Wake up! Come on, Sebastian! Wake up!

Geez, this is important! How could you sleep through it! You need to focus! This is life or death!

Concentrate! Just open your eyes and look! It's not that hard, you idiot! Just look. Look!

I open my eyes.

What do you see? Huh? Huh! Come on, don't close your eyes. You will regret it if you do!

I keep them open despite the feeling of something cracking around my eyes. I look around. I'm in a warehouse.

You only have one chance to see it! Look closer.

I scan the room with my eyes. I can't move. My legs are tied up as are my hands. The only mobility I have is the limited motion my head permits. I see two armed men with masks facing me. Behind them, I see boxes upon boxes labeled as 'toys'.

You gotta remember this moment. You have to take everything in and internalize it. You got to focus!

One of the men starts wiggling his gun at me while walking closer to me. I flinch as he stops in front of me.

Are you paying attention? Hello?! Answer me!

The man raises his gun and in the next second, he whips it forward, smacking me with the butt of it. My head throbs, and I let out a yelp of pain. He grabs my shirt and yanks it towards him. I see his eyes. Violet. Almost red. Like mine.

You're impossible!

The man shakes me and shakes me. I don't know why he is doing it. I don't care either. I just wish he would stop.

Whatever. Just keep looking, okay? It's going to happen soon. I promise.

I see his lips moving underneath the ski mask he has on. Why couldn't he have one that had an opening for his lips? I could read them if he did but because the black material obstructs my vision, I have no idea what he is trying to say to me. Nor why he yanks my head back by my hair.

Just hang on, okay? After this, you can go back to sleep. Just keep your eyes open. Just do this for me.

"I can't hear. I can't hear. I can't hear. I can't hear." I start repeating helplessly after the man backslaps me across my face. He backs up and looks at his partner. It appears they are conversing as the other man, whose eyes mirror the former's, shrugs his shoulders. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a third man appear yet again with the same colored eyes of the other two. The first man points at the third who nods and leaves as quickly as he came.

It's almost here. Don't you trust me?

The third man reappears with a notebook and a black marker. He gives it to the man who seems to be in charge. He lays down his gun to write something. He turns it towards me once he is done. Horizontally, I see black letters stand out against a write page.

You can read, right?

I nod. He scribbles down on another page.

You are going to call off the deal with Phantomhive.

"Why?"

If you want to live, you will do it. Soon.

Can you just listen to me for once? It will all be worth it. It will change your life.

I don't get the chance to respond. I feel my mouth and nose become covered with something and my vision starts to darken.

Don't close your eyes. Once they close, you will be out. I know it.

I start to feel myself become weaker and weaker. Ciel's voice is starting to get quieter and quieter. His words which are forever imprinted in my mind echo faintly in my ears. When I woke to find myself in this unbelievable situation, the memory of Ciel and I staying up past two to see a once in a lifetime shooting filled my mind. It was crystal clear. Ciel had sneaked into my room and dragged me up to my roof, stating he had something to show me. I was dead on my feet. I really just wanted my bed, but Ciel would have none of that. Even though it was a school night, he forced me to stay up with him to watch the rare sighting. The clear memory that kept me company since my eyes opened is becoming ungraspable now. His voice becomes muted, but before I lose consciousness, my mind gives me the last of the memory.

Don't close them just yet. You are going to see something beautiful.

And my mind gives me a picture of Ciel.