Author note: This is the end of the line, my friends!
Warning: Sex, violence, masochism, bondage, good lord, it's GRELL, that deserves a warning all it's own!
Pair: Grell Sutcliff and William Spears
Disclaimer: Kuroshitsuji, it's characters, and consisting universe is not, nor has ever been, my property. All rights and ownership to Yana Toboso, Square Enix, and Funimation Entertainment.

"Morning honey! Got something for you." Rebecca chirped. She perched on the edge of Grell's desk and slid a note card at him. "You too, Alice." She passed one to the other woman with a cheerful smile. Grell scanned the card.

"A girl's night out?"

"Well, sure." The plump brunette on his desk rolled her eyes. "Can you come, or not?"

"I…" Grell looked up, yellow-green eyes wide and confused. "You'd want me there?" Rebecca stared at him for a moment, then punched him on the head.

"Of course we do!" Alice snapped. "Rebecca already said it, didn't she? You're one of the girls now, and nothing is going to change that!"

"Yeah! I don't care if you were born a girl, a boy, or an armadillo." Rebecca huffed. "You're one of us whether you like it or not." Grell smiled gratefully.

"Thanks. I'll definitely be there!

"I got it!" Will called up the stairs.

He'd gotten home from work to have Grell babble something about a night out and vanish to change. Will himself was shirtless when Sebastian started mewling for food. With nothing to rush for this evening, Will scooped the Abyssinian up and headed to the kitchen. The doorbell rang not two minutes later.

"Hey, ready t-!" Rebecca Jenkins blinked in surprise. Will blinked back and twitched as Sebastian licked at his collarbone. "I'm sorry, I'm early!"

"Here to collect Grell?" Will stepped back. "Come on in." she sidled past him, and hovered in the hallway, almost buzzing with nervous energy.

"Um… Mr Spears? About work…"

"No need." Will shrugged. "You were just looking out for her." Sebastian patted at the shinigami's chest, a reminder for food. "Yes, I know, Sebastian." The cat scratched. "Fucking cat! Just as much goddamn trouble as the blasted demon." He dumped the cat on the floor.

"Will, don't pick on the kitty. Who was at the door?" Grell wandered in, hair damp, towel wrapped around his waist. "Ah, Rebecca!" The brunette was staring. "What?" Grell shifted self-consciously.

"Considering you spend all your time as a woman, you're surprisingly well defined." Grell blushed.

"After what happened with Evans, I started exercising again. I hate being helpless. There was a time I could have flipped the bastard over my head, slit his throat and harvested his organs before he knew I was resisting, but nooooo…" Grell chuckled. "Gonna go get dressed. Back in a tic." He leant over to fuss Sebastian before vanishing back upstairs.

"Wow." Rebecca blinked. Will sighed.

"I know. Whirlwind of energy, isn't she?" Rebecca knelt to stroke the cat as it ate.

"Has she always been like that?"

"Even at the academy." Will nodded. "I think he's done what I ask of him exactly once since we met without a struggle." Rebecca glanced up.

"You know you called her 'he' then, right?" Will shrugged.

"Grell sees herself as a woman, but she was a man when we met, a man when I fell in love, and a man when we first shared a bed." He smiled a little at Rebecca's blush. "Grell is still a man, no matter how she dresses and acts, but I love her anyway. If she sees herself as a woman, then that's what she is."

"That's really sweet." The woman straightened up. "I hope I find a guy as nice as you one day."

"You will." Grell was back, dressed in black silk and red lace, hair pinned up in an artistically messy bun. "Ready go head out?"

They were at the door and halfway down the path when Will remembered.

"Hey!" Grell glanced back, then yelped as Will seized his hand and hauled him in for a kiss, tipping the redhead backwards until Will supported all of his weight. "I love you." Grell grinned cheekily up at him.

"Love you too." He easily slid out of Will's arms and darted down the oath to join Rebecca. "Don't wait up!"

That's all folks!

Many thanks to the wonderful Robin Mask for lighting a fire under my arse to get this finished, and all her encouragement along the way. This may well have taken another six months to update, let alone finish, without her.

I thought I'd add some dates down here, as someone asked me about the rough timescale of the fic and the series.

According to the OVA "The Tale of Will the Shinigami", Grell and Will graduated the Academy in December 1799. Jack the Ripper was active in 1888, so by the time Grell met up with Madam Red, he and Will had been working together for approximately 89 years. Bloodlust and Petticoats was set shortly after the events of the first anime (in my head the second season doesn't really exist - it's just one long animated fanfic), whereas Bloodlust and Petticoats: Handcuffs and Candlewax is set in 2011. This is 123 years after Jack the Ripper's killing spree, and 212 years after Grell and Will graduated.

Although Robin Mask has been pestering me for a third installment to this series, I highly doubt it will happen. I have ended up with so many side character OCs that they're starting to intrude, and I don't like that in fanfiction. Besides, I never planned further than this. I like happy endings.