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I'M SOO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING SOONER! I am not even going to try and give you guys a reason, cause I don't have one, really. Yes, my extreme laziness. All I had to do was upload one little chapter. Me: meh bored *puts on music again*. (at least test week is over…but my teachers have already planned more tests, projects, homework and more things that will keep me from writing D; )
Sorry, guys. Well, so this chapter will be about our furious passionate red reaper. I've already told you the chapters of this fanfic follow the thoughts of one person. And Grell refers to herself as a woman. You'll see what I mean by that. Enjoy!
Grell Sutcliff
Chapter 4
Grell's heart was burning with the desire to jump on Sebastian from behind. She was following the butler inside the Phantomhive mansion. His brat had called him inside and Grell simply followed, whilst holding the little ginger kitty. The black butler didn't seem to have anything against it. Grell found herself the luckiest maiden in the world. What began as a stupid assignment, ended up in her advantage. The soul William and Terry had been after was the one of a certain Vena Oxley. First Grell had visited the Undertaker to gather information about the victim. Undertaker had offered her a cup of tea, which she gladly accepted. After that she had to read all those boring documents about that Vena Oxley lady. Her soul had not been reaped so Grell had to watch the Cinematic Records of her family. But apparently miss Oxley hadn't had any contact with her family for at least a year. So she moved on to her friends. Most of her friends were still alive, though, so it took a lot of time to read all those half-finished Cinematic Records. Eventually she found out that Vena had recently visited the Phantomhive mansion. That had alerted Grell. It was quite odd that an ordinary lady like Vena had ended up at the Phantomhives, especially since nobody had ever spoken of any connection between her and the Earl in their Records before. So Grell had decided to do some more "field work", and by that, she meant investigating. She had come across a kitty in a tree on her way to the Phantomhives, so she had decided to take the little cat with her. At the mansion Sebastian had first tried to kill her and after that he had offered her a cup of Earl Grey. She had already proven herself lucky with that offer, and now she had even more time with her Sebby. Oh, this was going to be great!
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Neither of them spoke as they made their way through the large mansion. They entered the Earl's office. The first thing Grell saw was that Lau was standing in the corner, watching the scene in front of him. He looked quite amused. Ciel himself was sitting in the chair behind his desk, with to people standing in front of him. One of them had a turban and one of his hands was packed in slim bandages. The other was a little bit smaller, he was more of a boy, really. He had purple hair which was in a loose ponytail at the back of his head. Both were wearing quite strange clothes, as if they were from a different country. They were both looking at their feet uncomfortably, and seemed quite embarrassed. Ciel, on the other hand, was looking at them in a way that was nearly frightening. Grell could swear that she saw his eye twitch.
'Ah,' Sebastian said. 'I see our…colleagues have returned.' Suddenly Sebastian was standing behind Ciel. Grell didn't know how he managed to do that, she only knew that, in her opinion, it made Sebastian even hotter. Mostly because he was busy with his master right now, and Grell would have all the time of the world to properly check him out.
'So,' Ciel said, almost completely concealing the anger in his voice, 'what you're trying to say, is that you haven't caught our…culprit, because of some curry…'
'Looks like it would have been better to leave this to me instead of them, in the end,' Lau commented, smirking a little.
'Young master,' Sebastian began, but he was suddenly interrupted by the boy with the purple hair.
'I'M SO SORRY, CIEL! I RUINED EVERYTHING!' he cried. Tears were rolling down his cheeks and he was grasping his hair as he fell to his knees while crying.
'Bocchan,' Sebastian said, but he was interrupted again by the man with the turban.
'OH MASTER, YOU HAVE SUCH A KIND HEART, APOLOGIZING TO THE EARL!' he cried and hugged the boy with the purple hair from behind. Within a second, the two were whining in each other's arms.
'ENOUGH!' Ciel shouted, interrupting the weeping men. 'Soma, I demand an explanation.' Ciel was now radiating pure anger.
'Well,' the boy with the purple hair, which Grell assumed was Soma, said, 'we were following the man you wanted us to follow. We had already followed him for six days, and nothing special had happened, really. We even looked through his paperwork, as you asked. He was a regular man. And so on the sixth evening, I was quite hungry. It was about eleven o'clock, and I hadn't eaten curry for a while. I thought we could leave mister Cratchit for a while. So Agni prepared me some curry in an alleyway, and we came across some beggars, so we decided to help them. We left him for about forty minutes, and when we came back…he was lying dead in an alleyway.'
'We tried our best,' the other man said, which was probably Agni. 'We knew his planning for the day, but his visit to the alleyway wasn't scheduled. I guess nobody would plan their death, but to just randomly walk into an alleyway…it sure is strange.'
Ciel sighed and made a shoo-gesture with his hand. 'Go find yourself something to do. I'll contact you if I need you to…help me again.' Soma and Agni left the room, quiet and ashamed. Then Ciel seemed to notice Grell. Grell waved. She didn't get a response. Instead Ciel gestured that Sebastian had to bend over. He whispered something in his ear. It was quite the monologue, and when Ciel had finished, Sebastian had a smirk on his face. Grell didn't know what was about to happen, but she liked it already.
'Master Sutcliff,' Sebastian said. Grell woke up from her pleasant daydreams about Sebastian, not expecting him to call her name in a situation like this. Unless they wanted her to leave. But that was not Sebastian's intention. 'Can you please follow me?'
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Grell felt absolutely gorgeous in her passionate, dark red dress. It was a longer gown, off-shoulder with a ribbon at the back, and a lot of underskirts. She was still wearing her coat, though. Together with her red high heels and red gloves, the actress was ready for her performance. Her long red hair was tied together in an elegant knot. Grell was really excited for this part. Not only because it involved her dress, but also because Sebastian had something to do with it. Mostly because Sebastian had something to do with it.
'You're alias will be Gwen Sullivan,' Sebastian explained her once more. Grell already knew what she had to do, but that didn't mean she didn't like hearing the voice of the tall, handsome butler. Sebastian had explained it at least four times, apparently his brat had ordered him to make everything as clear as possible. 'You will be wandering through London for six days, we've already arranged everything. You have to act like a noble would.'
'I know how to play my part, Sebby-chan, darling,' Grell said, 'and no matter how much I love to hear your voice, I don't need acting lessons from you.'
All of a sudden a short memory flashed through her head.
"'If you have found the beast we're looking for, immediately call for extra forces. You won't survive a fight with that thing on your own,' Clive said, looking her in the eye strictly. Grell had simply nodded and promised that she would call the office once she had found the culprit."
Grell debated with herself. Was it necessary to call the office, or not? Ah well, Grell thought, Sebastian will be there to save me if necessary, I really don't have to give Clive's secretary more work!
'Very well,' Sebastian said, returning Grell to the real world. 'On the sixth day, we will be following you. You have to ignore us, because you are a regular mortal…woman, and you shouldn't be able to see us.'
'Ah, but Sebasu-chan, then please sit somewhere where I can look at you without it looking strange! Otherwise I won't be able to persist!' Grell, who had been sitting on a chair in the dressing room, suddenly jumped up and charged towards Sebastian. She wanted him, she wanted his skin on hers, she needed the love. One passionate kiss…one hot night…was all she desired. For now.
Sebastian simply stepped aside, making Grell crash into the wardrobe, which nearly ruined her perfect hair.
'My, my,' Sebastian commented. 'That wasn't very ladylike. Are you sure you don't need acting lessons?'
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Grell was sitting in a carriage. It was the sixth day and near midnight. Sebasu-chan had arranged that she would be riding with a carriage through London for the whole evening of the sixth day. Sebastian and Ciel were following her like a shadow. She had seen them a couple of times that day, although they were hiding pretty well, and, only because she was a Shinigami, she could sometimes see a pair of red or blue eyes staring at her. The red ones made her heart beat faster every time she saw them. It had been extremely hard for her to persist, but she had managed to remain Gwen Sullivan.
The carriage stopped. Grell stepped out of the carriage.
'Why have we stopped?' she asked. The driver was not sitting where he was supposed to sit. He was inspecting the wheel. The horses in front of the carriage were tapping with their hooves on the pavers nervously.
'The wheel broke,' the driver said. 'One of the beams is off. We can't go on until I fix this. We should be able to ride again in about ten minutes. I'm very sorry, my lady.'
'It is fine,' Grell said, while she turned around to enter the carriage again, but her eyes fell on a pair of red eyes in an alleyway. It must be Sebastian, she thought. He should really hide himself better. Even a regular mortal can see him like this.
Then she got an idea. 'I am a regular mortal,' Grell whispered. She closed the door of the carriage without entering, and walked towards the eyes. Gwen should be able to see this, Grell thought, and who wouldn't want to find out to which handsome man those eyes belong? At first she walked slowly, watching her steps so that she wouldn't stumble over her dress, but eventually Grell charged towards the red eyes, right into the dark alleyway. Though she realized that it wasn't Sebastian that was standing in front of her, when it was already too late to turn back.
I know I am mean, leaving you all on a cliffhanger. And I don't know when I will be uploading the next chapter either! I must be the worst fanfiction updater in the whole world. I rewrote this part as well, because it wasn't very clear what had happened in between the time that we last saw Grell in the first chapter with Ronald and this point, which is actually supposed to happen just after the prologue;). Confusing, I know. So now Grell knows about the existence of Soma and Agni. Did he know about them before? I don't know. I don't remember them meeting, at least. Not that it really matters. I hope it will be a little easier to understand how the Shinigami and the Phantomhives "teamed up". Basically Grell chasing after Sebby again. I know, I'm horribly disappointed, too. You'll see what happens in the next chapter. Please tell me how horrible I am by doing all this to you guys! You'll probably hate the next chapter. It's more Hurt in the next one, by the way. Is to be expected, really, after an ending like this one. Oh, and I've got a lot of inspiration for other Black Butler fanfictions as well, so those will be written and uploaded as soon as possible! I'm going to bed now… so tired, I first had to make a test at school and after that I had some kind of special sports day. And, to cap it all, my mom decided to take me shopping afterwards. It's now nearly 10PM over here, and normally I wouldn't be so tired this early, but now I'm completely dead right now. Please tell me what you think of this fanfic so far! Look forward to the next chapter although it will probably be horrible! Thank you so much for all the views!
