The light streaked through the sheer white curtains of the resorts room that overlooked the beach in Ireland. Waves could be heard crashing and breaking on the rocks and seagulls crying as they circled overhead in the sky.
She felt his warm half naked body against her back and his arm tighten around her as he kissed her neck and the arm he was cuddling her with move down and his hand searching for her personal warmth.
"Fin..." she breathed as his kiss turned into a gentle nip. "...ah-ahhh" he had found her wetness and was placing his fingers inside it. "Th-this is an interesting" she gasped in pleasure as his thumb found her clit as he probed. "way to say good morning." She felt his hardness pressing against her backside. "You can put it in there...if you want to" she whispered.
It had been a long and arduous journey home for the young Phantomhive and as soon as they were all home. Bardroy set about to do the yard work since Fin wasn't currently here and it had piled up while they were on vacation. Mey-Rin helped to get Benjamin and Ignia settled in for their visit. Sebastian had laid his master down for a nap and he hadn't been a sleep for even an hour when one of the queen's footmen dropped by.
"Sebastian, might you give this to the earl? Benji was suppose to deliver it to him, but he had forgotten. It's from Johanna. I thought I would ask since you are on your way with a letter." Ignia smiled at the butler.
"Of course not. Especially if it is from the Lady Johanna." Sebastian had taken to calling her that since now she was a lady knight of the court. The dark butler prepared a tray of coffee instead of tea and a croissant with cheese and ham as a snack with the letters on the tray.
Johanna's letter reading:
"My Dearest Ciel,
If you are reading this then it means I left while you were attending to 'other' matters. Which I understand and encourage on your part. I will be calling you later this evening and if you somehow find your way into a case, please call me instead. Remember Sebastian promised me and if I don't hear from you soon I will be coming home. Or asking the queen where she sent you to seek you out. Thank you for your kindness and I appraciate it greatly, so does Fin. I hope to hear your voice soon.
With loving regards,
Lady Johanna"
Finny was inside if her in almost an instant, thrusting hard and fast, trying not to shake the whole bed too much with each thrust. Sweat dripped down his face as he lowered it and kissed Johanna deeply.
Ciel was sleeping on his side when the butler walked into his bedroom, not surprising given the recent events that had transpired between the two. His eyes opened when the door did and he rolled over to the other side, facing where Sebastian would be standing. He didn't complain about his rear hurting, that was a given considering he still wasn't lying on his back or sitting up.
The new bride moaned and writhed as her husband tore into her backside. She kissed him back with such ferocity and passion, his sweat rolling on to her as her it mixed with her own. Fin gently pulled her by the hair as leverage and she about lost it when he fondled her breasts as he kept his pace. She felt his chest heaving against her back .
Sebastian smiled at him demurely and fluffed a cool pillow for him to sit on. As he gave him the tray holding his coffee, snack, and his two letters- one from the queen and one from Johanna. "Are you alright master? Might I get you some ointment?"
Finny climaxed not long after she did and lay on top of her for a few moments, soaking up the moment. He got off of her and rolled to the side. "Want to take a shower together? And what shall we do today?"
Ciel gave Sebastian a look, as if to say "You did this to me" as he sat up slowly, flinching despite the pillow. He would be moving slow today, that was for sure. The earl sipped his tea and read Johanna's letter first, making a mental note to expect her call. He drank the coffee and ate his snack, then went back to lying on his side to read the queen's letter.
Johanna stepped into the shower with him and they spent more time kissing than washing themselves. Which they managed to get done after they finally untangled one from the other long enough to do so.
"I am pretty much famished" she said while pinning her hair up as Fin helped to button up and tie her dress for her kissing her neck when he was finished. "I am craving some seafood..."
The butler took the tray away and without much permission pulled his little lord's trousers down and began rubbing a salve on it that would not only heal and soothe it but partially numb the area. "So what does her royal highness ask of us? When do we leave?"
"We could go to the beach." Finny suggested. "I'm sure there would be a seafood restaurant by it. Plus I've never been to a beach before. Have you?" He wrapped his arms around Johanna's waist, only letting go when she began to walk forward so it wouldn't be awkward.
He'd never been to Ireland before, but he figured that since they weren't far from the beach at all, they might be able to walk to it instead of taking a carriage. He even offered to carry her if she felt like not walking further. "What do you say?" Another wide grin.
Ciel would have given Sebastian quite the tongue-lashing if the ointment hadn't been helping him feel better and numbing the area a bit. He finished reading the letter.
"There's a fair in Vienna, Austria that's attracting some international attention since it boasts having the world's tallest Ferris wheel. Children have been going missing from the area. No one is being spared-not the wealthy, not the poor, and they haven't been seen nor heard from sense. We'll have to leave soon, since the fair doesn't last that long. But it will take a good deal of time traveling by boat and carriage."
The earl frowned. He was not about to appreciate having to sit in a carriage for hours on end. He surely also didn't want a repeat of Sebastian applying the salve-he wouldn't even look at his butler when he was doing so. He groaned at the thought of sitting in a carriage, lowering his face into a pillow to muffle the sound.
"I haven't been to the beach since I was a little girl..." She smiled, but blocked most of the memories out. It was time to make new ones while here with someone she loved. She gave him a smile that was just as big, "I would love to go with you husband." Husband. It was so intense to say that, but in a good way. Johanna was proud of being his wife.
The earl's butler looked at him and gave him a dark smile. "Are you adverse to demonic traversing? I can carry you and run at a near break neck speed with you..." Sebastian gauged his masters face to see how comfortable he was with this.
Finny locked arms with her as they walked, making it clear to anyone that walked by that they were together. As they moved through the streets and into the short bit of countryside before the beach, there were plenty of people who passed by that were clearly envious of their so obviously endearing relationship. "That is one lucky lady." One woman commented to a group of women with whom she was gossiping.
Finny was especially proud of his wife as they passed hearing those things. "People are sayin' you're a lucky lady, but I think it's the other way around. I'm the lucky one." He kissed her cheek.
He considered this. He had no idea what he was about to walk into, but it certainly had to beat sitting the entire time, not to mention the fact that travel time would be cut.
"I suppose I'm not opposed." He said. "We'll shop for clothes there to limit the packing. And we'll have to leave straight away. I'll call Johanna later this evening before her scheduled call."
"They think you are handsome and they wish to steal you away from me." Johanna joked with him as they entered the local seafood restaurant. A waitress promptly seated them. She ordered their grilled shrimp scampi with a glass of peach champagne. "I remember coming here with Benji once..he was so little then. He dumped a bowl of pasta on his head." She giggled at the memory.
Sebastian had him dress in light fall clothing and then wrapped him a blanket. The demon looked into his master's cerulean eye. He wouldn't dare say it, but Ciel looked like a swaddled babe. "Are you sure about this master?"
"Well I don't plan on dumping a bowl of pasta on my head, to be honest." Finny chuckled, sipping his champagne. He didn't mention any memories of his own childhood. They were certainly not relevant for the situation.
"I can't wait to go swimming in the ocean. Did you and Benji do that too?" he asked. Ciel nodded. "Just get on with it." He didn't much care for being wrapped up like this.
"Yes. Well he toddled around and fell on his bum. My mom caught him suckling on a starfish." She smiled some more and reached a hand to his. "Not all of my memories here are good..." she admitted to him. "This is where all of the things with Turpine started after he saw me in my bathing suit." She got a faraway look with a melancholy smile. "But that is all in the past. I am here to make new ones with you...and possibly in the future..." She blushed at the thought of children.
Sebastian smirked and began to run at an ungodly speed. He managed to keep his upper body perfectly still as his legs did all of the work. The trees and buildings they passed were nothing but multicolored blurs and prisms of light.
"D-do you think we should have children?" Finny extended the thought. "How many do you think we should have? That is.. If we're able..."
Ciel didn't even want to blink. It was an amazing sight to behold, though also a bit of a terrifying one. He would have gripped onto the front of Sebastian's tailcoat if he hadn't been bound in the blanket.
Johanna thought about this for a minute before replying, "I mean I don't see why we couldn't...both of our plumbing works...you're able to climax and I do have a monthly menstruation..." the conversation was making her blush. "I want to have as many as possible. I came from a small family, but have always wanted a home full of children. What about you?"
She had been sure to bring the herbal tea that she had been drinking to prevent becoming pregnant with her. Though secretly she sometimes wondered what it would be like to stop drinking it and realize one day her cycle was late.
Sebastian was soon into a stretch of valley and decided to tease Ciel a bit. Also to test out his reflexes and dexterity by dropping him off of a sheer precipice and catching him midair before touching the ground with his feet. "Wasn't that breath taking?" The demon mused to his young master.
"Yes, I know the basics work, but..." He thought about all of the drugs he'd been injected with. He didn't know the names of them, so there was no way to know if they'd made him sterile. "I just don't know. But I'd like to have as many children as you would allow." He smiled, despite thinking about the possibility of sterility. Now was not the time to think about that.
"I don't think I rather enjoy your definition of fun, demon!" Ciel yelled. He'd been terrified being dropped and had screamed the whole way down. He was certainly breathless, so it was indeed "breath taking."
"When do you want to try?" Johanna looked at him seriously. She knew that right now wouldn't be a good time for either of them. Especially with her dangerous missions with Ciel and the fact that Druitt could be lurking anywhere. It made her apprehensive. She also couldn't live her life afraid of having children and never having them if it were possible for them in the first place.
Sebastian chuckled and continued to bound and traverse all over all types of terrain. As well as well run through all kinds of weather across the land. This was the reason for the blanket and to keep Ciel from flailing like a cat.
"Where's your sense of adventure master?"
Finny took a few moments to think about this. He couldn't think about when an opportune time would be. "I'm not really sure. Do you think we should talk to the young master about it? After all, we're living with hi, or are you wanting to get our own place?" The thought of that conflicted Finny. He wanted to start a family, yes, but he also had a duty toward Ciel. It was one of the promises he'd made when Sebastian and Ciel had come for him and helped him escape the facility in which he'd been a test subject.
Ciel didn't say anything. Just scowled the rest of the way. At least he'd have a nice place to rest when they checked into a hotel.
"My uncle gifted me with a house and five hundred acres of land in England on our wedding day. I plan on stopping by and looking at it on our way back from our honeymoon." She looked at Finnian and saw that maybe they should talk about this later. They had finished eating when she asked him, "Are you ready to go to the beach?"
The couple placed the meal on the estate's tab and Finnian excitedly took Johanna's hand while bolting out the door. Before she knew it they were seaside, they had kicked off their shoes, and their toes were in the sand. Out across the ocean the gardener's eyes gleamed as he took it all in.
Sebastian had brought his young Lord to the Hotel Ambassador where he checked them in and then laid him down for a nap so that he may rest. Then called the queen's guard to let them know that they had arrived.
The butler went shopping for the top of the line in Viennese fashion and also grabbed his liege a Wiener Schnitzel along with coffee- two cuisine staples that they are famous for. It had been about three hours since the demon had left. Most of that time spent looking around so that Ciel could get some more afforded rest.
"Master" Sebastian soothingly called, holding out a tray with the coffee and Schnitzel. "Master it is time to wake up."
Benjamin had decided to take a walk with Ignia around the London of his youth. Ignia had never been to the city and wanted to share in the delights. Unlike his rival friend the earl Ciel Phantomhive he enjoyed linking arms with his servant in public. Other than that their attitudes and demeanor's were near identical.
When a red frizzy haired woman with a plain mousy girl in tow bumped into them.
"Oh I am so sorry my lords!" The girl frantically bowed and stepped away. Hiding just a bit behind Mrs. Lovett's. Dolly had taken to clinging to the woman since she was still anxious about being outside of the asylum she had grown up in.
"Accidents happen. You are quite alright." The older teenage boy said, he looked about seventeen. His younger companion about twelve or thirteen and who seemed to be his master. "I am Ignia Pursymon and this is my lord the Viscount of Ireland Benjamin Barker."
Ignia watched as the older woman stared at his master in a peculiar fashion. Almost as if she knew him or had seen a ghost. The way she stared made him feel uncomfortable for his liege.
"My heavens! I am more sorry then Viscount sir." The girl panickedly bowed again from behind Mrs. Lovett's.
"What are you staring at?" Benjamin grimaced at the woman.
Finnian removed his jacket and shirt, setting them well away from the water. He lifted Johanna up and walked further into the water, lifting her higher as the water rose. Eventually, he was holding her over his head, chest deep in the sea, and none of her dress got wet. "I love this." He said, gleefully. "This is the best!"
Ciel shot up. He'd had a nightmare and was thankful to be awake, though he didn't say it. It took a moment for him to calm down and realize where he was, and then he took the food, embarrassed. He looked Sebastian up and down as he ate.
"Oh..." Mrs. Lovett spoke. "My apologies. You just... You look like someone I know. Would you happen to know a young woman by the name of Johanna, perchance?" She knew it probably wasn't the most appropriate thing to ask a nobleman whom he knew, but it was just eating at her.
Johanna came free of his grasp and dove into the water. She did not care about her hair or about her dress. All she wanted was to enjoy this moment fully. She swam under the water circling him before popping back up and throwing her arms around his neck in a kiss.
The people back on the shore gasped in slight horror that the lady would do such a thing. She didn't care and continued to kiss him. Her legs were wrapped around his hips as she free floated in the water. Herself pressing tightly against himself down there and she felt him hardening. They were a bit out from the shore and their lower extremities were covered by water up to their chests. Johanna kissed him, her tongue sliding against his and she nipped his bottom lip, "Take me...right here..." It actually thrilled her that they were in public and it was daylight with a few people about. It was very risque.
The butler looked at him back for a moment before speaking. "I decided to take a leisurely stroll as you slept and also do some digging myself. It seems that only children are allowed to ride the ferris wheel tonight. Free of charge and the children also get a complimentary ice cream as they ride."
Benjamin's face wanted to contort, but he kept it fairly composed at the mention of Johanna's name. After hearing about what all had transpired and he meant everything of her service under the earl. He was very weary to give any indication at all at knowing her.
Instead he focused on Dolly's crucifix and grabbed it in his hand,
"Does this make you feel safe?"
"Wh-why yes my lord." Dolly said with wide eyes.
"It's funny how so many sheeple flock to this trivial icon and commit such heinous acts under it's visage." The Viscount scowled. "No wonder they find it comforting. If their sins ever saw the light of day, they could gouge out their eyes with it and profess themselves martyrs." His hand dropped the pendant as if it were dirty. A small group of noble gentility passing by witnessed the scene and overheard with bewilderment. Dolly clutched to Mrs. Lovett's back with tears forming in her eyes.
Finny laughed nervously as he pulled his erection out and thrust into her in such a way that no one else would notice. The thrill of doing it in public was something else entirely, and he struggled to look at least somewhat normal. He moved a bit deeper into the water so that he could thrust a bit harder.
Ciel gave Sebastian an unreadable look, but said nothing as he got up and they walked to the fair grounds. It was packed. And honestly, he wasn't surprised at all that someone could get kidnapped or go missing thanks to the hoards of people. It was easy to get separated from others. As they neared the Ferris wheel, he stared up at it and watched the children boarding with their families. He had stopped walking by this point.
Mrs. Lovett gave the boy an incredulous look, pulling Dolly closer to her and excusing herself to move away from him as quickly as possible. What in heaven's name was his problem?
Finnian and Johanna were so excited and full of adrenaline that it did not take long for them to climax. Except this time they both did at the same time and it caused Johanna to kiss him so deeply that Fin fell of them tumbling under the water. After they sloshed back to shore. Johanna linked arms with him and just could not wrap her head around what they just looked at him dreamily, "Now. Shall we get dressed and go dancing? One of my uncle's friends is holding an evening gala."
Sebastian looked at his young master and before Ciel could comprehend what was going on they were boarding the attraction. It wasn't until they were sitting and the carriage was beginning to escalate higher into air. "Sire. Isn't this a delightful way to view the city?"
Finny was out of breath, the adrenaline still pumping through him. He turned to Johanna and spun around a few times holding her wrists, spinning fast enough that her feet were lifted off of the ground. "Dancing sounds great!" He laughed, feeling as though he had enough energy to last him a lifetime.
Ciel was petrified, though he was trying to conceal it. However, that became harder and harder as the ride lifted. When he'd been younger, he, in his childish rush, had nearly fallen out of one of the gondolas and ever since had not stepped foot in one. Yet, here he was now. He gripped Sebastian's arm with one hand.
He hadn't wanted the demon to discover that he was afraid. He didn't want to expose his own weakness, and that's what it was to him. Weakness.
He wasn't sure if he wanted to keep his eyes open or squeeze them shut as he gripped Sebastian's arm with his other hand, nearly hugging the man's arm. His knuckles were white as he gripped his butler's sleeve, the blood draining from his face. Yet still, he continued to look forward, attempting to hide the fear from his expression.
It sometimes took her breath away and made her feel very feminine and dainty when he did things like that. Another one of the many reasons why she loved him so much.
At the gala they walked around for a bit and mingled with guests before they headed onto the floor and she melted into his embrace. "Fin...I love you so much."
The butler looked at his little master and felt his entire body shivering and tensing. Ciel couldn't even pull off his usual poker face properly. Sebastian saw near sheer terror gripping at him. So he picked his lord up which was a fight within itself but was not too difficult for the demon and placed him in his lap. Sebastian cradled him to his chest and allowed him to grip him as tightly as he needed to. "Master. I am here for you."
Finny gave her a peck on the lips. "I love you too, Hana. You're one of the best things to ever happen to me." He was still a bit awkward dancing, but it was showing less and less as he moved.
He gripped the demon's jacket and buried his face. He was thankful that Sebastian wasn't teasing him about this. "I want off of this thing." He demanded.
"See. You are getting better at this." Johanna smiled at Finnian. She realized the time was getting late and that soon she would have to call Ciel before he retired for the night.
They made it to the top of the ferris wheel and stopped there for a good moment. Sebastian knew he had to remember something and he looked at his watch. Johanna was going to call at any time soon.
Finny slowed down in dancing. "How late do you want to stay out, Hana?" He had no problem staying up all night with her if that was what she wanted to do, but he didn't want to make any assumptions.
Ciel was too preoccupied with his own fear to think of the time, but noticed that Sebastian had checked his watch. When he remembered that he was supposed to call Johanna or the other way around, he ordered Sebastian to take him back to the hotel and get them off of the God-forsaken Ferris wheel.
Johanna had seemed to be anxious the past thirty minutes or so even between kisses and dancing. She kept glancing at the clock and her stomach felt like it was a net full of butterflies. Suddenly it stopped and she felt relief. But she needed to know the cause of the anxiety. "I have to call Ciel and afterwards..." She kissed his cheek. "Maybe we could camp out under the stars?"
Sebastian swiftly leaped out of the aerial basket at an angle he would less likely to be seen and landed almost softly as possible on the ground still clutching Ciel.
It was almost ten o'clock when they finally were back to the hotel room. The butler gave his master a moment to rest and relax before picking up the phone and calling the lady's hotel room. He handed his master the receiver when she had picked up.
Finny had nodded at her request to lie outside.
Ciel put the receiver to his ear. He was sitting on the edge of the bed in the hotel room so that Sebastian could get him ready for bed."Johanna?"
Johanna had sent Fin to run a quick errand for her for some tea. "Ciel. Are you okay?" The girl asked quickly. "I felt you panicking. Are you okay?"
Ciel was extremely embarrassed. "I'm fine. I promise. We're working on a case in Austria... Though that had nothing to do with it. I'll be fine." he repeated.
"A case in Austria? The children right?" Johanna at dinner heard some detectives chatting about it. "There have been talks here...one of the children was from here...found them sexually assaulted and dumped at a lake. They had strange symbols carved on them...they were two years old..." she heard her lord go quiet. "Do you need my help? Fin would under-" her master cut in.
"No, that absolutely won't be necessary. We'll be fine. If trouble arises, or if we decide that we can't do this on our own, we'll call you. But until then, you will remain there. That is your duty."
"But-" before she could protest she could feel her bond snap around her like a rubberband. "Yes sire." She went with instead. "Ciel...please be careful. I have a horrid feeling about all of this..."
"I understand. I'll keep that in mind. You should enjoy yourself. Goodbye." He handed the phone to Sebastian, and was officially in a bad mood. He didn't want to have ordered her to stay there, but he knew that she otherwise may not have listened.
Finny came back with the tea Johanna had asked for. "Is everything alright with the young master?"
"Yes. I will tell him. I understand...yes, he is...I know. " Sebastian listened as Johanna spoke to him. "I have it tucked safely away. Yes. Goodnight." The butler hung up the phone and already knew why his lord was upset. "She only looks out for you master and only wants the best for you...after all that has happened can you truly blame her?"
"Yes. He seemed a tad cranky, but that should be expected with him." Johanna thanked her husband as she placed the cup to her lips.
Ciel understood, but that didn't make him any happier. As soon as he was dressed in his nightshirt, he motioned for Sebastian to lie down with him.
Finny waited until she was done with her tea, sipping his own, before he led her outside. The sky outside was brilliant, brimming with stars as it was a cloudless night. It was breathtaking, and Finny let out a breath. "So many!"
The demon did so and kissed his lord in an affectionate manner. Ciel's body language at the moment was a bit indecipherable and so he continued to just kiss and caress him.
"Oh my" she whispered her eyes gleamed. It truly was picturesque and the heavens seemed to permeate with a special sort of magic. The newlyweds started a campfire and lay on a pallet as her husband snuggled her. They talked for what seemed like hours as they pointed at the heavenly bodies. "What was your first thought when you found me?"
Ciel slowly fumbled with the buttons on Sebastian's shirt, having pushed his tie out of the way. He was having a bit of a hard time with it, though, considering he was paying much more attention to his butler's mouth.
"Well," Finny said. "I was surprised to see a young lady such as yourself outside so late at night, especially near the manor. I suppose I should have been more suspicious... We do get some nasty visitors, of course... But... I don't know. I just wasn't." He played with one of her hands with his own.
Sebastian took off his tie with a seductive smile and tied his little lord's hands above his head to the headboard. Then he undressed him, then himself. He laid over the earl and gently kissed him making sure that this was okay before continuing on.
Sebastian trailed a finger down his lightly taut wrist, "If it becomes too much..."
"The first things my eyes saw was your eyes...sometimes when I close my eyes I can see them looking back at me, as if they had been etched there." She turned her head on the blanket and he was already looking at her. She blushed and touched her nose to his.
The young lord nodded his understanding and consent. His only real complaint would be that he wasn't able to hold Sebastian, run his fingers along the man's body, in his raven hair. It was one of his favorite things to do, sexual or not. "Just... Untie me before..."
Finny easily lifted her so that she lying chest-to-chest on top of him and moved a strand of hair behind her ear as he kissed her deeply. Let the stars watch, he thought.
Sebastian teased Ciel with the tips of his fingers, mouth, tongue, and teeth. At one point he took one of the silk Venetian ties and stroked his lord's cock.
"Ciel..." Sebastian practically breathed in his master's essence as he asked, "doesn't that feel so smooth...almost like a certain earl's bottom?" He chuckled, gripping him a little more firmly as he stroked.
All his lord could do was whimper. So the demon moved his master's position to lay on his side, his arms a twisted half spiral, as Sebastian picked an ice cube out of his lord's water and circled it around his tight hole. Before popping it inside and another and another before slipping himself inside. Sebastian gasped at the melting coolness and mingling warmth as his pace slowly picked up,.
Johanna let out a content sigh as she kissed him back and felt his fingertips under her dress tracing her back and sides. The girl felt herself get wet and rolled so he was on top of her.
"Make love to me Fin..."
Ciel moaned loudly and tugged at his restraints, wanting so badly to squeeze, scratch, or otherwise touch his butler as he pounded into his young lord. He also didn't know how long he was going to be able to hold out for.
He didn't have to be told twice, lowering her dress enough to expose her breasts and fingering her as he nipped and sucked at her now exposed nipples.
Just when the demon let his sire think that he was going to let him climax. Sebastian grabbed the base of Ciel's shaft and held it tightly. He pulled out and let his master's sensation pass so he wouldn't cum yet. Sebastian placed Ciel back on his back and sat bottom to bottom with him, tying the same Venetian silk scarf around both of their lengths and began to jerk them both off at the same time and just as they were about to both cum. He once again kept his liege from doing so. The butler lithely untied Ciel's restraints and kissed him hard before giving him a beckoning finger and said, "I want you to punish your horny devil."
Fin's young bride gasped and gripped his shirt tightly pulling him closer to her. When his mouth fell upon hers she began to pinch at his nipple with one hand and pulled his hair with the other.
Ciel nearly tackled Sebastian out of sexual spite, planning on simply riding him until the both of them reached climax, but another idea hit him. "Punish you? Yes, I think that would be most appropriate, for teasing your master." He moved between Sebastian's legs and licked the head of his erection in what could be considered a playful manner. Ciel smirked.
"You are not to cum until I say you may. That's an order." He then took the demon's cock into his mouth, moving as quickly as he could. He even went so far as to insert a couple fingers inside of the man, curling them upward.
Finny began to thrust into her, lowering a hand to play with her clitoris, hoping to make her feel better than before.
Sebastian moaned and gripped the sheets. His legs spreading open and his ass rising a bit off of the bed. The butler wouldn't admit it, but he enjoyed the torture immensely. The base of his cock twitched and the rest of it swelled, but with the order his body wouldn't allow the end result. This caused him to sweat and pant the veins in his shaft began to bulge and the head turned red. "Oh master...Ciel..." he groaned and cried out in pleasurable agony.
Johanna felt her pussy lips cinch around him tightly and she heard Fin gasp as they did so. They began to create a tight suction and her chest jutted up, her back arched, and head lulled. "F-Fin-nian" she could hardly breathe, her lips in an 'o' shape "I'm cumming...oh...my..."
The earl stopped what he'd been doing to pull Sebastian up until the man was sitting. He looked straight at the demon as he straddled him and slowly lowered himself onto Sebastian's cock to ride it. He moved slowly, at first, getting used to it, then sped up. He was certainly not as fast as Sebastian could be, but it wasn't necessary
It didn't take long for Ciel to be at his limit again, gripping and scratching the man's shoulders. Finally, finally, he allowed his butler to climax.
It was hard to keep from screaming as he climaxed after Johanna's intense orgasm. He grit his teeth in an attempt to not be so loud, and was out of breath by the time it was over, lying on top of her, running his fingers through her air absentmindedly. "Oh...Johanna..."
When Sebastian was able to cum, as he felt Ciel breaking his skin, he heard him groan as his load filled him. His lord's sweaty and limp body chest to chest and shoulder to shoulder with his. He stroked his hair and kissed the top of his head. The servant breathed in his master's young natural scent and he found himself grinning in a genuine way.
The earl pulled away from him in a euphoric state and the boy did something he usually didn't do. Ciel saw the demon's smile and gave him one of his own. It made Sebastian's heart nearly stop and he was always afraid to admit that.
Before retiring for the evening the two lay against the white of the bed sheet in the dark. Sebastian with his hands under his head and Ciel laying his head on his chest. "What were you dreaming of earlier Master...it wasn't the same as you usually do was it?" his head slightly turned as he kissed his forehead.
The wind blew through Fin's hair as he hit his point of ecstasy and Johanna felt her heart melt. His face was excruciatingly beautiful in that moment. The way he sucked in that breath, his brow furrowed, his face bunching up in what seemed like blissful agony. And Johanna thought to herself, I caused him to feel that. It amazed her how something as simple as an expression on his face could make her feel so...much more in love. When her attention came back to focus he was giving her a curious look and she kissed his cheek and murmured in his ear, "You are beautiful and you are mine."
Ciel was tracing miscellaneous shapes on the demon's stopped when he heard Sebastian's question and curled his arms up to his own chest, almost as if he were shielding it. His whole demeanor changed as he thought about the nightmare he'd had."It was different. You were dead."
Finny smiled, still somewhat out of breath after their activity. He slowly rose to his feet after tucking her back into her dress and pulled her up next to him.
"Might need to shower, haha!" He kissed her lips. "And you are mine if you will allow for it."
Sebastian's eyebrows knitted together and he looked down at his young liege perplexed. Dead? That was something that the demon had a hard time coming to terms with. Anything could be killed and that included him, but it was a very hard thing to accomplish. "I am pretty sure that it was just a dream and nothing will ever come of it. Now let us rest, we have a long day tomorrow."
The lake was still surprisingly warm as Johanna slipped in and Finnian swam after her. She didn't feel like going back to the hotel and the moon rippling on top of its surface had looked so inviting. They swam around and splashed until Johanna had grown fatigued. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep snuggled in his arms under the stars.
Finny carried Johanna back to their room, and helped his groggy wife change into a nightdress. In the morning, he waited a bit longer than normal to wake her up, just watching her sleep. He lightly shook her. "Hana... Do you want to go out for breakfast or should we order service?"
Ciel had pretty well passed out after that, sleeping heavily. No dreams plagued him that night. The only anomaly was that it was surprisingly difficult to wake him from his slumber the next morning thanks to his exhaustion from the day's activities.
Johanna slowly opened her eyes and looked around for a moment. The young girl felt more fatigued than she should have and realized she was tapped into her young lord's own sleepiness as well.
A moderate yawn escaping from her mouth, "How about we order service?" She said taking her pillow and placing it in Fin's lap before laying her head down.
"Sire." Sebastian had first tried. "Sire. Please..." he gently shook Ciel and to no avail. "Sire please wake up." The young earl continued to peacefully sleep. The demon took one of his lord's heaviest books and was about to slam it down on the bedside table. When the phone rang and to his surprise his master groggily answered it.
"Ciel?" It was Johanna's voice. "You need to get up." Fin had gone out for a quick walk while they waited for breakfast. "I can feel your fatigue...I wanted to let you know" she said as she read the morning paper. "That they found the remains of a prominent Irish girl on the fairgrounds in Vienna. There was a folded up tarot card in her mouth."
"A tarot card?" Ciel repeated, rubbing an eye. On confirmation, he hung up the receiver and looked at the time, asking why Sebastian hadn't woken him up sooner. "And what is that book for?"
Finny came in just as Hana was putting down the receiver. The breakfast was delivered a few moments after that. "Who were you talking to, Hana?" he asked, curiously, taking a bite of his food.
"The master" she replied and showed him the newspaper. "I needed to let him know that piece of information." She said as she kissed his cheek and then took a bite of her crisped waffle with grape jelly.
"I was going to slam it on the nightstand next to you." Sebastian smiled at him and placed the book back. "I tried waking you several times. "What was that about a tarot card?"
Finny read the paper. "Is that where the young master is at this time? That's not good. But if Sebastian is with him..." He remembered that Sebastian had been strong enough to hold him back against all of his strength when he'd been informed about the violations the Viscount Druitt had committed against Johanna.
"Apparently another victim was found dead. An Irish girl. She had a tarot card in her mouth." The earl sat still as his butler dressed him and drank his coffee afterward. "We should see if we can find any of the victim's relatives to see where all they had gone at the fair. And... You are not to leave my side." He wasn't going to go off on his own as he normally might have done.
Johanna saw a slight shadow cross his usually tender face. And it caused her to cup his chin, she recognized it from the talks they previously had. "I am okay and everything is going to be fine. I promise."
"Understood master. So shall we start with this girl then?" The butler asked his earl. To which his lord seemed inclined to agree.
The manor house they went to was of an upper class. It belonged to John Mitchel a political activist and journalist, there were women in grey and black walking in and out of the house wailing-they were obviously having a wake. The victim in question was Henrietta Mitchel and she was only eleven years old. She was also the grand daughter of Captain James Verner of the Irish militia group the 19th Dragoons.
Mr. Mitchel lead them to his study were he immediately sat down and looked out the window not able to look at them. The man had obviously been up all night crying his eyes were blood shot. "What would you like to know?" he said numbly.
Finny heard her say that, but wasn't entirely convinced. Still, he brushed that thought aside and smiled. "Everything's going to be better, anyway. Where would you like to go today? I was thinking maybe we could explore some of the castle ruins outside of the city."
"First, I want to say that we're terribly sorry for your loss..." Ciel began. "And I'd merely like to know where you'd gone at the fair-any particular booths or vendors that stick out?" The mention of the tarot card had him curious. Perhaps a gypsy?
"Heni-" He began to say her pet name, but stopped "Henrietta...kept going on about a friend she had met at the ferris wheel. She wanted to go towards the south end of the grounds claiming the girl lived that way." John paused and took a sip of Brandy "I told her 'no' we had to go home. I turned my back for one moment and she had taken off in that direction. I chased her yet lost her in the crowd..." this is where a bulge formed in his throat "we searched for hours...and I found her body by the ferris wheel...her head..." he closed his eyes "she had been thrown from the top of the ride after someone had sexually..." he took a deep breath "the medical examiner found a folded parchment in her throat. It was the 'wheel of fortune' card."
"Yes, we could do that and bring along a picnic lunch." Johanna clapped excitedly and began to get dressed as Fin watched her.
He couldn't think of anything that might comfort the man, but thanked him for his time. They stayed for some time, more or less out of respect, and then Ciel decided it might be a good idea to see what all was located at the south end of the fairgrounds.
The gardener led her downstairs to have a lunch packed for them and headed out the door carrying it. It wasn't terribly far to walk to one of the ruins. The place was deserted and there were holes in some of the walls big enough to walk through. "It's kind of sad that they would let this run down so much, you know?" Finny commented.
Sebastian had stolen a glance at the girl's body before they left and he didn't notice anything weird about her corpse. Except her eyes when he quickly lifted up her lids to inspect. They were darker than normal deceased eyes and he wished at that moment he could ask for Undertaker's opinion. "Something was spiritually ripped from that girl."The demon told his master.
"My uncle told me that the ruins were used as shields during times of war. Until the historical preservation society stepped in. ..." Johanna had left the society after that whole event. She didn't dwell on it though.
"Her spirit was broken?" Ciel asked, looking at nearby booths. "Or eaten?"
He walked inside of one of the ruins, then up a stone staircase to the next floor. He peeked through a hole in the floor, staring at Johanna in the floor below. He made a face and waved.
"It was broken as if an outside force had tried to sever it from her physical connection. It would be compared to someone slicing the meat from your bones while you're still alive." Sebastian said. There was a shift in the air and a force hit him.
The demon whirled around which caught his master off guard and stared out into the crowd. A woman was walking in their direction and her pigtails bounced with her shoulders that she kept bunched up and her hands in her coat pockets. Almost as if she had a large amount of energy and that she didn't know what to do with it. Not once did his eyes leave her, he was on high alert.
"You are so silly Finny!" She ran up the stairs after him, but couldn't find him. Where did he go to? She felt a hand tap her shoulder, her head quickly turned causing her hair to whip and fan out around her. "So you want to play hide and seek do you?" She giggled.
Ciel moved closer to Sebastian because of his reaction.
The woman approached them, eyeing Sebastian, and then Ciel, as if she were analyzing something. Her pale eyes seemed to glitter. After a few seconds, she smiled politely, while still holding a concerned look. "Child, I know that you are with someone, but please, you must leave. Children have been disappearing lately... I lost my niece just a few days ago... So please..."
"We're actually here for information about those disappearances, if you would be so kind as to provide some." Ciel responded.
The woman blinked. "Oh? Well, come to my tent then. Perhaps I might even read your fortune... No cost." she joked, a weak joke at that.
"That'd be fun!" He laughed and ran off again. "Do you want to hide first, or should I?" she couldn't see him, but his voice echoed through the place. Suddenly there was a crashing sound. Finny had fallen through the floor into a hidden lower level that hadn't yet been destroyed.
"Oh my god!" Johanna gasped and ran towards the sound. He was perfectly fine except for dust and rubble in his hair which he shook out. Johanna sat on the lip of the hole with her feet dangling. Finnian raised his hands up to catch her as she leaped down.
The earl's butler led the way inside first and was the last to sit down next to him. The woman made them a cup of tea each and set it before them. It was green almost like a green tea but it smelled almost like sugary honey.
The woman took a sip of of it from her own cup and smiled at them. Sebastian watched as Ciel took a sip and grinned pleasantly at the woman. The demon took a sip of it and it burned his tongue and made his stomach curl. Yet he kept his polite and charming outward demeanor. When she turned away he dumped it into a potted plant.
They looked around. It seemed as though the floor-perhaps a bunker?-hadn't even been touched or damaged like the rest of the castle had. The walls were still intact. There was even some old furniture.
"Wow! Can you believe this, Hana?" Finny breathed, amazed by the discovery, but perhaps not nearly as much as Johanna was being that she was interested more in historical things.
Ciel watched as Sebastian dumped his tea out. He understood that his butler, being a demon, had different tastes in what tasted good and bad to him than humans. However, nothing had ever been so bad that he outright dumped it in such a fashion. The tea was sweet, but Ciel did have to admit that it had a bit of a bad aftertaste. Still...
"What can you tell us about the disappearances, Miss...?"
"Oh, where are my manners? Call me Licia."
"Yes... Licia, then. What can you tell us?"
"Well, I don't know a whole lot, unfortunately." She looked down at her cup. "My niece went missing, and we haven't found the body yet, but I'm certain she's gone... Every other body that has been found... You understand... As far as anything goes, I have heard rumors. Rumors that said that the culprit isn't after children necessarily. Just those that are sexually pure. That makes sense though, because earlier this week, a young woman, about to be wed, went missing as well." She excused herself to go get some more tea, and Ciel turned to Sebastian.
The butler just gave him a look that said 'he wouldn't dare' and leaned in to whisper, "I believe she is referring to Henrietta Mitchel as her niece." A gloved hand of his pointing at a doll about the size of Ciel's palm that looked eerily like the girl only the doll was knitted like a voodoo doll and the doll's clothes were made from an article of clothing that she died in. There wasn't a doll yet, but the makings of a small wedding dress to fit onto one of them.
Sebastian sat back up as she entered the room and he pointed again at the doll, "That doll looks awfully like Henrietta Mitchel."
The butler watched as Ciel finished the first cup of tea and kindly declined a second one.
Johanna was overwhelmed and nearly in tears at the discovery. This was almost like walking into a treasure trove. She wore a blank expression full of wonder as she ran a hand across the arm of a couch. "Fin...do you even know what we have uncovered?"
"I love this tea." the fortune teller said. "They say it kills our inner demons. I find it very relaxing, myself."
Ciel said nothing at this, but did glance at Sebastian for a moment.
"I'm afraid, however, that's all the information I really have. Would you like me to read your fortune? She pulled out a small deck of tarot cards. "Again, no charge."
"Actually, I think we should go, if you don't mind. There are some other things we need to get done today.
"What is it?" Finny asked. He wasn't well versed in history, and he regretted that now. "Looks to me just like a bunker of some sort." He kept exploring, moving down a hallway.
One moment Sebastian felt fine and the next moment his mind felt like a ship being tossed by a storm. He grabbed for Ciel and pulled him into an embrace attempting to pick him up and try to make for an escape. But the floor seemed to fall out from under him and all he could say was "Run...run...command Johanna to come now...just run"
Everything was a blur and then everything was spinning. The demon cried out as his stomach felt like it was expanding and splitting. Ciel reached for him and he pushed his hand away, 'Run..." Then his body stopped moving. The last thing he heard was the sound of Ciel screaming his name.
"Oh no..." Licia tsked. "Did I kill your pet? Such a shame...but don't worry. We can have fun together. Lots of fun..."
It happened all at once she felt Ciel's fear, she felt his panic, terror. Her ears rang with his screams and she felt ill. Extremely ill almost like she could die. She felt like she was dying, maybe she was.
The ground felt smooth with dirt and dead leaves as she collapsed feeling blood running out of her nose. She felt Fin by her side but she couldn't hear him all she could hear was Ciel.
Benji had just finished playing cards with Tanaka and Bardroy when Mey Rin said Johanna was calling and it was an emergency.
Fin had run out to get a doctor and Johanna was on the phone. She could barely breathe and was dry heaving as she spoke. "Benji...I need you to go to Austria..."
Ciel knelt down and gripped Sebastian's jacket. Sebastian... Dead? No. No, no, no. He shook his butler hard. He was stunned, couldn't feel a thing. "Sebastian!" Harder.
"What...?! You liar!" He slapped the man's face as hard as he could. Tears were streaming down the earl's face as he continued to try and rouse the demon. Sebastian had never lied, but remembering that he'd said that Ciel's nightmare was probably just a dream... It felt like he'd lied.
Sebastian had told him to run, but he was conflicted, not wanting to leave the demon's physical body behind. ...But what did it matter if he was dead? Ciel sobbed into Sebastian's chest not wanting to let go of him.
Finny had taken Johanna back to the hotel and was frantically trying to find things to help, currently downstairs gathering materials.
"Johanna...?" Benji asked. "What..." He knew Johanna wouldn't make such a demand form him unless it was absolutely necessary. "What's going on? Where exactly am I headed in Austria?" He summoned Ignia to let him know he would be leaving.
"The fair grounds...in Vienna" Johanna continued to dry heave and more blood leaked out of her nose. "Something has happened to Sebastian..." she cried out in agony at Ciel's burst of emotion "Benji...if something happens to me..." she vomited in a waste basket and it was green with blood. "I love you and promise me you will take care of my master." Then she collapsed before she could hang up the phone.
"Is everything alright?" Ignia asked as Benji nearly shouted into the receiver calling her name before frustratedly hanging up. Benji explained to him. "We will have to run it...even then if we pushed it...it would take three hours at the least."
"How precious! You must have loved him very much, but now I can love you. I can love you forever." The woman said as she slowly walked towards Ciel.
Finny came back up with a plethora of items to try and help her. He moved her onto the bed and wiped the blood from her face, dipping a cloth in water and placing it on her forehead. He tried to gently rouse her, a bucket with him in case she needed it. The boy was near panic.
Ciel backed away from her slowly, still keeping a tight hold on Sebastian. "Stay away from me!"
"Then we'll have to make it half that." Benji grabbed Ignia and began to run as fast as he possibly could, storming across the countryside, over the English channel, and tearing across Europe.
Johanna cried and whimpered in her sleep. She had a fever and was in extreme pain. "Ciel...Sebastian..." she mumbled in her fevered daze, "Fin...I love you." She seemed to get hotter by the minute. She woke up and moved to the bathroom. "I need to get this out of me..." Fin followed her as she sat on her knees in front of the toilet. "I don't want you seeing me like this."
Licia grabbed him by the hair and dragged him into a backroom where there was a table. She forced Ciel to lay on his stomach as she tied his limbs to the legs. Then pulled down his pants and examined him.
"My goodness! Well you are most certainly not one of virtue...I take it that your pet fucked your little arse good didn't he?" She inspected the welps, scratches, and bite marks on his bottom. His anus also showed signs of sexual activity.
Ignia and Benji ran as fast as they could and pushed to run harder than that and even harder than that still. They had a little over a quarter of a way left.
"It's alright, Hana..." Fin bent down next to her, rubbing her back. He looked like he might cry, but gave an encouraging smile. "In sickness and in health..." he said. "Is there anything I can get for you, do for you?"
Ciel struggled against the restraints as hard as he could, still yelling for Sebastian, mentally screaming for someone, anyone, to help him, though hope was sinking further away from him. Without Sebastian, his life, the meaning and purpose for his existence... Was there any at that point?
They were finally in Austria. They just needed to find Vienna. He wondered if it might be too late, and, if so, what he should do-not to mention what he should expect to find.
"I need some castor oil..." she said weakly to him "I need to get whatever is affecting me out..." she wiped away at his tears and wish she could tell him why this was happening. If they all got through this she would beg Ciel to let her be honest with Fin.
Licia pulled out a cylinder shaped metal object with a handle to grip it and began to shove it inside of the earl's rectum. She didn't even gag him and actually encouraged him to scream.
"You don't like it? Is it not how your pet does it? Let me see if I can make it feel just as good." She rammed it in and out of him harder.
The both of them were almost winded and when they came upon the Fairground it was packed full of people. And extremely loud. They began to search around.
Fin ran off to see if he could get some. It took him a bit (and a lot of asking and a lot more confused looks), but he came back with some, handing it to Johanna. "Anything else?"
Ciel screamed until his throat hurt, and continued to cry out even then. He could feel parts of him tearing, and could even feel the warm blood running down his skin. He was losing it, every few seconds, he would be back where he and Johanna had been after the incidents in the asylum. She could see him for those seconds, the blood running down his legs, and he could see her. Those seconds flashed, almost as if when he blinked he would be there, then blink again and he was back.
Benji could sense Ciel on the southern end of the fairgrounds, and ran in that direction, gripping Ignia by the wrist, dragging him along. "This way!" At least he could sense that he was still alive, but this sense seemed to be flickering.
Johanna during those moments would reach out for him mentally. She drank the castor oil and began throwing up instantly. She heaved and heaved with Fin patting her back. After a few purges her mind started to clear and her temperature was reducing back to normal. Which started to relieve Finnian.
'Ciel.' Johanna called out in her thoughts.
Sebastian's face twitched in pain as his eyes began to open. He could smell blood and not just anyone's blood but his lord's. He could hear him screaming and a gloved hand splayed its fingers on the ground and he used it to push himself off of the floor. It took him a moment to stand fully and he stumbled a few times as the last of the fog left his mind.
Benji and Ignia tore through the beaded curtain and into Sebastian whom placed an arm between them to keep them from colliding.
"Go get Ciel and take him to the room." he snarled, telling them where to take him to. The boys complied and went inside the room with Sebastian following behind them.
Licia looked at them and smiled, "Ahhh. Just a heavy nap I see. And you brought more playmates."
Sebastian touched his face and chuckled, his fingers hiding his eyes. The demon's chuckle grew deeper and more maniacal.
"Play. Yes, play...we shall most certainly play." He grinned revealing all his teeth were now jagged points.
Licia let Benji and Ignia take Ciel away. She had no more use for him, but this one she did. The woman had a syringe full of the 'tea'. She dove at Sebastian and he seemed to move so fast he disappeared and magically appeared behind her., stabbing her in the neck with it.
Licia felt arms around her waist and a heaviness behind her. The demon's spiritual power was amassing. She began to feel afraid. Licia slowly turned her head to see the butler had spiraled ram like horns on his head and needle like teeth.
"What are you not in the mood anymore?" He asked her. A clawed hand reached for her throat and slammed her on the table tying her to it.
The dark butler's claw like nails scraped across a wooden table until his fingers wrapped around the hilt of a carving knife.
"You see when you unwillingly remove souls from their vessels...it's excruciating for the victim." Sebastian looked at the knife as if it were a lover or a long time friend. His forefinger on the knife point as he twisted it on his fingers tip.
"It's almost like cutting the meat from the bone of a live and very much aware animal...I am going to let you experience this."
Sebastian came back to the hotel room saturated in blood which on most days would not ever happen. He didn't even regard the boys. The butler pulled out an oil salve and mixed Johanna's blood into it. Then applied it to Ciel's wound, rubbing his fingers softly in a circular motion, and dipped his fingers inside.
Benjamin gave the earl sips of water as Ignia rubbed him down with a wet wash cloth. After all was said and done Ignia helped Sebastian dress him.
Ignia wanted to reach out and touch him, but Benjamin thought it would be best to get the room next door and head out with them in the morning.
When they were gone and a few hours had passed, the weight of guilt fell on Sebastian. A single tear slid down the demon's cheek and then a few more followed.
He wished that his little liege would climb out of bed and hit him, scream at him, even bludgeon him. Sebastian was failing at a demon, as a servant, and being one hell of a butler.
Maybe...he began thinking that all of this romance and all of this attachment was getting in the way of his duties, obligations, and his goal it was making him weak. Of course he could never act hard around him and callous, he would always have a gentle demeanor around him.
But he could not. Would not. Continue loving him this way. It would get Ciel Phantomhive killed.
Sebastian didn't realize he was fully crying until a small hand wiped at his face and a violet eye ringed in a star glowing from the dark stared at him. Ciel had woken up and had an unreadable yet bewildered expression on his face.
The demon fell out of the chair and to his knees hugging the small boys legs. He could feel his master's gaze looking down at him, but Sebastian hid his face. He was hoping that the Phantomhive would strike him.
When nothing happened, when Ciel didn't move to punish him, he just continued to stare and blink at his servant in confusion until he says, "Sebastian? Are you crying?"
"I am." The butler said in the darkness of the room. "Ciel. Oh my Ciel...what have I done?" He growled in a sobbing sort of way. "I love you...and my love will be the death of you. If you value anything. Your life, your pride, anything." He took in a deep breath. "Command me not to love you!" The demon didn't mean it. But he was so tired of Ciel getting harmed, nearly killed, and traumatized.
"No." The boy said softly.
"And why not?" Sebastian looked up at him ashamed to be in such a state.
Ciel didn't have an immediate response at the ready. There were so many things he wanted to say at that moment, but not a single word made its way out of his mouth. And though his face remained unreadable, an undeniable, excruciating pain was building inside of his heart, his soul, spreading like a virus, consuming him.
When Sebastian had fallen, it had felt like everything else in his life had as well. Thinking that Sebastian had been dead had been a far worse ordeal than what had happened to his body in the time that the demon had been unconscious. All he'd been able to think about, despite the pain, despite his screams, was what life would mean without his butler. Certainly, with the bond with Johanna, Ciel would probably still have been able to get revenge on those who had killed his family, disgraced the Phantomhive name, and kidnapped and used him. But what then? What purpose was there after that?
He would have lived. He would have grown up and gotten married to a woman whose love would never fill the void in his heart that Sebastian had so graciously occupied. And no matter where he went, no matter whom he was with, no matter how large a family he created, no matter how many friends he made... Ciel would be alone, unable to share these experiences with the one person who mattered the most, the demon who'd saved him and given his life a purpose when everything was lost. Sebastian, whom had sole claim on the earl's soul—and what deeper bond can their be than a claim on one's very essence of being?-he would not be there.
And none of that, thankfully ,turned out to be the case. Sebastian was very much alive, and Ciel had wanted to express his thankfulness. Once again, his life had been given meaning, and once again, his death would mean something as well—there was no uncertainty. He had thought that this would be the ideal outcome, and, despite that he was hurting in every way as a result of the assault his body had once again taken at the hands of another, it seemed almost as if that were nothing compared to the blow that had been thrown his way now.
Now the demon, his savior, his defender, his lover, was asking Ciel to order him not to love him. The one person in this world from whom he wanted to know, feel, and otherwise experience love was requesting to never be allowed to do so again. It made sense, though, and after consideration, even the young earl was unable to determine that he wouldn't do the same thing if the roles were reveres. He was damaged, body, mind, and spirit cracked in several places. And it was only natural to want to preserve a valuable damaged good by casting it to the side, never to touch it again in hopes of preserving its integrity and not further breaking it.
Sebastian continued looking into his master's eyes and then raised his own hand to wipe away the other's tears. "We are perfectly fitted for one another. Two shattered halves of a mirror."
Johanna curled up next to Finnian and held him tightly to her, "I apologize for all of this. For making you worry." She told her husband groggily.
Ciel let out a sound that can only be described as something between a laugh and a sob. "Aren't broken mirrors bad luck? He let go of Sebastian's head and pulled the demon onto the bed with him, only asking that he remove his clothes because they were bloody. As they lay in bed, covers over them, Ciel continued to cry, finally letting out his feelings regarding the assault.
"No more... No more... I'm sorry... No more..." He was referring to sex between him and Sebastian, not wanting to offend him. He just didn't know when, or if ever, he would be ready for anyone to touch him in such a way.
"No need to apologize, Hana... I'm just glad you're feeling a bit better." He carried her to the bed and brought a bucket onto the floor on her side in case she needed it. "I'm here for you, always. Please don't be upset." He kissed her forehead.
The butler pulled away from him and looked him in the eyes, "My dear master. When we first were intimate did I not make sure it was something you wanted? And a few days ago when you asked me if I would stop during did I not say I would? And last night when I bound you...did I not make sure it was not alright?" Sebastian stroked at his hair and took his hand in his, "Other than our contract.. I am bound to you because I love you. Not because I lust after you..err...except for your soul." He lightly laughed.
It was not long and Johanna was asleep against her husband's chest. She felt Ciel's whirlwind of emotions even stronger now. He must have consumed some more of her blood. She wanted to call him right now but his feelings now said not to. He was in the middle of something important and she was too weak to even function properly. Tomorrow she decided would be their last day of the honeymoon she had already talked to Fin. Johanna felt horrible about cutting it short but he somewhat understood. The day after that they would be leaving.
Ciel moved forward and clung to Sebastian, continuing to sob. He would cry himself to sleep that night, then sleep so lightly that in the morning he would feel like he hadn't slept at all.
Finnian stayed up well into the night watching his wife sleep, stroking her hair and doing his best to keep her comfortable-not moving or rolling for fear he might disturb her. He hoped she would feel better in the morning, and finally fell asleep himself, still holding her in his arms.
Ignia and Benjamin sat on one side of the carriage, with their arms linked, and holding hands. Sebastian and Ciel sat on the other. Ciel gave off an air of being easily annoyed. So the other two were very careful in what they said or talked about.
"Johanna called us earlier..."Benjamin began. "She is coming home tomorrow. She was violently ill last night. But wants to get in one more good day with Finnian since she's feeling a bit better."
"How about we finish exploring those ruins, eat lunch, and then we go do some tourist shopping. Afterwards we can have dinner before heading out?" Johanna felt absolutely wretched for leaving so early. But Ciel needed her, every second she could feel his bond to her pulling tighter, an him growing more restless that she wasn't there.
Ciel felt terrible, being that it was his fault that she was leaving early. He'd have to find a way to make it up to her, somehow. He realized the two were trying to be careful in what to say, so he didn't let how he was feeling show. "Well, it's good that she's feeling better."
Finny nodded and smiled. "Should we leave the ruins as they are or take something with us and donate it to a museum or something? Or...?" He wasn't sure what the more appropriate thing to do was. He knew if they did nothing, there was a chance that the place could get looted later on anyway as someone might try to sell the stuff for money. He made no mention of them leaving early. Though he was a bit disappointed, it was nothing considering he had the rest of his life to spend with his wife.
"I called my uncle earlier and he is sending someone from his household here to come and retrieve the items. But he told me that anything we find beforehand we can keep if we want." Johanna sprang off of the bed in a jubilant mood as much of one as she could provide. Then grabbed Fin's hand as they rushed from the room.
Ignia stared at Ciel for a moment. One of his talents was being an empath and he could also do hypnosis naturally. The young man was being bombarded by the earl's emotions. It didn't help that he overheard their private conversation last night and so he knew part of the origin of what he was feeling.
"If you ever" the other boy's servant began "not necessarily need to forget a moment per say but even an emotion...I could help you."
He followed her, being dragged along, laughing. Once they got to the ruins, he jumped down and searched for a staircase up to the original floor. He could at least make it easier for the others to come down here by knocking away whatever was covering it.
Ciel stared at him for a moment, saying nothing, then turned his attention to the scenery outside. He honestly desperately wanted to cling to Sebastian, even at that moment, but wouldn't dare do it in front of Benji and Ignia. Even though he knew of their relationship, he also didn't realize that they'd heard the conversation the night before, nor was he even comfortable enough around them to do so even if he knew that they were aware.
They found a staircase and she helped Fin to move rubble. Johanna helped him to place it outside so that it wouldn't take up space in the secret chamber.
Johanna was looking through cabinets and drawers which mostly held clothing, books, and paper. She accidentally bumped into a vase on a mantle when it shattered and something lay glittering in the broken pieces.
It was a silver ring, with a Star of David carved on it, and a purple stone in the center. A flicker of memory teased at her brain..it seemed familiar in a way. It looked like it maybe too big for her at first and when she put it on her right ring finger it seemed to meld to her size. It made her gasp as she felt a flow of energy snake through her veins.
When back at the estate Ciel wandered to his study with his butler in tow. Although he had kindly told his guests they would be dining together before departing. Sebastian made his earl some tea and brought him his book that he was currently reading.
"Is there anything I might do for you master?"
Finnian glanced over at her, moving the last remnants of the blockage over the staircase. He didn't see her put the ring on, but had heard the crash of the vase. "Hana? Are you alright?"
Ciel thought for a moment. He considered taking a nap since he was so exhausted, but inevitably decided against that. Instead, he moved over to Sebastian and embraced the demon. "Stay here." Was all he said.
"Yes. I am. I just found something interesting." She showed him the ring and then looked at it some more. She knew it was an occult artifact and she recognized the mark from somewhere.
She continued to rummage through things when her body went cold. One of the books had the marking that was burned into Ciel's body on the cover. All the way here in Ireland?
It looked almost ancient, she flipped through it, and saw images just as archaic, and even more grotesque. Images of children like Ciel and images of babies being torn from wombs...she thought she was going to be sick.
Finnian was walking up behind her. She slammed it shut and shoved it in one of the satchels they brought. There was a dagger and mask in the drawer too. She shoved those inside as well.
Would she ever show these to Ciel? She didn't know yet. She wanted to study them first. It may cause more harm than good to show him now. But what were these things doing here? It was so bizarre.
Sebastian hugged him back and smelled his soft hair. In his heart after being home, he was glad his master didn't listen, that he could have this, that he could love him.
Yet he thought to himself that he needed to be more of his old self and he needed to do so soon. He remembered the times when he was callous, snide, and unfeeling towards Ciel. Time had worn him down to feel other things. He needed to embody both.
The Irish Viscount's butler kissed his master rather harshly in their guest room of the Phantomhive estate. As the late afternoon sun became that of the evening sunset making his hair shine golden and streaking his master's black with shades of pigment blues.
"Mmm master I know it's almost time for dinner with the earl.." he murmured "but why must you tease me so..."
Finnian continued to look around and picked up a pendant from a drawer. Though he didn't know anything about the value of such things, he thought it might be something nice to present to the young master. Perhaps he might give it to Lady Elizabeth or something? Or donate it to a museum. Either way, at least a gift might make the earl a bit happy.
The necklace was brilliantly made, linked with diamonds. The center of the pendant contained a rather large black diamond. He shoved it into his own satchel. "Are you ready to go, Hana?"
It seemed like the lord's emotions were swinging on a pendulum, from one end of the spectrum, his desire to cling to Sebastian, to the other, keeping in mind that Sebastian had asked not to love him. The hurt was returning, eating at him again, and he pulled away, no longer wanting to be touched by anyone."You may leave now." He told his butler.
"Precisely for that reason." Benji responded, nipping at Ignia's bottom lip. "Surely you can handle it?" he teased.