I've decided to update two chapters today since I have work to do tomorrow. On Sunday I will update again. Enjoy the latest case of the Dog and the Spider!

Onyxinlife

"Why are we in a mental asylum?" Alois asked clutching at Claude's arm as a laughing patient passed him in the hallway.

"Because the Queen wants us to investigate a patient" Ciel replied flashing a kind smile to a small child who was playing a hand clapping game with a patient.

"Which patient?" Arran asked. He had become rather curious about the Dog and Spider duties that Ciel and Alois routinely performed.

"His name is J. He's been here for the past twelve years. In all these twelve years, he never spoke but he only laughed or cackled. Yesterday, two people attempted to kidnap him and it seemed to have triggered something in him. We're here to investigate what he's trying to say and why" Ciel explained.

"Countess Phantomhive? We've been expecting you" a doctor said coming towards them.

"Everyone this is Dr. Tanner. He's a psychologist and he's been in charge of Mr. J all this time" Ciel introduced.

"Before I take you to J, I should explain you a few things" Tanner said.

"Sure" Ciel said.

"First of all, J came here as a transfer from a general hospital. He had a rather bad head injury which caused him to have retrograde amnesia. He doesn't remember how he got the injury. He just sat still or laughed all these years but yesterday, his attempted kidnapping triggered something in his mind. He keeps muttering to himself" Tanner explained.

"Can we see him?" Ciel asked.

"I'm going to skip this one" Alois said.

"Of course but just three at a time. I don't want to agitate him" Tanner replied.

"Sebastian, Luke?" Ciel said and Sebastian nodded. Luke took Sebastian's hand.

They followed the doctor leaving Arran, Claude and Alois alone.

"Why are you so frightened of them?" Claude asked curiously.

"They're scary, you don't know what they might do next" Alois replied, his blue eyes full of fear.

A ball bounced towards them and Arran took it in his hands. They all looked towards two women who were staring at them with fear in their eyes. Arran smiled and then handed the ball back to one of the women. One woman smiled and waved at Arran. Arran smiled back and the women went back to playing with the ball.

"They're scared of us because they don't understand us. You don't understand them so you're afraid of them as well" Arran commented.

Ciel, Sebastian and Luke entered the room and saw J seated on his bed and watching Tom and Jerry with rapt attention.

"J? There are some people here to see you" Tanner said.

"Hi, J. I'm Ciel. How are you?" Ciel asked.

"I'm fine. How are you?" J asked with a smile. Ciel smiled even thought there were a couple of teeth missing in J's smile.

"We're going to ask you a couple of questions, J. Do you mind?" Ciel asked.

"No"

"What happened last night, J? Do you remember your kidnapper's faces?" Ciel asked.

"They were wearing ski masks. He didn't see a thing" Tanner replied.

"What about your memories? Since your kidnapping brought out something, do you remember what happened twelve years ago?" Ciel asked.

"He'll kill me. I don't want to die" J's eyes filled with tears and Ciel took his hand.

"You won't die, J, I promise. Just tell me what you know" Ciel said.

"He told me he would kill me. He would kill me in the church. In front of God because I sinned" J replied, his eyes full of fear.

"Do you remember where this church is?" Sebastian asked.

"I don't know. I remember some trees and lots of blue but nothing else. Oh yeah and Palm Beach Lodge" J replied.

"What about your real name?" Luke piped up.

"He doesn't remember that and we've tried tracing his ID but we couldn't" Tanner replied.

"Can you sign something for me?" Ciel pulled out a notebook and pen.

J took the pen in his shaking hands and then managed to sign an E on the paper.

"So your name starts with E" Ciel concluded.

"How did you figure that out?" Luke asked.

"You can forget everything but not your signature" Ciel replied.

They said their goodbyes to J and then walked out into the hallway.

"Who pays his hospital bills?" Sebastian asked.

"We don't have any details since the person wants to be anonymous. We just have his email address but no phone number or name" Tanner replied.

"Would you mind giving us the email address? We might be able to get something from that" Ciel asked.

After they were done, they went to look for Alois. They found him kicking a football around with a few patients. Arran was also with them while Claude was standing off to the side awkwardly.

"Time to go" Ciel said.

"Bye guys. We'll come to play later okay?" Alois said and then walked out of the room.

"I thought you were scared to death of them" Luke said.

"Arran made me think a little differently" Alois replied.

Back at the mansion, Ciel handed the email to Claude.

"Find whatever you can about this email ID. Maybe we can get something out of it" She said.

"So what can we say about our Mr. J?" Alois asked.

"He just remembers a church, the color blue and Palm Beach Lodge" Ciel replied.

"So does this lodge exist?" Arran asked.

"There are many Palm Beach Lodges in England now" Sebastian replied.

"What about 12 years ago? How many were there?" Ciel asked.

"Only one" Sebastian replied.

"Let's go investigate" Ciel said.

"According to the map there is a well-established church nearby" Arran said looking over Sebastian's shoulder.

"Can you pull up some images of the church?" Ciel asked.

Sebastian brought out some images and then Ciel smiled. The church had a blue roof at the top.

"We need to take J here and see if he does remember anything" Ciel said.

"We'll split up then. You and Sebastian can go to the lodge and then we'll take J to the church" Alois said.

"You really are starting to like the mental asylum, aren't you?" Ciel asked with a smirk.

"They're pretty fun to be around" Alois admitted.

That next afternoon, Alois, Claude, Arran and Luke took J to the church.

"Take me away from here! He's going to kill me! Please don't let him kill me!" J screamed.

He struggled against Claude's hold and Alois tried to calm him.

"Just tell us if you remember anything about this place and then we'll let you go" Alois said.

J nodded but the fear wouldn't leave his eyes. They began walking around the church and J suddenly began walking by himself.

"Is he going to run?" Luke asked.

"Here, there's something here" J said pointing to the flower garden.

"In the flower garden? Is he off his rocker?" Alois asked.

"He is a mental patient" Arran pointed out.

"One who's on the way to recovery" Luke countered.

"Here!" J insisted pointing to the garden.

"Claude, dig it up" Alois said.

Claude bent and then began digging with his gloved hands. He dug around three feet and then something could be seen.

"Oh my god" Alois closed his eyes in horror.

Inside in the dug up garden was a skeleton.