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It was a week later that Ciel finally decided to show up. Elizabeth had just been about to go do some training when her maid Mey-Rin found her.

"Young master Ciel is here to see you my Lady," the red head said and Elizabeth sighed.

"Honestly, that boy has the worst timing. Show him to my sitting room, and send Edward with tea and cake."

"Right away my lady," Mey-Rin said and hurried away.

Elizabeth slowly made her wait to the sitting room where Ciel waited. The boy's blue eyes fixed on her as she entered and she offered him a fake smile.

"Hello Ciel, please sit. Edward will be arriving shortly with tea," she said and then made her way to her chair.

She arranged her clothes as she sat so she could easily reach her sword if needed. It never hurt to be careful after all. When she glanced up she saw Ciel studying her sharply, and she raised an eyebrow in reply. She waited in silence; she had no plans to give Ciel help in figuring out her secrets.

Before her fiance could start talking there was a polite knock on the door and Edward entered, pulling a cart with tea and cake.

"I have snow geisha white tea and strawberry savarin as your snack my lady."

Elizabeth smiled and watched in amusement as Ciel tried to dissect Edward with his eyes. Her butler ignored him and proceeded to serve them tea and cake before standing by the door. After all it was improper for a young lady to be alone with her fiance before they were married. She had no problem using the excuse to her advantage.

Ciel's eyes flicked to Edward as she took a sip of tea. The young man quickly turned to pin her with his cerulean stare.

"I want to know what happened."

Elizabeth saw the small twitch of Edward's mouth and had to hide her own behind another sip of tea.

"Could you please be more specific Ciel?" she asked politely.

"What exactly is your butler?"

She felt her eyes widen and cursed mentally. If Ciel hadn't known before, he definitely knew she was hiding something now. She had been surprised by his blunt approach though; she was used to him dancing around a subject.

"He is exactly as he seems," she answered with a smile.

"He is my butler, nothing more, nothing less."

Ciel shook his head immediately and leaned forward, ignoring his cake.

"I was there Lizzie; I saw the fight between him and Grell. What they did should have been impossible."

Elizabeth took another sip of her tea, being careful to keep an amused smile on her face.

"What are you suggesting Ciel?"

There was a tone of amusement in her voice. It sounded as though she was merely humouring the boy and she took great pleasure in seeing him bristle.

"He's not human," Ciel answered and she raised an eyebrow.

To her amusement she could see Edward's brow creeping up as well.

"You think my butler is an alien?" she giggled.

It was far too easy to fall into her silly girl persona around him.

"Maybe not an alien, but definitely something else," he replied.

Her fiance studied her in silence for a moment as she maintained her smile, looking as though she found the entire conversation amusing.

"You don't need to act around me Lizzie. I saw you during the fight, and I don't want your fake smiles."

Elizabeth couldn't help the expression of shock that crossed her face, apparently her acting needed some work after all. She studied him in silence for a moment before shaking her head.

"This isn't any of your business Ciel."

She saw the way his jaw tightened and the stubbornness that entered his azure eyes; she knew what he was going to saw before he even opened his mouth.

"Let me help Lizzie," he requested with his cheeks tinting slightly.

"I care for you a lot," he continued.

He leaned back in his chair to take his first drink of tea.

"You play the game very well, but you are not at my level."

This time it was her turn to stiffen in anger. She knew she wasn't as intelligent of intuitive as Ciel but she still hated hearing it.

"You're better with a sword then I am," he admitted.

"But I have never lost a chess match to you."

He gazed at her imploringly.

"You are my queen Elizabeth, let me be your rook."

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AN: I feel so bad. I was looking at when I last updated this story and it has been almost a year. And now when I finally update it's a short chapter. I am sorry; for some reason I have a hard time writing long chapters for this story.

So all of my past chapters were written in present tense but I have just recently discovered the joys of past tense, and I thought I would try it out here. Please let me know if you like it better this way or in present. Let me know what you think of the chapter in general.

Also for those that don't check my profile- have decided to try a new thing with my stories to see if I get more reviews. For the person that gets the tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, etc etc, review; I will write a short story for them. They will get to tell me what they want and I will write it for them, for any genre. Or if they don't want me to publish something new they can state one of my current stories and I will make it my priority to finish a chapter for it. Basically this boils down to PLEASE REVIEW.