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Author's Note: I've been getting Bicentennial-themed headcanons in my tumblr ask-box every so often; if one amuses me particularly, I'll write a ficlet about it. Here's one I did tonight. :3 (In about 10 minutes, so be gentle please, lawlz. XD; ) Thanks anon, for your submission! I love hearing about what you guys think, so if you feel so inclined, please keep them coming! :'D (My tumblr name is singacrossthemoon. :3)
Submission: I saw your reply to someone about nicknames and it made me wonder something. I haven't read all of the Bicentennial fics yet so sorry if I'm asking something that's alredy in there but I know Sebastian calls Ciel "Baby Bird", but does Ciel ever give Sebastian a nickname, like when it's just the two of them? Or if he HAD to give him a petname, what would it be? And does Sebastian like it?
Warnings: Part of the "Bicentennial" series—doesn't particularly matter where. XD SebaCiel.
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Endear
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"…" Notably started, Sebastian pulls away from his keening master in order to gawk dazedly down at him, the concern in his expression suggesting that the latter had just grown an extra head, or perhaps sprouted a mess of purple pustules. "What did you just call me?"
Trapped beneath his husband by strong arms and a bemused gaze, Ciel's brilliant blush melts from pink to scarlet, aroused to horrified. "I… um…" He clears his throat awkwardly. He already felt like a right fool for having said anything at all; this reaction isn't helping. "'Darling'…?"
"…" Sebastian slowly licks his lips, trying very hard to suppress a shudder. That just wasn't… no. Not right. Not right at all. "Um… Ciel," he then begins warily, offering his lover an empathetic, albeit still rather amused smile, "are— are you trying to be… romantic, perhaps…?"
"Oh, shut up!" the once-earl snaps— sounding much more like himself— as he glances to the far left and allows his cheeks to glow as vibrantly as their demonic eyes. "I just… Well, you have endearments for me… Grelle has pet names for everyone… Your parents have nicknames for you— Heaven help us, even Uriel does! But… even after all this time, I… don't. I don't have anything special to call you, I mean."
Looking rather guilty, Ciel turns his attention back upon his husband, reaching out to caress his temple. Still faintly baffled, Sebastian nevertheless looks touched as he slowly puts the pieces of his little one's puzzling behavior together. "Don't you want a special name of your own? Something… something I and I alone can use when speaking to you?"
At this, Sebastian smiles, his crimson eyes as warm as embers— shimmering with all manner of love and tenderness. "Baby bird," he then whispers, dipping low to brush affectionate lips against Ciel's ear— as if to make quite sure he hears and understands what he is about to say, "you have already given me the best and only names I could ever wish to have. Sebastian— the name of your first, and most loyal friend— and Phantomhive, the name of your family, of which I am now a part. Through both of these names, you have shaped me, blessed me, and honored me in more ways than I could have ever thought possible… Why would I wish to be called by anything other than that?"
"…I—" Ciel hesitates, swallows. Then he grins, features rosy with delight and gratification as he leans up to press a kiss to his beloved's mouth—
"Besides," Sebastian then tacks on in a much lighter tone, dodging Ciel's embrace just long enough to smirk and chuckle, "'Darling' makes me think of Grelle, and I really don't want her on my mind right now. If you know what I mea— omph!"
"Pft." Ciel snorts, mercilessly smacking his husband across the face with a pillow for ruining such a sweet moment with his stupidity. "Idiot."
That endearment, at least, feels natural.
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