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"I am Isabelle Phantomhive." I said, looking at him calmly. Ciel looked like he was about to pass out or throw up, Sebastian, however, didn't believe it.

"How can you be a Phantomhive, Reaper?" He asked, barely keeping the acid out of his tone.

I rolled my eyes. "That answer should be obvious, shouldn't it? I was born human then was turned into a Reaper a few months ago. That is also why I wasn't able to find Ciel sooner." I replied simply. "Now, as much as I would love to stay and chat some more, I'm afraid I still have work to do." I looked down at Ciel. "I'll come by when I get the chance and answer any questions you have for me, alright?" I ruffled his hair lightly then disappeared to finish the days work.

Once I was far enough away, still on my way to the next person I had to collect, a tall man with slicked back hair in a suit landed in front of me. I stopped, not really surprised from the suddenness of it.

"Hello there, William."

"Isabelle, what is it you are doing?" He asked, pushing his glasses up with his death scythe. I simply looked up at him.

"I was currently heading to the next soul for today."

"Stop kidding around. You know what I mean."

I sighed. "I /was/ doing just that when I spotted my brother in town, but when I tried to disappear before he saw me, that damn butler of his showed up, preventing me from doing so. So, naturally, I went ahead and confronted him."

This time, it was him who sighed. "You know you weren't supposed to do that. Especially not while on duty."

I merely rolled my eyes. "I know that, but there was no chance of him letting me leave until I did, anyway, and you already knew before you changed me that I was looking for him. You even said you would approve of it as long as I didn't slack off."

I almost smiled at the look he gave me. I could tell his composure was close to breaking, and took a good deal of pride in the fact that I was the one able to make that happen. "Just finish your rounds for today before you do anything else. Unless you want to end up like Grell."

My eyes widened at this. "Oh goodness, no, don't even kid like that! I have nightmares about that sometimes.."

His mouth twitched slightly at the corner, forming a slight smile for a split second. "Then get back to work."

"Yes sir!" I replied before running off.

~Ciel's PoV~

We had just returned to the manor and I was sitting at my desk in the study, just staring down at it blankly while deep in thought about the events in town today.

~Flashback~

We had just finished talking with the Scotland Guard and were walking back to the carriage when I thought I spotted a familiar face. Before I could see it clearly, the person had quickly disappeared into a nearby alley way. "Sebastian, this is an order, stop that person from getting away!"

"Yes, my lord." He replied with a bow of his head before disappearing to the alley in a flash. I hurried there, knowing I could never be as fast as Sebastian, and once I appeared in the alley way, a girl stumbles into the light a few feet away from me, seeming to be recovering from some form of blow from Sebastian. I stopped to catch my breath, gasping slightly, and, upon hearing me, the girl turned around to face me and my breath hitched as I felt the color drain from my face.

"I... Isabelle..!?" I gasped in shock, not fully believing what I was seeing. She sighed and leaned against the wall of the alley.

"Hello again, Ciel..." She replied, looking resigned.

"H.. How are you alive..!? You were supposed to be dead..!" I yelled, my mind seeming to refuse to comprehend what was happening.

She raised an eyebrow at me, a look of disbelief on her face before replying. "Where did you ever hear that I was dead? I disappeared for a few years, sure, but I never saw anything that said I was dead."

Apparently seeing how I was struggling to form any further coherent questions at this point, Sebastian decided to step in.

"Pardon me, but technically, you really are dead, are you not, Miss?" He asked kindly, keeping his cool as always. Isabelle gave Sebastian a dark look that I've never seen her give anyone before. "Not as dead as you are, demon."

Hearing this, I felt as though I might faint right there on the spot. "Y.. You know he's a demon...?"

She looked back over at me, her dark look disappearing. "Of course I do." She replied. "I'm... Not exactly human anymore. I was turned into a Shinigami. And I must say, I'm not very happy with the idea of you selling your soul, either, no matter what it was for." I felt sick to my stomach hearing her say this. "But.. Mother and Father..."

"Are both gone, I know, but that didn't mean you had to sell your soul to a demon for revenge." She replied, throwing an icy look in Sebastian's direction again. At this, I managed to snap out of the shock enough to start a witty comment. "Look, just because you don't like demons-"

She cut me off. "This has nothing to do with my natural dislike of demons. It has everything to do with, however, me not wanting my /little brother/ to die much before his time because of some stupid want of revenge!" She snapped, obviously loosing her temper for a moment.

"Excuse me, but did you just call my master your 'little brother'?", Sebastian intervened again, standing slightly more in front of me, though he seemed quite confused at this turn of events. So the mighty Sebastian finally doesn't know something.. I thought inwardly before noticing Isabelle's dark look toward Sebastian. She seemed to have a small battle go on in her head for a moment, but then snapped back to reality quickly enough to make me wonder if she really had or not.

"Yes, I did, because he is my little brother, and I have been looking for him for the past three years, and have been watching him from a distance on my time off the past week." She replied coolly.

So it was her that was watching me all those times I felt like someone was..? Sebastian's eyes narrowed considerably, obviously not liking where this was going very much. "Who are you, exactly?" He asked.

"I am Isabelle Phantomhive." She replied, matter-of-factly.

~End of Flashback~

I sighed and put my head on my arms that were resting on top of my desk and closed my eyes. A few minutes later, there was a light knock on the door. "Master," Sebastian's voice came from the other side, "Miss Isabelle has returned as she said she would to answer any questions you might have for her."

I snapped my head up and quickly leaned back into my chair, regaining the composure I had lost at the earlier encounter.

"Right. Come on in, then."

And there you have it~! :P I thought it would be fitting to have what was going through Ciel's mind during the encounter with Isabelle.~ So. I have a little thing that any of you young readers can do.~ In the review section, leave any questions at all you would personally like to have Ciel ask Isabelle in the next chapter! ^_^ I have a few in mind, of course, but I do like to know what others think or want to know from time to time.~ So, leave your review with any question you like, and I promise I will read each and every one and try to answer them in the next chapter! ^^ Have a good day.~