A/N: Welcome to chapter 3. I've been begging for someone to roleplay my story with me to make sure I write everything correct to the fandom, because for me anyway, writing Black Butler is hard. But none of you seem to care whether the characters end up OOC or not. You would get credit of course for the parts you help me write, so what's the big deal? Anyway, in this part Rosina recovers and finally starts working at the Phantomhive Manor as the new maid.

Chapter 3

First Day on the Job

The next few days were just Rosina recovering and at the end of the week she was ready to start working. The day before, Sebastian had already showed her around the manor and got her used to where everything was. She even found out that Ciel's room was right next to hers. She considered that a great honor to be roomed right next to the master of the house.

She went to the wardrobe in her room and pulled out one of the many maids uniforms in it. Her whole wardrobe had been stocked with them earlier in the week. Then she went to the bathroom to take a shower and freshen up to start her day. After Rosina was all cleaned and dressed with her long red hair fixed in two high pigtails she left her room and went downstairs to get her orders for the day.

She went into the dinning room to eat her breakfast. For some odd reason she didn't understand, Ciel had told her before that servants don't eat with him, but he had demanded that she have breakfast with him every morning. She didn't understand what made her so different compared to the other servants but she figured if that's what Ciel wanted she'd go along with it.

She found Sebastian serving tea to his master as usual whenever she came into the room every morning. She smiled, walking up to him, "Good morning master."

"I told you before. Call me Ciel," he told her.

"But… I'm your servant. It would be improper," she told him.

"That's an order," he replied. "Now, take a seat and Sebastian will bring you your food."

"Today we're having the Full English breakfast," Sebastian told her. As she took her seat next to Ciel.

"How are you feeling today?"

"I'm fine Sebastian. All healed up," she then turned to Ciel, "After we eat what are my orders today? I can start my job now."

"Sebastian will tell you what needs to be done," Ciel told her as the butler left the room and came back in with her breakfast. He sat the plate of food down in front of her and poured her a cup of tea. Being poor she'd never had tea before moving into the Phantomhive Manor and she found it quite delightful.

"So, what are your plans today Mas… I mean Ciel?" She questioned him.

"I have a meeting with her majesty at 10 this morning," he told her.

Rosina almost fell out of her chair in shock, "The queen!? You mean Queen Victoria? You're meeting with her?! How'd you manage that?!" She was surprised that Ciel was meeting with such an important person. Normally no one outside the queen's castle ever got a private meeting with her. So, how'd Ciel pull it off?

"I am in service to her majesty as the Queen's Guard Dog," Ciel told her and seeing the confused look on her face he added, "It's something you don't need to worry about. My family has been in service with the royal family for quite some time."

"Oh, I see," she sighed. She guessed she wouldn't get any answers from him so she dropped the subject. Besides, not that she knew this from living on the streets before but it wasn't actually proper for a servant to know these things.

After she was done eating she went to take the dishes, "That's fine. I got those," Sebastian told her.

"No, please. I want to help, it's my job too," she told him.

Sebastian smiled at her and handed her half and he took the other half, "Don't drop them," he warned. He was used to maids being clumsy because of Mey-rin always being that way. However, he was impressed as she followed him to the kitchen not dropping a single dish, 'She's more reliable than Mey-rin.' He then got an idea, "Why don't you wash those while I check on the other servants and then I'll be back and tell you what all you need to do okay?"

"Sure thing Sebastian," she grinned. She then filled the sink with water and begun washing the big pile of dishes. She hummed to herself while cleaning the dishes. When Sebastian came back into the room he kind of startled her a bit. However, she didn't break a single dish, "Sebastian! Don't sneak up on me like that. You scared the shit out of me."

"I'm sure it's still in there," he smiled, teasing her a bit.

She rolled her eyes at that, "Very funny."

He checked over the dishes. She seemed to be doing a great job of it. The ones she'd already washed were very sparkly clean. They were so clean Sebastian could see them shine. Not a spot of dirt anywhere on them, "Seems my master was correct in hiring you. You're one hell of a maid Rosina."

"Why thank you," she smiled at him. Seemed Sebastian wouldn't need to constantly check on her work like he did the other servants. This girl was very talented, for a human anyway. He just quickly jotted some things down on a piece of paper and handed it to her. It was a list of things that needed to be taken care of. He then smiled at her one more time before leaving her to her work.

After she was done with the dishes she checked the list over. It said, 'clean Ciel's room.' She was impressed with that, 'Wow! He trusts me with something that important?' She folded up the paper and stuck it into her pocket before going to the closet to get the tools she'd need. Then she made her way upstairs to Ciel's room, remembering the room to be right next to hers.

'That boy,' she thought to herself, seeing the mess in the room. Unknown to her but Ciel was normally a very tidy boy but this time he was in a bit of a hurry to meet with the queen. So, he'd left his room in a bit of a mess. Rosina started cleaning up the place. It took her a few hours to clean it and by the time she was finished cleaning, Ciel and Sebastian had already left the manor. "Oh! Almost forgot his bathroom," she remembered. The master did have a master bathroom connected to his bedroom after all. That actually took her another two hours to clean and by the time she was finished it was time for lunch. Ciel's suite was so huge. But she guessed that was understandable. After all, he was the master of the manor, so of course his room would be very big.

She then went to have lunch with the other servants. She noticed the way Bardroy was trying to cook, "What the hell do you think you're doing!" She yelled.

"Just trying to cook lunch faster," he told her.

"Not with that flamethrower you're not. Just turn the oven up higher," she told him. She took the flamethrower away from Bard before he could cause any serious damage with it. She then turned up the oven's temperature and took the flamethrower back out to the tool shed where it belonged. She then went back in and just barely was able to stop Mey-rin from dropping the plates to the floor. After the food was done the servants all sat together at the table and ate, or tried to.

"Uh… how long did you leave this cooking? It's burnt," Rosina questioned Bardroy about the chicken he'd cooked.

"Not long. About 3 hours," he told her.

"You're only supposed to cook this for an hour. Forget it! I'll just order take out." Rosina got up and went to the telephone to order some food to be delivered. (A/N: I realize take out food probably didn't exist back then but bare with me.)

The group waited about 15 minutes until the food arrived. Rosina paid the deliveryman and took the food to the table. The group then ate and talked about this or that. "You should of seen Mey-rin earlier this morning. She dropped the dishtowels, then tripped over them falling down the stairs into Sebastian. She was totally embarrassed," Bardroy told Rosina.

"Really?" Rosina sniffled back a few giggles, her hand covering her mouth.

"I was not!" Mey-rin yelled, "He just surprised me that's all, yes he did."

"You were, I saw you," stated Finny, the gardener. The whole time they chatted Tanaka just sat in the corner of the room silent as always, drinking a cup of tea.

"Is he always this way?" Rosina wondered.

"That's just the way he is. When he runs out of time this happens and he doesn't talk much," Finny told her. Tanaka just made a grunting noise, agreeing with him.

"Oh, I see," Rosina stuck her fork into her food going back to it, then took a sip of her juice. After all the servants ate they all went back to their chores and by the time they were done Ciel and Sebastian were back home.

They went and sat down in the drawing room, "Sebastian go ahead and go find Rosina for me," Ciel ordered.

"As you wish my master," the butler bowed and went off to find the girl. He found her in the field behind the manor picking flowers and humming to herself. He smiled and decided to sneak up on her again to tease her, "The master wants you."

"Oh my gosh!" She suddenly jumped, startled out of her wits, her basket of flowers spilling to the ground. She turned, "Oh, Sebastian, it's only you." She had her hand to her racing heart as she picked the flowers off the ground, putting them back into her basket.

Sebastian sighed. He'd been hoping to get under her skin but she didn't seem like she was angry at him or anything. If he'd done that to his master the boy would have been yelling at him, "Who else would it be but this handsome devil of a butler before you? Now run along. The master wishes to speak with you. He's in the drawing room."

"Okay, thanks for telling me," she smiled, getting up from the ground, Sebastian actually pulling her up to her feet like a gentleman. She then turned and went inside, carrying her basket of flowers with her. She found Ciel sitting on a chair in the drawing room just like Sebastian had told her, "You needed me Ciel?" She questioned, finally remembering to call him by his first name like he'd requested.

"Her majesty gave me a mission. A lot of girls have gone missing in town and it's rumored that Jack the Ripper is behind it. She wants me to catch him in the act. But to do that I need a girl to play bait to lure him out. I hate to ask this of you. It'll be very dangerous. However, if you agree to help me out Sebastian will be around. He'll be able to guarantee your safety no matter what," Ciel explained.

"I'll do it. You and your butler have been so kind to me since I took this job I'd like to pay back your kindness," she told him.

"Fine, I just hope you understand the risks with this mission. Viscount Druitt will be holding a ball this weekend and we believe that Jack the Ripper will show up during this ball. The idea is to dress you up to make you as irresistible as possible, so that he'll pick you out over all the other women," Ciel explained the mission. Then as soon as her and Jack the Ripper were alone Sebastian would jump out of hiding and grab the man. Then it would be mission complete.

"Wow! A ball! I've never been to one before," Rosina stated.

"Uh… does this mean what I think it does?" Ciel questioned, worried about her answer.

"Yes, I don't know how to dance. Sorry about that," she told him. Ciel's blood turned cold at that. What were they going to do?! The plan would be ruined if Rosina couldn't dance. Normally when attending a ball dancing was required after all. Something had to be done, but what?

"I can teach her master. But you'll have to be her dance partner during the lessons," said Sebastian, entering the room.

Ciel blushed a bit, "Can't we just hire her a tutor or something?"

"There's no time for that my lord. The ball is just in two more days. Don't worry, under my instruction she will learn. After all..."

"What kind of butler would you be?" Rosina finished his sentence with a giggle.

"Yes," Sebastian replied to her. She was so used to him saying that line that she knew what he was going to say before he said it, "And we will start right away."

"Okay, just let me put my flowers in a vase and I'll be right with you," Rosina told the two.

"We'll be in the ballroom," Ciel let her know. She nodded and took her basket upstairs to her room. She took out a small glass vase and put her flowers in it before filling it with water, then sitting it on her windowsill to get some sunshine.

Then she went down to the ballroom. Ciel held out his hand to her, "Uh… you trying to hand me something?" She questioned.

"You're supposed to take my hand!" Ciel yelled, already becoming annoyed at this.

"Oh! I see. Sorry, did I mess up already?" She wondered.

"Just take my hand! I don't have all day you know," he told her. Rosina nodded and took his hand. He pulled her forwards, into his body and with his other arm he wrapped it around her back. Sebastian then begun explaining the steps to her, as he played music on a violin telling her to go slowly, "Ow! That was my foot!"

"I'm so sorry!" She gasped.

"Just watch what you're… ow!" Ciel yelled again in pain.

"Sorry, this is so hard for me," she told him. They kept at it until Rosina had stepped on Ciel's feet so many times that he was so sore he could barely move. So, Sebastian had to take over as her dance partner. Which was a bad idea since he was so much taller than her. She tried her best but ended up tripping up over her own feet and falling to the floor.

Sebastian could of caught her before she fell but thought it'll be funny just to let her fall to the floor. After all, how else was she going to learn? "We won't get anywhere at this rate."

"What do you expect? You're a bit too tall. I can't see what I'm doing," she told him.

"That's no excuse. Now pucker up or pucker out," he tapped her on the head with a rolled up piece of paper like a teacher scolding a child at school.

Rosina nodded, "I'll get this dancing thing if it's the last thing I do!" Sitting over in one of the chairs was Ciel, soaking his poor sore feet in some warm water. He smiled, impressed by how hard she was trying. And she was doing all this just to help him out. It took all day and all the rest of the next day as well. But by Friday evening Rosina was a perfect dancer.

"I am so exhausted," she sighed and yawned, sitting down on a chair in Ciel's ballroom after her final lesson.

Seeing how wore out she was like she was about to collapse Ciel said, "Sebastian, help Rosina up to her room and get ready for bed."

"Of course my young lord," Sebastian bowed. He lifted the poor weak girl into his arms and carried her up to her room. He helped her get ready for bed, having Mey-rin change her clothes into her nightclothes before helping her into the bed. Rosina fell asleep the moment her head hit the pillow. Sebastian turned out the light and left the room. Tomorrow was going to be a big day and they needed to make sure they were ready for it.