Ciel turned over in his sleep and flinched when his eyes were suddenly struck with the strong glow of the moonlight. The dark blue orbs slowly opened to see that he was now alone in the bed. The boy sat up in the bed and scanned the area, trying to see if Alois had woken up and gone somewhere else in the room. Once he saw he was nowhere to be found Ciel moved from under the sheets and started off out of his room and down the pitch black hallways looking for wherever Alois had wandered off to.
"Alois…" Ciel whispered into the darkness, keeping his hand against the wall for support so he didn't fall down the stairs or bump into anything. Once he found the stairs he held onto the railing tightly and carefully walked down until he got to the bottom. His head turned abruptly at the sound of glasses clanging together. Keeping his hand on the wall he led himself to the large kitchen to see a light coming from under the kitchen door.
"Alois…" Ciel said again as he slowly opened the door. The blonde looked over from where he was standing and quickly put a hand behind his back.
"Hello there Phantomhive" Alois said, smirking widely as he held a glass of water in one hand. Ciel gave him a hateful glare as he walked into the kitchen towards the taller male.
"What are you doing up in the middle of the night?" Ciel asked, annoyed that he was woken from his deep slumber. Alois just giggled and held up the glass of water he had gotten for himself.
"I wasn't feeling well and my head was hurting so I just got a glass of water…It didn't really help though" Alois said as he took another sip of the water before putting it back on the kitchen counter. Ciel had his arms folded across his chest as he stared at the other.
"You aren't sick are you? If you are I don't want you in my bed" The blue haired boy said fiercely.
Alois shrugged as he rubbed his tired eyes with the hand that wasn't behind his back. He flinched when his elbow was suddenly grabbed roughly by the smaller male.
"What is that?" Ciel asked as he tugged hard at the boys arm noticing that he was trying to hide something from him. Alois grinded his teeth as he tried shaking the boy off his arm; he gripped the soft object he was holding tightly as the boy started pulling at him with both hands.
"Let go of me!" Alois barked angrily as he put his free hand of Ciel's shoulder trying to push him back away from him. Catching a glance of Ciel's pregnant looking stomach Alois started to bring back some of his strength, fearing he might push Ciel back onto the floor and injure their children by accident. Ciel reached behind the taller male and snatched whatever was in the blonde's tightly clenched hand.
"What the bloody hell is this?" Ciel said as he stared at the stuffed animal. It was a small hand-made black bunny stuffed animal with some sort of symbol on the front of it. It had red button eyes and its mouth looked neatly hand stitched across its face.
"Give it back!" Alois yelped as he grabbed the toy away from the other. He cuddled it protectively against his body as he backed up against the kitchen counter. Ciel stared at him for a moment before realizing that was the object Hannah had tucked under his arm when he was thrashing around in his sleep.
"Seriously Alois, you sleep with a stuffed toy? Aren't you too old for that?" Ciel said as he folded his arms back across his chest. Alois just shrugged again and nuzzled his cheek against the soft toy.
"I haven't been sleeping well lately, so Claude made me this to help me sleep. He told me the symbol on its chest represented peaceful slumber so it would be able to help me sleep" Alois mumbled, as he held his special made toy. Ciel just rolled his eyes and shrugged.
"Whatever. Just go back to bed. I don't trust you roaming around my mansion…but first have your butler take a look at you to see if you're sick" Ciel said as he moved past the blonde and started reaching up to one of the cupboards for his own glass for water. He flinched when he felt the taller male come behind him and grab the cup before he could get it.
"Aw are you worried about me Ciel?" Alois taunted as he handed the younger earl the glass. Ciel snatched it from him and started filling it up with the water from the sink.
"You wish! I just don't want you to get me sick if you're going to be sleeping in my bed" Ciel said fiercely. Alois just chuckled as he watched the boy gulp down the water.
"I'm not sick; I've been feeling like this for weeks now. Claude said they were just sinus headaches and not to worry" Alois said as he tucked his bunny stuffed animal safely under his arm as he turned around and started off out of the kitchen with the smaller boy trailing close behind.
"Do you really believe everything that greedy demon tells you?" Ciel said annoyed as he kept his arms folded across his chest. Alois stopped at the door and turned to him slightly.
"Of course I do. I love Claude and I know he would never lie to me…because he loves me too" Alois said a little quietly as they started back off towards Ciel's bedroom. The blonde crawled back in on his side of the bed and fell back asleep in a matter of seconds after curling up cuddling his bunny. Ciel stared at him for a while before moving in the bed with the older boy. He lay on his back and sighed as he stared up at the ceiling.
There is something wrong with that bunny…Ciel thought as his eyelids became heavy as he drifted off back to sleep.
"Must you stay in here while I work?" Ciel sighed as he stared at Alois who was sitting in one of the chairs in his office.
"Of course, it's not like there is much to do in this boring mansion. Also, I like being close to my children. I would think they'd rather hear daddy's sweet voice then mommy's annoyed one" Alois said as he leaned back in the chair with a large smirk spread across his face.
"I wouldn't be annoyed if you would just go home" Ciel huffed as he started to go through the paperwork that was on his desk. Alois just rolled his eyes and stood up from the chair he was sitting in. He walked around the boy's desk and hoisted himself up so he was sitting on the edge of it.
"What do you think you're doing?" Ciel said as he stared at the taller boy who had made himself comfortable on the edge of his desk. Alois shrugged as he crossed his legs and stared down at the blue haired boy's stomach.
"I wonder how long it's going to be until you can give birth to our babies" Alois said as he smiled at the bump that held the children.
"Sebastian estimated it to be about four to six months. The children are developing much faster than in a normal pregnancy so it should be much less than nine months" Ciel said, not taking his eyes off of his paperwork. Alois smiled happily and reached down to pat the younger boy's stomach making Ciel flinch at how gently the blonde was touching him.
"I hope one is a girl and one is a boy. I already have some names in mind for them so I'd like to use one of the girl names I picked and one of the boy names. Or did you have some names in mind also Ciel? Also we should pick out some furniture and all that stuff baby for them. I'm having Hannah and those triplets make a room ready for them at my manor I just don't know what sort of furniture to get. I was thinking of getting something that wasn't colored since we don't know what the gender of the children will be and-"
"Would you just shut the bloody hell up! I have no interest in the names or genders of them and I don't care what kind of furniture you get! I told you I want nothing to do with them! You can do whatever you want with them I honestly don't care" Ciel interrupted the blonde, getting annoyed quickly at his constant babbling about their children.
"…I can see the mood swings have already started" Alois muttered as he hopped off the boy's desk and went back to sitting in the chair across from his desk. He pulled out his "French Study" book and started mumbling some of the words.
"Are you studying? I didn't think of you as someone who would care about their education" Ciel said as he looked up at the sound of the blonde quietly practice his language skills.
"You shouldn't judge a book by its cover Phantomhive" Alois said as he flipped the page. Ciel just rolled his eyes and went back to doing his paperwork. The two boys looked up at the sudden sound of knocking at the office door. The demon butler opened the door and stepped in with a familiar object in his hand.
"What the-! Give that back you disgusting demon!" Alois yelped as he dropped the book and ran over to the jet black butler. He snatched his stuffed animal away from Sebastian and gave him a very hateful glare. Sebastian ignored the frantic child and walked to his master's desk. He bowed before starting to speak.
"I have analyzed the stuffed animal as you requested my lord" the raven said. Alois looked at Ciel then at Sebastian with a very confused look plastered across his face.
"Ciel? What the bloody hell is he talking about?" Alois asked angrily as he stormed up to the front of the desk next to the taller male. Ciel ignored the blonde and turned his attention to his butler.
"Good, what did you find out about it?"
"Well, I've definitely seen something like that before. The symbol on its chest is a black magic symbol that is used to drain energy from the soul quickly from whoever is closest to it. When the symbol is drawn on something then that object is about to absorb all the soul's energy and store it there. As for this case, since it was sewn onto that doll and Lord Trancy has been sleeping with it then as he slept the doll slowly sucked the energy right out of him. In the morning and as the day would go on his energy would restore itself until nighttime then the cycle would start over again. The energy would just need to be taken out by a demon and most likely consumed afterword. This method is a very old method of having a partly endless supply of a person's soul, the larger the symbol the faster the energy is taken. The cycle usually ends when the host is sucked dry and dies of exhaustion or the object and the symbol is destroyed. Side effects to being drained by the symbol is the feeling of being light headed, having unusually painful headaches, passing out in the middle of the day, and feeling very tired no matter how long you sleep" Sebastian explained as Ciel listened carefully before turning his attention to the blonde who now had a shocked expression from what the demon had said.
"Why did you do this Ciel?" Alois said, his voice sounding choked up as he held the doll tighter to his chest.
"I knew there was something wrong with that symbol. I had Sebastian take a look at it and I was right. That doll is killing you. It's the reason why you've been feeling sick. That greedy demon just made it to drain you of your soul without you knowing it-"
"Shut up! Claude wouldn't do this to me…he wouldn't lie to me…" Alois yelped as tears started to pour out of his crystal blue eyes. Ciel sighed and stood up from his desk. He walked around it and moved in front of the taller boy.
"Give me the doll Alois. I'll have Sebastian destroy it" Ciel said, as he held out his hand for the stuffed animal. Alois quickly backed away and shook his head.
"No, you can't! Claude made it for me!" Alois barked angrily as he held the doll tighter to himself.
"Would you like me to take the doll from him my lord?" Sebastian asked, as he watched Alois back up against the bookshelf with his stuffed toy. Ciel thought for a moment before shaking his head.
"Fine, if you won't give me the doll then I'll just go throw myself down the grand staircase and kill your demon children" Ciel said as he turned away from the both of them and started walking towards the office door. He was stopped by a hand grabbing his forearm tightly.
"You wouldn't…" Alois said shocked, but once he saw the look on the boy's face he knew he was serious.
The blonde took a deep breath before handing the doll over to the demon butler. Sebastian bowed to the two before walking out of the office to dispose of the doll. As Ciel turned to sit back at his desk Alois continued to stand there with his eyes glued to the floor.
"Why did you do that…why didn't you just let that doll kill me? You would have been able to get rid of me and the children" Alois muttered as he stared at the blue haired boy. Ciel didn't answer him he just continued doing his paper work.
"Go back to studying Alois" Ciel said, not even giving him a little glance. Alois stood there for a good while before picking up his book and sitting back down in his chair.
Maybe that's not what I wanted… Ciel thought, as he glanced up slightly at the blonde who was still drying his eyes.
Author's Note: I hope you liked this chapter! We worked hard on it! Thanks for reading, reviews are loved!
Love, Alois Trancy And Ciel Phantomhive RPer
