also stabby stab blood. that happens too
~::~
as soon as he gets back to his manor, ciel notices something is definitely wrong.
"okay either i had a crazy growth spurt in the past week or? i don't even know what" his legs don't hang nearly as childlike off the edge of his bed as he remembers. ciel looks around the room. "sebastian?"
sebastian appears. thank god he was right in the corner watching paint dry or whatever the hell "yes my lord?"
"how tall am i?"
a flash of something, then, materializes on sebastian's face. it is gone behind the pokerface in an instant, too quickly to judge its nature, but ciel is certain he saw it. "pardon?"
"how tall am i?" did i fucking stutter?
"well, let's see…" sebastian zooms off for a moment and appears with a tape measure in his hand.
"look" ciel looks. he's 150 cm tall. "ha ha you're a baby"
"shut your fucking trap sebastian this is serious." sebastian is still laughing but is trying valiantly to hide it. ciel chooses to ignore this in favor of addressing the problem at hand.
"since when am i that tall? last time i remember i was at least like 5 cm shorter!"
"you ARE a growing boy, young master"
"oh my god sebastian stop for a minute.. this is weird! why wou—" ciel wavers, clapping a hand over his mouth. his vision blurs like it had in the tracy manor. he's on the floor by the time it begins to subside. the first thing he sees is sebastian's face. ciel groans internally. ugh why as if i need the extreme closeup honestly
there's something in the twist of his eyebrows, though, that ciel cannot ignore. he's only kinda conscious, so maybe he's imagining it, but sebastian looks really actually worried? what the hell?
it's a minute before ciel realizes sebastian is saying something to him. the same something, in fact, repeatedly.
"young master!"
"young master!"
"young master!"
"…uughh…" ciel tries to get up, lolling his head around embarrassingly in the process. "stop it with the exclamation points…sebastian"
that look hasn't quite escaped the butler though, and it has ciel worried. just what the hell is sebastian hiding from him?
~::~
"Just give up already, fool! You know you can't beat me!" Ciel spits.
Alois remains firm in his conviction. "Over my dead body!"
Lightning courses through Ciel's veins. Blood pounds out of the wound on his palm. He turns his eye towards the pitiful wreck clinging to his clothes and pants:
"So be it."
Adrenaline gives Ciel the strength he needs to plunge his sword up the other boy's soft palette, killing him instantly. He has won. The earl lets his defeated opponent drop unceremoniously to the floor in a slap of blood. He straightens up and paces out of the hall in search of his butler.
Somehow, it doesn't feel like winning at all.