Chapter 11 Shi POV

Jinsei had arisen from her previous state of lying on the ground bleeding, to leaning on the wall for support.

'Is there any Cheesecake around here? Apple Juice? Come on, give me a break here. I just watched myself kill my own family!'

'Your... That was y-your own family? You killed your very own family?' Ciel stuttered, his contract eye uncovered and the other looking hurt and confused.

'Yes. Yes I did, young master, I'm sorry if this hurts you. But I murdered them in cold blood. With my axe.'

'Why? Did you not love th-'

'Young Master! Look out!'

Madam Red (the little bitch) had snuck up behind him and had a knife ready to take him to his death. Then Grell pushed him out of the way.

'Red. You've gone so far, I'm proud of you! But who's going to suffer the most if he dies, hmm? Correct answer, me! What do you think Sebastian will think of me if he dies?'

Sebastian grumbled 'I'd hate you just as much as I do now.'

'Auntie An. Why?'

You'd think that the boys Aunt would be touched by that. You know, just a tad bit of sympathy, perhaps. But, she was too far gone, too psychotic for that. She laughed like a maniac

'Why? WHY?! Because people like YOU exist Ciel, people like you who don't deserve to be here, people like you who were born into this world when I couldn't have my own child! You are the son of my sister, and the man I loved! So, Ciel, ASK ME AGAIN, ASK ME WHY!'

'A-auntie An?'

'Don't 'Auntie An' me'

And the scythe plunged through Madam Red's chest and blood poured everywhere, and I prepared (with popcorn) myself for another flashback.

Madam Red's flashback (from Shi's POV)

A woman with long, plaited red hair sat hunched over a desk, in the middle of a garden. She was small, and at around 16 years old, she wasn't the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Wait, was that Madam Red?

'Gyahahahaha! Look! It's good old Red! She's so, so...'

Jinsei spluttered as she compared the dainty girl in the flashback to the psychotic woman on the floor.

Ciel shot us a withering stare that said 'no more cheesecake if you carry on' so we both shut up.

The flashback continued, and a girl, (looked like her sister) had appeared and was apparently squeezing Madam Red's breasts.

Yeah, that's what sisters are for.

Hold on, if that was her sister then... that's Ciel's mother!? Yes! I'm so good at deducing things.

'An! There's somebody that's waiting to meet us in the drawing room'

'Me? Like this?'

'Oh, you look fine, come on!'

There was a young man, basically an older version of Ciel, so presumably it was Ciel's father. He was sat in the middle of a drawing room painted that horrible blue-yellow colour.

Smiling at the both of them, he was introduced as 'Earl Vincent Phantomhive' he turned to Red and asked

'Why do you keep your hair so long in front?'

'I am not a beaut-'

'BOOOORING!' I screamed from the present day, only to have to dodge a flaming dart from Ciel's general direction.

'You should take pride in your hair, red really suits you.'

The scene ended and Madam Red was sat in front of a mirror, scissors in her hands, and she began to resemble the Madam Red we knew (and hated). She also began to resemble somebody familiar, someone I couldn't quite put my finger upon...

Next Scene! At least we were flicking through them quickly, I was dying to get home and eat Cheesecake.

They were sat in a different room, Vincent, Ciel's Mum and Angelina.

'We're getting married!' Ciel's mum announced.

Oooh. That's gotta hurt. Your sister marrying the one you loved. But she managed to keep a smiling face.

Then came the bit I remembered. Madam Red had married a man she met at a ball, and she was with child. However, she had decided to take a walk with her newly-wed husband. Suddenly, a carriage sped out of nowhere and was about to hit her and her husband, when...

Jinsei and I jumped in and saved her! Our good deed for the year, if I remember rightly, and we had managed to save her life. Well HER life at least.

But her husband was dead, we couldn't save him. And her child had to be surgically removed for fear of Madam Red's life (I guess we didn't do amazing saving). She was in hospital, for another 5 or so months.

Ciel's mum visited her every single day to visit her, but we knew she wasn't doing any good because Madam Red looked like she wanted to throttle her.

'YAY! The doctors are letting you out soon! And it's Ciel's birthday! We can celebrate together!'

Madam Red looked like she reeeallly didn't want to- OH LOOK it's us again! We'd seen cheesecake in the hospital window, so we'd been staring for the past 2 hours trying to figure out a way to get in, without smashing the window in and hurting someone, we were too lazy to walk in the front door. But then Jinsei saw apple juice and we legged away from the window and presumably into the front entrance. We didn't see that through the flashback though, all we saw was Madam Red accepting the invitation and two young girls chasing a petrified nurse screaming 'CHEESECAKE!' Wonder who they were...

We cut to a fiery sky, a house on fire. The flames reached upwards, screames of terror filled the air and subsided abruptly. I had thought that it was Madam who had set the house on fire, but she was crouched in front of it with clean clothes and fresh tears in her eyes.

'Now I know why Ciel was so opposed to me killing my own family.' Jinsei hissed, ' This is what happened to his when they were killed.'

We cut to Red at work again (these flashbacks can be so jumpy), at her physician's office so soon after the accident. Maybe she just wanted to keep her mind off things, though I think Cheesecake works a whole lot better for dealing with emotional problems. Why work when Cheesecake can make you feel better?

Anyways, she appeared to be dealing with some skanky prostitute lady.

'I can't be 'avin a little blighter runnin' around when I got me rounds to sort out, see?'

And Madam performed the abortion (though we didn't see that part), and waited at the hospital before heading out hours later, following the woman home, where she proceeded to stab the woman repeatedly until she died. Here's where Grell came in.

'Oooh, my, what a lovely job you're doing! The list of the dead has been awfully high in this district because of you! But I could help. I hate those women too, for I want a baby of my own. Being male's a biiit of a problem, seeeee? I'll kill them with you. For you, if you like! Just give the word.'

'Ciel, is that really you?' (Le flashback had jumped forward again)

And he had Sebastian at his side, for the first time I presume. Ciel looked like a stray dog, bedraggled to the point that he could be considered homeless.

'OH HAI SEBASTIAN!' I screamed, just to see the look on Jinsei's face. She stabbed my in the forehead with what little strength she had left.

And then the flashback ended, and Sebastian and I rushed to Jinsei's side as she collapsed on the floor, after a series of painful gasps and moans.

'HEY! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!' Grell screeched. 'I'm right here you know! Amazing, sexy, Grim Reaper of doom and you're attending to the needs of a maid!'

That's it. All of us who were able (basically me and Sebastian) stormed toward him and ignored the looming scythe, and just beat him up for the bloody sake of it, for the fact that he didn't seem to care one jot about the health of my best friend

I flung my knife at him, but instead of it hitting him, it was caught by a long thin pole coming from the top of one of the surrounding buildings. The owner jumped down. He was a tall, dark-suited figure with square glasses and yellow eyes. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a list.

'Good evening, I'm William T. Spears from the Grim Reaper Dispatch, I'm here to collect dispatch member Grell Soufflé, I mean Sutcliff on the charge of breaking the following laws.

-Killing those not on the list of the dead,

-Using a specialized Death scythe without submitting use for said Death Scythe'

'Will, can the chit-chat, and tell us, WHERE ARE THE FUCKING SKITTLES?!'

'Oh, I was afraid you'd turn up. Both of you. And don't bother me about the Skittles, but if you want to fill out the necessary paperwork to get them back, then go ahead.'' He glanced at Jinsei at the back with a very confused Sebastian.

'I'm not telling you where the bloody skittles are, that was ages ago, let it go already.'

'I shall not let it go, they were our skittles and I was hungry and you stole them off me.'

He yawned and strolled over to Sebastian.

'Here's my card.'

Dragging Grell by the hair, he ran off into the darkness.