't ring any information out of him about those murders" called out Heisuke as he cut Alice free.
"Plus we can let the real police deal with the illegal selling of humans" Alice continued in a stern voice, as she tore the blindfold off.
"yes, yes that's right you need me alive for answers!" Said the viscount quickly, obviously frightened at the possibility of death.
With that Hijikata sheaths his sword and walks over to Alice, scooping her up in a bridal fashion, and began to walk back through the ball and out to the Phantomhive townhouse, this gesture caught the eye of everyone at the ball along with many journalists and police officers who assisted in the operation as well as Ciel who was smirking at the pair.
Little did Alice and Hijikata know, Ciel had a pet project, a plan to show Alice how much Hijikata loves her, he knew how oblivious Alice could be, even to her own heart, and it would take a brick to the back of the head for her to actually acknowledge something as big as this. So rather than sending Sebastian, he sent Hijikata hoping that it would show her that her loves and cares for her enough to rescue her from monsters like Jack the ripper and Angus Bumby.
Meanwhile Hijikata had carried Alice, who was still groggy from the sleeping gas, back to the townhouse, by the time he'd got there Alice had curled up in his arms and leaned in to his chest, in an almost childlike manner, searching for comfort. Hijikata relished in the feeling, she finally trusted him enough for this, to allow her to carry her while she was still awake and aware of it was a step forward in his mind, seeing as he knew that Alice didn't trust people let alone men very well.
Once inside he carried the exhausted girl up to her room and gently lay her on her bed, however unlike the last time, he decided to stay with her, he pulled off her shoes and his own shoes and climbed in next to her, falling asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, with the smell of her perfume, and the memory of her beauty at the ball in his mind for eternity.
Next morning when it was time to get up everyone decided to let Alice sleep after what happened the night before, so when Ciel sent Baldroy up to her room with her breakfast, he got a surprise when he saw Hijikata, lying next to his tiny cousin watching her as she slept the day away. Baldroy went bright red with protective anger, after he set the breakfast tray on a table by the door, he dragged Hijikata out of the room and proceded to hit him over the head with a frying pan he was carrying, yelling at him for his perverse actions, sadly for Hijikata this form of humiliation didn't stop there because he was witnessed by everyone who was awake in the house.
Hijikata entered the lounge only to be met with a glare from Madam Red and a series of snickers from his comrades, he knew he was probably in trouble for what he did, but with him being in a rather protective state of mind, he silently maintained to himself that nothing happened and while he had feelings for Alice, he didn't wish to discuss it with the others. With turbulent times in Japan he had learned that if someone of his station in the military had an emotional attachment to someone it could end badly, on both sides.
However the mood quickly changed when Ciel saw the headline of the daily star, it turned out that jack the ripper struck again the night of the ball, while they got results and exposed the viscount as a human trafficker and running an illegal slave auction, it wasn't the result they were after, they now had to find more suspects and go after more leads as well as possibly do another undercover job, something Alice was in no condition to do.
Ciel was frustrated to no end with this case, he had been considering Madam Red's recommendation of allowing the case to go cold, but this made him realize something, causing him to make a mental note to tell Sebastien and Alice later.
hey lovelies
i know i've been neglecting this story but i recently got into Durarara and I'm already a harry potter fan, so i decided to expreiment and do another first for me and do a hp and durarara fanfiction.
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