His Butler Human
The glare that the male was giving Ciel softened and he asked…
"Do I know you?"
Ciel frowned not in the least bit in the mood for what he thought were the others teasing.
"Of course you do now stop playing around and let's go. All this time I have been trying to avenge your death and you are here all along."
The man in question started when his arm was forcefully grabbed and he was yanked down the road. The man yanked his arm from Ciel's grasp and glared at him.
"Listen, my name is Sebastian, yes, but I have no idea who you are."
Ciel scoffed.
"Really, none at all…?
Sebastian shook his head and Ciel frowned. He then took the time to look the man over and was even more peeved at what he saw. Sebastian was bruised. His finger prints were attached to his skin. Demons didn't bruise easily and that was when reality finally hit him. Sebastian was human. He took a staggering step backwards, tears coming to his eyes. He look away quickly though, so Sebastian, no the human with Sebastian's name, wouldn't see him cry. Sebastian made his way back to the old ladies side and was about to help her away when Ciel's voiced rang out to the crowd.
"You shall come with me, Sebastian."
Sebastian turned to glare at Ciel, not once letting go of the old lady.
"I shall not," he spat vehemently.
"You shall or everyone in this town shall meet a fate far worse than death, including that old lady you're helping."
The old lady stiffened and watched as Sebastian seemed to mull it over. Fear slowly crept into his eyes and he asked tentatively…
"Would I be hurt?"
Ciel looked shocked at the question but smirked in a way that demon Sebastian would have had Ciel himself asked that question.
"No, I shall even release you when I find the old lady, or until she decides to come clean and admit that she disturbed a peaceful day with him and me even though we were not a threat at the time." Sebastian seemed to mull it over in his head before he turned to the old lady and stooped down to her level. "Grandma, I want you to go back with the town's people. I don't want to give this monster the satisfaction of killing anyone else."
His grandmother looked closed to tears, but she nodded that she understood.
"What's taking so long, do you want to bring the old lady with you?"
The old lady stiffened again and Sebastian thought it was out of pure terror.
"No, please, leave her here."
Ciel frowned at the pleading of the man that looked so like Sebastian.
"Fine," he scoffed, "Just hurry up."
Sebastian turned, kissed his grandmother on the cheek wishing her a farewell and muttering a quiet…
"Take your medicine…"
…before he turned back to face the impatient demon.
"Alright, let's go."
"I don't want these humans," Ciel spat the word out like it left a bad taste in his mouth, "To know where I live. I don't need a riot and flaming torches at my door. In their anger they could forget that I come from fire and you are only human. I don't want you harmed just yet."
With that little tirade Ciel scooped Sebastian in his arms and took off. The town's people would surly have laughed at the sight of a thirteen year old boy carrying a full grown man had the situation been called for it.
Ciel was moving so fast that Sebastian didn't see anything they were passing on the way to Ciel's house. He was trying to get a look at where the young demon was going but wound up making himself dizzy trying to keep up with the rapid motion of Ciel's pace. When Ciel finally stopped Sebastian felt sick to his stomach but he wouldn't give this demon the satisfaction of seeing him throw up; so he swallowed it down and let Ciel lead him into the house.
When Sebastian walked into the house his breathe caught and he stared amazedly at the sight of the mansion.
"Wow, this is where you live?"
"Yes… Sebastian," Ciel asked tentatively, "Do you really not know who I am?"
Sebastian looked at the young demon quizzically.
"No, I don't have the slightest clue who you are."
That answer deemed to deflate the young demon and Sebastian couldn't help but to feel sorry for the demon that resembled a child.
"So, why are you terrorizing my town anyway? I know it has something to do with the lady you've been searching for but…"
"I told you before. I wish to avenge you're… I mean Sebastian's death… …My Sebastian. Y-you look just like him. You have his read eyes and his smirk, his shaggy black hair, and yet you are human."
"You can tell that just by looking at me," Sebastian asked sarcastically.
Ciel smiled at the teasing, or what he just dubbed teasing.
"I bruised your arm. That's when realization dawned on me that you weren't kidding around."
Ciel sighed.
"That Lady killed Sebastian out of nowhere. She asked why we were in the park gazing at the stars. I guess she took offence to Sebastian's answer because next thing I know he's beside me in millions of tiny little pieces. I must have been in a state of shock because I don't remember her leaving but I do remember her chanting in a weird language. One I have not heard before. I also remember staring into those intense green eyes and wishing the most painful and horrible death upon her."
Sebastian thought back to his own grandmother's intense green eyes and stiffened. She had been chanting weird things at him since he was little. She told him that it would keep him looking youthful. Was she lying to him? His grandmother was also the only one with green eyes in the town. For a second Sebastian considered turning his grandmother in but the thought that she had cared for Sebastian when he had no other family to look after him stopped him from revealing the information he had gathered in such a short period of time.
"…so how long do I have to stay here?"
"I want that woman to find me. I want to rip her to into millions of tiny pieces, I want to watch her scream and beg for her life. Until then you shall stay here. Because you look like him, you are the only person in town I shall not hurt. I want to find some answers as well and in order to find answers I need that woman," Ciel spat.
The grandfather clock on the wall to their left chimed and Ciel glanced at the clock. His eyes widened in bewilderment when he saw that it was well past midnight. He turned back to Sebastian just in time to watch the man stifle a yawn. Again he sighed.
"There is a room upstairs to the right of the hall. You can use that for the remainder of your stay here."
Sebastian looked grateful for a split second before asking…
"Is that your room? Where will you sleep?"
Ciel chuckled at one of the many innocence of man.
"Demons do not require sleep; it is merely a luxury we sometimes indulge ourselves in."
Sebastian's eyes widened.
"Y-you mean that there are more of you?"
Ciel all but laughed out right.
"Of all the things I told you, the fact they more demons exist has your knickers in a knot?"
Sebastian looked as if he was considering on whether or not he wanted to take offence to that statement but a yawn cut off any retort he had.
"Just go to bed."
"Wait something is itching at me," Sebastian declared.
"Oh, and what might that be," Ciel asked amused.
"I'm a prisoner aren't I? Why is it that you let me have free rein?"
"A prisoner…?"
Ciel considered his words a bit bemused by them.
"Well I suppose you are a prisoner, if that is what you wish. As to why you have free rein; I doubt that you would be able to get very far, let alone home seeing as we are no longer in Birmingham but on the outskirts of London. I have spent many years in this house and I know every back alley and emergency route so it would be pointless for you to run away. You've seen firsthand how fast I can travel and you being only human gives me a great advantage."
Sebastian scoffed and amusement flashed through Ciel's eyes at the sight. This Sebastian definitely reminded Ciel of himself when he was human.
Sebastian took a second to absorb that he was no longer in Birmingham. When he settled that with himself he decided that he didn't have a thing to say to Ciel. His spirit had already been broken when Ciel had asked him to come here. He was about to turn and head to bed but a thought struck him and he asked…
"What do I even call you; I can't very well go around calling you demon for my stay here?"
Ciel frowned…
"How rude of me, it seems that I assumed you knew who I was… I am Ciel Phantomhive son of…"
Whoa, old habits die hard.
"Never you mind, I'm Ciel. Does that satisfy you for tonight?"
Indeed it did, but rather than admitting it Sebastian just turned and headed to bed.
It was around noon when Ciel finally walked back into his house. He sniffed the air and smelled poached Salmon cooking. It had been a long time since any a smell had come from this manor and he found himself wishing that he had a human's metabolism so that he could enjoy the food he knew Sebastian was cooking. Ciel wondered to the kitchen like a child starving after a long day of playing, momentarily forgetting that he was covered in blood. It rushed back to him at the worried look Sebastian gave him. He cursed under his breath when Sebastian dropped the salmon he had been turning and rushed to his side.
"You weren't in Birmingham were you? That's not the town's people's blood is it?"
"Just because you came here doesn't mean that my threat will die down. I remember twenty years ago I said I would be there promptly at teen o'clock each morning to get the old women. If she was not bound and waiting for me by the chair than I would shed blood. I believe I said I would wait a few hours for her to come to me and when no one did I would kill again. I believe I said the process would repeat until I get the old woman, did I not say that Sebastian?"
"But you said you wouldn't kill anyone as long as I came with you."
"I said no such thing. What I said was if you didn't come with me than the people in your town would meet a fate worse than death."
"So than, I came for naught…?"
"You came to save the people of your town from a fate worse than death, but you can go if you think it was for naught. I am sure your people would greatly enjoy their time in hell, or maybe I'll make a meal of them."
Sebastian grimaced but didn't argue instead he turned back to the burning frying pan and proceeded to make his salmon.
"…and here I thought that you were a polite demon," Sebastian mumbled darkly.
"Oh, I am polite. I learned from the best, though I am still a demon through and through."
Sebastian sighed his shoulders seem to slump and Ciel got the sense that Sebastian was finally deflated.
"You must really love that guy a great deal to go through all the trouble of avenging his death. To terrorize a whole town just because one woman destroyed a happy day…"
Sebastian trailed off and behind him Ciel's eyes turn a shade of blood red and he raced to Sebastian, pinning the man to the stove.
"You have no idea how it feels to have to watch as someone close to you is killed and you are powerless to stop it. You have no idea how much it hurts to be away from someone you care about because he was taken by some heartless old women who didn't give a damn that neither one of us was a threat to anyone. Don't ever babble such things to me again!"
Ciel let Sebastian drop to the kitchen floor tremors of fear coursing through his veins as he tried to regain his composure. Ciel didn't even look back to see if the man left in a quaking mess on the floor was still alive. Later he would curse his action, but right now he just didn't care. If Ciel would have cared just for a moment, he would have heard the sobs from the man in the kitchen.
Ciel finally reappeared later that day and was surprised to see that Sebastian was still in the house. He found it amusing that Sebastian wouldn't at least try to get away from him in a humans hopes of getting back to his town.
Sebastian noticed Ciel's presence when the demon sat down and opened a book that sat nonchalantly on the coffee table. Ciel noticed that Sebastian visibly stiffened when he sat but ignored that small fact. He couldn't take back what he had done so why dwell on his actions? Instead, Ciel opened his book and started flipping through the pages.
"You're wrong you know."
Successfully gaining Ciel's attention, for the boy had looked up at him puzzled, Sebastian stated.
"I had a little brother once. I can't remember much about him because I was young when he was sacrificed, or at least that was what my grandma told me, but I was there I saw what happened. He was murdered right in front of my eyes and I couldn't do anything about it. I know how you feel in some respects but I will never terrorize innocent people just because he is gone."
Ciel stayed quiet but only for a moment as staying quiet didn't really sit well with him.
"You, sir, are no demon. You are human and there isn't much that you can do as a human. You should just count your losses."
"…and you should count yours."
"…Why on earth would I want to do that? I have power and skill to back it up. Why do I need to fall to such a human level when I myself am no longer human?"
That statement seemed to intrigue Sebastian for he looked at Ciel with something unknown to the both of them shining in his eyes.
"You were human once," he asked and all the disbelief he felt seeped into his words.
"Yes I was but no longer. I am who I am now. I haven't regretted it. Not once in the three hundred years I've been a demon, not once that is until Sebastian was taken so ruthlessly from me. Ever since that day I have regretted that I am still alive when that was not supposed to be the outcome of my life. I still wouldn't regret it if Sebastian had been here with me, my Sebastian, not some human with his name."
Sebastian frowned, anger building in his gut.
"I never asked to come here. You forced me to be here."
Ciel couldn't keep a sadistic smirk from forming on his lips. At the look of said smirk, Sebastian deflated for the second time that day and rose to his feet.
"I'm going to bed."
Sebastian promptly walked by Ciel. Ciel was going to laugh and brush this off as Sebastian throwing a temper tantrum when he caught sight of his finger print marks bruised into the back of Sebastian's neck. He did cursed himself, for he had said the man wouldn't be harmed and this was the second time he had bruised the man. Ciel hated liars and in the matter of days he had become one. Maybe having this Sebastian here with him was more harm than good, Ciel thought to himself as he resumed thumbing through his forgotten book.
To be continued
Wow, I didn't think this chapter would come out as fast as it did but I hope it cleared some confusion. My next update will be soon, hopefully by Friday… …Hopefully…
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