Hi guys I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while my brain was fried from the last chapter I had written. And I only have a couple things to say before I start the story again One mother nature is a bitch, Two my ass hurts so bad, from bike riding in this freak town that they call Davis. Ugh, and I also get t tell you that I have begun to learn how to make scars with liquid latex, and may I just tell you now that I am friggin awesome at it, I scared everyone at my training this morning, but I have to make another one tomorrow so I can show my drama camp. I didn't want to scare the small children with my huge dark red and brown burn scar. Why you ask? Why am I creating burn scars on myself? I WANT TO COSPLAY AS NICE HOLLYSTONE FROM BACCANO! FOR HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR AND I AM GOING TO LOOK AMAZING! On to the story then. Oh and I hoped that you all liked the last chapter, haven't gotten too many reviews on it, but I felt very self satisfied with it, Okay now I'm really done ranting I promise! To the story! Duh du du duuuuuhhhhhh!

Ciel's POV

I heard Sebastian's voice coming from Cat's room. Immediately we all barreled in there as fast as we could. Cat, alive lay on her bed, if your clothes rustled you wouldn't be able to hear her faint voice. She did have a naturally quiet voice; something that I wished Lizzie would have on occasion. Finny was crying Mey-rin looked like she was about to scream with happiness and Bard was smiling very widely.

"C-cat! You're alive!" I exclaimed. Her eyes were barely open and she looked extremely tired.

"um-hm." She responded quickly before she fell asleep. I leaned over to kiss her on the forehead and then had everyone ushered out of her room. Finally now, all five of us could get some sleep.

A week and a half later.

Cat finally became well enough that she was able to eat hard foods again, and eventually was able to sit up in bed as well, even though she was in the middle of a raging fever. Her face was still a little puffy, and very bruised, but it was clear that she was healing. Even Sebastian limited my time with her. One day I had had enough. "Sebastian, go make yourself useful, I'm spending time with my sister."

"But my lord-"

"No, I'm going to spend time with her no matter what you say." I said defiantly dismissing him. I walked into Cat's room, trying not to let too much light in, I knew what it was like to be so beat up you couldn't even bring yourself to open your eyes.

"Sebastian?" she asked quietly. "Is that you?"

"No, it's Ciel."

"Oh," she attempted to smooth her bed shirt, a small look of pain on her face. "Good morning Ciel."

"Stop! You're hurt just stay still, lay down." I ordered. Was this what I was supposed to do? Was this being a good brother? "Shall I read to you or something?" I asked her. Maybe I should have asked Sebastian for help before I stormed into my sister's room expecting to be able to spend quality time with her. She nodded a little. "Okay…what do you want me to read to you?" I asked. I really was failing at this wasn't I? That told me something. Never run anywhere without a game plan.

"Well, Sebastian was going to start reading the Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux." She said. I could hardly hear her, her face was still bandaged a bit, plus she practically had the blanket tucked around her ears. I read to her while she closed her eyes and eventually fell asleep. I heard her snoring softly when I finally closed the book and went to kiss her on the forehead. She whispered something very faintly and quietly. I didn't know for sure, but I had a feeling that it was 'I love you Ciel.' I walked out of her room, opening the door wide just to hear the thus of someone hitting the ground. I looked behind the door to see Finny on the ground rubbing he head. The cat, (or Erik as she called it) took the liberty of running into Cat's room and jumping on the bed with her to fall asleep, quickly now making a sound that seemed to be a mix of snoring and purring.

"What the hell were you doing back there Finny!" I hissed at the strawberry blond boy, who seemed to have been listening in on me talking to Cat.

"I was just listening that's all… seeing if I could hear Cat's voice."

"And why do you have time for this I'm sure that YOU have things to do." I hissed, trying to keep my voice low so as not to wake up my little sister. In the healing that that she was in right now, she was fussy like an infant when she got woken up…not to mention I don't think that anyone would ever want to do something to make her feel uncomfortable let alone upset about something. It just didn't seem right when she didn't have a big smile stretching across her little pale face.

"I-I-I-I do sir, but it's just I haven't been able to see Cat in a long time, not to mention that Sebastian won't let me near her what with my super strength and all that." My harsh expression softened a bit. I could understand what he meant. I mean Sebastian hadn't even let me into see her and I was her BROTHER for god's sake. Of course I could express that to Finny. I couldn't be all 'I feel you bro'. That would be just completely inappropriate, I settled on giving him an understanding nod.

"Well, perhaps I could arrange something for you two, but don't slack off again, or I'll have to inform Sebastian." Finny visibly stiffened. Then he saluted me.

"Yes sir." He marched off and almost bumped into a wall. My god, this was the boy my sister had a little school girl crush on? Oh well, I suppose you can't choose who your family loves. Maybe they will just be friends, but who knows only time can tell.

Finny's POV

My bum hurt so badly. I fell pretty hard, and the door slammed into my face. I was still a little shaken by my encounter with Ciel. He scares me, and I never imagined that he would have noticed that I was hidden behind the door. All I wanted was to hear her voice. According to Sebastian she was still too sick to be able to talk completely audibly. But I had gone through the trouble of trying to sneak away from work to possibly get even the chance to hear her sweet voice. I knew that I was older than her by three years, but that didn't mean that I couldn't love her just as well as a boy her age. I mean wasn't that twerp William the same age as me. Not to mention that I thought, I knew that I liked her far more than that jerk did. And what did he mean to arrange something? A date? A time for me to see her? Would we be alone or would Ciel be supervising? God all I wanted was to hear her lovely voice again. I can't believe that she could get hurt insanely bad twice while she was living in a house, but she never managed to get hurt, or killed for that matter, while she was living on the street. I headed downstairs to the garden, pruning the bushes, and trying to keep Cat's favorite part of the household fro going completely to ruin. I couldn't disappoint her not when she was so sick. Fever the doctor had said. She's recovering from the shock of being captured, and practically burnt to a crisp, but her fever was getting very high, and she had had it for about a week now. It wasn't enough to kill her, but the doctor said we should wait it out. Along with it came more vials of morphine for her pain. I couldn't stand to be near needles of any kind not after…well this isn't about me or my back story now is it? This was about Cat, who with each passing day without seeing her, I was growing increasingly nervous. I tried to get the work done as quickly as possible maybe I could see if I could sneak in to Cat's room. Likewise I didn't, fearing that I could be caught twice in the same day. And I was pretty lucky that the young master caught me rather than Sebastian, if it was Sebastian I'm sure there would have been hell to pay. I stumbled into the darkly lit kitchen not able to see anything, and waiting for my eyes to adjust to the lighting.

"No success mate?" Bard asked me. Plunking himself down in a chair around the table, next to mine. Bard had been giving me more and more 'brotherly advice on love' talks since I had officially admitted to him and Mey-rin the school girl type crush I had on the future Lady of Phantomhive. There was something wrong about that title in my opinion. It showed her ads being another rich aristocrat when in reality she was only a sweet kind, somewhat timid, slightly rambunctious girl that I had grown to love. Yes love. I admitted it to myself early on. (I refer you to my first FinnyXCat chapter) But I didn't know that she could ever love me back.

"Nah, this time though I ran into the young master." Bard rubbed the back of his neck.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Nothing really, he asked what I was doing, told me that maybe he could arrange something between me and Cat, whatever that means, and then told me to get back to work." I shrugged. "I wouldn't expect anything less from the young master, he has a heart of gold, I swear he does."' He was the one after all to take me in. Bard nodded and lit a cigarette.

"Well, that's interestin' ain't it? I think that Ciel understands. What with Sebastian guarding the poor girl day and night, none of us can get in to see her. Not even Ciel to my understanding." He blew out a long puff of smoke.

I nodded, and hung my head over the table. We sat in silence until Mey-rin bustled into the kitchen.

"Hi ho everyone!" she exclaimed in her loud and broken cockney accent. She continued to blab for a few seconds before she noticed me. She turned to Bard. "What's got Finny so down in the dumps today?"

"He still hasn't been able to see Cat since she woke up, and even then she was barely conscious." Bard explained to my maroon headed colleague.

"Ahhh I see, you want to see her again don't you, well just be patient Finny, the girl does need her rest after all." That's it. I pushed my self up onto the tabled and exclaimed,

"I know! I know that she needs her rest for god's sake, but don't you think it's good for her to see us too? Sure maybe now her arms have scars, but we can't treat her differently because of it! We have to make her feel normal and get her back to routine!" I exclaimed. "I want her to get better as much as everyone else does, but I still think that we should be allowed to see her." I said lowering my voice and finishing my little mini rant. Mey-rin blew out the breath she had been holding.

"Blimey, you really are hung up about Cat." She said passing me a tall glass of milk that I gulped down quickly.

"It's more than that! It's more than just being hung up about her, I think I might go mad if I don't talk to her soon!" Mey-rin chuckled, wiping the milk moustache I had off if my upper lip.

"Finny, Ciel's going to try to do something about it remember?" Bard said logically which scared me because if Bard was anything but logical, this was the man who thought cooking was an art that required explosions and flamethrowers.

"Yeah I guess so, but it better be soon or I swear I'm going to start losing my hair because of the stress of Sebastian not letting me see her." The door swung open not two shakes of a lambs tail later. The tall looming figure of Sebastian stood in the doorway.

"Well speak of the devil…" Bard muttered under his breath and around the cigarette he was still smoking.

"Finny, Ciel requested to see you in his study. I do hpe you didn't ruin the garden…" Sebastian shook his head. Good that means he was as clueless as I about what was going to happen in Ciel's study.

"Yes sir." I answered and high tailed it to the upstairs not wanting to upset my employer by making him wait. I knocked on the door and held my ear to the smooth mahogany surface, waiting to hear a response so that I could come in.

"Yes?" I heard as the response to my rapping on the door.

"It's me, Finny sir." I said shaking a little bit, the worst case scenarios running through my head, quickly getting more and more catastrophic by the second.

"I see, well then enter. Don't just stand out there." I twisted the brass doorknob and opened the heavy door. "Have a seat." I quickly sat down. Ciel leaned over his desk, head in his hands elbows propped up on the desk as well.

"Um….Master Ciel sir? What am I in here for?" I asked sheepishly. I was older than this boy, what in the world made me so afraid of him?

"You mean you haven't guessed yet?" I shook my head no and he rolled his blue eye at me, "To talk to you about my sister of course!"

"Oh." Oh way to go there Finny! 'Oh'? could you be any more of an idiot? Ciel wants to talk to you about Cat and the first word you have to say to him is 'oh'? I stopped beating my self up about my stupid response when Ciel began to speak again. He leaned over an d looked at me with his cerulean blue eye so hard, I felt as if it might be penetrating into my very soul.

"I understand that you and my younger sister Catherine are rather close, are you not?" I gulped, my small Adam's apple bobbing slightly.

"Yes sir, that's correct." I tried to keep from showing my very large emotions, for Cat, containing the feelings that I had for her inside me, but despite my efforts, I felt my face soften and my lips go up into a small contented smile at the mention of Cat. I didn't like talking about her as if she was an object that I had been caught admiring rather than her being a person.

"And she is close to you as well?" he scrutinized me as if looking right through me, trying to figure out what Cat saw in me as a friend (or lover) the small optimistic voice that I tried to keep with me reminded in my ear.

"Yes." I nodded as Ciel continued to examine me.

"Stand up." He demanded. Now I was thoroughly confused, what in the world was Ciel going to do to me that required me to stand for him. None the less I did as I was asked. And stood board straight holding my breath as Ciel circled me like an eagle, hark, or any of those huge predatory monsters that people called birds that roamed the sky looking for an innocent bunny to kill. "I don't know." He ran a hand through his hair. His voice was so quiet, that I could barely hear him. "I don't understand." Now I was just a tad put off. Why was there not to understand, was it what I was wearing? I wore these clothes everyday!

Speaking up and voicing my question out loud I asked "What don't you understand-" Ciel gave me a small glare. "Sir." I gulped.

"I just don't understand romance." He didn't say it very loud, but the word rang over and over, echoing in my head.

"Umm… What?" I tried to play it off as if I didn't understand what he was saying at all.

"Oh come off it Finny." He snapped. "I know that you like my sister. It's not like you were all that secretive about your affections." He muttered. "That's what I have been wanting to talk to you about." He sat back down and gestured for me to do the same. He folded his hands on top of the desk. I was now growing increasingly nervous. "Is it true that you like my sister?" he asked seriously keeping fierce eye contact with my big turquoise eyes.

W-w-w-w-well…" he sighed.

"Don't beat around the bush Finny, do you or do you not like my little sister."

"O-of course I like Cat!" I exclaimed, it's impossible not to I thought in my head.

"You know what I mean Finny, are you smitten with my sister?" I hung my head, a little bit ashamed to have been called out on something such as this, I was sure that he was going to tell me how ridiculous it was that I even thought I had a chance with Cat.

"Yes." I answered. It was the simplest thing that I could say.

"It's not like that was really a necessary question to ask you." Ciel hmphed. "As I previously told you, it's pretty obvious, and Sebastian's just been denying it, saying you would probably get over it."

"I don't think I'm going to get over it anytime soon." I responded resolving to just tell the truth.

"I was afraid of that." Ciel said in a slightly bored tone, but I knew that he was still serious about the conversation. "What exactly do you like about my sister?" Ciel leaned even farther over the desk, and I had a feeling that he was trying to intimidate me. What was there not to like? I loved everything about her.

"I love everything, her laugh, her smile, the way her eyes light up when she's happy, the way that she hates to b woken up if she hasn't gotten enough sleep…"I could have gone on but I figured that that was sufficient enough for Ciel at the moment.

"She used to do all those things before the cult in the white masks captured her." He said seriously still not breaking the eye contact we had. He had a serious tone to his voice, but I could also sense a lot of sadness and regret, both of those feelings seemed to have been weighing on his shoulders since we had brought Cat home. The regret of that day, like a weight strapped to him, making him droop. He pushed himself up on to the desk. "Do you still love her? Do you still love her now that she's sick?" Ciel asked menacingly, glowering at me, as if my opinion had changed because of something that Cat had no control of whatsoever. "Now that she has burns all over her? Scars? Things that'll stay with her forever? Can you bring herself to still love her?" he looked slightly disgusted, knowing that there were men that would completely forget the girl, and push her to the side as if she were rubbish because of the scars that Cat would have when the burns healed.

"I would never stop loving Cat for anything physical, she could be missing a limb for all I care, that doesn't change the fact that I love her."I said bravely surprising myself. What happened to the Finny I knew? The one who broke down whenever he broke anything or bumped into someone, for fear of hurting them or worse them hurting me. Ciel looked at me amazed. He knew that I was afraid of him. He sat down looking a lot more calm than he was two seconds ago.

"And how do you plan to treat my little sister exactly?" he asked. I was just surprised that he hadn't taken the lamp and begun shining it into my eye, like some kind of interrogation. His eyes were narrowed as if watching for a sign of lying.

"I would be completely kind and courteous to her, I would be the perfect gentleman toward her at all times." Good one Finny, Ciel is going to love that. Which meant he would be at least slightly satisfied with the answer.

"And would you ever lie to her or cheat on her?" he asked. I held my arms out in the universal stop sign.

"Dear god no!" I exclaimed. "I would never ever lie to Cat! She is far too good of a person to be stuck with someone who does those kinds of things. She doesn't deserve to have someone lie to her." Ciel nodded slowly soaking in my response word by word.

"And would you cheat on her?"

"No!" I exclaimed. "Cat…there is no one who can top her, she's lovely in every way shape and form, not to mention that she would never hurt a fly!" (If it wasn't in the line of self defense) I added silently in my head.

"Good…you are a very smart person Finny." Ciel commented. "Have you ever been involved in gangs or drugs?" Ummm… my past doesn't count, I didn't want that to happen to me. This was like an interview to possibly be close to Cat.

"No, and I never would get involved in anything that would hurt Cat in any way." Hey, I was getting pretty good at this. I was even able to answer calmly and no so rushed. Ciel asked me whole bunch of other questions, about how I would treat her (i.e would you ever hit her, or get physical with her?*NEVER! I would never ever lay a finger on her to harm a single hair on her head) to just random questions about her (i.e what is Cat's favorite food? *an avocado and chicken sandwich on pita bread with cheese, tomatoes and pesto. Or fish and chips*) Ciel looked me up and down several times as well. Around an hour later, he finally dismissed me.

"I don't really approve, but you never know some people can surprise you." He had said. "Oh and one more thing, you are not to lay a finger on her, or even possibly act to her like a courtier until she is completely ready, do you understand?" I nodded. "Good. I think that Cat has time to spend with you for about an hour tomorrow." And with that he told me to go downstairs, he was tired. I walked out, and almost started hyperventilating. Sure I had started to calm down a little bit, around ¾'s of the way through the interrogation, but that did NOT mean that my heart wasn't beating like a war drum in my chest. I found Mey-rin and Bard back in the kitchen trying to stay awake to talk to me, but drowsily beginning to make their way to what Cat called the shores of sleep. When I walked in Mey-rin snapped awake, and elbowed Bard in the side.

"Wha-what do you want Mey-rin?" he asked yawning loudly.

"Finny's back." Bard woke up after that too.

"So how did it go with Ciel? What happened? Did he do anything to you?" I was bombarded by a whole bunch of questions that I almost felt like I was back in the study. Honestly I was surprised that Ciel's gaze hadn't bore holes into my head.

"It was fine, he interrogated me about Cat, and no he didn't do anything to me, just asked me a lot of questions." Bard draped his arm around me.

"Well that's good lad, were happy that you're okay. But god damn it let's talk about it in the morning, I can't keep my eyelids open!" I was tired, and if I wanted to spend time with Cat tomorrow I had to have energy.

"Agreed." Mey-rin said with a yawn. The three of us then stumbled down the hall like drunkards coming home from the bar, almost crashing into a wall one and the next time succeeding causing Sebastian to come out of his room looking quite pissed off, and telling us to keep the racket down. When I finally got to the room I shared with Bard and Tanaka, I was asleep before my head hit the pillow from a day of work worry and that strange interrogation by my employer.

The next day

I finished my worked extra quickly, and was still careful because I didn't want to have to go back and do it all over again. Cat's fever had broken over the night while I was still in the study with Ciel. Sebastian had soothed her with cool cloths and chicken broth when the fever finally broke. I knocked on her door nervously adjusting the tie that Mey-rin had insisted I wore. Not hearing a response I opened the door a crack to see that she was gesturing for me to come in. I smile cheerily and presented her with a fresh bouquet of her favorite flowers.

"Hi Finny!" she exclaimed happily in a quiet voice, that with still a few scratches sounded just as lovely as the first time I had ever heard it.

"Hi Cat, how are you doing?" I asked perching on the edge of the bed, knowing that it was the only way that I would be able to hear her, without her totally wearing her voice out from projecting it.

"Oh I'm doing a lot better, thank you for asking, and even better now that you visited me." I couldn't see her whole face because of the bandages, but I had a feeling she was blushing under there. I was too.

"I'm really glad to be seeing you too." The two of us talked for a long time about anything and everything. We laughed quietly, and made the most of our time together. When there was nothing more to be said we just sat there in a perfect silence, when she reached out in but her burnt hand (also bandaged) in mine.

"I really am glad that you came to visit me while I'm healing. It means a lot to me."

"It was all my pleasure, I missed you so much that I knew that I had to see you soon." She smiled and we fell back into the comfortable silence. This time it was me who broke it. "I looked at her straight into her beautiful blue eyes and thought that I should just mention. "Your brother loves you so much, and I know that he would do anything to protect you, even risking his own life."

Yay! I finally finished the chapter! I hoped you guys all liked it and may I say that I a so sorry that this is so late, I am so tired and this has been a crazy two weeks. I had to go through a training and then a very intense interview for a volunteer job. (I also had to get fingerprinted) and I just ound out that I got hires so that's a good thing! So again im sorry that it's so late thank you for reading and please please please review review review! I appreciate it so much until next time my love! –Arthur Ciel Kirkland