A/N: I'm...Baaaaaaaaaaack! This time, I'm on fire after breaking free from the writer's block and aim to write more, thanks to some inspirations! Though, totally sorry about a long absence... Lot of stuffs happened. D8


The day revealed to be almost done when the sun was being lowered down. The trip to the rather large property owned by the Earl Leroy have came to the end as the carriage which held the young Earl Phantomhive, his butler, and lastly, Jeanette parading the identify of Earl's teacher, pulled up in front of the lovely three-story mansion. Jeannette, pulling on the strings of bonnet, had been trying to not speak or stare toward Ciel and Sebastian the whole time ever since she spoke with the bat demon, and shivered despise of heavy wool shawl draped over her shoulders, glancing in direction of Earl Ciel whom already stepped out of the carriage. Rubbing on her arm to reduce the goosebumps, Jeanette was certain the shivers was caused by something else other than the chilling breeze, and rushed out of the carriage to hurry after Ciel and Sebastian as she was unaware about Sebastian and Ciel sharing a quick glance toward each other.

The slightly middle-aged maid greeted (rather less happily) them in opening door before Sebastian could knock the door, "Please come in, Sir Phantomhive... And Miss Heller." Jeanette only responded with the stare since the harsh tone was easily detected in maid's voice, and had a mind to make a snappy comeback. Ciel just took his hat off and the coat, handing them off into already-waiting arms of Sebastian, and asked as he stared steely at the maid, causing the maid to slightly back off, "Is he in his office?" With a silent hrrumph! from the maid, she turned away from them, marching away with her back to them, and Jeanette nearly took a chance to make a vulgar gesture if it wasn't for Sebastian suddenly jerking on the one of strings to her bonnet to turn her head side-way.

"Tsk, tsk, Miss Heller," Sebastian spoke in an exaggerating tone with a faint smile, again pulling on string to undone the bow which bonnet fell off. "A young woman such as you should never even bat its eyelash to lowly words." Narrowing eyes, Jeanette pushed her bonnet along with the shawl into his arms, huffing her chest to show she wasn't afraid of him, and said boldly, "Much obligated for your little bit of wisdom, Sebastian." Sebastian only gave her a smile, yet Jeanette can tell his eyes were taunting her followed by a quick tug of corners of his lips. She grumbled, ignoring a raised eyebrow from Ciel in her direction, and stride to one of nearby maids, speaking quickly, "Bathroom, where?!"

A younger maid pulled herself away from the view of Sebastian with intense blushing cheeks to meet Jeanette's eyes, and spoke, though shuttered at beginning, "O-oh, it'd should on the second floor, 6th door on the right when you come up-" The maid stopped when Jeanette dashed upstairs, now unsure what to do next.

Earl Leroy walked right out of the dining room, motioning toward Ciel to join him at the dining table that stretched about 10 feet, "I'm quite thankful that you and Miss Heller could join me at the dinner." Ciel has uncharacteristically became silent, glancing away from Earl Leroy briefly, and soon joined at the other end of the dining table with his eye now on Earl Leroy. Suddenly startled by a change in behavior of Ciel, Earl Leroy gave a weak smile, absently gripping on his napkin which was quickly crumpled up, and asked with some hesitation, "Is there something matter, Earl Ciel?"

Ciel tapped his spoon on the rim of his cup after stirring sugar in the tea (which was placed by one of Earl Leroy's servants immediately in front of him as soon he was sat in his chair), and then sipped slowly enough to make Earl Leroy squirm nervously in the silence. Finally breaking the silence, he responded politely yet his expression told he have a hidden agenda with his tiny cunning smirk that made Earl Leroy even more uncomfortable "No, nothing at all, Earl Leroy..." Then his eye scanned over the empty seats, noticing only two chairs are taken by himself and Earl Leroy. Next sentence spoken from Ciel made Earl Leroy pale, his eyes becoming wider as Sebastian, amused by his expression, even thought he could hear Earl Leroy's heartbeats all way from other end of table: "We are missing someone, wouldn't you agree, Earl Leroy?"


Jeanette kept wringing her one of lacy gloves that came with the dress she have on, then mercilessly beat the glove against the wall out of rage, repressing her scream inside, and hissed out, "Dammit. I'm so done with this; I'm tired of being Jane, demons, and him! No more!" Turning around to face the wall, she let her forehead thud against wall, and suddenly, Jeanette realized something that she should have noticed right away. "The Undertaker!" She shouted, jumping back away from the wall with a newly-found hope. "He knew Jane! Or something, at least!" The memory ran through her head, replaying the time when she first met the Undertaker, and centered on the Undertaker's delightful tone when name of Jane is mentioned. It wasn't much, she thought, but with Jeanette gripping tightly on her hope, he may know something that could help her. 'Also...' With a grin now forming on Jeanette's face, 'He's a human, so that's even better!'

"Yes!" A joy bubbled in Jeanette's heart, causing her to leap up and down, and ran down the hall, skipping as well. "Yes, it is a start! Someone who can really help me for once. Sebastian, and you disgusting fly rat, you can go f-"

Jeanette's foot stepped on her own hem of the dress, causing her to stop finishing the sentence, and nearly sent her into a fit of stumbling. Jeanette stumbled for seconds, though she did catch her balance, and let out a relived sigh. Though, a feeling of relief was instantly replaced by a curiosity when she heard a faint sound coming out of crack from a door few feet away from her. Remembering that Ciel did mention about Earl Leroy having a young son, so Jeanette chuckled to self, and crept to the door as she tried to not make a sound. She thought she would just greet the boy, and send him back down to his father since it was supposed to be supper-time at this time, however, when she opened the door slowly to prevent its squeaky noise, she met with a rather disturbing sight.

Even with the darkness cast, it wasn't hard to see two persons wrapped around each other in passionate embrace, moans and high-pitched giggle emitting from a woman, her blouse was pulled down... Then something clicked in Jeanette's head: That woman was the maid who 'greeted so kindly' her at the door! Jeanette recognized her back of head with the maid's graying hair recoiled in neat bun. Trying to not give into the temptation of vomiting, Jeanette was about to close the door before she was struck with a fear as red eyes glared at her over the maid's shoulders. She could felt her soul being ripped down to every bit by his stare, and realized that whoever was with the maid had stop responding to the maid's advances, his staring at her not waning away, so Jeanette quickly slammed the door, not regarding its loud sound, and dashed away from the door as far as she can.

Finally, as she thought she's far away from the man who gave her a scare, Jeanette leaned against the wall, panting softly from running without stopping and the heat from heavy dress. "Wait...Was that Sebastian?" She asked to herself, frowning since Sebastian was only one to have red eyes, and then colors drained away from her face. "Oh my god, gross! Bleh!" The thought of Sebastian being passionately entangled with the maid made Jeanette almost heave her stomach's content abruptly if it wasn't for an unwanted familiar voice at the window: "Jeanette. Come here! It is time to come with me."

Jeanette scowled, turning toward the window to see the bat demon, and exclaimed, "Oh no, I am not coming with you! That is my answer, you nasty thing." As if to make her point, Jeanette grab a nearby object which happened to be the vase off the stool, though she flinched lightly when the bat demon hissed angrily at her. Pulling the lock off the window, the bat demon opened a crack of window, and spat the words with a taunting tone at Jeanette, "That is fine... He'll deal with you, then."

That took Jeanette back, now deeply concerned that the bat demon wasn't alone, so she only said, lowering the vase down, "What? Hey! No, you don't!" Jeanette slammed the window open, and this time, she managed to grab the bat demon by his tail with her upper half of body nearly out of window. She wasn't expecting it to be so hard to maintain a grip on the bat demon as it thrashed around violently, its talons ripping her sleeves, so it amazed her how she actually did pull the bat demon right back inside after exhausting most of her body's strength.

Sensing Jeanette being weakened, the bat demon used it to its advantage as it thrashed wings even more violent against Jeanette's body, latching its fangs into her right wrist. Gasping at the intense jolts of pain going through her body, she slammed the bat demon against the wall by ramming her right arm to wall, and by third time, the bat demon dropped away instantly from Jeanette, and before Jeanette could do anything, it let out a high-pitched wailing that made Jeanette yelp from pain inflicting to her ear-drum. "I gave you a chance, Jeanette, to come with us without any trouble," As the bat demon lifted itself off the ground, flapping its wings with a smug expression on his face, more smugness as there was a thump followed by door slamming loudly at the end of hall, only quiet sound of springs creaking lingered in the air. Jeanette lifted her wrist up carefully, exclaiming sharply as response to the dart of pain in her arm, and examined her wrist. The damage was bad; The bat demon did really inflict a serious damage enough to make deep flesh wound. It made a teasing remark, "Tsk. Tsk, Jeanette. He'll have to bring you with me, then."

"He? ...Who?" Jeanette drew her question out slowly, trying to not flinch from pain, then she held her breathe as there was an another sound of creaking springs. Something hit against her side, and she let out a surprised shriek, stumbling back against the wall. What hit her, was a head of the maid she just saw, her mouth was in permanent form of 'o' that displayed her both row of teeth, heavy gray ring around her wide eyes as she looked screaming still even in her death. Jeanette uttered a quiet sentence, trying to breathe normally as she was paralyzed with stricken fear, "Oh god..."

It let out a sniggering sound, delighted at Jeanette's paling face and blood dripping down her wrist to her dress, and darted right out through the window. Jeanette stood up, realizing she have to escape, as she heard the sound of springing becoming more loud and faster in its pace as it was coming closer. Jeanette panicked; She went to a nearby room, entering in so fast that she felt little bit of dizziness, and closed the door, locking it by a turn of lever on doorknob.

Shivering silently out of coldness and fear, Jeanette never felt this so scared as she backed up from the door, scanning around the dark room for any place to hide in. 'Crap.' She thought shakily, feeling numbness in her wrist. 'My wrist...' Jeanette scooted back and huddled in the corner of the room, taking a nearby handkerchief off the dresser and trying to wrap her wrist with left hand, and looked at the door, paused with dreadfulness setting in the environment. The noises have stopped, leaving Jeanette in silence.

'Wait.. What about Ciel and others?' Jeanette peeked more at the door around the dresser, biting on her bottom lip hard to hold her heavy breathes. 'They should know he's here by now... He's making lots of noise.'

Something was wrong, terribly wrong, as Jeanette dreaded more, inching toward the window as her heart weighted with the stabs of fear.


Earl Leroy sobbed loudly, heaving his chest in and out and groveling at the feet of Ciel who only stared blankly down at him, and shouted through his tears, "You have to understand, Earl! He have my son as the hostage, and- and I only had to invite Miss Heller so anything won't happen to him!"

Ciel had enough of hearing Earl Leroy sobbing, and stepped back as he spoke, "Cease it, Leroy. If what you said is true, then Miss Heller is the target, then." Ciel had noticed that Spring-Heeled Jack surprisingly have narrowed down the victims in target group of the young women with brunette hair in ponytail, and Jane/Jeanette certainly fit in that pattern. Not to mention after inspecting outside of home of Richard whom have his wife and one of his twin daughters being killed by Spring-Heeled Jack, the house across to them had an elderly couple describing an intruder as a crazy-looking young woman with a brown hair and in a 'queer' looking purple outfit.

Ciel and Sebastian were certain that Jane Heller was connected to Spring-Heeled Jack in some way, however, these past days with Jane have brought up rather unexpected obstacles in the case. Sebastian confided in him that Jane Heller who were with them for past few days were certainly not Jane Heller. Ciel wasn't surprised; Jane Heller and whoever who was parading as 'Jane' were far different in their personality, and both have their physical tells by their eye colors. However, Ciel was unsure about false Jane as he fiddled with the questions in his mind ever since the discovery: What did happen to real Jane Heller? Did the false one get rid of Jane?

Nevertheless, Ciel glanced over his shoulder to meet the eyes of Sebastian who just appeared just now, and then back at Earl Leroy, and spoke with a tone of steel, "We shall see how this shall unfold between Spring-Heeled Jack and that woman, so don't hinder him."

"Of course, sire," Sebastian just bowed, and cocked his head sideways with a lingering smile that seems sarcastic, brushing some dust off his coat. "I only stepped out for a moment to relinquish some troublesome pests."

Ciel sharply snapped his attention to the ceiling as there was a faint sound of breaking glass, along with loud scream of terror from a young woman, on the second floor, so he pulled on his leather gloves calmly, and stared at Sebastian as he said, "Let's go, Sebastian."

"As you command, Master"


She didn't hear him anymore, an uncomfortable silence had been sweeping around in the room she was in, rolling with the time as her doubts grew. Jeanette glimpsed at the window, hesitating with just-now formed plan about going through the window. Perhaps, as Jeanette thought, she can look out and see if it was safe to go out, but just a glimpse. It was too early to tell if it's safe as Jeanette moved toward the window on couched legs, and she leaned against the wall next to window. She whispered silently before turning sideway to look at the window, "Just a peek..."

Jeanette saw a hand breaking through the window so quick she didn't have time to react, million shards of glass fell to the ground, and she felt the fingers clutching tightly onto her shoulder with nail dug in her fabric of dress. Her being was jerked violently toward the window as her hair fell free. Jeanette screamed, struggling hard against the strong arm of Spring-Heeled Jack, and a large shard of glass next to her foot got her attention as her feet dug into the ground as the loud and feral giggling were emitted by Spring-Heeled Jack. Jeanette felt being lifted off the ground easily, but it gave her an advantage when she spun around in his grip, grabbing the shard before she was pulled out of the room through the window. Jeanette, with all of her force, brought the shard down to his shoulder before her eardrums nearly popped by his howl, and she was let go as Jeanette fell, then landed on the tree branch.

Jeanette kept gasping, trying to calm her wildly-pumping heart, and gripped around the tree trunk tightly without looking now, Spring-Heeled Jack perched on the tree branch, him laughing and cooing in her direction slowly as if he was a child having fun, despise of the shard sticking out from his shoulder. Worse, she was feeling light-head enough to threaten to pass out anytime.

"Janey, Janey..." As Spring-Heeled Jack cooed lowly, whistling in middle of name, and leaped to the tree branch above Jeanette, causing Jeanette quickly hop down to lower tree branch. Jeanette watched him pulling the shard out of shoulder with some ease, and he then tossed it away, "I found you, at last, my darling Jane. Shouldn't done that, you know, luv."

"No, you're mistaken! I'm not Jane!" As Jeanette said, clutching another tree branch after almost slipping off the branch. "I'm not her!"

"Jane..." At beginning of his sentence, his tone was silent with hint of whimsical feeling, his lips twisting into a large sneer, as his fingers creep down the tree branch, and slid down to allow his face meet Jeanette's face at same level. Quickly, Jeanette knew this was dangerous from the sound of his voice, so she jumped off the tree at last second before Jack slammed his nails into the tree trunk with him grinding his teeth loudly, screeching along with his nails raking into the trunk, "I. Do not like to be lied at, Jane! Jane! Come back!"

She honestly thought she wouldn't make it when falling off the tree, but Jeanette opened eyes to see Sebastian holding her just foot away from the ground, and oddly enough, she admitted that she was actually happy to see Sebastian for once. Then she heard Ciel ordering Sebastian, following the voice to see Ciel's sudden serious expression: "Sebastian. Destroy him."

And the same phrase sprouted from the bulter, only this time, there was a tint of coldness to it, adding a soft chuckle and snap of his glove: "As you wish, Master."