HI AGAIN! Wow three chapters already. The last one might have been a little bit of a filler chapter, but I just wanted for to see Cat's past a little bit. And she's Ciel's sister! Yay! I didn't do an authors note at the end of the last one so I'm sorry about that. But yeah. Thank you so much to my first reviewer who reviewed while I was typing the second chapter, Small Aqua Phantomhive! And yes the quote is from Ouran High School Host Club! Woohoo to NightmareOnElmStreetFan! I love that enough of me on to the story, wait…Grell disclaimer!
Grell: Arthur doesn't own anything!
I must have looked very surprised because he enveloped me in a hug. Then as quickly and abruptly as it came he left, coughing awkwardly and instructing me to go bed soon. Then he turned tail and left. Sebastian watched him leave shaking his head at him.
"I apologize for the young master, he doesn't seem to be able to handle his feelings, or how to react. After all he thought you dead for over 7 years now. I hope you have a pleasant sleep, I shall wake you up tomorrow morning for breakfast." I got in to bed thinking wow. My whole life I had lived in the streets or in that god awful orphanage, only to find out that I belonged to one of the richest families in England. Yay me!
Ciel's POV
"I can't believe it!" I commented to Sebastian as he helped me prepare for bed. "My own sister living on the streets for years in my very own city! Wait… I almost killed my own sister this morning!" I exclaimed. Sebastian snickered. "What are you laughing at?" I snapped.
"Nothing sir," he responded humbly, "but I don't think I've ever seen you show that much of an emotion other than anger before." Jerk I thought but I was really amazed that she was alive. I knew that the hiding spot I put her was good, but not THAT good. And she had the other half of the hope diamond. That sealed the deal for me. Had Sebastian known all along? He had seemed to be studying her all day.
"Sebastian, did you know she was my sister from the moment you saw her?" I was generally curious, but Sebastian was a demon, how would he know, if he was a reaper maybe, but a demon?
"No I didn't, but when she opened her eyes and they were that lovely blue color your eyes were I thought maybe, it was then I started noticing all the similarities between you two, and also why I was so interested in her past." He responded and I knew he was telling the truth. "She's very pretty sir, just like you when you were a girl, but she has that soft voice you couldn't seem to possess during the Jack the Ripper case." I had a feeling he was going to ask me some sort of question because he approached me carefully like one might cross a hibernating bear.
"Sir, is she going to continue to live with us?" ah that's what the question was then,…pause…
"Of course she's going to continue to live with us! She's my long lost, or so we thought, sister! And why in the world would you ask such a boneheaded question?" Sebastian backed away.
"It was only a question, and we need to teach her how to be a part of society, a lady, how to behave-"
I cut him off-"Yes we will have to do that, or more precisely you will, and under our contract you said you would protect that last of the Phantomhives, originally that was me, but my sister is a Phantomhive as well, and therefore it is your job to protect Catherine as well as me. Are you prepared to take this job on as well?" I asked my eyes, (well eye) glinting dangerously, though im sure the one under my eyepatch was doing the exact same thing.
Sebastian bowed, "Yes my Lord." He responded predictably. "I am actually quite interested in getting to know your sister. She is tough and was too young to know the loss of your parents, meaning she has a personality!" he exclaimed in a way that irked me.
"What are you suggesting?" I asked narrowing my eye.
"I am simply suggesting that she doesn't have the horrible memories you have and will in turn not be saddened by said memories which she doesn't have , which will make her a considerably happier person than you are young master." He added the young master part as if I'd be slightly less offended if he did so. I was still quite offended, before Sebastian wisely changed the subject. "Catherine Phantomhive." He spoke her name out loud. "It has a nice ring to it and now she has a surname, how wonderful for her to finally know where she belongs, and who she belongs to."
"Catherine Juliet Phantomhive." I said under my breath. I hadn't said her full name in a very long time, in fact it was very rare that my thoughts wandered to her. I thought of my dead family often, just not specifically my sister. I ruled her as dead for as long as I remember, when I was captured by that cult I knew that she was as good as dead. I never thought that by some miracle she survived, and now here she was again, after eight years of being dead she came back from the grave and is now living with me. This morning I had no family, and all of a sudden I was an older brother again, by blood not even adoption but blood.
"What was that?" Sebastian asked. My lips turned up into what can be considered the smallest smile in all of history.
"Catherine Juliet Phantomhive." I repeated once more. "That's her middle name, Juliet. I loved the name, I felt it fit her well, much better than my middle name."
"Yes, Juliet is a lovely name for her. What IS your middle name?" he asked.
"As if I'd tell you." I remarked. "You know Sebastian, I think that, as much as you can scare me sometimes, I want you to teach my little sister. I don't want some random governess to teach her." He nodded as if he agreed.
"I would be completely honored to do so, maybe her feminine qualities would help her with the violin." He added the last part in spite of me. What was this? Pick on a young Earl day? I would never know so I dropped it.
"Get out Sebastian. I need to rest." I just wanted time alone to think about my sister and all the things I got to do with her now that she was back involved in my life.
"As you wish master." Sebastian said, then he blew out his candelabra and left. I got under my bed covers and thought to myself. Wow now I'm an older brother. Not just that but her sole guardian as well. And then another more discerning thought passed my mind as I drifted off to sleep. That thought was 'Shit, how in the world am I supposed to do this." On that happy note I finally fell asleep, the first sleep in months that was not plagued with nightmares of the fire.
Magical time skip!
Catherine's POV
I woke up warm and wrapped in something as soft as a cloud. I jumped out of bed ready to freak out. I know, I know, it's sad when you wake up in comfort and think something is wrong for that reason. I couldn't get myself back to sleep so I figured I'd wander Ciel's estate a little bit, it's your estate too, a giddy voice in the back of my brain reminded me. Isn't that crazy I thought. Yesterday you were stealing bread from the baker to cling to life, and today you're the part-owner of the Funtom company! Yes, it was amazing and crazy and purely wonderful, but I was still rather uncomfortable with the whole heiress deal. I wasn't even fit to be a servant in a place like this granted I hadn't met them yet, but still. I wandered down a narrow staircase at the back of a hallway, and ran smack into who I guessed was a maid, judging by her uniform. She had this awkward purple hair that stuck out behind her cap, and a HUGE pair of glasses. They were so thick I couldn't see her eyes. She dropped her laundry upon impact. I apologized immediately and profusely, repeating "Oh my goodness I'm so sorry, at least over five times. I expected her to yell at me or box my ears or scold me or something, but to my great surprise she seemed to be apologizing just as much as me.
"I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed and then turned a cranberry red color. "Sebastian is always telling me to be more careful and watch where I'm walking, yes he does." She said in her high pitched broken cockney accent.
"It's okay mate," I said trying to get her to calm down. "It was my own fault after all, I was the one who ran into you." She smiled as if no one had ever told her it wasn't her fault before. We laughed at our own clumsiness and I admitted to being quite the klutz myself. "So if you don't mind, where exactly are we?" I asked.
"Oh! This is the servants passage, it goes to the kitchen." She smiled, when she wasn't apologizing she could be quite friendly.
"Thank you very much for that bit of information it's going to be very useful to me in the future. Are there any other servants down there?" she nodded. Oh this was good, it wouldn't be so awkward as it would be if it was only me and my brother, oh and Sebastian of course. "Could you introduce me to them please?"
She seemed pleased that someone cared, but it was going to be likely that I was going to become fast friends with all the servants. "Of course I can introduce you to the others!" she grabbed my hand leaving the laundry behind and pulled me running down the passage. We came in to the kitchen where I saw two other people one blond man with what I thought was a toothpick in his mouth, and another boy who looked much younger possibly around Ciel's age, or maybe even younger.
"THIS." She said pointing to the tall blond man, "is Bardroy." He smiled and said.
"There's no need to be so formal, everyone calls me Bard," He extended his hand to shake which I took, thinking to myself he has a very strong grip. "I'm the chef!" his smile glinted. He seemed incredibly proud of his title .
"THAT," she said pointing to the boy next to Bard. "is Finnian."
"Pleased to meet you Miss, but please call me Finny." He shook my hand as well, though for someone half the size of Bard, he had a grip that was 10 times as strong. And he squeezed too, which made it a lot worse.
"Nice to meet you too Finny." I smiled gritting my teeth in pain, perhaps the boy didn't know his own strength.
"Finny!" Bard exclaimed. "Let go of the poor girl's 'and! You're cuttin' off 'er circulation!" Finny dropped my hand like a hot potato.
"I'm so sorry!" he exclaimed looking like he was about to cry.
"It's fine really!" I insisted, "Look the color is already starting to come back." He sniffled.
"You mean you're not going to yell at me?" I shook my head no. He let out a breath.
"He's the gardener." The girl with the glasses added once my hand's color had completely turned to normal. "I'm Mey-rin, I'm the maid." She added finally introducing herself.
"I'm Catherine, but please call me Cat."
"If you dot mind me askin' Cat, who are you and what exactly are you doin' here?" Bard asked in the politest way he could.
Finny elbowed him in the side, "That's the girl the master almost killed accidentally." Then he muttered under his breath (there seems to be a lot of that in this house) "You don't forget a face like hers." Just then Sebastian burst through the door .
"Bard, you didn't blow up the kitchen this morning, good for you, Finny, I need you to finish weeding the garden, but be careful please, and Mey-rin, what happened to the laundry you were supposed to do? And Catherine… what are you doing down here?" This was the Sebastian I had expected, with his little pocket watch and obsession with being on time.
"I was only getting myself acquainted with the staff." I whispered hoping he wouldn't be mad at me. "You aren't mad are you?" I asked quietly.
"No, I'm not, but your brother is waiting at the breakfast table, awaiting your arrival, so why don't you head on up?" I obeyed smiling at the thought of continuing to be able to spend my meals with my brother. Perhaps now I wouldn't be so alone.
Servant's point of view or maybe Tanaka's he's here somewhere I assume
"Eh' Sebastian!" Bard exclaimed, "What do you mean Cat's brother was up there?" he asked scratching his head. Sebastian let out an exasperated sigh.
"Catherine's brother? Your employer? Also known as Ciel Phantomhive? We really don't have time for this right now Bard." Finny sighed in the background.
"Ahhh….she's lovely, and so polite too." Sebastian snapped.
"Finny, garden now, it needs to look presentable. We work the Phantomhive's after all." Then the wondrous butler managed to make a full breakfast for the two Phantomhive heirs and have left overs for the three fools to snack on. (Three fools referring to Bard, Finny, and Mey-rin if you didn't know XD) Breakfast went immensely well in Sebastian's personal opinion. No explosions, (though he had taken Bard's job for him) and no demon hound attacks,(he thought that the dog was asleep, honestly he sleeps like Ciel would if he could) After clearing away the breakfast dishes, Sebastian took Cat upstairs to try to find her something to wear,
I have to change POV'S again so sorry
Catherine's POV
The three of us, Ciel, Sebastian and I all trooped into Ciel's room to find me something to wear because apparently I can't run around in my pajamas. Darn. Anyways Sebastian walked into the very back of Ciel's seemingly never ending closet. To my surprise when he returned he was carrying a dress! A pink dress with black stripes and a matching hat. My personal question would be why the hell does my older brother have a pink dress in his closet. Why does he have a dress in his closet period? But I figured I really didn't want to know. Ciel shuddered as if the dress brought up bad memories. Sebastian then handed me the dress and instructed me to try it on. I did so, I was baggy, as I'm only eight years old, but Sebastian fixed it with pins and said it would fit just fine if we hemmed it. The dress was really pretty and soft. I had never worn something so elegant in my life. Somehow though I felt immensely out of place. I belong outside in the street, running from the cops as awful as it may sound, I didn't belong in here wearing dresses in an elegant manor with servants for god's sake to wait on me.
"Sebastian, may I please take this off now?" I asked hoping to change into my shorts so I could go outside and maybe do a little gardening with Finny. He seemed to like my company, and I wanted to make sure he didn't think I was mad at him for squishing my hand earlier.
"No, I'm sorry Catherine, but you need to learn about acting in society, we can't just leave you here every time there's and event somewhere. Now you have to learn how to walk first. Let us begin" He then proceeded to pull the biggest book I had ever seen out of no where. There were many things that I wondered about but simply did not ask fearing the answer.
Several hours later I had learned, to walk (though I felt I had a stick up my ass), make polite conversation (EVEN THOUGH I DON'T CARE) and even worse, how to stay silent in times of need. Finally when Sebastian let me have a break I was sweating and puffing in the heat of the dress. I sat down nest to Ciel who was reading a book.
"Does he work you this hard?" I asked.
"Yes, but I've been working at this since I was young, so you might have a harder time since your brand new at this." We sat there in a semi-comfortable silence until we heard a door bang open and a high pitched girly squeal of,
"CIEL!WHERE ARE YOU SILLY?" Sebastian and Ciel looked at each other in a moment of understanding. And then Ciel rushed off to meet the demands of whoever had just intruded into the house. Sebastian then walked after him not going quite as fast as Ciel did. I foowed Sebastian and hid behind a pillar at the top of the stairs.
"Oh Ciel! It's so good to see you! I hope you've been doing well, Wait, Ciel who is that girl who's hiding behind the pillar! I demand an answer now!"
Oh crud Cat's been spotted the next episode will have a lot of Lizzie. That'll be hard because there is a certain level of cute when it changes into annoying well ttfn ta ta for now!