**Sebastian's P.O.V. **

It took a considerable amount of will power not to glare at the admitting handsome young man as he came back into the room less than five minutes later, tea tray in hand and a small smile tugging at his lips. I watched every move for a mistake as he set the tray down and served a cup of tea for himself and I. Nothing was offered with the tea, but that was allowed due to the fact it was so soon after the breakfast hour. Not one single mistake. My hand tightened on the delicate cup, barely refraining from demolishing it to a fine powder. This was NOT part of the equation. He wasn't supposed to have found someone to replace me. I forced my breathing to even out and my muscles to relax as I gave a slight nod of my head in thanks.

"Master shall be leaving at one to attend a meeting for the company and will require the dining room set for five upon his return. Lady Elisabeth and her husband Anthony will be attending as well as a few others. Luckily we will not have to put up with Lady Johanna any more as she finally got the hint that no matter how much she showed her cleavage or pushed it in Masters face she was not and never would be Lady Phantomhive. It was almost enough to make me sick. As if Master would stoop so low as to bed that harlot." he leaned back as he let out a sigh. "Unfortunately after breaking the engagement to miss Elizabeth he refused to take another so quick and still will not name an interest after the four and a half year split. Just keeps saying you only go through the pain once before learning the lesson. It is strange. Anyway I will be going to the meeting as well, so I will trust you remember where everything is. Of course we still are not allowing Bart to cook and it would be best if you checked the garden before the guests arrive. We have not had an accident there in a while and I would prefer it did not happen in front of the guests. The cleaning has already been done and the only new person working in the house is me, so any unrecognized faces are to be treated as hostile. We received a few threats a week ago and now would be the best time to act upon them."

The man was halted from continuing further by the door flinging open and Mey-rin all but fell into the room. "Master is-" she cut off when she caught sight of the other person in the room, red flooding her cheeks, "Oh! Sebastian-sama! You have returned!" I inclined my head in greeting as the man in front of me stood and faced Mey-rin.

"You had a message for me. Mey-rin?" his tone was smooth and soothing, assuring her nothing was wrong and caused her to blush a little more.

"a-ah, Yes. Master is in the carriage waiting to go and requests you to make haste so to get this over with. I will be seeing you when you get back"

A warm smile flitted on those lips, "Thank you Mey-rin. If you will excuse me." the second part was said to me was he nodded goodbye and retreated from the room.

I turned to Mey-rin and gave her a smile, " hello to you Mey-rin, I was wondering if you could tell me who that was, he did not get to introducing himself.

"W-w-well…"

**Ciel's P.O.V. ~ Time skip to Ciel returning ~ **

I walked alongside Lizzy, fighting back a smile as she prattled on about the scandal at the party she went to last week. After marrying Anthony she had toned down her hyper-ness a few notches even if she was still a little too affectionate to her 'Favorite cousin'. Personally I was just glad she was no longer taller than me. It had been almost insufferable to bare after HE left and I threw myself into training. After breaking the engagement she wouldn't even come to see me for a a few months and only calmed down after having met Anthony and I had admitted to not having a fondness for the female form. After that she mainly bugged me about who the 'special someone' was who had caught my eye. In fact it should be coming up right about n...

"oh Ciel isn't it just wonderful! Sebastian is back! You can finally confess your love and live happily together! It is so perfect! Why else would he have returned to your service? I bet he could barely contain himself when he saw you now." she squealed in delight and barely refrained from grabbing me and attempting to squeeze the life out of me. That did not stop her from grabbing my hand and crushing it between both of hers.

I chuckled a little bit "Actually I'm fairly certain he was glaring at me and wishing me a painful death when I saw him." I stopped and let a corner of my mouth twitch in mirth, "of course that could be because instead of being welcomed back by a helpless boy, he was greeted with a respectable butler worthy of the Phantomhive family."

She stood open mouthed for a second before laughing, "oh Ciel you didn't!"

A.N.: sorry for the long wait life gets busy sometimes... but anyway here you are!