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Ciel: That's an order!

You heard the shota!

Ciel sighed a bit, glancing to the side of the staircase as he climbed, holding a tray of tea and biscuits. He was summoned by Angela to talk about his recent attitude. He was nervous to say the least. He didn't want to be a servant anymore but he suppose he had to be.

He still wore the same work dress from the ball two nights ago. Elizabeth was certainly in for a shock when she came into Alois's bedroom to borrow some shampoo for her bath. She screamed and that woke Angela up, which made Pluto start barking like a mad dog and Finni and Mey-Rin race into Alois's room and jump onto Ciel who had still been asleep and accidentally head-butted Alois in his sleep.

And to top it all off, Angela came in and chased Ciel out with a broom and repeatedly smacked him with it when she trapped him in the corner before Bard came in and took the broom from her and broke it.

Since then, Ciel had been locked in his room, his key taken and hadn't eaten anything since the Ball. His stomach growled at the plate of biscuits and the smell of his favorite tea, Earl Grey.

Finni and Mey-Rin were at his feet like usual but his dress was disgusting, having unable to get it clean. He was able to sew it up though. It was dirty and covered in his blood from when he bit his tongue.

He probably would have to get a new one since he didn't clean out the stain in time.

He knocked softly on the door three times, swallowing a lump in his throat.

"Come in." Angela's voice drifted from inside the bedroom. Ciel ushered Finni and Mey-Rin back with his foot, telling them to stay out. He opened the door slowly, balancing the tray on his other arm that seemed to becoming bonnier.

"S-Stetmother. I-I'm here with your tea and biscuits.." Ciel said quietly.

"Come in, Ciella." Angela said from inside the room. Ciel stepped in, shutting the door firmly behind him. Pluto was in the room, lying at Angela's feet in front of an arm chair that she sat at.

"Woof!" Pluto greeted, raising his head at Ciel.

Ciel swallowed the lump in his throat again and walked carefully towards the armchair. He set the tray down in front of Angela on the coffee table and stood back a bit.

"It seems you've been more of a handful then you usually have been, Ciella." Angela said, lighting a long cigarette and taking a small breath from it.

"It's Ciel, Stepmother." Ciel said, feeling an attitude coming on.

"Let's see. Let us name what you've done. You've insulted your sister, your brother, and myself; refused to bring us our breakfast and awaken us the last few days; given an attitude to everything; refused to leave your room and awaken on time, and you've hitten me. How do you claim?" Angela asked.

Ciel frowned, his brow creasing a bit. Was this a trial?

"Not guilty." Ciel hissed out. "All was for self-defense. And I have not insulted Alois that much." Ciel said, crossing his arms.

"And you come here dressed like that and you've slept in Alois's bed." Angela said, gesturing to Ciel's dress.

"I only have this dress and Alois allowed me to sleep in the same bed as him. I was tired and he let me sleep. He was being kind to me." Ciel said, his eyes glaring. The bruise and scrape were gone now but only a small bruise was there but he lost his eyepatch anyway. He wondered where it was.

"How, pray tell, did you manage to get it this filthy?" Angela asked, very calmly.

"I fell out of a tree and bit my tongue. The blood spurted out and it got on my clothes." Ciel said, not really lying but not exactly telling the truth either.

"I see." Angela muttered. "You can't work for me dress like that. I will have to get you a new one. See how much trouble you are?"

"I only have this one, Elizabeth has forty-three articles of clothing and Alois has fifty-six and you have sixty-two. I am not trouble what so ever." Ciel sneered, glaring at her.

"You may think that but they need those clothes and as do I. You ,however, do not."

"I need clothes to stay warm, just like them. You are making up things." Ciel snapped, his eyes beginning to glow their emerald blue haze.

"Don't talk back, boy." Angela snapped, her own eyes glowing. She took a deep calming breath and folded her hands under her chin neatly, setting her elbows on her knees and leaning forward.

"Now, about rehiring you into employment-" "Hold on a gosh darn minute!" Ciel snarled.

"I never asked to be rehired! I am a member of this house still and you do not hire the members of the house as servants! I am the full Phantomhive here and Head of the Phantomhives. I am going to take over the Funton Company and I own this mansion!" Ciel yelled, his fists clenching and going to his sides in pure rage. He felt his right eye pulsing like from two nights ago but ignored it.

"You do not talk like that to me!" Angela snarled, standing on her two feet. Pluto jumped from his place, running in front of Ciel to guard him. "You are not-" "Yes, I bloody am and you know it! It's written in my father's will! " Ciel yelled.

Angela stopped, her face going blank. A cruel smile wrapped itself around her mouth. She was suddenly next to Ciel, past Pluto who turned around and barked a bit. She wrapped her long slender fingers around Ciel's forearm, her fingers colder than ice and her grip like iron.

"Where is that will, Ciella? You have it, don't you?" Angela smiled, tightening her grip.

"I will never tell you where it is, so you can forget it! And get off me!" Ciel yelled, trying to pry her fingers off his arm. She was cutting off the blood circulation in his arm and he could feel it,

"Tell me!" Angela screeched, her hair waving a bit, her grin not going away.

"I won't tell you, even if you kill me!" Ciel yelled out, tugging on his arm. "Let me go! Let me go, damn it!"

Ciel was slapped across the face, his body going with the force of it and slamming into the door. His blue shining eyes glared at Angela, baring his teeth.

"Poor little Ciella, all alone in this world. Mother and Father rotting in graves and no one to truly love you." Angela said, smiling cruelly. She had a plan, Ciel could tell.

"Shut up, liar." Ciel said, rolling his eyes. He spat her shoe, sneering a smile at her. She sneered a bit before her grin came back.

"Am I? Then why is no one defending you in your time of need?"

"T-That's because..." Ciel said, looking away, his blue eyes looking at the door. "No one knows what's happening!"

"Do you really think that anyone cares? " She asked, laughing. "Did you really think that someone could grow to love someone like you? A stupid servant boy in a girl's dress, thinking he's the master of this household?"

"Liar. Liar!" Ciel yelled loudly, covering his ears with his hands. Angela grabbed Ciel by his wrists, pulling his hands off his ears and pulling him in front of her full body mirror.

"And how can they love someone who looks like you? Just look at how disgusting you've become. You're soiling your own name, Ciella." Ciel opened his eyes and stared at the boy in the mirror.

His hair was cold and wet with sweat and stuck to his face and now drying out. His work dress was stained with his own blood and dirt. It still was torn in many places that Ciel hadn't bothered himself to patch up. And now the dress looked too big for him, hanging very loosely off his thinning body. His face and skin was pale, a very sickly pale and his eyes were loosing their shine as he looked at himself. He also noticed his lip was bleeding a bit and licked the blood away.

He noticed his tongue had turned from its red cherry color to a palish pink. He looked sick, very sick.

"How can anyone love someone as wretched as you?" Angela asked, sneering a bit.

Ciel let out his own bitter laugh, yanking his wrists from Angela's grasp and walked a few feet away from her.

"I don't know. How were you married three times over?" Ciel asked, sneering back but with a grin and a glint in his eye. He fell backwards, a punch into his jaw and he was on his back. Angela became stomping on Ciel's chest as hard as she could, digging her heel into him.

Ciel gritted his teeth, feeling little tears peek through his eyelids as he felt as though his ribs were being crushed by the woman above him.

"I'll show you! You ungrateful brat! You'll rot in hell with your mother when I'm done with you!" Angela shrieked out, her eyes blazing their purple hue. She took something from her pocket and Ciel let out a scream, feeling something hard go across his chest quickly.

"Stop it!" Ciel cried out, turning onto his stomach, feeling Angela's whip crack on his back now. He felt wounds beginning to make their way onto Ciel's back as he was whipped. He felt liquid beginning to pour down his back as she kept whipping him.

"No one would ever love someone as wretched as you!" She yelled, her whip still never stopping.

"Ciella! Mother!" Voices echoed in the room from the door. Alois and Bard stood there with Finni and Mey-Rin hissing and practically foaming at the mouths. Pluto barked loudly, jumping in front of the group.

"Get away from him!" Alois yelled, jumping in front of Ciel, his arms out wide to protect him.

"Move aside, Alois! This instant!" Angela yelled, her eyes almost drowning in her malice for the boy behind her son. Alois shook his head violently, snarling a bit.

"Leave him be, Mother!" Alois ordered, his tone loud and cold.

"Step aside!" Angela screeched, her eyes glowing brightly with a purple haze.

"Stop it Mother, Please! He's had enough!" Alois almost begged. Pluto jumped in, in between Alois and Angela and snapping his jaws at Angela as he went. Mey-Rin and Finni jumped onto Alois's shoulders, their fur fluffed up and fangs and claws barred, ready to attack the woman who dared to touch their master.

"Ngh!" Ciel gasped out, feeling his right eye throb violently all of a sudden. He curled up into a ball, his body trembling as he went.

"Ciella..." Bard said grimly, his eyes sad. "Leave him alone, Angela." He spoke coldly and without respect for the young woman. Angela acted as if she hadn't heard him call her by her name.

"Why should I?!" She screeched. "I am the mistress of this house and he is nothing more than a lowly servant! A Dog! By law, I am allowed to discipline slaves!" She said, her eyes wide with almost insanity.

"He's not a slave, nor a servant!" Alois yelled, shaking his head and shutting his eyes. "He's my stepbrother and a member of this household!"

SLAP!

Alois faced left, a stinging pain in his left cheek. Angela had her hand raised, her eyes glowing hauntingly.

"I get to decided if he a member of this family, Alois. You are a child and you do not understand these sort of things just yet." Angela snarled.

"It...It hurts...so much..." Ciel whimpered out, his body shaking violently. He felt the fluids trail down his cheek but his eye did not stop throbbing very painfully.

"Shut up, filth!" Angela snarled, turning her attention back on Ciel.

"AH! AH!" Ciel yelled, his back whipped again.

"MEOW!" Mey-Rin and Finni mewed out from their place on Alois's shoulders.

"Ciella!" Alois yelled out, forgetting his stinging cheek. "Leave him alone!" He pushed his stepmother away from Ciel causing her to fall back on to her bottom.

"Stupid, little brat! How dare you push me like that!" Angela screeched.

"That's enough, Angela" Bard yelled out. The air began swarming, like there was a mini tornado in the room. The door slammed shut, pushing Bard out into the hallway. The door locked and Bard banged and kicked on the door. Angela was now on her feet.

Alois jumped to Ciel, hugging the boy to him.

"It's not real. This isn't real.." Ciel said, covering his face, his eyes wide with fear. Pluto, Mey-Rin, and Finni stood in front of the duo of trouble with fangs and claws out and hissing and barking.

Angela raised her whip and whipped it across the air.

"MEW!"

"WOOF!"

Ciel felt his heart crack, his pets thrown against the wall with such a force, he could feel it. They were knocked out cold.

"Finni? Mey-Rin? Pluto?" Ciel whispered, tears pricking his eyes. His lips quivered, trying to pucker them to make a whistle noise but he couldn't/

Angela grinned coldly and raised her whip again, this time toward Ciel and Alois. Ciel fused his eyes shut, hugging Alois.

He felt nothing.

He opened his eyes. Alois had taken the blow and his teeth were clenched together.

"A-Alois..." Ciel whispered, a tear trailing down his cheek.

"It's okay, Ciella. I got you, okay?" Alois said through clenched teeth. He grabbed Ciel's hands, lacing their fingers together.

His eyes widen, seeing Angela raise her whip again. He felt tears trail down his cheeks, unable to speak as Alois took the blows from Angela over and over again. Alois trembled in pain, his grip on Ciel's hands turning Ciel's fingers blue.

Ciel swallowed his heart and yelled out, "Leave him alone!"

"Shut up, brat! He's in my way of you!" Angela screeched out as her answer.

"It's okay, Ciella. This don't hurt a bit." Alois said, forcing a pained grin on his face.

Ciel's eye began to throb again but ignored the pain. He felt blood run down his cheek again but didn't try to wipe it away.

"Alois..." Ciel said softly.

"It's fine, Ciella. I don't want a pretty thing like you to get hurt..." Alois said with a small grunt. His cheeks actually began to redden as he leaned up to Ciel. He pressed his lips briefly against Ciel's.

Ciel felt his eye suddenly began to feel like to was being stabbed over and over again. His lips felt like they were on fire and pulled away.

Alois screamed out, beating Ciel to the scream but Ciel still screamed in pain.

"You both are foolish children! This will teach you!" Angela suddenly screeched out. Ciel's eyes widen. The whip Angelina was holding was glowing white and purple, brightly and dangerously. Ciel clenched his teeth, pulling his hands from Alois and wrapping his arms around him and pulled.

WHACK!

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"Ciel screamed, covering Alois with himself and taking the blow fully. He felt electricity, fire and pain explode and shoot through his body like a bomb with a bullet. He felt like he was becoming paralyzed, his movements slowly. His skin where the whip had touched was bleeding and around it was stinging like red hot needles going through his body over and over again.

"CIELLA!" Alois screamed out as Ciel fell beside him, limp and growing cold. Ciel felt his blood pour down his back, bleeding through the dress quickly. His head felt like it was on air. He knew the wound was deep, he just knew it. Alois was screaming something but Ciel couldn't hear him. His eyes rolled a bit. Darkness was edging into his vision. He glanced at the window in front of him.

He saw the black cat with wine red eyes.

The Darkness swallowed him whole.

"Mm..."

"Ah..."

"...huh..?" Ciel whimpered out quietly, opening his eyes slowly. He coughed violently, slowly sitting up. He winced, holding his side. He felt a bandage wrapped around his torso.

"Don't get up." A voice said. Ciel blinked, looking it up.

Elizabeth stood there, holding a wash cloth covered in blood.

"Elizabeth?" Ciel croaked out.

"...Yeah.." She sighed.

"Where's Alois?" Ciel said, licking his cracked and split lips.

"On the couch." she answered.

"What happened?" Ciel continued.

"You passed out and Angela beat Alois for protecting you. He's not as bad as you were though."

"Where's Angela, then?"

"Passed out in her room." Elizabeth answered, pouring a glass of water and helping Ciel sit up to drink it.

"Why?"

"Bard threw a chair at her after he broke the door down. She got a nasty bump but she's fine."

"I don't care if she's fine." Ciel huffed, taking the glass. "I wish she were dead."

"Hush and drink up. You've caused enough trouble today." Elizabeth snapped a bit. Ciel's blue eyes snapped to her, glaring.

"Excuse me?" Ciel hissed out. Elizabeth stood up, her gaze bored and a bit angry.

"Alois is severely hurt because he was protecting you. Your pets are still knocked out cold because of you. Bard has to fix Angela's door because he was coming to save you. It's your fault this happened and you need to realize that."

Ciel's eyes widen and he looked away from her. He looked at his hands before he covered his face, grabbing locks of his blue hair. She huffed, walking away.

'It's my fault people got hurt. My fault. My Fault... All my fault. Alois is hurt. Finni, Mey-Rin,and Pluto are knocked out cold. Bard is fixing Angela's door. I'm...I'm the worst.'

Ciel's mind swarm with Angela's words.

'How can anyone love someone as wretched as you?'

Ciel's breath quickened and he turned over on his place on another couch, facing the back of the couch.

'My fault.'

'All of it. Alois...I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, so sorry.' Ciel coughed, covering up a small cry as tears began to work their way down his face. 'All my fault.'

His pupils began to fade into the blueness of his eyes. His mind slowed down.

'Ungrateful, Ugly, unloved. '

'Poor little Ciella, all alone in this world. Mother and Father rotting in graves and no one to truly love you.'

'Then why is no one defending you in your time of need?'

Ciel's eyes slowly shut, feeling tired all of a sudden. His mind slowly shut down as he fell asleep, nightmares soon plaguing his once sweet dreams.

Tick Tock goes the clock
Butterfly laughed at pain and we shall mourn him.
Tick tock goes the clock,
Even for the Pure.

Butterfly, brave and kind,
He turned away from his Lies
When he knew Pure's time
For one last kiss tonight.

Tick tock goes the clock,
He cradled and he rocked his own.
Tick tock goes the clock,
'Til Pure kills the Darkness

Tick tock goes the clock,
He gave all he could give him.
Tick tock goes the clock,
Now insanity waits for Pure

Tick tock goes the clock,
And all the years they fly.
Tick tock, and all too soon,
Our love, will surely, DIE.

Okay...lets summarize this old dog.

Ciel and Angela fight, Alois protects Ciel, gets hurt and both Angela and Elizabeth verbally abuses Ciel.

When someone, esecpially young as Ciel goes through verbal abuse as great as Ciel was going through, one's mind will either snap, shut down all together, or just begin agreeing with it.

This happeneds very often with many people. Ciel was verbally and physically abused by Angela since he was such a young age, but his stubborn streak made it so he wouldn't break as easily. He locked most of his emotions away but Sebastian brought them back out, making him stronger but also open for the verbal abusement.

He took the verbal abuse in beginning, not bothering to fight back but also ignoring it. A little while ago, he fought back, denying it and even hit Angela after she hit him. Now, without seeing Sebastian and actually sercretly giving him some confidence in himself, he's mind is accepting his attacks and slowly taking in 'Truth'.

Elizabeth didn't realize what she was doing when she told Ciel it was his fault because she never noticed what Ciel went through. If one or more people agree with the abuser on what he/she says about the victim, the victim will began to agree with them.

Sometimes, it doesn't need but one to fully control someone to their mind and their body. Ciel stopped fighting because he couldn't take anymore pain and abuse. He lost a battle, but there is a war.

Sorry for the lesson there, but it happens very often all over the world and there are people out there that you may know who could be doing this or have this problem with someone they know.

I've be doing a bit of research but I could be wrong on some parts of this. I'm going to be getting a book on 'The Perfect Victim' soon to help with future chapters.

Can't believe I'm doing this, but hey it's what my brain wants me to do!

Also, you guys should read The Girl in the Box case. It gave me a couple ideas for this story. NO, I'M NOT TURNING CIEL INTO A FUCKING SEX SLAVE! IT JUST GAVE ME A FEW IDEAS FOR CIEL AND SEBASTIAN'S FUTURE RELATIONSHIP!

Okay, we're done here. Questions? Twitter or Review, anyone? Flames and Hating? Bring it.

Love you guys!

See ya later, Alligators!