OK for starters I am truly sorry this took so long to post. I am in college right now and finals just got over with so with some hope I'll be able to write more. Oh and for the fact that it's taken me FOREVER to update, I also work part-time/fulltime at my job, as in there are weeks when I work more like a full time employee with about 35 or more hours a week and then some where I work way less. So things have been a bit crazy as of late. AND to top it all off I was having major writers block to the point where I ended up just going to a different story that I have stored on my computer, I'll admit I'm a bit addicted to fanfiction for the simple fact that I probably have over a thousand on my computer and not all of them are good. So far this one Daughter of Red is one of my favorites, other wise I'm thinking of uploading one for Shaman King, The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Samurai Deeper: Kyo but I'm not sure yet since I haven't been updating on the ones I have online now. Oh and I am planning on updating my Ouran High School Host Club story today as well so if you're interested in that check it out, Haruhi's Older Protective Sister. Also I'm hoping to update my Prince of Tennis here soon as well.
So if I ever slack off like this again please, please, please feel free to message me and kick me back in to gear for there are times I just get in this rut where I can't think of anything for it doesn't feel like people are reading my stories which is why I haven't updated some of the other stories that I've uploaded here.
Anyways, ENJOY THE NEW CHAPTER.
Chapter 10
"My lady, are you alright?" I heard Sebastian ask as he knocked on the door yet I didn't respond so he slowly opened the door. "my lady?" he said looking around my room yet he found me hiding in my closet "my lady are you alright?" he asked and I looked up at him with fear in my eyes causing his face to change to one of concern
"Please don't kill me." I whispered as tears started to roll down my face for my mind was making me see something else instead of Sebastian I saw a figure with purple eyes and wings in front of me with flames behind them
"My lady, I would never harm you." Sebastian said crouching down so he was eye level with me and slowly my vision shifted and I saw sebastian instead of the figure and I started to cry again as I hid my face as I hugged my knees close to my body "My lady?" he said reaching towards me
"I keep seeing them" I whispered
"Seeing who my lady" Sebastian said moving so he was now sitting beside me in my closet
"My family and their corpses burning as a figure with purple eyes and white wings is chasing me"
"White wings?" Sebastian said surprised and I nodded
"I know it sounds odd but that's what I see. I don't understand it but I'm starting to remember that night" I said looking up at Sebastian "the night my past disappeared."
"Do not try to force the memories my lady" Sebastian said placing his hands on both sides of my face as he looked at me with concern "in time you will remember, I know it."
"I'm not sure I want to remember anymore" I said shaking my head as I hid my face again
"My lady" Sebastian said and I looked up at him again as he smiled slightly as he placed a hand on my head "I promise I will not let anything harm you or those you care for ever again." He said and I looked at him surprised before I suddenly hugged him surprising him as I buried my face in his chest and as a reaction he wrapped his arms around me
"You promise" I whispered in to his chest and he smiled as he looked down at me
"yes I promise" he said and I tighten my grasp on him "My Lady." he said and I looked up at him but then he kissed my forehead causing my eyes to widen "You are forever My lady and I will do all in my power to ensure your happiness for it pains me so to see you with such tears of sorrow." He said as he rested his forehead on the nape of my neck and I laid my head on his shoulder
"Happiness is such a fleeting emotion, how can one ever hope to keep one happy forever." I said smiling slightly
"Your right than I shall strive to keep you happy as long as I can" Sebastian said and I smiled before I looked at him and he sat up and smiled down at me
"Well even if you can't I still appreciate the attempt granted I doubt I'll live forever I am only human." I said with a smile
"We can easily change that." he said and I looked up at him suddenly but he merely smiled "Forget it for now my lady." he said as he started to wipe away my tears with his thumb "Now my lady dinner is finished shall we go then." He said and I shook my head as I got out of the closet and moved to the window
"If it's not too much I'd like to have my dinner in here" I said and Sebastian was instantly at my side bowing slightly
"As you wish my lady" he said and I looked at him and smiled slightly
"And thank you Sebastian, thank you for helping me deal with my moment of weakness." I said looking off to the side
"My lady," sebastian said and suddenly I felt his arms around me as he laid his head on the nape of my neck again and I could see our reflections in the window "Should you ever find yourself like that again please come talk to me. I will always be there to wipe away your tears." He whispered in to my ear and I noticed a faint pink shade was dusting across my cheeks as he then released me and walked out of the room.
'What's happening to me?'
The next day
'Curry?' I thought as an almost familiar smell drifted in the air so I followed it to the kitchens where i found Sebastian and prince soma "May I ask what all the curry is for?" I asked
"L-Lady Alexis," soma said looking at me surprised "Well we were just going to try some of Sebastian's curry"
"They're not right." I said calmly as I looked at each pot "You used curry powder did you not?" I asked and sebastian nodded almost surprised "That's not how it's done you must use nothing but different kinds of spices and ingredients to use curry powder is to admit weakness in ones on cooking skill, honestly even I can make a dish of curry granted it's not that good for I still have much to learn but I did learn it once when my family and I visited India long ago."
"You were in India?" Soma said and I paused as I realized what I just said
"I guess I was" I said blinking with a hand on my head then I smiled "I guess I'm remembering more and more of my lost past."
"Lost past?" soma said surprised
"Yes my lady lost her memory long ago then she became the butler to my young master's aunt who then adopted my lady." Sebastian said and Soma looked at me in awe
"Such terrible tests of courage and faith you truly must be blessed by the gods" he said with a starry look on his face
"Somehow I doubt that is the case" I said with a sigh
"But you must be you remind me of a girl I once knew though I don't remember her actual name I remember her by the name I gave her. Night angel." Soma said and I felt something suddenly connect in my brain with a jolt as my eyes widened
"Wait your purple fur ball?" I said surprised and soma looked stunned before he smiled hugged me spinning me around in the process
"oh my lovely night angle I have found you again!" soma said happily as I blinked but then he stopped as he remembered something "But you don't remember much about me do you?" he said and I looked away sadly but he just smiled as he placed a hand on my head "Don't worry my friend one day you will remember for now we shall have to get to know each other all over again."
"Right" I said smiling and I swear I saw sebastian's eye brow twitch slightly as he had a scowl on his face "sebastian do you mind if I tried helping you cook some curry?" I asked and he looked surprised "It's been so long since I've cooked something as complex as curry and I'd love to be able to again."
"I would be overjoyed my lady." Sebastian said and I smiled
"Then I'll go change and be right back" I said running out of the kitchen
Later I returned in my butler uniform and my hair up in my hat as I was smiling and soon Sebastian and I started to create different curries without curry powder.
And then after sebastian went to deliver some cake to the young earl he returned with it and said that the young earl told him to drop it in to the curry and then I smiled all the more as we soon came up with a recipe and began cooking it in order to work out the finer details to make it all the better for the competition.
Yet on the day of the competition instead of helping Sebastian I was dressed up in a formal gown that would be acceptable if the queen were to be present. So now here I stood beside the young earl in the crystal palace among the crowd of people waiting for the competition to begin. And just as the announcer was about to start the competition none other than the queen herself made her appearance and at her side as she was dressed in black, her butler was dressed in white. Yet as I looked at that butler I felt a twinge of fear in my heart.
Soon the competition began yet during the cooking the butler in white approached me
"Pardon me my lady but her majesty would like to have a word with you" he said and I looked surprised before I looked at the young earl who nodded and I nodded back to the butler in white. Next thing I knew I was sitting in a chair beside her majesty only it was far less decorated and elegant in comparing to hers.
"Her majesty bid me tell you how much you remind her of her late niece the Duchess Maria Veronica Dargos, you look so much like her daughter Alexis Antoinette Dargos." The butler said and I looked surprised as I now had a thinking look on my face
"I thank you for such a complement but can I ask what happened to them?" I asked cautiously
"Sadly little is known about the young Alexis but as for her parents and the rest of the servants of the Dargos estate they were burned alive in a fire that engulfed the estate late in the night. It is rumored that a young girl around the young duchess's age was seen roaming the streets near the estate shortly afterwards so her majesty has hope that her beloved niece's only daughter is still alive." The butler said then the queen whispered something to him "her majesty bids me to ask about your family."
"I know little of my birth family. All I know is my first name, Alexis. If was found on the streets by the madam Angela Durless and I served as her butler for a few years before she adopted me, and I am now Alexis Durless. Yet as of late flashes of my past have been making themselves known to be honest it's rather terrifying"
"Her majesty bids me ask do you think it's possible that you may be the lost duchess Alexis Antoinette Dargos."
"I don't know, but I do know that when I visited the undertaker once with the young earl while he was on a mission at your request during the jack the ripper case I found a picture that seemed to have been drawn by a child and at the bottom the name of who had sent it was Alexis Antoinette Dargos, then the undertaker himself said that it was my drawing and he noticed that I had become rather timid as of late so I guess to answer your question I'm not sure yet."
"But the possibility is rather high." The butler said and I looked at him surprised then her majesty whispered something to him and he smiled "her majesty bid me tell you that she has no doubts as to who you truly are now, you are in fact the lost duchess Alexis Antoinette Dargos and so she will inform the young earl of phantomhive and he will help you regain your proper title as the duchess. But her majesty still requests that you stay with the young earl phantomhive if for nothing more than your own protection."
"I don't know what to say" I said in shock
"time's up!" the announcer said and I looked at him surprised that time had gone so fast yet as the chefs presented their work I found myself lost in my own thoughts.
"My lady" I heard someone say snapping me out of my thoughts and I saw Sebastian in front of me "would you like to sample the recipe you help create" he said and I smiled and nodded my head as he handed me the creation known as the curry bun.
"The queen bids me ask, you helped make the recipe for this curry?" the butler in white asked
"Yes, in fact if it weren't for my Lady I doubt this recipe would have turned out so well." Sebastian said smiling as he bowed
"I remember that mother loved to cook, and one time we visited India for some business that my father needed to do. While there mother learned as much as she could about curry and taught it to me. I love to cook now for various reasons." I said smiling as I looked at the curry bun in my hands.
"The queen says that she remembers your mother well and what you say is true she remembers visiting your family and always eating food that your mother prepared rather than what the servants prepared." The butler in white says "Also her majesty would suspect that you'd like to visit with your cousin the Earl Phantomhive now would you not."
"If it is not too much to ask." I said bowing my head and the butler in white smiled slightly
"Go, and until we meet again my lady Duchess Alexis Antoinette Dargos." The butler said and I smiled back at him before I bowed to the queen and rushed off to see the young Earl.
"Lady Alexis" Meyrin said happily as I walked up to them.
"What did her majesty talk to you about?" Ciel asked
"She thinks I'm the lost Duchess Alexis Antoinette Dargos." I said causing Ciel and the others to look at me in shock.
"Oh my" "really?" "You don't say" Meyrin, Finny and Bard said in shock.
"Well this changes things." Ciel said and I looked at him with a look of worry
"Will this mean I am no longer your cousin?" I asked sadly
"No you will remain my cousin for regardless of the circumstances you are still a Durless and are there for related to me." Ciel said and I smiled
"That's good I almost thought I had lost the one person I can consider family." I said hugging him slightly and he sighed
"family" I heard him whisper before I let him go "well in any case why don't you look around at some of the other exhibits around the crystal palace I'm sure you'd find them fare more entertaining than just waiting around here." He said and I smiled
"Alright. I'll be back in a bit then." I said before I walked off.
Yet as I walked I heard a strange song.
"Ba, Ba black sheep have you any wool?" I heard someone sing and my body froze as I stood outside a toy store where there was a doll house with little figurines that looked strangely familiar
"Yes sir, yes sir three bags full" the voice sang as the figures started to move suddenly
"One for the master." They sang as two people in white one a woman and one a man danced together. "One for the queen" it sang as a small woman in black danced with one that looked like a rotting corpse. "And one for the little earl who's butler makes him tea." The voice continued as two figurines that looked like Ciel and Sebastian moved and as the one that looked like Ciel was sitting at a desk with paper work and the one like Sebastian pored him some tea. "Ba, Ba black sheep have you any wool."
"Yes sir, yes sir three bags full" I found myself singing along before the world around me faded to black.