Hello, I apologize for the long wait but I have been very lazy and I am still fighting the urge to be lazy. Now I actually have reason, for I will be busy now almost all day of each day of the week.
So thank you all for waiting, though I really don't think I write that great, thank you anyways for not abandoning this story! ^^
Hehe, it was hard to write this since the past few days I've been in a singing mood and it hard to type and sing at the same time. Good reading!
It was already around one in the afternoon and he went back to where the carriage was. As he was leaving he thought he caught sight of a person following him, but when he glanced back there was nothing there. He looked down at Ciel who was now sleeping on the seat comfortably. Sebastian looked back on the road.
He narrowed his eyes. Someone was following them and he did not know why.
Knowing the fact that someone was following them and able to keep up with them due to Sebastian not being able to lose their presence meant that it was someone who was able to keep up at a horse-drawn carriage speed (which was not that fast) and they were able to stay hidden.
Sebastian pondered on whether to stop the carriage and take off to investigate, to see if they stop, or keep going to see if they continue to follow. He sighed and thought about how much work that would be. Not only would he have to make sure not to disturb his young master, but also he would have to stop and make them waste time, putting him behind schedule.
He pulled on the reins lightly, forcing the twin horses to slow down into a walk, until he felt the presence vanish. Looking to the sides from the corner of his eyes, he sensed nothing.
He didn't even hear any broken branches being cracked as would be normal, if they were being followed. It was quiet. Deathly still.
Sebastian was truly puzzled. He then checked the time. 12:30 pm.
Should be enough time to do the chores, now that we have gotten the shopping done, he thought as he snapped the reins once and the horses resumed their trot that made the ride a bit smooth, but still somewhat choppy.
In the carriage, Ciel did not even feel a thing. Not the slightly slower pace of the carriage nor the impending presence that not even Sebastian could figure out.
He simply turned around to face the seat and nuzzled into the soft cushions and huffed a little before staying asleep.
Along the way home, the ride was rather boring. That little rift on the way from town had left Sebastian watching things a bit more closely. More so than his meal.
He pulled up onto the cobblestone in front of Ciel's large manor and stepped off the carriage, pausing only when he heard his name being yelled.
Running up were the three household servants, (idiots) minus Tanaka who was sitting at the top of the stairs with his mug with hands wrapped around it. "Ho,ho."
The group all skidded to a stop and bowed before straightening their postures. "Mr. Sebastian!" They all chorused.
Sebastian looked at them and nodded his head before turning to the carriage before opening the door revealing a sleeping Ciel who was cuddling into the seat while having a thumb in his mouth slightly.
The servants awed before snapping to attention when Ciel shuffled briefly only then to settle down nuzzle the seat with his face like a sleeping cat.
The butler donned in black smirked, thinking of the anger he could cause in his young master knowing that he would hate to be seen like this. He'll just store this tad bit of information for a later game, before he bent in and picked his smaller master up easily, resting him against his shoulder like an infant.
"Mmf," Ciel mumbled in his deep sleep before attempting to turn his body into his butler for better heat.
Turning away from the open carriage, Sebastian closed it with one hand with a soft click before turning to face the servants, giving them a full frontal view of their young master who was away in a deep sleep. Whether it was dreamless or not was something Ciel only knew.
"Aww, the Young Master is so cuute when he's sleeping!" Finny droned for a while after that, while Mey-rin nodded hastily before adding in her own words.
"Yes, he is! Just like a baby," she added in her own special voice.
Bard nodded his own agreement, but voiced another opinion. "Imagine how cross he'll be if he knew we'd been cooing at him like some blooming idiots."
This set the others into an array of worry while Sebastian let out a short breath. "Get a hold of yourselves," he stated in his smooth voice that stilled them, but they still twiddled their thumbs.
He glanced down at his sleeping master, taking in the smooth planes of his snoozing face that had cherub cheeks tinged with pink from bodily contact, before he trained his vision on the three and then gave his orders as the butler of Phantomhive house.
"Finny, go and take the horses to the stables and put away the carriage. Bard, go and help to make sure he doesn't accidentally cause one of the horses' death, leaving the young master short of one horse."
"Mey-rin," he paused before continuing. "Go and stack the dishes that are washed from this morning."
Nodding at his orders, he added his last line. "Now get to work!" They all scrambled not wanting to make Sebastian annoyed, leaving kicked up dust in their wake.
"Ho,ho,ho." Tanaka got up and made his way to open the door to allow Sebastian, along with Ciel, to enter.
Sebastian walked in with a straight back before abandoning the urge to take off his coat, for it was not proper to leave it on in the mansion, and instead made his way up stairs to Ciel's bedroom, leaving Tanaka to go about his way doing what he does best.
Once he made his way through the well known quiet maze of the mansion to reach the bedroom, he turned the knob confidently with one hand since the other was full with Ciel, and made his way inside.
He bent down to lay Ciel on the bed and then straightened up. Pondering if he should wake him, he stood there for a few nano-seconds until he moved away deciding not to and instead left him to sleep unless he wanted to hear his master's grumpiness over not getting his nap he felt he deserved (or rather, needed in his current state).
Before leaving the room, Sebastian wondered if it would be best to leave him there since earlier he had known a presence was following them on the way to the mansion.
...
He looked over the room once with his sharp uncanny eyes before dubbing it to be free of anyone except for his Young master and himself and the left the room with swish of his coat as the fabric rubbed against one another along with a click of a door.
In the far distance, a figure could just imagine all what was taking place in the Phantomhive manor. He sighed dreamily as he remembered the boy's sweet pouty face that held such innocence it made him want to snatch him up right then and there to corrupt such innocence. But he would have to wait for the damn butler to get out of the picture.
…
He smirked sadistically while he stood against a tree off the far reaches of the Phantomhive land, all while thinking of a plan.
Sebastian was in the middle of dusting the bookshelves when he felt that tell-tale bristle of another predator. He narrowed his eyes in slight anger at the thought of someone after his meal, which he had watched over for years now. All his hard work would be for nothing if he let someone take his young master away from him, leaving him nothing- not even scraps which he wouldn't be too pleased with either.
He thought of all the varieties that Ciel's soul held. Eyes flashing briefly, he closed them only to open them to reveal regular garnet colored eyes.
Picking up his cloth, he continued to dust the books' spines before he stopped when he suddenly heard a thud upstairs. Feeling his contracted hand twinge, he placed down the cloth and quickly made his way to the master's room.
Upon approaching the room, he noticed nothing was amiss. He knocked before entering. "Excuse me." He froze on sight.
Ciel was not in the bed nor was he in the room. The sheets were gone from the bed and the window was wide open. He sighed and walked to the windows to close them before turning away only to be stopped by a white figure struggling with the sheets from the bed that were now on the side of the bed away from sight if you were at the door.
Sighing, he already knew what had happened. He walked over and lifted a hand to untangle the person from the sheets only to be stopped when a small blue head popped out with mussed hair and tinted cheeks, whether from anger or his nap he didn't know nor did he dwell on it long.
"Seh-bah-tan." The toddler fumbled his with his butler's name and looked at him confusedly. He then tried to stand up but failed to do so and fell back on his bottom. He frowned before getting on his hands and knees to crawl out, half-way dragging his sheets with him.
While Sebastian just merely watched with some enjoyment, he was also making sure to make his presence known to whatever came into Ciel's room and leaving the window open in an obvious sign of a threat.
He sighed once more before looking over to Ciel who had stopped crawling and stood up shakily before standing straight and stared at Sebastian with his round, big bi-colored eyes that held such innocence it made Sebastian wonder how long the effect will wind up lasting.
Ciel walked to him and tugged on his trousers at his butler's thigh, as that was all he could reach, causing the raven to look down at him. His bottom lip was quivering and he had tears in the corner of his eyes.
His eyes were stinging from holding his tears in and he had a lump in his throat from holding back the bawl that wanted to crawl its way out. He put a hand to his forehead that was red from a bump where he must of hit his forehead.
Bending down to accommodate Ciel's new stature, he scooped him up into his arms, which didn't even faze Ciel, seeing as he wrapped his arms around his butler's neck, and let himself be carried back to the bed.
Sebastian placed him on the bed in a sitting position and immediately Ciel's small hand went to his forehead to hide it from his butler's view.
Tsking, and kneeling front of his master, Sebastian placed his hand on the other's hand to move it away to check the bump.
Nothing too serious just looked like it will have a slight bruising for a while.
As Sebastian checked his young master's source of pain, Ciel struggled to try to hide his face from the scrutinizing gaze of his servant.
He finally got tired of the struggle (and it wasn't working anyway) and let him check him out for any other bumps, but Sebastian found none.
"Why did you fall from your bed, Young Master?"
Ciel looked away and furrowed his brows in a contemplating look. His pale cherub features making him seem like an angry doll, but Sebastian could tell by that slight crinkle of his nose that he was thinking and if he looked closely he could see a pink tongue wanting to peek out in the midst of his concentration.
"I saw.. a.." He turned his head upwards unconsciously and thought for a moment all while looking like a child trying to mimic their parents. "I saw a... face."
Sebastian eyes narrowed at the thought of someone gazing at his prize and possession. He glared a bit, but it was not directed at the young boy in front of him.
Meanwhile while his butler thought, Ciel paid no attention to the angry look on the other's face and instead was drawn to his butler's cheekbones.
They looked so strong and mature.
...
He wondered if they could bend.
Sebastian froze in mid-thought when he felt small hands feeling his cheeks and pinching them. He rolled his eyes downward to gaze at Ciel who was currently grasping his face with his petite limbs.
Ciel wondered at how firm Sebastian's cheeks were, and on small miniature parts were a bit softer. He poked them and saw that they lead almost on an imaginary line to Sebastian's mouth. He then went to his mouth and poked his lips.
Sebastian raised a brow at the inquisitive mind of his little master. He had already known his master was a curious thing by nature, but this was taking it a bit too far.
He placed his hands on Ciel's and moved them away before they tried to venture into his mouth.
"No, Young Master. That is not something you would want to do. You might cut yourself," he chided firmly while keeping the squirming hands away from his face.
Ciel whined and struggled harder, but when he saw that his butler was not even fazed he stopped and opened his mouth to throw a tantrum.
Some part of his old self that was slowly dimming away like a burning ember that made him say his next words as carefully as he could. "Seh!Banta! I o-order you to let me see!" Thinking that should do the trick, he focused on the frown on his butler's face of his remembrance of the contract. The seal glowed in that big eye of his that held the contract while Sebastian's contracted hand glowed as well.
"Yes, my lord." He then sat down right next to his master to accommodate his curious, albeit childish, exploration.
Ciel almost smiled in glee, but seeing the smirk that now appeared on the man's face made him frown thinking that he was missing something. Ignoring the feeling of being left out, he brought his hands to the other' face and prodded his nose seeing that it had a smooth curve before he went to his mouth.
He didn't exactly want to barge into the other' mouth but he had to know. He frowned. "Open," he commanded with one word and felt the mouth part before him.
He saw sharp teeth and some smooth and flat like humans. It was the canines that were a bit longer than the others and they imminently drew his attention.
Poking his hand through the open mouth, he felt a sharp tooth and rolled his finger around the point before he pinched it making Sebastian want to bite down to release the annoyance, but he stopped himself.
Once Ciel was done with one tooth he went to the other one and did the same. He finished his examination and brought his fingers to Sebastian's lips and pulled to see how far they would stretch, but soon stopped when he found it boring.
So again, he went back to the teeth. He poked a tooth only to see that it was not sharp to hurt, so he poked a bit harder and felt pain which made him cry out and clutch his finger before he tried to put it in his mouth to lap the blood up.
Sebastian chuckled at him and brought out a handkerchief to wipe the bead of blood that welled up while he tasted the small source of blood left on his tooth.
Ciel sniffled and wanted his finger to stop hurting and that made him pouty. All he wanted to do was to feel the point.
"That's why I had told you 'no' earlier, young master." He tore a piece of the handkerchief and wrapped Ciel's finger with it like a bandage. When he was done, he released the finger to let Ciel nurse it some more.
"That patch-job will have to do until we can get a better way to bandage that up."
Ciel nodded and stuck a finger in his mouth to which Sebastian immediately pulled it out of the little one's mouth making him whine. "But my gums are starting to hurt!"
Sebastian stiffened a bit and leaned forward to grab Ciel's face to which he protested, but stilled when he was fixed with a stern look. His jaw was opened and looking into to see his young master's gums was inflamed a bit and the teeth look liked they were trying to fit back into the gums.
Sighing, he knew what was happening, so he released the jaw and knew he would have to purchase something for him to chew on.
More work.
He stood up swiftly but gracefully and walked towards the door. "Shall we go, Young Master?"
Ciel looked confused but slid down off the high bed anyways and walked towards his butler. "Where are we going?"
Sebastian looked at him sinisterly and smirked. "We're going into town to get you something for your teeth to act as a pain reliever."
Ciel just mumbled that he didn't want to when they had just gotten back from town and stubbornly walked back to his bed and lay down. He rolled over and turned his back towards Sebastian trying to ignore the stinging sensation but found that he couldn't.
He whimpered and turned to look behind him at Sebastian only to found out he left the room.
Ciel nearly cried in frustration. Was there nothing to lessen the pain in his gums?
He grinded his teeth and found it helped for a little bit, but soon after a few minutes, his jaw started hurting so he had to stop.
Thinking of a way to relieve the pain, he stuck his thumb in his mouth and gummed it a bit before he found out that it helped, so he continued to do so all while falling asleep.
It was only minutes later when he was woken up again. He angrily sat up in bed with his thumb in his mouth before he snatched it away, when he saw that a dribble of drool was coming out. Licking his lips, he hoped Sebastian didn't see seeing as he was the one who had woken him up.
But judging from his amused expression, he did see the act of childhood's pains.
"Young master, you shouldn't be sticking your thumb in your mouth to suck on it. It will ruin your mouth and teeth." Of course Sebastian knew that Ciel was not really sucking on his thumb, but the moment to tease him was too good for him to pass up.
Ciel glared and swatted at his butler's face only to see that he couldn't reach it even after he had knelt down to match his height.
He made an angry sound of protest and scrunched up his face in distaste. "Seh-bastian!"
Sebastian and him both were surprised to see that he could say the butler's name better now.
"Yes, Young master?" He quirked an eyebrow; the effects were not suppose to wear off that quickly.
Ciel shook his head and tried another sentence. "I'm huh-hungry. I'm hungry!" His eyes sparkled at the thought of being able to return back to normal while Sebastian almost groaned at the quick-resilient way of human children.
Of course it would of worked better had it been made for humans, but as it was, it was made for demons.
Sighing mentally, he bent down to pick Ciel up since he had his arms up signaling for him to be picked up and carried.
"Where to?"
"Oof-fice." Ciel still had trouble saying simple words, but he had a feeling things would now only continue to get better. As he was carried on the shoulder of his butler, he leaned his head into the palm of his hand while still gumming on his thumb with his other hand and thought about what Sebastian's punishment would be when he returned to normal.
Hello! I am sooo sorry for not updating sooner! And I'm even more sorry to say that I do not think I will be able to update as often, but no more than a month!
Hehe please review!