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"ALOIS!" Ciel screamed, rushing forward so suddenly that she forced Sebastian to step back.

Alois gurgled on the floor while blood seeped out of his wound and Ciel hurried to press down on the injury with her delicate hands, turning her head towards her butler.

"What have you done?!" Ciel shrieked at Sebastian, her sapphire eyes wide with shock and horror, "What have you done, Sebastian?!?!"

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The Trancy-Phantomhive wedding was postponed, though the guests were quite disgruntled.

Alois was quickly bandaged and put into bed, but Ciel feared for his life.

Throughout the night, the bluenette sat vigilantly at the blonde's bedside while he slept restlessly, his skin pale and his face gaunt.

Too pale……

Too gaunt……

When Alois started to shiver underneath the heavy bed covers, Ciel feared that a fever was setting in and it was only then that she rose and left the room in search of Sebastian or Claude.

Ciel had demanded that a doctor be called immediately after Alois received his injury, but the physician hadn't arrived yet and Ciel was growing impatient as Alois's condition worsened.

Waking down the hallway, Ciel blinked as she heard Sebastian's voice coming from the kitchen.

But as the bluenette drew closer, she narrowed her eyes when she heard Claude's voice in the same room……

Pausing outside the kitchen door for a moment, Ciel took the time to listen before she went any further.

"So arrogant, Michaelis, and yet, you failed to seduce Ciel Phantomhive and managed to blunder Alois Trancy's murder in the same night." Claude said mockingly.

Ciel's eyes widened as she listened.

"I would have been successful if your master would not have interfered. I was just about to finish my conquest when he came barging through the window. I remember we both agreed that he wouldn't die yet, but I had no choice, I wasn't about to let the wretch murder me." Sebastian glowered.

Ciel put a hand over her mouth and backed up, waking down the hallway with shaking legs.

Nauseating reality set in, passing through the bluenette's mind in the form of epiphany after epiphany.

Sebastian really was……

Sebastian really was working against her, along with Claude.

Ciel knew then that Sebastian wanted her for himself, he didn't care about her goals, or her desires, or really, her well-being.

Those things only mattered to Sebastian as long as they suited his own selfish interests……

Ciel was not surprised about Claude, she had never thought very highly of Alois's beloved servant.

Though she did depend on Sebastian a great deal….

Ciel was walking down to the cellar before she could stop herself.

Her father had made her promise long ago when she was very young that she would never…...

But what choice did she have?

Alois lay injured and she was trapped in her manor alone with two predators who were stronger and craftier than her.

Looking behind herself before she dialed the number on the telephone, Ciel cleared her throat when it started to ring.

"Hello~?" A voice answered, "Finest mortuary shop in England, how may I…..be of service today~?"

"...Undertaker?" Ciel asked in a voice barely above a whisper.

"Why! Am I speaking to Earl Phantomhive~? Hehe~." Undertaker's voice chuckled on the other end of the phone.

"You are, yes. e right away. I need a lot of help." Ciel explained quietly.

"Hmm, that's a lot to ask, Earl…...~." Ciel heard the smirk in Undertaker's voice, "Surely you remember that I don't work for free~."

"You will though." Ciel said confidently.

"Oh~?" Undertaker chuckled, "And why is that~?"

"Because I know how you really are." Ciel called out stiffly, as if she were reciting a hidden password.

Undertaker was quiet for a moment on the other end and then he asked, the humor gone from his voice, "...Who am I?"

"You're Cedric Ross, Vincent Phantomhive's father." Ciel boldly spoke, clutching her chest while her heart accelerated from anxiety.

Ciel heard a click and her eyes widened.

"Undertaker?" Ciel asked, pulling on the phone cord, "Undertaker?!?!"

Ciel sighed and hung up when no answer came.

Surely it was true, why would her father have lied to her as a child?

Perhaps she had remembered it wrong…….

Ciel walked back up the stairs but her eyes widened when she opened the door to the room Alois was in and saw Undertaker standing by his bed.

"Hello, Earl Phantomhive~." Undertaker grinned.

"Hello, grandfather." Ciel said with her chin lifted high.

"Tell me, how can I be of help?" Undertaker smiled.

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"You just had a rough night, didn't you my darling?" Alois cooed with a happy smile, patting the blonde baby's back who lay snuggled on his chest.

"Him? What about us?" Ciel asked with a surly glare as she watched her husband gently bounce their little baby in his arms.

"He didn't mean any harm, he just needed mummy and daddy." Alois smiled at the baby, who cooed up at his father, "Didn't you, Luka?"

Alois and Ciel had married in secret over a year ago.

Undertaker had swept them out of Phantomhive manor right under Sebastian and Claude's noses, temporarily removing their souls from their bodies and claiming his lineage to Ciel gave the Shinigamis an irrevocable right to them both.

Sebastian and Claude had gotten into an awful spat with each other while Undertaker packed Alois and Ciel into coffins and pulled them out of the house, taking them back to his shop where he revived them.

Saving his granddaughter though he had failed to save his son, Undertaker saw that Alois and Ciel were smuggled out of the country and after several months rolled by, he was even able to send the fortunes of the Trancy and Phantomhive families to the young couple.

Alois and Ciel started to live as common people, hiding out so Sebastian and Claude wouldn't find them.

The newlyweds shared a small cottage along the French coast until a couple of months ago, when they had welcomed little Luka into their family.

Ciel and Alois had both relied on Sebastian and Ciel in their own ways and though they missed their servants, they were happy to be able to live out their lives peacefully and with each other.

The baby whimpered and Ciel reached out as Alois laid him carefully in her arms.

Alois smiled softly as he watched Luka cuddle against Ciel while the bluenette looked down fondly at her son.

"I love you, my dears~." Alois whispered, kissing the baby's cheek first, then Ciel's lips.

"We love you too, Jim." Ciel replied, kissing her husband back.

When it was safe one day, perhaps Alois and Ciel would return to England, but for the time being they were content the way they were, finding what they had both lost.

Love and family.