HIS MASTER, IN LOVE
CHAPTER NINE.
The Ninth Turn
His Master, As A Father
"Lizzie! What's wrong...? Lizzie..!" Ciel fussed as he awoke in the middle of an August night to Elizabeth's strangled cries.
"C-Ciel...! Y-you're awake...p-please call the midwife....I think I am....going to....g-give...birth!" Elizabeth managed to spit out as she fell victim to the pains of child labor.
Ciel immediately nodded his approval and went straight out of the bedroom without looking at where he was going-
"My Lord, I have heard Lady Elizabeth's cries, and I have called the midwife just seconds before you awoke." Sebastian the ever-infuriating yet alert demon butler announced, shocking the hell out of Ciel. How could that stupid butler just appear out of nowhere right in front of him in an emergency like this....?
"Well, anyway, alright then Sebastian. I'll have Maylene do some preparations. In the meanwhile....I would be..."
"You would be beside Lady Elizabeth, My Lord. Giving birth is a very painful and excruciating procedure, and women would like their husbands to be beside them, giving them courage, during this kind of moment." Sebastian replied, smirking. Ciel hated Sebastian's smirk...yet he knew that the butler always spoke the truth....
"Okay then. You go call Maylene, and I'll support Lizzie. If I even could...." Ciel murmured back in reply.
All of a sudden, as the midwife came panting into the room, Elizabeth's pained cry pierced the hall as a bolt of lightning struck outside, and rain began pouring down in torrents. It was like the weather was blending in with the atmosphere...
"Lizzie!" Ciel cried, running back into his bedroom to witness one of the most breath-taking sights he would be able to see during his entire existence...
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"Oh, the heavens have blessed this family with twins!" cried the midwife in relief, after five hours of hearing Elizabeth's pained crying, struggling, and panting....finally, the first-ever twins in the history of the Phantomhive clan was released into the world....
Ciel snapped awake, staring straight into Elizabeth's pale, exhausted yet relieved face. He was still holding her hand, like what she had told him to do for the past few hours....
Smiling weakly, Elizabeth murmurs, "Ciel...thank you so much..." before falling asleep out of exhaustion.
"L-Lizzie....you shouldn't be...thanking me. But you did great...it's not just one child. There's two of them, Lizzie. Congratulations..." Ciel replied softly, rubbing his young wife's strawberry-blonde hair gently. She was perspiring so much...was this really all because of him....?
"Ah, Earl Phantomhive...your wife looks pretty young. How old are the two of you, really...?" The midwife asked, staring straight into Ciel's deep blue eyes.
He found it hard to admit, but Ciel was truly ashamed of himself. He didn't want the midwife to know how old he and Elizabeth were...even though he knew that early marriages were common among noble families....
"S-Sixteen....g-going on seventeen." Ciel managed to reply, hesitating slightly. The cat's out of the bag....
The midwife smiled innocently as she replied, "Oh, is that so...?" and proceeded to help Maylene clean up the bloody bedsheets and take off the sleeping Elizabeth's nightgown to give her a sponge bath.
The procedures went on, with Ciel keeping a close watch on everything. Unaware of his presence, he distinctly heard the midwife click her tongue softly and mutter, "Nobles these days are so young..."
Yes, that was right.
We are so young, Lizzie....
Lizzie...
I'm terribly sorry about all this...
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It was broad daylight now, and Ciel's bedroom was bathed in sunshine. There was no trace of last night's ordeal.....
Well, except for the fact that the sleep-deprived sixteen year old father, Ciel Phantomhive, could be found sleeping peacefully sprawled on the living room sofa.....instead of being in his room.
"My Lord. Pardon me for interrupting your peaceful slumber....but Lady Elizabeth is calling for you." Sebastian announced, gently shaking the young Earl awake.
"S-Sebastian, you fool....you should've told me that earlier!" Ciel irritatedly replied, putting himself into a sitting position and straightening up his hair.
As he went into his bedroom, he was greeted by a cheerful Elizabeth, who was now happily cuddling the Phantomhive twins inside her loving arms.
"Ah, Ciel, good morning! You never told me that our child actually had a twin~ so unfair~ Ciel~!" Lizzy cooed, like she had completely forgotten about last night's ordeal.
"Lizzy..." Ciel muttered, sitting next to Elizabeth on the bed. He then started touching one of the twin's cheeks lightly with a finger. "This one is a girl...and the other one is a boy. What would we name them, Lizzy?" he asked, staring straight into Elizabeth's apple-green eyes. They had a particular sparkle in them today....
"Hmm...how about this, Ciel?" Elizabeth replied, grinning, "I'll decide on the girl's, you decide on the boy's. Alright?"
Ciel thought that idea was simply marvelous. "You go first then, Lizzy."
"Hmm...I've always loved the name "Beatrice". How about that one, Ciel?" Lizzy suggested, with that gleam in her eyes sparkling brighter.
"I think "Beatrice Phantomhive"...sounds quite wonderful...now Lizzy, help me decide on what to name him." Ciel replied, smiling with satisfaction. "Oh, Lizzy, before I forget, Beatrice means "Bringer of Joy" in Latin."
"Ehh?! Is that true? Alright then, Ciel....let's think up of a wonderful name for our little boy...." Elizabeth cried, excitement etched in her voice.
For a while, Ciel and Elizabeth were silent, deep in thought about what to name the boy twin.
After about thirty seconds, both of them managed to think about a name which both of them could agree upon.
"Cedric....Phantomhive..."
The twins then awoke and began to squirm in their mother's arms...like they knew that their parents were calling for them...
And yet, they were so young.
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