Chapter 10

The Riders were out on reaping missions, which left Lorabelle and Harry to watch the kids since Ciel had decided to go shopping with Sebastian and Alois joined them. Harry had wanted to go, but he the children weren't even a day old yet so he stayed behind. He did manage to rope Lorabelle into helping him though he had to use his Master of Death authority to her to stay when ropes didn't work.

"Ugh, you take Severus, Imbri, and Rachel. I'll take Vincent, Skylar and Eileen," Lorabelle said, sitting on the bed with her three lying next to her.

It was several minutes of silence where Harry just sat on the bed with Severus in his arms until Rachel started crying, which caused all the others to join in.

"Let the fun begin," Lorabelle grumbled as she got up and readied the bottles that she had Tobias buy on one his trips. "Alright, alright, I'm hurrying, yeesh," Lorabelle said as she brought back six bottles. She handed three to Harry and wondered how they were going to feed three at the same time.

Harry put Imbri and Rachel on either side of him and shifted Severus into his lap before sticking a bottle into his mouth and then held the bottles for Rachel and Imbri after he had propped Severus' bottle up against his stomach.

Lorabelle followed his lead with her three. She grumbled a bit more about her ears ringing. "Piglets," she accused her nieces and nephews once they were finish with their bottles, which had been drained of the formula that Tobias had also gotten for Harry.

"They are just babies," Harry said tiredly.

"Why don't you get some sleep?" Lorabelle questioned.

"That sounds nice," Harry commented as he laid down on the bed. He watched as Lorabelle put his children back in their own little bed.

"I'm just going to go down to kitchens to make a pot of tea," Lorabelle told him.

"Scones?" Harry asked her before she left the room.

Lorabelle frowned at him. "Alright, it will take longer, so if you need my help, just call," she said as she left.

"A nap sounds perfect," Harry mumbled as he dozed off, unaware of the danger that he and his children were in.

Ciel walked along the streets with his butler following at a steady pace behind while Alois skipped beside him. "So what do you think we should get Harry and the children?"

"Hm, I'm not sure," Alois commented as he came to a pause in his skipping.

"Lorabelle has bought the necessities for them except maybe a stuffed animal or something?" Sebastian suggested.

"Three men, well one man and two teenage boys, shopping for babies and none of them have a clue as to what to get," Alois sighed. "It really is rather pathetic."

"I agree with that," Ciel said.

He snuck into the room and froze at the sight of the sleeping demon on the bed. He paused, and he then looked further on to where the babies were currently sleeping. He had to admit; he was extremely jealous of that Crow demon, but how had he impregnated the sleeping demon was the question. It was obvious that the sleeping demon was the mother of these creatures, but why was he the only to get pregnant? I will just take a child and squirrel it away somewhere so that I can watch it. I can't believe they let my master handle one and then sent him back to the mansion only for him to decide to go on a shopping trip with them. He sniffed the area and found that there was a strange cool scent that didn't belong, but he tiptoed past the bed, shrugging it off.

Alois had picked up a few blankets and toys while Ciel and Sebastian got Harry some chocolate. "How do you think he is doing, handling all of those little ones?" he asked.

"I'm sure he has roped Lorabelle into doing it," Sebastian said as he carried a few other boxes that contained some new clothes for his mate.

"Well, let's head back then," Ciel said with a tired groan.

"Sounds like a plan," Alois said happily.

"I just hope he hasn't done anything to warrant trouble," Sebastian said.

Harry sensed something was wrong when he heard the floorboard creak. His sister was quiet like the creature that inhabited her current form was. He opened his eyes and saw the back of the Spider demon he didn't like at all.

Just then Lorabelle opened the door, quiet as always, with the tea and scones on a tray, and she stopped to stare at her brother then at the intruder. She set the tray down on the floor while her brother slid out of bed like a cat.

Now which one to take? There are so many. Lucky Crow, finding a demon to carry his children. I still have no idea as to how it is even possible. Claude was still unaware of the two threats behind him that were quite pissed with him. "Now which one to take?" he muttered, unknowingly pissing the two off even further. "Maybe the one that has Alois' scent? Might make for good breeding material," he mused and froze the moment he heard dark hissing. He slowly turned around and swallowed nervously at the twin look in the eyes of the two siblings. "Mercy?" he inquired.

Sebastian held the door open to the Phantomhive mansion for Ciel and Alois when Hannah came running up.

"Hannah, what are you doing here?" Alois asked with a bored and annoyed tone.

"Claude has disappeared, and he messed up the laundry," Hannah said quickly.

"Why come here?" Alois asked her with suspicion.

"If I found you, he might have been with you," Hannah said lamely.

"Sebastian, can you sense Claude?" Ciel asked his butler.

Sebastian sniffed the air, but all he could smell was… blood. He instantly stiffened. "I smell blood," he said.

"Where?" Ciel asked, horrified.

"Servant quarters, mine and Harry's bedroom," Sebastian was gone instantly with Ciel, Alois and Hannah running after him.

They ran into the bedroom and Alois and Ciel made a noise in the back of their throats at the sight of blood covering the walls, bed, and chair. The only clean spot was to the right of the door and where the children should have been sleeping. The window banged up against the wall as the wind toyed with it.

Sebastian spun around, trying to sense his mate or his cubs but the blood was covering their scent to well. "Harry?" he yelled. "Lorabelle?" he then called, hoping that the strange sibling didn't mind standing in blood.

They waited a few minutes before Lorabelle appeared, covered in blood, and she had a pair of cruel scissors in one hand and a knife in the other, both dripping blood.

Ciel stared at his aunt whose eyes darted around quickly. There was blood matting in her hair while blood dripped down her face and dropped onto a white dress she had changed into, which was also smeared with blood. "Auntie, where is dad and my siblings?" he questioned her, hoping that she wouldn't use those scissors or knife on him.

Lorabelle's eyes finally landed on Alois and Hannah. "I hope you don't mind," she said as walked past them like a ghost.

"Follow," Sebastian said as he herded his cub out while Hannah did the same to Alois.

They followed her down some steps and into the basement where there was more blood, but it was also contained to a small area. Harry was sitting in a corner, also covered in blood, with a mat at his feet with six bundles and several blankets, all smeared with blood. He was watching something warily in a corner.

"Harry?" Sebastian questioned, afraid that his mate would snap.

Harry's head snapped to look at him before tears sprung up into his eyes, and he was in front of Sebastian, crying into his chest.

"Harry, what happened?" Sebastian demanded, wrapping his arms around him and pulling him into a hug.

"Claude!" Alois screamed.

The adults and Ciel looked at the boy who had wandered further and was now staring at his contracted butler. They joined him, and Hannah, Ciel and Sebastian gaped in shock while Harry looked depressed and Lorabelle sniffed.

"He did deserve it," Lorabelle said coldly as she stared at the bloody butler that was in a sitting position, chained to the wall.

"What the hell did he do to warrant that?" Alois shrieked at his butler's bloodied chest and pants.

"He is an intruder to this mansion, and I had to remove something vital once again to protect little Skylar. Stupid wretch was going to kidnap her because he was jealous of Harry being able to carry children," Lorabelle sniffed airily. "Of course we both attacked before he could even pick up little Skylar, reason why your room is covered in blood, and then he had the nerve to fight us down here after losing so much blood already," Lorabelle said coldly.

"Um what did you do?" Alois asked before Sebastian could stop him.

"Castration," Lorabelle said while twirling the scissors and then holding them up to her face. "Expect him to be in a world of pain when you take him back, and he may not be able to walk again. Turns out when Harry is in a fit of rage he goes for the legs and arms before going for the neck. I of course started stabbing him in the gut and back before taking a pair of scissors to him," Lorabelle then looked at the wicked knife still in her hands.

The others blinked at her except for Harry who had wandered back over to his cubs and laid down on the floor next to them on his side.

"Ugh," Claude came around and stared weakly at a shocked Alois. "Your Highness," he said weakly.

"I'm very disappointed in you Claude. Attacking another demon's cub?" Alois said while crossing his arm and tapping his foot.

"What did you do to me you bitch?" Claude then asked Lorabelle.

"Not much really, just a few snips and tugs, I'd suggest that if you want any cubs of your own, you find an unattached demoness in the next couple of months. Otherwise," here she shrugged before continuing, "you are SOL." She then joined her brother, kneeling down to rub her brother's shoulder.

"I don't get it," Hannah said with a frown. "A male demon that can carry children and what is castration?"

"I simply refuse to answer that question," Sebastian said as everybody looked to him.

"How exactly do you know?" Ciel then asked.

"Lorabelle is a very good informant," Sebastian grumbled as he looked around at the mess. "I suppose I need to get this cleaned up," he grumbled.

"Hm?" Lorabelle lifted her head. "Oh, yeah, sorry about all the blood. Spider demons, apparently, also harbor all the blood from their past victims while it is normally either left for the wildlife, consumed or just completely wasted," she said.

Alois watched as Hannah and the triplets helped his butler back to the mansion. "I can't believe Claude did that," he said, his voice filled with awe.

"Well, you had better believe it," Ciel said as he pinched the bridge of his nose to stop the oncoming headache.

Lorabelle appeared a few minutes later, towel-drying here hair. She was in her usual black dress, and she smoothed it down before sitting on the steps with Alois and Ciel. "I can't say I am sorry about what we did, but I do hope you can forgive us for it," Lorabelle said.

"But you had to do it in my mansion?" Ciel asked her incredulously.

Lorabelle shook her head. "A demon's cub is worth more to them than anything. Especially to Harry. I never told you that Harry's life with his relatives was horrible. One reason why he is so short is because they never gave him enough food for what he did. Always starved and locked up in a broom cupboard with tattered sheets and clothes two sizes too big," Lorabelle said softly.

Sebastian appeared at that moment and joined them on the steps with a tired sigh.

"How is he?" Alois asked him.

"He is alright. Terrified about what happened. He isn't sorry for attacking Claude, but he won't stop crying about messing up our room," Sebastian said with a sigh. "That butler of yours is lucky I wasn't there myself, otherwise he might have been a dead demon," he told Alois firmly.

"I'm thinking about asking Hannah to override my contract with him and sending him back to the pits of Hell where he came from," Alois said.

"Oh, I can so help with that. I can banish him there, and he will never be allowed to come back here again," Lorabelle said with a dark smile. "Or touch any of my relatives or those that I choose to call relatives," she said with a smirk.

"In other words, you are a dangerous tigress that can do as she please without anyone objecting to it," Alois said calmly.

"Yep," Lorabelle answered back cheerfully. "I suppose I better go make sure that my brother hasn't started growing mushrooms in a corner again, which room is he in?" she asked Sebastian.

"I put him in the Young Master's bedroom with the rest of our cubs. I was afraid he would tear the walls down in our room trying to get rid of the blood and Claude's scent," he said.

"Oh yeah, he so would have done that," Lorabelle muttered as she walked back in to the mansion.

"I think she has got to be the strangest woman," Alois said with a shake of his head.

"I believe we have already determined that when it comes to Lorabelle," Ciel said as he also stood. "Sebastian, I think it is time for tea," he said.

"Very well," Sebastian replied as he got up and held the door open for Alois and Ciel as they walked on before walking in himself to make the tea.

Review as always. Hope you all like this chapter. Do I feel bad for Claude... no. I don't think I do. I'll probably write a few specials of the servants and Pluto and everybody before the story progresses again since I need to read that chapter of the manga though I do know the basics of it. I find that the servants aren't in this fanfic enough. But that is just a thought.

Omake suggestions are wonderful and any other suggestions or questions if you have them.