AN; I started this mid july when I was didn't have any internet, and shockingly when I got my internet back...I...completely forgot about it XD
Sooooorrry (my kittens are so big now! The little girl went to a wonderful home and I have both the boys :'D ...and one of the siamese took a weird fucking change and went from being siamese colored, to now being striped and spotted and snow footed like a weird tabby ...- cat genetics are confusing. Theyre also hugeeeeee. at near 5 months old they already have big or bigger feet than my full grown kitties. They weigh like..6-8 pounds already too not a bit of fat on them either!)
Warning and Disclaimers stay same chapter to chapter.
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Ciel shivered against the cool plastic material of the bathtub he was in, his flimsy hospital sanctioned gown doing nothing to keep heat in whatsoever.
At the moment, it was of little importance as he strained his ear in attempts to hear anything outside the small room.
Since the foul being called Jennis hadn't made any attempts to beat him, kill him, rape him or steal his entrails, Ciel was beginning to come to the conclusion this strange act of being forced into a locked room was done for his own well being.
He couldn't tell you why, but it seemed as thought the mysterious man in the black suit had saved him once already and was attempting to continue to do so.
Ciel was beginning to think this...Jennis thing, had been brought in to help him as well.
The wound on the back of his leg was even less painful than before, and seemed to be healing quickly, almost fast enough to walk on. Which was completely insane, he had only just been injured a mere...5 and a half hours ago. The sun wasn't even set yet, and somehow a wound that had him almost dead on the Central Park streets was healed to this degree.
If the thing hadn't addressed itself as a demon, as well as the taller man's 'hell' pun, Ciel would have guessed the thing to be some sort of strange government experiment. But now it was feeling more and more like some sort of..dare he say, degenerate magic.
His thoughts drifted to Helena's shop back in London. It wasn't that long ago that he completely scoffed at the entire idea of anything supernatural, and here he was sitting in New York with a glorified garden gnome.
He flicked his deep blue eyes to lay upon the noisome Jennis, who was currently propped up against the sink. He had an air of ambiguity and a lack of care, but the things eyes were looking at the door.
"Hey..why are we in here...?" Ciel whispered as softly as he could, well aware the accoustics of the bathroom would help amplify his voice. Jennis looked at him for a moment, powerful jaws clenched.
"Well I'ninhere cus I owe Sebastian sunthin. You there, you in here cus' you're intrestin to Sebastian I guess. N' he don't need you getting snapped up by them."
Ciel pulled his legs a bit closer to his body, cold starting to take effect, or maybe it was this things horrible grammar making him shiver. "Them? Who is them?"
Jennis tilted it's head, and took a deep breath.
"Smells like Spider's to me."
Ciel frowned deeply. Spiders? As in Arachnid, spiders? What possible threat could a few 8 legged bugs pose?
Claude nodded curtly to Sebastian, as the triplets whispered unkindly things behind him.
"I'm guessing you have Ciel Phantomhive in there? Accompanied by something from Styx it smells like..." Claude brushed off a bit of dirt on his jacket, the image of a calm gentleman. Readjusting his spectacles he glances back up at Sebastian.
Sebastian seemed amused, but did not respond.
"A hell hound perhaps?"
A chuckle, "Not quite. An old friend."
Claude let one perfect eyebrow raise, it wasn't entirely usual for a high class demon such as Sebastian to muck around with the beings of Styx. They often kept hellhounds, but even then it was rare. Even rarer still for Sebastian to be connected to a general inhabitant.
But, the important factor was Sebastian hadn't said no to having Ciel locked away.
"I don't want the boy. I just have a few questions for you..." Claude spoke snidely, desperately trying to ignore the smell of Ciel's dried blood on the bed a few feet away.
"Regarding Alois, I'm assuming?" Sebastian spoke, he didn't trust Claude's claim that he didn't want Ciel, but knowing that the other curious about something relating to Alois was a step in the right direction he noted. Before, Claude seemed more about using Alois as a means to an end, rather than any fondness for the boy himself while it was obvious the boy deeply loved Claude.
His motives now were a mystery, as Alois himself died much like Ciel had, and both packs were rendered void.
"How much do you know about Alois?" Claude's eyes narrowed, not thrilled with the idea of Sebastian knowing more about his ward than he did.
"Not much, just that he was in New York...And that the Death Gods are out for his head. And Ciel's for that matter..." Sebastian replied curtly, and heard a shuffle from the bathroom. It was impossible that it had gone unnoticed by the four individuals, but Claude at least seemed distracted by something else.
The bespectacled man cursed in a dark and long dead language.
"The red Death God I believe has Alois captive for some reason..." he spoke after a minute of debating whether or not he should or shouldn't inform Sebastian of that fact.
"Grell?" Sebastian said with a certain amount of surprise to his voice. He had known the red head so long as simply an annoyance he had completely forgotten his darker side. The Jack the Ripper side.
"So it's true then...The Death God's are after them? Then...-" Claude's eyes flickered to the bathroom door, pausing in mid sentence, "-...Then we have to find Alois as soon as possible...before he's killed."
"Why?"
Claude's eye's flickered back to Sebastian at the question. Sebastian himself found himself in a similar state to that of Undertaker not that long ago; questioning the motives of a confused demon about a young boy.
"I have to. If I don't...things will happen." He bit out.
"You made another deal with the boy then?"
"No...something else." Claude shook his head.
Sebastian was about to question them further before they heard and shuffling sound, then a bang and what sounded like a heated argument coming from the bathroom. And then, the door was openned.
Without time to think, Sebastian moved. He moved fast enough to put himself between the spider demons and Ciel.
Ciel glared up at him, barely out of the room, and attempted to shove him away. Same old Ciel.
"Look, I don't know or particularly care who or what you are, but I know something about Alois."
And with that, all ears and eyes were on him.
It was moderately uncomfortable sitting in a hospital room with numerous older men, and that's not even including the repugnant troll in the corner.
Even more-so when Ciel occasionally got the overwhelming feeling that more than one of these individuals wanted to pop one of his legs right out of the socket and gnaw on it like an overgrown dog. Though Ciel was always fond of dogs...
He had been positions back onto the hospital bed, with his man of the night rescuer to his side standing guard. Jennis, the noxious hobgoblin, was standing between the bed and the nightstand, reading to do whatever needed to be done to ward off the 'spiders' he kept murmuring about.
Again, Ciel was relatively lost as to what arachnids he was referring to. It was undoubtedly aimed at the newcomers, so where they a team of some sort? Rival gang or creepy child thieves?
If they knew and tolerated Alois, then 'saint' fits them better, Ciel thought to himself with a mental sneer.
But, that was unrelated.
"He said he knew something." "He said he knew things." "Hospital lighting makes you look like a undercooked piece of poultry meat."
Whispers by the triplets were silenced by a sharp look from the bespectacled man.
"You did say you knew something relating to Alois...would you like to inform us, or just sit idly by until you grow old and die and we're left to prompting your remains for information?"
Ciel raised an eyebrow, it was one of the more eloquent ways of saying 'you're boring us to death' he had heard. Obviously, this man was of British origin.
He lowered his gaze to his finger nails, and relaxed his body, as well as he could. The key was to look nonshalant.
"I do...But, how am I to know you're going to use the information I may possess, to benefit myself in anyway? You are aligned with Alois, isn't that correct?"
Sebastian's eyes were dancing in mirth, that Ciel still knew how to play ball against his opponents. He was, while injured from a near fatal wound, treating a demon like he was nothing more than a business rival.
Sebastian wasn't yet aware or know that it would be impossible to remove himself from Ciel's side again, but regardless, he was there to stay. Logically, he should have never interfered in this mess at all, but that would have to mean he was thinking logically in the first place.
Claude was a bit taken back, this was the old Ciel peaking through the looking glass. But he couldn't afford to get wrapped up in the boy again, last time that had happened..he ended up tied to a rather annoying little blonde boy in purgatory for far too long...
A tie that has yet to be broken, Claude thought with a frown. All the more reason to get down to business.
"You've revealed that whatever information you may contain about Alois, may put us at odds. Your first move is a bad one, Ciel Phantomhive." Claude responded back disparagingly. That made Ciel finally look up from his damn nails for once.
Blue eyes levels onto him with utter boredom and apathy.
"No, the fact I was thrown into a hospital bathroom to be kept from your sight was enough to indicate we'd be on opposite playing fields. I think you know where this is going now, I want something, and in return for you word on that, I'll give you what I know. "
This was Ciel's world, when he was 5 he had managed to convince 10 school yard chums that they really honestly wanted to give HIM their dessert snacks.
Sebastian desperately wanted to rest his chin in his hands and watch dreamily as Ciel completely emasculated the other demon, Claude. If demons had birthdays, this would be his.
Claude noticed Sebastian's 'caught the canary' look, and clenched his own jaw.
"Fine. What do you want?"
Ciel smiled kindly, "I don't want to ever hear from Alois again. Ever. I don't want to see him, hear him, or god forbid smell him. If I hear so much as one cultural reference I don't understand and am forced to look up on the internet again, I will, and I swear on this, hunt all of you down."
Everyone was a bit shocked at that, except one demon who was looking at the boy and picturing a conquered world and rose petals.
"Also, don't call me Ciel 'Phantomhive' again.
Then Claude huffed and bit out another, 'Fine'
Ciel nodded, "Alright then, if I have your word on it,-" Claude and the Triplets nodded,"- I met Alois on the flight from London. He was quite annoying. He also said he had a brother, but I never saw him with anyone else after the passengers departed..., I'd imagine that was a lie correct?-" Nods all around.",- Right, so he managed...somehow, to obtain my phone number as well as my mothers. I changed my number once, but he must have gotten it again, most likely from my mother."
Ciel paused, and not just entirely for dramas sake, though Sebastian was silently congratulating the boy for his theatre skills. Remembering the phone call that Alois had delivered, brought back memories of being attacked. That he had almost died in the middle of a park, that he almost died, most likely with goose feces on his shoes was a horrible thing to contemplate.
"...I received a call from Alois, in Central Park. Just before the individual who attacked me arrived...,-"
Sebastian cut in with a, "Death God, Grim Reaper, Shinigami as some know them.. His name was William T. Spears. " and shot Claude a knowing look, as his fellow demons would be aware of the implications of a high ranking Death God being called out on this.
Ciel frowned for a moment, before nodding and filing that information into the back of his head, and continued on,"- Thank you, as I was saying...Alois called..with..the most annoying song I have ever- okay that's unrelated. Alois called and told me he..captured my mother. And was holding her hostage at St. Patricks Cathedral.."
Claude shook his head adamantly, "No. If our information is anything to go on, Alois is more likely to be a captured party than an instigator. He couldn't possibly be...-"
"How much do you really know about the boy? How do you know he hasn't remembered every little thing you did to him, how do you know he isn't purposely trying to get back at you..using the Death Gods? He's foolish, and immature, 'll give you that... but he's clever." Sebastian spoke smoothly, looking firmly at Claude, while Sebastian cared very little about the Trancy boy, for a demon...he was mildly disgusted by Claude's actions in throwing away his master.
Claude looked conflicted, and the triplets stayed silent, not even bothering to whisper to themselves...they had just as much been a part of the breach in contract that led to Alois' death.
And Demons...were all about contracts, without it they had nothing besides hunger. No emotions, no heart, no love. Right?
Their silence was cut short when Ciel gasped, and grabbed for Sebastian's arm. Blue eye's focused onto the doorway.
The present demons whipped their heads and attentions to the figure now standing in the door.
None other than William T. Spears, again.
"If you're worried about Alois Meister/Trancy, taking part in Grell's scheme purposely, don't be."
He flipped open a book, which had three names on it.
"Alois is dying, currently and will be dead in a matter of minutes.-"
Claude visibly flinched and froze, his mind racing. He let him die again. He let him die, it was his fault again. He was responsible. He did it, He did it again. He killed Alois.
But, if...Alois dies..then-
Ciel felt his blood pressure drop into his hospital sanctioned booties. Not because he was faced with his attacked, but because he could read the next name on the list. Sebastian's hand curled tightly over the boys shoulder.
William continued on,
"-And not long after, Deirdre McKinley-La Mer will follow suit... -"
He frowned deeply, it was the most amount of emotion anyone had seen on the man. He looked honestly bothered.
"-...And then, my assignment will be to eliminate Grell Sutcliffe for going against orders and killing an innocent."
A/N;
._. if I didn't stop it there I'd never update this XD Also I did not really do much but I once over with my eyes on this, so it's probably ripe with bad.
I don't even know what to say anymore. I'm still kind of debating where to take this, and no matter what I do it ends up being a lot longer than I would have ever expected XD I was thinking like. 5 -10 chapters tops..and here I am at...uuugghsuhur
I'm pretty sure I accidentally turned Sebastian into a teenage girl in this chapter, but whatever. (I will not lie and say I didn't use a thesaurus while describing Jennis a few times. Words are fun. )
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