DISCLAIMER! This story involves characters that belong to Taboso-sama. I own nothing except the made up story, and I do not profit from this in anyway.
Chapter 2: Borderline
Ciel was so tense he almost couldn't stand when Tanaka began to lead the other students to the school's lab across the hall. Baldroy had to lift Ciel out of his seat and Alois petted his hand.
He pulled away from both and adjusted his button-up, "I'm fine, it's not like he's grouping with us or anything."
Sebastian put the first few fingers of his right hand to his lips and continued to smile at Ciel as he watched him move to the lab.
Ciel stomped across the hall and roughly snatched an apron from the shelf. Baldroy and Alois followed closely and retrieved an apron for themselves.
Alois leaned over close to Baldroy and whispered, "We need to calm him down before something bad happens."
Baldroy nodded, but before he could move over to Ciel, Tanaka called attention and began to hand out the samples. He walked over to the dispenser and grabbed some gloves before receiving the frog from Tanaka.
Ciel also grabbed a pair of gloves and the dissection kit from the cabinet by the door. Alois decided he would do the paperwork, so he took the opposite side of the table while Baldroy and Ciel pinned their specimen down.
"You students have one hour and fifty minutes, get started." Tanaka said before returning the remaining specimens to the closet.
Sebastian walked into the lab and started to walk in, but then noticed the aprons, and turned and grabbed one. He also grabbed some gloves.
Tanaka came out of the closet, "Which group do you want to work with? I'll bend the rules of three just for today."
Sebastian scanned the room and noticed a small group of two girls. They looked frightened and the blonde girl looked as if she were going to be sick. He pointed to that group.
"All right. You'll be working with Elizabeth and Paula." Tanaka said and handed him a frog.
Sebastian smiled at the two girls and walked over to them with the frog, "Don't worry about touching it. I'll do all the physical work if you two split the paperwork and fetch me tools when I need them.
Elizabeth sighed with relief, "Absolutely! I'll take care of the papers and Paula will fetch the tools."
Paula giggled and Sebastian smiled.
Ciel wrinkled his nose and stabbed his frog violently in the abdomen.
Tanaka removed his gloves in favor of a new pair, "Also take note, because of ethics, no one will be permitted to mutilate their specimens. If I find evidence of this, I'll half the score for the entire group. No extra credit either."
Ciel swallowed, "I guess we'll start the cut here."
Baldroy handed him a pair of dissecting scissors, "Honestly, you need to get that anger under control. You could blow this entire grade for us."
Alois tapped his pencil on the table and looked over at Mae-Rin, who was too busy cutting to notice, "Yeah Ciel, calm down. Oh! I think Claude is making some beef stew tonight if you want to drop in for a while."
Ciel nodded, "Hold up the paper so I can see where to cut."
Alois smiled and held the paper up so Ciel could see it, but just beyond the paper, he saw Sebastian's group, and he saw that Elizabeth was laughing with him.
Ciel dropped his scissors and held onto the table so that he was steadied, "What is that smell?"
Baldroy looked at him, "Are you okay?"
Ciel was breathing hard and sweating, "It's so strong. What is it?"
Tanaka noticed Ciel turning pale, "Ciel, step outside in the hall with me for a moment."
Ciel nodded and staggered out into the hall with Tanaka while Baldroy claimed the equipment. He looked up at the paper, and noticed the same thing.
"Alois," he whispered, "Sebastian is working with Lizzie."
Alois casually knocked his pencil into the floor so that he could turn around and pick it up while stealing a view.
He looked back at Baldroy and gave a worried expression.
Tanaka closed the door and turned to Ciel, "Are you going to be okay?"
"The smell was getting to me is all. No big deal." Ciel said with a shaky voice.
"Formaldehyde is a tough smell to choke down. Stay out here until you feel well enough to return." Tanaka said before returning to the lab.
Sebastian was using the scissors to cut a large incision up from the frog's abdomen to its neck.
Elizabeth stood on the opposite side of the table and looked down at the paper while Paula waited silently to hand Sebastian a tool.
He looked up at Elizabeth and laughed, "It's dead."
She shifted her feet, "It's still disgusting."
Sebastian continued to cut until he hit a rough spot, "You should cover your ears."
"Why?" Paula asked, but it was too late.
Sebastian squeezed the scissors to cut through the sternum, which made a loud, wet crunching noise, and Elizabeth almost vomited.
"Never mind." Sebastian said and continued to cut. The then made two horizontal cuts under the ribs, "Pins."
Paula handed over the pins with shaky hands.
Sebastian pinned the flaps of skin down to the pad.
Ciel entered the room and walked back over to his group.
"You gonna be okay?" Baldroy asked as he was starting to cut through the muscle.
"Yeah. It was just the smell." He replied.
"Hand over that scrape thing." Baldroy said.
Ciel handed it over and looked back over at Sebastian's group, and to his pleasure, Elizabeth looked repulsed and was clinging to Paula.
The dissection went on for another hour and Ciel's group finished everything. Ciel and Baldroy returned their specimen to Tanaka and started washing their hands under the faucet of their lab station.
Alois touched up on the paperwork and placed it in the box by Tanaka's desk. Ciel, Baldroy, and Alois then returned to the classroom to retrieve their belongings before their next class.
"Did you see the way he was flirting with Elizabeth?" Ciel asked.
"We saw after you left." Baldroy admitted.
He threw his coat down, "She's mine! He needs to learn a little something called borders!"
"Borders?" Alois asked.
"A line that shouldn't be crossed." Baldroy answered before Ciel could get any angrier.
"Elizabeth isn't your girlfriend yet, though." Alois added.
Ciel shot him a glance, "Yet."