"Why can you not tell Lady Elizabeth of what you just saw?" Lizzie asked referring to herself in third person strangely. The servants looked at each other. They had forgotten that Lizzie had stayed the night.
"Um, because it isn't our place to say Lady Elizabeth," Meyrin replied.
"So, I should just go and ask Ciel then myself."
"No, my lady, why not leave him for a moment, I think he is preparing for the day, why don't you make the estate cute for him."
"But he won't appreciate it." Lizzie frowned.
"He does, in his own special way." Bard replied. Lizzie smiled again, and she went to make the study look cute. The servants sighed with relief, at least she didn't find out what Sebastian and Ciel were up to, but they hoped that they would return to their normal selves in no time at all. Finny and Meyrin went to help Lizzie to make the estate look cute; Bard on the other hand remained behind and knocked on the master's bedroom door.
"Master Ciel, Sebastian, I need to talk to you." Bard stated.
"What is it Bard" Ciel asked opening the door wearing Sebastian's shirt. Sebastian was conveniently lay on the floor on the opposite side of Ciel's bed so no one would notice that he was there, even though he knew that the servants knew what him and Ciel were up to.
"Oh" Bard said looking Ciel up and down then disregarding what he saw. "Lady Elizabeth was looking for you" Ciel's eyes widened as he remembered that Lizzie had stayed the night.
"Thank-you" Ciel replied as he shut the door, Ciel lent against the door. "Crap I forgot she was staying here" Ciel said as he slid down the door. Sebastian sat up and lent his face against Ciel's bed.
"Does Ciel not want to see his fiancé?" Sebastian asked.
"No, it's not that." Ciel began but he suddenly suffered an asthma attack. Sebastian rushed over to his master.
"Come now, did you not think about your health should your plan fail, which I am sure you would have known that it would."
"Sebastian, I was going to kill myself, I had no concern as to whether I was going to make myself ill."
"Well then, it seems like it's a good thing that I am here to take care of you." Sebastian replied helping Ciel to his bed. "You stay here, and I will tell Lady Elizabeth that you are not very well so will not be leaving your room."
"But what about my work, I haven't the time to be ill." Ciel complained as he spluttered up blood.
"Master, you are obviously not very well, and with that spout in the North Atlantic Ocean you have to take care of yourself, I wouldn't be able to live without you."
"Fine then tell Lizzie that I am not well."
"Yes master, I will return to take care of you after."
"Sebastian, should I be upfront with Lizzie, or keep this whole affair a secret."
"That is a choice for you to make" Sebastian replied, putting his shirt and tailcoat back on. "If I were you, which I am not, I wouldn't tell her for I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings." Sebastian walked out of Ciel's bedroom.
"Bard" Sebastian exclaimed seeing that he was still stood outside Ciel's room. "Haven't you got food preparations to be making?"
"Hey Sebastian, is everything ok with the Lord."
"He is not feeling very well."
"Not very well, he was fine 5 minutes ago."
"Bard, he had an asthma attack, they don't have any warning, they just happen. I am just off to tell Lady Elizabeth that he isn't feeling too good."
"Right, the chef will take care of things." Bard replied, running to the kitchen and beginning to prepare something for the sick Earl. Meanwhile Sebastian went looking for Lizzie and well it didn't take him long, all he had to do is follow the trail of cute things.
"Lady Elizabeth, I am afraid that Master Ciel has been taken ill, he wishes that you stay if you wish, and that you do not worry about the master."
"What's wrong with him Sebastian, he seemed fine yesterday." Lizzie was becoming hysterical.
"My Lady I said not to worry about him, look if you want to go see him he is in his bed-chamber." Sebastian replied. Lizzie nodded and the pair of them walked back to Ciel's bedroom.
Sebastian knocked on Ciel's door. "Master lady Elizabeth would like to see you."
"Ok" Ciel spluttered. Sebastian let Lizzie into the room.
"Ciel, are you ok."
"I'll be fine" Ciel croaked.
Lizzie turned around to Sebastian "He doesn't look ok."
"No, you are quite right there." Sebastian paused for a second as he spotted the letter that declared Ciel's love for him on the bed. He quickly picked it up. Lizzie looked at Sebastian.
"What was that." she asked.
"That was something work related, I told the master that he wasn't allowed to tend to any today due to his ill-health." Sebastian glared at Ciel, Ciel knew why, if Lizzie found the letter Ciel wouldn't be highly thought of for two reasons, firstly because both Ciel and Sebastian are guys and homosexuality was illegal at that point in time, and secondly aristocrats aren't very highly thought of if they are known to have relationships with their servants.
"I take it this was the other servants were on about when they said don't tell Lizzie."
"Yes that would be true; I didn't want you to see me like this Lizzie." Ciel said before coughing up more blood.
"It seems that we might need to call out a doctor, there might be something much worse wrong with you master."
"If you have to Sebastian, it is just a cold, but if you must you must." So Sebastian went to fetch a doctor to bring to Ciel's aid. Meanwhile Bard and the other servants were talking.
"This doesn't feel right."
"What doesn't Bard?" Finnian asked.
"I think he mean about what we saw between the master and Sebastian." Meyrin replied.
"Yeah, that's what I am on about."
"Well this is the master we are on about so we should let him be, I mean without Sebastian and Ciel us misfits wouldn't have a place to call home, the pair of them are like our parents, having to put up with us through the bad and the good." Meyrin replied.
"Well that seems comical, I haven't heard someone refer to Ciel and I as parents before." Sebastian had walked in on the conversation.
"How is he doing Sebastian?" Bard asked
"Well his asthma's playing up and he has a stomach bug which is causing him to vomit up blood, but other than that he will live."
"How is Lizzie taking it?"
"Lizzie is fine, she is with Ciel now, so we should leave them in peace." Bard went to prepare tonight's dinner but something was prying on his mind.
"Sebastian, were you and Ciel serious."
"What are you on about Bard?" Sebastian asked
"We saw what went on between you."
"Oh that, yes we were serious and this stays between us, if Lizzie or anyone for that matter found out, Ciel would be humiliated and the Phantomhive name will be ruined."
"Gotcha" Bard replied. And with that he went back to work. About an hour later the bell to Ciel's room rang. Sebastian went to see what Ciel wanted.
"Yes master." Sebastian answered after knocking to let Ciel know he was outside.
"Has the coach for Lizzie arrived?"
"Yes it has." Lizzie looked sad, she didn't want to leave her fiancé in this condition but Ciel was adamant that she go home, for she could get herself infected, well that was just the cover story in reality Ciel wanted to spend time with Sebastian and this probably was the best way. "I will escort the Lady to the coach." Sebastian saw that Lizzie safely got on the coach.
"Sebastian, thank-you for looking after him for me, other than myself you are the only family he has. So when I am not around please take care of him."
"Yes my Lady, I do not wish to speak ill of the dead but for a second there you sounded like Madame Red."
"No its fine Sebastian, and Aunty Ann taught me a lot of things, that my mother wouldn't so I guess you could say she had some influence on the things I say and do, but I meant every word of what I said."
Sebastian smiled at Lizzie and sent the carriage on its way. Lizzie was happy that Ciel was somewhat happy, even though she didn't know that his happiness was brought by another guy. Sebastian walked back to Ciel's room.
"Master Lady Elizabeth has gone home now."
"That's ok." Ciel sounded sleepy.
"What's wrong Master" Sebastian asked seeing that the night was drawing in.
"Stay here, please."
Sebastian looked confused at Ciel but then again this wasn't the first time that Ciel had asked Sebastian to say with him. "Very well master, I will stand here until you fall asleep.
"No Sebastian, you will stay with me all night." Ciel replied, patting the bed next to him. Sebastian smiled and sat on the bed next to him.
"Master is this what you want." Sebastian asked.
"Would I be saying if I didn't? You can lie down next to me you know, I won't bite." Ciel coughed whilst in the middle of chuckling.
"Master, don't make yourself worse ok."
"I won't" Ciel said snuggling up close to Sebastian. "I love you." Sebastian smiled and began to play with Ciel's hair.
"I love you too."