AN: OMG I AM SO SORRY! I just found this story again after I posted the first chapter of my new one. I went through surgery shortly after posting chapter two so I had forgotten I had even posted anything. I will strive to finish it now, it will not be the same vision it was more than a year ago and the murderer is probably long escaped from my head but let's see, huh?

The ballroom was as beautiful as always once we got inside inside. Daisy and rose petal danced in the air and the food was strategically placed on the walls to allow maximum dancing room. I couldn't help but allow my eyes to wander to the man next to me, dressed in a formal black tuxedo that hugged him everywhere and briefly I wondered if it would be possible to get him to walk slightly in front of me so I could admirer from behind. I blinked, when did I become such a perv? Oh right, when I was born.

But entering the Trancy manor with Adrien by my side was different than entering alone and not just because I was with someone, it was more complicated than that. No, this feeling was more of belonging, that I rarely got in social situations. Being alone I tend to drift towards the walls and rarely interacted with people, I wouldn't even come if it didn't help my store for people to see me in high class parties. Plus, Alois and Claude are old friends of mine, or at least Claude is, so it would be impolite to turn down every invitation they chose to send to me. Not that there was many, they knew me too well for that.

"Felice!" Brat #2 yelled from across the room. He was always one for the dramatics.

"Alois dear, how have you been?" I smiled at him indulgently as he spun around, his short blonde hair getting lost in his movements.

"I've been absolutely great. Who is the sexy man at your side?" He batted his eyelashes at Adrien and made sickening facial expressions at him, just egging on the growing smirk on the demon's face.

He is such a little gay slut, I thought. No matter how fond I am of the little blonde nuisance, he still has the annoying ability to well, annoy me.

"Enough of that, enough of that," I give Alois a light smack on the arm to get his attention drawn away from the handsome man at my side.

That may not have been the smartest move.

Almost immediately his smirk grew more menacing and I once again was struck with the realization of just how evil this kid was.

"Is he your boyfriend then, Fel? Does Claude know? CLAUDE CLAU-" I clamp my hand over his mouth when I realized what he was doing, but it was too late and the demon (and everyone else) was already looking this way.

I glanced at Adrien in a defeated way and sighed when his eyebrow rose in thinly veiled confusion and just a bit of hatred when he glanced at the approaching demon. He would know in a minute why I was hoping to avoid the other demon, but why the hatred coming from him?

"Felice and...Adrien? How nice to see you both, it's been a while, especially for you Adrien," uh oh they already had tension, this was not going to make this any easier.

I opened my mouth to reply my own greeting but was cut off by Adrien.

"I can't exactly say it's nice to see you Claude. Considering the last time we saw each other it was standing over the corpse of my dead wife whom you had just murdered."

Fuck, they had more than tension this was full out arch-enemies I was dealing with.

"You should have known someone was going to come along and snatch away her delicious soul, you loving her was nothing but a waste of a perfectly good meal," Adrien was opening and closing his fists in an attempt to not cause a public scene. But I was right there with him.

"Claude! As he is my guest tonight I would appreciate you not egging him on with a past that was obviously not ideal!" My outburst only amused the spectacled demon even more but he bowed his head at my request.

"Of course, little sister."

Adrien growled at the endearment but shrugged off my concerned look.

"Now, your Highness, why did you call me over here?" Claude drew the attention back on to the unusually silent boy.

I expected him to still rat me and Adrien's supposed relationship out to Claude but he must have seen the tension and in an unprecedented show of kindness to another human, not that we were human, he simply said "nothing" and dismissed a peaved Claude back to the guests.

I however wasn't fooled, "What do you want" I asked him suspiciously.

Adrien looked confused but Alois knew immediately what I was talking about, "I simply want to know why you are here tonight? You rarely show up and not ever on a ball held outside of the holidays."

I considered lying to him for just a minute but figured that wouldn't go over well with the king of bipolarness, "We need to talk to Hannah, we think she might have had something to do with the recent demon massacres."

His face twisted at the mention of the female demon, "FIne do whatever you want with her, she is hardly a good servant.I was hoping for something better like your need of my expertise in love. How boring." With that he directed us over to the demon and with a quick goodbye continued to mingle with his guests.

As we walked across the room to where the demon was said to be, my eyes wandered to Adrien. He knew where we were coming and who we were bound to see, the murderer of his wife apparently, but he still came with me even though he didn't have to. The thought brought a smile to my face and I felt a hot blush spread across my cheeks.

"Felice! Are you okay, you are looking kind of red?" Adrien snatched a champagne glass from one of the twins and handed it to me, gripping my upper arm in a sturdy grasp as he did so.

I accepted the glass with a steadily growing blush, "I'm fine!"

He didn't look very convinced.

"I swear, I am fine, don't worry about it." This finally took the worried look off his face but I noticed he didn't take his hand off my arm as we finished the walk to Hannah. She looked up as we approached.

"Hannah, may we take a moment to speak to you?" I asked in a fake calm voice. Inside I was terrified about being in the same room as even a suspect of the demon massacre but Adrien's hand on my arm kept me level headed and steady.

She looked understandably nervous but finished wiping down a table and nodded to us to follow her into an adjoining room, "What can I do for you tonight, Felice?"

I cleared my throat and looked at Adrien for support before I once again focused my attention on Hannah. I don't want to believe that she had it in her to kill her own kind. Hannah had always been so sweet to me and I couldn't imagine the submissive woman in front of me hurting anyone. She didn't even have it in her to strike back at Alois when he hurts her. But I had to ask, I had to do the job that the little earl and his demon had assigned me.

"Hannah what do you know about the demon massacres?" My voice was clear but I felt my insecurity in asking my long time acquaintance such an obviously accusing question.

I didn't feel so bad when I saw her face drop, however.

"You should have never gotten involved with this, Felice," she whispered and I had barely taken a step back before I felt someone grab me from behind and with a quick blow to the head I was knocked out. The last thing I heard was Adrien's own grunt of pain and the thought that Hannah Annafellows was not getting anymore free samples from my bakery. What. A. Bitch.