Chapter 15

"So..." Luciana looked at the two men- well, one and a half- as they sat in a carriage bound for London. "Why are we going into the city?" She was tired. The midnight lesson with Sebastian was a lot of work- for her brain at least and she was honestly tempted to just lean on his shoulder and snuggle into him, like cuddling into a big pillow. But she refrained from it. Luce didn't want her sleeping cycle to be disrupted.

"Oh, you don't know?" The boy asked mockingly. It made her role her eyes. He's been doing this every chance he'd gotten since their little heart to heart. What was she to expect? This was a kid, barely a teen, and he loved playing games. Mocking her each chance he'd get was like an early Christmas for him, but she hoped he would soon be over that phase.

"Contrary to popular believe..." She smiled innocently at the boy making the demon peek with interest. He found that Luce tended to say some funny things when annoyed. "...People from the future are not clairvoyant." The demon snickered.

"Clair-what?" Ciel looked confused and utterly lost.

"You have a contract with a demon but know nothing about the supernatural?" She deadpanned. That would be ridiculous, but the boy truly didn't seem to know.

"The young master has more important studies to attend to." The mentioned demon decided to amend.

"Naturally- much to his chagrin and your amusement." She mumbled only loud enough for the smirking demon to hear. Luce had decided the moment she stepped into the Phantomhive manor that it would be forever wiser to side with the demon who could literally snap her neck in an instant and that hadn't changed, even if the girl was sure Sebastian wouldn't kill her- better safe than sorry. So she changed the topic. "So, are we going to London because of your guard dog duties?" She had a feeling they weren't going there to socialize. Ciel just didn't seem the type.

"Wait and see Luce." The boy said no more after that.

After making a short stop at the town manor, to drop off the other servants and their luggage, the trio arrived at the scene of the crime. It was a tea house- oddly enough. Several adult men were hanging from the roof and by their underwear no less. Luciana could barely hold herself from laughing out loud. The display was just too funny. She was itching to take out her phone and snap a pic.

"Lord Phantomhive why are you here?" Randall was clearly annoyed by their presence.

His attitude made Ciel hum with amusement. "Isn't it obvious? I'm here to clean up the mess of a pathetic old hunting dog." Luciana smirked at the boy's comment. 'Cute Ciel, very cute.' The young earl ripped the papers away from the two coppers before anything more could be said. "Hmm, a crime targeting only people who have returned from India. I see the victims are not dead." 'Aw, no Undertaker then?' She sighed ruefully and looked up at the victims. Luce tilted her head in thought. She was internally debating if their genitals could freeze off in this wintery weather. 'Someone should probably get them down.' With a mental shrug she focused back to the conversation at hand.

"Dont just-!" Randal opposed the boy with an visible tick mark on his temple. 'Well someone is getting his feathers ruffled...' she rolled her eyes.

Ciel took out a letter with the royal seal, practically showing it off to the coppers. "If it was just a highway man I wouldn't be involved. However, I won't sit by and watch the royal family be insulted." He then handed the notes to Sebastian and Luce, letting them read all the info over. There wasn't much. "The criminals are described as 'chosen children of sloth and depravity' which is quite accurate. I agree that England would be better off without India's wealthy upstarts." 'Crime brought upon by colonial pressure, huh?' Luciana mused quietly. It didn't surprise her. Acts of aggression were to be expected with colonial rule. Poke a bear long enough and it will bite back, no matter how tame it may seem. "Anyway, what's this mark?" Ciel turned to his new maid/ time traveler in hopes that she knew.

It was a vertical line on top of what looked like a U. Luciana had never seen it before. "A tongue?" She shrugged with her usual nonchalance but it actually puzzled her as well.

"Sebastian, did you memorize the documents?" He turned to his butler completely ignoring the ruffled state of the coppers. 'Honestly people need to relax.' Luciana rolled her eyes. Somehow a lot of people in this time didn't understand the meaning of 'leisure pace'. They all rush things and are much too easily aggravated.

Their next stop was a chinese opium bar. It seemed more like a brothel to Luciana as the trio stood before Lau and his lap girls. She had to admit though; they were kind of cute and had amazing figures. She licked her lips which didn't go unnoticed by the butler.

For some reason the action unnerved him especially when some girls came to offer them a smoke. He could hear her hum in consideration and it irritated him. "Well,..." She began with a mischievous smile.

"No thanks. We are fine without." Sebastian glared at the little thief as Lau's girls left them in piece.

"A demon keeping me from fun- what has the world come to?" She mumbled with a theatrical sigh.

He couldn't help but role his eyes. She could be so dramatic. "Luce..." his exasperated sigh made her grin at him with a playful twinkle in her eyes. "You did that purposely didn't you?" He narrowed his eyes at the girl. How she played him like this was incomprehensible. Him, a demon played by a little human girl.

"Whatever are you talking about?" She smiled innocently. She just wanted to see different expressions on the demon rather than his ever so stoic facade. Luciana didn't believe he was really as expressionless as he acted, so she had decided to wring it out of him. The idea really just came to her this morning and she thought it was only fair after his torturous lesson.

Soon they were making their way through the east end with Lau as their guide. Luciana really didn't see why he had to lead them; she could have done it too. 'The kid probably forgot.' She sighed. "We have walked for quite a while, so where is the stronghold of Indian people?" Sebastian asked, snapping her out of her thoughts. She hadn't even been listening to their chat.

"Eh? Ah, sorry I got lost in the conversation," Lau laughed casually, "seems we are lost." He really wasn't the best guide. Luciana shook her head silently, taking a look around. 'Well, if it's Indian people we're looking for...' Before she could even finish her thought Ciel had bumped into someone.

"IT HURTS! ARGH! MY RIBS!" Instantly, a group of ragged looking people gathered surrounding them with dark expressions.

Luciana rolled her eyes. "Well, ain't tha' jus great." She huffed and Sebastian sighed annoyed by the circumstance, 100% agreeing with her.

"A noble eh?" The man grabbed hold of Ciel's clothes. "Pay me consolation money! Strip off everything you have!"

The boy slapped the man's hand away with an irritated expression. "Sebastian. Take care of this."

"As you wish."

The group raged, complaining about all the things done to them. It made Luciana sigh. As sad as it was such was colonial rule- but to take their frustration out on a child? That was just wrong. Before anything could start they were interrupted by two well-dressed foreigners. "Um, so we're looking for someone. Have any of you seen a woman who looks like this?" The younger of the two held up a drawing, not at all minding the atmosphere. 'Talk about dense...' Luciana was speechless.

Thank you for reading!
I apologize if the last chapter was a bit boring or nonsensical, it was more or less a filler to help set up a few things.