Hello! So it's finally here. Sorry it took so long, I hope you're still in the mood to read a christmas story.. :0 So... enjoy! :D
Ciel heard a smack. He opened his eyes and saw the red silhouette bend protectively over his stomach.
Ciel rapidly walked over to the two men, and placed himself beside Sebastian. First then, he saw what had happened; the redhead had been stopped by a kick in an unpleasant place, by a little blond-haired boy.
"Alois!" Ciel ran toward the boy and kneeled down to give him a big hug. "What are you doing here?" he whispered in the boy's ear.
"I followed my nanny and hid behind a tree. Then I saw that he was about to kiss mom, and I didn't like that. I felt sorry for you..." the boy answered silently.
"I love you," Ciel said, and could almost feel the tears in his eyes.
Alois sighed full of relief. He felt happy inside. "I love you too, dad."
Sebastian was speechless. His son had just stopped the one thing he had swore he would never do - he had swore that it would be over his dead body. And his son had just stopped it.
Sebastian hurried over to his son. He lifted him up and hugged him tight, so his head was buried in the little shoulder. "I love you, son."
"I love you too, mom," the boy said happily in his mom's arms.
"That really hurt," Grell said and stood up. He looked at Alois with almost disgust in his face. "You are a bad little boy!" He started to walk against Alois who was sitting in Sebastian's arms, but Sebastian gave Alois to Ciel, and stopped Grell by placing his arm in front of him.
"Grell, stop! He is just a boy. And by the way, you have to get through me, before you can even touch my family!" He said with an almost evil voice. Ciel could see that his eyes were about to turn red. He laid a hand on Sebastian's arm to calm him down.
"He's not worth it..." he said silently, so only Sebastian could hear it. "We got our boy, so let's just go home and celebrate Christmas..."
Sebastian took a deep breath, and Ciel knew that he had to use all his strength in that breath to calm down his feelings.
Finally Sebastian turned around and started to go home with his family by his side.
Then, suddenly, Sebastian felt something near his ear. He turned around and managed to stop Grell fist.
"You stupid, Grim reaper. You really thought that you could defeat me?! Well, you can't. And you got nothing. I will never let you touch me nor my family! Got it?!" Sebastian turned around again to walk toward his home, but turned again and hit Grell right in his face. "Merry Christmas!"
Sebastian had found the Christmas decorations and now the three of them was about to decorate the living room.
Ciel had just put a Christmas elf in the window, when someone knocked on the door.
"I'll open!" Alois ran out in the hallway and Ciel could hear the door open. "Hello," Alois said to someone.
Ciel and Sebastian went out to the boy in the hallway together. Lizzy was standing outside the door. Behind her stood Mey-Rin, and behind her was a Christmas Tree magically flying in the air. Finnian looked through the branches and Bardroy did the same.
"Hi, Lois!" Finny said happily to Alois.
"Hey, Finny!" Alois happily answered. "Hi, Bard and Mey-Rin!"
"Elizabeth? What are you doing here?" Ciel asked.
"I keep telling you that you shall call me Lizzy," Lizzy said with an angry gaze on Ciel, but when he didn't respond, she added, "What? Can't a girl visit her cousin? Well, if it's not for you, then I'll just visit my grand nephew!" Lizzy walked the few steps up and hugged Alois so tight, that he had trouble breathing.
"And what are you doing with that tree?" Ciel asked, although he had his expectations.
Lizzy let go of Alois, who finally could breathe again. "I figured that you wouldn't have a tree, so we brought one. It wouldn't be real Christmas without a Christmas tree, don't you agree?" Without waiting for an answer, Lizzy took Alois' hand and walked past Ciel and Sebastian into the house. "So, what do you want for a present?" They heard Lizzy ask Alois in the living room.
Ciel glanced up at Sebastian, while Mey-Rin, Finnian and Bardroy tried to come in the door with the big tree.
"Sorry," Ciel whispered to Sebastian.
"For what?"
"For being related to them." Ciel closed the door behind Finnian, Bardroy and the tree.
Sebastian and Ciel were in the kitchen making dinner. Well that is, Sebastian was making dinner while Ciel was sitting on the kitchen chair.
"So, how do we get rid of them?" Ciel asked.
"What do you mean? I mean, think about it. Do you really want to tell them to leave on Christmas Eve?" Sebastian said while cooking the turkey.
Ciel looked at him. "I thought you would agree with me. Don't you think that they are just a little bit annoying?"
"Yes, I do. But they are family, and Alois loves them. I can't do that to them. I won't..."
"But we were excited about this day. We wanted to celebrate it alone with our child. Don't you want that anymore?"
"Yes, of course." Sebastian walked to him and kneeled in front of him, so he could look straight into his eyes. "But they are family too. So why don't we just try to get the best out of the day anyway? And besides, we still have our surprise for him, which he is going to love." Sebastian leaned against Ciel to kiss him, but Ciel turned his head away, and Sebastian kissed him on the forehead instead.
He stood up and continued with his cooking.
Ciel went up to the living room, where Finnian was about to show Alois a magic trick.
"They're going to stay," he mumbled to himself and sat down in a chair. Lizzy came over to him.
"So? Anything I can do to help?" she asked. When Ciel just stared at her with an unbelievable glare, she added, "I know that you didn't expect me to come, and that you and Sebastian probably wanted to celebrate by yourself, but now that I'm here I can just as well make myself useful."
Ciel continued starring.
"Fine!" Elisabeth said and turned around. "I'll just ask Sebastian then!" Then she walked toward the kitchen.
Ciel sighed. He might as well try to get the best out of the day. And besides; Alois seemed to be enjoying himself with the magic trick he was about to learn.
"Daddy," Alois yelled and ran toward Ciel with a deck of cards in his hand. "I want to show you something! I learned this magic trick from Finny." He placed the cards in three rows. "Think of one of these cards and point of the row it is in," he said. Ciel pointed at a row and Alois took them all together and putted them in three rows again. "Now, which row is your card in now?" Alois did the same two more times and then started to decide which card he should pick. "Is it this one?" he asked excited.
Ciel couldn't help but smile. Alois was so excited even though the others were there. That made him happy. And also because Alois was holding out a 9 of hearts, but Ciel's card was the 3 of hearts.
Ciel smiled at the little boy and nodded. "You're right. You are a very good little magician, aren't you?"
Alois smiled proudly and jumped into his dad's arms.
So, Christmas Eve wasn't that bad, Ciel later thought in his bed. It was a great dinner Sebastian had made. They had sung songs; mostly Lizzy, Finnian and Mey-Rin. But it had been fun, especially when Finny had tripped over his own chair and fallen over - he wasn't hurt though. And it had been nice when Bardroy had decided that he wanted to tell a Christmas story - well, Finny had persuaded him - and Alois, who was sitting on Sebastian's lap, almost fell asleep.
Then Elizabeth decided that it was time for them to leave. They said goodbye and wished them a merry Christmas. After they had left, Sebastian had carried Alois up to bed. Then he had played a lullaby on his violin to make sure that Alois was asleep. Ciel had then put his arms around Sebastian and they had kissed. Sebastian had whispered a thank you for being you and for not yelling at Lizzy and the others. Then they had left to go to bed.
Now Ciel is lying in the bed. Sebastian had just stood up and got dressed and soon enough Ciel will hear a noise from the living room where Sebastian is in. That's his clue. Then Ciel shall go in and wake up Alois and they will together go to the living room.
Now Ciel's clue. He could hear the noise from the living room and he waited for a couple of minutes in the bed.
"Mom? Dad?" Alois whispered when he opened the door to his parent's bedroom. "Someone's in the living room." He climbed up to Ciel in the bed. "Where's mom?" he asked, looking at Sebastian's side of the bed.
"Doesn't matter," Ciel quickly replied. "Who's in the living room?"
"A big man with a red coat and a long white beard. He carried a big sack full of something."
Ciel hid a smile that slowly came to his lips. "Let's go and find out who it is, shall we?" He stood up and was about to walk out of the door, when he found out that the little boy wasn't following.
Ciel looked back at the bed, where Alois was hiding under the blanket. "What's wrong?" Ciel asked and sat on the bed again.
"I'm scared," Alois whispered. "I don't want a stranger in our house. Where's mom?" Ciel could hear that the little boy was about to cry, so he took his arms around him and cradled him gently from side to side.
"There's nothing to be afraid of," he assured him. "And we don't need mom for this task, okay? We can handle it. I promise." Ciel kissed him on the forehead and carried him in his arms out to the stairs.
Alois was right: down in the living room was a big man with a long red coat and a long white beard walking around. He was, as mentioned, carrying a big sack full of something, and Ciel knew what it was: presents.
"There's no need to worry. I know who that man is," Ciel said to Alois.
Alois, who was hiding his face in Ciel's shoulder while sobbing, turned his head and looked at Ciel with surprise in his face. "Who is it?" he asked and slowly turned his head to look at the stranger in the living room.
"That's Santa Claus," he replied. "He's bringing presents to children all over the world. But only to the one's who's been good, so you better hope that you've been a good boy this year," he teased and smiled at him.
Alois looked scared again. "But I haven't. I almost turned the oven on fire and I ran away from home, causing you and mom to worry about me." He started to cry again.
Ciel hugged him tight. "You haven't been bad, Alois. Mom and I love you, you know that, and Santa knows that. He also knows all the good things you did for us in the past years. I can assure you that you've been good, and that you get a lot of presents."
Alois hesitated. Ciel said; "But if you want to be sure, I got a trick that makes Santa loves you even more." Alois looked at him with confusion and hope in his eyes. "Come on."
They walked to the kitchen and Alois sat on the bench. Ciel took a plate and filled it with cookies. Then he took a glass and poured milk in. "Here," he said and gave the trade with the things on, to Alois. "Give it to Santa. It works every time."
Alois took it still hesitating. "But, dad, I don't want to go and meet Santa."
"I'll go with you," Ciel said.
They walked to the living room and Alois held tight onto Ciel's hand, while Ciel was carrying the trade.
"Santa?" Alois said. He looked scared. "We've brought you milk and cookies."
Santa Claus turned around and looked at the two. "Thank you. Ho ho ho!" he laughed and took the trade from Ciel. "Have you been a good or a bad boy this year, young man?" he asked Alois, who winced.
Ciel gave the boy's hand a squeeze and looked at him with an encouraging smile.
"Good, I think," Alois mumbled. "And bad."
"Bad?" Santa said. "And why is that, young man?"
"I ran away from home, and my mom and dad was worried about me."
"I see. But maybe you've been good too?" Santa asked and Alois shrugged. "Well, maybe you can help me. I got all these presents in my sack, but I'm not sure where I can find this person they are meant for. They are addressed to a man named Alois Phantomhive. Do you know him?"
Alois looked up with surprise. "That's me," he said.
"Oh? But you know that you aren't supposed to open your presents right now, right? You have to wait until tomorrow, right?" Santa asked.
Alois looked sad for a moment, but then quickly gave Ciel a hug and started to run up the stairs. "If I hurry and sleep, the morning will come soon!" he yelled behind him as he slammed the door to his bedroom.
Santa Claus laughed and Ciel did as well. Then Ciel turned his head and looked into Santa's dark eyes. Ciel knew those beautiful eyes over all from this world. He smiled and Sebastian pulled him into a kiss.
"I love you," Sebastian whispered.
"I Love you too," Ciel replied hugging him. "Merry Christmas, my sweet husband."
"Merry Christmas, you."
Okay, this chapter was a bit longer than the other ones, but I hope that you still liked it D: Please write your opinions though :D
This was the last chapter of Sebastian's and Ciel's adventure of parenting the kid of Alois, but who knows? Maybe I'll come up with another story with the same characters?
But thank you for now, and stay cool! 8D