dreamgirl: Okay, so this is the end of this arc. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I will update every other day in hopes of ending this fanfic before the end of this month. Congrats to Arienrhod for getting it half right. Hence, she will make an appearance in this chapter.
warnings: Mentions of rape, prostitution, bondage, major-psychoness, and the appearance of a MAJOR asshole.
disclaimer: You know the drill. I don't own shit!!!
ENJOY!!!!
Chapter 11
Three days past and Ciel was still stuck in the asylum. He could very well just call Sebastian to help him escape, but Ciel knew that the longer he stuck around Arthur, the more information he'd be able to get.
Flashback
Ciel sat down on the filthy floor to talk to Arthur at eye-level, "Who are the 'others'?"
Arthur giggled and leaned in as if he were revealing a major secret, "My friends! He gave me friends 'cause I was lonely. But I ain't lonely an' more. Nope, no sir, not me!"
Ciel remained puzzled, "But…where are your friends?"
The redhead's smile fell a bit, "He said only I can see 'em. He said I was special, tha' I was chosen and tha' ot'ers can't see 'em. Tha's why I don' belong here".
The younger boy inched closer, "What do you mean, you don't belong here?"
Arthur nodded, "I ain't crazy, he said I wasn'. I can jus see my friends and no one else can".
Ciel highly doubted Arthur was sane enough to not belong in the asylum, but he knew Arthur was definitely smart, "Who is…HE?"
For a few moments, Ciel held eye-contact with Arthur until the older boy suddenly crawled away.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Ciel asked.
Without turning around. Arthur said, "They're tellin' me no. They say I ain' sup'osed to talk to ya".
The blue-eyed boy remained puzzled but pushed no further. The Phantomhive earl suddenly realized how sleepy he had become, got off the floor and walked over to a bed by the wall. The ten-year-old studied it a bit and saw that the bed was bolted to the floor and there were stains on the bed-sheets as well as the pillow. Ciel was hesitant, deciding whether he should sleep on the floor not.
In the end, Ciel just decided to lie down on the bed figuring that his back would hurt from sleeping on the floor. Once he was under the covers, Ciel made sure Arthur wasn't looking so he could take out all of the 'hidden' objects stored within his clothes.
Realizing that the things hidden shouldn't be taken out with Arthur around, he reached up towards his head and removed his white eye-patch and placed it within his sock. Ciel covered his right eye with his hand and quickly checked again to see if Arthur was looking.
Knowing the coast was clear, Ciel's hand traveled into his undergarments and closed his eyes. The act was uncomfortable for him but he knew he had to do it. Ciel quickly did what he had to do and shoved his hand under his pillow.
Ciel calmed down a bit and as soon as he felt sleep try to take him away the whole room shook. At first, Ciel thought it was only his imagination, but when he felt the ground vibrate beneath him and heard the sound of a loud banging, he was positive he was wide-awake. The ten-year-old was startled at first but then figured out what it must've been. And then he felt a body crawl into his bed and touch him.
As quick as lightning, Ciel pulled out the pistol, he took out of his pants and hid under his pillow, and shoved it into the figure's mouth. The body stopped dead in its tracks as Ciel cocked the gun and pressed it further into the caverns of the figure's mouth.
Ciel reached for a match from his sock and lit up a nearby candle, "Arthur?"
The redhead grinned stupidly, the pistol preventing his speech from being coherent, "I wab fared cuff ov da noibe".
Ciel stared at Arthur before releasing his grip on his gun and extracting it from his friend's mouth, "Jesus Christ, Arthur, you scared the bloody hell out of me".
Arthur smiled and laughed, "He he, sorry".
Ciel replaced his pistol under his pillow and turned back to Arthur, "So what are you doing here? In…My…Bed?"
The redhead grinned sheepishly, "I thought it was an earthquake, ya know? I've been to places where they get 'em and it was scary".
Ciel sighed but kept looking at his older friend. As he did, the earl noticed how teary-eyed Arthur had gotten. Ciel brought the candle closer to their faces and really looked into Arthur's eyes.
They were green. Not the emerald green that Lizzie had, but a hazel green that held a sense of serenity within them. Much like…
Ciel tore his eyes away from Arthur, "You…should go back into your other bed or wherever you sleep".
The redhead didn't really say anything, as if he understood the emotional pain Ciel was in, he just up and left to God knows where. Within the tiny cell were a few places where Arthur could definitely hide.
Once the older of the two got off the bed, Ciel blew out the candle and set it down on the floor. His hand made its way under the pillow to make sure it was there and set his head upon said pillow. And then Ciel cried himself to sleep for the first time in a few months.
End of Flashback
Maybe it was hair, or her name, but Sebastian felt that it was his duty to remain close to the girl he made a few days prior. Currently, Sebastian was seated in his room, really doing nothing, when there came a knock on his bedroom door.
"Yes?"
The girl with brown hair came in, "Uh, hello".
Sebastian smiled a bit, just making sure she wouldn't run off, "Hello, Eve. Come, sit on the bed".
Eve closed the door behind her and inched closer until she eventually sat on the bed.
The demon would've continued from where they left off the other day, but he felt no need to seeing as how she had given him all the information he needed, "What is it? I haven't seen you since that day".
Eve blushed and hid her face behind her hair.
The butler faked an entertained laugh.
"I shouldn't be here, ya know".
"Oh? And why is that?"
"I'm not…good. I'm not sup'osed to be up here", she paused and pointed towards the floor, "I belong down there wit' them ot'er people".
Sebastian really didn't have anything to say; he pretty much figured that out in bed.
"I was caught. They're comin' to git me now. But I just want to see him again. My friends tell me I can't though".
"Who? Your fiancée?" Apparently, Sebastian tended to be with woman who were already taken.
Eve nodded, "He's the one who left me my friends. He said they're there so I can 'member him when I'm here".
Feeling the tension building, Sebastian changed the subject, "You know, you look an awful like someone I used to know. You even have the same name".
The brunette smiled a bit, "Really? Who is she?"
"A girl I was with".
Eve's smiled faltered a bit, "Did…did you love her?"
With no hesitation, he replied, "No, I don't think I ever did either".
"Oh".
Instead of easing the tension, it only built up some more.
"You should go, Eve", was the only thing he could manage at this point.
The girl nodded and left.
And that's when he called.
"You rang?"
Ciel nearly jumped out of his skin when a hoarse voice came vibrating into his ear, "Sebastian! Don't do that!"
Sebastian smirked a bit, "Now, what is it the young master wishes?"
Ciel sat up from his bed and placed his gun back into his underwear and motioned for his butler to follow him into the far corner of the room and whispered, "Look, I've been in this hell-hole for three days. Three. Fucking. Days. I was this close to getting information but Arthur refuses to tell me anything!"
After his master's mini-rant, all he said was, "Arthur?"
The earl's eyes narrowed, "Goddamn it, Sebastian! Will you ever learn to listen for once? Yes, okay? My roomate's name is Arthur and he's completely mad!!! Anyway, any luck on your end?"
Sebastian grinned, "Very lucky".
The memory of the walls shaking came flooding into Ciel mind, "Oh my—Of course! That's why you'd get so much information. So, what did you find out?"
The butler wiggled his finger, "Nope, I am sorry my lord, but that is cheating. I earned my information, now you have to earn yours".
"You son of a bitch! Fine, whatever, just give me a hint or something. If I have something to work with, then maybe Arthur will respond".
"Apparently, there seems to be an unnamed man who gains the trust of these patients and makes them believe they are special but actually inserts their so-call 'friends' into their heads for various reasons".
"And?"
"That is all. Any more and it would be boring because the case would be solved much too easily", Sebastian teased.
"You know what? Fine!!" Ciel fumed, "Oh, by the way? Who did you get the information from?"
"A young woman named Eve", was the sole response that came from the demon.
Ciel nodded, "Wow, I was pretty sure you would persuade one of those old hags".
Sebastian smile fell, "I may be a demon, but even I care about who I will be feasting upon".
"Now that is just disgusting".
A few moments later, there came a rustling of feet and shouts from female voices. Sebastian quickly disappeared into who-knows-where and Ciel shuffled his way onto his bed.
A brunette nurse came to his cell, "Boy, come over here!"
Ciel walked towards the cell door, "Yes, what is it?"
"Have ya seen a girl, prob'ly a bit older than you, wit' brown hair and her name's Eve? She's sup'osed to be in one of these cells".
Ciel's eyes widen but tried his best to keep his shock hidden, "No, ma'am".
The nurse said no more and just left.
Sebastian materialized, really, out of nowhere and walked to Ciel's side.
"You fucked a patient!?!?"
"Now, that sounds a bit too crude. Rather, I used her to gather information", the butler pointed out.
"What the bloody hell is wrong with you? I thought you said you were meticulous about who you slept with".
"Yes, well, I am. Technically, I said I cared about looks, and this girl was rather good-looking even though she was mentally ill", Sebastian stated.
"Sick bastard. I thought you hated humans!!!"
"Didn't we have this conversation before? Like I said a few days back….young master?"
Ciel walked away and lit up a candle, "I do not have time for this nonsense, I have to get back to work. Now, if you will, leave until I summon you once again".
Truth be told, Sebastian was a little pissed at the fact that the ten-yea-old could easily command him to leave when he was the one who summoned the demon a few minutes ago.
But, Sebastian sucked it up and said, "Yes, my lord".
Ciel walked around the cell and held the candle out, looking for Arthur.
"Arthur, where are you?" Ciel called.
After searching all over, the young lord realized there was one place he hadn't checked.
Ciel bent down and looked under Arthur's bed, "There you are! Come on out, I need to talk to you".
Ciel grabbed Arthur's arm and pulled him out as best he could. Once the red head was successfully pulled out and seated into an upright position, Ciel began to talk to him.
"Arthur, I need you to tell me about HIM. Can you tell me?"
At first, the green-eyed boy ignored the younger of the two, but finally answered, "I can't. I simply just can't. He'll punish me. They talked a bunch before, but now they won't shu' up".
"Who won't shut up?"
"My friends; the ones he put in there. He told me it was my punishment for talkin' to ya", Arthur shook a bit as he spoke.
Ciel suddenly realized how serious this case was getting, "What are they saying?"
Arthur was hesitant but continued, "They keep callin' me unclean. They say I betrayed him like the ot'er one did. They're sayin' I don't like him no more".
Ciel froze. It took every bit of strength to not drop the candle he had been holding. The ten-year-old never wanted to hear those words again.
Ciel shook his head and continued, "Who is HE?"
When no response came, Ciel used one hand to shake Arthur's shoulder, "Arthur, please, tell me. Who is HE?"
A few moments passed until the latter said, "The…"
'Unclean', the voice said.
'You are unclean', another one repeated.
The blue-eyed boy backed away from the other boy and finally dropped the candle to cover his ears. Ciel hated the fact that the voices were preventing him from hearing Arthur's answer.
The voices multiplied and repeated the words 'unclean', 'filthy', and 'sacrifice'.
"No", Ciel shook as his whole body fell to the floor.
"NO!!!! I'm not unclean! I'm NOT!!!!" Ciel screamed as he rolled on the ground, trying to rid himself of the noises.
Writhing in mental and emotional pain, there came a figure towards him and extended his hand. The young earl couldn't make out the figure's face but started to hyperventilate even more than he already was.
"You've been a naughty boy, Ciel Phantomhive. Tricking me like that was not good, you know? I warned you not to pry into my things, but you and your butler just don't listen, do you? Now, I'm just going to have to punish you along with your little friends here", said the figure.
Ciel could barely hear anything besides the voices creeping up into his head, but he heard Arthur's footsteps as the redhead ran towards the figure.
"Peter!!! Oh, thank goodness!! Please, Doctor, don't be mad. I ain't bad, it was all this kid's fault. He was threatnin' me to do it. I love you, so I wouldn' betray ya", Arthur begged as he threw himself to the Doctor's feet.
Ciel might have had trouble hearing, but he heard all of that clearly, "So, it's you Doctor Peter Cob".
The Doctor had an evil smile on his face but made no acknowledgement that Ciel had spoken, instead, he lit a candle and turned to Arthur.
The Doctor grabbed Arthur's face rather harshly and pulled him upwards, "I know, I believe you. But it can't go unpunished".
Peter then kissed Arthur hard on the mouth so hard that it drew blood from the latter's mouth. Ciel, hands still over his ears, froze in surprise and disgust.
"You fucker!!!" Ciel spat.
Peter let go of Arthur's mouth and dropped him to the floor like a ragdoll, "My, that's quite a mouth you have there, Earl".
The voices in the young boy's head began to calm down, "How the hell do you know my name?"
"You'd be surprised what magic could do nowadays", the doctor said with a hint of amusement in his voice.
"Magic? Stop screwing with me! What the hell is going on?"
Peter inched closer and trapped Ciel between a wall and his body, "Stop screwing what, exactly? The only screwing there will be is–".
The psycho doctor paused as Ciel shoved his pistol into the doctor's abdomen, "Finish that sentence, and you won't have anything to screw with".
To the blue-eyed boy's disbelief, the doctor just laughed and said, "Arthur?"
Suddenly, Ciel's hand was twisted back and forced to drop his gun and felt a blade pierce the bottom side of his jaw.
The doctor picked up the fallen pistol and pointed it towards the young earl, "Thought you had the upper hand, didn't you? But you see, with magic, you can do anything. Isn't that right, Arthur?"
The redhead nodded, "Yes, master".
"Now, tie the boy to the bed with this rope", Peter said as he tossed some rope to the redhead.
Arthur did as he was told and shoved Ciel onto the bed, tied him to the bedpost and walked over to his master's side.
"Excellent, puppet. Maybe as a reward, we should give young Ciel a little show of our own, shall we?"
Even for a ten-year-old, Ciel knew where this was going, "Don't! I swear on my grave, do not touch Arthur! He's shouldn't…!"
But it was already too late, the doctor was already undressing his young follower and drawing blood from each bite he made into the boy's skin.
"Doctor, the voices…they won't go away", was the only thing the redhead said.
'Really, now, that's a shame. Maybe if you had obeyed me like I told you to, they would have quieted down a bit".
Arthur's pants had been taken off and Peter was getting ready to insert himself.
"No! Stop it!!!!" Ciel yelled.
He closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on the voices in his head, but there were none.
As if reading his thought, "You're probably wondering where the others went. I shut them up for a bit because I want you to listen in as I ravish this little friend of yours. Bit. By. Bit".
Ciel was thrashing around and yelling. It was like that moment all over again. The boy with the hazel green eyes being broken by someone right in front of him. Right before his eyes and he couldn't do shit about it.
And that's when he yelled, "SEBASTIAN!!!"
Almost instantly, Ciel felt an extra body in their presence. For the second time in his life, Ciel was actually glad to see the demon.
"What are my orders, young master?"
"Stop him! For God's sakes, stop the doctor from doing that to Arthur and paralyze him!"
"Yes…my lord", Sebastian bowed before he turned towards the aw struck doctor and his victim.
"You're that butler that fucked my other woman, aren't you? Because of you I lost a useful dame! How did you get in here anyway?" The doctor said.
In a blink of an eye, the doctor was torn away from the redheaded boy and was tackled onto the ground, whereas, Arthur remained motionless on his own bed.
Peter Cob howled in pain as he felt his shoulder being dislocated and he hard-on being smooshed onto the cold floor. It barely took a second before Ciel was "magically" untied and the rope having appeared around the doctor's body, making it impossible for him to move.
Ciel got up from the bed and retrieved his gun from the floor, where the doctor had dropped it. The Phantomhive lord cocked the gun, but instead of shooting the doctor, he raised the pistol and hilted the older man with it.
"Who the fuck are you?" Ciel spat as he hit Peter with the back of his gun.
When no answer came, Ciel was ready to hit him again.
But Sebastian snatched the gun out of the younger boy's hand and held him back.
"What is it? Why won't you let me hit him?"
"His real name is Jacob Meyers", Sebastian said in a monotone voice.
Ciel was confused, "Excuse me?"
"His name if not Peter Cob, that was the name of a former doctor. In actuality, that was the name of Jacob's former doctor. Am I not correct, Jacob?"
The young man looked up and stared at Sebastian. And then there came a hysterical fit of laughter. It sounded a bit dry and sad, but mostly…it sounded like the laugh of a madman.
After his fit, Jacob said, "Yes, my name is Jacob. Peter was the name of that mother-fucking doctor!!"
Ciel was confused a bit but continued the interrogation, "Why did you become a doctor if you hated him so much? Why did you do it? Rather, how did you do it?"
Jacob didn't answer, Sebastian did.
"Because he raped you, didn't he? The real Peter Cob happens to be your physician as a child, right? You became a doctor to take revenge on him and so you practiced black magic…or so I've heard".
Ciel jaw dropped.
"That's right. That's all right! That bastard touched me every single time I went to him. My innocence was taken from me when I was six, you hear? Six!!! He was a good-looking guy, so he had no reason why to violate me. And so, when I turned eighteen, I went to medical school to become a doctor. Why? I don't know, I just knew I had to. The voices in my head were telling me to, so I did it. And then I met that girl, Eve. She taught me about black magic and I practiced it. First, I used it on her and made her believe I loved her. Same with that little redheaded shit over there. Eve was a bit young at the time, but she was smart. But not smart enough to escape my magic".
"And so you planted the same noises you heard into other people's mind as a punishment for the various things they did, right?" Sebastian said.
Jacob nodded.
After having been quiet, Ciel spoke aloud, "But why all those people? Why did you have to admit all of those citizens into asylums? Why did you try to rape Arthur?"
"Because I'm broken".
"What", Ciel said in disbelief.
"I want everyone to be broken and unclean as I am. It's like that song:
'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again'. "
The doctor kept repeating the same song over, and over, and over again.
Ciel fell to his knees, "But…that doesn't make sense".
Sebastian nodded, "It does. Something once broken can never be fixed or repaired. Same as something once lost can never be regained".
Ciel shook his head, "Something doesn't add up; if he wanted revenge, why didn't he just kill the doctor. Why did he go after all those people?"
"In actuality, the doctor had already died by the time Jacob was in college, so he did not have anyone to blame. Revenge doesn't have to add up. It does not even have to make sense", the demon butler said as he bent towards Jacob and knocked him out.
"Revenge", Ciel repeated, "Is an ugly thing".
"That is what I have been teaching you; the law of wrath and how to use it. This is the path you have chosen to take. Like this young master, sooner or later, the desire of revenge will take over your mind and you will shatter like this man. Just like Humpty Dumpty", Sebastian said.
The young Phantomhive earl just stayed on the floor, processing what just happened.
Then he heard Sebastian chuckle, "It makes you wonder if this was all planned out. If this all happened for the sole reason of teaching you a lesson of some sort".
"Oh? And who would have arranged this?" Ciel asked.
"The same person who probably arranged our meeting".
"Who is that?"
Sebastian turned to look at his master, "Have you ever wondered if your parents' death happened for a reason? That maybe their deaths would've led up to our meeting and to this point?"
Ciel quirked an eyebrow, "Something like destiny?"
"Probably not, but rather foreordained by a higher being", Sebastian shrugged.
"That's basically the same thing", Ciel reasoned.
"Actually…it's not. Destiny is something that is inevitable. But having something being foreordained is really just something that is set out for you, but whether or not you continue in that direction will eventually lead up to that thing or event that was 'foreordained'. Call it predetermined, if you wish. Something not exactly certain".
Ciel waited a few moments before responding, "Honestly, no, I do not believe this could have all been the will of some outer force. Personally, I do not believe in a God, or Gods. The idea of one is completely irrelevant".
Sebastian suddenly became tight-lipped, "Maybe this was all…God's will".
Ciel gulped and felt a small shiver down his spine, "You're a demon, you're supposed to hate God and avoid anything that is related to Him".
Sebastian looked away, "Not all of us are evil, but we are all…ugly. Anyway, enough of my rambling. What should we do with the doctor, young master?"
Ciel was suddenly brought back to the situation at hand, "Kill him".
"But isn't that against the rules? Wouldn't the Queen want to know who has been involved with all of the cases?"
Ciel got up from the floor and dusted off his clothes, "I don't care. With a power like his, he could be able to control anyone at his own will, so just kill him. I will tell Her Majesty he was a madman and committed suicide".
"And the boy?"
"….Leave him. He belongs here anyway. He should be fine with the doctor out of the way", Ciel said without looking at Arthur.
"I brought you a change of clothes, my lord. They are on your bed", Sebastian said prepared his master's shoes.
"Very well; dress me".
After Sebastian changed Ciel's clothes and put on his shoes, he picked up the unconscious doctor and all three suddenly escaped from the cell and appeared in a room with white walls.
"Where are we?" Ciel asked.
"My room", Sebastian said as he took off his glove and extended a nail.
"Don't make it too exaggerated, will you?" Ciel said with an attitude.
"As you wish" Sebastian replied as he slit the young doctor's throat with one quick swift of his finger.
The demon untied the doctor and placed the knife, he had stolen from Arthur a few minutes prior, into the doctor's hand.
"Now, let us go home, young master", Sebastian said as he licked his finger and replaced his glove.
A few days later, there came a letter.
"What does it say, young master?" Sebastian asked as he poured tea into his master's china cup.
"Nothing of any importance. Her Majesty just said she would like to than me for solving the case, and that whole thing", Ciel said he tossed the letter into the fireplace once again.
"Young master, may I ask you a question?"
Ciel looked at his butler, "Depends on what it is".
"Why were you so protective of that boy in the asylum?" Sebastian asked.
Ciel sighed and swiveled his chair so that he was now looking out the window of his office, "His eyes…it reminded me of a boy I met as a slave".
The ten-year-old smile sadly, "He was my only friend, and he saved him from giving up my innocence to some men I did not know. He was around for the sole reason for others to use him as they pleased. His name was Charlie. Charlie was the one who brought me food every day and tried to help me escape once. He wasn't supposed to, but he did anyway. He was like a brother to me, probably a bit more. But when those men realized what was going on, they captured us before we escaped and Charlie offered himself up in exchange for my safety. They granted his wish but they forced him to watch as men after men took Charlie by force and even after he was torn and worn out, they still kept torturing him. I can never forget the way Charlie's hazel green eyes looked into mine as he was being ravished and they were eyes full of loneliness and despair. Arthur's eyes were the same, that's why I was so attracted to them. And their situations were almost very much alike. I felt that I was given a second chance and I wanted to save him, like I couldn't Charlie. That's why".
Sebastian's eyes were wide, but understood. He walked over to Ciel and wrapped his arms around the young boy, "I am sorry".
Ciel said nothing as two small tears fell from his eyes.
"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will"
-Ephesians 1:11 American King James Version
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