"Sebastian my son, it is vital that you come, a true king-"
"I am Ciel's mate before I am future king father. It is vital to the survival of my marriage that my Ciel not feel neglected and have such pain." Ann smiled at her youngest son.
"I realize that he is important to you Sebastian, but the residents of hell will need a king that knows what he is doing."
"Ciel isn't just important to me, he is my entire world, my heart. My children -"
"You are absolutely right Sebastian, your family is your primary concern." Ann said, preventing the king from speaking.
"Thank you for your understanding Mother."
"Rhiannon, what are you -" Ann raised a hand to silence the devil.
"Being king can be rather lonely if one does not have his family at his side, do you agree my love?" The devil sighed.
"Yes my love. If I lost you or our children, I would never be the same."
"Then you can appreciate Sebastian's situation, Ciel needs him now and I think it only fair that allow this absence, it is for a noble cause after all."
"Very well, it will be worth the small delay." The king said.
"One other thing father,mother, I fully intend to ask my Ciel to renew our vows on our anniversary this year and I shall give him the day he should have had in the first place,should have say yes, I would very much like to have you both as well, however, I will not tolerate Morded's presence. After that, I shall be taking him on a little adventure, just the two of us, you are of course free to visit our children."
"Sebastian, that is such a wonderful gift, if I may my dear, if he feels as you describe,it is vitally important to be patient and make him fall in love with you all over again and have it feel like the first time, it will be difficult, but try to keep the focus on you two, nothing else." Sebastian embraced Ann.
"Thank you mother,could I ask...if I find that it does not work as I hope-"
"my darling son,sit a moment." Ann gestured to the chair beside him.
"If you cannot make Ciel find reason to believe that he is not important to you, you will lose him. True love is a powerful thing, but if one feels as if it is lost to him,you will lose him forever."
"lose my Ciel, I'd rather lose my own life. I believe that true love never dies, how can it be?"
"You're love will never die my son, he will always have love for you, the problem is that it changes sometimes. I wish you luck my son."
"Thank you, I shall need all that I c get."
"That's really sweet that he wants this for you." Alois said as he sat beside his friend.
"It's a nice thought, I just don't think I want to go, I have children to look after, two of which are only a few months old, how can I be expected to drop everything?"
"You're not, Sebastian said he was going to have the arrangements made."
"why are you fighting this, if Naveen offered to take me away, just us, I'd do it." Ciel looked at him skeptically.
"You could leave Lenora?"
"Hannah would watch her. I'd be okay."
"Really?"
"really,for like...five minutes but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about you, everyone would be fine, you can't be this way and hope the feeling disappears, I know you love your children Ciel, they know it, the entire world's population knows it, do something for yourself and Sebastian. He wants to give you everything he can, you just have to be able to accept it. Being a mother changes you, you realize you can't be selfish anymore because there's a tiny person who has to come first, but you can't just give until you have nothing left."
"it kind bothers me that he spends so much time down their and only brings up wanting to get away because I said I feel trapped inside a circle. It feels forced."
"you know it's not though don't you?"Alois felt bad for his friend."
"I don't know anymore. Maybe this is what it's like to fall out of love with someone."
"Don't say that Ciel, you still love him and he loves you."
"He's the father of my children, I'll always love him, but -"
"Fine, if you want to go that way, you're the mother of his children, doesn't that mean he'll always love you too?"
"I don't know , maybe to a degree, but if he loves me so much, why not come back up once or twice like he did before,just to say he loves me,or see if everything's alright?"
"learning to run an entire kingdom is hard work."
"It's not just that, i-"Sebastian opened the door and stepped inside.
"Ciel my darling, I have something to tell you." He declared closing the door behind him.