Elizabeth's Pov
Oh my Lord. Alois just confessed his loved for me. I won't lie I have thought about it once or twice. But I honestly believe that my heart belongs to Ciel. I have to speak to Ciel once more before I even think of moving on. I love Alois I do, but just not in that way. I was currently trying to find a way not to hurt his feelings. I had been hurt by Ciel so many times, rejecting my feelings that I couldn't do that to another person. Especially my friend. Maybe in another life Alois and I could have been together. But my heart belongs to Ciel and Ciel only.
"Alois," I said stepping back from him. This would be the hardest thing I think I would ever do. "I'm sorry. I don't feel that way about you. You are a handsome, beautiful boy, but for some insane reason I love Ciel and only him. I do hope you understand, you will always have a great space in my heart." I said hoping he wasn't too hurt. I looked at him, to see how he took my words. He had a type of blank and empty expression. I couldn't understand what he was feeling. Oh I just hope that I hadn't hurt him. "Why?" He asked simply. "Why, what?" I asked. "Why, do you love someone that doesn't think anything of you, in the least. You mean almost nothing to him, you're more of a talking toy than a girlfriend to him." Alois said. What he said kind of hurt my feelings.
Ciel may not always express him feelings for me but, I know he loves me. We're family. It was terrible for Alois to say those hurtful things to me. Even if he was upset about his rejection, this was no way to go about it. "Alois, please don't say that. Ciel and I may be having problems, but I know how he feels about me. I know him a little better than you do, afterall." I said as politely as I could. "You don't know him at all. What you think you know is completely fabricated. You wouldn't be so in love with him, if you knew the real Ciel Phantomhive." Alois said darkly, and began to walk out of the garden.
Alois POV
Oh. My. Fucking. God! This girl was completely dense. She needs to be examined by top specialists, because she was mad! I have presented myself as the perfect gentlemen, I've done everything to impress that stupid girl. Bloody hell, I wanna date myself! But this girl was stuck on stupid. I don't understand what I will have to do to steal this girl from Ciel. She is messing up my fun. She doesn't want me to resort to my second plan. I'm going to give this one more shot before I lose it. At this point I wanted to go home and regroup. I've been putting on airs for almost 5 hours. I can't take this anymore.
I made my eyes water again, and walked up to the front of the house. "Excuse me, Mr. & Mrs. Midford?" I said. "What is it, young man?" Mrs. Midford answered. "Can I borrow your phone so I can call my home to have someone pick me up, please? I would like to change and perhaps take a nap." I said, rubbing my eyes. "Why of course, I'll make sure you're notified if we hear anything." Mr. Midford said. I was handed the phone by Paula and I called Hannah. I told her to come and pick me up from the Midford house as quickly as she could. I would make sure to punish Claude extra. He knows how much I hate to be alone with just Hannah.
I was sitting around waiting on Hannah. She couldn't do anything right. It was a 20 minute travel from my manor to the Midford's. I was sure it had been at least 23 minutes. Suddenly the phone rang. Paula answered it. "Hello, Midford resident." She said. "Oh my, thank you so much!" She said and hung up. "Good news, Earl Trancy!" She said. "What?" I said, questionably. "Claude has been spotted!" My blood almost ran cold. "Oh thank goodness, where?" I said. "It's strange but the person said, he was walking around the Phantomhive manor." Paula said. Oh this was so not good. "Oh, I wonder why he was there." I said, awkwardly."I don't know but we're going to find out. Ciel must be in some type of trouble if your butler felt the need to check on him. Who knows what could be happening. I'll go there now, with my best men." Mr. Midford said.
Sebastian's POV
I'm fighting against the spiders webs in an attempt to save my life. I don't know if I will be able to defeat them. I'm growing tired, and I'm running out of time. Claude sat back ever so smug. I will defeat him no matter what. I summoned all of my strength, so I could make a last attempt at victory. I jumped into the air, breaking free of the spiders webs. As I soared above them, I retrieved my set of knives. Then I sent a rain of silver hell upon those wicked creatures. I successfully killed them all and then landed on the ground ever so gracefully. Claude better get another bag of tricks, because I see through everything he's trying to do. How pathetic that he thought house hold insects, would kill me. "So Claude what else do you have for me? Perhaps an army of butterflies?" I said, crossing my arms with a smile. "You weren't talking so proudly when you were close to your death, Michaelis." Claude said standing to face me.
"It would be best for you to release my young master now, and I might spare your life." I said. "I would never submit to you. Death sounds like a delight, compared to that." Claude answered. "Then I will grant you such joy!"I said, as I struck in him in the chest. He fell back, and rolled away just in time, as I stomped my foot down. He rose to his feet, and attempted to kick me. I dodged his attack and stuck my fingers into his wound. He whimpered and quickly moved away from me. I wasn't about to give him time to recover, so I quickly made my way to him, I kicked him as he knelt. He fell over and backed into a corner. It seemed that he was truly done. The use of the those spiders, must have drained him immensely. Killed by his own false confidence in his abilities. What a fitting way for Claude to die.
I was about to make the final blow, when we both heard voices. "Hey! I think I hear something over there!" For goodness sake, of all the times for humans to interfere. I knew the voice belonged to Mr. Midford, Lady Elizabeth's father, but why he was here was something that baffled me. I had to think of something quick, because I couldn't kill Claude. I couldn't just kill Elizabeth's father either for obvious reasons. So like the Phantomhive butler I am, I came up with a plan. "Listen to me, Claude and listen good."
Alexis Midford's POV
My men and I heard loud noises coming from the woods. So we decided to investigate. When we arrived we went straight to the house. But, once we were inside, we noticed that the house was completely chaotic. Furniture broken and upside down, windows shattered, dry blood on the floor, it was quite a scene. We assumed the worse, and began looking intensely for Ciel. I prayed that he was okay. He was my dear nephew and my daughters beloved. If anything happened to him, I would blame myself. I felt that Vincent had entrusted us from above to look after Ciel. I couldn't help to think that I was letting him down. I made it my point of priority to find and save Ciel at all cost.
We walked closer to where the noise came from, and discover a large hole in the ground. It was risky to go down there encase it collapse, but something told me to go. So my men and I slowly proceeded down the hole and discovered several tunnel routes. We followed the one in the center, and was soon met with a door. We walked inside, and were all shocked. Ciel's butler, Sebastian, I believe and Claude were huddled around an unconscious Ciel. Ciel was wrapped in both of their coats, and the butlers had tears in their eyes. Claude seemed to be wounded, and Sebastian was pretty beat up as well. "What on earth happened here?!" I asked bewildered by the situation.
Sebastian began to speak. "My master and I were headed out to picked up Lady Elizabeth, when we were attacked by a large group of thugs. They had broken in and demanded valuables. When my master and I refused and tried to get them to leave. They began to attack us. I protected my master as much as I could. He was knocked unconscious, by one of thugs. I ran with him, to a room so we could hide. We stayed there a while, as I stopped the bleeding from his head. We were soon found unfortunately." Sebastian stopped to wipe his eyes. "Then I got worried about Ciel and Sebastian, and went to check on them. When I got to the house the manor was trashed, and they were surrounded by those lowlifes. I used myself as a distraction so that Sebastian could get away with Ciel. I was stabbed, but it was shallow. When I manage to get away, I found Sebastian here. We've been awaiting a safe time to run. Thank God you all found us." Claude said, as tears flooded his eyes.
Sebastian held him in a tight embrace. "My word, what a story! Well fear no more for we are here to rescue you. And I thank both of you deeply for protecting my nephew. Earl or not he is just a boy, who's been down on his luck in life. Come, let's get you all some medical attention. You two are both such angels!" I said. I've never met men who were so selfless, kind, and loving as these two butlers.
Joker11315~ Sorry for the long wait! I've been going to band camp so I've been pretty tired. I like this chapter, I thought it was pretty descriptive and nice. Thank god Elizabeth has so much faith in Ciel. Sebastian is so smart as well. Can you even imagine the two of them crying at anything? Anyway please Comment!