A/N: Just a quick note, the names for the extra characters in this story are not meant to match people in real life, if I have the same name as someone just so you know it was not intended to be the same. All the names I've been using are completely made up because I just thought of them form the back of my mind. Also in this chapter, and in future chapters, there will be a change in scenes. Those will be indicated by "|/|" just to let you know!
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Ch.14
"Who's there?" I asked, my vision was blurring no matter how much I squinted my eyes.
"Can't you see? They aren't so far away." Derrick said.
"No, it's blurry and I can't really make out who it is. Other than that I can sort of see them." I replied.
"What the hell happened?" Ciel screamed.
"Oh dear this isn't good!" A voice said from behind.
"Elizabeth?" I asked completely astonished at the blonde standing behind Ciel.
"It seems as though the wall collapsed, or that's what Finnian had informed me about, none the less are you okay?" Sebastian asked.
"Somewhat." I murmured.
"No, she definitely isn't 'somewhat' okay or okay for that matter. Her eyesight has been affected by the amount of dust and debris that went into her eyes, and maybe her leg is fractured. Sprained at most, what about Finny?" Derrick finished asking.
"He seems fine just a few scratches and a sprained wrist is all, how did you figure out what was wrong with Clarissa?" Sebastian asked.
"Basic observation, it wasn't too hard to deduce what was wrong, first of all her walking pattern was wildly thrown off, she couldn't see who it was coming down the hall, and there was something on top of her too." Derrick said.
"Something was on top of her? What was it?" Elizabeth gasped in horror.
"I don't know but it should still be down there in the cellar." Derrick said.
"S-Should we go check it out?" Elizabeth asked clinging onto Ciel.
"No, Sebastian, Derrick and I will check it out shortly, you will stay with Clary alright?" Ciel said and Elizabeth nodded.
"Come on, it isn't that bad, I can walk and see just fine." I said motioning for Derrick to put me down, but to no avail.
"Derrick. Put me down." I said sternly this time.
"No, you are in no condition to be walking around and risking further injury." Derrick said tightening his grip.
"Why won't you listen to my orders!? Put me down!" I hissed.
"I know you order me to do otherwise, but the health and safety of my young mistress comes before anything else." Derrick said.
"Sebastian and Ciel, go check out the cellar, I'll be right there in a minute or so." he said.
"Alright, Elizabeth, please go back with them and stay there." Ciel said turning towards the cellar.
"O-Okay, please be careful." Elizabeth said.
"Damn you." I hissed in Derrick's ear.
"Someone doesn't intend to play nice." Derrick said smirking.
"I already said I can handle this myself." I growled lowly.
"Lady Elizabeth, once I have one of the servants look over Clarissa's injuries, can you make sure she doesn't go anywhere?" Derrick asked the worried blonde that was walking at a slow pace behind us.
"Sure." Elizabeth replied.
"Eliza- Lizzy, there is no need for that. I can manage on my own but thank you for worrying." I said.
"Oh it's alright, I'd be glad to be of some help." Elizabeth replied cheerfully.
"I appreciate you for offering but I sincerely do not need any help." I pleaded.
"Don't listen to her; she just doesn't like being a damsel in distress." Derrick whispered to Elizabeth.
"Why you, I swear you'll regret this." I said through gritted teeth.
"And you will regret thinking that you were alright." Derrick replied.
"So where are we going?" Elizabeth asked.
"To her room, after that I'll call Mey-Rin to see to her injuries, that's why I need you to watch her and make sure she doesn't leave the room." Derrick explained.
"We're almost there anyway." I barked.
"Why are you angry?" Elizabeth asked.
"I'm not angry, more, irritated is all." I confided.
"I thought you'd be more worried than irritated though." Elizabeth replied softly.
"Well, I'm not worried, honestly I feel fine and I just want to see what happened down there so-" I started before I was abruptly cut off.
"We're here, now you'd better stay in bed while I go get Mey-Rin." Derrick warned, opening the door to my room.
"I'll stand guard!" Elizabeth stammered.
"Behave yourself for the time being." Derrick said smirking.
"Why should I? Don't I have the right to know what happened?" I asked.
"Considering your injuries you won't be of much help." Derrick replied placing me on the bed.
"I'll be back shortly." Derrick said again leaving the room.
|/|
"This place is filthy." Ciel said choking on the dust in the air.
"How does this even happen?" Sebastian inquired.
"How should I know?" Ciel replied.
"What's that?" Sebastian asked pointing to a dark corner of the room.
"Pluto?!" Ciel said in surprise.
The white haired figure was covered in scratches and dust; he walked towards them weakly but managed to make his way across the rubble.
"What the hell happened?" Derrick said coming down the steps.
"Well, I'm not sure, any ideas?" Ciel asked.
"Nothing, I have no idea how to go about this. So far we have three injured, no leads to what happened, and the only witness can't speak." Sebastian stated.
"That's right, maybe he can re-enact it though?" Derrick said hopefully.
"I doubt he can in this condition." Ciel said.
"Wait a minute, I remember having to push something aside earlier when I was helping Clary up, maybe it was him." Derrick said analyzing the situation.
"Who Pluto, honestly why would he be on top of her, maybe it was something else." Ciel said.
"I'm more than sure of it." Derrick replied.
"He is completely harmless though, so I don't see any reason in why he would do such a thing." Sebastian contemplated.
"If that's the case then why was he on top of her?" Derrick countered.
"I'm not sure about that, in any case we should probably have someone see to his injuries as well and investigate this more after we check up on everything." Ciel addressed.
"The first thing we have to know is how the wall collapsed, why Pluto was on top of Clary and why I keep hearing some sort of noise behind me." Derrick said trailing off.
"Hear what?" Ciel asked.
"Something that I can't quite describe. It's coming from over here." Derrick replied.
He stepped carefully around the large pile of bricks and bent down at the base of the broken wall.
"I think I found something fairly important." Derrick twitted holding up the small feline.
"How is that thing important?" Ciel barked.
Oh shit I don't think I was supposed to bring this up in front of Ciel. Derrick thought to himself.
"W-Well in any case we should probably go get Pluto treated." Derrick stammered.
"F-Fine, but I'm going to ask you about that thing later alright?" Ciel added.
"What's in his mouth?" Sebastian asked as Derrick came closer with the kitten.
"Huh?" Derrick said turning the kitten to face him.
"What the hell?"
|/|
"Please sit back down Clary!" Elizabeth whined.
"I can't just sit here and do nothing!" I asserted.
"Well you're just going to have to, because I do not intend to let you leave." Elizabeth replied sternly.
"I know you just want to help but Mey-Rin already took care of my injuries." I pleaded.
"I'm aware of that but I'm still not going to let you leave, if you need anything just inform me." Elizabeth said stepping out of the room.
Wow she's much more of an airhead than I thought.
I quickly sprang from my bed and darted for the door. I tried to turn the knob but the door wouldn't budge.
What the hell!?
I tried pulling and pushing but it was useless. I tried to look under the door to see what was blocking the way and only saw a pair of red shoes.
Lizzy?! How is she holding the door? Damn it I'll just find some other way!
I moved away from the door and rummaged through every inch of the room, I stopped to look out the window.
A bit too high? Well it could work, but I kind of don't want to die today.
I opened the window and felt the cold breeze hit my face. The sky was still pale and gray, the view from up here made everything look so small.
Should I really be doing this?
I propped myself on my knees against the window sill when the door burst open.
"C-Crap!" I yelped before hitting my head against the wall.
"What the hell were you doing?" Derrick yelled pulling me from the window.
"N-Nothing, just looking out of the window is all." I stammered.
"Looking out of the window my ass, come on!" Derrick barked dragging me out of the room.
"Where's Elizabeth?" I asked.
"Heading home, Ciel convinced her to leave while we take care of this." Derrick said.
"So now can I go see what happened?" I asked.
"No, we have to know what the last thing you remember was." Derrick said.
"The last thing I remember is being hit really hard by something when I was going to get out of the cellar." I started.
"That doesn't help much." Derrick muttered.
"Well what do you want me to say then!?" I snapped.
"Just, say what you know when we re-group." Derrick sighed.
"Fine." I said pouting.
We were walking down the same hall we usually did when we were heading to the study but it looked much more blurry.
"So how's Finny doing?" I asked, while squinting my eyes to look further down the hall.
"Oh Finny, last I checked he was doing just fine." Derrick said.
"That's good to hear." I sighed in relief.
"Are you okay? You seem a bit, off." Derrick asked slowing his pace.
"I'm fine, just thinking." I answered.
"Thinking about what?" Derrick asked.
"Do you absolutely know everything that I do?" I stressed.
"Well, no I'm just curious." Derrick stated.
"Curiosity killed the cat." I said smirking.
"But satisfaction brought it back." Derrick countered giving a sly smile.
"There you are!" Ciel exclaimed.
"Yea, alive and breathing, for now." I said softly.
"Now isn't the time for jokes, come on." Ciel pronounced.
"How are you feeling?" Sebastian asked.
"Good, how's everyone else?" I inquired.
"They're fine, just a bit worried." Sebastian replied.
"We found this left in the rubble." Derrick said holding up the kitten.
"Gyn-" I started.
"Before you say anything, why was he down there?" Ciel abruptly cut in.
"Well, you see-" I started again.
"From the beginning please." Derrick said.
"Geez! Let me speak already!" I fumed.
"Go on." Sebastian said.
"At least someone is nice." I sighed.
"Just hurry up." Derrick retorted.
"I left Gynx with Finny the day we left to meet with the Queen, I forgot about him so since I was bored I decided to go get him. I looked for Finny and found him in the garden, after that I asked where he left Gynx. He said that he left Gynx with Pluto in the cellar; I was worried about that because I didn't know how Pluto would've reacted to Gynx. So we went down into the cellar and um, well, Pluto made a dent in the wall outside the door, I didn't look at what happened after that. But, skipping to when I was inside the cellar, I got Gynx and was about to head up the stairs when something crashed into me and that's all I remember clearly." I finished.
"Well that explains why Gynx was inside the cellar." Derrick said.
"Did you see anything, different, about Gynx?" Ciel asked.
"No, why?" I countered.
"Well when we went down there, Derrick found this with Gynx." Sebastian said holding out a handful of wires.
"What are those?" I asked.
"We believe them to be a sort of fuse, for a minor explosion which triggered while you were down there causing the wall to collapse." Ciel stated.
"What?" I asked, my throat felt like it was dry and twisted.
"How does that happen? No one else was here in the time that we were gone." I said.
"So then, that explains why something crashed into you." Derrick started.
"What do you mean?" Sebastian asked.
"Pluto was not even in much of her story, so when the fuse went off, maybe Pluto pushed, or tried to push her out of the way. Otherwise why was he on top of her? So maybe he tried to take the blow for her." Derrick said.
"Okay, I'm not following, where's Pluto now that I think about it I didn't see him after that." I said.
"He should be with Finny." Sebastian said.
"Is he okay?" I asked.
"Well, he wasn't too bad or good when we found him." Derrick added.
"Then I want to see him." I said and headed for the door.
"Wait; there are other things we need to handle." Ciel said.
"I don't care, I want to see him!" I snapped.
"If it weren't for me then he would've been fine, this was my fault and I want to take responsibility for what I do, do you really want to stop me?" I questioned.
"Well, no, but it wasn't your fault." Ciel said.
"Oh really? Then whose fault was it? The wall, the cat's, Finny's, no it was me. Did Pluto jump in front of Finny? No he jumped in front of me, so I take it that it would be just a tad bit nice if I went and checked up on him." I proclaimed and stormed out of the room.
"Just don't argue with her. It would be useless; once she sets her mind o something then she won't let a few simple words get in her way." Derrick said.
"We have to figure this out one way or another, it could take longer if Clary won't cooperate." Ciel said slumping back on his chair.
"It'll take longer, but we'd be nowhere without her." Sebastian added.
Short chapter I know, sorry for the late-ness I have a lot going on but thanks for sticking with me and don't forget to review!