"Insane Asylum"

Chapter 8

+++Closeness+++

AN: Another wonderfully fixed chapter with Vivacia18's help.

Reviews are a show of love for Viv and myself!

+++Closeness+++

Sebastian looked down at the red head pinned against the door beneath him. Grell looked breathy, his face a deep pink as he moved to lean forward for a kiss. Quickly, the door knob was turned and the man fell onto the floor, distraught.

"What the hell?" Grell's shriek was mostly cut off as the red head's nurse coat flew towards his face. Whining and pouting on the floor, Grell looked up at the dark haired man.

Sebastian shook his head. "Go home Grell, and hurry. You wouldn't want to have any of the patients see you like that." He smirked, seeing Ciel hiding close to one of the other doors.

Ciel couldn't help but blush in embarrassment as Grell stood, still upset. He was wearing something frilly, a practically see through dress like lingerie that didn't go far past his thighs...

"Ciel." He turned at the call of his name and went up to the man, smiling lightly.

"Seems Grell isn't any different."

"If only," he sighed. "What are you doing up so late?"

"I... I don't remember what happened with the Undertaker..."

"The Undertake...? Oh. Doctor Grea. You had a tantrum, so I took you back to your room to calm you down."

"How often am I in my room?" The younger boy's voice was laced with worry.

"On a good day? Only to sleep. Though, lately, one of those days hasn't happened in some time..." he disappeared into his office for a moment and came back with two coats, wrapping one around Ciel and the other around himself. "Come on a walk with me?"

The teal haired child looked up in confusion and nodded.

They walked along the hallways until they were in the garden. In the night, Ciel heard almost animalistic growls... like someone was barking. He could see two people on the grass some ways away. They were very close to each other; one seemed to be trying to calm the other.

"That is Pluto and Angela." He followed the boy's gaze. "We're not supposed to get attached, but, with this one-on-on program... I believe it's inevitable."

"So you admit you're attached." The child smirked, watching the man's reaction.

"I won't leave you until you need me. No longer will I stay afterwards." He smiled back, fixing his glasses.

He stared at the doctor. For Sebastian, this statement was to be expected. This Sebastian was a stranger to him... But it was so... Such a feeling of relief, a closeness he wanted and missed. Was the Ciel this man knew close to him?

He scoffed openly, shaking it off.

"Tomorrow Lau will be visiting. Angeline and Elizabeth want to visit as well..." Sebastian seemed to be looking off into the distance. "Do you remember what tomorrow is?"

"...Thursday?"

"Do you know the date?"

He tried to think. He must have known is subconsciously, because he answered "Tomorrow is the 31st."

"And on Friday it will be the first-"

"Is there an actual point to all this?" Ciel snapped, staring at him.

"Your brother, Alois Trancy, will be coming to the institute."

+++T+++

When Ciel woke, he was in the manors Master Bedroom. His blanket was tucked in carefully and a wet cool cloth lay on his forehead.

Silently, the Earl crawled out of the bed and opened the door to the hall. Glancing around the dark hall, he wondered where his butler was. Walking with a hand against the decorated wall, he started looking for him, scared and alone.

"Young Master?" he looked up to see the man at the end of the next hall over, candle-mount in his hand. Ciel ran to the demon and clung onto him.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Ciel seemed to keep regressing into such a childish state... he should go against orders and call a doctor as soon as possible.

Ciel knew better. He couldn't call a doctor. If he was 'unstable', he'd be back in the asylum Claude had put him in! That horrid place... he'd rather die of this fever!

"D-Don't leave me... Don't betray me!"

"I would never." Concern crossed his face. He could feel the order enforced with the smaller ones cry. No... No doctors...

The teen was tearing up, staying against the taller man.

Sebastian was just astounded to see so much raw emotion. He leaned down and picked the Earl up, holding him close and away from the candle-mount.

"Let's get you back into your bed, you're burning up..."

"No!"

"Why are you so scared?" the amber eyed man managed to get them into the room and shut the door behind them, and was about to put his Master down when he gripped onto his sleeve tightly.

"Please... just stay with me tonight..."

"...Of course, Young Master." Now was no time to mock about letting his weakness show. Something was terribly wrong... How could he fix him?

He managed to put Ciel back into the bed, and sitting on the end, the demon watched carefully. Silently, when he heard footsteps, he went to the door and peeked out, motioning for the young rookie.

"'What's going on?' asks Olivia."

"The young master isn't well. I need to stay here and watch over him for some time. While I am busy, I trust you and Tanaka to take my place. If anything goes awry, find me. Is that understood?"

The pale boy looked a bit shocked at the new information, but nodded slowly.

"'Don't worry' says Olivia. 'We can handle it' says Wordsworth."

"Excellent. Now, continue your check on the manor."

With that, Snake nodded and left.

+++End Chapter Eight+++

Pluto's Residency:

Clinical lycanthropy is defined as a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can or has transformed into an animal or that he or she is an animal. Its name is connected to the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which people are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. The terms zoanthropy and therianthropy are also sometimes used for the delusion that one has turned into an animal in general and not specifically a wolf.

Affected individuals report a delusional belief that they are in the process of transforming into an animal or have already transformed into an animal. It has been linked with the altered states of mind that accompany psychosis (the reality-bending mental state that typically involves delusions and hallucinations) with the transformation only seeming to happen in the mind and behavior of the affected person. The patient reports in a moment of lucidity or looking back that he sometimes feels as an animal or has felt like one and behaves in a manner that resembles animal behavior, for example crying, grumbling, or creeping.

Snake:
I sort of wanted characters of the anime to show up only in the world where Ciel is a mental patient, and events only up to the party Alois held and the manga plot characters in his 'normal' life. However, that kind of didn't work since Ciel had to know Alois and Claude and Hannah in order to hate them so…
Plus... how can you not love Snake?