Ciel slept for 3 days. The servants had been worried. Evidence of this was Bard use the oven not his flame-thrower. Finny had mowed the grass and weeded the garden within 12 hours. and Mey-Rin had replaced the sheets and dusted Ciels room by the time Sebastian got there. When Ciel finally did wake he seemed different some how. More Angry.

"Was I dreaming or do we track someone else down to complete my revenge?" He almost whined.

"Well, at least we know your memory works. When would you like to question Grell?" Sebastian asked.

"Does now work for you?" Ciel lent to one side to pear at something behind Sebastian. Sebastian turned around just in time to be tackled with a hug that brought him and Grell to the floor.

"Sebas-chan!" Grell giggled as he stood up. Sebastian's eye flashed momentarily red as his anger threatened to get the better of him.

"What are we going to say to our guests about Grell when they arrive?" Sebastian registered the shock on Ciel's face and said, "Elizabeth and her maid where coming to stay for a while. They're coming up the drive."

Ciel sighed, "Grell, go wait at the front door, we can pass you as a new servant." Grell raced out of the room. As Sebastian helped him get dress, Ciel asked. "How long was I out?"

"3 days. The servant were worried for you. And Elizabeth, well, her coming here speaks for it's self," Sabastian noted the discomfort Ciel presented when he had said 3 days.

"What happened?" Ciel asked as he stood and stretched.

"Well, shadow travel is hard for humans to do. Most are out for weeks. You never cease to exceed my expectations, my lord." Sebastian smiled slightly at Ciel.

"I meant about what the demon said. About you having feelings for me. What happened to inspire that?" Ciel frowned as if trying to pull an answer out of thin air.

"Well, sometimes. when a demon finds a very tasty soul they will latch on to tight. The demon will do whatever it takes to save the human, for they think is their meal. The demon and pray become inseparable. They become like mother and daughter, father and son, or a couple. The demon is thought of as weak. As pitiful and very, very weak. Sometimes the demon will attempted to turn the pray, out of love. Most of the time said human would die and the demon would eat their soul. Mourn for a time sometimes to. Depends on their closeness and weather or not the pray wanted to go." Sebastian shook his head as if this disgusted him.

"And the demon is mocked for the rest of eternity, right?" Ciel looked a little downcast about something.

"Well, for several thousand years at least." Sebastian went to the door and held it open for Ciel. "We should go. Elizabeth will be waiting."

They found Elizabeth in the drawing room.

"Ciel!" She shrieked when she him. She raced up to him and trapped him in a bone crushing hug.

"Elizabeth," Ciel chocked out over he shoulder. "I still need to breathe here." She backed up a step and smiled.

"I heard you were ill." She said. "What happened?"

"I hit my head." Ciel did his best to smile back, which was something close to a straight line.

"You were missing for 6 months. Where were you?"

"I was lost. I found an abandoned cabin in the wood, with food. That's where I was when Sebastian found me. Then I slipped down the stairs and hit my head. I'm fine, now, though. How have you been?"

They moved to the sofa and continued a polite conversation until lunch, when Grell spilled soup all over Ciel, who ran from the room saying something about incompetence and hot. After he got changed he went to the kitchens to have a word with Grell, while Sebastian showed Elizabeth and Paula, her maid, to their rooms.

"Do you know anything about what we are going to ask you?" Ciel decided for a blunt and direct.

"You want to know about Madame Red's husband's brother. But you see, I don't do things for free." Grell had a hungry gleam in his eyes. As if knew what he wanted.

Ciel sighed. "I'll talk to Sebastian." Grell gave him a hug 10 times what Elizabeth had given him and Ciel force himself free.

Ciel walk to his office and, just as he'd expected, Sebastian was waiting there.

"Well," Sebastian asked. Ciel told him Grell's requested reward.

"You're kidding. That would be worse than adopting you for my reputation." Sebastian, who was always pale, somehow managed to get paler.

A/N:

Did anyone recognize Sebastian's description of an emotional demon and his pray?

I wonder what Sebastian has to do...

~TheFangirlChick