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Here's chapter sixteen and I'm certain chapter seventeen will we up tomorrow, maybe even chapter eighteen if I keep writing and writing and writing…

I don't really know why, but I had a lot of trouble with writing this chapter. The hardest part about this story is to keep Sebastian truthful to his personality while also developing feeling for Clarissa. I can't even imagine Sebastian in love, let alone write him! So yeah, that was the hardest part.

Oh, and sorry for the typos, I'll just keep apologizing, because I just don't have the time to correct all of them! I usually write before I go to sleep and if I don't sleep enough, I can get really, really, tired.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 16

'Sebastian, where is Clarissa?' Ciel asked, dressed in his normal attire now.

'I promise you that she isn't being touched in any harmful way at the moment,' he answered, not looking his master in the eye.

'Sebastian?' Ciel asked, because the way his butler acted didn't seem natural.

That was the moment that Madame Red also noticed Clarissa' absence. 'Where is my cute niece?' she asked, looking at Grell as if he would know.

Which strangely enough he did. 'S-s-she followed a y-young m-man n-n-not t-to long ago,' he said with great difficulty.

Ciel turned back to his butler. 'And you didn't follow her?!' he asked, angry. 'Why didn't you obey my order?'

'You didn't force me to obey,' he said. 'And keeping her save would in no way help your safety. So I decided to let things unfold.'

Ciel was now drained with worry, but still trying to keep calm as the party was still busy. 'What are you talking about? Do you want her to die?'

The demon finally looked at his master. 'Yes,' he said and there was no doubt that he was speaking the truth.

'But… why?!' Ciel couldn't understand. Sebastian never acted like this. Sure, there were times Sebastian thought about killing the house staff or Grell for that matter, but he never actually put those thoughts into actions. What was wrong with him?

'Because she interests me,' he answered, looking at him with burning eyes. 'And that interest might make me lose my goal. She's a nuisance and it's best if she's gone.'

Ciel was starting to get mad. 'Gone? Sebastian, you don't get it do you? You like her! That doesn't mean that you have to kill her!'

'Yes, I believe it does,' Sebastian said. 'But I'm not killing her.' A smile lowly appeared on his face. 'Someone will do that for me.'

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Clarissa's POV

I woke up hearing the sound of a lot of people whispering to each other, as if I was at some sort of party. I realized that my hands were tight and that I was blindfolded. Great. I was tight up again. Hanging around Ciel had that influence on me.

Aleister's voice rose above the soft whispers. 'And now, what you've all been waiting for: tonight's crown jewel.'

I guess that with 'tonight's crown jewel' he meant me. Hmm, that was actually quite flattering.

I was still blindfolded, but now I could see light from under the blindfold, as if someone had opened the curtains in the room and sunlight was coming through.

Fascinated sounds were made as – supposing – I was revealed.

Aleister spoke on, which a ridiculous mysterious voice. 'You may enjoy her as a decoration, or make a pet of her. I imagine she'd even make an attractive part of a ceremony.'

No, 'she' most certainly would not. 'She' is going to go home and take a bath and a lot of chocolate to forget this every happened. Why wasn't Sebastian coming for her?

'Or if you can to sell her parts individually, that's up to you,' Aleister said, making me pull a rather unattractive face. No, no 'you' cannot sell 'her' parts individually. No, no, no, no, definitely not.

But something wasn't right. If this was the man we were after, why was the womb the only part of the women that was missing? That's pretty weird.

Suddenly, Madame Red's face flashed through my mind. Kind of strange that she – the doctor – was surprisingly save for the Copycat. Now that I thought about it… Grell always went to pick her up at the hospital around twelve 'o clock, but then they would arrive back home at the time I got up, which was around eight 'o clock. Where did they go, those eight hours between?

Oh. No. That was impossible.

As people started bidding on my, I started to panic. I felt that my blindfold was removed, but seeing the room full of masked people didn't help. I just wanted to escape. This may be illegal as well, but it was not the man we're after. Or the woman we're after.

'Sebastian!' I screamed, making everyone in the audience look confused, asking each other who this 'Sebastian' was.

No answer.

What was happening? Where was he? Didn't Ciel order him to protect me?

Suddenly, Sebastian's words flashed trhough my mind, making me more and more scared every time I heard my brain repeat those words. 'I'm a demon, Clarissa. When will you get that? I couldn't care less about Ciel's life or anyone else's.'

Oh no.

I was going to die, wasn't I?

'Sebastian!' I screamed again, but no one answered.

Then, suddenly, the light went out, followed with screams and shocks. I heard Aleister say: 'What's going on?' But I couldn't see anything.

I thought that this meant that Sebastian had come for me.

But he wasn't the one standing in the middle of the room when the lights went on again. The audience was laying on the ground, all unconscious. That part didn't surprise me. What did surprise me was the man dressed in white, who was looking at me as if I was his most precious possession. His face reminded me of Sebastian's, his features were flawless, but his hair was white as snow. His eyes had a familiar, purple colour.

'Good grief,' the man said. 'You're truly good for nothing but getting captured.' He laughed. 'You used to be such a helpless little worm before too.' He walked up to me, ignoring the only man left standing.

Aleister Chamber.

'I'm sorry,' I said as the man helped me out of the cage and cut the robes that tight me. 'Do I know you?'

A smile that reminded me so much of Sebastian's that they looked like twins appeared on the young man's face. 'Most certainly not, but our paths have crossed before. And will cross again.' He softly pet my head and again looked at me with those loving eyes. They made me feel very uncomfortable.

'Well then,' the man then said, sighing as he helped me stand up. 'We have to take care of this horrible case.' He pointed towards Aleister. 'You. Will. Be. Punished.'

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I wasn't sure how I got there, but the next thing I knew I was sitting in the police office, staring into friendly eyes, that looked like a mixture between blue and violet. 'Are you okay, miss? You seem rather in shock,' he said and I realized I had seen this man before. He was the police officer that Ciel had talked to on the streets.

I realized that I was wearing a shock blanket and that I had a cup of… coffee? in my hands, but I didn't remember how I got here, or what me and this man were talking about. 'I want to go home,' I told him, since that was the only thing that came to mind right now. Home, a bed to sleep in. But what I needed the most was the thing I was most scared to admit.

I needed a parent.

But I had nothing left.

Certainly not now I knew that Madame Red was probably the one responsible for those killings…

Oh no.

'I need to get to Ciel!' I screamed, letting the cup of coffee fall on the ground and throwing the blanket off me. 'You need to bring me to him!'

The man looked confused, but also out of options. 'I'm sorry, but I can't jus-'

'It should be fine, right?' a voice asked from behind me. When I turned around I saw the man dressed in white standing there, smiling a smile that no one could not fall for. Man, that guy was like a white Sebastian. 'Since I'm her legal guardian, I can take her there and watch over her.'

My legal guardian? Since when? But I was way too happy that I got what I wanted, so I didn't object.

The policeman started to sweat, still unsure on what to do. 'Er, I guess… I just don't…'

The man in white laughed. 'If you have anything else to ask, you can just call me, right? You have my number.' And then he grabbed me and pulled me with him, ignoring whatever the policeman as going to say.

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'So… who are you?' I asked, changing my question from before. The man had somehow managed to take the shock blanket with him as he dragged me and seeing as I was quite cold in my dress, I had put it around me.

The man smiled a polite smile as he drove to the Phantomhive mansion. 'Ash Landers,' was his answer, but I knew that he knew that that wasn't the only thing I wanted to know about him. 'And you can see me as your guardian angels.'

'Angels do not exist,' I said automatically.

The smile on his face became wider. 'Maybe they don't, maybe they do. That's something only God would know for sure, isn't it?'

I didn't understand what that was supposed to mean, so I just ignored it, being too tired and confused to say anything. 'Why are you helping me?' I asked.

The smile on his face disappeared for a few seconds, but came back before I could worry about his reaction. 'I used to know your mother very well, she was a very clean and beautiful woman.'

Very clean? What did that mean? Was that a compliment? But the fact that he'd known my mother meant that he was probably older than I thought he was.

'I promised her I would look her after you if she for some reason could not do such a thing,' he explained. 'So you are under my protection. I'm very sorry that I haven't contacted you before, but the Phantomhive boy and his butler took good care of you. Madame Red also takes care of you, but I think you don't want to live with her anymore, am I correct?'

'Yes,' I answered, understanding less and less. How did this guy know all that kind of stuff.

Suddenly, he gave me a letter and I realised that we had reached the mansion. 'The house staff is asleep, but I'm sure Ciel Phantomhive will return shortly. Can you give him this letter for me?'

It looked like an official letter, not like 'noble' official, more like 'government' official. 'What does it say?' I ask.

The man smiled and pokes my cheek with his gloved hands. 'That's a secret. Do not open it, okay?' he said and his smile made it impossible to refuse.

'Okay,' I answered, getting out of the car as he drove away in the darkness.

What a strange guy. But not evil, no, I didn't think he was evil. And even if he was, he probably wasn't after me, but after Ciel. Ciel, who was going to lose his aunt if my suspicion were correct.

But… why?

Why would she do that? What would she gain from doing it? And was Grell helping her? I think not, that guy couldn't even kill a spider.

I walked through the gigantic garden until I reached the front door. Ash Landers had been right; the night were off and the door was closed. I didn't want to wake up anyone, nor did I know a way to do so, so I just sat down in from of the front door waiting for Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian Michaelis to come home.

But the only thing I could think about was the fact that Sebastian wasn't the one who had saved me.

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POV change

'So Aleister Chamer has been caught,' Ciel said as he, Sebastian, Lau and Madame Red were sitting in the car on their way to Madame Red's house, since that was the place where Ciel's car was parked.

'Yes, it appears so,' Madame Red said. 'And we weren't even necessary.' She sighed. 'Are you sure that Clarissa is okay?'

Ciel nodded, knowing that Madame Red would believe any lie he told her. 'She went with Elizabeth since she requested a sleepover. She should be fine. Sebastian will go and pick her up in the morning.' He gave Sebastian a glance, who looked back with a 'I will take care of it'-look. It had become clear to the both of them that she didn't die. But her location was currently unknown.

'But it seems like victory is ours,' Lau said, making everyone frown, because victory wasn't supposed to feel this empty.

It was true that they hadn't done anything and that was what had raised Ciel's concern. He didn't understand who had caught Aleister, but he did know that it was impossible for Clarissa to have done it on her own. He knew she was quite capable, but not that capable.

He sighed and looked at his hands, trying to understand why he felt as if he had lost something. Remember, Ciel, you can't lose something if you've got nothing to lose, he thought to himself, almost immediately correcting himself. He did have something to lose. His hatred and burning desire for revenge.

But he was quite sure that not a force in this world could take that away from him.

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'Young Master?' Sebastian suddenly said. 'We've arrived.

Ciel looked up, only his gigantic mansion. He hadn't even noticed that Sebastian had pressed the button that opened up the gate in front of the mansion.

Sebastian held the car door open while Ciel stepped out. The first thing he noticed was that there hung a strange smell in the air, something sweet. The second thing he noticed was a bundle of human laying in front of his front door.

Clarissa was laying there, hugging a blanket that looked like shock blanket. In her pale, fragile hands she was holding something, a letter and Ciel recognized the red mark on the letter, making him pull it out of her hands to study it. His name was on it and it was definitely a letter from the Queen, so why did she have it?

Ciel looked over at Sebastian, who was frowning while looking at her. 'What do you want to do with her?' Sebastian asked.

Ciel sighed. 'Carry her inside,' he said as he opened the letter and started to read the most surprising letter he'd ever gotten from the Queen.

Sebastian picked up the girl, who felt so cold that he was certain she'd been laying there for at least an hour, and carried her inside while his master read the letter she'd carried with her. Waiting for his master next command he stood in the entrance hall, waiting for Ciel to finish reading his letter.

'Oh,' Ciel said frowning. 'How… odd.'

'What is it, Young Master?' Sebastian asked, keeping his voice low because he did not want to wake Clarissa up.

Ciel sighed and Sebastian frowned as he pulled up his eye-patch and looked at his butler with glowing eye. 'This girl is under protection of the Queen. I order you to treat her befittingly and to always help and protect her, unless I'm in greater danger. I will stay your top priority, but she will be one too, understood?'

Sebastian closed his eyes for a moment, not wanted to say the words he usually enjoyed saying. 'Yes, my Lord.'

Ciel put his eye-patch back. 'Good. Now go and put her in a bed. And make sure she eats something when she wakes up. She doesn't look too good.'

'Maybe it the shock,' Sebastian suggested.

Ciel didn't really want to think about this now. He really didn't want to be bothered with Clarissa either, but the Queen's commands were the Queen's commands. It did bother him, though. Maybe he should've asked her more questions than he had up until now. 'I'll be in my room waiting for your return,' he told Sebastian and after that he left the entrance hall, holding the letter as if it was his downfall.

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Clarissa POV

I felt familiar arms around me and smelled a familiar smell, but I couldn't help but be sad. There were the arms I had wanted. But they were too late.

As someone put me into a soft surface – a bed? – I tried to grab the person that had put me there, trying to grab him.

'Sebastian?' I said, knowing that I sounded half-asleep. I somehow managed to open my eyes, but everything was blurry and dark.

'Yes,' I heard a familiar and oh so sweet voice say. The tears that I'd kept in for so long finally escaped as I heard that voice.

'I thought you would be the one to save me,' I said as the tears kept falling down. I don't know how, but I did manage to sit straight and I pressed my face against his chest, trying to understand what I was doing. 'But you didn't come.'

Sebastian grabbed me and pulled me away from him, laying me down on the bed again, not saying anything. 'Go to sleep, Clarissa,' was the only thing he said, but it sounded so cold that it only made me more sad.

'I really hoped that it would be you,' I said, even though I knew I would've never admitted that if I wasn't half asleep. I wasn't even sure if I'd even said it out loud.

But then his reaction came and at that moment, I didn't even care about what he was saying, I was just happy that I could hear his voice.

His voice almost sounded emotionless, cold. As if he was just stated facts, or accusing me of something. Yes, it definitely sounded like he was accusing me of something. 'That day, you managed to take all your walls down, also the walls that protect your soul. Why can you control the things that no human is even aware of? Why do you interest me? And why were you laying in front of the door smelling like a pure creature such as an angel? What are you, Clarissa Lane?'

But I was already too far gone to give him an answer.

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So that was chapter sixteen. I'm sorry that it wasn't Sebastian who saved her, but I was just thinking about what Sebastian would do in a situation where he's starting to gain feelings for someone. Sebastian seems to me like a person who would find that troublesome and just wants that person out of the way so that he can do his job.

This is also the first chapter that I hint towards her background story and her possible connection to Ciel and Sebastian, which may be a bigger connection then they first thought. But hey, it's only the beginning, so anything can happen!