This is the last chapter and if you have any questions just...review them and I'll answer them... :) Now my last words are... thank you to Carrie2sky for always being there to edit. She's really great and a wonderful beta!
Finally, I want to say thank you to all of you readers and anyone who has ever reviewed!
UPDATE: 11/14/17- This story is finished.
Tick tock, tick tock. The steady ticking of the hands around the clock grated on his nerves as he busied himself with cleaning the rest of the mansion. He was meticulous even about the smallest things. Anything to make the time pass by faster where he would be able to give his master an early bath. Ever since the first day, he was ready to end it all.
He was even cleaning the rooms at a normal human speed that would make his body vibrate with the need to get things done and have it done quickly where he would be able to go and prepare the main meal for Ciel. But with his master currently about to undergo a change that his little body will have to make in a matter of hours, there would be no need for a huge meal.
After all, with the sudden change Ciel probably wouldn't be able to stomach anything else other than something small and light or maybe even milk like he had been for the past few weeks.
His ears tuned into the last sixty seconds of the hour and he waited to hear the clock chime the hour. He knew it would be around four but he was almost at the point where he wanted it to be five and maybe, just maybe, he would give Ciel an earlier bath or at least a reason to have an early bath.
Sebastian's mind worked at a speed that was even faster than a genius's train of thought. He would give Ciel a reason to bathe early and after that, he could put him to bed to sleep off the affects.
With that in mind, he darted around to put up the cleaning supplies before he situated his coat and went to where Ciel currently was.
He entered the master's room quietly and saw that the baby was already up and playing with a toy that was left in the crib, the butler didn't know by whom since it sure as hell was not him.
Grabbing the bear and ignoring the baby's shout, he smelled the scent of trees and grass so he figured it must have been Finny. He gave it back to Ciel before he picked him up and the bear as well seeing as Ciel did not want to release it any time soon.
The butler could not wait to get rid of all the baby things and he noted to do that while Ciel slept after the bath that he would have to get done because of an 'accident'.
He shifted Ciel in one arm and made his way to find the one idiot that would definitely get his master dirty or at least find a way for that to happen.
Sebastian went outside where he sensed Finny was at and his silent black statue drew the gardener's attention at once.
"Mr. Sebastian! What do you need me to do?" The gardener looked at Ciel and his hands twitched and the butler saw how dirty they were and almost smirked but he reined it in unless he wanted to look suspicious.
Sebastian let a brow twitch before he spoke. "I need you to watch the Young master while I go and take care of things away from the manor." He motioned for Finny to grab the baby and almost glared when the blond hesitated.
"Um... isn't Bard or Mey-rin more capable of caring for 'im?"
The butler felt like throwing something at him but he quickly calmed his spark of anger to a dull ember. "They are busy now if you don't mind, I'm running behind and I need you to take him." He glared. "Now."
At the glare, Finny hastily grabbed him all the while Ciel merely chewed on the bear's ear.
"Hey, where did he get that from? I was looking all over for it!" Finny made to grab the bear but Ciel shouted and clutched it while frowning at the gardener who frowned slightly back at the baby. That bear belonged to him but... since the Young master gave it to him, then it really belongs to the Young master. So pushing aside his sadness, he merely held Ciel who looked all too happy with his stolen bear.
Sebastian questioned the strangeness of the situation because he smelled the gardener's usual smell clinging to the bear. "You didn't leave it with him?" He zoned in onto the bear and looked to see if anything strange at all clung to the bear but the only thing was the smell of plants and... tobacco.
Of course. It was Bard who gave Ciel the bear.
He sighed briefly before walking away, after all this he would not have to deal with crying, changing nappies, and milking a cow every day. His master would finally be back to his normal size and all would be well.
So he thought.
Sebastian hurried to remove all the baby things except the crib. He would still need that, but he could remove it later. Besides, it could be fun to have his master wake up in it. He smirked at the idea. Then he rushed back to where Finny was with Ciel to keep an eye on him because with that idiot with no control over his strength, he might have harmed the master or worse. Like a tree almost toppling over on him.
If he hadn't darted to move him out of the way, Ciel, his meal, would have been squished, resulting in a very dull meal and would have trampled over all his work he put into him.
He fixed Ciel up with a little bit of dirt before darting away when Finny just barely rounded the tree. That idiot.
So after watching them more, he just raised a brow when Finny sprayed Ciel with the hose as well as the ground surrounding him and instead of crying, the baby giggled and made small splashes with the dirty water.
Perfect.
Mud would be absolutely clinging to him when it was time to collect him.
A loud boom echoed through the manor and he scrunched his shoulders up at the sudden sound before giving one last look to the scene before fleeing to the explosion, which probably came from the kitchen.
...
He was wrong, it came from the side of the manor where Ciel's bedroom was and it was Bard and Mey-rin who completely destroyed the only source of water they had. Just ... Sebastian didn't even know how bad their clumsiness was to be able to mess up something like a well.
As he berated the two, he thought of how he would have to dig out the well and what else could he use to bathe his master with.
The only water was the pond and that was further away and who knows what kind of germs would be in the water and he wasn't about to deal with a sickly master right after he went through all the trouble of changing him back.
The butler shook his head briefly and felt like he aged a hundred more years before he ordered the two to start digging the big chunks of stone out of the water as well as any debris. He knew he would have to dig a whole new well out because someone thought it would be smart to use a stick of dynamite.
He didn't even know what would possess them to want to make the well deeper or how that was even logic to use dynamite to produce more water. As he went back into the kitchen using the outside door, he heard a loud bleat from his left.
A brow twitched. The now irritated butler looked down to the source of the sound and saw a goat right before it head butted him and started ramming him in the leg repeatedly.
The poor butler was having a really bad day.
A normal human might have felt stabbing pain but a demon who was severely irritated merely picked up the goat by his midsection and carried him back to his pen where the cow was.
A thought shined in his head when he saw the cow along with a few others steadily grazing on grass. He knew what he would do and it probably wouldn't be the brightest thing he would ever do but it would get the job done. All he needed was a few helpers and everything would fall into place.
His narrowed eyes glanced back at the two servants fishing around in the well with the steady sound of water splashing as they stuck their hands in to get out the chunks of wood and stone.
"Mey-rin! Bard! I need something done."
The clock chimed seven times and the butler along with two helpers was in the kitchen warming up four big pots of liquid that had to be warmed to a precise temperature. The max amount of minutes would be five or so and any more time, the pot would have to be discarded and stored because the temperature would be too hot.
Sebastian checked his watch, before taking the lid off of one pot to check the temperature with a glass thermometer. "Time. Turn the fire off and take the pots off and carry them upstairs to the master's tub." He turned to where Finny was wide-eyed in the corner on a chair. "Give me the Young master and go and take the last two pots up."
No complaints were heard unless Ciel's whines counted but in Sebastian's case, they didn't. In a few minutes, they would be heard no more.
He went upstairs slowly taking his time and held in his excitement but he was sure Ciel could sense it either way as he patted his face almost daringly. "Seh-bah-bah?" Ciel huffed when no answer was given so he poked his butler's eyeball.
An annoyed huff was given to the baby who almost cackled at the gesture before he tried to do it again but Sebastian caught his hand and gave a stern 'no'. Ciel felt rather rebellious for some reason instead of the usual fear he had around his butler. So he bit the hand that held him but Sebastian wasn't really surprised.
He saw the thought flash through Ciel's eyes before the baby himself even fully comprehended the thought but he made no move to let go of the master's hand and he let himself be slobbered on.
Soon he would be able to lay sly jokes on the unknowing master once he changed back.
With his speed of walking, he passed the trio on the way to the master's bedroom.
"You all may be retire early for the night." The butler opened the door and stepped in. "Under no circumstances, may you enter this part of the wing." He stepped in fully and closed the door behind him.
Even then, he didn't rush to the bathroom like he wanted to. He grabbed Ciel's sleep clothes and the rest of what he needed before he exited the room. He didn't need to check the halls for the servants because he knew they would obey if they knew what was good for them.
Maybe he took slightly bigger strides to reach the bathroom because he was there quicker than he imagined or maybe he was simply too excited to bathe his master in the elixir that his time got warped a bit.
He saw the liquid was already poured into the tub and one last container was left sitting on the ground waiting to be poured in so the liquid would be just the right temperature.
When Ciel saw his favorite thing to drink, milk, in abundance in the tub, he clapped his hands and jumped slightly in the butler's arms.
And with a small smirk he finally allowed to show, he placed Ciel in the tub while keeping a hand on him so he wouldn't hurt himself even though the milk level was only mid-drift for the baby, Sebastian reached into his coat and grabbed the vial.
He uncorked it and smelled the rank elixir smell that must of had some garbage in it for it to smell that way and then he poured the brown liquid in the smooth whiteness of the milk before it slowly trailed around in a small circle as its color got lighter and lighter.
When Sebastian grabbed the last smaller pot of milk, he poured it into the same exact spot where the brown elixir was and mixed it up together with the newly poured milk.
Ciel squealed in joy and splashed in the milk before his head swooped down to try and drink some of the vast milky whiteness but Sebastian stopped him. Though drinking it might have made the process go by faster, he wasn't about to let him drink the milk that he was bathing in which he still had mud on his legs.
With a shake of his head, the butler grabbed a sponge and started cleaning away any dirty he saw all while making sure he mixed up the milk as much as he could. He even let Ciel soak in it a little bit and knew when his master awakened later on; his skin would be smooth as could be.
Once the milked cooled down to be room temperature, he took his master out of the bath of milk and dried him as well as could be but he knew he would smell milk on the boy for days on end until he got the well fixed.
He did everything normally knowing it would be the last time he would do something like this. Changing a baby master was not for him nor would it ever be.
And maybe he felt something akin to melancholy as he saw his baby master already drifting off to sleep in his crib, but he ignored it and disappeared out of the room and left to roam the rest of the manor so he wouldn't be antsy and waiting for the shout he knew he would hear when the change was over and done.
In the morning, all was quiet. The birds sang as bird will sing even if it's raining. All of nature was rather normal even when an unnatural occurrence took place at the Phantomhive's manor.
It was too quiet when the butler finally decided put away his book that he picked up to pass the long night of waiting. He took to the stairs and felt the quiet presence of his master's soul.
He hurried then and it was still too quiet when he saw a rather larger figure in the crib. The butler walked calmly and peered into the crib and was shocked at what he saw.
Even in the dim lighting that crept through the crack in the curtains, he could see with his eyesight, the grown figure of his master. The elixir worked!
Ciel was sleeping curled up as best as he could in his limited space and naked seeing as his baby clothes practically shrank off of him and into strips of torn clothing.
Sebastian smiled falsely and walked to the curtains and threw them open. "It's time to wake up, Young master."
Thank you once again and I'm sorry for the shortness but I think short and sweet is the way to end this little idea that started off short and sweet.