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"When will Mommy and Daddy be here, Miss Hannah?" Lucas frowned while Hannah started preparing some tea on the stove.
Lucas looked around the dusty room with wide, ocean-blue eyes.
The littlest Trancy was growing a bit apprehensive.
Of course, Lucas blindly trusted Hannah, but he didn't understand why they had left his home to come to this place…
Hannah had taken them to a thatched-roof cottage at the top of a very high, scraggly cliff just outside of London.
The dingy little cottage was so small and dilapidated that you couldn't really see it unless you already knew it was there.
The grimy dwelling was the perfect place for someone to hide in plain site.
"Soon, young master, soon." Hannah cooed to Lucas, handing him a cup of tea.
Hannah frowned while she sat on the bed next to her smallest charge.
Yes, what was taking Alois this long?
While Hannah sat worrying about the blonde, she neglected to consider what she should have been worrying about.
Sebastian and Ciel.
Sebastian and Ciel, along with Isabel who had woken up when Sebastian came in and exposed Lucas's abduction, were currently and quickly riding towards the little cottage on that cliff.
Sebastian smirked while they rode along.
Earl Trancy had terrible taste in servants.
Hannah and Claude were so stupid, they really were subpar at everything.
Sebastian tried not to laugh out loud as he went over the situation in his mind.
Sebastian maintained his composure, he had to be fair….
Maybe he was wrong.
Hannah had mentioned the little cottage to Sebastian a long time ago, but surely, the Trancy maid wasn't dim enough to actually steal Ciel's son and run away there….
When the carriage pulled up to the cottage and Sebastian saw a light inside the dismal building, he grinned and stepped out of the vehicle, chivalrously opening the door for Ciel and Isabel.
No, it looked like Sebastian was right after all!
"Come, ladies," Sebastian said with a polite bow, "Let us go and retrieve master Lucas."
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After Alois and Charlotte had finished their emergency visit with the physician, they made their way back to Trancy manor.
Charlotte wore a heavy bandage around her eyes.
The doctor had told Alois that he had done all that he could but it was indeterminable whether Charlotte would regain her sight or not.
Alois's heart was heavy as his carriage pulled up to Trancy manor.
….And Alois's heart grew heavier still when Claude informed him of the situation.
"What do you mean Hannah and Lucas went missing?! You let Ciel go with Sebastian alone to look for them?!" Alois roared at Claude.
"Miss Isabel is with them, highness. They're not far out of the city, I'm sure. Sebastian mentioned an address where he was certain that Hannah could be found." Claude replied calmly while he adjusted his glasses.
"Then take us there immediately! What are you waiting for?!" Alois screeched.
The blonde grit his teeth while Claude moved like a shadow towards the door and said stoically, "Yes, your highness."
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Hannah was just about to pour Lucas another cup of tea when the cottage door swung open and Ciel, Sebastian, and Isabel stormed in.
"What on earth are you doing with my son?!" Ciel snarled.
Sebastian smirked at Hannah, standing behind Ciel.
Sebastian decided it was best to let Ciel do the talking for a moment…..
Hannah stood and met Ciel's gaze defiantly.
"I am waiting for my master, not you." Hannah boldly informed Ciel.
Sebastian narrowed his eyes at Hannah as Ciel spoke, "You won't have a master once he hears about this! Give me my son back right now!"
Ciel stomped over and tried to grab Lucas off the bed but Hannah stepped in front of her.
Srbastian rose up to defend Ciel while Isabel looked on nervously.
Ciel and Hannah pushed against each other while Sebastian waited for the right moment to separate them without hurting Ciel.
"Give me my son, Hannah." Ciel glowered at the maid.
Hannah and Ciel stared eye to eye with each other while Hannah replied in a whisper, "He would be my son if it wasn't for you….."
Ciel blinked incredulously.
The bluenette wasn't positive that she had heard the maid correctly and Ciel asked in a quizzical tone, "...What?"
"Yes, what seems to be happening here?"
Ciel and Sebastian turned around to look and saw Alois and Charlotte standing in the cottage doorway.
"Here?!" Ciel gasped. "Who is that?!" The bluenette cried, pointing at Charlotte.
In her garish clothes, with her bleached hair, and now the bandage over her eyes, Charlotte was unrecognizable to her mother.
"This is Charlotte, my dear." Alois answered Ciel. "She's had a rough go of it, but—"
"What did you do to her?!" Ciel gasped.
"I didn't do anything to her! I reduced her!" Alois cried.
Isabel frowned at her sister.
Sebastian looked at his eldest daughter in concern while Alois and Ciel went back and forth.
Everyone was so busy trying to determine if Charlotte was alright or not, that Isabel was the only one who noticed when Hannah slyly sneaked Lucas out of the cottage's small back door.
"Brother! Hannah's getting away with brother!" Isabel cried out, interrupting the noise.
Everyone stopped conversing and immediately ran outside.
Sebastian, Ciel, Isabel, Alois, and Charlotte, led by Alois's hand, all came barging out of the cottage and stood in front ofHannah and Lucas, cutting them off from any chance of getting to the carriages.
Hannah began to take hazardous steps backwards towards the edge of the cliff with Lucas clutched to her waist.
"Hannah," Alois said slowly and calmly, holding up a hand to silence Ciel, "Let Lucas go please, I promise I won't hurt you."
"Oh, master," Hannah said with a soft sigh, looking at Alois lovingly. "We've been waiting on you to come. Now the three of us can be a family."
Alois was the only one who was shocked, although Ciel was a little surprised.
Everyone knew that something was odd about Hannah always tolerating Alois's abuse so well.
No one did that if they didn't have some sort of a reason…..
At times, it was almost like Hannah enjoyed it.
"A…...a what?" Alois stammered.
"Everything I've done has been for you, master. It's all been for you. If it wasn't for her," Hannah sneered at Ciel, then she looked back at Alois, "and her bastard children, then we could have been together all this time, but it's not too late!"
Alois looked like someone had just asked him to eat a handful of live insects.
Hannah…..saw him like that?
"Hannah, what are you talking about?" Alois asked with disgust.
"I love you, master." Hannah finally confessed.
"Oh, shut it." Ciel hissed.
Hannah shot Ciel a dangerous glare to silence her.
Alois's look of surprise changed to a smile, then he giggled, and finally he laughed out loud, as if Hannah's confession of love was the greatest joke he'd ever heard.
"Hannah, you fool! Why would you think that I could ever love you?!" Alois cackled.
Alois's words hit Hannah hard.
The look on Hannah's face was one of complete devastation.
Hannah had fantasized about this moment for years, but like most people who suffered from an obsession over someone, she had never imagined that her declaration of love would end in rejection.
Charlotte could not see, but she could hear, and she could tell that Hannah was directly in front of her.
Hannah…
How Charlotte hated Hannah!
Hannah was the one that had ruined Charlotte and Isabel's blissful ignorance with her dreadful truth that she had spewed upon them like the plague, and now, Hannah was daring to try to seperate Charlotte's mother and father?!
Charlotte was not going to allow it.
"Let go of my brother, you wicked tart!" Charlotte shouted as she charged at Hannah.
Charlotte couldn't see it, but, from the hidden pocket of her apron, Hannah pulled out a rather grizzly knife as Charlotte came towards her and Hannah raised her arm to strike.
"No!" Alois shouted, his eyes going wide as adrenaline flooded his body.
"Charlotte!" Ciel called, leaping into action.
Sebastian would have helped but at that exact moment, he found himself suddenly becoming very busy.
Hannah pushed Lucas away so he wouldn't get hurt.
Unfortunately, the crazed Trancy maid pushed Lucas in the wrong direction and sent him stumbling right off the cliff and falling towards his death…...
Hannah's knife came down.
Alois made it in time to shield Charlotte, catching Hannah's blow straight across his chest.
"Daddy!"
"Alois!"
Charlotte and Ciel both crowded over Alois as he fell to the ground, bleeding through his shirt.
Ciel tried desperately to put pressure on the wound, but that was difficult.
The cut wasn't deep but it was extremely wide and the bluenette had to lay down across her husband to stem the flow of blood.
Hannah took a menacing step towards the two bluenettes.
Look what they made her do!
What a perfect time to finally eliminate them, all three of them…..
Hannah thought that murdering Ciel and the twins would be a perfect punishment for their crime of taking Alois away from her!
"Brother!" Isabel shrieked from the clifftop in horror.
Lucas fell and Alois bled….
Sebastian furrowed his brow while he dove, hoping he would be able to catch Ciel's son in time, just as Ciel looked up at Hannah and watched the Trancy maid raise her arm to strike again.