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The Last Words.
Chapter III.
Not Forgotten.
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Ciel waited until he heard the clock chime eleven times before he peered out of his room. The coast was clear and he stepped into the hallway, fully dressed with a thick, dark cloak on. He quietly made his way through the dim halls of his home and went outside through the kitchen door. Ciel didn't want to try and gather a carriage together for fear it would make too much noise. It was cooler out, but not unbearable, so he decided he would make the long walk into town.
Ciel stepped lightly on the side of the dirt road that led into the town. A few candles were still lit dimly in windows as he drew closer to the sleepy village. He saw no one out and about and nothing could be heard but the rustling leaves in the wind. As he drew closer to the Undertakers shop, Ciel tried to peer inside the window. He was sure the man was here, and a few lit candles scattered around the room confirmed this. He knocked on the door three times before it creaked open slowly.
"Hello?" Ciel called out, stepping inside to an empty room. "Undertaker, are you there?"
He took short steps forward, glancing around the dusty room only to have his eyes fall upon the same coffin he saw last time, which was the elegant Ciel-sized coffin he could have sworn was for him. Easing himself towards it, he took his hand and ran it down the gold trim in the side of the heavy box. A sudden flash appeared in his mind.
"Hello Earl, I was wondering when you would be coming to see me. Yours is ready you know," the Undertaker ran a hand over the coffin. "I took special care when making this one, considering who it's for."
"Back so soon?" a voice appeared from the darkness. Ciel turned quickly to see the Undertaker looming in the doorway leading to the back of the shop.
"I figured you would be here," Ciel sighed.
"Why of course, just taking care of my latest...customers," he smirked, wiping his hands on a cloth that he tossed on a near by table. Ciel could only imagine everything the man's job consisted of. "But I do wonder what brings you to my shop at this hour? As I recall, you father wasn't pleased to find you here the first time." Ciel watched as the man glanced back and forth between Ciel and the coffin. Ciel wanted to get back to the matter at hand.
"I had some questions to ask you," Ciel stated, much like his old self. Before he gave the Undertaker any time to respond, he spoke again. "The bodies of the victims found dead over the past few weeks, was there anything wrong with them? Anything at all?"
"Wrong with them?" Undertaker pondered to himself. "What's wrong with being dead?" he snickered to himself.
"I mean, were they injured in anyway? No stab marks? Strangled? Could they have been poisoned?" Ciel rambled off a list of examples, ignoring the Undertakers snickers and giggles. After a moment the man ceased his laughing.
"They appear to have nothing wrong with them, disappointing really," he shrugged. "Not a scratch on them, they just," he made a dramatic motion with his hand, "died."
"That's impossible. No one can just drop dead for no reason at all," Ciel spat out with some irritation.
"You have a better explanation?" Undertaker asked curiously.
Ciel thought things over to himself for a few moments. It didn't make any sense at all for so many bodies to turn up dead without a reason.
"Not...really," he unwilling admitted. He really couldn't explain anything. The Undertaker just laughed to himself and leaned against the doorframe.
"Was that all you came for?" Undertaker asked. "You look like your holding something back."
Ciel gave the man a hard stare; he had already denied Ciel once at admitting to know him. Ciel's eyes drifted to the gold trimmed coffin once more. That was one memory that he could not shake. The Undertaker let his gaze follow Ciel's.
"Oh the coffin," he registered. "I bet your just dying to know more!" The Undertaker burst into laughter at his own pun and doubled over.
"You're no help at all!" Ciel fumed loudly before abruptly turning and stomping out the door.
The cool air swirled around him as he stepped back out into the streets. The anger flush on his face was glad for the cold breeze. 'He didn't tell me anything, this was a waste of time,' Ciel thought to himself.
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The Undertaker made his way to the back room of his shop after an angry Phantomhive boy stormed off. He went over to one of the victims he had been working on. The body of a young man lay stiff on the wooden table. Instruments and such were scattered around, and the only light in the room werefrom coming the melting candles.
"Such a pity you all have come to me in one piece," he started gathering his tools, "but it's not your fault I guess. You can't help how you died," he told the corpse. "But you did leave a young boy very confused and digging for information." he leaned down to the corpse's deaf ear, "But we'll just have to keep this our little secret right? We don't want things to come crashing down on us do we?"
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A tired boy made his way back home. The wind grew louder and stung his face with its cold wasn't long before Ciel saw the manor come into view. Ciel snuck back in through )the kitchen door and tip toed his way back up to his room. His disrobed himself and pulled a nightshirt over himself before crawling into bed.
His mind raced endlessly, not allowing sleep come. His unsettling mind had almost caused him to think himself mad a few times over the past few weeks. He went back and forth weather or not to believe what he felt. Yet somehow he knew, he just knew he wasn't mad. Everything he remembered from before all this happened was real and he knew it. Still, he had no clue how to explain why things were how they were. But he wouldn't let those memories go, no matter what.
'If you were here,' his mind dwelled on Sebastian, 'Everything would be easier.'
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Not too far off in a small abandoned cottage, a small smile appeared on the face of a scarlet-eyed demon.
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