Hi guys! I went to see the Avenger's movie. I cracked up at the most serious parts. Me and my sister both. God we are so immature, but that's the fun of it I suppose. I'm so sorry that I had to hurt Cat, but hey something had to happen right? And yes those boys were jerks for picking on a little girl. Oh and just so you know I am still waiting for someone to guess where my username is from, though not the Ciel part obviously XD. The first person who figures it out and sends me a message pointing it out gets a virtual hug. Anyways here's another chapter and I think I have an idea of what's going to happen but I may still wing it yet. Please review! I appreciate it so much!
Finny: Arthur Ciel Kirkland doesn't own anything except for Ms. Cat (makes dreamy eyes)
Catherine's POV
My heart beat is all I heard in my ears. I was alive. That's not that surprising considering they used billy clubs, but I knew that if they used switchblade knives I could have been dead within minutes. I looked next to me, because I thought I heard something, someone breathing. It was Finny slumped over in a chair, sound asleep. Aww he stayed with me. I must have been asleep for sometime. Not wanting to wake Finny up, I attempted to move my leg to get up, but a jolt of pain shot up my leg and shuddered through my body. I cried out and Finny was alert and awake immediately, looking to me and asking me frantically if I was okay.
"I'm fine Finny," he looked relieved, "I'm just in a little pain." Okay that was a major lie I was in enough pain I could scream. Finny gazed down to the bedside table.
"The doctor left me with some medicine you could take if you were in a lot of pain."
"Yes, please." I nodded my head. I was getting desperate, having to grit my teeth as I talked, and bite my tongue to keep from crying out.
"Ok I'll get Sebastian." I caught on to his arm when he got up to leave.
"Why?" I asked.
"Well the medicine is given in an injection, and I'd… I'd rather not…" With that he turned tail and left the room. He came back with Sebastian telling me, "If you need me I'll be right outside."
"Catherine, this may hurt a bit, but the feeling of the shot will be nothing compared to the amount of relief you'll feel." He quickly injected the clear liquid into my arm, and as soon as he drew out the needle I felt myself begin to relax. (Can you guys guess the medicine? It's pretty easy)
"How long have I been asleep?" I asked I certainly wasn't bursting with energy, but I wasn't too tired.
"Oh around a day and a half." He shrugged.
"A day and a half! Are you kidding?" I asked, my eyes widening to the size of saucers. I felt like I was only asleep for a few hours.
"Cat, we're lucky you didn't go into a coma. I was very worried." He was worried about me? Before I was kind of used to people not caring if I lived or died but I'm not out there on my own any more, I have a group of people who care about me and love me, and I love them back.
"You were worried about me?" I asked looking up at the tall slim butler. He chuckled.
"We were all worried about you, me, Bard, Mey-rin, your brother, and especially Finny. He carried you all the way here, since then he's refused to leave your side even to eat." Finny carried me? And stayed with me while I slept for a whole day and a half!
"Really?" I leaned back running my right hand through my hair. Sebastian nodded.
"Well, I think you'll be wanting something to eat." He commented. Surprisingly I wasn't hungry at all, just very thirsty.
"No thank you Sebastian, but I was wondering if maybe I could have something to drink?"
"Of course." He bowed "What would you like. I thought for a moment, I knew that I wasn't hungry, but I still needed sustenance.
"Do we have milk?"
"Of course right away." He smiled and then walked out the door stopping only to tell Finny I was okay. Not two seconds later I heard a knock on my door.
"Cat? It's me can I come in?" Naturally it was Finny. I tucked a lock of my charcoal black hair behind my ear.
"Of course!" he walked in and closed the door. "So, um, I heard that you carried me home." I couldn't move, but if I could I'm sure I would have turned all the way around so Finny couldn't see my blushing face.
"Oh yes, but it was easy, but it's not like I thought you'd be heavy or anything, I would never think that...I mean…I always think of you in the highest." I blushed an even brighter red. He looked the same color as I was. We sat in silence, thank god for only a few seconds, because Sebastian came back with my tall glass of milk. After taking a long grateful sip, I asked Finny the even bigger question on my mind,
"Sebastian also told me that you stayed with me for the whole day and a half that I was asleep, did you really do that? You didn't have to do that just for me, I'm no one important." Finny jumped out of his chair.
"Don't you ever say you're not important!" He calmed down a little bit. "I mean you are, you are kind of a glue that holds us together. Mey-rin loves you, and Bard thinks you're just top notch, like what his little sister was like before she passed away, and you got Ciel to smile a little bit, he truly cares about you, and you should have seen Sebastian when he found out those lowlifes had hurt you, he loves you like a father. And then there's also me. I care about you….A lot. I don't know what I would do if you passed away." I motioned for him to come to my bedside, and engulfed him in a big hug, tears streaming down my face.
Magical time skip! 2 days later
My brother walked into my room accompanied by Sebastian,..and pretty much everyone else who lived in the mansion.
"Good morning Ciel." I said politely. He coughed delicately into his hand.
"Good morning Catherine, I thought that since you've been confined to bed for three days, perhaps you'd like to go outside this morning and spend the day with me?" was it just me or did he look uncomfortable?
"Yes!" I agreed quickly to going outside, after all I used to run around outside all day, and was definitely not used to being cooped up inside for long periods of time, much less be confined to bed.
Sebastian chuckled, "So eager to get outside little one." My face fell a bit realizing I wouldn't e able to run. "What's wrong?" Sebastian asked.
"It's just I won't be mobile, I can't run, I'll just have to sit there like, like, like…"
"A lady?" Ciel interrupted. Sebastian cast him a stern look.
"We have a wheelchair for you, that way you can move around, just be careful with your left shoulder so you don't accidentally dislocate it again." Oh thank god, I chose to ignore my older brother's coment. Finny picked me up as if I was no more than a rag doll, and carried me to a lovely looking wooden wheel chair. Then he took hold of the handles and pushed me outside the large kitchen doors.
"Oh Finny! You're garden is beautiful! Just look at those lilies!" he wheeled me closer to the aforementioned lovely white flowers.
"Would you like me to give you the garden tour?" he asked smiling in the sunlight.
"Oh yes please!" I exclaimed smiling just as brightly as Finny was he looked handsome outside in the sunlight where he belonged. Wait handsome? Where did that come from?
Meanwhile with Mey-rin and Bard…
"Oh look at those two! They look so adorable yes they do!" Mey-rin exclaimed to Bard. (More like in Bard's ear)
"Yeah… they do look nice together, but Finny couldn't make it more obvious that he's completely twitterpated with Cat."
"Twitterpated?" Mey-rin questioned.
"You know, in love, infatuated, has a great blooming crush on the girl. Mey-rin nodded understanding.
"But Cat doesn't seem to mind Finny's attention so she's as you say 'twitterpated' right back at him." Bard pulled out a cigarette and began to smoke.
"That's true….maybe I could try one of secret recipes on them…"
"NO! we want them to fall in love not die! No offense." Mey-rin responded.
"None taken." Bard grunted. "But I hope that Finny can stop acting like an idiot long enough for her to really fall in love with him." The two servants looked over at the young boy and the even younger girl, who were smiling laughing and even feeding birds out of their hands even if he didn't know where the hell they got the birdseed and he was an old war veteran who's whole platoon had been wiped out he still found young love, though he would never admit it, adorable, and one of life's greatest mysteries.
"I think that she's falling for him just as hard and fast as he is for her. I wonder if we can help get them together?" Mey-rin suggested.
"Maybe we can give them a little nudge." Bard agreed, "But we can't force it on them or else it wouldn't be true love." Now the man sounded like a hopeless romantic who still believed in true love. Mey-rin smiled.
"Okay Bard, we won't meddle too much just a nudge like you described. Besides, right now I think that they are doing just fine on their own by the look of it." The two servants looked over to the two kids that were running down the pathway at full speed. (Okay one of them was in a wheelchair but still, with Finny powering them they could go on for miles laughing and screaming.) Bard looked at the scene and couldn't help but smile a small happy smile on his face. Sebastian rang his bell announcing to everyone that it was time for lunch.
General POV at the lunch table
Finny and Cat were laughing when Finny pushed her up to her place at the table, between Ciel and Sebastian across from himself. Sebastian gave one look at the two children and tsked.
"Look at you two! You're filthy, go wash up this instant." Sebastian ordered pointing to the kitchen door. Cat was giggling until he gave her a stern fatherly look to which she stopped immediately and responded "Yes sir."
He smiled as he watched the two kids enter through the kitchen door. After inspecting their hands he permitted them to sit down, serving lemonade to everyone but Cat who he gave another cup of milk. They were all about to dig in when Cat, of all people stopped them.
"Do you need something Catherine?" Ciel asked.
"Oh no, I was just wondering if perhaps we could say grace before we ate." She asked meekly and politely. Ciel was considering declining when Sebastian accepted saying,
"That's a lovely idea Cat, we are after all a family, we should start saying grace more often." To that Ciel gaped and Cat smiled. "Young master, close your mouth, you'll catch flies." At once Ciel closed his mouth like a fish. "Would you do us the honors of saying grace Cat?" she nodded and bowed her head.
"Dear heavenly father, we thank you for the great meal Sebastian prepared for us, and for all the loving friends and family we have around this table. Amen."
"Amen." The rest of the table responded.
"Let us eat drink and be merry." Sebastian stated smiling one of his rare genuine smiles, that since Catherine's arrival, had become more and more frequent. Abruptly at the end of the meal, Bard got up and ran to the kitchen and came back with the most surprising think, a tin of cupcakes. Thank god no one ate one because they exploded around five seconds later. Frosting, cake, and chocolate filling went everywhere, though aimed more than not at the people around the table's faces. Everyone was stunned for a minute and Sebastian began to chew out Bard for trying to feed the young master and mistress exploding cupcakes when he was interrupted by laughter. Cat's laughing got louder and louder escalating from a giggle to a chuckle, to an out laughing fit.
"What's wrong?" Ciel asked looking a tiny bit concerned.
"Nothing's wrong, it's just…you look so funny!" Cat continued to laugh. Then she reached over and wiped the very edge of Ciel's nose. She put the chocolate on her tongue swallowed and twisted to look at Bard. "It's really good Bard!" Soon everyone was trying it and enjoying it, including surprisingly enough Sebastian, which was rather out of character for the self proclaimed 'one hell of a butler' (even though it was totally true.) After eating what was left of the exploded cupcakes, and wiping off their chocolaty faces they went off to continue their afternoon in the garden.
The young earl and his butler watched as his servants and his sister played and laughed and talked in the garden. He watched while Cat braided flowers into her hair and when Finny presented her with a mixed bouquet of lilies and roses (the little girl's apparent favorites.)
"They look like they are having fun." Sebastian commented offhandedly. "Why don't you go join them?" Ciel looked up.
"I've forgotten how to play, and I actually enjoy sitting here getting the chance to see Cat play." I scowled at Sebastian.
"Finny looks quite taken with her, and her with him for that matter." Sebastian stated changing the subject.
"I know." Ciel didn't seem to particularly approve, but he also didn't believe that anything was going to happen for the time being. I mean she was eight years old for god's sake. He noted that if Finny ever made a move on her without his consent first he'd skin him alive (Thank you reviewer who pointed that out)
"You look surprised that Finny likes her." Sebastian made another statement.
"Would you just stop with the damn statements already!" Ciel exclaimed. "And yes I am surprised, because she's a little girl, I didn't think that Finny would be interested."
"Master, Cat is turning nine this year and Finny is only a couple of weeks older than you." (YOU may call it bs, but I call it creative license)
"Hm. So it seems." Ciel said in that slightly fail mysterious way that people tried sometimes. "Sebastian, is the girl really so childish as to drink milk?"
Sebastian turned to face Ciel. "She isn't childish at all, the childish thing to do would be to complain, and I didn't hear a peep out of her, not to mention the fact that she can still be considered barely a babe, who needs milk for calcium and strong bones. You do want your sister's leg to get better don't you?" Sebastian looked him dead in the eye. Ciel rolled his.
"Yes, I want her to heal fast, and she acts so mature it's hard to remember the fact that she's only a child." Sebastian nodded in agreement.
Catherine's POV
We played for hours and hours until I was too tired to go any further. Then Sebastian suggested that we all go to bed. Finny offered to carry me upstairs, but Sebastian said that he'd handle it. So I said goodnight to Mey-rin and Bard and gave Finny a big hug, telling him that I had a lot of fun and thanking him for the beautiful flowers he picked me which Sebastian put in a vase on my bedside table (he certainly was one hell of a butler.) I bathed and was just getting under the covers when I heard a knock on my big mahogany door. Sebastian was already in here, so I wondered who it could be.
"Come in." I stated and in came Ciel. He came to bid me goodnight. That was sweet of him."Goodnight Ciel." I said politely.
Ciel cleared his throat. "I hope you enjoyed yourself today in the garden."
I nodded my head vigorously. "I most certainly did, thank you. "
"You are quite welcome, I…I..i hope to do that with you more often." He stated.
"I would like that very much please." The corners of his mouth twitched up into what I guess we can consider as a half smile. Oh well, soon I hope to see him full out grin at me, Sebastian, everybody! I smiled a lot, finding that being positive, was one of the only ways to fix your problems, that and being able to run fast from the cops, but I highly doubted that my older brother would ever need that skill, much less utilize it so that it was a useful one.
"Well, I do believe you need your sleep, you've had a long day and you must be tired goodnight Catherine." Then he leaned over and kissed my forehead, quickly turning on his heal and exiting stage left. My older brother had just kissed me goodnight. Well, that was a new one for me, though I might even say that it was a fairly pleasant experience. I smiled to myself. I'll get Ciel to open up to me eventually I hoped. Sebastian walked out of my bathroom. I had completely forgotten he was there. He was a quiet little sneaky bastard. Promptly he sat down on my bed, and asked if I wanted to say an evening prayer with him. I agreed said my prayer and headed to bed.
"Goodnight Cat." He said leaning over my bedside. I yawned.
"Goodnight Sebastian." I closed my eyes and felt Sebastian's warm soft lips peck my forehead, before he blew out the candelabra and left. Two kisses on my forehead in one day. Well I suppose this was a great way to end a perfect day. I finally got to get out of bed and I made a realization. I was completely falling for Finny.
Ok this whole chapter was fluff or as prefer to say it cheesy cheese drowned in pure smaltzy sap, but it had a lot of FinnyxCat and I thought you guys might enjoy it, oh and did you get my Disney reference? Review me if you did, review me if you didn't all in all please review thank you so much to those of you who have continued reading this, and those of you who reviewed, favorite or added me to their new chapter alert it really means a lot now to the German sparkle party!