Update update~ on Tabby's birthday~
To one of the guests: I don't care if the pace of this story is annoying you. *shrugs* What are you going to do 'bout it? I'm going to write it how I see fit.
To the Lazy pants guest~: I positively love haunted house things. I love actual haunted houses (though the idea of living in one terrifies me beyond belief, and my house now has something in it, but I'm not sure if it's a ghost, my brother's spirit that leaves his body when he goes to sleep, or a demon masquerading as a child) but yeah. I love them.
Ironically(at least, to do with the first guest saying they dont like the slow pace of the story) the second half of this chapter is a bit...faster? so it feels more rushed, I guess. I don't particularly like it. At some point, I'll rewrite it, but that probably wont happen until I finish this and compile some of the chapters. (because seeing a story with 100+ chapters really puts some people off)
I have un question at the bottom, so check there~
"No! Flame thrower beats chainsaw!"
"How so?" Sebastian asked, bemused.
I pouted, crossing my arms. I wasn't quite sure when rock, paper, scissors turned into chainsaw, flame thrower, flying trees. I wasn't even sure how each thing beat the other.
"I don't know! God damn, what's taking Ciel so long in there?!" I yelled, looking at the door.
"Miss Constance, do calm down. It has only been an hour."
"Exactly!" I threw my hands up. "It took me two minutes!"
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It had been dark for well over an hour when the door finally opened. Rubbing my eye, I hopped out of Sebastian's arms who had only agreed to hold me so I wouldn't resort to laying on the ground, honestly, I was surprised he had even offered considering my little slip of the knee earlier.
"Oh I say! To think that Earl Phantomhive would go that far!"
Turning away from the white haired creep, I glanced at Ciel and saw his tousled hair, along with his distraught clothes. "Er, what exactly I'd you do?"
"I shall not speak of it!" I pulled away as he practically hissed, fixing his clothes while Sebastian tended to his hair.
Throwing my hands up in submission, I backed away. "Got it! Won't bring it up ever again!"
Sebastian chuckled as he flattened Ciel's hair. "For you to resort to preforming tricks if it is in the name of the queen...you really are a dog."
The guard dog's face darkened. "Shut the hell up."
I snorted, covering my mouth and turning away. Obviously, Ciel was not very happy with the demon's comment. My laughing earned a glare, which I waved off. "Alright, Undertaker." I said, leaning on the wall so I wouldn't even possibly sit on another occupied coffin. "Ciel gave you your payment. So, the information on the children?"
"There aren't any."
We all stared dumbstruck.
"Huh?"
The undertaker laid his head down on the desk, flipping through the papers in a bored manor. "None of these children were among my customers...nor have I heard rumors about them in the underworld."
A small tick began to form in Ciel's eye. "So you didn't know anything about this incident at all?"
"Not quite." Undertaker said, giggling and wiggling his finger about. "I know that I 'do not know' about it."
The thirteen year old was highly unamused. "Did you deceive me?"
"Not at all~!" My own eyebrow twitched at the Undertaker's nonchalance. "This is terribly useful information, is it not?"
I opened my mouth to ask exactly how it was useful, but found a black haired demon cut me off.
"Indeed." We turned to Sebastian. "If you do not know, the fact remains that the children have not been killed in the underworld." No, not really. Opening my mouth to voice such, I grumbled when Ciel cut me off.
"If their bodies have not been found in either the outside world or the underworld, the likelihood if the children still being alive is quite high."
"Unless you include the idea that some sicko is melting the body in a vat of acid."
Both boy and demon looked repulsed by the idea; perhaps Sebastian even more so, much to my surprise. "Miss Constance, may I ask where you got the idea for such a disturbing scenario?"
I blinked. "Hmm? You mean people don't do that here to try and get away with murder?" Both shook their heads. "Oh. Well back home, some more infamous murderers disposed of the bodies that way. One guy would eat some of the bodies, before melting them in acid and flushing their remains down the toilet."
Undertaker let out a barking laugh, banging his fist on the table.
"...Er..." Had I said something funny? Well, I decided with a sneer, we were talking about a man eating someone. He would find it funny.
"Ignoring what Tabby suggested," Per usual. "We have no other option but to investigate the circus troupe directly." Turning on his heel he started towards the door. "Well, that decides it. Come, Sebastian. Contact me if you come across any information."
As we headed out the door, I followed last, about to step through the threshold when Undertaker called out for me.
"Mrs. Michaelis." I choked, turning back to Undertaker. "Payment for that laugh you gave me; do tell milord to take care of his soul. He only has one."
I was still mind boggled at what he called me. "Er...yeah...but, Sebastian and I aren't-"
"You should also take care of what's left of yours." I blinked. "And besides, you two are as good as, unless I'm mistaken."
Well, he was right. "Um...sure..." I darted out the door before he could continue to talk to me about my demon nature, and Ciel looked back at me as I fell into step with him.
"What took you?"
A small frown graced my features. "Undertaker says to take care of your soul because you only have one."
A light scoff was my answer. "I know that."
Watching as he walked away, I couldn't help but wonder if he really did.
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As we approached the entrance, I felt like I was going to burst; as a kid, I'd always wanted to go to a circus, however, Maverick had always been horrified of clowns so I never got the chance to go.
"Ciel, just to make sure," The boy looked up at me with little interest. "Are you afraid of clowns?"
Said boy sputtered at the idea. "No, why on earth would I be afraid of clowns?!"
I shrugged. "Maverick is deathly afraid of them, so I worried you might be."
"Don't be absurd." He rolled his eyes, and we continued on into the big top, Ciel glancing around and inspecting the area. "By sight, it seems like an ordinary circus."
"Well, if they were abducting children," I commented, glancing around too, but more out of excitement than making observations. "They wouldn't exactly be putting them on display."
Ciel gave me an annoyed look, which I responded in turn.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" I smiled as the tent darkened, my grin stretching from ear to ear. "Boys and Girls!"
"Woah!" I whispered, looking at the circus troupe leader. "Look at his hand! It looks like a skeleton hand!"
Many children around me leaned forward, and we all had similar faces of awe.
"Tabby, are you seventeen or seven?" Ciel asked, but I barely paid him a glance.
"Seven, now shush!"
I could see Ciel rub a hand over his face, but I was far more interested in watching the man introduce himself. "On this fine day, we welcome ye to the Noah's Ark Circus." He started juggling about ten balls, something I could never do. "I'm Joker. If ye'll just take a gander over he—" The balls fell on his head as he messed up—intentionally, it looked like—causing laughter to ring out.
"This circus is packed full of acts to entertain and astound ye!" Joker said motioning to the group of people outside the center light. "Now, with a spectacular blast from our fire-eater...let the show of the century begin!"
Sounds of awe left me as I watched the tall man start blowing fire from his mouth, and the crowd awed and gasped in sync.
"Next, we have the flying trapeze act with a duo in perfect sync!"
These two, much to my worriment, looked like children.
Nonetheless, when they swung across on the trapezes, I could acknowledge their talent in being in sync.
"And never missing a target...the knife thrower with a perfect record!" I gasped multiple times as the man threw knives at the girl spinning on the wheel, before he finished his act by impaling the apple at the top of the girl's head.
"There's nothing particularly special about the program..." Ciel commented, and I looked towards him horrified.
"What?!" Nothing special?! "These people are doing things I've only seen Sebastian do and they're human!"
Sebastian gave a sigh. "I do believe he was referring to the abducted children, Miss Constance." I gave a blush, having forgotten that's why we were here. "It does not seem like the children are being made to perform."
I sniffed. "That's because it's a circus, not a child abducting agency."
"For the next act! The princess of our circus undertakes her death-defying tightrope walk!"
Again, I was entrapped, watching the girl cross the tight rope.
"If the goal wasn't to put the children on display...then perhaps the traveling route of the circus coinciding with the missing children is simply a coincidence?"
I looked at Ciel, my face flat. "Finally reach that conclusion, did you?"
"Now we have an extremely rare creature, half-man, half-snake." I leaned forward, in awed. He had scales covering his skin! That was so cool! "A magnificent dance by the Snakeman!"
It was amazing to watch the snakeman dance with his snakes, them slithering all over him.
Suddenly, a whip cracked, causing my back to go straight, remembering when I had been whipped by that ass in Houndsworth.
Much to my surprise, I felt Sebastian rub his hand down my back. Looking over at him, I saw him glancing down at me before turning his eyes back to the ring, and wondered for a few seconds if he had forgiven me for my kneeing him in the groin. It seemed like he had.
But wasn't he going to be getting some sort of revenge or something? He had certainly implied it.
"And last, but certainly not least! The star of our circus makes her entrance! Feast your eyes on our animal tamer!"
My wandering thoughts flew out the window as I returned back to the show.
"There are no children involved in the last act either." Ciel commented while Joker asked for a couple volunteers. "It looks as if coming to the circus was rather a waste of time."
I was about to comment on how it wasn't a waste of time, seeing as how I had enjoyed myself, when Sebastian rose in his seat.
"Sebastian...?" My eyebrows knitted. Had he sensed something? I hadn't felt anything, but I wasn't a full demon, so he very well could have.
"Good sir in the tailcoat!" I froze as the ring leader pointed to Sebastian. "Come down to the stage then!" I then saw Joker look at me. "Why don't the Missus sitting next to ye come too!"
Oh my god.
Sebastian peeked down to Ciel on the other side of me, who nodded, before the demon offered his arm to me to lead me to the steps.
"I do know how to get to the steps, you know..." I commented, blushing while looking at my feet.
"I don't doubt that." Sebastian answered, his gaze still in the center of the ring.
"Um..." I took a quick glance at the cast. "Did you find something?"
"It does not relate to the case, but yes."
My brows furrowed as we walked down the steps, coming to the barrier that separated the ring from the audience. I was about to climb over, when Sebastian scooped me up and jumped over it, setting me back down once we were back on the ground.
"Way to be inconspicuous." I mumbled, rolling my eyes. Joker and the animal tamer were blinking in surprise before they shook it off.
"May we have the two of ye lie down over here, Sir and Madam?"
I had started to walk to the direction being pointed to, when I saw Sebastian swiftly go the other way, going directly to the tiger that was innocently sitting and minding its own business.
"Oh my...what round eyes you have..."
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
A tiger is a cat.
"Oh my god..." I muttered, and both the ring leader and animal tamer looked to me. "He's going to molest that poor creature."
"Vivid strips the likes of which I have never seen...and such soft ears..." He pulled the tiger's cheeks back, exposing its teeth. "You take my breath away."
Did a giant cat turn him on more than I did?
I groaned when I realized that may be true.
"Oh? Your claws have gotten a touch long." Of course they did, dumbass! Tiger's use their claws to hunt! "You must not let your grooming go amiss now..." The demon lifted the tiger's paw. "Your paw pads are plump and also most enchanting."
The tiger, sick of this, leaned forward and stretched its mouth over his face.
"Ah."
I ran a hand down my face, not even about to worry about the demon; he put his face in a tiger's, he deserved to get it bitten.
The rest of the tent, however, screamed in fear.
"Betty!" The animal tamer yelled, and I looked towards her incredulously. The tiger's name was Betty? "Let go of him!"
She jerked her arm back before it sprung forward, the whip cracking into Sebastian's palm, who caught it much to the animal tamer's surprise.
"She is not to blame." Sebastian said once he detached his face from Betty's mouth. "In the face of such loveliness, I simply could not stop myself from being thoughtlessly rude..." Talk about rude. "Furthermore..." Taking the whip, he pressed it against his lips, looking up at the animal tamer. "One cannot train animals by just blindly swinging one's whip."
I frowned heavily, my eyebrows arching in anger; was he flirting?!
When Betty leaned forward and bit him again, I felt mildly appeased.
"Betty! Spit him out!
"My, my, what a tomboy you are."
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"Who told you to go that far?!" Ciel yelled, glaring up at the demon.
"Forgive me, young master." Sebastian gave a rather pleasant smile; it was terrifying to see it on his face. "I have been alive for a long time," That was an understatement. "But cats are so whimsical; I can never quite read them..."
Ciel, eye twitching, turned on his heel and started for the exit. "First of all, what were you hoping to gain by standing out so mu-"
A sneeze cut Ciel off.
"Stay away from me!" Ciel shouted, rubbing his nose. "You now I'm allergic to cats!"
Sebastian was still off in lala land, but acknowledged the order, placing his hand over his breast with a "Yes, sir."
"Ah! There they are!" I looked up at Sebastian sharing a look with the demon who had noticed the voice of the ring leader too. "Ye in the tailcoat! The Misses with the green hair!"
Both Sebastian and I turned around, to be greeted by the sight of Joker running up to us. Glancing back towards Ciel, I noticed him glancing back us, but continuing forward.
"We really are sorry about what 'append back there." Joker said, sounding worried, looking over Sebastian's head. This was supposed to be our suspect? He seemed too…nice.
"Not at all." A brilliant smile lit the demon's face as he thought of Betty the Tiger. "Please, forgive my untoward behavior."
Joker smiled back at Sebastian. "Shocked me clean out of my skin, you did! Suddenly getting all close to that tiger. I think your little wifey here was going to hit you though for embarrassing her." I reeled as I was suddenly referred to as Sebastian's 'little wifey'.
Honestly, I didn't really mind it.
"Where ya got bit, are ya sure it's all right? I was thinkin' it might be a good idea to get our troupe doc ta take a look at ya. Come around the back, if ya would."
I looked up at Sebastian, to see what he would do, and noticed a grin rise onto his face. "If it would ease your fears, certainly." Joker smiled pleasantly at the answer, and we started to follow him to the back. "Though, I must rectify one thing; we are not married," Oh yeah, way to shoot me down and make me feel great about myself, Sebastian. "Merely engaged."
I blinked, a light blush coating my cheeks, and the orange haired ring leader turned to blink at us. "Eh? Really? My apologies; but still, ya claimed such a pretty thing right quick, it looks like."
Sebastian merely smiled, and I stared up at the demon in disbelief.
"What was that?!" I whispered, low enough that only Sebastian's hearing would be able to pick it up. "What if someone asks to see the engagement ring or something?! Besides, when did I agree to this?!"
It seemed I only served to amuse the demon further. "Do not worry, Constance." Taking my hand, he laced his finger's with mine, and I felt a weight settle on my ring finger. "Taken care of."
Lifting our intertwined hands, I was surprised to find a silver band on my finger, a blue stone with diamonds surrounding it at the center. "Eh?"
My mind went blank as I stared at it.
"Wh-wha-how-"
"'Ere we go, right this way."
I lifted my gaze away from the ring on my finger to look at Joker and the surrounding areas, seeing other performers sitting about. "Beg your pardon, the place is rather a mess. Watch yer step."
I had to physically pull Sebastian away from the path to a lion; even then, I think the most I did was grab his attention to remember to continue walking.
"Oh, Snake." I peered around our host to see the snake-boy from the show. "Is the doctor in the first-aid tent?"
We all stared at the boy, myself in awe; I had always loved snakes. When I was little, my dad had once gotten Maverick and I a pet snake for Christmas, but turns out, Mom was terrified of them.
So, we had Charlie for about a month before she couldn't stand it anymore, and ordered him out of the house.
"Oh dear." Joker said, rubbing his face. "Seems he's out on business. I guess we'll have to search for him."
We continued to follow after Joker, when a voice spoke, meaning to be heard.
"Isn't that the lad who was bitten by the tiger?"
Sebastian and I turned around at the sound of a girl's voice, and were greeted by the sight of the two children trapeze artists.
"You're right!" The boy crowed, laughing. "What a lob of a lad!"
I blinked. Did that fucking kid just call Sebastian a tosser?!
Frowning, I was tugged on by Sebastian, pulled away from the brats.
"You were more insulted than I was, and I was the one they were insulting." Sebastian commented as he peered down at me, amusement glinting in his eyes.
Doing the proper thing, I sneered childishly at him.
"Ah! There he is!" Turning in the direction Joker was headed, I found the doctor to be sitting in a wheelchair, looking at what appeared to be someone's prosthetic leg. "Doc!"
"Nh?" The black haired turned around, his face lighting up at the sight of Joker. "Joker! Your arm giving you trouble again?"
Joker smiled awkwardly. "Nah, I'm not 'ere for me today…"
The doctor looked confused for a moment, before the one who was originally being checked out by the doctor made a sound. "Ah! Yer the feller that got 'is 'ead bit by Betty!" He said, pulling his pant leg down over his prosthetic, and topped his head with his hat, making me realize he was the knife thrower. "Ye all right?"
To my amusement, the doctor look appalled at our nonchalance attitude. "Betty bit you?! That's awful! Come, to the medical tent with you!"
The man moved with surprising speed despite only using one hand to turn his wheels while the other gripped Sebastian's hand.
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"We're you really bitten by Betty?" The doctor asked, looking as if everything he knew was the opposite of what it once was. "There's nary a scratch on you."
The same expression Sebastian always had when he thought about cats resided on his face. "It was but a playbite."
I facepalmed as knife thrower and ring leader looked to me, incredulous expressions on their faces.
"Don't look at me." I stated flatly, sending a glare to the back of the demon's head. "I'm just engaged to him, I've got not a clue what the ever loving hell goes on in that head of his."
The doctor sighed. "Well, if nothing's wrong with you, that's just as well."
Joker let out a breath of relief. "I'm so glad yer fine. If a member of our audience had been hurt, our leader would've had our heads!"
Both Sebastian and I raised our own heads to look up at him. "You are not the troupe leader?"
"I'm something of a ring-master-for-hire…the leader is someone else entirely, and quite scary to boot!" Joker joked, laughing.
"Don'tcha come cryin' ta me when ye get chewed out for sayin' that, ol'timer!" The knife thrower warned, but grinning all the same.
"Doctor." I lifted my head to look up at the tent entrance, the animal tamer walking through the flaps. "I was hoping you could take a look at my leg…?" She trailed off when she noticed the strangers in the tent.
"Sis!" The knife thrower smiled, his eyes lighting up at the sight of her. She however, was not looking at him. Not even me.
"You!"
She was looking at Sebastian. And from the way she spat his name like it was battery acid, probably wasn't very happy seeing him.
The knife thrower was oblivious. "I'm 'aving problems with my leg too, jus' like Sis! Gosssssh, this's gotta be more proof that we're tied by the red string of fa-" He stopped, turning to watch her as she stomped past him to Sebastian. "Huh?"
"You're the stupid man from before!" Way to be blunt. I decided I liked her. "What are you doing here?! Thanks to you, the act was completely rui-"
"Beast!"
She flinched, and turned to look at the doctor who had yelled. So her name was…Beast? "How could you talk that way to a member of the audience?! You only have your carelessness in being unable to control Betty to blame!"
Her mouth opened and closed multiple times at the scolding. "B-but he approached Betty on his own-!"
"No buts!" This was entertaining to watch, I noted with a small grin playing on my lips. "You're a professional, right?!"
Suddenly, Joker and the knife thrower popped up in the doctor's face. "Now, now, Doctor. You mustn't raise your voice in front of the spectators."
"Yeah, yeah! Please examine my dear Sis's leg first!"
Reason seemed to calm the doctor down, and he gave a sigh. "Beast, retrain Betty again after this."
Beast made a tch sound before grumbling out a "Yeah…".
"Good, now let's see the prosthetic."
Sebastian perked up, standing out of his seat so Beast could sit there. "Prosthetic?"
Joker smiled and explained. "Ya might say there's a little reason behind this circus. One way or another, we're a collection of folks with problems." I looked over to Beast, who had pulled her stocking down and was motioning to the ball joint on her knee. "I was missin' an arm myself, but thanks to the doctor, look at me now." Joker wiggled his fingers around, which rubbed against each other eerily. "Pretty fine, eh?"
"Better than fine." I said, eying the arm in envy. If I lost an arm, that's what I wanted my prosthetic to look like. "It's positively brilliant!"
"It's always going bad because that idiot insists on having it in that shape." The doctor said, and Joker shrugged like he couldn't help getting in trouble. "I wish he'd give some consideration to the person who has to maintain it."
"Do you make the artificial limbs for all of the troupe members?" Sebastian asked, and I turned back to the doctor to see Beast's prosthetic calf disconnected from the ball joint.
The doctor nodded as he tightened a screw. "Yes, that's right. It's a lot of work, I tell you! From the carving the parts to the installation, I do it all."
"Carving?" I blinked. "They don't look like wood." I commented as he reattached the calf back to the joint.
"Nope, ceramic." I shared a look with Sebastian; I knew ceramic when I saw it after having seen Maylene break many tea sets, and this most certainly wasn't. "Well, I say ceramic, but I use special materials to make it light and durable."
I ran my hand over the 'ceramic' prosthetic, and was surprised by how smooth it was. "Oh wow. It's really smooth. You also use ball joints?" He smiled, pleased that I recognized them. "That's a really brilliant idea." Ahead of his time, actually.
As I trailed my hand over the prosthetic thigh, I noticed something at the base, as did Sebastian, it seemed like, for he lifted the leg a tad bit more. "Oh? What is this hallmark?"
Reaching out, I ran my fingertips over the lion looking thing, my pinkie brushing against bare flesh, making me realize something. Said realization made me strain to keep my eyes focused on the hallmark, though I could still see what was plaguing my mind in my peripheral.
Her crotch. And from what I could make out in my peripheral, a nicely trimmed one at that.
Apparently my fingertip touching her inner thigh caused Beast to snap, and Sebastian pulled me backwards so I was parallel to the ground, his arm the only thing stopping from flopping on the ground as he himself bent back to avoid her kick, giving us another view of her crotch.
"What are you playing at, you pervert!?"
Sebastian merely grinned and brought us both upright. "Ah, excuse me. You did not strike me as one so chaste as to be bashful at something of the sort."
Did he just call her a whore?
"WHY, YOU!" She swung her whip, and I jumped away from Sebastian before it could hit me, Sebastian merely dodging it easily. "And you!" I balked as she pointed her whip towards me. "You're a woman! You-you aren't supposed to do that!"
Again I had to jump to dodge, but instead jumped towards Sebastian seeing as I was out of room on my left side to go anywhere.
Despite this though, I felt the sharp pain as it struck around my arm, the end stinging painfully on my back.
Suddenly, it seemed the knife thrower was going to get involved, shouting something incomprehensible about laying a hand on Beast's 'silky skin'. And then there were knives flying through the air.
Along with me, as I would find out.
Sebastian had suddenly tossed me into the air, and I was too busy comprehending what was going on to shriek before the demon flipped backwards onto a clothes wire, catching me with one arm and pulling me against him by the waist.
"Though I did not touch her skin directly-"
"No, I did that." I commented nonchalantly to the demon, who raised an eyebrow at me before looking back at the angered knife thrower.
"I did seem to have touched off your anger."
Dagger seemed to suddenly realize he was supposed to be angry at me too, Beast gritting her teeth at my admittance of touching her skin.
"Dagger! Stop!" The doctor yelled frantically, trying to stop the attack on us. "Or else the tent will-!"
"Forget the tent!" He pulled out more daggers; dear god, he was as bad as Sebastian, pulling out all those-
An idea struck me, and before the knife thrower could launch his daggers, I stuck my hand down the front of Sebastian's jacket, pulling out three meticulously polished knives.
Sebastian only had a moment to shoot me a look of confusion before daggers were hurled towards us, my own knives flying through the air before I dropped down so my hands wrapped around the wire, swinging so I landed on the ground under Sebastian.
Thankfully, while I wasn't aiming directly towards him, they missed as intended, two whizzing by either side of his head, while the third was frightfully close to his crotch.
The three men were looking between me and Sebastian, and I glanced up to see him smirking down at me, all eight daggers caught between his fingers.
Holy shit. And I thought I was special not actually hitting the guy when I threw the knives.
"Tch!"
Turning, I found a whip flying towards Sebastian. "Don't push your luck!"
Suddenly, Joker was in front of her, the whip wrapping itself around his cane, and a worried look overcame Beast's features, before an absolutely dumbfounded one when flowers burst out of the top.
I had to say, I probably would have had a similar expression.
"Here!" Joker smiled, taking the flowers out. "All right, ya'll. That will do for today!" He said pleasantly, while Sebastian jumped down from the wire.
"But, Joker!" The knife thrower whined, pouting, while the doctor was freaking out, yelling something about stopping them sooner.
Beast looked close to pouting too. "But they-"
"Come, come." Joker went behind her, and patted her leg. "You have such lovely legs, after all. I can understand why they would want to have a touch." I pursed my lips. "I'm giving you these flower's so let's see a smile."
She gave a hmph, but too the flower's nonetheless. Shaking my head, I walked around to the separate knives; one in a crate, one in a table, and one in the ground behind the knife thrower. To my humor Sebastian walked up to him.
"Here you are, your knives." His eyes landed on me as the knife thrower begrudgingly pouted, annoyed. "Constance." A gloved hand was held out to me expectantly. "My knives?"
Pulling the last one out of the ground, I placed them in his palm, and he immediately pocketed them inside his vest.
"All that aside," Sebastian and I looked up at Joker. "Ye two have some terrific reflexes, not to mention you have some spectacular aim, M'lady."
I blinked. "That was more luck than anything."
He gave me a look, with a knowing smirk. "Nah, that was talent. Ye weren't aiming for him, ye was aiming to scare him. But ya both are so good I've half a mind to scout ya for our troupe here."
Sebastian moved, suddenly unnecessarily close to Joker. "Are you certain?"
"Eh?!" Joker reeled back slightly, hoping for some personal space when Sebastian pulled back, granting him his wish. "To tell the truth, my current master is so willful that I have had quite enough of him."
I cracked a smile at the reference to Ciel.
"Master?" Joker's looked back and forth between us, and I noticed for the first time his eyes were purple.
Mother fucking shit fuck. The third person to have violet eyes. Seriously.
"Are ye a servant or somethin'? Ye two are so well dressed, I figured ya for a gent and madam."
Sebastian smiled, placing his hand over his breast as he usually did. "Me, a gentleman? How absurd. I am merely a butler."
Joker looked between us confused. "But wait a second…ye," He pointed a skeletal finger at me. "Are well dressed. All…fancy like. And ya two are engaged, but he a butler and you a lady?"
I almost felt bad for confusing him so badly.
"Sebastian is a butler in my household." I stated, about to lie on the spot. "My father doesn't know about the engagement and for all intents and purposes believes I am engaged to another."
He merely blinked. "O-oh. So…like a Romeo and Juliet type thing?"
Oh my god, how did he know what Romeo and Juliet was but Ciel didn't!? I swear. "In a manner." Sebastian answered, seeing as I was preoccupied with my stray thoughts. "So, were you serious about scouting us for your troupe? If so, I do believe we would both like to join at once." He tilted his head to me, and though to most his raised eyebrow would seem as if he were asking my opinion on the matter; however, I knew it translated to 'say-anything-else-but-yes-I-dare-you'.
"Of course." I gave one strong nod. "If it means we can be open about our relationship, most certainly.
Joker looked between us, smiling. "Ya serious?"
To my amusement, Sebastian tilted his head. "I am always serious."
A snort escaped the ginger, and he patted Sebastian's shoulders. "You are one amusing chap, good sir! I like ye!" He peered down to me and smiled before addressing us both. "If ya wanna join up, ye can come by anytime."
"Joker?!" I turned to look at an annoyed Beast. "How could you decide just like that?!"
"Now, now. They're both quite the talent. They were rather in sync with each other earlier, and we only have Peter and Wendy with that talent. It wouldn't hurt to have a couple more."
"If you please."
Both circus members went silent and looked at Sebastian as he interrupted.
"There is one other we would like to introduce to you."
Glancing up at him in confusion, he motioned to me. "Constance's younger brother was disowned, and has only recently gotten off the streets to become a page boy at a neighboring manor, however, misses her dearly. I was wondering if we might be able to bring him."
Joker looked down at me, and hopefully my confused expression could be mistaken as worried for my 'disowned brother'. It seemed it was, because he smiled understandingly, patting my head. "Certainly," he answered, looking up to Sebastian to answer. "But I would like to run him through our tryout first."
A grin settled onto Sebastian's face. "Understood. Well then, the two of us shall impose upon you tomorrow."
I smiled and waved at them. "Thank you for today. Oh, by the way, I really adored the show. I'd never been to a circus before, and it was positively wonderful."
I only noticed Joker's face smiling brilliantly before I walked out of the tent, Sebastian holding the flap open for me.
So, question time!
What should Tabby's circus name be? I'm torn between Cat and Rose/Rosey. Cat for obvious reason(at least to me) and Rose/y...not much of a reason, other than because she blushes a lot and I want to be different. :I So drop a review about what you think, whether it be on either of these to names, or you have a suggestion yourself.
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Also. I'm joining Nanowrimo, so I'll mainly be working on that. Don't get me wrong, I'll still update and work on this(I'm aiming to one update a week, at least) but my original story Red (about a serial killer) will be taking a front row seat. I'll probably update this halloween, or one of the first few days of November.
Btw, Oct 28th is Tabby's birthday that I kinda made up on the fly, and it's also Matt Smith'sbirthday! *didn't know that**squeals and runs around like a chicken with its head cut off*
Oh, and let me know of any errors you spot~ I'm talented at JUST NOT SEEING THEM. Like, legit, I think it's a talent. :I
-updated 2013.10.28-
