A Black Butler Story

A Reaper's Daughter

Day 1 of the Promise

Chapter 3

With the deal made with William to prove that Grell was able to handle the responsibility of being a parent and working as a reaper, there was going to be allot of work ahead of him if he was going to succeed before next Tuesday. Otherwise, he was going to lose Rebecca and he didn't want that at all. Therefore, he had to prove to himself and William that he could juggle these tasks.

~Day One~

On the first day, Grell set his clock for 5:30 am so he could get a head start of his work. Yet as the clock chimed for 5:30, Grell didn't want to get out of bed just yet and tried to ignore the noise. It was to early and usually he didn't get up at this hour. The clock continued to chime as a way of telling Grell to get off his lazy ass and get to work. He kept trying to ignore it when the sound of crying shot him right up from his bed.

At first he didn't know what or who was making that noise, but then he remembered Rebecca and quickly hurried to the guest room she was staying in. There he found her sitting in bed and crying into her hands. Poor thing must have had a nightmare and woke up in tears. He hurried to her bed sitting down on it and holding her close.

"Rebecca, are you alright? Did you have a bad dream?" Grell asked her.

She could only nod and hide in his chest. Whatever she had dreamed of must have been one hell of a nightmare if she was crazy up a storm. Grell held her close and gently stroke her brown hair while trying to comfort her.

"There, there, it was only a nightmare, it wasn't real. Your dreams can't hurt you baby, no need to cry." He told her.

Rebecca sniffled and snuggled into Grell's chest some more.

"I-I was all alone in a dark place an-and then someone was chasing me with something. This person tried to finish me off, chased me towards a cliff an-and then I fell to my doom! WAH!" She explained crying her heart out.

Hearing this nearly broke Grell's heart.

Even in her dream's, Rebecca isn't safe.

This proved that he had to get into gear for Rebecca's sake.

If he couldn't protect her then who would?

"Come on baby, u can sleep in my bed." Grell said carrying Rebecca to his bed.

Once in his room, he tucked Rebecca into bed and kissed her 4head.

"Shh...Now try and get some more sleep. I've got allot of work to do for William if I'm going to keep you. I'll be back in a while to check up on you, but for now sleep. A growing girl needs lots of sleep in order to grow." Grell explained to her.

"Okay, I'll try." Rebecca replied.

"That a girl, I'll be down the hall in my little work office if you need me."

With that said, Grell went off to get down to business.

~5 Hours Later~

Rebecca was awake and sitting on Grell's bed not sure what to do. She wanted to get up and find the kitchen and have something to eat, but she didn't know where to go or if she should leave the bedroom. So she just sat on the bed bored and hungry awaiting for Grell to return from his home office.

Meanwhile, Grell had been busy with weeks of paperwork to catch up on and it was really exhausting. He had been going at it for 5 hours and he still had loads of more piles to do.

"Ugh...This is so boring! How can Will get through all of this so fast? It's so lame and exhausting." Grell said to himself as he played with his quill.

"I think I deserve a little break. I mean I've been at this for 5 hours and I've gotten through most of my weeks paperwork I've put to the side. I'm going to check up on Rebecca, I wonder if she's awake?"

Getting up and out of the office, Grell went into his room finding a bored little girl staring up at the ceiling.

"Rebecca?"

"Ah! Oh hello, sorry I get scared very easily sometimes."

"Oh it's alright, anyway are you hungry?"

"Oh yes I am, I didn't know what to do so I just waited here."

"Aw Rebecca you could have come to me. I would have gotten you something to eat."

"Sorry, I didn't want to be a bother while you worked."

"Aw you could never be a bother to me Rebecca. Now let's go get some breakfast."

"Okay~"

Picking up Rebecca, Grell carried her to the kitchen and set her down in a chair.

"Okay, let's see what we've got to make for breakfast." Grell said looking through the cabinets and fridge for something to make.

He searched high and low from the cabinets to the back of the fridge, until he spotted some eggs.

"Ah~ Rebecca how do you feel about scrambled eggs for breakfast?" He asked her.

"Sounds good." She replied.

~After Breakfast/Clean Up/Getting Dressed~

"Okay, we're both feed, cleaned the dishes, got ourselves cleaned up and are now all dressed." Grell said looking at Rebecca with a smile.

Rebecca smiled back looking in the mirror at the new red dress Grell gave her to wear.

"Oh you look so beautiful Rebecca."

She blushed in reply and looked at the ground.

"Now then, I've still got loads of paperwork to get done and I'm trying to get more of it done today so I won't have so much later on during the week. Would you like to come and color while I continue with my work?" He asked her.

"Okay Grell." She replied.

"Oh honey just call me daddy no need to be formal."

"Sorry, but I'm still getting use to the changes that have happened."

"Understood, now let's get to work."

Off to the office again to finish more paperwork and draw away. Ah it was a busy day for the two of them, especially Grell who was growing tired very quickly over the large amount of paperwork he still had left. Sure he had a week to get it all done, but he still had to do his job with reaping souls and taking care of Rebecca. Therefore, he had to get most of the paperwork done now before work tonight, but there was still the need to find Rebecca a sitter.

"Hm...Who can I find to watch Rebecca? I know I can't ask William because he has his own work to do, but maybe Alan, Eric or Ronald could do it?" Grell thought to himself thinking about who to hire now.

~That Night~

Grell was getting ready to go into work when there came a knock at the door.

"Coming~" He cried out walking to the door answering it.

"Ronnie hello~ Rebecca come here sweetie~"

"Hello Ms. Grell, so you need me to watch your daughter?" Ronald asked him.

"Yes, just until I'm done with reaping souls. She's very sweet and will do what you tell her to do. There's food in the fridge and her bedtime's at 8 o' clock no later then that. I should be home around 11 if I keep focus and get what I need done." Grell explained to him just as Rebecca came up.

"Yes?" She asked.

"There you are, sweetie this is Ronnie, he'll be watching you tonight while I go and reap up some souls." Grell told her.

"How long will you be gone?"

"Probably until 11, but I'll try and finish quickly to get back home to you."

"Okay, but please hurry back."

"Aw honey don't worry, Ronnie will take good care of you until I get back. Then tomorrow we'll go to the park okay?"

"Um...Okay."

With a kiss on the forehead Grell headed out the door leaving Rebecca with Ronald.

"Um hello there, are you a friend of Grell's sir?" Rebecca asked him.

"That I am little lady. So, since your day's working and it's only 5, are you hungry?" Ronald asked her.

"Yes sir." She replied.

"Come on, I'll make you some pasta alright?"

~11:58 PM~

Grell had just gotten home from a long and reckless night of soul chasing and collecting. He was never usually this tired, but he had been working most of the day on paperwork that he hardly had any energy left to reach his bed.

"Oh...That was the longest night of my night." He said to no one in particular.

Ronald popped out from the kitchen with an already bitten apple in his hand.

"Hey Ms. Grell, rough night?" He asked taking another bite into the apple.

"You have no idea. How was Rebecca?" Grell asked as he leaned against the wall for support.

"She was very good. Sweet and a good listener as you said. We had pasta, played a board game, I read her a story and then it was off to bed." Ronald explained.

"That's good, thank you again for doing this. Though I might need you again for the rest of the week depending oanymore work schedule." Grell told him.

"As long as nothing comes up I'm free to babysit again." Ronald replied.

"Good to hear, now here is the 20 dollars I owe you. *pays him* Thank you again and goodnight."

"Night Ms. Grell."

And with that Ronald was out.

Gathering up his strength, Grell walked upstairs and to the guest room where Rebecca was sleeping. He slowly opened the door letting a little light shine into the dark room To find a sleeping little figure in bed all sound asleep.

Carefully, Grell tip toes in, up to the bed and smiled. Rebecca was so cute in her sleep and he found her extra cute when she slept. He kissed her on the forehead and bid her a goodnight before going outside leaving the door open a smigg then going to bed.

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