*I don't own Kuroshitsuji, but I do own Clarissa.

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Chapter 6

I was still trying you figure out what was going on. I had a gun in my hands, which was weird. My father was holding a knife against Ciel's throat, which was strange, but less strange then the butler, who was just sitting on the dining table and watching us as if we were his favourite tv-show.

'Father, let him go,' I tried, knowing that my father had not only gone mad. He was also drunk.

'No! I will go to prison!' he screamed and I could see the blood dripping from Ciel's neck as my father tighten his grip on the knife.

'You're letting her decide,' Ciel said and I could hear the disgust and shock in his voice.

'Yes,' Sebastian answered. 'Because the outcome will always be positive for me.' A smile crossed his face.

'You're not supposed to break the contract!' Ciel screamed and I could see his fear and despair starting to show.

'And what exactly are you going to do about that?' Sebastian asked calmly. 'You can't run from the contract. I can.' A smile crossed his face as he pointed at his right eye.

Ciel tried to stay calm, but we all could see that that wasn't working out for him. 'A seal close to the eye makes it impossible to run from the devil,' he said and I kind of sounded like he was quoting the bible.

Sebastian just smiled a creepy smile and then said: 'You know the outcome, don't you?'

'Yes,' Ciel answered, making me feel like me and my dad weren't even here. Sebastian and Ciel talked as if his was a game of chess they were playing and me and my dad were only pawns in their chess game.

'If she kill her father, I'll be saved and she'll be a murderer. That trauma will one day get to her, whether that day is today or not. And if she doesn't, she'll blame herself for my death and you'll have what you wanted. A broken soul to devour.' Ciel sounded disgusted at his own words. 'You will win no matter what she does.'

I wasn't sure why, but something about this situation just pissed me off. 'Hello?! Can you guys stop having a formal conversation and tell me why Sebastian isn't just saving your sorry ass? It's almost like he wants to lose his job. And my father is obviously drunk right now, so taking him out shouldn't be a problem.'

'Then why not just do it?' Sebastian said and the some moment Ciel said: 'It's not like Sebastian gives a damn about his job.'

My father looked as if he hadn't heard a word we were saying. 'I'll kill this kid!' he said, as if he hadn't said that already.

That was the moment Ciel decided to decide things for himself. He stepped on my father's food with a power that even surprised Sebastian and pulled away from my father, running towards the other side of the room. Which was stupid, since there were no doors there.

My father just laughed and it creeped me out more than Sebastian ever had. He just looked at his knife and then back at Ciel and then he started to run towards Ciel.

I kind of hoped that my father would fall down (because he was very drunk) or that Sebastian would still save Ciel no matter how serious their game of chess was, but nothing happened. Even Ciel seemed to have accepted the fact that he couldn't run from my father forever.

That damn house staff! If they just came inside, they could help Ciel! I had the feeling I couldn't do anything! I couldn't just kill my father and I was too scared of getting to close to him, especially because he had a knife. Call me selfish, but I was just way too damn scared.

But as my father ran towards Ciel, Sebastian was looking at me with that curious look in his eyes and Ciel was looking at me as if I was his last hope, I found the courage to move.

I reached my father just in time to grab the knife from his hands, dropping the gun in the process. I knew that this wasn't what Sebastian had had in mind when he handed me the gun, but I wouldn't murder anyone unless I had tried everything within my power. And even then I would still hesitate to murder someone. Because no human being should have the right to decide on someone else's life.

My father turned around to look at me, turning his back to Ciel, who was standing frozen in the corner of the room. 'How dare you!' he screamed, closing in on me. I started to walk backwards, but soon enough I hit the wall and couldn't run any further.

My father closed in on me and had his hands in a position that I was almost certain he wanted to strangle me.

'Dad, please!' I begged. I pointed the knife towards him, but even doing such a small thing made the tears in my eyes roll over my cheeks. 'If you come closer… I'll cut you!'

'Now will you do anything?!' I heard Ciel say.

'I don't know,' was the butler's answer. I couldn't see the two as they were talking. 'Why not just order me and find out for yourself?'

Ciel sighed as my father closed in on me, laughing. 'As if my only daughter could possibly hurt her father in any-'

'This is an order! Kill him!'

As soon as Ciel had said it, Sebastian was standing behind my father. I started at him from over my father's shoulder as he grabbed my father's head and twisted it in a way that his neck nor he could ever survive.

As my father fell down, Sebastian and Ciel could see the knife, but it wasn't in my hands.

It was in my father's chest.

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We weren't sure what killed him first. We didn't know if it was me or Sebastian that had killed him. But we did know that my father still would have died, even if Sebastian hadn't followed his orders.

The town was in chaos. Ciel and Sebastian tried to explain everything and with my help, which I gave them while in some sort of zombie-like state, they had found more than enough evidence to prove their point. My father got burned, but even then I didn't care. All I could do was stare in front of me, trying to grasp what was going on. Trying to understand what was going to happen to me now.

Mei-Rin, Baldroy and Finnian brought me to the kitchen, where they tried to give me food and water, but I didn't want to eat or drink anything. I didn't even want to move. Moving made it real. My father was dead.

Where was I supposed to go now? My grandparents had been dead for years now and my father didn't have contact with other relatives. Was I going to an orphanage? Because I was almost completely sure that I would lose my mind there.

Mei-Rin told me that Sebastian had worked out an alibi and that Scotland Yard didn't even suspect either of them. They thought he was killed by a wild dog in the forest and the villagers agreed to that theory, more than willing to help their saviours out. After all, this village was stupid and easily to manipulate.

Ciel and his staff went to prepare everything for their departure. The three idiots carried everything to the car while I was standing in the door frame. And I still had no idea how to feel. I didn't know anything. Was I going to be left alone? I really didn't want to live in this village and certainly not on my own. Did Ciel have any idea how creepy my house was at night? Was he really planning to just leave me here?

Oh, by the way, Ciel had gone back to being calm and composed. And wasn't sure how and why, since I wasn't paying attention, but the doubt he'd had in Sebastian in de dining room seemed to have disappeared.

I just stood there are Baldroy sat down in the driver's seat with Finnian at his other side and watched as Sebastian held the car door open for Mei-Rin and Ciel. I was surprised, however, when he himself didn't get in.

'What are you doing?' I asked as he closed the car and Baldroy drove off.

Sebastian smiled a wicked little smile that I didn't trust at all. 'Well, I'm going to stay here, of course.'

'Of course?' I repeated, walking backwards as he slowly walked towards me.

'Well, if you had listened to our conversation for the last six hours, you would have known that we've decided that Baldroy will drop my master and Finnian and Mei-Rin off at the Phantomhive Estate and then come back to pick us and your stuff up.' His smile faded and it seemed like he was thinking about something unpleasant. 'I'm sorry, but I've seen your room, and we're going to need more space than the space that was left for it in the car. That's why.' He shrugged.

'Wait, why the hell do you guys think I'm coming with you?' I asked, grabbing the door so I could slap it in Sebastian's face at any moment.

Sebastian closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again. 'Because you just brutally killed your father and I checked your list of possible future guardians. That list was quite short, I assure you.'

Even if he was right, the way he said it made me cringe. 'Please don't,' I said, not even saying what I didn't want him to do.

Sebastian walked forward and placed a foot between the door when I tried to close it. 'Please don't, what?' he asked. 'Don't you want to hear the truth, Clarissa? You killed your father. You killed him.'

'You don't know that?!' I screamed, tears filling my eyes again. 'I-I'm not a murderer!'

That made him – strange enough – laugh. 'Never said you were, right? You keep calling me and Ciel 'murders', but are we really that bad? We are just doing our jobs.'

'Your jobs?' I asked and I could feel that the tears had left my eyes and were now rolling over my cheeks. 'What are you, the Queen's assassins?'

Sebastian chuckled. 'In some ways… Yes.'

I raised my eyebrows, but it felt strange because I was still crying. 'Are you for real? You really are a strange human being, you know that?'

He laughed. 'Who says I am a human being?'

I rolled my eyes and the tears stopped. I could feel my cynical side bursting through the misery as he said that. 'Oh, please. You're not going to reveal that you're a vampire now, are you? Because I will slap you in the face if you do.'

Sebastian pulled up an eyebrow, surprised by the calm reaction she gave. 'Well, no. I'm not a vampire. Please don't put me in the same category as those graceless creatures.'

Now I was the one to pull up an eyebrow. 'Are you telling me vampires actually exist?' I said sounded almost too sarcastic.

'I don't know,' Sebastian answered truthfully. 'I was never interested enough to find out. But this is strange. I just confessed that I might not be a human being and you brush it off like it was nothing.'

'Because I had already figured out as much, Sherlock,' I let him know. 'I may think you're good at keeping it a secret, but everyone with a brain can tell that you're no normal dude. First of all, you don't even sound like you're twenty-something. You talk like you're an old man. Stop that, it's annoying,' I let him know. 'Second, you get shot in the face and get up only seconds later and there's no wound to be found. That was hint number one, by the way. Third, your Hell-puns are even making me annoyed and I personally love puns. So, dude, you don't have to worry. I already knew you weren't exactly human.'

'So you know what I'm not am,' Sebastian said, opening the door because his foot was getting irritated. It didn't cost him any afford to pull the door open, even though I was struggling to keep it closed. 'But do you know what I am?'

As he entered the house, I tried to run away, but he caught me before I could even take three steps. He held me close to him, our legs and chests were touching as he looked me in the eyes with those red – definitely not brown – eyes. 'Do you?' he said.

And without thinking, because his face so close to mine made that impossible, the word left my lips.

'Demon.'

'Do you think you can handle things on your own, master?'

Ciel folded his arms together and looked at his butler with a disdainful look. 'Of course I can. And I've Finnian and Mei-Rin with me, so I'll be fine. And if I'm not, you're going to come anyways.'

Sebastian smiled amused. 'I can still leave whenever I want to.'

Ciel sighed and took of his eye-patch. 'No, you can't,' he said, opening his right eye. 'I order you to always stay by my side! You can never betray me!'

Even though Ciel thought this would have a huge effect on Sebastian, he just chuckled and went on with packing Ciel's stuff. 'Yes, my Lord,' was the only reaction he gave.

Ciel frowned. Had he done something wrong? He then put his eye-patch back on and decided not to worry about it anymore. 'You know that he's sharper and has seen more than those three idiots. She will figure out who – or rather what – you are soon enough.'

'I know,' Sebastian admitted. 'But I don't really mind. Have you seen the girl and how she acted? She's like a lost cat. She doesn't know anyone. She can't go anywhere. In the end, she'll start to see us as the only friends – or even family – she has left. And that kind of affection guarantees the safety of our secret.'

Ciel wasn't sure about that. 'We'll see.'

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So yeah, that happened. I hope you liked the chapter!

(sorry for the typos, I was very tired when I wrote this and didn't have any energy left to go and look for the typos)