Authors note:
Me- WOO! Sorry guys got stuck with a huge science project this year so updates might come a little later then liked.
Claude- So…whatever happened to me?
Ciel- HES STILL ALIVE! YOU IDIOT! YOU DIDN'T KILL HIM OFF YET?
Me- Well…uh…that's kind of the story plot...
Alois- AH CLAUDE! RUN AWAY CIEL! *grabs Ciel and runs for the hills*
Sebastian- Bocchan! Wait! You forgot your coat! *runs after Ciel*
Grell- Bassy come back! *runs after Sebastian who's running after Ciel who's being dragged by Alois who is running from Claude*
Me- he…he…Enjoy?
"If you don't mind I'll have to request you remain here for the moment, my young master is in a very important business meeting and does not wish to be interrupted" Sebastian said glaring at the broken window knowing he would have to replace the entire panel later.
"Awe that's no fun Sebastian I want to go see Ciel now~ I have a letter for him." The blonde boy smirked and reached into his purple coat to reveal a festive red letter decorated in candy cane stripes and gold stars.
"I made each one special, all by myself too!" the blonde said smiling and taking pride in his work, now that Alois didn't have Claude he did everything himself now Sebastian remembered and gave a small smile.
"I'm sure my young master will love it, if you have other things to attend to I can give it to him myself as soon as his meeting ends or you can wait here, I'm afraid I can not tell you when it will however, they can range from a few minutes to almost four hours in some odd cases." Sebastian said smoothly as usual sliding Grell from his body easily now the Red Reaper had loosened his grip.
"We do have other things to take care of and more invitations to deliver…" Grell hummed thinking Undertaker, Allan, Eric and maybe Will still needed invitations and they still had a tree to pick out for the living room.
"But I want to give Ciel my letter personally!" Alois whined and began to pout.
"Come on Alois I promise you'll be able to give Ciel his letter." Grell said steering Alois towards the door but in the last second decided to exit the way he came. Through the window.
Alois followed through sticking out his pink tongue at Sebastian as he went.
The two of them trudged deep into the icy woods that surrounded the Phantomhive estate. Never mind the almost unbearably cold wind and the snow that seemed to fall every single time they were outside, they were on a mission. Operation find a tree.
"how about this one?" Alois asked pointing to the first evergreen he saw.
"Nothing too tall I don't want it scraping the ceiling." Grell said looking at the tree Alois had pointed out which would have to fold in half to even get through the doorway.
"This one?"
"Too tall."
This one?"
"Too wide."
"This one?"
"Too tall."
"This one?"
"You just pointed to that one a minute ago."
"How about this one?"
"Still too tall, my ceiling isn't that far up." Grell smiled as Alois ignored the tree rejections and continued to paw his way through the snow covered trees.
Grell walked behind the energetic boy who was darting back in forth with inhuman speed stirring up the white powder as he ran, the snow clouds that followed from the boys feet was almost comical to look at. Unlike Alois, Grell took his time to inspect the ice covered branches and took care to eye each one up and imagine if it would hit the ceiling. Grell smiled when he saw Alois had finally made a reasonable choice, a rather small tree compared to the giants with the foot thick trunks towering overhead. The tree was dusted with ice, its full branches shivered in the wind as it came howling past, stirring the snow to cover their tracks.
Alois giggled as he drug his hand through one of the prickly branches and twirled daintily around the tree.
"This one! We Need this one!" He said wildly pointing to the tree as Grell took his time walking down the small hill that he hadn't realized they had been standing on.
"You sure now?" Grell asked not wanting to go chopping down an entire forest because one tree looked better than the other.
"Yes! Cut it down! Cut it down! Kill it! Kill it!" Alois cheered, smile widened as Grell pulled his chainsaw from the folds of his jacket that wasn't doing much to keep the winter air from leaking in. Grell revved it loudly knowing Alois was fond of the sound, he watched in amusement as birds scattered and small animals ran away from the unnaturally loud noise.
Grell swung and the chainsaws teeth dug into the wood spraying splinters in every direction except where they were standing behind the tree. The blade cut through with a single stroke, like a hot knife through butter.
Alois watched in pleasure as the tree creaked and fell to the forest floor sending up a large puff of powdered snow in its wake. Alois laughed and daintily ran over to the tip of the tree helping Grell push it into a easier position to carry. He held the trees top off the ground as Grell cut them a portal and then together the two of them dragged it into the swirling mist that lead home.
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"Claude never let me get a real tree before, he always said they were too messy and always died anyway!" Alois said watching Grell set the tree onto its stand in its spot in the living room, it was out of the way enough people wouldn't run into it but out in the open enough to draw all the attention towards it when you stepped into the room.
"It smells really good. Do all trees smell that way? Claude told me not to smell weird plants so I don't know." Grell smiled at the rambling boy who was perched on the arm of the read couch and was swinging his black sock covered feet back and forth contently.
"We can decorate it when we get back but if we want to make it back to the Phantomhive estate within the next hour and a half we should start giving out invitations now." Grell said taking a look at the digital clock on the side table that was set to London time.
"Alright let me get my shoes!" Alois said and bounded to his room where he had a spare being the ones he had been wearing before were still wet from their trek in the woods."
"Sebastian! Air out my office! I thought I told you not to let Lau bring drugs inside the manor!"
"Bocchan I removed his hookah before he even came in the front door."
"He brought a hookah?"
"I assumed that is what you are talking about unless he brought something else with him?"
"You didn't see the opium? He hid it in his hair! How is that even possible!" Ciel raved loudly, the other servants who had begun to open the windows quickly departed from the room seeing their raging master.
"I'm sorry Bocchan I was wondering what was sticking out of his hair but in case it was a cultural thing I didn't want to offend him by asking him to remove it." Sebastian said kneeling down and bowing his head.
"Get up already, do I even want to ask about the crash I heard from the pool (game) room earlier?"
"It was actually the library Bocchan." Sebastian said with a smile, Ciel was about to say something but multiple crashes coming from the library made both their heads turn in the direction of the noise.
"It appears we have guests Bocchan."
"Please don't tell me it's who I think it is."
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"That was much more fun the second time around don't you agree?" Grell said dusting the shattered window from his hair and smiled at the now covered, window they had broken earlier.
"There's just something about breaking through windows~" Alois hummed shrugging off his snow and glass covered coat and tossing it onto the couch.
"How long do you think it will take?" the Blonde asked watching the door with prowling eyes.
"Not long I'm guessing, Bassy's pretty quick on his feet." Grell hummed taking a seat by Alois on the couch.
"Want to count?" Blue eyes asked looking into green.
"Why not?" Grell hummed.
"five…"
"four…"
"three…"
"two…"
" And…"
"What the bloody hell do you two think you're doing breaking all of my windows!" Ciel yelled kicking the door open in a very un-earl like manor.
"We didn't break all of them…" Grell trailed off giving a wink to Sebastian who walked through the doorway after Ciel.
"Yea Ciel! We only broke three! That's not all of them." Alois pointed out smiling innocently at the Blue haired boy whose eye had begun to twitch.
"..."
"LET ME GO SEBASTIAN!"
"WHAA! GRELL CIELS TRYING TO HIT ME!"
"LET ME GO!"
"GRELLLL!"
"Have you guys seen Ran Mao I seem to have misplaced her…oh hello earl how are you?" Lau asked sticking his head into the room and taking in the seen before him. Three of the library's windows were broken, glass shards covered the floor. The young earl had his arms positioned to hit above a blond haired boy in glasses who looked to have been being pulled away from the earl by the reddest thing on the earth. Sebastian's arms were around the blue haired boy's waist and looked to be holding him back from attacking the blonde further.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…so…have you seen Ran Mao? Oh! Wait never mind there she is." Lau said smiling at his 'sister' who was still smoking from the hookah on top of the table in the middle of the library.
"We'll just be leaving now come on Ran Mao." Lau said taking back his precious Hookah from the girl and calmly walking out the doorway completely ignoring the scene that returned to normal as soon as he was gone.
"So Ciel…who was that?" Alois asked still in Grell's protective arms not trusting Sebastian to actually keep ahold of the younger boy.
"It doesn't matter why are you here?.. You don't need to hold me anymore Sebastian." Ciel said annoyed and relaxed the moment his butler removed his arms.
"Oh…yea! Now I remember! Where'd you put it Sebastian?" Alois asked looking on the tops of the tabled for the letter.
"Right here." Sebastian said pulling the festive card from his jacket pocket and handing to the outreaching boy.
"Here Ciel!" Alois said thrusting the card into Ciel's face the second he had it in his hands.
"Wha…never mind do you want me to open it?" Ciel asked eyeing the boy warily but being his butler had okayed the card he assumed there was nothing wrong with it.
"No silly you wear it as a hat!" Alois laughed as Sebastian handed him the letter opener from inside his coat and Ciel easily slit the car open and removed the letter.
Dear my wonderful Ciel,
You are invited to a Christmas party in the death god realm.
It really doesn't matter if you want to attend because either way you're going to but it would mean less work for us if you went willingly.
Note: Bassy is required to attend as well.
Sincerely, Grell Sutcliff and Alois (were still not sure on the last name yet.)
"Is this a threat or a Christmas card?" Ciel asked looking up from the oddly written card.
"A little of both I suppose…" Grell said giving a wink to Sebastian who oddly enough gave a small smile.
"If you don't mind me reminding you Bocchan Elizabeth is in America for Christmas this year so she will not be having her annual party." Sebastian said quietly, but just loud enough the duo in front of them heard every word.
"Thank you for reminding me Sebastian." Ciel ground out shooting the butler a displeasing look.
"So you're free then? And here we thought we'd have to kidnap you!" Alois laughed merrily and Ciel could just see a plot twirling around in his messed up head
"I won't promise you we'll stay for very long being as though we have nothing to do this Christmas we will...attend your party." Ciel mumbled angrily thinking of all the painful things he could do to Sebastian later who was currently having what looked to be a telepathic conversation with the red reaper.
"Awe Ciel you shouldn't pout all the time, it's not very attractive on you." Alois said with a Grell like wink which Ciel chose to ignore as much as possible and pretend the light blush that appeared on his cheeks was just because the broken windows were letting the frosty air in.
"Well if there isn't anything else I do have other things to attend to…" Ciel said asking in what he assumed was a polite way to ask them to leave
"Don't worry Ciel we still have shopping to do we'll see you in a week yes?"
"I just said I would go didn't I?" Ciel grumbled but his eyes shot open and looked like two giant orbs and the light blush became a bright cherry red as the Trancy Earl pulled him into a hug that pinned his arms to his side
"Come on Alois, Ronnie said he'd meet us there so I can do my own shopping. Bye Bassy!" Grell waved and blew him a kiss before purposely falling out the broken window.
"Well I guess this is good bye Ciel, but do not cry for we are sure to see each other again."Alois said dramatically before eying the only window in the library that had yet to be broken
"..."
"TRANCY! STOP BREAKING MY WINDOWS!"
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"Ron!"
"Ronnie!"
"Alois, Sempai how are ya?" Ronald asked standing up just in time to get glomped by both of the psychotic reapers.
He used to think Grell was bad now he had Grell and Alois hanging off him, both of them at once practically sent him sprawling on the floor.
"I'm going shopping for you guys so keep you'll him busy for me won't you Ronnie?" Grell whispered to Ronald so the blond couldn't hear.
"No problem Sempai I'll show him around and maybe we can pick some stuff of our own up while we're at it because honestly I haven't been Christmas shopping in century's." Ronald pulled Alois away from Grell and towards the colorful lit up window displays.
Grell quickly slipped away into the huge crowd that invaded the mall. Some things never changed the mall was always crowded in the winter regardless if you celebrated the holidays or not. The hard part now was what to get for everyone, knowing Alois's quick attention span he had maybe two hours before the blonde decided he had seen everything he wished to and began to look for him to go home. Grell pushed his way through the noisy crowds and ignored the yells of the other reapers as they were roughly pushed aside. They never said anything rude directly to him however. They were too smart to think he'd let them get away with saying such things.
Grell looked into shop windows with everyone in mind, a few horror movies for Ronald random an actual tea set for the undertaker being he didn't seem to have one yet so they were forced to use the beakers. For Eric and Allan, Grell bought them some novels from the bookstore which was unsurprisingly pretty quiet. Will got a new stationary set for all the work he surely did. For his dear Bassy a new personal set of knifes so he wouldn't have to use the ones from the kitchen all the time. He was even nice enough to go out of the way for the brat and buy random sweet things from the candy shop. Not like the kid deserved it or nothing but Christmas was a time to think of others no matter how haughty they acted.
"Ronn! We need to get shopping I want to get Grell something nice!" Alois said pulling on the older reapers arm as soon as Grell vanished into the crowd
"Well what do you want to get him? A present? A card?" Ronald supplied not knowing of what the blonde was thinking of.
"Do cards say thank you for bringing me back from the dead? NO! I need something perfect! He's the only person whose ever really cared about me since Lukas death I want it to be special..." Alois trailed off looking into the crowd.
"Hey! I care about you to ya know, but I see where you're going we can look around and at last resort we can make something homemade." Ronald suggested the blonde whose eyes were darting all over the place.
"What does he like?" Alois pulling Ron by the hand into the crowd the opposite way Grell had run off to
"Umm sempai...blood, the color red, chainsaws...death in general? You picked an odd one Alois" Ronald laughed lightly
"That just makes it so much easier." Alois laughed thinking he would find a gift for Grell later on when he was shopping for Ciel and maybe even Sebastian, he always wished Claude would be more like him but he was perfectly happy now that he didn't because if he did, he wouldn't have Grell and Ron now.
(dun dun dun…)
It had taken longer than expected, damn Michaelis and his loyalty to his damned master. Claude rolled his sore shoulders and listened with satisfaction as they cracked back into place. He hadn't expected the Phantomhive servants to be able to do that much damage to him but they did, all of them from the boy who had bravely gone one on one with him, the maid who shot out his eyes and to the one who torched his skin in multiple placed with fire. He still felt the burn sometimes and then there were the missing pieces Michaelis had squished under his foot. Damn him! Damn all of them! It didn't matter though Claude was going to get his revenge, he just need more help then he originally assumed.
Hanna watched through the window as Claude reformed slowly and a frown graced her face. Bastard. He actually had thought they would help him in killing their master and when her and the triplets had refused he had almost painted the hallway with their blood. Unfortunately as a result of their escape their young master got the brunt of the blows. Now that Hanna knew he was alive she was going to find him and give him the warning, by any means possible.
Authors note:
Me- well I hope everyone's satisfied with the chapter :3 mostly just fluff.
Hanna- finally you bring me into the story *sighs*
Me- no problem I just hope they come back soon it's starting to snow…
Ciel- YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA YOU DON'T GET SNOW!
Me- AGH GO AWAY NON BELIEVER!
Sebastian- Review please… I think?