A/N: Heyy guyssss It's been a while~~ This chapter finally up~~ -SeaweedNeko

"Hey, hey! It's my birthday today! Mother said that she's going to read me a story and that I can sleep with her tonight!"

"Mother? Father? What happened? Tanaka!"

"Young master… please escape…"

"Let go of me! I want to go home! Why is nobody here…"

"DEMON! I'LL MAKE A CONTRACT WITH YOU!"

"From now on, your name will be Sebastian."

"I don't tell lies. Starting from today, this will be your manor. Welcome back, my master."

"Stay there until I fall asleep, Sebastian."

"Yes, my Lord."

"Good night, young master."

"A-ah….." Ciel's legs shook. "Se-Sebastian…" His body suddenly went limp as his cinematic record disappeared back into his wound.

"Young master?" Sebastian quickly caught him before he hit the ground.

"He's just unconscious. You'd better go and treat that wound before I find a coffin for him. He's going to die from blood loss soon, hehehe…" Undertaker bit into one of his biscuits, raising his bloodied death scythe in warning.

"Then I shall take my leave. Thank you for your help, Undertaker." Sebastian bowed, then made his way towards the Phantomhive mansion. After all, Undertaker was someone that he would not like to see again.

"Ah~ I was so tempted to just cut off his Cinematic Record… But I guess a deal is a deal. I'm expecting interesting things from you in the future, Earl… Hehehehe…"

"Young master! Sebastian!"The house servants rushed to help Sebastian, who politely refused their help. "H-hey, what happened to his arm?" Blood was still dripping out of Ciel's shoulder, and his face was extremely pale from blood loss. Sebastian simply just bowed his head and swiftly walked past them towards Ciel's bedroom.

Several hours later, Ciel was asleep in his bed (too drained to even have nightmares) with Sebastian enjoying his own luxury of sleeping in a nearby chair when the house servants slowly opened the door and peeked inside.

"Wow… This is the first time that I've ever seen Sebastian sleeping…" Finny whispered.

"For once he doesn't look like he's about to kill us…" Bard added.

"Honestly, he looks really… nice!" Meirin's face heated up.

"Ho, ho, ho…"

"Shh! He's waking up!"

Sebastian slowly opened his eyes, gathering his thoughts. When he looked up he saw Ciel sleeping dreamlessly. Ah, that's right. Undertaker went overboard with the Cinematic Record viewing. Had it not been for me, the young master would have died from blood loss sooner or later. He stood up from the chair and quickly dusted himself off.

"Now then…" He checked the time. "I must get back to work." Sebastian walked over to Ciel's bed and gently pulled back his collar to check his wound, deciding that he should change the dressing first.

"Waaaaaaahhhh! W-what is he doing to the young master!?" Meirin whispered harshly, covering her nose.

"Shh! Be quiet!" Bard and Finny both quickly covered the maid's mouth and watched through the door crack as Sebastian slowly unbuttoned Ciel's shirt.

"A- a view of the young master's body! J-just the thought of it…" Meirin was clearly on the edge of a nosebleed.

"Meirin!" Finny begged. "Please be quiet!"

"S-sorry! This is just too steamy to watch!"

Sebastian could clearly hear them whispering to each other outside the door, but decided not to notice. He propped pillows around Ciel's body to keep him upright and began to change the dressing of the wound. As he did so, he became aware that Ciel was beginning to wake up.

"Are you awake, young master?"

"… Seba…stian?" He weakly grabbed Sebastian's wrist, attempting to push him away. "What… are you doing?" From Ciel's point of view, all he knew was that his butler was leaning over his shirtless body.

"Do you not remember what happened, young master?"

"… " Something in his mind tickled. Then he looked up to glare at his butler. "Why did you let Undertaker injure me like that? You know that it reminds me of-"

"I apologise. There was no other way that I could think of."

"… I know." Ciel looked down, his hand tightening on Sebastian's sleeve. "It's just that it was…" Sebastian reassuringly pat his head, then resumed wrapping up the wound and tied it. "I'm done." There was no response.

"Young master? I'm done." He then noticed that Ciel's eyelids were drooping, and he was swaying a little. "Young master?"

"I'm… tired." He mumbled, half-collapsing against his butler. Sebastian smiled to himself and gently pulled away to let his master fall backwards onto his pillow.

"Young master." Ciel opened his eyes slightly in annoyance.

"What is it? Let me sleep already."

"I must apologise profusely." He bowed with one knee on the ground and his hand on his chest.

"What?"

"'You ordered me to stay with you." He said in a gentle voice. "However, in the end I allowed Alois and Claude to take you away. You ordered me to protect your life, and I allowed Undertaker to injure you more than necessary, which put your life in danger. I have failed to follow two orders." Ciel closed his eyes again and patted the bed, making space for his butler.

"It's fine. I'm alive because in the end, you still protected me. And if you hadn't snapped me into my senses who knows what would have happened." There was a short silence as Sebastian stood up to sit on the edge of his bed. "Please continue to serve me as always."

"Yes, my Lord. I will protect your life no matter what." Ciel chucked, then sat up slightly to lean against his butler.

"You'd better, otherwise someone won't be getting my soul." He nuzzled against Sebastian's shoulder and relaxed.

"My, you're certainly the affectionate one today." Sebastian adjusted the blanket around his master.

"If I wasn't so sleepy I would have slapped you three times by now. Let me sleep already."

"Yes, my Lord." When Ciel drifted into the dimension between asleep and awake, he gently raised his master's hand and brushed his lips against his fingers. "Sleep well."

"So they're even up to that stage in a relationship! This is getting a little intense!"

"To think that even the young master would have a soft side for someone… and for that someone to be Sebastian of all people…"

"Hey hey, remember that they were alone in the manor before we were employed! And who knows for how long!"

"…"

"Ho, ho, ho…"

A/N: Hurhurhur I ship these two so much 3 Unfortunately I might have another writer's block because I've been spending days thinking about how this story should end and my mind's been coming up with ideas for different stories instead of focusing on this one right now. If I don't update weekly like usual then you would probably know why. -SeaweedNeko