Author's note: Critics are always welcome, thanks(^_^) I'll try to fix my mistakes! And I'll change and in this chapter to use "" marks*smiles*…I really appreciate the time people take to write not only good comment's, but also one's that will help me improve my writing style!
Thank you for waiting. I'm sorry I couldn't update on time, I had a really tough week(T_T) And my computer was stolen away by my brother, sister and mom(0.0)
Selina. Well I have no idea where I'm going with the idea in my head, we'll see*laughs*! I don't want her to become a demon, because then Sebastian might be miserable again. Can't let that happen! Right?
Disclaimer: Don't own Kuroshitsuji!
Chapter 10
«What!»
«I will let you stay in the mansion only on that condition.»
«Become a servant in my own house? That is below my dignity!
«Take it or leave it, dear,» the smirk on Ashley's face really made Selina want to give him a punch, but she understood that she couldn't. Sebastian was standing beside her and watching, she had to act lady-like.
«Very well, I agree. But! I will bring my workers with me. They have nowhere to go and I won't leave them alone on the streets.»
Trancy sighed, but nodded. What he wanted most now was to put this girl down. To show her the place she belonged in HIS house. He wanted to humiliate her, even if it was only in front of the servants of the house. He imagined her shouting that she is a Phantomhive and she won't do certain work…
«You start today, I will have someone bring you a list of chores. Now,» he clapped his hands and a boy, the age of 10 ran inside the room, and bowed to Ashley. «Show these two to their rooms.»
«And please make sure they are near each other,» Selina added somewhat hopefully.
«I'll try miss…»
«He is my butler, you see?» Selina and Sebastian followed the boy out of the room and to the second floor, where they were put in rooms next to each other. The girl bit her lip. The rooms were definitely for servants. She shook her head and proudly walked in, and gracefully sinking onto the bed, thanked the boy. He smiled shyly and ran away.
«So Milady, now what will you do?»
«I will make his life a nightmare!» Selina sat down on the hard bed and raised a finger to her lips. «Mary-Anne, Lily and Tom will help me with that!»
«How, may I ask?»
«By becoming copies of Ciel's servants.»
Sebastian sighed, covering his eyes with his hand. That will give him more work to do once again. And that is when he was finally able to relax a little…A knock on the door brought him back to the present. He walked over and opened it. There stood the same boy, but with some papers.
«Thank you very much,» Sebastian took them and let the boy go. «Looks like this is the promised list»
Selina's eyes widened, because the list was almost five pages long.
«Why that bastard!»
«Milady, language!» The butler smirked at the surprised girl. She folded her arms, but came up to the demon and reluctantly took the top paper.
«I better get started then…»
«I can do everything instead of you.»
«No! I will show him that I'm not scared of dirty work»
In a couple of hours Mary-Anne, Lily and Tom showed up. Selina opened the door for them and showed them to their rooms, on the way explaining what they have to do. Turning to the oldest girl she gave her a pair of glasses.
«Mary-Anne, wear these and be as clumsy as you can be! Is that a deal?»
«Sure, Lady!»
«Tom, Sebastian will show you a room, make as much racket and noise as you can!»
«Okay…» Tom shrugged.
«Lily… Just be yourself!»
«Wiiiill do!» The girl grinned, hopping on one foot.
Selina smiled and went upstairs to her uncle's room. She had to clean it. After opening the door she shuddered, it was such a mess… As if there was no one at all to clean it, or Ashley made sure that she would spend a long time here. Sighing, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She made the bed and started to sort through all the other junk littering the floor. It took her about a half an hour to finish dusting and all. Looking over her job, she nodded and headed out to find Sebastian. Hearing a crash she picked up her pace and found the butler holding cart with books in one hand and Mary-Anne in the other.
«Good job! Just don't get to comfortable with Sebastian!»
«S-sor-r-ry!»
Mary-Anne and Selina bent down to pick up the mess, but the demon stopped them and said:
«Allow me»
«Thanks, you're the best!»
«I'm merely one hell of a butler, Milady»
«SELINA! »
«That's my call, got to go! By!» The girl dashed off to where she heard her uncle's booming voice. He was standing outside by the stables. The young lady opened the door and her eyes started to water, because of a horrible smell from the place. But something caught her attention… A gorgeous black horse was looking at her. The beauty of the animal caused her to take an amazed intake of breath.
«I want you to clean up here. Since no one wanted to do that in such a long time, it's quite a mess. Good luck you have a big job ahead of you,» Laughing, Ashley pushed her farther inside and closed the door. «I will come check your progress»
«But it's so cold out here! It's winter after all!»Selina glared at the closing door, but knew that she had no way out. She walked up to the stallion and stroked his mane. No matter how she hated her uncle, she had to do this… She was half way done when someone pulled her by the hand outside.
«Alois! What are you doing?» White steam escaped from her lips with every spoken word.
«No! What are you doing? Selina! How could you agree to this?»
«Like a had a choice?» The girl yanked her arm out of her cousin's tight grip. «And why do you care anyway?»
«You are my family after all! I always care.»
«And that is why on the masquerade you led me straight to uncle?» She was shaking, from the cold wind, that was blowing outside. Alois's face tensed up. He tugged her out of the stables and led her inside the mansion. Selina was finally able to warm her frozen hands. The young boy lowered his voice and asked:
«I'm not a Trancy now, can't you be a little friendlier with me?»
«You never were one to begin with,» sitting by the fireplace and looking out the window, the Lady sighed.
«What?» The shock Alois received was visible on his, already, pale face.
«So they didn't tell you either?»
«Selina? What are you hiding?»
The girl shook her head and stood up, walking over to her lost looking cousin. She didn't want to tell him everything at once, but maybe. Just maybe, he will come to her side. Knowing how cruel his father is, and was, at that matter, would be a big shock for him. She gently placed a hand on his shoulder, making Alois understand the full seriousness of the conversation.
«All your life you were spoiled, little by little, are you sure you will understand what I will say?»
«I just want to know why you hate my father so much? He didn't do anything to you!»
«Oh really? What about my parents?» Selina was losing control over her emotions.
«He said they died, because some thieves got into the café and seeing that the owners were home, killed them…»
«So your dear daddy didn't tell you that he, HE, hired killers to get rid of them! They killed mom, dad, my baby brother… If not for Sebastian I would have died to!» Slapping a hand over her mouth, she bit her tongue, to stop the flow of words.
«Father couldn't do such a thing!»
«Well, he did. Now you know. I just want to avenge my family. Your father's greed caused them their lives!»
Alois looked as though his world got shattered into pieces. Selina felt sorry for him. She stepped away, but the boy stopped her from moving. She guessed what he wanted to ask.
«Do you want to kill him?»
With wide eyes, the young girl could only gap at the one in front of her. Was she? Yes… That is why she needed Sebastian. But then Alois would be left alone, the same way she was. At least he wasn't 10 years old, she thought silently. He'll get over it faster. Hearing footsteps, both teens turned to see Selina's butler walking down the hall. He was carrying a tray with tea. Slightly tilting his head to the side, he motioned toward the blond next to his mistress.
«Sebastian? Where are you going?»
«Your uncle ordered some tea, since you said all your workers will work in the mansion, that included me. So he has kept me to very busy. I apologies that I couldn't help you.»
«That bastard! You are supposed to serve only me! So give me that tray, and I order you not to listen to Ashley!» Selina's eyes coldly looked at Sebastian and taking over his task, stomped to her uncle's room. The butler and Alois followed closely behind her. When the girl reached his office, she knocked on the door and came in.
«Where have you been? Oh, it's you, Selina.» He took one of the green teacups from the tray and poured in it some of the brown liquid. Taking a sip, he winced and purposely threw the cup on the floor causing it to shatter to pieces and the tea itself to spill into the rug, saying: «It's ice cold girl! Bring me something more hot!»
Sinking to her knees the Lady started to gather the shards onto the tray. All was well, until she cut herself on one of the sharp edges. Sebastian, who was standing beside the door, sensing the smell of his Lady's blood, covered his mouth with his gloved hand. Luckily for him, Alois, who was by his side, didn't notice the fact that the demon's eyes had turned blood red. Taking control over himself, Sebastian walked into the study.
«Milady? Are you alright?» He asked calmly, seeing the girl sitting on the floor and holding her finger to her lips, licking away the droplets of blood. He hurried over to her. He tried to take her hand in his, but she didn't let him. Selina didn't want to show her close relationship with her butler to her uncle.
«Fine,» she said harshly, but noticing the unchanged crimson color of his eyes, got nervous. «It's just a scratch! Go to my room, I will meet you there.»
Bowing to her, Sebastian turned to go over to the door, but didn't go any further. Alois strode up to Ashley and whispered something in his ear. The man hesitated for a moment, but nodded.
«Thank you, father.»
Selina finally got up from the floor and already wanted to go to the kitchen with her butler, but was stopped:
«Will I ever get a chance to finish my work today!» She angrily muttered. It turned out that Alois had asked for Ashley to make the girl his maid. Now only the "young master" was able to give her any commands. Sebastian watched as his grumpy mistress made her way to the kitchen, and then up to her room. She slammed the door closed and hid her eyes behind her bangs.
«My lady? What ever is the matter?»
«Are you worried about me?» Selina asked softly, rubbing the left side of her chest. Sebastian bent down, and gently kissed her lips. He was, how could he not be worried about his beloved Mistress. Any pain of hers was a big deal for him.
«Do you want to let you cousin go?»
«I don't know. I don't understand him. First he is on Ashley's side, now mine? If I trust him with my secrets how can I be sure that he won't run to uncle to reveal them to him?»
«Are you talking about how you survived the gunshot?» Selina grew pale, and still didn't remove her hand from her chest. On the contrary, she tightened her grip on her shirt.
«If he knew that, then I wouldn't be here now. Sebastian? I'm very strange?»
«I think you aren't strange. You are unique. Never forget that .»
~Flashback~
-You will pay for this! You will!- the poor girl wiped her tears. Her gaze became very cold for a child. A shot was the last the girl heard. As she lay there on the floor, blood oozing from her chest, and each breath she took caused her pain. But she was still alive. How? She couldn't understand it. She tried to draw a breath and get up, but her hands felt so weak, that Selina fell back down. The girl slammed her fist onto the floor and yelled: «I can't die! Not like this! Mom! Daddy! Baby brother…»
Her vision slowly blurred because of all the blood loss. But then she remembered a legend her father used to tell her. She closed her eyes, tried to imagine the all powerful demon, she heard so much about, and felt something soft brush across her face. Even though she tried to look at what was causing it, but it was too dark for her to see. She realized that the floor was littered with feathers. She stretched out a hand and harshly whispered:
«I can't die! I need you help!»
«You do realize that once you agree to make the contract there won't be any way back.»Something rough scraped the girl's hand . «My, you are a special lady.»
«I don't care! I need to live! I will do whatever it takes, just don't let me die!»
A hand felt her wound and said:
«The heart wasn't touched. And how is that possible? Oh, I understand you are a rare person with a heart on the right side.»
~End flashback~
«You lived not because your demon heritage. No. It turned out that you have a very special heart.»
Selina unbuttoned her shirt and let it fall to the floor revealing a scar, and was left standing only in her light undergarments. She looked herself over in the mirror and turning to Sebastian said:
«Yeah, in a way I'm glad that I was born this way. At least I had a chance to live. And as long as my uncle doesn't know my little secret, I'm safe from him.» the girl pressed herself against the demon. He wrapped his hands around her. «But now we have to start carrying out a plan against Ashley.»
«What I'm surprised is that Tom and Lily didn't cause any trouble.»
«You're right,» the Lady blinked and slightly smiled up at her butler. «I will have a job for you. Starting tomorrow!»
Author's note: I do need to show more Sebastian in the story. It seems he doesn't play a very big role so far… Or is it just me?
I hope the chapter was okay. I will try to write another chapter in time to update it next week, on Friday. See you then. Don't forget to review please!