A/N: Hey you guys! Sorry I haven't posted over the weekend, my dad is moving so his internet is cut off, the only way I could get on was with his hotspot on his phone, but he couldn't keep it on for long.
Ciel waited in his study for close to two hours now, waiting for someone to give him the all clear so he can go and see how his butler was doing. His butler that was physically and emotionally abused by his new master. Ciel was having an argument with himself. He shouldn't have acted like that towards Sebastian, he was lucky that Satan saved him when he did or he would be dead.
Interrupting him from his thoughts was Mey-Rin. Her cheeks were red from blushing and she held a handkerchief to her nose, it was covered in blood. She only gets nosebleeds when she sees Sebastian, and being that she had to dress his wounds, she saw him shirtless. It was too much for her to handle.
"Um, young master?"
"Yes Mey-Rin, what is it?" Ciel's voice was more harsh than usual.
"S-Sebastian is all patched up now he is."
Ciel closed his eye and pushed his chair back, standing up and showing his blue eye again. He slowly walked over to Mey-Rin.
"Take me to him."
"Yes, young master!" She said giving a salute, as always, right before she turned around and walked out of the room Ciel in tow. They made it to the butler's room with Ciel in tow. They made it to the butler's room only to find Bard and Finny standing in the hallway. Finny was crying and Bard was trying to console him, which wasn't helping.
"Are you alright Finny?" Ciel asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Mister Sebastian, he's so hurt, and he's in a lot of pain!"
Finny latched onto Bard, who gently placed a hand on the lad's back.
"That's part of the reason why Finny's like this, he also saw Mey-Rin and Tanaka patching him up never seen the bugger vomit so much before."
"You threw up in Sebastian's room?"
"It's alright, young master, we cleaned it up right away. Don't need Sebastian having any stress at the moment."
Ciel let out a sigh of relief.
"At least you have some ounce of intelligence in that thick head of yours."
Bard smiled at the young master's compliment at first, but then realized that it wasn't words of kindness, but an insult.
"HEY! I'M SMARTER THAN I LOOK!"
"Fine Bard, you're right."
Ciel didn't really want to have an argument, not when his butler was drugged out of his mind and knocking on death's door. Bard felt accomplished at his victory and held his head up high. Ciel just rolled his eye and walked into the room. In it, he found Tanaka applying the finishing touches to Sebastian, wrapping the bandage around his waist where it was cut up by Johnathan, his master. Tanaka looked at Ciel with warm brown eyes.
"How is he?"
"He's lucky to have gotten here when he did, he wouldn't have been so lucky. He's very badly injured, with his torso, and his head being affected the most, the bruises on his face should heal fairly quickly."
"What about the drug?"
Tanaka looked at the butler who was staring into space with a frown.
"I don't know what he was drugged with but it was some pretty potent stuff to keep him like this. Like that guy who brought him back said, he might be out of it for a while."
Ciel was very impressed with Tanaka, he wasn't a doctor, but he had to have some medical experience in order to see to his young master's health and well-being.
"How soon can he return to work?"
Tanaka's eyes widened.
"Young master!" He sounded a bit offended.
"What? He is the head butler and I need to know when he can return to fulfilling his duties."
"Don't you think that's a bit rash? The poor man can't even talk in complete sentences; he can't even sit up without assistance. I don't know what his master did to him but, it could have messed him up a bit. Why don't you give him some time to recover, a month at least?"
"Absolutely not. He'll get complacent and start slacking off. He'll take advantage of his time off."
"Young master I implore you, he needs rest, and we all know that he is marvelous at his job."
"My decision is made, Tanaka, thank you for tending to him now return back to your duties."
Tanaka stared at Ciel for a minute, processing his thoughts about him, and then turned to walk out of the room. Ciel let out a sigh; his staff could be so stubborn at times. It was Sebastian's fault for leaving, he did this to himself. As he neared the demon, Ciel could feel his icy demeanor melting slowly.
Sebastian was covered in bruises, the parts of his body that wasn't bandaged up was covered in burns, and bruises, and little scratches. Sebastian's face was littered in bruises and minor burns; he had a purple bruise around his left eye. His forehead had a bandage on it, on his upper-left hand side, and since it was new Ciel couldn't see the blood that was coming from the wound, same for the bandage on his chest. He knew that if the wound, same for the bandage on his chest. He knew that if the wounds were great enough, it would soak through the bandage soon after. The demon had his hand draped across his stomach as he stared off into space.
"Sebastian."
Red eyes flicker over to a blue one.
"Ciel…"
Ciel grimaced at the sound of his name, it sounds like a voice that belongs to a zombie. A soulless husk that once was Sebastian.
"Yes, it's me."
Sebastian just laid there, only his head moving as if it was detached from the rest of his head. Ciel found himself trying hard to contain his composure while talking to Sebastian.
"Can you stand?"
Sebastian thought for a moment; the drug making his mind cloudy and unable to keep a thought. Then he finally nodded.
"Good, then you shall start work tomorrow."
Sebastian's eyes grew wide at his young master's statement. He nodded anyway; he would have to return to work sometime or another. Ciel took the chair that was sitting at Sebastian's desk where he writes in his journal sometimes and placed it next to the demon's bed.
"Now tell me what happened over there."
"Tired…"
"You will be able to sleep when you tell me what happened."
Sebastian didn't have the strength to fight with Ciel so he opened his mouth to force out some kind of word before someone bust through the door.
"BASSY!"
There was Grell Sutcliff, the Grim Reaper, standing in the doorway screaming Sebastian's name. Grell knew that Sebastian was hurt but he wanted to know how badly. He jetted over to the demon and gasped at the sight of his demon love.
"Oh Bassy…what happened?"
Ciel rose out of his chair.
"YOU DID THIS TO HIM, YOU HELPED THAT MONSTER TORTURE HIM DIDN'T YOU?!"
"EXCUSE ME?! WHY WOULD I DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TO MY SWEET BASSY?!"
"TO GET BACK AT ME FOR LETTING HIM LEAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
Sebastian's headache was growing stronger at the loud screaming they were doing.
"No…"
That seemed to stop the arguing, the turned to Sebastian and walked over to him. Grell took the demon's hand in his.
"Grell…helped…"
Sebastian tried again to form a sentence.
"He…helped…me…"
Grell and Ciel saw how hard it was for Sebastian to speak up, Grell took up the task in speaking for him while he rubbed the demon's arm gently, not wanting to irritate him anymorw, this was one of the few times Sebastian let Grell touch him.
"The reason why we were there that night at the party was because we detected a soul, a soul not belonging to any of the humans there, and certainly not Sebastian's. We wanted to see if Johnathan Hainsley was a supernatural being…"
Sebastian started whispering.
"Angel…Angel…"
Grell looked down sadly at him.
"Yes Bassy, Johnathan Hainsley was in fact an angel."
Ciel's eye widened. Sebastian's master was an angel?
"Just like Ash and Angela?"
"Precisely."
"So what are you doing then? Go back over there and steal his soul!"
"We can't, he's a divine being, his soul dies with him and he's not dead yet from what I know."
"Ate…it…"
Ciel stared at Sebastian.
"What was that? You ate his soul?"
"Almost…ate it…"
Grell restated with more clarity.
"He almost ate his soul."
Sebastian's voice started wavering as he talked more.
"Soul…bitter…horrid…"
"It seems Johnathan's soul is bitter and horrid, to Sebastian."
"I…almost…ate…it…"
Grell's green eyes looked up at Ciel.
"Ciel…get a wastebasket, now."
Ciel did as was told and grabbed the wastebasket that was next to the door and brought it over to Sebastian's side right on time. The demon threw up right into it, making the most awful retching noise ever. Grell rubbed his back as he vomited, trying to soothe him, and Ciel just stood there cringing.
"Bassy, it's okay…it's alright…"
Sebastian finally stopped throwing up and laid back into the bed, shaking. Grell wiped some of the beads of sweat off his forehead.
"I'll get some water."
Grell ran off to get Sebastian some water. Ciel just stood there staring at his butler. Sebastian grabbed the spot where Tanaka stitched and bandaged on his waist and closed his eyes as if he were in pain. Ciel got the sudden urge to comfort Sebastian while he was suffering. He placed his small tiny hand over the larger one and he whispered, "Careful, don't want to pop your stitches now do you?"
Grell came running into the room with a glass of water in his hand. He joined Ciel next to Sebastian's bedside and showed him the glass of water.
"Look Bassy! Some water!"
He gently placed it on the demon's lips and tilted slowly so Sebastian could drink the liquid to soothe his throat and to get rid of some of the bitter taste the bile left in his mouth. When he was finished, Grell took the cup away.
"I'm…tired…"
Ciel nodded.
"Get some sleep, Sebastian."
The demon's eyes slowly closed and soon they could hear light snoring. It just occurred to Ciel that he never seen Sebastian sleep, or hear him say that he was tired before. All of this was taking a heavy toll on the demon. Ciel and Grell left him alone, so he could get some rest.
Once they were outside, Grell wrapped his arms around him as he and Ciel walked to the earl's study. They both sat down but none of them broke the silence that was suffocating the duo. Grell finally got the gall to shatter it with a chuckle.
"Is something funny, Grell?"
"I just find it ironic that a person like Sebastian, who is supposed to suck souls, ended up getting his soul sucked right out of him."
Ciel nodded, he did find it pretty ironic, though there was another question that popped in his mind.
"Why are you here, Grell?"
"Well, I wanted to see Bassy's condition for myself."
"That's it? I have a hard time believing you. There's another reason why now tell me."
"Will wanted me to try and get some information out of him…I can't, not when he's like this."
"So what, you'll come back when's he better again to get information out of him? What if he doesn't want to remember it?"
"I will simply leave him be then, I don't want to force him to do anything, but the same can't be said of you. You would have him get right back up the very next day he is returned to your doorstep beaten, battered, and barely alive and make you your damn tea."
Ciel sat with his mouth hanging open, Grell wasn't lying, Ciel would have him clean and cook while he's barely healed enough to walk.
"Grell what I do with Sebastian is none of your concern, he is my butler and I shall do with him what I see fit, do you understand?"
Grell got up, he was going to be the bigger person here and just leave before he whipped out his chainsaw.
"Fine."
He walked over to the door to leave but not without saying his final thoughts.
"To think that Sebastian actually defended you once, saying that you are a boy with a worthy soul, all I see is a BRAT who doesn't deserve a demon like Sebastian!"
He slammed the door, leaving the earl sinking back in his chair to soak in the reaper's words. Sebastian actually defended Ciel? Placing a hand to his face, he just sat there, wondering what Satan is doing now…
Okay so I'll start the next chapter off with Johnathan getting violently killed by Satan!
