A/N: Hi guys, and thanks for the reviews! The day's closing to an end, as is my brother's birthday, so this is the update!
demoness of music: Aww thank you! And I love it too! No problem, recognizing my reviewers is a big part of what I should be doing as author!
ERMAHGERD: Oh, please don't send Grell! Thanks!
tohru15: Thanks! Sorry, I can't write this in French, Google Translate's being stubborn. Spanish, German, I could have replied in, but I haven't learned any French- sorry! I hope you like this chapter!

Quote for this chapter: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.- Unknown

7 year old Lilith Michaelis stamped her foot.

"But daddy, why do you have to go?!" she asked, frustrated. Her arms were crossed over her chest too, it was her first time wearing a corset and her screams that morning had probably made half the household deaf.

"It's my job, Lily. But you can talk to any of the others," he sighed. Lily then threw herself to the floor and grabbed his leg.

"No, daddy. You're staying here, with me," she insisted.

"Lilith, let go of my leg or so help me I will walk into town with you holding on to it," he told her.

"Fine, you can mess up my new dress. Perhaps the corset will fall off, oh what a pity that would be," she replied, sarcastically. Oh, how he hated whoever had taught her to use that.

"Lilith, let go of my leg right now," he instructed, and she did as told, shocked at how strict he'd been.

"Are you angry with me daddy?" she asked. He sighed and shook his head. He really felt his age at times like this.

"No, honey. You just need to stop with these tantrums, I didn't think I would have to deal with this until you were a hormonal teenager with PMS," he said.

"What's hormonul? And PMS?" she asked. Sebastian's eyes widened.

"Was that the young master? Oh yes, it was!" he hurried upstairs, leaving a confused little girl downstairs. Hopefully she wouldn't ask Finny or Bard, perhaps Mey-Rin, Paula or Lizzie could deal with her questioning.

Lilith decided, of course, to ask Bard, who spluttered and told her not to worry, she'd know when she was older.

Gale wanted to see Lily, he'd not seen her for over a year, and he missed her sorely. She was his best friend, and he was, at seven and a half, beginning to have attraction towards girls. Not that he thought of Lily in that way. It was expected of a Sutcliffe to be attracted to others earlier than an average child, as that was what Sutcliffes did.

"Dad?" he asked.

"Yeah?" Grell stuck his head out his bedroom door.

"Can I go see Lily today?"

"I don't know... I have a meeting."

"Then take me to the manor and leave me there then. The servants can take care of us..." he trailed off, leaving the matter open to discussion. His father groaned. This boy was only seven and a half for god's sakes. He was not meant to be so persuasive and mature. He got that from his mother, that was for certain. Grell had looked her up after the one night stand, she was a successful business woman, working as a lawyer over in the New World, America. She would probably have given Gale up for adoption anyway, so it was best that Will had tracked him down, in the end. Humans don't know how to deal with supernatural beings, especially when they hit the age where they will be beginning to show their powers (for Reapers, certainly, this happened when they were nine). Grell simply nodded and got him quickly to the Phantomhive estate.

Hearing a knock at the door and seeing that none of the others were making a move to answer, Lily got up and opened the door, hoping it wasn't a psycho murderer killer person.

"GALE!" she yelled, throwing her arms around the older boy. He grinned, burying his head into her shoulder.

"Hey, Lils," he said.

"Lils?"

"My nickname for you, and only mine. No one else can use this one," he grinned.

"Your special nickname!"

"My very special nickname. All for you!" he grinned.

"Well, I wanna go play!"

"What do you wanna play?"

"Mummies and Daddies!"

"Alright then, fine," Gale groaned mentally. This was a very tedious game.

"Gale! Where are the children?" she asked.

"At school. What do you want to do then?" Gale played along, for Lily's sake.

"I want to cuddle!" she squealed. So Gale invited her over and she snuggled under his arm, into his side.

"What are we doing today then?" she asked, after a while.

"Nothing, I don't have to work."

"That sounds like fun. We can just sit and talk and talk and talk!" she squeaked. He nodded slightly. After a few more hours of the game, Grell came to pick Gale up.

"Bye bye Gale!" she said.

"Bye bye Lils!" he returned. Then Lily came up and kissed him, straight on the lips, just a peck, before running inside the house. He put a hand to his lips, briefly, wondering what had just happened. He shook his head, feeling like the oddest seven year old ever, going back, hand in hand, with his father.

A/N: So if you've noticed, Gale is probably the most mature seven year old to have ever walked the earth. Lily is still pretty young acting, but then again she's a daddy's girl, which means she'll be acting as little for as long as Sebby coddles her (which, knowing Sebby, will be a while). I'm going to start putting the chapters up in bigger gaps, to get through the years faster, so that we can catch Lils and Gale through the awkward teenage stage soon! Next chapter will probably be *ahem* 'The Talk: Demon Style' and Lily will be skipping ahead to age 12. It could also involve her first time of the month incident- which will of course be a very embarrassing moment. However, if you feel I'd be going too fast like that, just let me know and I'll backtrack and Lils will just be 7 and half or eight.