Everything will be fine

Last chapter for a bit. Had to write this one before leave it alone.

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Voices in their heads SCREAMED, BEGGED, PLEADED, AND CURSED for the departure from the Trancy manor. Pack up their things, sit as many of them to a carriage that can fit, and race home. Those who have a home on the opposite side of England, or live in another country are more than welcome to spend the night at a close associates home. Instead, because they were so exhausted, the Trancy Manor Guest rooms were filled to capacity. The Phantomhive's and their friends included.

With Sebastian watching over him - should Alois foolheartedly attempt to abduct the Young Master twice - Ciel was already fast asleep. Clasped by his tired fingers under his pillow was a small knife. Menial defense where Demons are regarded, but enough to grant him closure to slip into innocent slumber. Sebastian agreed to watch over him for the night whilst Alliahnna was clearing her head in the night air.

An exciting time transpired unintentionally within the Trancy Manor. It left her on alert. Adrenaline constantly pumping, preventing sleep from taking her. Sebastian offered to console her, help her sleep. Proposed she sleep alongside Ciel - as they often do during tumultuous nights. Alliahnna thanked him, but wished to seek solace in the embrace of silence and her own whirlwind thoughts.

Her turquoise silk robe wafted in the tender night breeze. The rustling of the trees whispers in her ears, massaging her throbbing skill. Lapping water of the large drained pond was peaceful to watch. The moonlight reflecting off the rippling surface. Alliahnna rested her head to the trunk, closing her eyes, allowing the orchestra of sounds envelope her. Snap!

Alliahnna whipped around, knife tip stopping a hair from a tensing neck. A thin vein pulsated. "WAIT! WAIT!" Soma whimpered, hands in the air.

"Soma?!" She cringed at the Prince in his pajamas. Peering behind him, a group of friendly faces also in their nightwear waved at her. Schneizel and Phoebus urged her to lower her weapon. None of them were going to hurt her. Alliahnna released a guilt ridden sigh, sheathing the blade in her robe. Soma dropped to his rump, relieved Alliahnna's quick draw came with an even quicker stop. "Sorry."

"Its is...quite alright…" He panted. A year has passed since their adventure in Paris. Soma has forgotten Aliahnna's fast, and health hazardous reflexes.

"I see your arsenal continues to hide a knife up your sleeve." Agni knelt beside Soma, running a hand up and down his back. Alliahnna laughed bashfully, itching her blushing red cheek. "I am pleased. Prince Soma and I were concerned times of peace relaxed your senses."

Times of peace he says. Allihanna cast a grimace to the side. A chibi reel of the turmoil she, Ciel, and Sebastian have endured played in her mind. She huffed an exasperated mushroom cloud, If only you knew.

Elizabeth giggled impishly, stooping beside Alliahnna, "You're really tense." She hugged to her arm. "Not that I should be caught off guard. The Trancy's aren't exactly you favorite people." Soma and friends gathered around, nodding solemnly in shared dislike. It doesn't matter what Alois attested after that terrible musical diversion. The devil looming in his shadow was as apparent as a red stain on white sheets.

"I'm surprised you're not tense. How was dancing with Earl Trancy?" She asked slyly. Elizabeth's cringe, and the wriggling lines above her head spoke loudly. Alliahnna couldn't help laughing. "Don't worry. Alois should have gone to bed in my revenge trap."

"Revenge trap?"

Schneizel slapped a palm to his forehead, "Oh Lord."

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Globs of super strong adhesive pooled to the floor. The canopy bed was stained and drenched with smeared impressions. Alois growled animally, standing frozen with a sheet stuck to his back. He doesn't know how this happened, but when he figures out who - PHANTOMHIVE - he will make them pay dearly. Thompson and Canterbury held Alois by the arms and hips. Alois braced himself. Timber grasped the sheets and pulled. RRIIPP!

"YYYAAAHHH!"

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Alliahnna masked her cat-like snicker. Music to her ears is that scream. That will teach you to dance with my brother's girl. "What are you doing out here so late?" Phoebus broke the silence. "You should be resting after all the excitement from tonight."

"I couldn't sleep. Too much was on my mind." Way too much. She nestled to the tree, running her fingers through her hair. The tips brushed the demon petals at the crooks of her hair and ears. Fresh in her mind was the pact Claude and Sebastian vowed. Once his revenge - a fabricated revenge - is attained, a final battle will decide who is to claim his soul. Alliahnna wished neither had to claim his soul. That Ciel would grow old with her, and see her get married and vice versa. At the same time, she wanted Sebastian to be the one to win Ciel. No one else can have him. She couldn't bear it if it was anyone else.

"Are you and Ciel not getting along?" Soma's question caught her off guard. Mostly because it wasn't an assumption there was trouble in paradise with Sebastian. "The both of your are charming together. The closest siblings I've seen in a long time." There is an ulterior behind the remark. "But you seem sad whenever you look at him."

"I've noticed that too." Elizabeth agreed sadly.

"Us a well." Schneizel confirmed.

"As have I." Agni regretfully responded.

"Am I that obvious?" Alliahnna smiled woefully. Guess she isn't as stone faced as she used to be. "I'm not sad, in a sense. I'm a little upset." More than a little. She's writhing on the floor. "After being apart for so long, Ciel and I...the rift between us is obvious."

"It is?" Elizabeth commented confused.

"To them it is." Agni clarified.

Ciel and Alliahnna pretend to not act on it. At times, they are normal, happy, ifn ot business orientated siblings keeping the Funtom Company afloat. Days they are able to relax and let the stresses of the day sweat off, they relive their more trouble making adventures and have a big laugh. Then, like all happy memories, the sad ones intercede. "We parted on sour terms years ago. Then we're reunited and so much has changed. Too much for him to process." Alliahnna's surprised his head hasn't split. "We're not trying to make up for lost time. But at the same time..."

"You aren't entirely sure how to proceed." Schneizel assumed. In the back of his and Phoebus's minds, on the other hand, there is much more to her dismay than she'd care to admit to. "Well, you're right. Much has happened. You've certainly changed since he last saw you..." He snuck over, slithering an arm around her shoulder, "And I'm sure he never expected you and the butler to be close." No matter how many times a day she is teased, Alliahnna can't help exploding in a red blush. "But chances at a new spin on life have been lied in your laps. We'd all be fools to not take them."

"Agreed." Agni beamed. "Life is not a spectator's sport. For the time we have, it should always be used to make the best of it." Agni too wishes to live his life to the fullest. From safeguarding Soma, the enjoying idle conversation with old friends. "Our reunion is sign sent orchestrated by the heavens. The time we spent in Paris will be a memory our grandchildren will carry. Let us engrave our newest ventures here in England."

"Here-here!" Elizabeth, Soma, and Alliahnna cheered.

"YES!" Phoebus and Schneizel heard that one. Lydia, Esmeralda, and Zephyr are a wonderful addition to their lives. They wanted to spend as much of it with them as fate will allow. Soma, Elizabeth, and Alliahnna are still young and have much to live for. Incidentally, Phoebus and Schneizel caught themselves blinking and are watching these young ones flourish right before them. It fills them with a joy no father can ever put into words. And from the bottom of their hearts, they wish their loved ones the best.

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Alliahnna gently cracked the guest room door open. Sebastian glanced from a novell he discovered on the shelf. A pleased smile greeted Alliahnna, luring her to enter and close the door behind her.

"No rest for the wicked?" Alliahnna teased.

"Would explain why you rarely sleep yourself?" He slyly countered. Alliahnna strolled to Ciel's beside, stroking hairs from his soft face. She envied how peaceful he slept. Not a care in the world. "He fell asleep relatively fast. Tuckered out from this evenings excursion."

"I think everyones exhausted after that." Alliahnna laughed lightly, joining Sebastian on the stunted sofa near the wall. "What about you? Claude gave you a good run tonight."

"I am perfectly fit. Though I must admit, watching you today left me winded."

"Oh?"

"You combated those triplets splendidly. And your disarming of Claude's spout was a feat that left me breathless."

"Ugh. I wish you hadn't brought that up." She massaged her sore leg. The pain throbbed in waves, coming and going as it pleased. "My leg hasn't stopped hurting. Not one of my better ideas."

"A miraculous one all the same." Sebastian lied her back, propping her leg onto his lap. Firmly in a rhythmn he squeezed under her thigh, running to the back of her calf and back. The sensations freed giggles and moans from Alliahnna's throat. He had amazing hands. "We are leaving at first light. Shocking in itself is we did not leave tonight."

"Lizzie was too tired, and Schneizel wished to spend the night to confirm Alois intentions for himself." Alliahnna explained, straining to not moan her words.

"And..."

"He's fully convinced Alois is three wheels short of a carriage." Sebastian laughed at the comparison. Quite a clever one. "Oh well. He'll be a distant nuance soon." She touched the petals, coaxing Sebastian to place a hand over his rose. "Once Ciel's revenge is his, Alois will be the spoils Claude collects when you devour Ciel."

"You seem more tolerable towards this than initially." Sebastian remarked surprised. Normally, Alliahnna twists and turns, nauseous at the inevitability that her brother will be ripped away from her in the near future. "What's changed?"

"Nothing too drastic." Alliahnna retrieved her leg. She switched around, lying her head to his lap. "I've known what Ciel reviva meant the day we rejoined his soul to his body. Longer before than." Without Claude's meddling, Ciel would have been consumed that night on the island. "Knowing that, the east I can do is make the most of the time we have. Besides," She moved a hand to his chest, imagining a beating heart pulsing at her fingertips, "It's not like I'll be completely alone when it happens."

"That you will not." Sebastian brought her hand to his lips, gracing it with a tender kiss. "I will see to that." Alliahnna smiled warmly, then turned to her side and fell asleep. Sebastian lovingly ran a hand over her hair and along her arm, resting it at her waist. "Now and forever, My Lady, I am yours."

To be continued.

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