Disclaimer: I only own Danielle, the rest belong to Yana Toboso.
The next day wasn't much different, except for the fact that Danielle didn't pester Ciel when she helped serve his breakfast like she normally did. She seemed rather determined to be a good servant girl which was even more exasperating to Ciel because, God, she looked so stupidly adorable with that look on her face…wait what?
Ciel rewound his thoughts and with the sudden epiphany of what he thought fell upon him he dropped his fork on his plate and barely stifled a shriek of surprise 'cause you know…frankly, refined people like him don't shriek like little girls. Ever.
Anyway back to his almost shriek-fork dropping dilemma. To his dismay Danielle noticed his choking strangled sound and turned to him, frowning slightly, "You okay? You sound like a cat trying to hack up a hairball or something…" she quips.
Ciel blushes and turns to the young girl with a glare, "What kind of question is that! A good maid would be worried!"
Danielle pouts, "Don't use such derogatory terms with me,"
Ciel blanches, "Don't tell me what to do! Who owns who?"
It was the brunette's turn to blanch, "Owns? You don't own me, Master Phantomhive!"
"HA! You admitted it! You just called me master!"
"I-…ah, touché. Well played, Master Phantomhive, well played, indeed," she nods, clapping her hands lightly.
"Hmph,"
Ciel unceremoniously stuffed his mouth with food in an attempt to shut himself up, he was starting to act like an idiot.
Somehow, it was Danielle's fault, of that he was sure.
Sebastian can only sigh at the rather...well, odd scene that played out before him.
Well, at least they were getting closer, Sebastian thought with a tiny smirk playing at his pallid lips.
~-~-oooohhh line thingy-~-~
It's not even lunch before a surprise knocks at the door.
What kind of surprise you ask?
Oh the blonde overly cheery, hella annoying, and secretly evil kind!
"CIEL~!"
Said boy is currently being smothered by a certain blondie.
Stupid Blondie.
She had attacked only moments before. Having caught her by surprise, coming up behind her and tackling her somehow managing to pin a black kitten tail to the back of her dress and matching kitty hears on her head.
Now, Danielle found herself irritably grumbling to herself, next to Finny who head adorned pink, fuzzy bunny ears that-she found-suited him a little too well.
"Hello, Elizabeth," Ciel managed though his voice was muffled by her shoulder.
"It's Lizzy~!" the girl whined causing Danielle to mimic her in a hushed whisper.
Both her and Finny snickered lowly but not lowly enough because Ciel's head snapped to the both of them with a sharp glare that caused the pair to shrink back suddenly.
-later on-
"Huh, a dance party?"
It's all the young girl can do, not to break out in a fit of giggles when an image of the dance-practicing Ciel flits through her mind.
Meirin nodded, "Sebastian said it's mainly for Ciel and Elizabeth…maybe the young master wishes to dance with her. Or vise-versa…"
Danielle blinks, not liking the way her heart clenches suddenly.
"Oh, I see…well that would make sense, I guess…" she replies dumbly. Meirin nods.
"We're to be there also, for help I suppose,"
"Ah, I see.."
An awkward silence washes over the two before a shriek rings through the room and both maids jump, staring in horror at the approaching menace.
1, 2, 3...
Cue scream.
~wonderful time-skip~
By 6 they are gathered for the party, Paula's there too doing her job of babysitting Elizabeth. Danielle tugs at the choker the blonde somehow managed to attach to her neck, it's thick, black with red-stitching and a gold bell. Her kitten ears are still pinned to her head and matching tail to her bottom. Her apron was changed for one that was a heart shape and deep red. Her hair was curled hastily by Elizabeth's twisting and her bangs were pulled loosely from her face in a half-up, half-down style with a red satin ribbon. In addition, black and red lace trimmed cuffs were added to each of her wrists. Ultimately she looked like a little kitty-maid which made the brunette blush darkly, how embarrassing.
Bard was dressed as a school girl which was highly, highly, amusing for everyone.
Tanaka…was wearing a wig…and laughing…
…
Yeah, not very interesting, hmm.
Oh, and the dancing Ciel and Elizabeth was definitely not interesting either. Nope, not at all, especially not to a certain little maid.
Danielle turned to Finny, meaning to ask him something irrelevant but found herself snickering at his outfit which caused the male to blush and whine.
"Dannie~! Don't make fun of me, it doesn't make me feel ay better!" he complained with a pout.
"Sorry, sorry, I just meant to ask you…" what was she going to ask again?
Shoot, now Finny was raising his eyebrow at the unspoken question.
Danielle paused before sheepishly offering, "Want to dance?"
At that Finny grinned widely, slipping off the bunny glove-things and grasping her hand.
Danielle gave a small smile as he swept her into a dance to the tune of Sebastian's violin. She noticed it then, how warm Finny's hands were.
It wasn't long before somehow partners were switched and Finny ended up with Elizabeth in his arms.
Ciel looked down at a confused Danielle, who had magically stumbled in front of him.
Seriously, how had this happened?
(A/N: Nope, don't ask me…I don't know either. It just did. Why? 'Cause I said so.)
"Hello, Master Phantomhive," she said, straightening up. Ciel smirked slowly as his eyes took in her clothing which only succeeded in Danielle mimicking a sputtering tomato.
"Well, as long as this is going on…would you care to dance?" Ciel asked politely that sexy smirk still pulling at his lips.
In her embarrassment, Danielle's sharp tongue got the better of her, "Tch, I thought you didn't want to dance with me? I thought it was stupid…"
At her curt remark, Ciel twitched a bit. But he forced himself to calm down and not let him vex her as she always managed to, "Well then, let me make it up to you,"
And there she went blushing madly again, her throat dry and her comebacks suddenly gone as her mind went blank, "I…uh, what if I don't want to?" she said lamely.
Ciel's smirk came back full force, "Don't even bother lying,"
With those words he took her into his arms, surprising her as he showed he really could dance.
Finny; however, was in quite a different situation…you see, Elizabeth was fuming. Though one couldn't really tell because she had this beautiful albeit fake smile on her face. But if you looked closely you could see the fury flashing in her emerald eyes.
All this was making the young gardener rather uncomfortable.
"D-Dannie~" Finny whispered. He was forced to call several more times before she finally snapped her eyes from Ciel's and looked toward him.
He mouthed a desperate 'help me' to the girl. She gave a side-ways glance to the blonde and shuddered at the horrible aura that surrounded her. Then Danielle nodded in understanding, carefully slipping her hand from Ciel's shoulder. The earl slowed in his movements and rose a questioning brow.
"What is it?"
"I have to go back to Finny before your fiancée strangles him in a blind fit of rage," she replied dully.
Ciel only blinked, staring at her with an expression that read 'My precious, lovely, innocent Elizabeth? Impossible!'
To this Danielle heaved a sigh and detached herself from Ciel's arms, "Anyway, this is supposed to be highly inappropriate…right?" she asked, looking up at him with a slight scowl. Ciel decided at that point that he did not at all like the unsettling feeling those words brought him.
Ciel shrugged, "Do I really seem like one to follow menial rules like that?" he asked, subconsciously toying with the patch that covered his eye.
Danielle almost smirked, "I guess not…"
Then, with a turn of her heel, she left and walked back to Finny who instantly released Elizabeth.
Ciel barely registered that he held a gaily shrieking Elizabeth in his arms, mostly because his eyes were otherwise preoccupied.
He was too busy watching Danielle get pulled into Finny's arms, lifted off the ground only to be spun about as the male cried with relief leaving the girl to pat his back and laugh.
With a frown he realized something else he did not like, Danielle being held by someone else.
Throughout this whole festivity, Sebastian had watched on with interest.
It seemed his bocchan was having some rather, conflicting feelings, hmm?
Oh, God...that sucked.
Sorry, I need more fillers before the plot actually comes into play.
Blargh, I suck at filler!
Forgive me, dear readers...I beg you!
I really hope you'll stick with this story so you can see it get better ^^
I'm sorry about this chapters, boring-ness?
GAH! I NEED PLOT BUNNIES!
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