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~Escaping~
Once in the denser part of London, the boys made their way to the Hotel, thankfully Ciel had paid attention yesterday otherwise they wouldn't have gotten anywhere, seeing how Alois had dragged him all the way out here but realized he didn't know where the Holland Hotel was.
"We're here.." Ciel said in a quiet voice as he snuck around by a window and peeked up into a lit room. Alois did as well. Inside there were what looked to be five men. Three of which were younger looking, possibly mid twenties, while the others were all looking to be over age forty, including the fat man from the meeting they'd gone to. There was a small shattered section in the window about the size of a golf ball, allowing the two boys to hear what was going on. Alois stood on a small wooden box that was partially eroded away from the elements. Careful to not be seen or heard.
"I'm telling you. These two boys were of the finest quality! We could get loads out of them. Trust me."
"I don't know man, you said that they belonged the Sebastian Michaelis and Claude Faustus. Look at police records, any robberies or confrontations resulting in the near harm of those two boys ended up have a lot of dead guys. I don't like it." A younger one said.
"I had the pleasure of meeting Claude one time at a Funtom store while picking out a new toy for my daughter. He seemed different..scared the bloody hell out of me. Like he's some sort of demon or something."
The two Nekos listened quietly.
"I don't care. I pay you for a reason, and this time I want those Neko's! Bring them here, I don't care what you have to do or who you have to kill. Here, use this." Mr. Steinson said to his group as he handed them all a tone device like what Sebastian had. They all sort of grumbled but started to disband when Alois's foot fell through the small wooden box and cried out when a piece of the box cut him fairly deep. Ciel cursed under his breath and looked up through the window again.
"It's them! Go get them! Now! Before they can get to anyone!" Cole Steinson shouted as two of the men ran to the window while the others ran out the front of the Hotel. Ciel panicked and grabbed Alois forcing him to run even thought the pain the the blonde Nekos ankle was excruciating.
"Ciel! Ciel stop! It hurts!" The Neko cried.
"It's going to hurt more if you stop! Who knows what those guys will do now run!" The blue haired boy said as he ran as fast as he could into the darkest shadows he could find, but that soon ended up being a bad idea when homeless and sickly people came out of the shadows and tried to grab onto their clothes for the jewels that may be sewn into them and the silks. They made their way out behind a building and Ciel helped Alois into a parked carriage and put his hand over the boys mouth. Ears down to be sure they wouldn't be seen if anyone looked through the windows.
"Don't make a sound." Ciel whispered.
Alois complied and the other Neko moved his hand off of his mouth, the blonde reached down to his ankle and could feet hot wetness but it was too dark to see. They heard the voices of the men come by and tap on the window of the carriage. The two boys held their breath and tried to stay quiet. Then one of the men opened the door to the carriage but was distracted by a question from another one of his fellow men and only glanced into the dark cab. Then closed the doors without another look and ran off when the other men said that they thought her had seen the boys around the corner. Ciel let out an extremely deep breath.
"Their gone." He said as he turned to Alois who he couldn't see but knew was there. "How is your leg nya?" He asked, slightly irritated at the mew.
"I don't know, I think it's bleeding really bad." The blonde whimpered. Ciel picked out a match from Alois's backpack and struck it shedding just enough light long enough to see the wound. The boy grimaced as he saw the blondes red, blood soaked socks and ripped off a piece of his under shirt and wrapped it around the wound.
"That should at least slow the bleeding."
"How did you know to do that Ciel?" The blonde asked in a quiet small voice.
"I saw Sebastian do it to my hands nya. See?" He said as he held up his bandaged hands which had actually bandaging on them now. "Sebastian used a handkerchief first though."
"You're so smart Ciel. Hmhm.."
Just then the carriage door opened and the same man from before reached in.
"I knew I had heard something! Get out here!" He said but before he could grab them Ciel stood as best he could and kicked the man hard in the face, sending him backwards.
"Come on!" Ciel said as he grabbed Alois running off, but the screeching, piercing sound of a high pitched tone came racing through their heads. Collapsing them both.
"Ahh! Ciel it hurts!"
"Keep running damn it! Your such a burden!" Ciel said as he winced and nearly teared over at the pain in his head. He tripped every few steps on his own feet as he could barely keep his eyes open at the pain. Finally Ciel dragged the blonde down another ally way but this time tripped into a water canal but fortunately landed on a pile of dead grass that had been thrown into there on the concrete walk that lined either side of the water. The two Neko's helped each other two run further into the dark tunnel along the concrete, careful to not fall into the black water. Once they were far enough they stopped and spent some time catching there breath.
"This...-huff- is all your fault...-huff- nya.." Ciel scolded his fellow Neko was was leaning against the stone wall with him.
"Maybe...-huff huff- but it's not like I -huff- planned this." Aloise said as he shivered a little due to the cold waters rushing by.
"Let's try to get some rest. We'll head out at dawn." Ciel said as he looked over at the tunnel entrance. The two let themselves fall asleep against each other.
"What do you mean you couldn't find them!? You're going to go back out there and find them if it takes you all night and day!" Steinson bellowed as he shoved one of his workers.
"Look boss, we work for you but we dont kidnap for you. I've got a daughter to think about, I'm not gonna put her in jeopardy by doing something stupid. I'm out of here. Take your blasted money." The younger man snapped as he threw the bag of silver at the fat man before him, the money falling everywhere through out the room. The Mr. Steinson gasping and picking it up frantically. Then stood and grabbed the man by the throat, holding a knife in the other.
"Heh, you're not going anywhere Pete. I gave you a job to do and your going to finish it." Steinson said as he slid the blade over the mans face, just gently enough to not cut him. " Isn't that right boys..hmhm."
The rest of the gang laughed darkly and ganged up on Peter. Fortunately the man was a decent fighter though, he kicked the fat man away into the desk, and punched and fought the others as best he could but was soon finding himself over taken. He endured each hard blow to the face and each kick to his ribs and sometimes his head.
"Hmhmhm..humans are such horribly dreadful creatures. Killing off each other for the sake of greed. Hmm.." A dark voice said softly from behind. The group of men stopped their assault on the young man and turned there attacks to Sebastian. "Hm? My, not even a proper greeting? You are dastardly are you..hmhm.." He said softly as he through a set of silver butter knives killing the men before him with severe stab wounds to the head, including the fat man. Sebastian walked over and took the sack of silver pieces from the dead mans clutches, opened it, and smiled every so innocently and dumped it over the man.
"Hmhm...look, you didn't lose any money either..good show." Sebastian said with a dark snicker. He turned to look at Peter who was standing almost with his back to the wall, shaking. " Hm...I commend you for turning down the mans offer. Do try to not get into such troublesome situations sir. Now, unless you want to die of flames, I would hurry on home to your precious wife and daughter." Sebastian said with his trademark calm but devious grin, he walked over to the stand that held the gas lantern. He leaned down and pulled out the matches from within the drawer and struck one. He again looked over to Peter who was still looking on in shock with his emerald green eyes, slightly shaking. The demon flicked the lit match onto the floor, instantly lighting the carpeted surface. He walked slowly over to the terrified man making him back up until he was against the wall, staring horrified into the demons red eyes. Sebastian placed a hand up against the wall beside the mans head.
"Let's keep this our little secret shall we? Hmhm.."The butler said with that the man ran off out the door and Sebastian slowly made his way out as well, smoke pouring out of the building.
Alois woke to a faint light penetrating the tunnel, he shook Ciel awake and the two stood, making their way towards the light.
"This is really gonna suck.." Ciel mumbled to himself thinking of what would happen when they were found by there masters.
"Hehehe your afraid of your master aren't you Ciel." Alois chimed as he pinched Ciels cheek. His fluffy tail swishing around.
"I'm not either. I just...don't want him to see me right now."
"Your afraid."
"I am not!"
"Are too!"
" Shut it! I am not!"
"Are tooooo!" He put on a look of slight shock. " Uh...Sebastian!"
Ciel jumped and spun around on his heal putting his hands up as if to protect himself.
"Oh my fucking god where?!"
Alois stopped his smile for a moment and just looked at the blue haired Neko who looked around quite seriously but then realized the blonde had tricked him. He glared at Alois who laughed his heart out and wrapped his arms around his stomach in pain as he laughed out right.
"Damn it! nya!" Ciel screamed, Alois smirked.
"Nya! Nya!Hehehe...your so cute Ciel." The blonde Neko said as he and the other walked until they found a way to climb out of the water way tunnel.
It had been about an hour before they stopped walking. By this time they were lost, they had no idea where they had run to when they were trying to escape the men that worked for Steinson.
"Let's go in here." Ciel said as they walked into a small coffee shop. They walked in and sat down at a booth and ordered two small cups of tea with a little money Alois had in his back pack. They both sat there for at least another hour, getting free refills on their drinks and at once point Alois ordered a bagel for them to share. Ciel looked up suddenly and then back down and sipped his tea, then at Alois who bore a look of terror.
"Let me guess. My butler is standing right behind me isn't he." Ciel said taking another sip of tea. Alois nodded in silence, looking quite fearful. " Smiling with hidden intent to kill?" The boy nodded again eyes watering a bit. "I figured as much. Considering Claude is hovering behind you as well."
With that Alois looked up behind him and gasped at the sight of his master who looked down at him with little emotion but a certain, darkness to him.
"M..Master!" Alois shouted and put on an innocent face, ears back slightly. "Uh..hmhm...this place has lovely tea, care to try some?"
A slight smile toyed at the corner of Claudes mouth as he shook his head no.