A Silver Mark

She floated in the darkness, alone. Images flowed across her mind -images of Ciel... and her... Laughter filled her empty mind, pictures of a little boy and girl, playing, having fun. The kind of fun she hasn't had since Ciel died. She loved that time... but, sadly, she believed that she wouldn't ever experience that form of happiness, ever again.

An owl waited in the darkness. She refused to talk, silver feathers flew all around her, "Lady Elizabeth..."

She continued to fall. "Yes? Ciel?"

Her eyebrow wrinkled as the owl continued to talk and a glistening wetness formed at the corner of the owls visible eye, since half of it was covered in darkness. "I am not the same Ciel, anymore... I am your faithful Demon-Er... will be your demon."

"Demon? I don't understand..."

"Yes, when I died..." He paused, looking as if what he was about to say was hard for him, "Alois wished that his Maid Hannah would kill me and eat my soul, so I would become one.."

"Wait, Hannah's a demon?"

"Yes, Elizabeth, can you please try to understand or at least pretend to understand? I want to make a contract with you."

Pretend...? That was something Elizabeth discarded long ago. She couldn't pretend, anymore, nor did she want to. She's been waiting, trying to pretend Ciel was still there, pretending he never died, pretending she could still talk to him, and it was starting get old, even Paula was getting annoyed so she told her to grow up and stop being such a child, and she slowly was beginning to change, even though she didn't see or notice it.

"I can not, nor will I ever understand what you are trying to make me understand!"

The feathers flew up around them and the setting changed to her bedroom.

Ciel looked at her with his red eyes, his eye-patch gone, along with his mark. He no longer needed Sebastian, except for the simple things... Sebastian was now just a butler... who constantly reminded him that his work was done and he had no desire for Ciel, anymore. Yes, he still possessed a soul and he still needed to figure out just how that would work... But still, he was of no use for Sebastian since he doesn't need to take orders from him, anymore... He was just a small demon in training, now, which is probably why he stayed by his side. To help him learn the basics... and first things first, he needed someone he highly trusted and who's soul seamed plausible to eat, and thus the Demon race would go on, never ceasing to exist.

Her hand flew to her mouth, "Ciel! Y-"

"I know."

"I thought you told me, I was just imagining things when you looked at me with those eyes... when we were dancing with the gramophone playing."

He walked towards the girl whose hair was no longer in pigtails, but stray knots down her back. He looked like he'd been regretting something for a while, "I lied, but that will never happen, again, my lady.. Now make a contract with me!"

She stumbled backwards. What did he mean by make a contract? She didn't understand, "What contract? You're going to have to be more specific if you want me to agree with you!"

His hand went to his eye. She was already giving him a headache. "If I am to be a demon, I must form a contract with someone."

"What sort of contract?"

He breathed out a heavy sigh of frustration, "Why not we just go over the basic points of the contract, okay?" She noddded, as he began, "I will go by the same rules I had Sebastian go by; I will protect you, obey your orders, and never lie to you, again..."

Lizzy stared out into the distance, "No... If you are to be my demon, there is one more rule you -as Ciel- must follow. You will smile. Then, I will indeed from a contract with you if that request is followed."

Ciel's jaw loosened, but he gritted his teeth together to keep it from falling open, while his head fell in shame. "Fine... I'll smile once in a while."

She smiled a bright smile that would -if it could- stretch from ear to ear at him, "Then, yes, Ciel Phantomhive -my new demon... I will form a contract with you."

"Thank you my lady..."

Ciel took her by the hand and kissed it, after bending down on one knee. Her head swam with questionable thoughts, as her hand stung with something. It was almost as if he ironed something onto her hand, it hurt so much, "CIEL!"

She ripped her hand out of his grasp. He straightened, watching her hand, as it wavered quickly towards her chest. "Lizzy, what's the matter?"

"My hand..."

"Let me see."

"NO! You did this!" Tears streamed down her face, even as he reached for her hand, but she kept it way out of his reach. "No."

"Lady Elizabeth... just let me see it!"

His eyebrows twitched as he tried to look angry, something she doesn't like. She looked at him with a questionable look at first, then slowly, cautiously, gave him her hand. He took it in his. "Now, don't freak out, with what you will see."

"Why would I freak out? What did you do?"

Ciel lifted his right hand off of hers and a silver rose was shown, "It's your mark... all demons must give their victims a mark."

"Victim..?"

"Yes, I will serve you, until one day..." She looked at him, blankly, but still with a hint of curiosity. "One day I will..."

"What?"

"I will... eat your soul."

Her eyes widened and she ran to the other end of her room, clearly frightened. "You'll eat my soul?!"

"Yes, and then you will become a demon."

"What if I don't want to become a demon?"

Why does she have to be such a girl? I wasn't frightened when Sebastian became my Demon. "Lizzy, there is no way out, now!"

"Then, take away the mark! I want to live!"

He stepped towards her, but she stepped back, closer towards her pink wall. "Elizabeth..? Don't you want to be with me?"

"Well..." She breathed out a sigh, thinking for a moment. "Yes."

She sighed, as he spoke with a thought that sounded more like a threat then a statement to Lizzy, "If you don't agree, I'll eat your soul now if I have to, even if I didn't do anything for you."

She shrieked out an answer that was covered in fear, "Okay. But, if I may ask, Why did you wait so long?"

"I was learning to be a demon..."

"So, you waited a whole year!"

"Lizzy...I-" Ciel's eyes narrowed and they went to the her pink rug as if he could find an answer there. "I can explain!"

"I don't care, anymore! You're a-" She looked into his faded red eyes, "A- Just go away!"