"A cruise?"
"Yes, my lord, a cruise."
Earl Ciel Phantomhive, now age 16, stared at the ticket in his hand. "But it's only one. Do you have your own already?"
"No, young master. Mey-Rin thought it would be good for you to be on your own for this adventure. Soon you will be walking your path with Lady Elizabeth," he paused and smiled. "And of course I will always be by your side."
The teenager looked at his butler in skepticism. "But not this time."
"I will always know how you are doing, my lord," Sebastian said, meeting his master's eyes meaningfully. "If any harm comes to you, I will be there in flash."
"Why now? I mean I think Greenland would be lovely in its perpetual winter, but why now?"
"I thought you should get away before your life is even more full," Mey-Rin said, entering the room with plates of cake. "I found it in the ice box," she said, meeting Sebastian's wondering gaze. "It needs to be eaten."
The young master eagerly took the piece and smiled at Sebastian as he sat smugly in his chair. "I think a cruise on my own will be exactly what I need. These past few months have been so crazy, and I think leaving you all for a few weeks may give you some more perspective on each of your positions."
Sebastian smirked back at his young master. "I think Mey-Rin and I have established our positions quite well. And Mey-Rin informed me last night that Baldroy may have some new directions to place his emotions."
"All is needed to get Finny to calm down from running through the fields for him to settle down too."
Mey-Rn smiled, "I think, young master, you will always have Finny galloping through the manor grounds for a very long time."
"Well," the earl said, sitting back as he licked his fork, "at least I have a great babysitter when Lizzie and I have children." His eyes flicked up quickly and Mey-Rin stopped him from an apology. He smiled a bit and added, "Our houses will be full of laughter… someday."
Sebastian smiled softly at his wife, and then looked at his young master. "Someday."
Four days later, the household all went to the docks and waved their young master farewell for his two weeks away. He would spend a week at sea, and a week in the London town house, being looked after by Agni and Soma, although he wasn't expecting them. Sebastian had scolded Mey-Rin when she wrote to them, saying the young master would be cross with both of them. She had simply gotten up and took the riding crop and presented it to him, smiling.
The pair took a room in the sea-side town and laid in bed, listening to the others quiet breaths.
"Sebastian?"
"Yes, my love."
"In less than two months we will be at our one year deadline."
"I know."
"I don't know if I want to go to Hell and have another demon take me to eternity," she whispered, rolling into his side and looking up into his face. "But if getting pregnant is so difficult…"
"I will try until eternity takes us," he said, looking down at her and curling her body into his. "And you could be already."
She smiled and shook her head. "I don't want to get my hopes up."
"I love you. No matter what."
She kissed his shoulder and then his chin. "I love you too."
"I want to make love," he asked, a small blush creeping up.
"Oh, my dear, a request?"
He turned his head and looked her in the eyes. "I want nothing but just us taking the joy of being naked, under sheets, making love. Being a married couple, celebrating six months of marriage."
She slid on top of him and looked down at her hearts and body's protector. She placed her hands on his chest and relished the stiffening of his cock against her sex. Rocking she let him slip into her and they slowly worked all his cock deep into her sex, as they had done for over a year. His hands slid up her sides, watching as her breasts heaved and swayed as her body moved on his. Sebastian watched as her eyes closed and her movements became deeper, more demanding. He took over and his hands went back to her hips, pushing her down as he stroked up.
He watched as the familiar needs and hushed sounds filled the room as quietly as possible. His beloved was the woman he needed to slate his desires, but also to unlock the feelings, emotions, the human things inside his demon form. When he had decided to let his maid continue to trip into him and he continued to right her back on her feet. When he decided to stop dismissing her as she did her job poorly and decided to let a few things go, just clean up after her. When her touch suddenly stopped burning him and he started to crave them. As he craved her now. As he craved to have a baby grow in his beloved. As he craved a human-demon to spend eternity with him. As he craved…
He let his form go and he consumed her body as she continued to take him, now hard and fast. As he thrust into her, wrapped himself around her, came deep into her, making this … this… this time be it.
Mey-Rin silently screamed and he curled down her throat, feeling every inside and outside of his lover. Of the woman who he would take to the ends of the earth, to the ends of time.
And he laughed his demonic laugh at the void that was once inside him. So full of love and emotions that it no longer existed. He was what no one thought could exist - especially the wicked Michaelis whose pride at one point was how great his tortured souls tasted as he hastily went from contract to contract. Now, as he pulled back and held his lover, his maid, his beloved, he was whole.
A demon with a heart, with a soul, with a love for humanity!
