Wait, uploading AGAIN?! Yes, I wrote another chapter yesterday right after fourteen and wanted to upload it Friday or something, but I just thought 'why not upload it now?' I'll try to write a lot during break so that even if I don't have time, I can at least upload a new chapter once a week. Or twice a week. Or whatever.
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And don't worry, we get to see Ciel in a dress soon enough!
justaislinn: Yeah, I sometimes forget, too, actually. I keep looking for creative ways to bring in cellphones and other modern day stuff, but it's just not that necessary. Though I am planning something funny which involves Sebastian and modern day cooking utensils, so that should be interesting.
I don't own Kuroshitsuji, but I do hope that you'll like this chapter!
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Chapter 15
When we got into the limousine, I didn't go and sit with Madame Red, Ciel and Lau. I waited until Sebastian had taken place in the driver's seat and then opened the door at the other side, climbing in the seat next to him.
The look on his face was priceless. He looked at me as if I was glowing and sparkling like a disco bowl. 'Yo,' I said, giving him an amused little smile.
He didn't really respond to that, but he did start the car without asking me to go and sit with the others.
'So,' I said politely, since I'd already decided that I was going to handle him with care and kindness. Who words that weren't really my specialty, but that didn't mean that I wouldn't try. 'Did I miss the action?' When Sebastian frowned at me, I clarified; 'Ciel dressing like a girl, I mean.'
A smile crossed the demon's face. 'No, no you didn't.'
I sighed relieved, making Sebastian chuckled. 'So when is that going to happen?'
Sebastian clearly got that I was acting nice and played along with it. 'Tonight, if he doesn't recruit you beforehand.'
'As if,' I said as the car stopped because we were at a red traffic light. 'Why doesn't he ask Madame Red? I won't do it. Certainly not.'
Sebastian shook his head as the light turned green and began to drive away from Piccadilly Circus. 'Angelina Dalles can't be our bait because she's lacking the thing that the Copycat attracts to the women.' His eyes shone in the soft like of the sun behind the clouds. 'A womb.'
I frowned. 'She doesn't have one?' I asked, surprised by this fact. I knew that Anne didn't have children, but I never would have guessed that that had been the reason.
'Not anymore, no,' Sebastian answered. 'Certain parts of that organ needed removal after a tragic car-incident that happened to her while pregnant.'
This information wasn't something I'd expected when I sat down next to Sebastian. 'That's…' I wasn't sure what to say. 'That's so sad.'
'It was a regrettable incident,' Sebastian agreed. 'However, it happened before I met Young Master, so I do not know much about it.'
I blinked the sudden tears in my eyes away and decided to change the topic. 'What's going to happen tonight?' I asked.
The smile was back on Sebastian's face now. 'The party of a well-known pop artist.'
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'Sebastian managed to narrow it down to just one suspect in just one day?' Madame Red asked as she and Ciel discussed the matter while drinking tea… again. I mean, yeah, I know we're English, but no one really drinks that much tea in a day, right? 'Are you really just a butler?' she asked, looking at Sebastian instead of Ciel now. 'Are you sure you're not a military intelligence officer?'
The smile on Sebastian's face told me he was going to make a hell-pun again. 'No, I am merely one hell of a butler.'
Argh, didn't he know any other puns than that one?
Ciel cleared his throat, making him the centre of attention again. 'Madame Red, knowing your influences in the high society of London, not only the nobles but also the common wealth, I need to ask a favour of you.'
Madame Red looked confused now, as if she had no idea what Ciel could ever want from her. Neither did I, to be honest. 'Of course, Ciel! What can I do for you?'
Ciel closed his eyes while he said: 'Aleister Chamber is going to have a party tonight and I need at least two invitations for that event.'
Madame Red almost chocked in her tea, Lau almost dropped his tea cup and I almost dropped my scone. 'Aleister Chamber?' I repeated, guessing that that had been the pop artist that Sebastian had told me about in the limousine. 'But he's a celebrity! You'll never be able to reach him! He's like a God!' And yes, I did own one of his cd's. Because even though I might be a bit different than the average girl in high school, I was still a girl. And girls loved Aleister Chamber.
Ciel opened his eye again. 'That's why I'm asking Madame Red's assistance. I know that you were the doctor who was appointed to his father when he got sick, so I'm sure that there's something you can do, aunt.'
Madame Red had gotten over the shock, but still looked complete surprised about the fact that the main suspect was Aleister Chamber. 'I-I'll have to make some phone calls,' she told him. After that she got up, followed by Grell.
I sighed there was no way this was going to work.
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Why the hell did it work?
Not only did Madame Red manage to get two tickets for Ciel and Sebastian, but she also got one for me, Grell (who only came along to drive us to the party, not to come along), Lau and herself.
As we were driving towards his house – Aleister Chamber's house! – Sebastian gave us a quick summary as of why Aleister was the main suspect while I was trying to avoid looking at Ciel, since he was wearing a pink dress that looked awfully fluffy and girly. 'Aleister Chamber graduated from medical school, but has not gone into practice. Instead, he choose to partake in a television show, which he won. After that he got offered a contract and he has been performing and singing ever since. He's thrown several parties at home, however, people say he simultaneously hold secret parties that only his intimates may attend.'
'I've heard that he's into black magic and that sort of thing,' Madame Red added, suddenly just as convinced as Ciel and Sebastian that Aleister was the one we were after. I wasn't really sure, though. I thought that Aleister had been in trouble for drugs-use a lot of times and I had seen his hands shake in television. Those hands couldn't skilfully cut anything out, certainly not a woman's womb.
Lau, who had put on a suit for the party, said: 'So you suspect that at these underground parties they perform rituals and sacrifice prostitutes?'
Ciel didn't confirm this, but he also didn't deny it. 'This is the last party before his next big World Tour,' he said as I felt the car coming to a halt. 'This is our last chance.'
As we got out of the car I started laughing. 'I'm very sorry, I just think Ciel looks absolutely horrible,' I told them. Ciel wore a light pink dress, that looked sort of like a ball gown, but for little girls. The pink hat with the roses on top of his hat didn't make it any better. And the wig he was wearing, had made it look like he had long, dark hair and covered his right eye, topped it off as utterly ridiculous. And I hadn't even said anything about the black gloves yet.
But even though the outfit was a bit too over the top, Ciel did look like a girl, and a cute one too.
I wore a dress that Madame Red had lent me. It was, of course, a red dress, but a lighter one then the one I wore back at the Phantomhive Mansion. This one was a brighter shade of red and there were black roses as a pattern on the cloth, making it look like a dress something an elegant vampire in an old horror movie would wear. I, too, wore black gloves.
'So, Ciel and Clarissa are my nieces who are visiting from the countryside,' Madame Red said as we walked towards the entrance of the house. 'And Sebastian will play Ciel's tutor.'
It did fit the way he looked right now. He had put on glasses, that strangely enough didn't make him look less hot, and a brown suit that just screamed 'teacher!'.
Ciel didn't look quite happy though. 'Why do I have to play the niece?' he mumbled grumpy.
'Because I refuse to seduce a celebrity so that you can lock him up in prison,' I answered, even though I knew that he hadn't ask the question to get an answer.
Madame Red leaned forward to Ciel. 'You can't let anyone figure out that you're a Phantomhive, it would disgrace your family if someone figured out that the family's head was dressed like this,' she said, just loud enough for me to hear. 'And, please, act innocent, I heard that Aleister likes that type of girl.'
Ciel still looked like he wanted to run away. It was a very entertaining face to watch.
It was clear that Sebastian thought so too. 'Didn't you say you would catch this criminal 'by any means necessary'?'
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The party was huge. I had no idea how Ciel was ever going to find and seduce the guy, because I doubted that he even was here. I mean, this house was gigantic and it was full of people wearing ridiculous over the top outfits.
Sebastian was walking between me and Ciel as we walked through the seemingly endless crowd of people. 'Frist we must find Aleister,' Sebastian said, as if that would be easy.
Ciel didn't appear to be listening to him. 'I really hope Elizabeth will never see me in an outfit like this…' he mumbled.
I hold a laugh. True, she would freak if she saw her true love dressing all cute and girly. Maybe she would even faint. But then I pulled a face when I heard a way to familiar voice coming through my ears.
'Oh, that dress is so cute!'
Me, Sebastian and Ciel froze instantly. Immediately turning around as soon as we were over the shock. Speak of the devil.
There, talking with to beautiful women, was Elizabeth.
Oh crap.
It might have been funny when Ciel had said it, but I really did not want to let Elizabeth see me either. She would probably be said that I didn't wear the dress she gave me. 'There are so many lovely dresses here! How cute!' Elizabeth said and I noticed that she too was wearing red today.
We turned around again, making sure that she hadn't seen us. 'Sebast-' Ciel began and I could hear the panic in his voice.
'Young Maste- Mistress, please calm down,' he said, giving me a look that showed me that he wasn't sure how to handle this situation either.
Then the voice we'd all heard was directed towards us. 'Oh my!' Elizabeth said. 'That girl's dress is absolutely adorable!' I was hundred percent sure she was talking about Ciel's dress.
Sebastian grabbed my arm and Ciel's and tried to smuggle us away from Elizabeth, making us disappear in the crowd. This time the crowd was our advantage, because it wasn't long until Elizabeth lost us.
Sebastian sighed. 'This isn't good. I had no idea Lady Elizabeth would be here…'
Ciel still looked panicked. 'If anyone saw the head of the Phantomhive family dressed like this,' he started, making me feel sorry for the guy.
'That would stain the Phantomhives for generations,' Sebastian said, though I was not sure why. If he had a saying in it, the Phantomhive family wouldn't even have a next generation. Ciel would be dead before he could even think about having children.
I sighed, rolled my eyes and said. 'Go and change. I'll go and seduce mister Chamber,' I said as I tried to understand what I'd just said.
Ciel looked at me with a surprised look, but – of course – didn't protest. 'Sebastian, I order you to stay close to her and protect her if necessary. Let no one touch her in any harmful way, understood?'
'Yes, my Lady,' he said, still teasing his master.
I was kind of surprised that Ciel gave Sebastian orders to protect me. This was once again prove that Ciel wasn't that bad. He was way kinder then he thought he was and he cared way more than he thought. Maybe I should be nicer to him in the future.
Ciel disappeared in the crowd, aiming for the exit as Sebastian looked at me with a 'what now?' look in his eyes. 'Let's just join Madame Red and the others,' I suggested as he just kept looking at me like that.
Madame Red was enjoying herself just fine. She was sitting in a large, green chair and laughed while surrounded by a couple men. 'No need to stand on ceremony for me!' she said, swinging with her whine glass.
I pulled up an eyebrow. Seriously? No wonder that Madame Red also got an invitation for herself, she seemed to enjoy herself more than I probably would.
Suddenly, Sebastian grabbed my arm. 'This way, my Lady,' he said leading me to a less crowded place at the end of the room. There, in the corner, was a familiar face that was talking with a group of men, who all looked rather business like.
Aleister Chamber. The pop artist with the godlike features, the perfect blonde hair and the dreamy violet eyes.
I tried to stay calm, but my inner fangirl screamed inside me, trying to get out so she could jump the man. 'How am I supposed to get close to him? He's completely surrounded with-'
Sebastian pushed me over, making me trip and fall down. When I looked up with the intention to death-glare him, he was gone.
'My oh my,' a familiar voice said, closing in on me. A hand appeared in front of me, helping me get up. 'That looked like a nasty little fall,' Aleister Chamber sad, still holding my hand even though I was standing straight again. 'Are you okay, miss?'
I looked around and saw Sebastian leaning against the wall, quite a bit away from me. He looked at me, but I noticed that he didn't smile. He just stared.
I looked back at Aleister, realized that I was ignoring his question. 'Yes, I'm okay. Thank you for asking.' I had watched enough movies to know a little bit about seduction, but I felt like I had forgotten it all.
He smiled and brought my hand towards his lips, kissing my hand as if I was a princes. My inner fangirl almost fainted. 'And are you having fun?' he asked, my hand still close to his face. 'My dear lady?'
I managed to put a smile on my face. 'It's a wonderful party. I'm very impressed,' I said as he slowly let go of my hand. 'But it's even more wonderful now that I have the opportunity to talk to you, mister Chamber.'
'Oh?' he said, clearly fishing for more compliments.
I glanced over at Sebastian again and through some strange form of communication I managed to figure out what I was supposed to say now. 'I'm tired of eating and dancing. It seems that's all we do these days isn't it?' I said, trying to copy that high and mighty sort of tone that Ciel sometimes used.
The smile on Aleister's face widened and he came closer to me, putting an arm around my waist as he pulled me closer. 'What a pampered little princes you are, my dear lady.' The hand on my waist slowly started to travel down as he said: 'So you want something more amusing to do?'
Suddenly this guy grossed me out. Did he seriously think he could do that to me? Who did he think he is? My inner fangirl tried to change my mind, but I was already pissed. The thought of Sebastian and Ciel kept my rage in, though. I even managed to say another awful line of dialogue: 'Do you happen to know something more amusing, mister Chamber?'
How he released my waist, out only to cup my chin into his hand. 'But of course, my dear lady. And I'm willing to show you.'
I wasn't sure if this was going the way it was supposed to go or not. 'What is it?' I asked, cursing him and myself and Ciel and Madame Red and Sebastian and anyone who could have done this instead of me.
'Do you want to know?' he asked, making my life really difficult at the moment.
'Yes, I'm very interested,' I said, even though it felt like I'd said that more than enough already. I looked over at Sebastian again, only to find that he had disappeared. Where did he go?
Aleister turned my face back to him. 'What has gotten you so distracted?' he asked me.
I really wasn't sure what to do. 'I'm just so bored, mister Chamber, so bored. So… pretty please?' Ugh, I can't believe I just said that.
The smile on his face was now just made of arrogance. 'All right, my dear lady.' He grabbed my arm and leaded me out of the room, into a dark hallway that led to some stairs. At the end of the stairs was a door, that led to another dark room.
'Come in here,' Aleister said as he held the door open for me.
I stepped inside. The dark room let to another door and another room. As we entered the next room, Aleister smiled almost like how a child smiled when he got a new doll to play with and said: 'We're going to a very nice place, quite amusing.'
He closed the door behind me and the first thing I noticed was the strange, sweet smell.
What the hell's up with this sweet smell?
That was the last thing I thought before passing out.
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And that was chapter fifteen, hoped you liked it!
Yeah, I made Aleister a pop star. I just thought that, in modern day setting, that would be a more fitting thing for him to be. Haha, I can see the concerts now. 'Did you all pay to come and see me? I WOULD TOO!'
