Meyrin: Finny you look dazed. Is everything alright? *stares at Finny*
Finny: ... Grace... Closet... *mumbles incoherently*
Bardroy: What's up with him? *enters room*
Meyrin: I don't know. Finny is acting funny. He won't tell me what is bothering him.
Sebastian: What are you three bumbling idiots doing? Get to work. The young Lord doesn't pay you to stand around idly like useless lumps. *glares*
Meyrin and Bardroy: Sorry Sebastian! *scurrying off*
Me: Finny are you ok? *slowly walks to Finny*
Finny: I should be asking you that! *cries remembering what happened*
Me: I'm fine really. Sore but fine none the less. *smiles affectionately*
Sebastian: So he was in the closet. I had a feeling he was. I'm quite impressed with your ability to stay silent despite what was going on. *smirks*
Finny and Me: *turns red with embarrassment*
Me: I-I don't own Black Butler I only own Rina and the story rights *dashes out of the room with Finny*
Sebastian: *sighs* What am I going to do with her?
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Summary: Just like the Rose she was both beautiful and deadly. She was beautiful like the satin red petals, and deadly like the thorns that adorn it's stem. And it was because of this that she seemed to captivate him. She was his beautiful rose and he intended on keeping it that way.
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Chapter Thirteen: Tainted Rose
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:::Rina's perspective:::
"Ciel please come out of there." I felt my patience with him running thin.
Ciel still remained curled up in the curtains screaming about how he hated this place and wanted to go home.
I glanced over at Sebastian. He had finished bandaging Finny and was standing up.
"Sebastian a word?" I asked pulling him outside the room.
"You need to fix this. Ciel can't go on acting like this. We need him sound for this case." We spoke in hushed tones.
"I thought you were against the idea of him returning to his normal self." Sebastian spoke seriously.
"I am but I also understand that this Ciel isn't real. As much as I love seeing the innocent child side of him, that part of him died a long time ago. It took me this long to accept that. Fix your contract." My word leaked a mix of bitterness and truth.
"Very well. I will but I don't think you will like what I am going to do." Sebastian warned.
"Tell me. You know I would do anything for Ciel. Even if it meant going against my own morals to do so." I stated.
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Later that evening I stood to the side of the room as Sebastian entered the room. Oh this dreadful plan better work...
"Finnian I'm going to ask that you leave for a while." Sebastian spoke.
"What? No!" Finny exclaimed.
"Finny just please listen for once." I snapped.
Finny's face dropped and he left willingly.
I closed the door and stood to the side.
"I have received a letter from the queen. It also seems as if we will be thrown out of the village tomorrow morning. Come get out of bed." Sebastian spoke in his normal tone.
"N-no!" Ciel responded under the covers.
"Oh so you are going to abandon your position as the queen's watch dog." Sebastian's tone turned slightly sinister.
"Very well. You won't have to experience any hardship if you're no longer the queen's watch dog. No one will blame you for not wanting that forever. The servants as well as your own cousin will treat you well. However..." Sebastian's human form dissipated leaving him is his frightening demonic form.
"Abandoning your revenge mid-way is a breech of contract." The shadow like tendrils wrapped around Ciel and pulled him out of his covers.
I turned away not wanting to watch.
"Ahh... What an utterly boring end. I almost feel sorry for all of those that have become a victim to your boring existence." Sebastian tutted in dissatisfaction.
"Rina help me!" Ciel screamed.
I bit my lip.
Turned. I couldn't back out now.
"You brought this on yourself. Abandoning your position..." I gave a sinister smile.
I felt so much inner turmoil. Don't want to do this... but it must be done if I want him back to normal.
Flames licked up my palms onto my fingers. I gently touched Ciel's face.
"You're going to be disappearing any way. It's not as if you care really." I spoke with my eyes glowing that demonically haunting magenta.
"It's not what Malaphas wanted most likely. But at least he might get a decent meal out of it." I turned away from the both of them.
"I hate that it had to come to this Ciel. I was hoping I would see you grow up and marry Elizabeth before this. But I guess that not everything goes according to plan." I hid the pain of having to abandon Ciel.
I made a promise to uncle Vincent and aunt Rachel. I'm breaking my promise. No... I have to. If I don't let Sebastian do this then... Ciel might be stuck like this. The queen needs her watch dog and I do not want to be the one to handicap Ciel. I have to let this happen...
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I couldn't hear Ciel anymore and finally turned yet again. Ciel had opened his eyes suddenly.
"Sebastian! You damn bastard! Let me go right now! That's an order!" Sebastian retracted the shadows and returned to his human form.
"This terrible behaviour towards your master." Ciel stated in his normal tone.
I smiled.
"Terribly sorry my Lord. You were tossing and turning. Good morning." Sebastian keeled in front of Ciel.
Ciel kicked Sebastian's shoulder and looked up at me.
"You were going to let him eat me weren't you?" Ciel questioned with a soft glare.
"I had no choice. As much as I loved coddling you and having you snuggle with me like when you were younger, you were so paranoid that you refused to act on your duties to the queen." I answered with a brow raised.
Ciel blushed at the mention of her coddling him.
"We will not speak of that. I wasn't myself at all." Muttered.
"I suppose we should let the others in." I spoke grabbing the attention of both Ciel and Sebastian.
"Yes. That we shall." With Ciel's answer Sebastian opened the door and all five servants landed on the ground.
"Rose! I was so worried that you were hurt!" Doll cried out hugging me.
I just smiled.
"No but smiles is back to normal." I gestured to Ciel whom was bandaged and bruised.
"That's a relief. Him acting like a child scared me kind of." Doll smiled in response.
"Relief?" Ciel raised a brow.
"Young master! You're back!" Meyrin, Finny and Bardroy yelled in unison.
Snake and Doll just looked at me with smiles.
"Just forget how I was yesterday. I wasn't thinking straight." Ciel spoke.
"I don't know. It was pretty bad master." Bardroy spoke.
"It's alright for you to act your age master." Meyrin spoke with a slight smile.
"I'm already missing you snuggling with me like you did when you were six." I smiled causing everyone to silence themselves.
"Finnian. Thank you for taking care of Rina and I." Ciel spoke.
Finny smiled brightly and nodded.
"Now what is this about a letter?" I interrupted.
"It's right here." Sebastian handed it to Ciel and I.
I sat down next to Ciel so I could see what was on the sheet of paper.
C4H8Cl2S
NaOCl
"What is this code?" Ciel asked.
"It was an emergency. I had the royal family do an analysis of the plant matter around Werewolf forest. This is the true identity of the curse and it's antidote." Sebastian spoke.
"So this is the curse." I spoke sharing the same look as Ciel.
"And it seems as if her majesty is off her rocker." I giggled showing Ciel the last part of the letter.
"Still absurd as ever." Ciel sighed.
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I decided that I should have a little chat with lady Sullivan before we leave for London and slipped into he room.
"Lady Sullivan." I spoke softly sitting on the bed.
"Rina?" She rubbed her eyes sitting up.
"I wanted to come and thank you personally for being such a gracious host and saving Ciel. We're actually leaving tonight and should be gone by morning. I thought you would at least deserve a proper thank you before we go." I smiled standing up.
Ciel and Sebastian were outside her window and I opened the window.
"I wanted to thank you for helping me properly." Ciel spoke staring at lady Sullivan.
"Oh so this is a pay you with my body thing then? Do I get to eat food off your naked body?" She smirked.
"Absolutely not!" Ciel blushed yelling.
I held my tongue in order to not laugh. I knew if I did Ciel would probably glare.
"We have something even better. The outside world. We can take you with us so you may experience something good for once." I spoke smiling still.
"I can't go. I am the green witch and the law states u cannot leave." She looked away.
"Very well. Then I believe this is goodbye. By the morning we will have disappeared like a vague dream. So long... friend..." Ciel spoke
"Don't forget to close the window. We wouldn't want you to get sick." I approached the window where Ciel and Sebastian were standing.
"Wait!" Lady Sullivan grabbed the back of my dress.
"I wish to go. I want to know more about the outside." She spoke.
"Alright then you should be dressed." Sebastian helped her with her dress.
I picked her up simular to how Wolfram would.
"Let us show you a world unknown." I spoke with Ciel and Sebastian smiling at her.
:::Third person:::
Sebastian took hold of lady Sullivan due to Rina being a lady. Rina of course protested but Sebastian did not really care. The four of them made their way to a dimly lit corridor.
"Where are we going? This is not the outside world at all." Lady Sullivan spoke.
"No we're taking you there. No need to worry." They entered the large underground room that contained the magic circle.
"Isn't this the magic circle you use to complete your duty as the green witch?" Sebastian inquired.
"Yes... how did you know?!" Lady Sullivan exclaimed.
"A snake told me." He answered.
"You can talk with snakes? Are you a great warlock?" Lady Sullivan gasped.
"Oh no. I'm simply one hell of a butler." He smirked.
"I want your fabulous DNA!" Her eyes sparkled when she exclaimed this.
"Sorry lady Sullivan but he's all mine." Rina gave his butt a little smack and smirked.
"I wish to unsee that." Ciel gagged a little.
"We will deal with that later." Sebastian stated staring at Rina while most likely planning how she would be punished.
:::Rina's perspective:::
I finally understood what Ciel and Sebastian were doing by showing the girl this stuff. They were trying to give her the truth that she so craved. We finally found ourselves in a factory like setting with that weird old hag standing in front of a crowd of werewolves.
"The green witch finally came through! Gas that can vaporize all life and it's all ours." This demented old woman yelled.
"You! What does this mean!" Lady Sullivan fell out of Sebastian's hold.
I couldn't help but feel absolutely horrible for this child. All these people used her and for what? The development of a chemical weapon capable of mass death? What kind of person fabricates a lie like this. They even bound her feet. I felt true remorse for this child in the worse way.
"Children are not their parents tools!" Ciel screamed shooting the light in the ceiling.
He then grabbed lady Sullivan and ran.
"Sebastian! Rina! You know what to do!" Ciel yelled running.
"You know you idiots have cause terrible trouble for me." Rina spoke with a devilish look on her face.
Her eyes began glowing a demonic magenta.
"Shall we take care of the garbage love?" Sebastian said with a smirk.
"Certainly." Rina spoke as the apparent werewolves pulled out full military weapons.
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An:/ Holy crap. I'm just pumping out chapters aren't I? Anyway the planning for Rina's personal arc is going well. I can't decide whether I want to do flash backs or have Sebastian and her talk this out fully when they return from Germany with lady Sullivan and Wolfram. Also I wanted to let you guys know that if anyone wants to do fan art of Blood Rose. Feel free to do so. Just make sure to credit me as the author. My tumblr is askgraceroyal and devianrart is GraceRoyal (original I know). Don't forget to follow/favorite and comment/review. I enjoying hearing from my readers.
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