Posted:1-17-18 At 3:30 AM
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A/N:
There was a 1 shot I was going to post at the end of 2017. However, my mom was Hospitalized on New Year's was VERY sick and, while she is now home, she is still not completely better.
So I posted the 1shot late. But it has finally been posted, anyway. It is a lemon-shot connecting Chapter 10 and this chapter. I tried to post it before the new year. But my mom was more important. Anyway, I don't post lemons on my FF Net account. I only post them on my A3O account (if you've read this far, you should know that already). The lemon-shot is posted separately from the Redemption story.
It is focused on Ciel and Lizzie and their issues with figuring out how to be intimate (I felt that chapter 10 did not adequately portray the troubles/fears that Ciel had), with Ciel so afraid of Sex.
It is about him trying to overcome what was done to him when he was 10. There are trigger warnings, if you think it might bother you, don't read it. It also confirms what happened to him when he was kidnapped- so in that regard, and minus the twin brother: there are spoilers for manga chapter 135- although they are subtle. I think they are subtle spoilers, anyway.
So if you want a CielxLizzie Lemon, it is on that account-it is listed there as a one shot, and the title is: "Belated Wedding Night - From the chaptered fic: "Redemption" this story is a one shot"... Yes, all of that is the title. Being with Lizzie did not suddenly make everything that happened to him, ok. But he can be with her without becoming physically ill or flash backs now, at least.
As for this chapter:
No Lemon. Though a VERY much implied one. Helps Sebastian to finally realize that he is in love with Mey-Rin. Also, Mey-Rin and Lizzie go on a trip... Of sorts.
Family trees & slight timeline for Mey-Rin, Lizzie and Ciel's families will be listed after the chapter for anyone who us confused.
And another note- the carriage scene with Sebastian was needed for him to FINALLY come to terms with his feelings for Mey-Rin.
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Chapter #11: In Love.
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January 1st 1892- Phantomhive
"Screw this! Lizzie, I'm NOT riding a bloody horse in this blasted weather!"
Snapped the young Earl Phantomhive, as he stood on the stairs in his riding clothes. Lizzie was also in riding clothes, Ciel very rarely saw her in anything other than a dress or skirt. She looked odd to him!
Where was his sweet wife?!
This girl was reminding him much of her mother! He loved his aunt, however, he hadn't expected to marry her!
The blonde stood in the foyer with her hands on her hips frowning up at him.
"What's wrong with the weather, Ciel?"
She asked incredulously, she had just looked outside, the sun was brightly shining!
"I'll tell you what's wrong with the damn weather! Its bloody freezing outside, Elizabeth! I'm not going out on a horse in this weather!"
He snapped as Vepar, Bard, Finny, Paula and Mey-Rin watched the back and forth between the couple.
"It's just a bit brusque!"
"I could see my breath when I stuck my nose out the door, Lizzie! I'll remind you: I have asthma!
He said, insulted by her attempts at making him think he wouldn't freeze his nuts off out there! On a horse it would be colder! They eyed each other.
"My family ALWAYS goes riding on the 1st day of the New year, Ciel."
"Well... If you want, go by yourself. But you sleep in a guest room if you get sick. Because THIS part of your family doesn't ride a ruddy horse in this blasted cold!"
They still stared each other down.
"Now, now-"
Started Mey-Rin softly, she, Bard and Paula were watching their masters worriedly. Finny looked confused and Vepar looked amused!
"Don't "now, now" me! Did you FEEL how cold it is out there Mey-Rin?!"
She frowned. She felt some affection for Lizzie because she stayed with her during Faith's "funeral" and after... But, aside from the fact that the young master was... Well, the young master... She did have to agree, it was very cold outside.
Also, if they were on horses, it would be harder for her and their two new demon friends to guard the newlyweds.
"It is quite cold..."
She admitted.
"- How about a picnic, young master?"
Ciel looked at her with one wide eye.
"Are you mad?!... If you're not, then you should stick your head out the door again!"
"I don't think so..."
Said the redhead, evenly. She eyed him. He eyed her. The maid didn't want to go out much more than he did.
"I'll have to go change..."
Said Lizzie moodily.
"My young lady... If I may say so? You would be changing anyway, even if you weren't going on a picnic and were just staying in..."
Bard pointed out from beside Paula. Lizzie frowned. Paula waited for her to freak out. After thinking of it, Lizzie sighed heavily.
"Paula!"
She said as she headed up the stairs to her and Ciel's room.
"Yes, Miss Elizabeth!"
Said her maid, as she headed up the stairs after her young mistress. Ciel glared at Mey-Rin with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Shall I go and-"
Started Bard, intending to make a picnic lunch. But both Ciel and Mey-Rin looked at him sharply.
"Don't you dare!"
Said Ciel. Mey-Rin sighed.
"I'll make the lunch-"
"I'm not going out!"
Said Ciel. Both servants looked at him.
"What will you do if Paula doesn't persuade her to stay here?"
Bard asked, knowing that his lover would try her best to stop her mistress. Ciel just looked at him. And headed to the sitting room with a sigh.
"Lady Elizabeth-"
"- We still haven't unpacked all of my clothes, Paula, should I wear this dress or THIS dress?"
Said the irritated blonde.
"- Well... I think, if you're asking me, my lady, that-"
But Lizzie got distracted.
Paula gave up.
She had been trying now for about 15 minutes straight, to get the young countess to listen to her. Lizzie was just far too excited to hear her. So finally, Paula suggested that Lizzie just have a picnic with the young master in her riding outfit.
Lizzie had given her a startled look and said that she needed to look cute for Ciel, though. At that, Paula sighed and said she would help her make her hair look cute... Choosing to not point out that she had just looked ANYTHING BUT cute, down stairs. This way Lizzie could go for her new year's ride after the picnic.
Lizzie finally agreed.
"So... Here we are-"
Said Bard, once he stopped the carriage. As soon as the carriage stopped, Finny, who had been sitting beside him while he drove, hopped off of the seat, first.
Ciel got out, then he offered Lizzie his hand out. Bard came around, and he helped Mey-Rin, then Tanaka, Paula and Vepar (who was holding her poodle (Marchosias was really hating the fact that he was a poodle and not a wolf, right about now. He was so friggen cold, he was shivering!) against her chest) out of the carriage.
Mey-Rin and Paula got the picnic basket and the other things for the picnic out while Bard found a place for them to set up.
Finny unhitched the white horse from the carriage along with the black horse. Then he tethered the two, to trees where they could graze.
Lizzie and Ciel stayed by Vepar, Marchosias and Tanaka. Ciel looked chilled, despite the cloak he wore.
Lizzie sighed almost inaudibly.
She supposed that she and Ciel would need to get used to each other's customs that, before, neither had to worry much about.
"While they are getting the picnic ready, I shall go for my ride!"
Said the young countess. Ciel looked at her sharply.
"I'd rather that you didn't."
"Why? I'll be right back!"
She called over her shoulder, as she headed for her horse. Mey-Rin looked up when she heard the girl's voice raised.
Lizzie's birthday was January 27th, she would be a complete adult in every way, once she was 17. She loved Ciel, but really- she should be able to be able to go for even just a short new year's ride!
As Mey-Rin watched Lizzie walk towards the horse, she suddenly had a bad feeling. Frowning, she excused herself from helping Paula. Ciel caught the worried look on his maid's face and started after her, but Vepar stopped him with a very slight touch on the arm. She set Marchosias on his feet and he followed Mey-Rin.
"We will protect them both."
Vepar whispered, and then she called after Marchosias, as if he had gotten away from her. Lifting her skirts very slightly, she took off running after him. Ciel worried at his bottom lip with his teeth.
"Oi! Young master, where did the ladies go?"
Called Bard as he and Finny came back from fetching water.
Bard started helping Paula as she finished setting the picnic up.
"One took off on a horse, another left chasing a feeling and was followed by a mutt, who was chased by his mistress."
Snapped Ciel moodily. Bard and Finny blinked at each other as Tanaka chuckled softly.
Lizzie hated defying Ciel.
She couldn't really say why going on this ride was so important to her.
But after a while, she found herself dismounting by a stream of water.
Some 20 or so feet away was a cliff.
She rested on a rock by the stream.
Her horse drinking quietly. Lizzie was lost in thought.
Suddenly a bush rustled. She looked up and saw a deer. Smiling, she got to her feet. Slowly she walked closer to the creature, her thoughts drifting the closer she got to it, suddenly it darted back into the bushes just as Mey-Rin caught up with Lizzie.
"Lady Elizabeth, you-"
The girl went into the bushes, and Mey-Rin, having the bad feeling intensify, jumped after her. She grabbed Lizzie's hand and with her other hand she grabbed a strong, low-lying tree branch.
Lizzie was teetering on the very edge of another ledge that had been hidden by the bushes. Where the deer had come from or gone to, with nowhere for the creature to stand: neither knew.
But what Mey-Rin knew for sure, was that there was demonic energy swirling around them. Suddenly the energy grew stronger.
"Mey-Rin!"
"I've got you, young mistress! That I do!"
The maid said, struggling to hold onto Lizzie and the branch.
Her footing was unstable. She couldn't pull the countess up without help. And soon, they both might fall. Looking down, she could see the tops of trees below... Who knew how tall those trees were. Just then, she felt a hand grasp her wrist.
Looking up, expecting to see a friend, she met the eyes of her father, he had a firm hold of her hand and if he were to let go-
"Please pull us up!"
She said, looking panicked. He smiled.
"No."
He said and he pried his daughter's fingers from the branch, and then let go of her hand, he was still smiling at her as she fell with a scream of terror!
The two women started to fall, she pulled Lizzie into her arms and hugged her. She had to protect Lady Elizabeth! She doubted her father would let her die if he needed her to use Gabriel's horn, though. Both screamed as they fell headfirst.
"SHIT!"
Marchosias skidded to a halt as he scrambled to morph into his humanoid form. He had not seen Labolas, but he felt the murderous dog demon's energy, then he heard the screams from the young countess and the maid.
He had leapt through the bushes, and right off the ledge! As he changed form, he grabbed the branch Mey-Rin had just been holding.
He felt Labolas' energy the strongest as soon as he touched the branch. Seconds later his lover joined him. But she wisely only stuck her head through the branches of the bushes.
"I heard a scream."
"You're about to hear another in a second! I'm turning into that stupid looking lapdog, grab me before I fall too!"
He said and changed form before she could respond. In his she-wolf form or his humanoid form he would be too heavy for Vepar to pull up. She yelped in annoyance and grabbed him by the two front paws.
She hugged him to her chest with one hand as she backed out of the brush. Then she sat on the ground, she needed to calm her racing heart and catch her breath. He returned to his humanoid form and got to his feet.
"You said: "before I fall, too" Marchosias, what did you mean?!"
He pointed to the tethered white horse a way off.
"Did the countess fall, then?"
She asked him, and he nodded, still trying to catch his own breath.
"With Mey-Rin."
He said finally. Vepar's eyes widened.
"Oh, no. No! We failed to-"
"It was Labolas. I didn't see him. But his energy signature is all over that bush. He caused them to fall."
"We have to look for them!"
She said as he helped her to her feet.
"Agreed-"
He turned into his she-wolf form, then, at its full size the wolf he took the form of, was larger, but otherwise similar to the extinct Dire Wolf from North America. As soon as Marchosias was in the form, Vepar climbed onto the Wolf's back. After a moment for her to settle and grab the she-wolf's scruff, the two lept off the cliff, hopping from ledge to ledge.
Sebastian startled awake. He had been resting in his room. Clutching his chest, he felt a pain there. He had only started falling asleep again when he made Mey-Rin his lover.
'Mey-Rin...'
Just then there was a knocking at his door. Rubbing the place over his chest, he got up. By the time he had opened the door the banging had turned into pounding.
"Jadon!"
Said a very alarmed looking Sitri. His golden hair was a mess.
"What?!"
Snapped the annoyed human-born demon.
"Were you aware of this?!"
He shoved a book in Sebastian's face, so close that the demon had to cross his eyes, then back away from the book to see it.
"It's a family tree."
He stated, blinking at Sitri with a raised eyebrow. Just then, he noticed the owl demon sitting on Sitri's right shoulder, as it spoke up.
"Look at the names at the bottom of that tree."
Sebastian did. And froze.
"Ciel Phantomhive x Elizabeth Midford-Phantomhive..."
Why were prince Ipos and prince Sitri looking at Ciel's family tree... Scanning upwards, he did a double take. Claudia Phantomhive. Daughter to archangel: Gabriel and Shinigami: Manannán (The Undertaker), mother to: Vincent and Francis Phantomhive-Midford... Undertaker was an Irish god of the dead- and he was the father of Ciel's grandmother...?
Making him Ciel's great-grandfather?
"Keep looking, over that way you will see Gabriel's name again."
Said Ipos. Sebastian looked, on the branch of Lizzie's family, that her father came from, both archangels: Gabriel AND Michael, who was Sebastian's own ancestor, and King Lucifer's twin brother... Lizzie had both of them in the family tree!
Gabriel and Michael were both on her father's side, generations back and apart from each other! And on top of that, Gabriel as well as that miserably annoying Undertaker on her mother's side as the mother and father of Claudia Phantomhive, who was the grandmother of Ciel and Elizabeth! What in all of the hellish realms was happening?!
"This isn't a coincidence..."
Sebastian said finally.
Both former archangels nodded.
"Correct... And it also means that Mey-Rin is not the only one who can use Gabriel's horn."
Said the owl demon. Sebastian rubbed his chest.
'Something must have happened to Mey-Rin.'
He thought with a sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Mey-Rin,"
With a groan of pain, Mey-Rin started to open her eyes slowly. Then her eyes snapped wide open. She was hanging by the sash on her dress, from a tree. She was still about 30 feet from the ground!
Just as the redhead started to panic, a hand reached down from behind and above her. Looking up just as the hand grasped her wrist, she saw Elizabeth on her belly on the branch just above Mey-Rin's head.
Lizzie's face was scraped and her hair had come undone from the braid it had been in. That's when the realization hit her, they had fallen a great distance!
Her free hand went to her flat, firm, belly.
"Give me your other hand, Mey-Rin! I don't want you to fall!"
Said the younger woman.
"L-lady Elizabeth! I... I'm with child again- I...I don't want t'lose my baby!"
She cried out in fear as her eyes sting. Lizzie's face paled a bit.
"All the more reason to give me your other hand!"
Mey-Rin looked up at her.
Then she nodded and reached up with her other hand. After some struggling, Mey-Rin was on the branch with Lizzie.
The redhead looked around. She was closer to the tree trunk. Both of them had torn clothes, and Mey-Rin was sure she had cuts and scrapes all over her face.
"How are we to get down?!"
Asked Lizzie. Mey-Rin sighed and looked at her.
"My young mistress, may I speak and act freely?"
She asked, she frowned, realizing that her glasses were gone as well.
"Yes, you may."
Said Lizzie, somewhat distracted as she looked at the ground from where they sat. The ground had to be at least a story away!
Mey-Rin nodded and reached over, she lightly, but not softly, slapped the countess on the cheek. Blinking, Lizzie put her hand to her slightly stinging cheek and looked at Mey-Rin with wide blue eyes.
"Do forgive me. But, you NEED to drop this cutesy crap, my lady! I know by the way you move that you have had physical training, and can likely climb down this tree very easily. Likely just as well as you can likely handle a sword."
Lizzie frowned. She looked down at her hands.
"What about you?"
"I might be pregnant, but now that I have my bearings and something below me, I can get myself down just as well. I'm sure that you are aware by watching my movements, of what I can likely do. Just as I can tell from your own movements, as well."
Lizzie nodded. She had suspected that there was a reason Ciel kept her, Bard and Finny around when they were all virtually useless at any of the tasks that they were hired for (well, Finny was more capable than the two older ones, at his job: caring for plants and animals... But put him in a building, and he was a disaster)... Lizzie had long ago guessed by the way that Bard and the maid moved, that they were trained at fighting and/or killing... And thus likely there to protect Ciel.
"You go first, Mey-Rin."
She said and after Mey-Rin looked at her a minute more, the maid nodded and got to her feet on the tree branch. As far as she could tell: Her baby OR babies was/were OK. Looking around, she charted her way down in her mind. She just hoped that what she was about to do, did not cause her to miscarry.
Glancing down at her dress, she frowned. She had considered wearing pants. She now wished that she had.
"What are you doing?!"
Yelped Lizzie as the maid tore the part of her dress below the knees clear off. Mey-Rin gave her a somewhat annoyed look.
"This-"
She said, holding the fabric that she had just torn off, up.
"- Is a pain in the ass! The price of a dress is worth it to get myself and my unborn child or children down from here... And PLEASE don't tell me it's a shame because it is "so cute". I'm not interested in cute things right now. Give me a pair of pants any day. The only thing a dress is good for it looking pretty and making it easier to-"
She paused, blushing as she thought of Sebastian pressing her into the wall with her skirts bunched at her waist as he pounded into her, or made her bend over a table as he flipped up her skirts and had his way with her as she hugged the table and bit back her cries of pleasure and release... Yeah... It was nice having a dress at times like that.
So much easier to-
Lizzie sighed as Mey-Rin glanced at her, then tore some more from her skirt before deeming it the length she needed it to be. Then, without asking, she was reaching into the blonde girl's hair, she grabbed Lizzie's ribbon.
Using her slip underneath, Mey-Rin gathered that material around her waist, over what was left of the skirt on her dress and secured it around her waist with the hair ribbon holding the bunched material on the side of her hip.
Lizzie wanted to ask her to finish the thought... But considering what Lizzie had seen couples doing in dark corners at parties, she could gather what a dress would be good for, that would make her husband's maid blush.
Lizzie had a feeling that was how Mey-Rin had gotten pregnant.
She doubted that they were too tired after work to do more than sleep (of course. She didn't know the stamina that the demi-Demon and demon had).
Mey-Rin hadn't done anything like what she was about to do, since her days as an assassin. So she was very nervous. Lizzie watched in awe as the maid jumped from their current branch down to another, lower branch and from there, her hands caught and held that branch. She swung herself to a branch below that one and continued going like that until her foot slipped.
With a cry of alarm, Mey-Rin fell and would have landed hard on the ground, some 10 feet below if a man hadn't suddenly appeared and grabbed her in midair, he protected her with his body as he landed on the ground on a foot and one knee. Mey-Rin, who had her eyes shut, blinked them open. She looked up and saw Marchosias.
"Are you OK?"
She nodded as she heard some rustling and then saw Vepar walk into view.
"That was very brave."
Said the storm demoness as her lover set the maid on her feet. They all looked up when the branches above them rustled, then Lizzie fell out of the tree as well.
Again, the wolf demon easily caught her and set her on her feet as Mey-Rin responded to Vepar.
"Not brave... I had no choice."
Mey-Rin said as she untied Lizzie's ribbon and handed it the girl, letting the remains of the skirt and the slip fall around her legs. Lizzie thanked the wolf demon.
Mey-Rin suddenly looked up and around them. As did the two demons.
"Sonofa-"
Said Marchosias in a growl. Vepar also swore, Mey-Rin pulled Lizzie closer to her.
"Mey-Rin... What's wro-?"
Started the young countess. But Mey-Rin shushed her. Lizzie bit her lip. If demons were unnerved by whatever was going on-
"It's him! He's done something?"
Mey-Rin asked Vepar after a few minutes. She could feel that something had been done, she had felt a surge of demonic energy... And it felt like Labolas's energy.
Vepar nodded.
She and Marchosias were standing back-to-back. Mey-Rin kept Lizzie close, and she stayed close to the 2 demons.
"Him, who-?"
Asked Lizzie in a soft whisper.
"My sire..."
"S-sire? You mean your father?"
"Only in the sense of: he helped my mother create me. Otherwise, no, he's not my father."
Lizzie blinked, then sighed.
She rested a hand against her lower belly. She was hoping that she and Ciel had created a new life... She hoped this stress didn't heart those plans. Lizzie realized: she already missed her husband.
Suddenly, while looking at her feet, she saw a mist floating around them. Within seconds a thick white mist enveloped the group.
Mey-Rin tightened her hold on Lizzie's shoulders. The two women heard Marchosias swear again and Vepar called out to them, but suddenly her voice was cut off.
"Mey-Rin...?"
"We're in danger, my lady. Please stay with me."
Lizzie nodded and Mey-Rin released her shoulders, the 2 clasped their hands: Mey-Rin's left hand in Lizzie's right. Mey-Rin reached down to her inner thigh on the holster there that acted as a garder-belt as well.
"Take this, my lady-"
She handed Lizzie a knife. It was the best she could do to arm Elizabeth. She knew the Midford family were knights and were spectacular with swords.
But she doubted that a knight knew how to shoot a gun.
After handing Lizzie the blade, she reached down for the gun in the same holster, but on the outside.
"Only use that if you have no other choice... It won't hurt him much, though."
"Y... Your father?"
The maid nodded.
"I... Is he-?"
"He is the same as those two who were protecting us, just now. And similar to Mr. Sebastian, as well."
Lizzie sighed. She didn't know what to do against a demon. She felt helpless, and she hated feeling that way.
Mey-Rin looked around them, but even her special eyes couldn't see through this thick misty white fog.
They had been completely separated from Lord Marchosias and Lady Vepar. Of that, Mey-Rin was very sure. She no longer sensed them near.
Ciel was cold. That's what he told Paula and Bard and Finny. So, he went and sat in the carriage. It wasn't a story- he REALLY was too cold sitting at that ridiculous picnic. And he was doing it all for a girl who ran off to ride a bloody horse.
'If she really wants to ride something so badly...'
He stopped that train of thought... The young Earl looked down and saw his pants were tenting.
'How annoying!'
He pressed both his hands onto his groin, hoping to will the erection to go away! Trying to ignore it, and blushing profusely- he looked out the carriage window, trying to clear his thoughts.
He didn't think he would ever be bold enough with sex, to tell Lizzie that sort of thing!
And that train of thought leading him to remember what he saw a few months before Lau had pointed out that Mey-Rin was pregnant. Of what he had seen that day in the greenhouse:
{{About a month or 2 into Sebastian and Mey-Rin's relationship:
Ciel had gone looking for Finny in the greenhouse. There was an issue with one of the plants, and when he had called on Sebastian to have him address it to the gardener, he had received no answer. So he was doing the legwork himself. But, he didn't find Finny... What he found was Sebastian on his back on top of a blanket on the ground. He had his jacket flung aside, and his shirt was open.
His pants were down around his knees and Mey-Rin: the top of her dress down exposing her breasts and her skirts fanning around herself and Sebastian as she cried out with her face flushed, while she bounced on top of his butler.
Ciel wasn't naïve (though he wished he were). When he had been defiled in that church after being kidnapped all of those years ago, he had seen men having sex with other men or men having sex with women, and both genders pleasuring themselves as they waited for their turn to have a go at further hurting him.
A few of the women had done what Mey-Rin was currently doing with Sebastian, to some of the men. But, for some reason, seeing his maid and his butler like this didn't make him feel ill. In any case, he didn't stay to watch further. He had left them to it. Later, Sebastian had asked Ciel out of the blue, if seeing it had bothered him. Ciel had figured that the demon had noticed him (despite how preoccupied he had seemed with thrusting his hips and fondling Mey-Rin's chest). It wasn't a surprise that he had asked Ciel. But the boy had said no. And had meant it.}}
Now, Ciel wondered vaguely if the fact that he thought of when he saw Sebastian and Mey-Rin, rather than his own experience, was a sign that Lizzie was helping him cope? Maybe. Faintly, he wondered what it would be like to make love to Lizzie like that. To have her bounce on top of him as Mey-Rin had with Sebastian...
But, blushing, he brushed that thought aside. Those thoughts were only making him harder! He angrily looked at the sky.
He could be in the manner enjoying his last day of freedom from Sebastian, with Lizzie in his bedroom. Instead, he was sitting in a blasted carriage freezing his nuts off while his wife rode a horse somewhere!
Finally, he gave up.
When Lizzie got back, he was taking her to give her a green gown**, shyness be damned! Frustrated, he grabbed a seat cushion from a corner and slammed it down on top of his rather painful erection.
They had given up trying to navigate out of the fog shortly after they started trying to get free of it. Lizzie wondered why Mey-Rin had kept trying to see through this mess. Of course, she wasn't aware of how good the maid's eyes actually were.
Not to mention she was wondering where Mey-Rin's glasses went when they fell and how the woman was able to see better without them.
When Lizzie eventually did ask her about the glasses, Mey-Rin explained that they were mainly to hide her face from those in the underworld that Ciel often dealt with.
She told Lizzie that she used to work in the London underworld as an assassin.
That made sense, so Lizzie didn't press her about the issue of why her eyes seemed to be so good or why she thought she might be able to see through the mass of mist. Just then, though, Mey-Rin looked around sharply. Lizzie was put on guard.
"Is it him... Y-your father?"
Mey-Rin nodded. She hated admitting that that thing was her father!
"He's here... Somewhere. He's watching us. Stay close to me."
"I can protect myself."
"You don't have a sword, though!"
Lizzie held up the dagger that Mey-Rin gave her.
"This will do. I won't use a pregnant friend as a shield. I was trained to be the wife of the Queen's Guard Dog-"
"But he's a demon!"
Lizzie looked at her. Mey-Rin was actually happy, touched. That she thought of a maid who she didn't know well, as a friend...
"I know- so..."
Said the countess,
"- So do they have a weakness? Will decapitation work?"
"I-I'm not sure..."
Mey-Rin only used guns, the knives she occasionally carried were for throwing, if she were in a bind. So-
"No. It won't, Lady Phantomhive."
Said a male voice from behind them. They both turned towards the voice and Mey-Rin put herself between him and Lizzie. She heard the younger girl grumble. But she ignored it. Mey-Rin was grateful for her friendship. However, she was a hired body guard.
"Mey-Rin... I figured you would save the-"
"Shut the fuck up!"
He quieted down. Now Lizzie got a good look at him. He was quite good-looking, with sharp bright blue eyes and slightly shaggy black hair. He was well-dressed, as well. But, she could now sense the evil and murderous intent that he had been hiding, before.
Lizzie stayed where she was.
She was smart enough to know this: she couldn't take him out on her own. He was calm. Actually seemed amused.
'He's... Disturbing...'
She thought, then he smiled directly at her, and gave her a small salute. She shivered. And it wasn't completely from fear.
"Which of you, should I take?"
Mey-Rin shot him in the face 4 times, twice from each gun. Lizzie gasped and covered her mouth with her hand. But Mey-Rin had rounded on her. She grabbed Lizzie's free hand after holstering one gun. Then they were running.
"W... What's happening?! D-didn't you just kil-?!"
"He's not dead. I think I've shot him in the face like that: close to 70 times, now!"
"W...what do we- Mey-Rin! D-dogs... A pack of large b-black d-!"
"-I know."
'Damn it! How the hell, do I summon a demon from hell!'
Mey-Rin thought desperately as she looked behind them. She saw a large black dog with white wings. Glasya-Labolas was about 100 feet behind the girls.
Behind HIM was about 15 or so, dogs!
She didn't know what to do if they caught them- suddenly her foot stuck, Mey-Rin cried out as she fell, Lizzie yelped as she fell to the ground with Mey-Rin.
Marchosias & Vepar were surrounded by dog demons. Both had been attacked by them. Vepar was the most injured because she was the healer, Marchosias was in his she-wolf form. He was between his lover and the other demons.
'Damn human-born mutts, doing what they are told!'
He thought, then looked behind himself to Vepar, who was barely able to move.
'Vepar! Can you hear me?!'
He thought at her, as he fought off another dog.
'M... Marc...?'
She thought weakly as she tried to move.
'Take Vapor form. Get through this barrier and get to Lord Ciel and the others.
Tell him what happened and that he needs to summon Jadon NOW. Do WHATEVER it takes to get him here. We need a demon ally who is outside of this barrier!'
She hesitated, but then agreed and finally she did as he asked. She changed into water vapor. Then she started to leave the barrier.
'Don't die on me,'
She thought at her lover
'I won't go down easily, if I do.'
He thought back before she was completely free of their cage.
In the clearing: Finny was the first to see Vepar stumble back to them. He got up and went to help her.
"What happened?!"
"Never mind... Ciel- The young lord. I MUST speak with him!"
The boy nodded and led her around a set of bushes to where the carriage rested. It was there to shield it from the breeze.
Ciel was cold. Once in the carriage, Vepar looked at Ciel.
"We need to summon Jad- Sebastian, now. Marchosias, Lady Elizabeth and miss Mey-Rin are all in danger!"
Ciel blinked.
"In danger, from what?!"
'L... Lizzie!'
"From Mey-Rin's father: Glasya-Labolas."
Ciel paled at that.
"What do I do?"
He asked, finally feeling the hard on he still had covered with a pillow, finally ease away.
"I need a blood offering from you. You need to expose your contract seal and look into my eyes. I will sacrifice some of my powers to force open gates and pull him here. You need to command him to come to you.
Don't look away from my eyes while you speak the commands."
She handed Ciel the dagger that she had.
"Does it matter where I cut myself...? Does it matter how much blood?"
"No. I don't want to waste too much blood, though. But I also don't want to take too little blood, either... That could turn unpleasant for all of us."
Ciel wanted to ask what she meant by that, but chose not to. He slipped the eye patch off and Vepar blinked at him as he took the dagger and sliced his palm open. As the blood welled in his palm, it started spilling over the edges and through his fingers.
"Is that enough."
She blinked up into his eyes.
"Doesn't that hurt?"
"It does, but it's worth it to save them."
She nodded. Tearing her dress, she cupped both of her hands around his bleeding hand. Ciel watched as she brought his hand to her lips, and she drank some of his blood. After she had what she needed, she wiped her mouth, looking somewhat ill, then she told him to dump the rest of it out the window.
He did, then she wrapped her torn dress around his sliced palm. She just hoped that she could do this without her powers going out of control. If Marchosias was here, they could have sex to expel the violent, restless energy...
"Is there something wrong with my blood?"
"Huh?"
"You looked ill, just now."
"Oh... I just dislike blood offerings. Of any sort. It's not you, master Ciel."
She said. Then she faced him.
"I am likely to act strangely. Don't be afraid. My powers are water related, and storm related. They can get chaotic. If I don't let them loose to rage as storms in those instances, I..."
She paused, blushing.
"I become aroused. My powers attack me. Turning into sexual energy. That said, Marchosias usually helps me alleviate that problem.
I don't know what I will do without him here. But I won't harm you."
Ciel nodded. After his personal history being what it was though... He wasn't to sure he wanted to be closed in such a small space with a soon-to-be; sex crazed female demon... But he hid his apprehension well.
"Let's proceed."
He said, finally. She nodded, she took his uninjured hand in her's and with her finger nail, she carved a magic circle into his hand, making him bleed some more.
"Repeat what I say:"
He nodded.
"I, as your contractor. As your master, summon thee to my side. Through the gates that separate us. Through the barriers between the realms, I command you to use this blood and energy offering to force your way here to by the name that I dubbed you: Sebastian Michaelis, COME TO ME NOW!"
Ciel nodded once more , then after thinking about it again, he looked into her eyes as the floor and the space around them started to glow.
"I, as your contractor. As your master, summon thee to my side. Through the gates that separate us. Through the barriers between the realms, I command you to use this blood and energy offering to force your way here to by the name that I dubbed you: Sebastian Michaelis, COME TO ME NOW!"
As Ciel spoke, he realized that the glow was getting brighter and brighter.
A violent wind battered them inside the carriage. They kept looking at each other, he saw 2 magic circles appear in her own eyes, glowing and spinning with a cool blue color. After a few minutes, she shifted restlessly, her face faltered, she looked pained. Ciel tried to ignore it.
But moments later she was biting her lip and squeezing her thighs tightly together as she whimpered slightly.
Suddenly the glow around them became blindingly bright. She flinched, her body squirming as she closed her eyes, panting as she made sounds like what he had heard Lizzie making the night before.
Ciel had to close his eyes from the blinding light. When he opened them again, Sebastian was sitting beside a crying Vepar. They didn't have any time to talk before Vepar suddenly opened the door and pushed Ciel out.
Inside the carriage she was straddling Sebastian's waist as she started undoing his pants, while kissing him deeply. He kissed her back, but only what was needed. When she broke the kiss to lick and nip her way down his throat, he sighed.
"Where is Marchosias?"
He asked calmly as she pulled his member from inside his pants and started working to get him hard.
"Trapped still... I don't have any interest in you like this, seriously. You are my friend! But I need your member inside me. Now! Or there may be a hurricane outside!"
He sighed. That was why she threw Ciel out? Finally, he nodded reluctantly as she stood to remove the clothing she wore under her dress.
She was taking too long, he wanted to get this over with. He snapped his fingers and her clothing vanished, as did his.
With a whimper of relief she was on his lap again. He was impaling her core and the two were moving together.
Outside Ciel, who stood looking annoyed, heard grunts and moans, the carriage was shaking in an alarming manner.
Then he heard a female cry and the winds inside and outside died down.
The carriage shook a bit more, then stopped. After another few minutes had passed, Sebastian stepped out, he was fully dressed and looked as if he hadn't just had sex with another demon in the carriage.
"Was that really needed-?"
He asked Sebastian. The human-born demon looked preoccupied. He frowned.
"Unless you wanted a massive storm to destroy all of England, yes. Sex is a way to absorb and transfer energy. Of any sort. Especially for a succubus: like Vepar."
Ciel sighed.
"Whatever... Mey-Rin and Lizzie have been hunted by Mey-Rin's father. He currently has them all, the lover of Vepar, as well, trapped in a barrier of some sort."
"Yes, I can sense the barrier. I'll go find them... I wouldn't have had to do that, just now... Had her lover been easy for her to access.
At that point though, it was me or you. I'm a better candidate for taking her excess energy and dispelling it... She's dressed again, get back inside before you freeze."
With that, Sebastian vanished. Ciel got back in the carriage. Across from him Vepar slept, curled up on her side.
Sebastian had wondered if it was Mey-Rin's demonic blood that made him enjoy sex with her so much.
But, he had just had sexual relations with Vepar. It was not something he enjoyed. Neither did she. It was needed though to stabilize his presence here.
And to stop her powers from going out of control. Otherwise, along with the other things going on, they would have a massive and very destructive storm on their hands.
An out of control storm demon was not a pretty thing and was very, VERY dangerous creature.
The only good thing to come from him having to have sex with Vepar was the fact that he now knew for sure: He was in love with Mey-Rin.
The question now, was: was he in love with Mey-Rin for herself? Or did he love her because she was also Allonia's reincarnation...?
He needed to figure that out now. And... Should he tell her about how he felt? She would have won the bet.
He would have to help Ciel without attaining the soul he had been working so hard to cultivate over these last 6 years.
Frowning, the demon butler suddenly skidded to a halt. He could sense the wolf demon nearby. He saw a wall of mist before him.
It reeked of the energy of Glasya-Labolas. He removed his gloves and stuck his hands out, wincing as he felt the sting from the barrier.
Still, he pressed his hands, then his arms, and finally his body pushed through the barrier.
Since Labolas had turned him into a demon, the barrier accepted his energy signature as Labolas'... It still caused some pain for him, though. Once Sebastian was through the painful part, he relied on his senses to find Marchosias. When he found the wolf, it had just ripped another black dog apart. It seemed to be the last of his attackers. The others lie around him in scattered parts in a gory mess.
"Jadon..."
Marchosias said tiredly as he took human form again.
"Don't use that name!"
Snapped the irate human-born demon. Marchosias collapsed. Sebastian caught him. He had massive, and very nasty bite wounds all over his body. Sebastian helped Marchosias to sit on the ground, leaning against the tree that Vepar had woken up against, earlier.
"Will you be OK?"
The wolf demon nodded. He was gasping for breath through his pain.
"Yes. I will..."
"I need to look for Lady Elizabeth and Mey-Rin."
Marchosias nodded.
"Go. I will be OK."
"You look far from ok. But I'm not having sex with you, as well, in order to transfer energy to you to help you heal."
"As well?"
"Vepar used her energy as a sacrifice to force the gate between realms open faster than normal. Her powers were threatening to tear her, and England, apart in a massive super-storm. So, we had to have sex. Her powers needed to be siphoned, and I was the only demon available. A human couldn't withstand her chaotic energy, at that point."
"Touch her again and I'll tear your throat out."
Marchosias snarled. Sebastian smirked slightly.
"Would you rather I let her die? You weren't there. I was the only option. Neither of us enjoyed it, she was chanting your name and that she was sorry with every thrust from me. I'd prefer to bury myself between the thighs of my own lover, not yours."
They eyed each other, then Marchosias sighed, he let his anger dissipate. He would have to claim her later, re-mark her as HIS.
"The countess Phantomhive and your lover were somewhere over in that direction when this barrier went up."
He said tiredly, he pointed to his right. Sebastian nodded and left. He headed towards the energy he sensed from Mey-Rin. It was faint, almost undetectable. But that wasn't new. He only started noticing the slight demon energy emanating from her body once they became lovers... It was definitely her though. He knew her body and soul by now well, as well as the energy her body gave off. He had to force himself through several more layers of barriers, to get into the section her power was felt the most strongly in.
Sebastian found his lover, first. Mey-Rin was naked, her clothes hanging off of her neck, arms and hips in bloody shreds, nasty bite-wounds all over her body, from her face, to her breasts and arms, back and legs. It looked like her clothes had been shredded in a dog attack. She was hugging her gun, with her body curled in a fetal position... Her belly, though flat, was where his babies were growing. She had tried to protect them. He was overcome with overwhelming grief. Memories of finding Allonia violated and dead flashed before his eyes as a tightness formed in his chest and a lump in his throat.
'She was protecting the babies...'
He thought as he dropped to his knees beside her. Gently, with shaking hands, he brushed dried tears from her face and: He felt the tightness in his chest grow more painful. Gently, he pulled her into his arms, leaving the guns clutched in her hands, he hugged her, resting his face in her neck as he rocked her slightly. It was then that he let himself cry. He held her naked body and sobbed like a child. He felt like his heart was bleeding!
Over and over in his mind, he kept finding Allonia dead. Allonia had been naked, as well, just like Mey-Rin... But unlike Mey-Rin, Allonia had been violated... He didn't think that anyone had violated Mey-Rin, though.
He was fairly sure of that. She was HIS, body and soul. He would know if-
"D... Don't c... C-cry... J-Jadon..."
He looked up at her sharply, ignoring the tears rushing down his cheeks when she spoke. The shock of the condition he found her in causing to him to assume she was dead. But her words brought him back to his senses. She was alive. That was clear. The panic that had been building... Slowly eased.
But he found himself confused: she had called him- suddenly she whimpered and shifted in pain.
She was bleeding badly, her body was shaking from loss of blood. But her reddish-hazel eyes, though not open wide, were locked on his face. She reached up shakily and touched his face.
"I protected t... The babies, this time... J-Jadon..."
"Allonia?"
He asked softly, wondering where Mey-Rin was inside of her.
"Y... Yes. F-for n...now."
She cried out in pain, her body seizing up. She was trying with everything she had to keep herself and the lives inside of her, alive.
"How are you-?"
"M... Mey-Rin can e... Explain l... La-ter-"
She cried out once again, her back arching out of his arms from the pain.
He looked at some of her wounds and noticed that one of the bites was bubbling black and purple. She had been poisoned.
He laid her on the grass and took his suit jacket off. He covered her bared torso and her upper thighs with it.
She was crying again. Panting for breath through the pain.
If she was poisoned- he didn't know what to do! He couldn't heal her like he had before, when she fell off of the roof... Also, he didn't know what an infusion of his blood would do to their unborn babies.
She became closer to a normal human, or even an angel, while she was with child. If that was the case, his blood might kill her and the lives inside of her!
He got to his feet and started preparing to summon Sitri. He and Vepar were both good at healing. But Vepar wasn't in any shape to heal-
"I'll help."
He looked around at the sound of the female voice. There stood a glowing, beautiful blonde woman in a lovely dress. He flinched at seeing her, however. Then he noticed the spectacular, large, white wings behind her. As her glow slowly faded, he looked at her once more. Beside her stood The Undertaker- of all creatures.
"What are yo-?!"
He started, sneering at the Shinigami a bit. But the woman knelt beside Mey-Rin's prone body.
"Hey, st-"
The Undertaker put a hand on Sebastian's shoulder, stopping him. The demon glared at the old Shinigami. He saw sadness in the creature's emerald eyes. So, for now- Sebastian held his tongue, and waited... He looked back at the angel.
She had taken a human form now, and was wingless. She was speaking to Allonia softly as her hands glowed, running gently over Mey-Rin's body. Sebastian waited. Feeling useless. And frightened that he would lose his lover and his babies again.
After some time, the woman stood. She handed him his suit jacket. Mey-Rin was now clothed in a white slip. The guns were resting on her belly and her hands were folded over her diaphragm, just under her breasts and above the guns. The angel looked at Sebastian.
"You are of Michael's lineage... You should never have fallen. Jadon, you were supposed to end your life when she died, and be reincarnated with Allonia."
He looked away.
'What was supposed to happen and what DID happen are two very different things.'
He thought bitterly. Then his eyes darted back to her when she rested a gentle hand against his cheek.
"I'm so sorry."
She said sadly. Then she pulled his head down to her's and just rested her forehead against his. He blinked, startled by her actions. Where she touched him: he felt like his skin was burning.
Then she moved and kissed his forehead. It was then he noticed the silent tears sliding down her pale cheeks. Sebastian stood up straight when she released him... He knew, from what Sitri had shown him, that Lady Gabriel, the archangel standing before him was not only Mey-Rin's grandmother, but also was Ciel and Lizzie's great-grandmother.
She and The Undertaker had been the parents of Ciel and Lizzie's grandmother: Claudia Phantomhive.
Not only that, but in the 1600's he had seen his own ancestor: Michael's name in the family tree chart for Lizzie's father's family. Lizzie had the blood of 2 archangels running through her veins, as well as that of a former pagan death deity... Sebastian had a lot of questions for Gabriel.
But he found that his tongue would not work to ask them. He looked from the angel, to his lover resting on the ground.
"I... Is that Allonia? Or Mey-Rin?"
He found himself asking.
"Allonia was able to take the stress and pain, better than Mey-Rin could. So, her personality split from Mey-Rin's in order to keep Mey's mind and heart from breaking.
They are both in there. After some time, Allonia will merge with Mey-Rin, once more. Allonia said she had to do this once before. Just after Mey-Rin's former lover: Logan, was killed by Labolas.
She took control of Mey-Rin's body from time to make sure she fed herself and cared for her body. That was when Mey-Rin only wanted to sit there and mourn his absence..."
He nodded. He wasn't sure how he felt about that knowledge.
"Take Mey-Rin to Marchosias, Jadon. He will protect her. He and Vepar along with Sitri, were all my friends, before they fell. Marc will protect Mey-Rin until the Phantomhive cook: Bard, can find them. I can sense that he, and the young gardener are looking for all of them now. Then, after leaving her there, please come back and speak to Mana and myself."
"Mana?"
She nodded towards the undertaker.
'Oh, right. His name was Manannán.'
Sebastian realized, and then he nodded to what the angel had said. The human-born demon then knelt, he gently sat Mey-Rin up and slipped her arms through the sleeves of his suit jacket. It was January first, after all. It was cold enough that Sebastian could see his breath... He buttoned his suit jacket up and then lay her down. He considered her guns for a moment.
He holstered one back into her thigh holster (thankfully they were still intact) his hand gently brushed against the contract seal as he moved it away.
Sebastian sighed softly, remembering that he had likely lost the bet with her.
Put pushed that thought aside.
If he wasn't going to consume Ciel's soul, and he was going to deal with Labolas, he needed to find another soul to consume.
And SOON.
With that thought, he slipped the other gun into the waistband of his trousers, at his back. He wanted to keep that one with him. Then, very gently, Sebastian pulled his lover into his arms and stood with her cradled against his chest. Moving past Gabriel, he started to take Mey-Rin to where he last saw Marchosias. After about 10 minutes of walking, though, the redhead in his arms whimpered slightly, and her eyes fluttered open weakly. She reached up and caressed his cheek.
"S... Seb-"
He stopped walking, blinking down at her, he wanted to hear her say his current name.
"S-Sebas... Seb...astian...?"
He smiled, and pressed his forehead into her collarbone. She hugged his head against her, noticing his shoulders shaking. He backed up, leaning against a nearby tree. Then his shaky legs gave out, and he slid to the ground. She felt wetness against her skin where his face was pressed against her.
"A-Are y... You c... Crying?"
She asked weakly.
"I should have been with you..."
He said against her chest. She sighed. Everything hurt, despite having the poison removed and her wounds healed. She lay back in his arms.
"P... Please find Lady Elizabeth... S-Sebastian... I... I did not do my j-job. I c... Chose t... To p-protect o... Our babies, a-and not our young mistress. L-Labolas set his dogs on me, and took her away..."
He looked at her, she was crying.
"You didn't fail your job..."
He said as he gently touched her face. She smiled weakly at him, and he leaned down to kiss her softly.
"I did... Y... You hi-red me to p... P-protect t-the Phantomhive interest. La... L-lady Elizabeth i-is now a... A Phan-tom-h-hive."
He held her tighter and kissed her again. This kiss was more desperate. When he pulled back, he brushed her tears away. She reached up and did the same with his face.
"I love you..."
She said softly and just when he was about to finally confess that he felt the same way, she went limp in his arms. Dead weight again. He checked her pulse and her breathing, her heart beat as well. She was still alive. Breathing a sigh of relief, he got to his feet and readjusted his grip on her.
"Yes, My love... I love you too, Mey-Rin."
He whispered very softly and once more, he started heading to where Marchosias was. He would make sure she heard those words, when she woke up again, and he had rescued the young countess. Sebastian would treat Mey-Rin's request to save Elizabeth as if it was an order from Ciel.
He told Marchosias what happened, and that Gabriel had said he would protect her. Marchosias agreed to guard the maid.
He took the form of that stupid poodle and let her cling to him in her sleep. Sebastian sensed Bard and Finny were near. He looked at Mey-Rin one more time, then he left, racing back to where The Undertaker and Lady Gabriel were... He would find Elizabeth. No matter what. For both if his masters.
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To Be Continued...
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Angel/Character relations/trees:
Sebastian- As Jadon. His mother's grandfather was the Archangel: Michael- Michael is Twin Brother to fallen Archangel: Lucifer.
Michael x Unknown Human woman= Had a child- That child was the ancestor of Alexis Midford. Alexis is father to Lizzie.
100's of years later, Gabriel x Undertaker (A.K.A. Manannán mac Lir ) Have a daugher- Her name is Claudia Phantomhive. Claudia was mother to Victor & Francis Phantomhive. Francis was mother to Lizzie and Edward. Victor was father to Ciel.
Also- About the asterisk (**) Marks-That "Greeg Gown" reference is an 1800's way of a man saying he wants to have sex outside, in the grass.
Disclaimer: don't own anything from the Black Butler series. At all.