♛Chapter 12♛

'Tap, tap, tap'

Ciel's eyes fluttered open, his gaze darting over toward the window at the little robin that was tapping its beak on the glass. The sleepy bluenette put his hand out toward where Alois had been sleeping but no one was there, it was cold. Ciel shot up and rubbed his eyes, looking around the room for the blonde. He wasn't there. 'How unusual...' Ciel thought.

Ciel slowly slipped out of bed, pulling on one of Alois' white shirts that came just above his knees and stepped out of the room. The confused bluenette walked downstairs, running his hand along the smooth wooden railing, deep in thought.

Once he reached the dining room he stopped to a halt, Alois was crying in Sebastian's arms. Ciel tried to understand the situation, he decided to watch a little longer and slipped himself behind the door.

"I don't know what to do!" Alois cried, burying his face deeper into Sebastian's shoulder.

"Calm down, it will be alright." Sebastian said softly, stroking the blondes hair.

"What if...What if ill always be unwanted?" Alois said, lifting his head up.

'Unwanted? What ever does he mean? I love him more than anyone...' Ciel thought.

"Count Trancy, I-" Sebastian was cut off.

"Sebastian, call me Alois." Alois said softly.

"Very well, Alois. I'm quite sure Ciel would rather talk to you about it." Sebastian said, standing up.

'Thats right. Why couldn't he have just talked to me about it?' Ciel thought, 'Why is he going to Sebastian?' Ciel moved his hands further up the edge of the door, getting a better view of the scene.

"No! Don't go..." Alois said, throwing himself at Sebastian's feet, "Ciel won't understand, he's too precious to me to be burdened with my troubles."

"Then what shall I do?" Sebastian asked, crouching down to the blonde.

"I just want to know where he is, I have so many questions and I don't know who I am anymore." Alois sobbed.

The bluenette was worried and extremely jealous, wasn't it him that was meant to be there for every single one of the blondes troubles? Wasn't it his job to comfort Alois?

Suddenly Sebastian did something Ciel didn't expect in the least, he kissed Alois on the lips. 'What...? This isn't real, this isn't happening...' Ciel thought, his eyes welling up with tears, 'I can't move, I don't know what to do its so painful.'

"Sebastian!" Alois exclaimed, pulling away and placing a finger on his lips.

"Do you really know how much Ciel loves you?" Sebastian said softly.

"Yes I do." Alois said firmly, "I belong to him, and so do my lips."

"Well then you can tell him that." Sebastian smirked, gesturing toward the door where Ciel was hiding.

Ciel's eyes widened, he stepped out from behind the door, trying to keep a confident expression. He just stared at Alois, his face staying confident for almost half a minute before it withered into a look of hurt and confusion. Alois stared back at Ciel, the silence was painful.

"Ciel..." Alois said, his face withering into that of devastation as he watched Ciel's tears pour out of his eyes.

Ciel stood there, his tears flowing uncontrollably out of his beautiful blue eyes, even out from underneath his eyepatch. The bluenette held out his arms wide and stared at Alois.

The blonde began shedding tears too, he walked slowly towards Ciel before breaking out into a sprint, throwing himself into the bluenette's arms.

"I'm so...sorry Ciel...I...I...didnt mean to hurt you." Alois sobbed, burying his head into the bluenette's shoulder.

Ciel didn't speak, he just pulled Alois closer to him so that they were pressed together and wrapped his arms tighter around the blondes waist.

"I know." Ciel sobbed softly.

"Please...Please remember that I will always love you." Alois said, still sobbing into his bluenette haired lover's shoulder.

Ciel pulled away and crashed his lips onto Alois', getting rougher and rougher. Alois was a sobbing mess and so was Ciel. Once Alois pulled away from the kiss for air, he watched as Ciel walked quickly over to Sebastian, slapping him extremely hard over the face.

"You disgust me." Ciel said, his expression now that of utmost anger and hurt. Sebastian stood there for a good minute, watching as Ciel grabbed Alois' hand and was about to lead him out of the room.

"Young master, please wait." Sebastian said, causing Alois to stop and pull Ciel back.

"Ciel he is your butler after all, just talk to him." Alois said softly, kissing Ciel on the cheek.

"What, like how he talked to you?" Ciel said angrily, "No I won't stand for this. I'm your lover, not him."

"I know it hurts Ciel, I really do but it's something you must do. You're bound to him." Alois said. Ciel gave an angry sigh and walked over to Sebastian, shooting him a deadly glare.

"What do you want from me?" Ciel asked angrily.

"I was testing the Count." Sebastian replied, his expression unchanged.

"Were you? Really? Oh now I find that hard to believe." Ciel said, still mad.

"Young master, do you remember how you asked me if he was planning something?" Sebastian asked softly.

"Yes, I suppose I do." Ciel answered, his tone of voice filled with frustration.

"I was looking out for you, I didn't mean for you to see that but when I noticed you I had no choice but to be direct. After all it is my duty as your butler not to lie." Sebastian said.

"What how can you say-" Ciel was cut off

"I was testing him to see if he truly loved you." Sebastian said sincerely.

"But..." Ciel began, his expression turning from anger to hurt, "Why would you do that?"

"Because I love you Ciel." Sebastian said sweetly.

"No you don't. You can't you're a demon this isn't possible, you're a liar!" Ciel shouted, his eyes glossing over again.

"I cannot lie to my master, I am telling you the truth. I had to be completely sure my young masters 'lover' wasn't a fake. Even after all this time, I had my doubts about him and I had to look out for my young master. To see the one you're bound to in both soul and heart hurt because of something like that is too painful, I had to make sure." Sebastian said softly, bringing Ciel's head forward and kissing his forehead tenderly, "Even though I love you, just seeing you happy with a truly good person is enough for me. So please, forget this ever happened and remember that Count Trancy has done absolutely nothing wrong, please accept my deepest apologies." Sebastian finished with a heartened bow, placing his hand on his heart and lowering his head.

"I guess..." Ciel said, his expression softening and tears falling from his eyes again, "I guess you're forgiven." Ciel finished, trying to hold back his tears as he pulled Sebastian into a quick but tender hug.

Ciel pulled away and walked over to Alois who now smiled at both Ciel and Sebastian. Alois took Ciel's hand and walked out of the room. As they walked upstairs Ciel tightened his grip on the blondes hand.

"I love you Alois." Ciel said sweetly, leaning his head on the taller blondes arm.

"And I love you too my gorgeous bluenette." Alois replied just as sweet, pecking Ciel's lips.

~*~

Ciel and Alois walked into the bedroom, both of them feeling rather bored. Ciel walked up to the bed and fell onto it, spreading himself out and relaxing. Alois walked up to the bed too and wearing a soft smile, he sat himself rather calmly beside Ciel, both hands out behind him.

"So. We grew up a little didn't we?" Alois said softly.

"Yeah we did, but I don't think we changed too drastically." Ciel said, chuckling softly.

"Well..." Alois trailed off, "What are we going to do about our future?"

"A-Alois..." Ciel said, his eyes widening a little, "We still have plenty of time for that and-"

"No Ciel, we don't." Alois cut him off, "You don't."

"What with all this grown up talk all of a sudden?" Ciel asked, "Its so...Unlike you."

"I don't-" Alois paused, looking up at the ceiling, "I don't want to lose you Ciel."

Once Ciel opened his mouth to reply, Alois continued.

"I don't want to sound pathetic but I've already lost so much and it's not as though you had a perfect past either but..." Alois trailed off, "What I'm trying to say is that your soul, your being, it all still belongs to Sebastian. I'm finally free but you, you're not. What are you going to do?"

Ciel sat up and looked at Alois, almost as if he were examining the blondes thoughts through his beautifully coloured eyes.

"Alois that's where you're wrong." Ciel said, his tone now firmer, "You already stole my heart, my being, along with that kiss in the study two years ago."

Alois looked over beside him into Ciel's eye, surprised but extremely happy by Ciel's words. Ciel placed both his hands on the blonde's cheeks, caressing his soft skin with his thumbs.

"My soul... It was pure, it was untouched, even after my past and that's what Sebastian was after, the last remnants of my purity that were locked away inside my soul. I already gave myself to you Alois and so there is nothing Sebastian can gain from devouring my soul, it's what I like to call checkmate." Ciel finished, a small smirk appearing on his face as he said the last word.

"Since I beat a demon at its own game..." Alois said, "Do I get a reward?" Alois finished with a cheeky smirk.

Ciel returned the smirk and straddled the blonde's lap, pushing him down onto the bed and crashing his lips onto Alois'. Alois smiled into the kiss and wrapped his arms around Ciel's neck, moving them up to pull his eyepatch off. Ciel pulled Alois closer when he did this, showing him that he trusted the blonde before pulling away for air. The bluenette felt Alois' hair brush against his cheek as the blonde lifted his head up to Ciel's ear.

"You won't be needing this..." Alois whispered into the bluenette's ear before licking the rim and causing Ciel to shudder.

Ciel didn't reply with words, he only connected their lips once more, pulling the blonde against him and letting out occasional moans as the blonde moved his hips against Ciel's. When Alois pulled away for air, Ciel crashed their lips together, rougher than usual as if he were desperate.

"Getting a bit greedy are we?" The blonde smirked as he pulled away.

Ciel only nodded, trailing his tongue along the blonde's neck and gently biting down on the sensitive areas. Alois moaned every time Ciel got rougher and wrapped his arms around Ciel's neck.

"See if I were a demon..." Ciel whispered, licking along the trembling blonde's jawline, "I'd waste no time in devouring you." Ciel finished, nipping Alois' ear and connecting their lips again. 'Those words...' Alois thought, 'I wanted desperately to hear from Claude but of course Ciel always knows what to say.'

Suddenly there were three familiar knocks on the door, making both boys pause and fix up their clothes or lack of. Ciel gently brushed some of the blonde's stray hairs into place before walking toward the door and opening it slightly.

"Young master, you have...a guest." Sebastian said in an 'you're-in-an-awfully-unfortunate-situation' tone as he gestured toward the stairs.

Ciel squinted his eyes as he saw a blonde haired figure walk up the stairs, she was female, it was- 'LIZZY?!' Ciel thought, his eyes widening as his ex-fiancé walked toward him. Ciel was so confused, she isn't yelling his name in a high pitched squeal, her hair isn't in two pigtails, in fact it's put up in a bun that let's loose blonde curls frame her face, and she's not sprinting or running crazily toward him she's walking like a person.

"E-lizab-eth..." Ciel choked, watching as this new girl walked up to him, almost gracefully.

"Ciel...Who is-" Alois stopped as he walked up to the door, standing behind the shorter bluenette and looking toward the blonde girl, the first thing he noticed was that she had certainly developed over time, "Woah, she grew huge tits." This line broke the silence as Elizabeth approached, it snapped Ciel out of his daze and Elizabeth's eyes widened slightly, although she seemed to ignore the comment.

"Hello Ciel." Elizabeth smiled, followed by a curtesy.

"H-Hello Elizabeth." Ciel replied, trying not to stutter.

Alois pushed the door wide open and stood in the middle of Ciel and Sebastian, eyeing Elizabeth head to toe. Once Alois and Elizabeth met eyes, she turned to him.

"Trancy, what a pleasure." Elizabeth said, almost too sweet.

"Well, Trancy and pleasure are generally used in the same sentence, although it is nice to finally meet you." Alois bowed, almost mocking her overly friendly attitude.

"I see." She said, looking back toward Ciel.

"So what brings you here, it's not the Phantomhive mansion that's for sure." Ciel finally said.

"Word has...gone around." Elizabeth said.

"Please excuse our unpleasant attire, we did not expect your visit." Ciel said looking behind him at Alois, who wasn't wearing a shirt but had long black pants on, and then down at himself, realising he was only wearing one of Alois' baggy white shirts that came just above his knee.

"It's no trouble for me Ciel." Elizabeth replied, the soft smile almost plastered on her face.

"Well since it is the Trancy mansion after all, I think it only befitting that I organise lunch," Alois said confidently, taking Ciel's hand and lacing their fingers together, "Follow me."

Elizabeth nodded and followed the two boys downstairs into the dining room. Ciel took his seat and Elizabeth sat beside him while Alois walked over to the triplets and talked to them briefly about lunch. Ciel still after all this time, didn't care much for Elizabeth at all and his eyes almost always found Alois. Ciel's eyes met with Alois' as he walked toward the dining table and sat on the other side of Ciel.

"Lunch will be ready shortly," Alois smiled, "So tell me Lady Elizabeth, why have you invited yourself so confidently into my mansion?" Alois finished in an over sweet tone. 'Oh if she wants to play this game then I'll happily play. I'm not a bitch, I'm the bitch.' Alois thought.

"Well," Elizabeth began, "I don't want to be intrusive at all. I only wanted to see how my dear Ciel was doing with his..." She paused bitterly, eyeing Alois, "Lover." She almost spat the word.

"Elizabeth I already explained it to you, a long time ago. I want to decide my own future and who I love is my choice." Ciel said.

"I see..." She replied softly, leaning closer to Ciel and innocently pressing her breasts against Ciel's arm.

Ciel's face contorted into that of confusion and disgust, he tried to ease her off but she wrapped her arms around his arm. Ciel looked back at Alois as a gesture for help but thought twice when he noticed his face the reddest it has ever been, not in lust but in rage.

The Trancy dining table always had vases of brightly coloured flowers adorned along it, as well as bottles of vintage sweet wine in the middle of the table, which conveniently was right in front of Alois. Alois grabbed a bottle of wine and poured some into a wineglass beside him, he took a sip and got up, walking toward Elizabeth's side.

"Oh Elizabeth, this wine is abseloutely magnificent!" Alois said in a sickly sweet tone, "Here, try some!" Alois exclaimed, a sadistic smirk appearing on his face as he splashed the wine into her pathetic green eyes, causing her to squeal and let go of Ciel, "Do forgive me, I am quite clumsy after all." Alois finished with a bratty little giggle, sitting back down in his chair and laughing as Elizabeth fussed over her dress and tried to clean herself up.

"Alois! You got a fair bit on me as well! Sebasti-" Ciel was cut off as Alois placed his hand over Ciel's mouth, staring at the fresh wine stain along part of Ciel's chest area, it had soaked right through the shirt and Alois could almost see Ciel's gorgeous chest through it.

"What a shame," Alois said, removing his hand and smirking, "I guess I'll have to clean it before we eat lunch." Alois finished, pulling Ciel onto his lap and smirking at a furious Elizabeth who had just finished cleaning herself up and noticed the scene. Alois unbuttoned the first few buttons of the loose shirt and moved the fabric to reveal his wet chest.

Alois leaned in and began licking the wine off from along Ciel's chest, he even pulled the collar of the shirt down to Ciel's waist and began trailing kisses along the bluenette's neck, making Ciel forget about Elizabeth's presence and moan.

"Oh sing for me Ciel, let everyone know you're mine." Alois said, looking straight at Elizabeth as he connected his lips passionately with Ciel's. Elizabeth's expression dropped as she noticed Ciel pressing himself against Alois and wrapping his arms around Alois' neck.

"It's no use..." Elizabeth muttered, looking down and curling her hands into fists, "ITS NO USE!" She screamed angrily as tears poured down her face, making both boys stop and look over at her.

"Look Elizabeth I told you-" Ciel was cut off.

"I LOVE YOU CIEL! IVE ALWAYS LOVED YOU!" She bellowed, "Don't you see it? Don't you...feel the same way?" She finished, stumbling toward the boys.

Suddenly Sebastian stepped in front of Elizabeth, stopping her in her steps.

"That's as far as you get to my young master today Lady Elizabeth." Sebastian said, wearing one of his signature 'get-the-fuck-away-from-my-bocchan' smiles.

"W-what?" Elizabeth stumbled back and her tears ceased, "But you-"

"Are just one hell of a butler, I understand. Now, come with me." Sebastian cut her off and grabbed her wrist, leading her out of the front door and shutting it behind him. Sebastian turned to the boys and bowed, smiling sincerely and leaving the room.

Alois looked toward Ciel and smiled, wrapping his arms around the bluenette.

"I love you." Alois said, burying his chin in Ciel's shoulder.

"Yeah." Ciel replied, smiling into Alois' chest.