Two chapters in one day. lol. I just couldn't stop writing. Teehee. This story is almost coming to a close soon. Hehe.

Chapter 10

"Hey, he's waking up!"

Eyes opened, scanning the blurry surroundings; Ciel could not make out the figures above him, though rather familiar. He blinked, bringing his vision clearer before noticing the two cats from before; Tatiana and Ellie. The both were looking at him worriedly.

"Hey, are you alright?" Tatiana, the black and white cat asked concerned.

"What happened to you?" The other, Ellie, intersected. "You just disappeared the other day and now appear looking…like this!"

The two waited, hovered above him as he tried to move but it proved to be too painful.

"You shouldn't move too much, it looks like you're hurt pretty badly." Tatiana offered.

"Yea, Marlow went to find Sebastian. He should be here soon….maybe." Ellie spoke, her word quietening towards the end, but it didn't escape Ciel's hearing.

"M…M-may..be?" Ciel choked out, deciding it was better to just stay as he is, as his awareness slowly came back.

"He hasn't been around much." Tatiana spoke quietly.

Ciel did not say anything, but he was secretly hoping that Sebastian had been out looking for him. He needed to get into the office again, there must be a way he can contact his butler but he was too tired right now. He could still hear the soft pitter-patter of the slowing rain but realised that he couldn't feel it. Tilting his head, he looked up to notice the brown cardboard box above him. He must be back in the shelter again.

"You should stay here are rest, we should go help Marlow look for Sebastian." Tatiana looked towards Ellie's direction for her view, who just nodded in agreement.

"Don't worry, we'll find him. Leave it to us!" Ellie said, and the two went off leaving Ciel to close his eyes and rest. Though it wasn't like he could sleep anymore, especially with the pain that had been building up since the day he left the manor.

It wasn't before long when he heard a noise from outside the shelter, curious; he manages to just about stand and took a few steps outside the cardboard box. The rain had now stopped, though he could not see anyone from where he was standing; making his way around to the back of the shelter, he noticed a black form up in the near distance; Marlow, who was now walking towards him.

'Was Sebastian coming?' His ear perked up but the look of the other cat's eyes told him that that wasn't the case. There was also something about those eyes that made him think that he should get away.

Before the other could get closer, he dashed away and ran to the other side of the building, but he was cut off by the black cat as it ran past him and stood just in front of him forcing him to stop. He was much faster than him since he could not run very well in his current condition.

"What's wrong?" The black cat asked, though there was no hint of a question anywhere in his tone. "Do you not like me?" There was a slight humour to his question. Ciel could not come up with anything to say to the daunting cat in front of him who was now circling him as he did so before. Ciel could only watch as the latter did so. "Not that I care…Since I don't particularly like you either…Ciel Phantomhive!" Marlow spat out his name with malice.

The cat sneered as Ciel's eyes widen.

"How did I know perhaps?" Marlow said, reading his thoughts.

"I just happened to be around when you was…messing around in your office." An image of the note he written on the piece of paper flashed into his mind.

"Now, I don't know how you got to become like….this." Motioning to Ciel. "But I'm curious as to why? Was it not enough to get his attention as a human, but now you are going to take him away from us as a cat as well?" Marlow hollered. This made Ciel confused; he did not know what Marlow had meant by that, afterall he did not wanted to be a cat in the beginning. It was all a mistake.

"Although," the cat continued, in a lighter tone, "It seemed like it didn't work." Ciel's thoughts were thrown away once again as he tried to take in what was being told.

"Wha-?" But before he could say anything, Marlow was already cutting him off. "It seems everyone is much happier now that the human you are gone." This cut through Ciel like a knife as he heard. It was what he feared since the beginning.

"T-That's not true." He tried held his composure against the malevolent feline, even though his heart was already beginning to crack.

"Oh? Why don't you come see for yourself?" With that, the black cat turned, beckoning the grey cat to follow. Ciel stood debating whether to follow or not, it could be a trick, but his legs was already making its way to where Marlow was walking, wanting to find out the truth.

The two stopped outside a window to the living room where he usually sat when entertaining his guest. From outside, the ledge of the window was almost a meter high; he looked towards Marlow who just insisted him to go on. "Go ahead and look." After taking another pause, Ciel jumped as high as he could and latched on to the ledge, he used his claws which he learnt from past experience to hold himself up as he dragged himself up and peered into the window passed the red curtains.

What he saw was a blonde haired girl with green eyes sitting in one side of the room holding a cup in her hand, on the other side, was a dark skinned prince with purple hair and golden eyes. Behind him was another dark skinned man with white hair and blue eyes. His servants; Meirin, Bard, Finny and even Tanaka was also in the room. But what made his heart tighten wasn't the fact that everyone was there but the fact that Sebastian was also there serving them tea as if nothing was wrong; everyone in the room were laughing and talking even while he was not there with them. Neither of them seemed concerned that he had been missing the past couple days.

His eyes burned from the threatening tears that formed as his thoughts went to the eccentric Lizzy who had did everything she could to make him happy but every time, he would try and avoid her, and the prince who was always going on about playing and having fun but was brushed off as he had worked to do. The pain he felt in his heart was almost as painful as that day; he didn't know that pushing others away from him could still hurt him so much. He had been separating himself from the outside world just so that he would not experience this feeling, but it was all in vain.

Ciel was lost in his own thoughts that he didn't realised that Marlow had jumped up and was beside him until he spoke, "As you can see, they are much happier even when you are not there. They don't really care about you, a spoilt brat. Wanting something he can't have." The words cut him deep, his mind and heart empty as the word rang. "It would do everyone a favour if you would just be kind enough and just disappear for good!" Ciel could not hear the rest of it as he turned and ran; the image he just saw burned in his memories as tears started flowing, as it did since that time.

I hope that Ciel didn't become too OOC near the end. I still wanna write some more but I'm tired. xD Next chapter should be out next week unless I'm still bothered enough to write the next one tomorrow.

R&R I would like to know what you think about it, =D

Not really sure how I'm going to turn Ciel back now...Hmmm...Maybe I should do a 'Princess and the Frog' lol xD Hmmm...I'll figure out something.