Her Butler, Never Worried

Ciel groaned as she awoke from her sound sleep, her body ached as she covered her eyes from the sunlight that filled the room. She glared at Sebastian when he walked over to her, already dressed properly with her outfit pulled.

"I'm sorry to wake you from your slumber so early but we are in need to go to town for some supplies." Ciel sat up, her breasts covered by the sheets though she knew it didn't matter anymore.

"We? What's this we?" Sebastian smirked at her before walking to her side of the bed and giving her the cup of tea he had poured. She let the blanket fall, her hair blocking any view he would've had of her as she sipped her tea.

"We as in I'm not leaving you here alone. At the Manor you had the others, it would be unfit of me as a butler to leave my Mistress unattended." Ciel blink, setting her tea down upon its platter when she realized he had called her Mistress, not young Mistress. She felt a slight jump in her chest as she reached up and felt the collar on her neck, a sigh of relief escaped her. Sebastian turned from her clothing to look at her inquisitively. "Is everything alright?" Ciel nodded and stood, walking over to him she smiled and brushed her lips against his ever so briefly.

"Everything is perfect Sebastian."

Ciel smiled as a little robin flew by the cart, she was happy that Sebastian had pulled a simple outfit for her. It was like her riding gear, once again she donned a poet shirt but this one was different, it didn't button up but was a simple pull over, the strings tying at the hole that hinted at her cleavage. The skirt was a black simple skirt that had a ruffle around the bottom, matching her ankle high boots perfectly. Sebastian had insisted she wore her hair halfway up and down so she had, the white clip had black lace around it so it tied the outfit together. She kept fiddling with the collar, wondering what everyone would say about her wearing something so out of character, she had made it clear she hated necklaces but here she was wearing something because Sebastian had it custom-made for her. When they reached town she could already hear everyone talking and laughing, she smiled when she spied the trio with Tanaka at the hot springs. She nervously adjusted the eyepatch a bit making sure it was on tight enough. Sebastian pulled the cart over and parked across the street, the group immediately came rushing over when they saw the duo, all of them seemed to stare in awe as Sebastian helped Ciel from the cart, she looked to them all with a confused expression.

"Well hello to you as well, what is the matter with you all?" Mey-Rin and Finny couldn't help but giggle as Baldroy smiled and shook his head.

"Ain't nuthin Miss, you just look different now." Ciel blushed and wondering what the hell they mean before Sebastian cleared his throat.

"Mistress Ciel if I may, I'd like to gather the supplies sooner than later." Ciel looked to him and nodded.

"Go on, I'll come find you after I spend some time with the others." Sebastian raised a brow but said nothing as he walked off. She turned and saw the three staring after him, Mey-Rin the first to speak.

"I neva heard him call you just Mistress before, has he been doin that recently?" Ciel blushed under their waiting eyes, clearing her throat she began walking towards the gardens next to the springs.

"He's been calling me just Mistress as of yesterday and no I don't know why." It was a bit of a lie yet she had to make sure it didn't sound suspicious, though in her heart she knew exactly why. The group stood within the gardens and Ciel listened to each of them exclaim how wonderful this was, while quietly shooting down comments on her appearance or how much she was smiling. Normally she would've cared less but since almost losing her soul with the Alois incident she felt the need to know everyone more often, even if she still held onto her hatred she wanted to have friends again.

A scream rang out from the middle of the street, causing everyone to turn and look to see a rampaging horse kicking and bucking around before taking straight off towards a little boy who had ran to get his ball in the middle of the street. Without even thinking Ciel hiked her skirt and ran for the boy, not caring about anything but saving him. She stood in front of him bracing herself as the horse whinnied and reared, she raised her hands in front of herself causing it to stagger back, it's ears flattened while showing it's teeth. Ciel calmly stood her ground, the boy behind her staring in awe.

"Easy there, easy does it." She took a single step forward to have the horse whinny, pawing the ground with its front foot and snorting at her. "Easy..." She took another step, it's ears slowly came up as it raised it's head. She smiled and gently stroked it's muzzle, noticing the snip on it's nose. Looking around she saw a boy not much older than herself being followed with a man well dressed running towards her. She was knew immediately the one ahead was a stable boy at how close he was dressed to Finny but the other wore a perfectly fashionable suit with tails and his top hat that he was holding with his hand that held a cane with a golden dog head on top. The horse snorted at the couple but allowed the younger one to place a bridle on its head. She stepped back and looked behind her, seeing the boy had run off to his group of friends.

"I say just who the hell do you think you are?" Ciel turned around with a frown, the well dressed man was staring daggers at her. She made note of his red hair and green eyes, the many freckles that dotted his face looked slightly out-of-place.

"Excuse me? Is that how you speak to a lady?" The man scoffed before raising his cane.

"A lady? In that outfit? You'll learn you place!" Just when he went to swing at her his hand was caught by Sebastian, who was right behind him and ready to kill him. The man looked to the Butler stunned as he yanked his hand away, Sebastian just smiled his perfectly practiced smile but it was as if you could feel the desire to kill seething off of him.

"I do apologize but you should not hit the heir of the Phantomhive estate, it would not end well for you in the long run." The man's jaw dropped when he saw Ciel smirked at him before smiling thankfully at Sebastian.

"Thank you Sebastian. Yes I am Ciel Phantomhive, but I was stopping your horse from trampling that child." She motioned behind her to the group of children who stood in awe of the scene. The man quickly cleared his throat and bowed.

"I am Cyril Barrymore, nephew of Lord Henry Barrymore. Twice removed." Ciel cringed remembering the ordeal she had dealt with that horrible man. She studied him before looking over to the other man who was petting the horse on the muzzle, he was strikingly similar to Cyril and yet he had dark brown eyes but the same red hair and freckles. The boy turned and smiled when he saw Ciel studying him.

"Pardon me miss, I'm just Dudley but everyone calls me Dud. Thank ya for stopping lady Mary here, she can be quite easily spooked by children ya know." Ciel blinked and tilted her head, the two seemed so similar and yet Dudley didn't have quite the refined accent that Cyril, nor the pompous attitude.

"Are you two related?" Sebastian looked at the two as they looked at each other, Cyril scoffed and stuck his nose in the air while Dudley smiled sadly.

"Yessum we are Miss, but Cyril here hates to admit it cause I'm from father's second wife." Cyril twitched at the mention of the second wife and shook his cane at Dudley.

"Will you shut up and go back to work before father gets hot with you again?" Ciel felt her eyebrow twitch in annoyance before clearing her throat, she looked around and smiled when she saw everyone had begun returning to what they had been doing as Dudley led the horse away. Ceil turned to Sebastian, whom bowed his head to her.

"Alright, well I would say it was a pleasure meeting you Cyril but I'm afraid I cannot. Come Sebastian, let us finish getting our supplies." The man seemed stunned at her sharp tongue as she began walking away from him. She groaned inwardly when she heard him chasing after her.

"Hey! Wait a minute I wasn't done talking with you!" She didn't stop when she heard Sebastian slap the man's hand away, knowing his smile was one of menacing warning.

"I am sorry but my Mistress is not one to be touched, don't you have some business to take care of elsewhere?" She rolled her eyes when she heard Cyril give a shout before screaming in her direction when Sebastian wouldn't let him get any farther.

"Why don't you face me yourself instead of letting your stupid Butler do it for you." Ciel stopped dead in her tracks, her eye shining with anger. Everyone in the village stopped as his words echoed throughout, it was as if someone had froze time. She promptly turned on her heel, glaring the man down as she walked towards him. He sneered at her. "Now that's more like-" His eyes grew wide with shock when the back of Ciel's right hand connected with his left cheek, causing him to fall over from the blow that rang through out the village. She stood with her head held high as the man stared up at her.

"You will never insult my Butler again nor insult me with your insolence, do you under stand me? You are below me boy and should keep that in mind. Your brother has more respect for a woman than you, go relearn your manners and spare me your stupidity. And never come near me again, do you understand me?" She didn't bat an eye as Cyril looked up at her completely stunned barely a squeak escaping him. Ciel rolled her eyes at the pathetic man. "Come along Sebastian." She once more turned, her good mood very much ruined as they walked through the towns folk, all of them laughing at Cyril while he finally began moving, practically screaming her name as some villagers began surrounding him. Sebastian smiled at Ciel as they entered a shop.

"My, my Mistress you handled that quite well." Ciel scoffed and headed inside as Sebastian held the door open for her.

"I had no need to deal with such stupidity from someone who obviously doesn't know what little weight his own name carries."

After gathering their supplies Ciel and Sebastian headed back towards the cottage, Ciel was still in a foul mood from the scene Cyril had caused in town. She sighed while laying down on her seat, Sebastian looked back and smiled at her.

"You know that is not how a proper woman sits, or are you just ready to be in solitude the rest of the day?" CIel looked and him and shrugged, not really caring.

"The only person I want around me right now is you. It seems everyone else just knows how to piss me off." Sebastian frowned while turning back to where he was driving.

"I see, that boy did seem to want to apologize to you. In his own way but you did take quite a turn reacting the way you did." Ciel sat up and glared at the back of Sebastian's head, she knew she had been a bit sharper than she should've but the boy had insulted Sebastian.

"He insulted you and the Phantomhive name by the way he talked to me and then proceeded to insult me personally, I had every right to react the way I did." Sebastian made no argument as he helped down, opening the door as she almost ran inside the house.

Ciel laid lazily across the arm-chair, finding herself lost within her book. It was one she had read so many times and yet each time she just loved it, a girl finding a loophole in the rules set around her engagement and escaping to be with her lover. She didn't even look up when she heard a ping against the window, thinking nothing of it. It wasn't until she heard multiple pings that she marked her spot and looked around. She stood slowly and looked out the window only to frown when she saw Cyril waving at her before motioning to the door. She glared at him before closing the curtains, hoping he would go away yet she knew very well he wouldn't. She turned to find Sebastian just opening the library door, his eyes glowing red.

"Why did you close your window Ciel?" She sighed and motioned towards the window lazily, not wanting to deal with a pissed off Sebastian with her having no patience.

"That boy is back again, throwing pebbles at the window." She looked to Sebastian and was about request him to rid of him when he disappeared quickly. She blinked, unsure of where he had gone. She blinked when she heard Cyril arguing with Sebastian and then hearing the boy enter.

"Lady Phantomhive I demand an audience!" Ciel groaned and sighed before making her way to the top of the stairs, glaring at Cyril who was adjusting his clothes. Sebastian's hands were fisted as he looked to her waiting her orders. She stood at the top of the stairs, tilting her head with a glare that would make hell itself freeze over.

"I'm listening. Chose your words wisely." Cyril stopped and cleared his throat, looking up to her with shimmering green eyes that any other woman probably would've melted under.

"I wanted to apologize to you and your Butler-" He paused to look back at Sebastian, who didn't even try to change his glare making Cyril shudder and turn back to her. "for my actions earlier, my brother had just riled me with letting the horse get away like that. I was just upset that you had thrown yourself in harms way." Ciel sighed and rubbed her temples, debating how much of a mess it would cause to have Sebastian dispose of the idiot like she had others in the past.

"You expect me to forgive you for that right after you barge into the home I am residing for my vacation? You make it sound as if I should've let that little boy be hurt." Cyril opened his mouth to say something but Ciel raised her hand, silencing him. "Your apology will be considered but do not come back here or else I'll have to resort to other measures." Cyril looked at her questionably as Sebastian smirked, his eyes flashing. "Now if you would be so kind I'd ask you to leave, you've done enough damage to my day as it." He bowed before smiling to Ciel, which made her wrinkle her nose.

"Thank you lovely Lady. I'll be around town if you ever get lonely." He promptly turned and left through the door, which Sebastian nearly shut upon his rear and locked. Sebastian turned to Ciel to see her shuddering.

"Lovely Lady, just who the hell do these people think they are? I swear if it's not one man it's another that is testing my temper!" Sebastian smiled as he saw her storm off, he knew he'd be able to remove him from the picture soon enough.

Ciel was finally started to calm down as she brushed her hair in front of the mirror, she had changed for the night and was happy that Cyril had not shown again. She looked over her shoulder as Sebastian entered, his coat and tie were off and his shirt loosely buttoned. She smiled and set her brush down, turning towards him as he walked over to her.

"Sorry Sebastian I just felt like brushing my hair myself tonight." He smiled at her before leaning down and kissing her briefly, making her pout when he ended it too quick for her liking.

"It is quite alright Ciel, after the day you had I"m sure you're exhausted." She nodded and laughed when Sebastian swept her up bridal style and spun with her in his arms, she couldn't help but laugh when they tumbled onto the bed, Sebastian ending on top. Ciel caught herself thinking to their actions from the previous night and blushed, causing Sebastian to smile. "Is something the matter?" She quickly grabbed a pillow and hid her face away.

"No, nothing is wrong! I just... I was thinking." She felt Sebastian move off from on top of her and laid next to her, tugging on the pillow playfully.

"Thinking about what exactly?" Ciel kicked herself inwardly but gasped when she felt him run his hand down her body, a shudder involuntary escaped her. She peeked over the pillow and tried glaring at him but felt herself smiling behind the pillow at his playful smirk. She was about to bury her face into the pillow again until he brushed his hand against her cheek, which made her rub again it. He smiled and lifted her by her chin, making her sit up, her nightgown strap falling off her left shoulder. She felt herself becoming lost in his eyes as he stared at her, his face not giving her a clue as to what he was feeling. "Are you having regrets from yesterday?" She gasped and promptly slapped his hand away, surprising him a bit as she glared at him.

"Why would you think that? I have absolutely no regrets about that!" Sebastian smiled when she threw herself into his chest, his arms wrapping around her protectively. She sighed and rubbed her head under his chin, her anger at the rules of engagement mixing with her fear of people finding out yet her love for him and him alone shining within her.

He held her in his arms and felt a bit of sadness overcome him when he dipped into her emotions to find all the wild emotions she was tossing about yet he was utterly happy when he felt her emotion of love for him. He knew he had to protect her from any suitor that would try to take her away from him, yet he felt the repulsion at the thought of another man having her. He was her butler, not her lover... well not announced, he knew their forbidden love could get her in so much trouble but he'd burn the world for her if she would request it. He blinked when he felt something wet touch his shirt and he realized she must've been crying, pushing her away just a bit he caught her fighting hard trying not to cry and frowned. He went to wipe her tears away but Ciel slapped his hands away, catching him off guard.

She knew she shouldn't have slapped his hands away but she couldn't help it, she was just so angry at the world she didn't want to take it out on him. She wanted him to hold her and hide her away but she had her duties as the head of the Phantomhive family, as the Queen's Watchdog, hell she was an Aristocrat of Evil for whatever that mattered. She knew she would one day have to find a suitor and settle down and forget about Sebastian and live her life until he took her soul, yet she hated the idea. She didn't want to keep seeking out someone who would compare, someone who would make her happy, she had that someone and he was here with her. But all because of how badly it would tarnish her name since she was a noble and he was her butler, it would be the scandal of the century. She held her head in her hands and let out a quick shout, not noticing Sebastian laying his hands on her shoulders, just quietly letting her calm herself down.

"I hate this... I hate this. I only want to be happy for once in my life and when i finally find it it's something that is forbidden to me." She looked up at Sebastian, not caring that she had stopped fighting the tears as his face softened seeing her in such a state. "I hate that everything I do with you is wrong when I know in my heart it's what's meant to be, this tainted love is all I've wanted and yet I know one day I'll need to place mask of false happiness on. I'll have to get married to another noble and I hate it. I built my place in this world and I made sure to have a sound footing upon it, not caring about anything and yet now... Now I just don't even know what to do anymore..." She took a deep breath as Sebastian pulled her back into him, using one hand to hold her chin so she couldn't look away from him.

"Ciel..." Her eyes grew wide as she saw the shadows of black feathers begin to fall as his eyes began glowing. "I swear to you I will not let that happen, I am your Butler and lover and I will never let another man touch you in such a manner. You are one of the strongest mortals I've ever known and I will not let you break, you will always have me by your side so long as our contract holds. You are my love and this is my vow that nothing will happen that you don't want so long as it is in my power. You made me swear to never lie to you and this is the honest truth, I love you Ciel." Ciel felt her heart flutter, she was speechless. Sebastian smiled and kissed her before adjusting them so that she was laying on his chest. He kissed the top of her head as she sighed contently, his voice barely a whisper when he spoke. "Sleep my queen, I will be here when you wake."