I hope people don't decide to hate me for where this seems to be going 0.o

If its any consolation, I am thinking of a Sequel to this and it will be a heck of a lot better than what this story would be :P

Sunlight filled the valley where the rubble of the Abbey now lay; Eloise hovered down beside Ciel as he observed the stone and wood.

Eloise saw with sorrow that a lot of the people hadn't gotten out, their now lifeless bodies crushed under the heavy stone. "We couldn't get them out on time" she muttered, "Half of those people wouldn't have even known that they were being manipulated."

"Isn't that what all Religions do?" Ciel asked rather brusquely looking up at her in the air above him, "You are depicted in a lot of Religions, being an Angel and all. I would understand that you would have some sympathy for the Cults that followed your kind."

Eloise hovered down beside him, her one leg almost touching the earth, "There is a difference between an Angel and a Fallen Ciel, I am marked by my silver wings. Everybody who sets eyes on me will know that I betrayed the Lord and the Heavens. But there is even a step underneath where I am the Angels cursed with black wings named the Nephilim."

She sent a gaze back to Sebastian who was standing behind them with an unfathomable look upon his pale face, "He would know about them rather well, since they have been banished to hell and all. But what I am trying to say is that I am an 'Angel ' but not the Angel that everybody wants me to be. I may as well be a human in the state that I am in at the moment."

They were silent for a moment before Ciel let out a sigh and turned around to Sebastian, Eloise did so as well, her violet eyes burning into the Demon that approached them. But for once, he didn't smirk or smile, his face was solemn as he reached the human and the Fallen.

"A promise is a promise," Ciel muttered and Sebastian only stared down at him. Eloise waited the tension filling the air around the three and Ciel closed his eyes, but the shaking in his hand was unmistakable.

Then Sebastian stepped forward, bent down slightly and tightened the ribbon that held Ciel's little white cloak in place and stepped back with a small smile on his face. He looked up at Eloise who smirked down at him.

"I'll see what we can do to reach a compromise later, don't you think?" she said ever so softly. Sebastian then only smirked at her and Ciel rushed forward and grabbed Sebastian's cloak and demanded almost desperately.

"Why Sebastian? Why are you not taking my Soul? She has to be dead, she has to!"

Sebastian only sent a malicious smirk to Ciel, who stumbled back in shock, "Is there someone else?" he gasped. Sebastian didn't answer, instead only bending down in front of Ciel, "I'm sorry" he said to the Earth, "But it looks like I will be serving you for a little while longer."

The air was almost palpable when Eloise looked down the path past the Abbey when she heard her name being called out happily, "Ellie!"

A smile broke across her face as she saw Dagger and Joker supporting Doll between the both of them. Dagger broke away from the other two and began to run down the path towards Eloise.

His shirt had been shredded to tatters revealing his tattooed body, also revealing all the cuts and bruises he had received when the Abbey had come tumbling down around them. He raced down the path, Eloise dropped from the air and landed in his happy embrace as he spun her around, "I'm so glad you're alive" he breathed.

"See I told you shouldn't come along on expeditions like this" Eloise laughed, with tears filling her eyes with relief. "It only brings danger, look what happened this time around! I had to show my true nature, now everyone can see my wings."

Dagger let her go and Eloise hovered back before the tears rolled down her cheeks when she saw Joker unwinding Doll's arm from around his neck. Time hadn't done any good to him, he looked thin and almost sickly, but it didn't stop the fact that this was Joker!

He was alive and he was standing right in front of her, but it didn't explain why Eloise hesitated in that split second before she launched at him, knocking the young man off his feet and both landing in the dust.

"You're alive," she cried down to him, her tears falling down onto his cheeks, "I- I thought I lost you, you were at the Abbey the whole time!"

Joker reached up a severely battered skeletal hand to cup her face, his own eyes filling up with tears. "Ell…I was told that everyone had died. When we were attacked at Father's and…" he looked up to see Ciel and Sebastian before dropping his hand and struggling up to a sitting position.

"Black and Smile!" his face seemed to contort, "You're the ones who attacked us, they only using you Eloise!" he looked back to Eloise who leant back in shock. "You have to believe me; after you left, they burnt down Father's Manor. They knew that everyone had been killed and they taunted me with it. They were going to leave me in the inferno so all trace of me would disappear, they would use the fact of me dying to manipulate you!"

Eloise sucked in a breath, looking back to Ciel standing on the path with a solemn look in his eye. Sebastian looked as equally serious and Eloise was overcome with the bad feeling. "I fell into your trap" she whispered, "You wanted to use me. You kept Dagger alive to keep me at the Manor!"

"Eloise" Ciel reasoned, "We did intend to bind you in case you wanted to run away, but that was never on your mind and everything worked out just fine didn't it? You were finally moving on with your life and now look at you! You're reverting back to the stage you were at back at the Circus!"

"I trusted you Ciel!" Eloise cried, sweeping her wings so she lifted her weight off Joker. "I thought you were a good person and I promised that I would protect you! Only to find out that you had been intending to trap me. You wanted to find out my power and now you know! I'm a Fallen Guardian Angel, is that all you wanted to know?"

The tears continued to fall down her cheeks and Joker struggled up to his feet, "Don't you see it now Eloise? I trekked the whole Countryside looking for you, I knew they would have hunted you down and wold have manipulated you for working with them. I saved you just in time."

"You have it all wrong!" Ciel scolded, "Stop being so rash and just listen will you? After all we have been through, all of us, you are just going to believe the one story he has held with him and decide that we are the bad guys in all of this?"

"I knew it" came the snarled response from Dagger, "So you were hiding something from us, I knew I shouldn't have trusted you guys after you killed my family. I was a fool in ever believing that you would keep us safe. I even trusted you to take care of Eloise," he slapped his forehead as his own tears threatened to overwhelm him; "I was such an idiot! Why… did I ever…"

He struggled with his words, closing his eyes and fighting with the tears and Ciel's voice came out coldly from behind Eloise as she turned back to Joker. "What would you been ridiculing yourself for? The both of you? You were happy working in my Manor and you were moving on with your life, I was almost certain that you both were falling in love with each other."

Eloise gasped, the tears rolling down her cheeks as she saw the broken look appear on Joker's face. Her wings buckled from behind her and she plummeted back to the Earth, the sudden weight on her one leg gave way and she fell back to the dust and hid her face in her hands, refusing to look at Joker.

In a way, she knew that she couldn't blame Ciel for what he just said. Deep down, she knew that he was right; she just didn't want to admit it. Behind her, she heard Dagger groan and scuff the earth with his shoes.

"You're going to make us suffer by dragging the relationship we had into this" came his outraged voice. "We didn't bother you with what we had and did as we were told just like the others."

"I could always add in more," Sebastian offered, "But judging the way how Eloise is down there in the dirt, she already knows what she had done. I am going to leave it up to her to decide what she wants to do with this situation."

Eloise refused to look up, but her sensitive hearing heard Sebastian's footsteps and his voice, "Come Young Master, I think it's time that we take our leave. It's quite obvious that we aren't wanted here anymore."

"You're right" Ciel's cold voice came out, "I've done all I can, I never thought that I would be the one turning my back and leaving them here. After everything I done…"

Eloise heard them turn around and start to walk down the path before Dagger choked out, "Don't hurt Snake!"

At that remark, she lifted her head and spun around to look at the Earl that she had come to care deeply about. She let the tears fall down her cheeks before adding in her comment, "Please don't hurt him. He is a good person and if he was told that all of us died, it would ruin him."

"It's Snake!" Doll shouted furiously, "Why don't we go there and save him! He is a prisoner there; they will go back and kill him! We can go save the others as well, if it was all a lie…" Dagger spun around to the younger girl with a livid look on his face, "They're dead!" he exclaimed furiously.

Doll went silent and Dagger flung out his arm, "Peter, Wendy, Jumbo…Beast! They were all killed, I was going to die myself but obviously I wasn't saved because they took pity on me." His green eyes slid back to Ciel, "It was a trap."

As the other Cirques argued amongst themselves, Ciel looked to Eloise's tear streaked face with an unreadable expression on his face, "I won't hurt him" he said, "Eloise, when your mind is made up, you will know where to find me."

With those last departing words, Ciel turned back down the path and with Sebastian behind him; they left the Cirques by the ruins of the Abbey.

Eloise watched them go until they were out of the distance before she left out a sob and rubbed her eyes again, "I never took him to the one to lose so easily and walk away from a situation like this."

She heard footsteps behind her and she felt the presence of Dagger bend down beside her. He put his hand on her shoulder, "What are we going to do Ellie? He done it to give us a chance. This is what we wanted wasn't it?"

Eloise looked up at his sad face before muttering, "Dagger, we built a life at that Manor. What about Finni, Bard and Mey-Rin? I will even miss Sebastian if we decide to leave all of that behind."

"That's saying something isn't it?" Dagger tried to smile light heartedly but to no avail. He went to go pull her into a hug but in that next split second, it happened so fast that Eloise couldn't even comprehend what had happened.

"YOU!"

Joker come stomping forward with angry tears in his eyes, his mouth turned up in a scowl. He raised a leg and he kicked Dagger fair in the middle of the shoulder blades with his eyes blazing. "You heard the one thing that you wanted to hear, me 'dying' so you could make a move on Eloise!"

Eloise spun around with her violet eyes wide as Dagger went sprawling face first into the dirt. "Joker!" she cried incredulously, "What is your problem!?"

The red head stood over Dagger lividly, "You thought you could stake a claim on her? Think that you could seduce her when she was obviously grieving for me?"

Dagger looked mortified, holding his hands up in front of his face; "W-We thought you had died Joker" he tried desperately, in case Joker decided to kick him again. "We were both messed up and it just happened. I couldn't help but…"

"But what?..." Joker roared angrily, "You couldn't help but fall in love with her? Get your head on right Dagger, she loves me and she always had loved me, You had mighty big shoes to fill and you obviously failed."

Eloise hovered back up so she could regain her balance, then she surged forward and knocked Joker away. "There is no need to hurt him!" she shrieked, "What he said was the truth Joker; we started to lose hope when the time began to fall away. It's quite bold of you to say that I didn't ever love him!"

She recoiled when Joker looked up at her with smouldering grey eyes, "So it's true then" he said dejectedly, "You fell in love with Dagger? What ever happened to us Eloise? You jump on the next male you see after the first one supposedly died?"

"That's not true!" Eloise shouted at him, "Stop talking down to me like I am some wench! You didn't know the stress we were both under knowing that everything we were living was a lie. But Ciel made sure that we had a place to live, so we weren't separated and gave us freedom! I'm sorry for deciding to move on with my life!"

She hovered down to help Dagger up which only seemed to anger Joker more, "I was with Doll this whole time" he spat, "I didn't go start a relationship with her did I? Because I never stopped loving you."

Eloise helped Dagger sit up, the Ex-Cirque wiping the dust away from his face, His green eyes livid and hurt as he stared at Joker.

The air around them all was about to snap and Eloise got back up before trying to ease the situation, "I never stopped loving you Joker, I always have and I always will. You couldn't blame me for trying to seek comfort from another to try and ease the pain. If it weren't for Dagger, I would have sought to try and either go back to my duties in Heaven or considered ending my life."

The tears rolled from her eyes in a steady stream and she set her gaze on Joker's dejected gaze. "I'm sorry…" she whispered brokenly, "Joker, I have missed you so much and for us to have a fight, it's the worst feeling in the whole world."

Joker stepped towards her, taking a step at a time almost as if he were trying to judge the sincerity of her words. He came closer and closer, finally holding out his arms and gently grabbing Eloise and then bringing her to his chest.

She fell against him, letting another sob escape her and feeling the guilt gnawing at her stomach, knowing that Dagger was watching from behind her.

Joker stroked her hair, "I love you Princess," he murmured, kissing the side of her head "I promise we will make everything right again. Everything will go back to normal, the way we want it to be and we can finally be happy again."

Haring these words, Eloise couldn't even bring herself to even nod. The pain was suffocating her and the weight of the Earth seemed to crushing her even more. She couldn't help but feel that she had done something grievously wrong.

All she wanted to do was turn heel and run back to Ciel and Sebastian, they always seemed to know what to do in these sorts of situations. But she knew that they would have gone by now and she was now by herself.

Sebastian walked down the Hall to see his Young Master standing in the bedroom that Eloise and Dagger had occupied. The Earl stared out of the window to the terraces beyond with a distant look on his face.

It had been three days since the destruction of the Abbey and when Ciel had turned his back on Eloise to make her own decisions. The Manor seemed less lively without the two causing a racket and Ciel could almost imagine that he would turn around and see the grinning face of Dagger or the scowl that Eloise had when she saw Sebastian.

"Young Master?" Sebastian politely knocked on the door, interrupting the silence "Lunch is ready, I can have it waiting in your study if you…"

"Do you think she will come back?" Ciel asked, cutting Sebastian off entirely.

Sebastian smiled, stepping into the room and coming in to stand beside Ciel. "Who knows with that Angel, she is an independent person and if perfectly capable of making her own decisions. I'm sure she will make the right decision, it may take, weeks, months or even years…"

"I'm not waiting years Sebastian" Ciel said, "Did you see how she had changed under our care? From that meek young woman who relied on Joker for every little thing. If there was anybody manipulating her it would be him."

"Well I am deeply sorry for saying this," Sebastian said, "But it isn't your decision to make for her. This is what she wanted from the start, she wanted to find Joker and she wanted to continue living her life. We aren't part of it."

"You do know that I am selfish right?" Ciel asked looking up to the Demon with a hint of a smirk on his face, "For a while, I had not only a Demon but an Angel as well in my game of chess, I never realised how much of a valuable piece she was until she was taken."

"I do know that" Sebastian smirked, "I should have known that you wouldn't have given up so easily without having some sort of strategy to bring her back. Give her some time and come down and have some lunch."

"It's bin' three days and they still haven't come back home?" What do you think they're doing?"

"I can only imagine what they are doin', Do you think they 'ave eloped and gotten married?"

"I miss them, I want them to come back home. It's weird not having them around the Manor."

"I cannot believe that you would say something so perverse about Trickster and Dagger…says Emily"

Bard, Mey-Rin, Finni and Snake stood in the kitchen as Sebastian took the last of the Lunch for the Earl. They stared at the floor before Bard dropped the butt of his cigarette on the stone and squashed it out. "Do you think something happened to them on the last trip they went on?"

"Don't say that" Finni cried horrified, "The Young Master wouldn't let that happen to them. Maybe they are just in London buying things for us before they come home. Yeah, they're doing that."

"Those two are able to fight and look after themselves…says Wordsworth" Snake said quietly, "I just hope they come back and take us to where they are…says Bronte."

"Why would you wanna leave for?" Mey-Rin asked the silver haired man, "Aren't you happy here living in the Manor? Miss Eloise and Mr Oscar were."

Snake fidgeted uncomfortably, "They were my…family, they accepted me for who I was. I miss them…says Wilde."

The three other servants sent pitying glances to each other before Mey-Rin piped up, "I'm sure they will be home in no time at all. Like w'ot Finni said, they've just gone down to London do some chores for the Young Master."

Snake sent an uncertain glance to the Servants around him, holding a snake close to him. He only nodded before everyone was interrupted by Sebastian returning to the kitchen and giving them their lists of chores for the afternoon.

Snake just stood back and watched, still deciding whether or not he could trust the people that lived in this Manor. He knew that Trickster and Dagger did, but he was still having a tough time with it.