Chapter 9

( 3rd person pov)

" I've always been different from the start."

Then a little girl around four with long, black hair is putting on a pair of glasses wearing guys clothes. Her eyes widen as she places them on, seeing demons, angels and Grimm reapers.

" My eyes are a gift."

Then it shows the girl around 5 reading in the corner with a book in her hand.

" But my personality is another story."

" Nicholas~! " another girl with mousy blonde hair runs up to her wearing a dress." it's time to see Lizzy!" The little girl hugs her then they went on a carriage. The girl stares at the window the whole journey.

" I can't blame my parent. But it's a blessing, and a curse."

The carriage stops and the two girls step out and the older one runs up to another with blonde curls while the other is standing with her parents. Her father who has blonde hair place his hand on the younger ones back and leads her towards a man with dark blue hair and a child behind him. "Lord Phantomhive." Her father called and bow, the blue haired man smile. "No need for formalities John, please call me Vincent." He says and notices her, " I see you had bought along your daughter." John recovers and place his hand on her shoulder. "Yes, I have thought if it would be fine of your son could be with someone at his age." Vincent smile and he turns to the young boy behind him. "It's alright Ciel, come and meet your new friend." He coax him out as John push her in front of Ciel that they are face to face, Ciel finally comes out behind his father. "Hello, my name is Ciel." After the sentence Ciel quickly hides behind his father again. "I'm sorry, my son is always shy when it comes to strangers because of his condition he rarely ventures outside." Vincent apologizes. "No need to, my daughter is understanding in a very young age." "I see, how about we let them play in the garden. We have a meeting in the drawing room." The two fathers lead their children to the garden outside the manor where Elizabeth is talking with her sister.

" I didn't expect to meet him in the first place."

As the fathers left them the two of them are standing next to each other not knowing what to do next. She sits down on the ground watching them play but the Ciel turn to her and sits down next to her. "What's your name?" "Nicholas." Then there is an awkward silence."Do you want play?" "Ok.." After her sentence he drag her and they play, the girl then starts to smile then laugh with her eyes sparkle under the sun then another image shows the children playing In meadow with the girls decorating her hair as they laugh while Ciel is playing with a boy who looks 3 years older than him with blonde.

" But I still accept him like he's part of the family."

She turns to the boys and smiles at them playing. Another image shows a 7 year old girl holding a book sitting under a tree while the 4 children play and then they sneak up and ask." What are you doing?" Ciel asks. She smiles and shows them. " You wanna see?" She smiles and laughs as the three little one shriek with fear when they saw the image of a demon. Then the boy around 10 years old asks her. " When are you going to find a Grimm Reaper little sis?" He asks as he flips to a blank page that the title is ' Grimm Reaper'. " Someday big brother, someday." She takes the book from his hand and places it in her sack that hangs on her shoulder.

" I have observe many being but still no sign of a Grimm Reaper."

The next is the girl sits under the same tree but looks much older with steel cuffs on her wrists and ankles wearing guys clothes. She looks bleakly at the empty page. Then a sword is thrown at her but she caught it with ease. She looks up to see her brother with the same sword in his hand and points at her. " Come on, lets fight!" He says as he goes to his fighting stance. The girl stands up, adjusts her glasses and drags her sword behind her as she sights pinching her nose. " You do know I can still beat you." " Yeah but this time I'm sure to win." He replies arrogantly but she walks away with the sword's tip digging in the dirt. " Come on, unless you're just weak to hold up a sword." She stops when he says that, she turns around slowly to face him who has a smirk on his face. " Don't. Call me that." She snarls at him. " Alright, but you're just because you're a little weak." He sneers. She then takes the sword on the ground and fights. But in five seconds flat, the boy is left lying face first on the ground with a big bump on his head. She claps her hand as she blew apiece of stray hair away from her face and takes both swords and walks toward a cottage.

" But my life is perfect."

As she opens the door, her eyes widen as three kids tackle her in a hug. One is her sister, one is a child with orange hair and brown eyes and another with blonde hair and baby blue eyes. " Nicholas~!" The trio squeal in union, she tries to stand up with the three of them clinging onto her. She smiles and ruffles their hair as she slips on her cap hugs them.

The next image is her sitting watching the sunset. The little boy with orange hair walks over and sits beside her. " Hello." He says with a smile, she turns to him and replies. " Hello Luka." They watch the sunset until Luka ask her. " Nicholas?" "Hm?" " When's your birthday?" " It's tomorrow. I'm turning 10." Then there is silence. " What do you want for your birthday?" She was quiet for a moment and turns to face him." There isn't actually." " Why not?" Luka gives her a confused look. "Because I want everyone to be safe and happy. That's the best present anyone could give me." She says with a close eyed smile and adds. " Also, I would love to find a Grimm Reaper for my Ledger." Luka jumps up and smiles. " I'm sure your wish will come true. I know it will." She smile and hug him. " Thank You, Luka." As she pulls away, he smiles widely as she walks him home.

" As the day came, I didn't expect my wish to come true."

" Happy Birthday!" Her family chant together in union and sung happy birthday.

" I finally found it."

The next one shows the girl walking into the forest wearing boys clothes and a cap holding her ledger, she finds a tree and climbs it and sat down dozing off. " Oh~ Will!~" she jolts awake and rubs her eyes, she turns to where the sound is and finds a man wearing a suit on his hands and knees reaching for something. She climbs down with her hair tucked under the cap, as she came down she steps on something. She looks down to see a rectangle framed spectacle, she takes it and observes it and shoves it into her pocket as she walks to the strange man.

" Um. Excuse me sir? " she asks but the man mumbles with his hands searching on the grass while me mumbles. " My glasses, I can't see without them." After he says that she produces out the spectacles and taps the mans shoulder, he looks up and shocks her to see that he has yellowish green eyes but the man turns to the opposite direction where she is. She sights and holds his shoulders to turn him facing her as she slips on his spectacles, he blinks a few times and looks at her as he stands up. She picks a gardening trimmer next to him and holds it. " That would be mine." The man says and she gives it to him. " Thank you, my name is William .T. Spears. Here is my card." He produces a card and gives it to her, she takes it and shoves it in her pocket. "What is your name?" Asks as he adjusts his glasses with the trimmers, as she could reply she sees something red.

Then she grabs the mans shoulders and shove him aside as she produces her knives and blocks to see a man with long red hair holding the chainsaw with red framed glasses wearing red heels. She jumps back with her knives still in her hands away from the man as the redhead shouts at her. " Hey you! Stay away from my man!" She knits her eyebrows but William hits him on the head with his gardening trimmer. " I'm not your man. I'm sorry, this is my associate. Grell Sutcliff." She lowers her weapons and walks towards them cautiously. Then Grell turns to her and pinches her cheek. " Oh~ You are so~ cute~" he pinches her cheeks but she slaps him hand away and rubs her cheeks which causes him to squeal. She walks to William and asks him. " What's wrong with him? Is he crazy or something? " Grell turns to the them and lunges at her with the chainsaw but she bends back avoiding the blade.

" You take that back! You little brat!" He yells at her as he swing the chainsaw again and she dodges his attacks with his weapon then Grell pounces at her swinging his leg to her head but it hits her cap which causes her cap to fall off. Grell's cheek dusted pink seeing her hair but she catches Grell off guard and kicks the chainsaw out of his hand and kicks him and pins him to a nearby tree with knife stars. She walks over to him slowly carrying Grells chainsaw and starts it up, Grell watches wide eyed as she comes closer tauntingly. She stops in front of him and raises the chainsaw over her head and swing it, Grell screams but she only cuts the tree above his head that only grazes a strand of his hair. She stops the chainsaw and watches the blade on it. " Wow. It can cut." She says and drops it on the ground and went over to Grell and unpin him from the tree but he slumps down from shock. She extends her hand in front of him. " Well?" She asks him and he accept her hand and pulls him up still wide eyed from shock as she takes her cap on the ground and turns to face William. " What are you?". The next image shows her leaning against a tree writing.

" So, being a Grimm Reaper is a job?" She asks as she draws. Then William nods and asks pointing at her steel cuffs. " Why are you wearing those steel cuffs? " she then takes one off on her wrist and holds it out. " Hold it." Grell holds out one hand but she eyes at him. " I would use two of your hand if I were you." She says and drops it into his hand and he falls down with it, he then manages to holds it up with both of his hands. " Its... Huff... Heavy." He says as she take the steel cuff with two fingers and places it back onto her wrists. " Steel weights." William says as Grell asks. " How much does it weight? " he asks as he stretches his back. " I wear four of these, two on my wrists and two on my ankles. With all of them it weights I say around... 1 ton?" William and Grell look at her with shock. " 1 TON?! HOW DO YOU EVEN MANAGE TO WALK WITH THAT?!" Grell screeches but she shrugs and notices a book fell out of Grell pocket. She picks it up, opens it and flips it to a page, she drops the book wide eyed and runs back. On the ground show the page, a picture of her family.

" But, it's the day I will never forget."

She pants as she runs back to find the whole village burning. " MAMA! PAPA!" She shouts and runs into the blazing cottage, she calls her parents but to hear the calking heat from the burning building and she kicks open a door to find bodies lying on the ground. "No..." She stares in horror and she falls unconscious.

She starts to stir and slowly she opens her eyes, she slowly sits up and looks around her to find herself covered in ash and bodies everywhere, abruptly she buries her face in her hands and cry. After a minute she shot straight up. " Luka. Jim." She thought and ran towards the village, its been burnt to ashes that left with rubble and dead bodies everywhere. She makes a turn and she suddenly hears a scream, she runs to the direction and runs towards it. " JIM! LUKA!" She shouts their names, after running she sees a body lying on the ground. She runs towards it and holds it. " L...pant... Luka... Wa... Wake up." She says while waving her hand it front of him, she holds him tightly and hugs him. " Pl... Please... Don't... Leave." She pleas as she buries her face on his chest and cries. She hears a crunch and looks up to see a pair of pink eyes with cat slits, she stares as it vanishes into the shadow.

" That day, was when the devil takes everything in the fire."

The next one shows her standing by graves lay with bouquet lilies and bluebells. She stares down at the graves with no tears and places a hat over her head as she walks away. Then the next one is showing her walking along a path with snowflakes falling from the evening sky, as she looks up she sees a mansion burning into flames. She watches the mansion burn in horror as she fell to her knees and buries her face in her hands and lets out a scream.

" Everything I have. Everyone I cared about. Vanished."

Then it show her again at night in the pond with her glasses hanging on a tree and a sword in her hand, she then starts to practice her swords fighting in the water. The next one is her walking on the streets stealing and pawning items she stole.

" I have live alone with hatred for 3 years yearning to kill the demon that took away my family."

The next image shows her jolts awake in the middle of the night swing a knife, she stares at the knife and puts it away as she takes out her necklace. She puts it out gleaming in the moonlight and memories of her family flows, a single tear streams down her face as curls up into a ball.

" But one day."

An image shows her stealing again but gets caught by Sebastian. She is then taken to the manor where she meets Ciel. He offers her a job and she accepts it. And she is taken to meet the servants.

" I'm hired to be a servant, I took my job well."

It shows her pulling away the tablecloth and another shows her dealing with the mice. Then a voice says. " My, it looks like you have taken care of their mess already?" Sebastian spoke right behind her and with a pushcart next to him.

"But I have to work with a demon."

The next image is her taking blows from the man and another shows her cutting off her bonds then carrying Ciel bridal style as Sebastian walks into the room with the man alone. Then the next image is Sebastian tending her cuts but she flinches as he smiles.

"But I have to trust him, an enemy. And I never knew Ciel would be alive at first. Until."

"Cieeeel!" An image of Elizabeth shows hugging Ciel and her watching them both.

" As soon as I saw her too. I knew that they are okay."

Then the next one is showing Elizabeth crying then hugging her with her hood pulled back.

" That's when I knew,"

The it shows her sitting in the garden with Elizabeth beside her leaning on her shoulder and another of her sitting beside ciels bedside.

" I know what I have to do."

Another shows her hood being pulled back by Sebastian and she slaps him on his cheek and another of her standing beside Ciel with Sebastian.

" To reach my goal."

It shows her again but in the ball dancing with Sebastian as he is leaning close to her but she walks away towards Ciel with Viscount.

" I have to be strong."

Another film shows her blocking the blow from Madame red as she is thrown aside while she is protecting Ciel.

" To live up to my family name."

The next is her tending Sebastian with him wide eyed.

" Even if its from my enemy, I have to trust."

Then it shows her fighting along side Sebastian fighting Grell.

" I would fight with all of my strength."

It shows again her placing herself in front of Sebastian as she stumbles and falls off the roof with her necklace showing.

" And rather die trying."

The cinematic records stop. Nicholas is still breathing with shallow breathes while clutching her wound, she suddenly sat up too quickly and throws a knife a Grell direction.

" Come... Back here... Hck... You coward! " she then coughs up blood while Sebastian beats the face out of Grell since his chainsaw is clogged up. As he is beating up Grell, Ciel watches her as he grip her sleeve.

" Young... Master.." She replies and brushes his hair away from his face. Ciel looks at her with his eyes wide.

" It's you.." He whispers.

"I'm glad ...you're alright..." She says but she then coughs a little as she clutches her wound. Ciel starts to panic and grip her harder.

" Don't die, just hang in there." He says as she winces.

" ...Yes... Young.. Hck... Master." At that moment Sebastian is about to kill Grell but a man on the rooftop blocks it with garden trimmer.

" Will! You have come to save m-" before he complete his sentence the man rams his foot on his head causing Grells face to slam into the ground. The man will takes out a book and reads from it as he rams Grells face even further into the ground. After that he walks over to Nicholas and crouch down and place his hand on the wound.

" This may hurt." He says as the cinematic records rewind back into her body while clenching her teeth, after that the wound is gone. As he stands up, she grips his sleeve and holds onto it but she then slips unconscious and loosens her grip on his sleeve. He adjusts his glasses and drags Grell away into the shadows leaving Ciel, Nicholas and Sebastian alone. Sebastian walks over to Nicholas and carries her back to the manor with Ciel.

(Sebastian pov)

I carry the girl in my arms while the young master seems to agree to walk instead of being helped, I place her back into her room and change her clothes into dry ones. I lift to inspect the wound on her stomach to find nothing but a very faint pink line, I put away her wet clothes and change her but something caught my eye as I turn over her left side to find a brand mark on the left side of her upper arm, a black engraving of a phoenix with its wings tucked that stretch the size of my palm.

"How is she." I turn around to find the young master standing in the doorway.

"She's fine, her cinematic records have rebound back into her body. She will be waking soon in a few days." He came closer and stare at the brand on her arm.

"That mark."

"I've noticed, but for now young master it's time to retire."

"Yes."

( Nicholas pov)

As the first light stream from the window I crack open my eyes and slowly sat up as I touch my abdomen where Grell cut me with his chainsaw but felt nothing, not even a scar. I lift the covers and inspect it to find the skin smooth like it had never happened. I slowly get out of bed, change into my uniform and walk out of the room to the kitchen, as I'm chewing on a piece of bread Sebastian came in and surprise to see me. I look at him giving him a questioning look and walks over to me.

" Why are you out of bed?"I hold up my half finished bread and finish it off .

" How long was I asleep?"

" 3 day." I look at him wide eyed and remembered of the events from the last night and calmed down.

"After you're done, get ready. We're attending a funeral."

~ Time skip in the church~

Ciel walks in the church with a crimson dress while I and Sebastian are waiting outside for his signal with a carriage full of red rose petals. As he places the dress next to his dead aunt we open the door to let the petals fly in the wind, after the funeral myself, Ciel and Sebastian a the only ones in the cemetery.

" Come on, we have to meet someone." Me and Sebastian follow him to see the undertaker. And the grave he lead us to is the last victim.

" It looks like she is an immigrant and no one claims her body so the young earl request me to make her a little pretty burial." The undertaker says and takes his leave.

" It's really kind of you." I say behind him, Ciel replies.

" How many times do I tell you I'm-." But I cut him.

" Why didn't you pull the trigger." He stops and Sebastian continues.

" You have a concealed gun with you and yet you didn't took the bullet to kill her." Ciel turns around to face the both of us.

" I didn't need to, I knew that you would protect me and Sebastian would too that would breach the terms of my contract." He says and Sebastian asks.

" Then explain why you stop me."

" She has been corrupted from the dark path she faced but in her eyes she wouldn't kill me because she hesitated. But I don't hesitate." He says as he walks past the both of us and commands us with an order.

( Ciel pov)

" I never knew she and I had a connection but I can't seem to remember. I want to talk to her as an equal, I have many questions that the files from Scotland Yard didn't contain but she is my servant and now she will be a butler." I thought as I gave them an order.

" From here and now you two shall not betray me or leave my side. This is an order."

( Nicholas pov)

We both turn to face Ciel and kneel down as we say in union.

" Yes, My Lord."