Sebastian Michaelis loomed out of the darkness observing Grell and the unfamiliar Shinigami atop the roof with him, his eyes darted over Grell with little interest to the other Shinigami and he scanned the dispatch agent over and his eyes narrowed.

"Sebas-chan?" Grell said nervously, "What a surprise, couldn't stand to be away from me for more than a day?" Grell knew that he had to act quickly and convincingly before Sebastian had enough time to get enough proximity to Alex to get a better look at them, Sebastian would notice for sure wouldn't he?

"Hardly," Sebastian said with a sneer as he watched the red haired reaper start moving hastily at him then just before Grell could throw his arms around him he stepped sideways and the Shinigami stumbled past.

"So cold." Grell said picking himself up and sliding in front of Sebastian to block his view of Alex, "You must stop teasing me like this Sebas-chan, when are you going to admit that you want me?" Grell poked Sebastian in the chest playfully and the demon's eyes flashed, Sebastian grabbed hold of Grell's arm by his wrist and twisted it round so that Grell fell to the floor in agony, "Sebas-chan stop it! You're hurting me!"

Rose felt the rage swell up, she could no longer keep control of herself, she knew that Grell had been trying to distract Sebastian from her but she wasn't about to stand there and watch her lover writhe in agony, as quickly as lightning she dashed over and brought her scythe sweeping up through the air, the top of the scythe knocked into Sebastian's hand freeing Grell so that he fell to the floor in a heap but as the blade of the scythe sliced through Sebastian's shirt but he darted backwards in time before it could pierce his skin.

Sebastian landed a few feet away and looked up at his attacker, the boy was stood poised in a half crouch in front of Grell on the floor and had the scythe steadily held in the air blocking Sebastian's chance of getting to Grell. The boy stared at Sebastian with burning hatred gritting his teeth and Sebastian's eyes narrowed as he peered at him.

"Are you alright sempai?" Alex said looking down at Grell who nodded meekly staring up at Alex with wide eyes unable to find words.

"The master will be most upset," Sebastian said looking down at his shirt and then back up again, the boy hadn't moved and Grell was looking quite shocked up at him and then to Sebastian, "Your partner seems rather protective of you...even enamoured I would say..."

Grell felt the blood drain from his face, all it would take would be a few more moments and Sebastian would know for sure that it was Rose. Grell got to his feet looking at Alex who straightened up next to him but didn't lower the blade; Grell gritted his teeth and did what he had to, he pushed the scythe forcefully away and elbowed Alex in the ribs so that he stumbled backwards completely taken off guard.

"How dare you show me up like this in front of Sebas-chan!" Grell barked angrily at Alex trying to catch his breath and looking up in horror at Grell, "You should learn your place, behind me and out of sight; otherwise you'll be out of Dispatch quicker than you can blink! Understand?" Grell said glaring down at Alex.

Rose was still in shock at what was going on, she felt like her heart was going to break at any moment then she caught a glimpse of something in his eyes, a secret sorrow that he was having to act like this but she knew then that he was doing it for her, he didn't want Sebastian to know because if he did then she would surely die tonight and that privilege belonged only to Grell.

"Yes sempai, I'm sorry." Alex said looking guilty and sad down at the floor.

"Good." Grell said turning on his heel and walking towards Sebastian, "Damn kids, think they can do whatever they want. I'm not interested in a brat like him, only a real man like you get me hot darling." Grell said stopping before Sebastian who was still staring at Alex but then seemed to lose interest and stared at Grell instead.

"Don't be so repugnant." Sebastian sneered smoothing out his ruined clothes. "Anyway, it was you I came to see actually."

"Me? Oh Sebas-chan-"

"Enough of that if you please," Sebastian said, "It's actually about your mistress, she seems to be missing." Sebastian said giving Grell a hard look.

"Missing?" Grell said trying to feign ignorance.

"Yes missing," Sebastian said coolly, "I went to deliver a letter this evening from the Young Master only to find that the house was in complete darkness. Naturally I assumed that she had an evening engagement so I scoured the city, but alas she is nowhere to be found." Sebastian's eyes stared into Grell so hard that they might have burnt holes right through him, Grell was just standing there looking nervous, "Even more worrying is the fact that wherever she is, she is not accompanied by her butler as you seem to be...here."

"She's not missing," Grell laughed nervously, "She's visiting her father."

"Her father," Sebastian said slowly eyeing up the guilty looking Shinigami, "I assume by that you mean her adoptive father?"

"Of course I do, her real father being dead an all." Grell laughed wondering whether his lie was good enough to convince the demon.

"I see," Sebastian said, "Well let's hope you're right about that because if I find out that you've been up to your nasty old habits of hacking up innocent young women then divine being or not you will be in a very serious situation."

"Are you done?" Alex said walking over, "Sempai's told you where she is, she's safe and he's been with me all this time, I can assure you she's very much alive." Sebastian's eyes shot over to Alex looking over him, they locked onto each others gaze for a moment and then Sebastian turned his glance to Grell, Alex had fooled the demon once again.

"Very well...I'll be leaving now." Sebastian said, "I will seek out your Mistress tomorrow and lets hope she will be safe at the Burnett estate. Also I do hope that your student will be well reprimanded for causing my dishevelled appearance, the young lord will be very angry when I return like this and with no news of his cousin he will not be happy."

"Oh don't worry," Grell said looking down at Alex beside him, "He'll be punished, you can be sure of that." Grell grinned malevolently and Alex flushed slightly looking away down to the floor.

"I hope so." Sebastian said with a final look at the boy still looking guility at the floor with the huge scythe leaning on his shoulder, there was something very very wrong going on but he knew that there was one person that would have the answers he required. "I have plenty more to do before this night is over, good evening then." The Undertaker would be his last visit of the night before he returned to the Phantomhive manor.

Alex and Grell watched at Sebastian shot them both an evil look and smiled wryly before he turned on his heel and walked away, just as quickly as he had appeared from the darkness he descended back into the shadows and disappeared leaving them both alone in silence.

Grell looked over at Alex who was staring at the space Sebastian had left empty behind him, that had been close; Grell could feel a mix of emotions inside of him, "What do you think you were doing?" Grell said and Alex's head snapped up to look at him.

"I could have ended all this right then." Alex said looking into her lover's eyes, she could tell he was angry and she felt slightly hurt and worried by it, had he meant what he had said earlier, did he really only have eyes for a real man? Something she could pretend to be so convincingly but never actually be after all; Alex looked away, she didn't want him to see how attached she already was to him, she loved him after only such a short time of them being together and she had wanted to tell him before but now she felt foolish.

"Let's just forget about this for now." Grell sighed looking off into the distance, the night was drawing on quicker and he just wanted it to end and for them to go back home, he was still struggling with the things he wanted to tell her and maybe if they were alone he might have the courage to tell her, he didn't know how, but he had to. Rose had become so precious to him and he didn't want to loose her to a demon, her soul was his and he needed her to know why it was his.

"Come on darling, we've got a lot of work to do." Grell grinned at Alex flashing his best smile, Alex smiled smugly feeling a bit guilty, then they both swung their scythes up through the air and ran forwards darting off the rooftops into the distance.