Hi guys! I'm so so so sorry that this is very late, I feel really really bad about it. Okay I have a new chapter for you, and to be honest it was tough trying to figure out what I was going to write. Oh, and I would just like to address something. Yes I totally screwed with the ages. So we are clear. Finny is 12 (that's the part I messed up, but his real age was 'undisclosed') I took a creative license and gave him that age. I know that its most likely not right (hides from tomatoes) but I also changed a couple of things with Ciel. From the episodes that show when he was little he looks like he was four. I didn't read the manga so I don't really know about that source of reference. CREATIVE LICENSE!
Ciel: you mean bs.
Me: whatever Ciel! Anyways, the house burnt down when he was four, and Cat was one so they have about three years apart, and Finny is the same age as Ciel (he's not a pedophile I swear) As a side note nothing is going to happen between Finny and Cat anytime soon. Just a growing crush for now and maybe someday when they are older they can be together. I've rambled too long I'm sorry. THANK YOU! To those of you who review favorite and put me on to story alert. I really appreciate it.
It was several weeks after the time we spent in the garden, but unfortunately I hadn't made much progress with Ciel. He came in to talk to me sometimes, but not very often. And since I didn't want to be a nuisance I didn't really want to have the wheelchair brought upstairs, so I was mostly confined to bed. I didn't have to take much of that pain medicine again, Sebastian said it was good that I didn't take it too much, as it was very addictive. Surprisingly enough a lot of the time I spent was with Sebastian. He did a lot, and rather oversaw me like a father would his daughter. He brought me things to do an attempted to teach me how to sew. (It was a disaster) Then he brought me some polite novels to read, this horrible kind of curds and whey stuff, about dutiful daughters and loving husbands. Bleh. All of us know that it's not true or realistic, but when I gave Sebastian a questioning look he looked surprised telling me that it was an appropriate book for my age group. I considered tearing out the pages to make paper airplanes and origami but my senses won out. I said thank you and turned to put it on my bedside on top of the dusty etiquette book that Sebastian had given me about a week earlier . He frowned.
"You are literate aren't you?" He asked me. I was astounded.
"Of course I'm literate! I wasn't just some heathen on the street!" I knew that I was lucky that I was one of the very few kids out there who could read and write. (Thank you Clara the nun)Sebastian eyed me a little bit.
"Calm down Cat, I never called you a heathen." Sebastian said calmly. I looked down and fumed quietly. Just because he didn't outright call me a heathen doesn't mean he wasn't thinking it. He grabbed my chin and tilted it upwards, forcing me to look at him. "Catherine Phantomhive, I never thought that you were uneducated, I was only asking you a question. Do you understand?" He asked seriously. I had never seen him like this before and the notion scared me quite a bit. I nodded quickly hoping he would let me go. He smiled in that morbid way of his (y'know the one with his eyes closed?) "Good," he stood up. "I'm glad we understand each other." Then he walked away.
What the hell? What just happened here? I took a while pondering that before he came back several minutes later. With the wheelchair! There wasn't a chance to comment before the tall man picked me up and set me into the wheel chair. He walked around to the front of the chair, and bowed over his hand.
"Shall we go for a stroll? With your permission of course." He popped his head up. I nodded quietly. This guy was almost as crazy as dare I say it Lady Elizabeth! He wheeled me down the stairs, god forbid I know how he did it, in relative silence fairly comfortable for both of us, but still at least slightly awkward.
"Sebastian?" I asked twisting my neck to try to look at him.
"Hmmm?" he asked(?) calmly.
"I was just wondering, if Ciel and the others were already in the garden?" his face instilled a look of surprise (well just about as surprised as the red eyed butler could, meaning only a slight bit)
"Oh, I was planning on it being only you and me." He smiled in a non creepy way.
"Oh okay. " I turned back around. Finally we got outside. Granted my eyes burned from the lack of sunlight, but the fresh air and the trees made me want to sing. (Don't worry, I won't) "Was there a particular reason that we came out today?" he smiled.
"No, I just wanted to take you outside, you need fresh air." Was this really the same guy from earlier this morning?
"Thank you." I said quietly. I certainly liked Sebastian, but he still had the essence of mystery, like a secret, or something that he was hiding that would scare me, not to mention the fact that a very stressful time of year was coming up for me. Apparently the look showed on my face, because he asked if something was wrong.
"Oh no nothing is wrong! Nothing is wrong at all I promise Sebastian." He quirked a slim eyebrow and commented in a cryptic way that sent shivers down my spine.
"Lying is no good, if I find you're lying to me I'll have to punish you." Aw shit, I've done it now.
"No sir." I responded quickly. I didn't know what he meant by 'punishing me' exactly, but it certainly couldn't be good. We continued to sit there in silence once more. This time he cleared his throat, breaking the silence.
"Cat, I want to you understand something. It's my job to take care of you, just like it's my job to take care of Ciel. I want you to be comfortable talking to me about anything, I assure you that you can trust me." He gave me a look that clearly told me that he regretted accusing me of lying to him,(I swear to god I wasn't lying, I was just not telling him something) I looked down not wanting to show Sebastian how worried I was about something that seemed to happen every year around this time. But I couldn't bother him about it.
I smiled at him, "Of course Sebastian, I know you need to take care of me." He smiled his ever growingly frequent smile that meant genuine happiness.
"Now, I say we see to your lessons, it's about time that you started them again, I planned to start much sooner, but your leg was an obvious set back." I think that was the way Sebastian told me that he cared about me too much to let me overwork myself while I was hurt.
I hoped that meant my lessons would be easy because he didn't want to over work me in my fragile state. Unfortunately I couldn't have been more wrong, because he pulled a huge history book out of his ass.
"Now, we start with British history, we started with the Anglo-Saxon's who originally inhabited our country. The actual name England came from- wah wah wahhhhh wah wah wahhh wahhhhh wah." It all came out as a blur of names and dates and who was important and the people who were the least beneficial to our society, and a whole bunch of other crap that I didn't feel was necessary. Then he proceeded to test me on it. Anytime I got one wrong he smacked me on the hands with a ruler that seemingly came out of nowhere. Two entire hours later my hands were sore and I was more than ready to go into the kitchen to be social with Finny, Bard, and Mey-rin. When Sebastian finally told me that our history lesson was over with I started to wheel myself away wishing that my hands weren't so god damn sore when I felt a hand on my back.
"Where do you think you're going Catherine?" Sebastian asked, obviously annoyed.
"Ummm to the kitchen?" I asked/stated nervously.
"First of all, why would you think you were going anywhere when you weren't excused, and second we are not anywhere near done." I may have made either a squeak of disbelief, or a pathetic groan.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know I had to be excused to leave. What's next?"
"Arithmetic." FML. FML I say. Finally 4 subjects later we got to literature. Of course the sun was already going down and it was beginning to get dark. I could barely keep my eyelids open, and began to nod off while reading Lewis Carol's Alice in Wonderland. "Cat? Cat wake up, you were starting to fall asleep." I began I apologize profusely in a slurred sleep filled voice, insisting I could finish the lesson. "Cat, I think that you have done well for one day, why don't I read a chapter and then you can go to bed. I nodded, thinking that it would be a nice way to end the day. Sebastian had a calming voice and I'm sure he is a wonderful reader. It made me think about Sebastian having children of his own some day. I know that if I could choose anyone as my father it would be him. I loved him so much, but I don't think I could ever admit that to him. I rested my head on the side of my wheelchair and sat back to listen to the story.
Sebastian's POV
I began to read Cat the first chapter of Alice in Wonderland, and about halfway through the seventh or eighth paragraph, I heard heavy breathing. I looked up from the book to see Cat, her head tilted to the side fast asleep. I sighed a small smile gracing my ivory colored skin, she looked so adorable and peaceful before me, almost angelic as most humans would say. What's this Sebastian? You have feelings? Yes, I do have an overwhelming sense of affection for this girl, as well as the need to protect her, a need that was not brought on with the contract that I made with her brother, I felt a feeling that I had previously only felt for Ciel, a little bit. What was the name of that feeling? Was it, love. A fatherly love and the need to take care of and protect. Dear me Sebastian are you growing soft? Do you really care enough about the girl to show her you have a heart? Hmmm couldn't be true.
Magical time skip 4 days later
Sebastian's POV
"Finny, Mey-rin, Bard!" I called down the stairway to the kitchen, my black shoes clicking as I walked down the cement hallway. I stopped only to open my pocket watch and sigh. Ciel and I needed to go to town to pick up some things including, some new bed clothes for Cat, she'd been wearing Ciel's for far too long. Even worse, we didn't dare take Cat with us after the disastrous occasion where Cat broke her leg. However I also had some doubts about leaving her at home. I had seen several suspicious shadows lurking near the house, so I was going to have to tell the rest of the staff to be on the lookout. In addition I had prepared a very strict set of rules for them to abide by to make sure Cat didn't get taken by one of aforementioned suspicious characters. The list included notes that Bard didn't need to cook because lunch was in the ice box, that Pluto still needed to be fed, and that under no circumstances were they to let Cat outside.
"Yes?" Bard asked filing into the kitchen with the rest of the staff. Finally I thought, I heard Ciel call me from upstairs, no doubt growing increasingly impatient.
"I am leaving with Ciel to run an errand, you need to take care of Cat while were gone, lunch is already prepared, so there isn't a reason for you to cook Bard, Mey-rin, you are not to touch the china in the cabinet, and you are not-" I was interrupted a very loud yell of 'Sebastian! What the devil is taking you so long?' I quickly wrapped that up. "Please be ready, I thought I saw someone lurking in the shadows yesterday, and please dear god, take care of Cat." With that I turned on my heel and left. If there was so much as a single scratch on the girl, so help me I will have all three of their heads on a silver platter along with several assorted cheeses, and maybe some grapes. I got in the carriage, quickly flicking the reins and jerking down the driveway. The faster we can get the errand over with the faster I get to go home and make sure Cat is in more capable hands than those of the three fools.
General POV in the kitchen
Cat rolled herself into the kitchen, a deck of playing cards in her lap. Bard, along with Finny and Mey-rin were all sitting around the table talking, Bard taking a cigarette out of the box, and lighting it with a quickly combusted match. Finny looked up at her smiling.
"Hello Cat!" He exclaimed standing up to wheel her to her spot at the table.
"Good afternoon Finny. I just wanted to come and be with you guys, I haven't seen you in a while." Bard looked at her.
"Yeah, you haven't been here in a real long time, why? Can't bring yourself to visit us?" it was hard to tell if Bard was joking or if he was serious, perhaps it was a mixture of both, but despite how hard he tried to hide it he was clearly upset about the fact that Cat hadn't been there to visit him. He even learned her favorite sandwich and he never burned it. In fact he had practiced making it so that it was perfect and just the way she liked it. Like an older brother trying to it cool. I can't let her get hurt, Bard thought to himself, noting that e needed to use his sharpest lookout skills.
"Just because i haven't been around doesn't mean I couldn't 'bring myself' to visit you. Sebastian's been running me around like crazy, teaching me lessons and trying to get me to memorize all kinds of names and dates. I would much rather have been here with you." Cat pouted a bit, she didn't want Bard to be mad at her. She then perked up remembering the reason why she came down to the kitchen in the first place.
"What brings you here Cat?" Finny asked grinning as large as the Cheshire cat himself.
"I thought that since Sebastian isn't here I could come down and play cards with you." She smiled tilting her head to the side. Bard looked at her questioningly.
"You know how to play cards?" this isn't exactly the kind of thing you would expect from a wide eyed and innocent 8 year old girl.
"Yeah! I used to scam people when times got really hard, but don't worry I won't cheat!" she continued to smile. The jaws of her peers dropped to the floor. "So let's play war ok?" she then expertly cut the deck in half and dealt all the cards. The group became engaged in an epic battle of war. Slapping down the cards so fast and hard that they were getting paper cut, and almost broke the table (Looking at you Finny) They played for about an hour laughing and giggling, finally ending the game with Cat taking Bard's last card. An epic miss on Bard's part, considering the fact that she had an ace and he had a two. Of course nothing can stay this calm forever, a perfect example being the loud thud and a sound of glass breaking. All three of them jumped up and ran to the source of the sound. Cat quickly rolled her wheelchair right behind them (apparently it went lightning speed) Finny stopped short.
"Cat! Go hide! The house is under attack." Finny ordered in probably the most serious voice Cat had ever heard him use. Quickly she rolled herself to a space outside, trying to outrun the group. The only thought running through her head was, 'I can't believe it, they finally found me. Why does this happen to me every year? Why did those people in the white masks always appear around my birthday?' She heard the sound of guns shooting not too far away from her. Then she thought, 'if I just had a gun I could fight them off.' She had been doing this for years. Learning how to use a gun is essential when you have members of a cult out to get you since you were five, give or take a year or two. She saw the back of Mey-rin's skirt flying over the edge of the roof. Another man, probably a goon, ran on the lawn ahead of her. All she heard was the sound of a gun being cocked, a single shot being fired, and the thud of the dead man's carcass hitting the lawn. Her eyes widened. Was that MEY-RIN'S shooting? The very sweet, but let's admit it, airhead, was able to shoot from on the roof, and still hit the target right in the heart. Mey-rin then jumped from the roof to land on her feet at the edge of the lawn.
"Mey-rin!" Cat called she turned and for the first time she saw that the clumsy maid wasn't wearing her large, thick, round framed glasses. The eyes underneath were breathtaking, a beautiful brown color, with thick eyelashes framing the upper and bottom eyelid. They were intelligent, but also rather sad, like she had been through some hard times.
"Cat!" she exclaimed running towards me. Her voice was different too, though I didn't quite understand why. "I thought you were supposed to hide, we don't want you to get hurt." Cat rolled her eyes.
"I can help I swear, these people have been chasing me around for years. If you give me a gun, or even some throwing knives I can help." Mey-rin eyed her but decided to trust her, tossing her two pistols.
"Do you even know how to shoot?"
"Yes, I've been able to shoot since I was five." Surprisingly enough, I learned how to shoot my own really but, the first time I saw a gun used was also Clara the nun.
"Are you sure?" Mey-rin asked. At that moment she heard the sound of running footsteps coming up behind her. "Look out Cat!" she exclaimed, but as soon as she heard the footsteps she took out the guns, cocked them, and shot them both simultaneously over her shoulder with her pinkies. She retracted her arm spun the guns and tucked them into the holster Mey-rin had given her.
"Yes, I'm sure, you see I'm simply one hell of a gunman, though not nearly as good as you are with long distance." We smiled at eachother in a moment of understanding. Granted our 'moment of understanding' had a small explosion in the background, no doubt deployed by Bard. We continued fighting off the men in the white masks. Finny threw heavy items at them, Bard with his gun and explosions, Mey-rin as our long distance sniper up on the roof, and Cat the cripple with her short distance twin pistols, (which she shot with her pinkies.) Several hours later we had finally taken down the last one with a bullet shot to the knee courtesy of Mey-rin, and a bullet through the heart courtesy of me. We walked in to the kitchen, all except for Cat who was wheeled in by Finny. All four of them were tired, and sooty from all the explosions and a long day of battling the creeps in the white masks.
"I hope that tomorrow goes better than today!" Cat commented while they crossed the lawn to the kitchen.
"I'll say!" said Finny. "But, it was pretty cool to see you handling that gun, I don't think I've ever seen anyone much less and eight year old with that much force." He laughed a little bit.
"Not an eight year old for long!" Cat exclaimed smiling. "Tomorrows my birthday."
A/N okay thank you very much if you are still reading this I really appreciate it. I really want you to review and I left a little soul eater reference in there so tell me in a review or a PM if you found it. The beginning can be considered as Cat/Sebastian fluff in its own little way I suppose. I think that that would be the way Sebastian shows he cares. The beginning may have been a little boring, but that's because I had a wicked case of writers block .Please review! I appreciate it a lot. The next chapter will probably be up this weekend since I'm now officially an 8th grader an don't have any homework. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Sebastian says if you review you increase the possibility of seeing the heavenly light with him ;) XD