Chapter 6: The Dispatch Building

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This time I am adding something new to the storytelling! I got the idea from reading Terry Pratchett's books. Any time you see an asterisk*, at the bottom of the paragraph there will be a small note that augments the sentence the asterisk was in with extra details I that I couldn't fit in the story otherwise. They aren't necessary to the story at all, but are rather fun little tidbits.

*Just seeing if you are paying attention.

I do not own Kuroshitsuji. I do own Lucia and the storyline though.

The 'camp' Phantomhive had been talking about was in reality a massive, but well disguised building in which the secret service worked. The spies dispatch office was nice enough. The floors were all pristine and the walls looked newly painted. It was a bit overwhelming for Lucia, who had never been in such an environment before.

"What are you looking at?"
She hid her nervousness with a sharp tongue.

"Nothing, ma'am," stuttered the mousy bespectacled man who had bumped into her, engrossed in his work which was held in place to a clipboard, "I apologise for bumping into you. Are you new here?"

Lucia instantly felt sorry for reacting so harshly to the man.

"Yes, I am new," she replied, "Could you escort me to wherever it is that I should be taking my recruitment papers?"

"Of course. Who is your friend? Is he your brother?"

"He is my cousin. He was the one who had me suggested for employment."

" I am Sebastian Michaelis. Pleased to make your acquaintance," replied Sebastian with a courteously outstretched hand that went unnoticed by the man, and was awkwardly pulled back in.

"Stephen Farrow. Follow me."

Stephen Farrow led the two through the white halls of faceless workers devoured by paperwork and into an office where they were greeted by an old man who seemed to be in charge. Most of their conversation was bland and Lucia forgot it as soon as she left the office, but she remembered everything important, such as where she would be staying until her first mission, where she would be trained, and, most importantly, where the dining hall was. She and Sebastian went to their respective rooms, left their supplies on their assigned beds, and promptly went to the dining hall.

Sebastian and Lucia managed to stake out a table for themselves to eat in relative privacy* where they could discuss what they had gotten into.

"Sebastian, where exactly are we? And that's an order. You -must- tell me."

"Yes, my la-"

"Don't call me that. It's weird for a 'cousin' to call his 'cousin' "my lady", don't you agree? My name is Lucia while we remain here," she allowed herself a grin, "However, as soon as we leave you may continue to refer to me that way. I could certainly get used to it."

"Very well, Lucia. We are in a faction of the British Secret Service that is quite literally the most top secret branch of it as of now. The Phantomhive family is part of it. They are in control of recruitment."

"But they will even accept the child's advise? There is another factor that you aren't telling me, Sebastian."

He smirked.
"I have yet to pull one on you, my Lucia," he paused to delight in her appalled reaction to being called 'his' and then continued, "Ciel Phantomhive is in actuality quite old, and with that, influential. You see, he is also a demon."

"You know, ordinarily I'd be surprised..."

"Only a handful of people know the truth about him, but those who do are all in high power and take his word seriously as he is hundreds of years older than they."

"Ah. I suppose that answers my question. Well, it would appear that lunch break is pretty much over..."

*It may have had something to do with the fact that this particular table was in the direct line of stench of the table that belonged to the drill coach who had been affectionately dubbed "B.O. Joe"** by the new recruits.
**Miraculously, every new recruit had independently come up with the exact same nickname for the man.

That's all for now, folks!

Sebassy-chan