A/N: Chapter twenty, guys! Woop woop!
Scotland's Pond: Lily from the future indeed! Haha, and you think you know who Heather is? You're probably right, to be honest.
tohru15: Merci ! Eu quelques idées, avons-nous ? Faut voir si ils sont juste;)
demoness of music: Haha, better not let Lily hear that :P
Paxloria: Why thankyou :)
Quote for this chapter: It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didnt want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.- Sarah Dessen
Gale watched from the shadows, preparing to reap his first soul as a graduated reaper. He had only actually reaped one other soul before, for the test, and found it difficult to decide whether or not the woman he had to reap deserved to live. All the same he had passed with an A average, in all areas, not just practical, and his father was proud. This man wasn't as much a challenge as the woman had been; he was a criminal, and had never done anything else with his life. Gale knew what decision he'd take here.
Jumping from the hidden spot, Deathscythe raised, he smashed it down on the man's skull, and took his soul.
"Finished my first day then. No overtime. Interesting," he muttered to himself. He put his hands in the pockets of his trousers and moved away, slouching towards the Dispatch. He didn't know why he didn't just use his shinigami powers to turn up there, but it was an oddly pleasant night in the little English village, and he couldn't be bothered with doing the lazy thing. He smiled as he heard the shouts of fussing mothers going after children, fathers opening their newspapers, siblings bickering. He'd never really experienced any of this, his own father was more interested in chasing after his 'Bassy' than opening newspapers. He'd not had siblings either, to be honest it was a miracle he was alive, after all his father was gay and had never had any interest in women, except for that one night he'd let himself go.
Ew. Wrong wording.
Gale unlocked the door to the apartment, letting himself in and grinning at his dad.
"Dad, I did it. Reaped my first soul with my own Deathscythe!" he said. Grell looked up.
"Well done! I'm off to see BASSY!" he sang. Gale frowned.
"It's disturbing that even now, when I'm seventeen, you persist with that crush. And I get the awful feeling you had it even before I was born," Gale groaned, gaining only the signature grin and hand motions from the older shinigami.
"Naturally. After all, I was still a deadly efficient father, even then!" he said, before leaving. Gale smacked a hand to his head.
"Sometimes, I honestly wonder how I'm related to that," he muttered.
"I heard that," sang a voice down the hallway. Gale shook his head before flopping down in a seat and swiftly falling asleep.
Lily was in quite a different position for her first day of work. She currently had one small boy balanced on her hip, while the other toddler, his sister, tugged on the hem of her dress.
"Pwease, Miss Lily, pwease can I have sweets?" she begged. Lily didn't dare look down, for fear she'd succumb to the temptation of Tabitha's cute face.
"No, Tabby. It's time for bed; sweets will just make you stay up later, because you won't be able to sleep," she said, softly.
"Okay!" Tabitha exclaimed brightly. Lily groaned, this little girl was worse than her father had warned. All day, she'd been begging to stop lessons in favor of games, and stopping games in favor of sweets. She was indecisive, and even that was under exaggerating it. Lily shook her head and put Isaac in bed, before bending down to Tabitha's height.
"Okay, sweetie, you've got to go to bed just now. But tomorrow I might let you have sweets," she said softly.
"Pwomise you'll give me sweets?" Tabitha asked. Lily nodded.
"I promise," she said, before mentally hitting herself.
Why did I have to say that? Why did I promise her sweets? What did I do that for?
But she maintained her large grin and placed her in bed. Outside the door stood Ciel.
"Oh, hello young master," she said with a curtsy. Ciel gave a small smile.
"What's this about you promising my children sweets tomorrow?" he asked. She blushed.
"It was an accident! She's just so manipulative!" Lily protested. Ciel laughed.
"Indeed. Takes after her mother," he agreed. Lily laughed.
"Goodnight my young lord," she said, and went off to her own room, laying in bed.
In the shadows, from a tree, Gale watched her. Her voice from his graduation ceremony rang through his head.
That's why you're waiting for me down at the park.
He would know her again, one day. He didn't know when, but he would.
Another thing stuck out from their conversation.
Heather, the mysterious Heather.
Who could she be?