Chapter 10 – Coincidence? I think not! (FILLER)
Once again, I've been a bad girl and ignored my homework to write again! Someone help! I really hate procrastinating but every time I think about doing work, I switch off. I have lots of assignments and such due soon but I haven't been bothered starting nor even having a look at it. I think I need some motivation and someone to tell me to work.
Oh well, this means more time to write for you lovely people! I am really happy with this fanfiction as well as my other one! IF you are interested in Maid Sama then you should read my other fanfic!
This is a filler which is the book of murder arc.
I DO NOT OWN BLACK BUTLER!
Alice: You are a problem child! Do your homework!
Me: Nah! I'd much rather do this! Besides, people get to read about your 'awesome' life story. You should be thankful!
Alice: Jeez, didn't you get in trouble with your maths teacher for not doing your work?
Me: yeah, that was once. ONCE! Besides I couldn't be stuffed doing boring coordinate geometry!
Alice: I don't want to be the person that has to tell you this but I TOLD YOU SO!
Sebastian: I think I'll have to do something about this~
Me: please don't! I've seen how you've treated Ciel and I seriously don't want anything to do with that!
Sebastian: Don't worry, I'll take good care of you~
~Alice's P.O.V.~
A little girl sat on a tree swing. Singing to herself and watching the local foxes play. While singing, a black cat walked up to her, nudging her leg. She stroked it as it meowed at her and its brilliant red eyes twinkled in the sunlight. She was gifted in song and her family loved to hear her sing. That was until they were killed, murdered in front of her eyes, telling her to run.
Men stormed into the room, wearing their expensive, noble clothing. They came for the debt her father had not paid. They were not leaving empty handed. To satisfy their greedy selves, they abused her father and crushed his pride, made him watch as they tortured and filled her mother with their filth. The father told her to run but petrified, she stood and stared through the doorway as the men played with her mother then killed her in the most brutal way possible.
Anger and sorrow filled her head. Grabbing the closest kitchen knife, she plunged it into the hearts of the devil, laughing and cackling as they begged her to stop. Her sister screaming, telling her to stop but all the little girl was now, was a monster. After finishing off the intruders, she wept on her mother's body, her little sister wailed. In one corner of the kitchen was her father's body, blood splattered against the wall. In the centre of the room was her mother.
Tears running down her face, the girl let out an ear piercing scream as the room glowed white, and the world spun. She couldn't hear anything but the sound of a whisper inside her head,
Your journey has only begun; you will meet lots of great misfortune because you are not normal, because you are too pure, because you are mine….
I woke up with a start as I wiped the tears off my face, damn, not that dream again….
It was more like a recap rather than a dream, I remember it all. The day my family was murdered by noble men. That was when I had gotten my hate for the rich but now, it seemed to have died down a bit. I guess it was from the influence of Ciel and Madam Red. I guess they showed me that life as a noble wasn't all about tea parties and delicacy. Being noble came with a price, that you we targeted for your fame.
Ciel, was probably hated most of all, as the Queen's watchdog, everyone hated him. He was their hated enemy and their worst nightmare.
I smiled to myself, the person in my dream was right. That night, my journey had only begun and I would meet lots of great misfortune, it was all true. And it was one hell of an adventure!
This was even better than the excitements of being a street rat, running wild and free.
I looked at the clock. It was 4 in the morning and I was wide awake. I got out of bed, knowing it was a good idea because I could spend some me time without having Sebastian breathing down my neck every second of the day.
I got dressed, and braided my hair into a simple French braid. That's when I noticed that the ends of my pink hair was now white. I continued to stare at it. Strange…It could be that I'm growing old!
I giggled to myself as I washed my face and went into the huge garden.
I felt bored so I climbed a tree where I had a good view of the garden and the manor. Without hesitation, I began to sing. I hadn't sung in a while and it felt great to sing again. Some birds landed on the branch above me and stared at me with curiosity. I smiled and sung to them, and to my surprise, they sung back.
A sung a few chords and they sung them back to me. it was beautiful and I captured the moment in my heart.
"Up so early~?"
I looked down to see Sebastian staring up at me and smirking, his beady red eyes staring straight into mine.
"SEBASTIAN?!"
I gasped as I fell back and out of the tree. I landed butt first into a huge pile of leaves. I stood up quickly and glared at Sebastian.
"How long where you there?!"
"Long enough~"
"Jeez, next time tell me you creep!"
"but if I told you, I wouldn't have been able to hear your lovely singing~"
I blushed and stormed off, Sebastian grabbed me by the waist and hugged me close to him, whispering into my ears.
"I wish you would sing to me sometimes, Alice~"
"L-Let go!"
"You are mine~"
I froze in shock. That voice, it can't be!
"I-I SAID LET GO!"
I shoved him back and our eyes met. My face went red and hot and I stared at him, unable to move until the sound of Finny's voice allowed me to regain consciousness and I ran away.
I ran into my room, slammed the door and jumped onto my bed. NO way! It couldn't have been Sebastian. He was with Ciel-
I was like 8 or 9 when this happened, Ciel would have been too young to summon Sebastian. That would mean, Sebastian was either with some else or, he was free.
But there was no way it could have been Sebastian. How could he, out of all the people in London, know it was me? And how could he even know that little girl was me? surely he hasn't actually seen me before? Coincidence? I think not! What if I ran into him somewhere? Or is he just a stalker?
I gripped my heart as I panted and sighed. I slid down the door and crouched into a ball, sobbing and wishing that I wasn't here. I wanted to be all snuggled up with my sister and talk with my parents, laughing and eating together. But I was stuck here, with a demon and his master.
I don't know how long I was sitting there for but when I looked up, outside was getting dark and Ciel must have been pretty pissed that I wasn't doing my job. I got up, wiped my tears and washed my face and left the room.
"Alice where have you been?!"
Ciel immediately interrogated me when I entered the room.
"Contemplating, and keeping my distance from that guy over there,"
I gestured to Sebastian who chuckled and smirked at me, he stared deep into my eyes.
"What?"
"I just noticed something, there is a faint and small mark in your left eye,"
"Oh, that. it's probably something from when some little kid threw a rock into my eye. It grazed the surface but I haven't noticed that there was a scar."
"No…it doesn't look like a scar…"
"What? You say something?"
"No, nevermind."
"Well, if you don't need me anymore, I'm going to the kitchen for a bit!"
"Fine, don't eat anything though…"
"Yeah, yeah….."
I went down to the kitchen and Mey-Rin was looking out the window, Bard was peeling potatoes.
"What's wrong Mey-Rin?"
"Hm, I feel restless in this weather. It'd be better if I wait until the washing has dried."
Bard growled as he probably felt the same peeling potatoes.
Suddenly the kitchen door burst open with such force that the door broke off it's hinges and was sent flying across the room.
A familiar voice called out from the doorway as Mey-Rin, Bard and I jumped into alert mode and readied our weapons.
"Is Earl Phantomhive in?"
I pointed at the two men in white.
"Hey! It's you!"
"Hm? You look familiar, doesn't she Charles?"
The smaller man said to the taller one.
"Very…."
Bard held in his hand the knife he was using to peel his potatoes as Mey-Rin gripped onto her dual guns which were hidden under her uniform.
"Who are you?!" Bard said, very much in work mode.
"You'll play with me?!"
The smaller guy pulled out his rapier and charged at us, barely missing Mey-Rin who ducked and Bard who jumped out the way.
He went for Bard who was still on the floor. The guy was fast and before Bard could get up, he swang the sword at him.
Mey-Rin shot at him a couple of times but he dodged easily.
"Wow, Dual guns are sooo cool!"
She continued her barrage of shots but he was too fast. Like an agile cat, he dodged and I began to wonder if the servants here ever cared about the damage they caused.
"but…I win at close combat!"
She cut clean through the guns and turned back to finish off Mey-Rin.
Bard came out of nowhere and aimed for the guy's neck. Again with his feline senses, he jumped up and used Mey-Rin was a platform to leap from and back flipped, and targeted Bard's back.
This had gone too far and I jumped in, pulled out some knives and blocked his attack.
"Ok, enough!"
"Oh, you can fight too. Play with me~"
He swung at me, I jumped back and he came at me again. But I knew his pattern and how fast he was. I rushed forward and threw some knives at him, aiming for his legs and predicting where he would attack from next.
He jumped out to my right. I threw more knives which he deflected but was enough distraction enough for me to rush in and pin him to the ground.
I pointed the knife next to his neck as he lay on the ground with me pinning his arms with me legs. He back facing me as he chuckled.
"You're really good! I want to play again!"
I sighed and got off when suddenly, he attacked again. I wasn't fast enough and he stepped on me, pinning me to the ground. His rapier came down but Sebastian managed to jump in with a plate of scones and the rapier hit the scone instead of my face.
"It's a custard choux cream. Please take a bite."
The guy happily ate it and the taller guy helped me up gently and apologised for his partner's actions.
"Sebastian?! Who the hell are these guys?!"
Bard sweat dropped as Sebastian finished his ordinary conversation with the two men.
"Hm, These two are…"
He was cut of by the guy who attacked us,
"Yeah…we haven't met before but I'm Charles Grey…"
The taller one was coincidently also called Charles but Charles Phipps.
"We are codenamed, double Charles. We are her majesty the Queen's private secretarial officers and butlers. Nice to meet you! And today, we have mail for the Earl."
So Sebastian and I led them to Ciel in one the many rooms.
The Queen wanted Ciel to hold a party for a special guest or something who was coming to England in two weeks time.
"Why me?"
Ciel was certainly not impressed and sort of annoyed about this decision.
"besides, the Queen is having her doubts about the Earl since the report about 'that' incident~"
Ah, yes. The incident where instead of rescuing the children who were kidnapped by the circus, we burnt them to ashes along with the man who was responsible for it. I'm pretty sure the Queen would be pissed about that.
"Don't you think this is the perfect way to restore you image?"
"fine, I'll take it."
"Oh, and since I'm the overseeing officer, can I participate too?!"
"yes."
"Oh and we just tested the mansion's safety, it's pretty tight."
"Yes. The servants are well trained. Well we're leaving now. See you in two weeks time."
So after they left, Ciel ordered Sebastian to write the invites and organise everything.
I was ordered to go to the kitchen to help out with the cooking and preparations.
The next day, we all woke up very early to continue with preparations. And it was raining.
"The party won't be cancelled by the rain! Don't idle!"
Again, Sebastian was barking orders and making sure that everyone was moving and doing something.
Later that evening the guests arrived and I was at the front, greeting everyone. Everyone was very nice, and I guided them into the hall to wait. A very ordinary sort of guy walked in,
"Good morning Sir! Welcome to the Phantomhive manor,"
"Ah, g-good morning!"
He seemed a bit jumpy but what could I say? Ordinary guy surrounded by the super-rich and beautiful. Then someone walks into him and he jumps again. He blushed furiously as he turned to see Ran Mau in another one of her skimpy and revealing clothing.
Lau stood next to her, scolding her for bumping into people without apologising.
"Ran Mau, you shouldn't space out! Where's your apology?"
"Sorry…"
"N-NO! It's alright! A-are you a-actors?"
"No, I am but a humble branch manager working in a trading company. My name is Lau. This is Ran Mau my little sister. How might you be?"
I mutter to myself,
"Humble my ass…"
"I-I am an eye specialist and also a bit of a writer…."
"That's amazing! A wordsworth huh?"
"No, nothing of the sort! I've never met the Earl before so I don't really understand why I was invited…"
"Ah, well the Earl has a very sour and angry look on all the time. And he wears a pirate like eye-patch!"
"Ok, Enough Lau. You're scary the guests!"
We all turn to see Ciel at the top of the staircase with Sebastian who winked at me and I scoffed and looked away.
"That tiny child is the Earl!"
Lau laughs pointing up to Ciel how was making his way down the stairs.
"LITTLE WASN'T NECESSARY!"
He got down the stairs and approached the guy.
"Thank you for accepting my invitation today. I am the head of the house. Ciel Phantomhive."
So after we talked a little, Charles Grey and the special guest Lord Georg Von Siemens arrived late and we introduced everyone.
Here was also Carl Woodley, the president of a diamond polishing company. Patrick Phelps, the son of a ship building and shipping company, Lau and Ran Mau, lastly was the gorgeous couple, Grimsby Keane and Irene Diaz. Grimsby is a theatrical producer and Irene is an Opera singer.
When they entered, everyone was taken in by their beauty and the graceful aura surrounding them.
After everyone was aquinted, everyone began to eat. Sebastian and I kept an eye on the guests and especially on Ciel. Everyone was getting drunk and for sure, something bad was going to happen.
Grimsby was very much drunk as he was loudly talking and joking with Ciel and Wordsworth.
Suddenly everyone turns to see a red faced Lord Siemens and Irene fighting.
"To have you all over me with your disgusting hands…. I can't take it anymore!"
"Whaaat?! You're at fault for wearing clothes like that…You really want to be touched don't you? Don't pretend to be sweet and innocent!"
She was very much pissed now and I watched in anticipation as she let out her fury. She slapped hard on the cheek sending him tumbling back. He threw his drink, hoping to douse her but instead got Ciel.
"This is a dining hall. That will be enough from you two."
Ciel was completely calm and the situation seemed to die down when Grimsby yelled from across the room and threw the special wine bottle, sending it straight for Siemen's face.
Sebastian somehow managed to jump in, land on a ladder next to a huge tower of champagne glasses and pour the contents of the bottle elegantly so that the tower glowed with the wine.
"This is a fantastic wine from the village of Purcari in South East Moldova. Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy."
So everyone grabbed a glass and everything was peaceful again.
Ciel began to talk to Sebastian in French. I understood some of it because occasionally, I would stick around when Ciel was having lessons with Sebastian.
They were talking about how disgusting Siemens was. Suddenly we hear a laugh from behind us to see Wordsworth covering his mouth to hold back his laughter. He looked really shocked that we noticed but Ciel put his finger to his mouth telling Wordsworth to keep it a secret.
After we saw that Lord Siemens was asleep so we decided to take him to a place where he could sleep. Ciel was also beginning to get tired so Sebastian and Ciel decided to leave first.
I sat down with Charles Grey, Lau and Ran Mau who were drinking.
Charles Grey was a heavy weight as he had finished dozens of glasses of wine. He offered me a glass but I shook my head because I couldn't and wouldn't get drunk.
"Come on. One glass!"
"No, I need to look after the guests. I can't do that if I'm drunk!"
"what? Are you a light weight?"
"No, I've never had a drink before. And I shouldn't."
"One! Just one! Besides this is some good stuff!"
"NO!"
"little maid, what's wrong with one glass?"
"Don't you get involved with this!"
I turned to Lau and Charles grey gave up and chugged the whole thing in one go.
Sebastian came back after Ciel had fallen asleep and we had to clean up. I stood with Sebastian to wash the dishes while Mey-Rin and Bard polished them.
I looked at the time, it was about 10 past 12 and Mey-Rin was beginning to get tired.
Suddenly the bell from Lord Siemens room rang.
"It's the drunk's room!"
I called out and Sebastian looked at me to tell me to go and see what he wants.
"What? You want me to go to that pervert's room? Hey, no. Not going alone to that man's room. I might end up killing him if he attacks me!"
Sebastian sighs as he takes off his apron and comes along with me. Mey-Rin tagged along.
"Wow, that sure is a terrible storm!"
We reached his room.
"Lord Siemens! Did you call?"
Suddenly we hear groans and screams of pain coming from the room.
"Master Siemens?!"
We bang on the door but he continues to scream in agony.
Everyone arrives due to all the noise.
I sigh and with a hard kick, I break down the door.
We all peer inside and everyone gasps with horror.
On the chair was very much dead Lord Siemens.
Irene and Phelps screech as Phelps faints and everyone is too afraid to move.
Wordsworth rushes in to confirm that he was dead.
I looked up at Sebastian who held his chin and looked away in deep thought and I knew, this was probably no normal murder case.
End chapter 10
OMG I AM SOOO SORRY! I haven't updated in soo long. I hope this chapter quenched your thirst though. Please review and I hope you guys look forward to the next chapter!