A/N: Psh, what do you mean it's not December yet?
It's obviously December. Duh. It's just December minus eight days. Pfft, you stupid head.
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...So yeah I got bored and decided to upload this.
MYSTERY CHARACTER OF THE CHAPTER IS:
?: And I thought to myself, how did I end up here?
Me: YOU GUESSED IT, IT'S DROCELL. Grell's bells, this is like that Pokemon tidbit that always came on and you had to guess what pokemon was on the screen. Man I sucked at that.
Drocell: You'd make a fine doll wouldn't you?
Me: Oi! You're not making me a doll EVAR. *whispers* Unless I'm one of THOSE dolls *wink wink*
Drocell: … And I thought, what on earth could she be talking about.
Me: OH. YOU KNOW.
Drocell: ...
Me: Yeeeeeeaaaah *wink wink*
Drocell: ...
Me: *wink wink*
Drocell: ...
Me: *wink wink wink wink*
Drocell:...
Me: *wink wink wi-* You know what FUCK IT. I WANT TO BE A SEX DOLL DROCELL. OKAY? I WANT YOU TO SELL ME TO THE UNDERTAKER AND HAVE HIM PENETRATE **** **** ****
~The rest of this message has been hidden from viewers by the CONOGAF (Corporation Of No One Gives A Fuck) in order to make this chapter as family friendly as possible~
Me: HA. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. SEBASTIAN'S IN THIS CHAPTER.
Chapter Twenty-One
The Book, The Room, and a Secret
A black butler and an occupied room, that was the scene. He stood at the door and stared emotionlessly at the sleeping figure of Cassie. It was only dawn, he wouldn't have to force her out of bed for another few hours, so what had drawn him here?
'I don't know. But... yes, I do know. I need answers.' He thought to himself, never taking his eyes away from the girl's tan skin.
Mindlessly, he locked the door behind him without looking and silently walked over to the bedside. Gazing down at the girl he felt very tall and very strong. She was so vulnerable looking, so much quieter than the stubborn and easily embarrassed girl he was used to dealing with. It was almost laughable.
He kneeled down on the floor and looked her over once again. Her pink hair was loose and made a halo around her thin face, facing to the side. Her neck was exposed to him, tempting him to bite until the skin broke. Her breathing was soft and she was still in deep sleep from what he could tell.
Narrowing his eyes, he looked from his gloved hand to her neck. Grumbling quietly in exasperation he tightened his jaw and pulled his hand into a fist.
'I need to figure this out.' He thought before pulling off his glove with his teeth.
Sebastian let his hand hover over her before slowly inching towards her bare neck, his fingers quivering ever so slightly.
He contemplated on if he would feel the same thing, would it be painful?
He wanted to say it had been unpleasant the last time but, in truth, it hadn't. In fact he might have felt some sort of pleasure from it. He couldn't be completely sure what he though of it, but he did know that it wasn't normal.
Sebastian settled his index and middle fingers on her skin and closed his eyes tight as a flowing feeling within the pit of his stomach almost knocked him back. His nerves seemed to be perceptive only to her in the moment he touched her and everything but her was unnoticeable. He vaguely noticed Cassie's eyes snap open before quickly reclaiming his hand and moving himself to the other side of the room.
Cassie's unwelcome wake-up call had her panting and holding onto both her chest and the spot that Sebastian had touched her. She stared at Sebastian, who stared right back at her with a blank look on his face as if nothing had happened.
"What was that?!" She exclaimed, staring at him incredulously.
Sebastian stayed silent, feeling a slight tingling in his hand and the pit of his stomach.
He deducted that the feeling wasn't painful, and in fact pleasurable as he'd thought earlier. The surprise he received from it was unpleasant though, and left an unplaceable taste on his tongue.
"Sebastian!" Cassie shouted, trying to get the butler's attention.
His eyes snapped up to look at her, "Yes, Miss Cassandra?"
"What was that about?" She asked, pinching the bridge of her nose and holding the collar of her night dress up.
"Just an experiment, I assure you. I'll take my leave then -"
"Experiment my ass, get over here!" Cassie ordered before he could walk towards the door, a tick mark forming on her temple.
Sebastian paused, frowning, before nodding and silently finding a place beside her bed.
"Is there anything I can do to assist you?" He asked, raising a single eyebrow.
"Sit down!" She demanded, her eyes set in a glare while pointing at the spot next to her on the bed.
The butler smirked and did as told, "I wasn't aware you required that kind of assistance, Miss Cassandra."
A blush seemed to spread throughout her entire body and her jaw dropped, "You little piece of -!" She never finished as she blindly swung her fist towards his shoulder.
Although he knew it wouldn't hurt if she did hit him, he thought she ought to know who was in charge.
In one fluid movement he grabbed her fist, swung his leg over hers, and pinned both her hands against the mattress.
Cassie squeaked and blushed even brighter, "Se-Sebastian! What are you doing?!" She sputtered.
The butler smiled innocently, straddling her thighs and curving his back to loom over her. Her arms and hands still lay restrained, his hair falling away from it's usual perfection.
The face she looked up to was one she wished she'd never seen, for she knew that she'd see it multiple times from then on. His eyes were glinting with amusement and stared straight into hers. His lips curve upwards into a cheeky smile, a single brow arched in a mocking way.
The quintessential example of a child who knew he'd done wrong but wasn't going to get caught for it.
She couldn't look away from his eyes though. His eyes changed the entire childish look to a dangerous one that she didn't necessarily want to defy. But at the same time it made her want to show him who was boss.
Cassie was afraid she was only galvanizing his more... flirty behavior by striking against him.
"Miss Cassandra? There's something you wanted to talk to me about?" He sighed innocently, slowly leaning closer with a dangerous gleam in his red eyes.
"N-not with you on me like this!"
"Oh, but I'm afraid this is the only way I can speak with you at the moment. You seem so set to lash out at me if unrestrained..." He explained, pouting in false distress.
Cassie gaped at him, "You're the one making suggestive side commen -!"
"Miss Cassandra, do lower your voice." He said, leaning his face down mere centimeters above hers, "Someone might come in to see what the problem is and find we're up to something."
Her eyes widened, "We're not up to anything!"
Sebastian took one hand from hers and pressed his index finger to her lips, "You are the one who asked for my assistance..."
"Oh come off it!" She said, using her free hand to swat his away, "Stop trying to change the subject and tell me why you came in here in the first place." She scowled.
The butler frowned and purposefully set both of his hands on her waist, trying not to smirk at her instant squirming. He sighed thoughtfully and cocked his head to the side.
"Hm... it seems you caught my ploy. I will admit you're developing an eye for my behavior. You've not grown attached to me, have you Miss Cassandra?"
"Not in the slightest you perverse demon!" She glared, blushing despite her fiery comment.
He grinned and tightened his grip on her waist, "Pity... How amusing that would be." He said almost wistfully.
With Cassie's arms free, she took her chance to grab his shoulders and push him off.
Instead of doing so, however, he saw it coming and merely flipped them over. Cassie was now somehow straddling Sebastian's waist, his legs bent up to support her back.
As she sat, stunned, Sebastian found this the prime opportunity for him to settle both hands on her waist and pull her closer into him.
"Uwah!" Cassie exclaimed, trying to throw herself off him and failing as his grip tightened.
"Is something wrong, Miss Cassandra?" He asked, his words dripping with false innocence.
"I-I- I..." Her entire face was flushed pink by now, "I refuse to deal with this right now! Tell me why the hell I felt like I was being electrocuted with happiness and rainbows when you woke me up this morning!"
Sebastian's eyes widened a fraction, 'She feels it too? This can't be normal...' The butler had just assumed it was some sort of strange symptom to her being from the future. With his higher perceptibility it wasn't such a farfetched hypothesis. But if she could feel it then this could be a problem occurring between just the two of them.
"I'm afraid I don't know." Sebastian admitted.
Cassie's eyes widened at his sudden seriousness, "Y-You don't... what? I'm not going crazy am I?"
"Miss Cassandra..." He narrowed his eyes, contemplating on whether or not he should tell her. She seemed even more in the dark about this than he was. Normally, it might've entertained him knowing that the girl was so confused. Unfortunately, Cassie grew to get rather annoying and persistent when befuddled.
"There is something strange about you that seems to cause the both of us to feel immense shocks of uncontrolled feeling when our bare skin touches. If you remember correctly, the same thing happened when I was bathing you."
Cassie blushed at the memory but nodded in understanding.
"I'm not sure what it is and I don't need you becoming distressed or overly dramatic about it. It most likely has something to do with you being from another time." He lied about the last part, not wanting her to know all the possible scenarios he was fearing.
"No, I get it. Thank you for telling me." Cassie said, surprising Sebastian. He looked up at her, her eyebrows furrowed in concentration.
He'd never seen her so focused before, she seemed like a mindless human girl. He could kind of understand the relationship between her and Ophelia now. Cassie seemed to be the rock figure. Solid and reliable, calculating and stubborn.
"I need to ask a few questions though." Cassie said, shifting back and resting on his propped up legs.
"... Of course." He nodded, raising an eyebrow. He wasn't sure how much he could answer.
"Why would it make any difference if I'm from the future or not?" She asked.
"As a demon, I have sharper senses and could already tell something was off about you before you informed the Young Master and I you were from the future. It wouldn't be all that strange for me to feel differently when touching you." He said, fibbing slightly.
She nodded, seemingly satisfied, "Do you have any other hypothesis?"
"Not at the moment." He said, blatantly lying to her face.
"Why do you keep on doing stuff like this?" She asked, frowning.
"Like…?"
"Embarrassing stuff..." She mumbled slightly.
Sebastian smirked, "It's amusing. Why? Do you not like it?"
"... Not particularly." She said, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Good, then I'll keep doing it." He said, smirking even wider.
She scowled at him, "Hmph. One more question."
"Yes, Miss Cassandra."
"Why have your eyes been glowing ever since I tried to hit you?"
There was complete silence.
Sebastian seemed to freeze and his eyes widened.
He coughed, "Pardon me?"
Cassie frowned a little, "Your eyes. They've been demonically glowing ever since I tried to hit you. Why?"
Sebastian turned his head to look away, closing his eyes. He indeed noticed the feeling of heat around his eyes and vaguely remembered his vision seeming much sharper the past couple of minutes.
"... Miss Cassandra, I shall answer more of your questions later. For now I must prepare for the Young Master's breakfast." He said, backing away from the question.
Breakfast wouldn't need preparing for another two hours.
Cassie furrowed her eyebrows, "Wait, but -"
Sebastian sat up, tucking Cassie in between his legs and torso and holding a finger to her lips.
"I won't need to wake you up for another hour or so, so I suggest you get your sleep." He said with a polite smile.
Cassie frowned, "O-okay, but still I- oomph!"
Sebastian had swiftly gotten up, carrying Cassie with him before unceremoniously dropping her onto the bed. She swiveled around, ready to rant but was quieted as he draped the blankets over her.
Without a word said, he tucked her in and shut the drapes, turning back around to give her a quick pat on the head.
"I'll see you at the end of the hour, sleep well." Was all she heard before he was gone.
She stared at the spot where he had just stood and pouted, "Well shit."
Sebastian flew down the hallways, coming upon his assigned room and opening it with a small key. He shut and locked the door behind him and squeezed his eyes shut until he was for sure they were back to the usual red color.
For the umpteenth time he went for the disguised book kept secure in the drawer near his bed. He sighted, silently sitting on his bed before clicking open the lock on the book. It eased open to a page he'd set a plain bookmark in, the inked in title "Dimensional Travel" was the first thing he saw.
This had been where he stopped his last gander through. He furrowed his eyebrows before bringing the book over to a small desk, sitting down in the chair placed next to it and staring intently at the calligraphic words.
Dimensional travel has been labeled impossible for most humans, but this is false. The reapers use time and dimensional travel sparingly, in order to avoid creating what they'd call "a rift."
Travel through time and dimension causes gaps to appear in history and the future. It is rarely ever accomplished by a human. The only occasions of which a human has succeeded in dimensional travel have been fulfilled by supernatural or other-worldly help.
Certain demons have the ability of dimensional travel, although it isn't practiced as much as it was in Greek to Medieval times. Some of these demons even create contracts with humans, as a contracting demon might, thought the deal isn't built by devouring of a soul. Details are unknown due to lack of dimension traveling demons.
Reapers are the only frequent users of dimensional travel, despite the fact that they are highly "allergic" to dimensional auras. If a dimensional aura is touched too long by a reaper they could lose consciousness, deplete in most energy, and in some cases, may even lose parts of themselves.
Demons don't experience the same things if touched by a dimensional aura, although other effects may occur (see Side Effects.)
Sebastian closed his eyes, having already known this information. He furrowed his eyebrows and flipped the page, finding two bolded words that made him sigh in relief.
"Side Effects"
For reapers, the aftereffect of traveling through dimensions seems only a slight sleepiness and possibly nausea. Although if one reaper should come in contact with a dimensional aura, more serious circumstances may follow.
Reapers are the only frequent users of dimensional travel, despite the fact that they are highly "allergic" to dimensional auras. If a dimensional aura is touched too long by a reaper they could lose consciousness, deplete in most energy, and in some cases, may even lose body parts or sanity.
Demons who attempt to travel through dimensions without practice would have a decrease in energy and power from ten to forty-six hours. If done with practice, demons could dimension travel with only the same aftereffects as reapers.
The few humans who've travelled through time or dimensions develop much greater and more noticeable side effects. Some might experience constant drowsiness for up to sixty-eight hours while others might not experience any drowsiness at all. Nausea may occur and sicknesses such as the common cold, respiratory influenza, stomach influenza, or migraines.
A surge of dimensional power may excrete from the human as they have no supernatural power of their own. This "power" may last for up to a week, demons and reapers would more easily detect it from scent or sight. Humans that touch dimensional auras are unaffected but…
Sebastian leaned back in the seat and exhaled through his nose. So the whole mess could possibly be, like he thought, a side effect from her traveling.
'Although… I'm dreading that one other circumstance.' Sebastian thought to himself, lightly flipping the pages until he found the one he often found himself skimming over.
He ran a finger over the dreadful title. He knew that this particular subject would go on for a few pages, explaining something that could possibly kill Cassie. He hoped to hell that his real hypothesis wasn't correct.
WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?
Wait. I actually updated on time?! And not on time but EARLIER?
IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
Or Hanukkah or… You know what - religion confuses me. DEAL WITH THE FUCKING CHRISTMAS LIKE THAT FAT JOLLY MAN IS YOUR DADDY.
Oh wait.
I'M SORRY CHILDREN FOR RUINING YOUR CHILDHOOD. BUT ONE WITH A RUINED CHILDHOOD MUST RUIN MORE. IT'S A TERRIBLE DISEASE AND IT'S SPREADING.
Like dem thighs. ;)
Oh my Grell what am I on? I swear I do not mean for these author's notes to get so weird CX
*twirls into the next subject*
Thank you for the understanding reviews! I've gotten quite a bit of help and I'll be going to the DOCTAH on Monday for all this~! Hopefully I can update a bit more frequently because I love you guys more than completing stuff on time even if I've procrastinated on it :D
Ehh I'm tired. And I'm hungry. Ehhhh. EHHHHHH. SOMEONE FEED ME. I can't be bothered to get up though. THPFFPFPFPFPFPFPT.
That was supposed to be me blowing a raspberry at you guys. I just blew a raspberry at my computer at 1AM for you. FUCKING ENJOY THAT SHIT.
My hair will be dyed purple over the weekend! LOOK FORWARD TO IMAGINING IT AS I EXPLAIN IT TO YOU AT ONE POINT.
~ I was walking on the raaaaa~ilroad. Got hit by a traaai~n. I was walking on the raaaa~ilroad and out went my braaa~in. Can't you see the blood-a-rushing~? Bone went out of my thiii~gh. When I talked to the surgeon~ He said "WHY THE FUCK WON'T YOU DIE?!" ~
THE END.
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OR SOMETHING.
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