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The first thing to happen was a slight movement.
Ciel groaned slightly in pain and confusion as he opened his eyes, his sight was
blurry but he could see a faint figure kneeling down next to him, as if to shield him from something,
“Seb….astian?….” He mutters groggily as he sits up, the surface beneath him felt unbearable to continue laying down.
“My lord….are you alright?” Sebastian’s calm voice, devoid of any amusement, responded back, he had moved slightly above ciel as if to hide him from something, there was a slight pressure on Ciels back as Sebastian’s right hand was helping push Ciel up into a sitting position as ciels vision focused properly.
“Where are we?…” Ciel responded, ignoring the question of concern as he tried to glance around, however he was quickly stopped by the man, there was a crease in his brow as if he was hesitant to respond, it took a moment of awkward staring before Sebastian sighs “I’m for once not sure my lord…” he admits, pulling a face as if it hurt him to say so while he carefully tied the eyepatch round Ciels head, taking a second to fix his hair before moving back. It was then that he noticed multiple things wrong in this situation….one was the fact he was still in his nightgown that he went to sleep in the night prior, the second issue was the room itself that they found themselves in, the room was well decorated for comfort, with pillows and blankets around the place like a tornado hit it, along with a random array of seats. What was the most confusing was the projector on the wall, it looked like some sort of messed up television, this wasn’t a room in the manor. Hell this wasn’t even a room in any place he’s visited.
The last thing that was worrying is the bodies laying across the floor, some familiar, some not, some were hidden from his vision by the seats, Ciel looks back up at Sebastian who was looking round the room, however he had an annoyed expression planted on his face instead of a confused one as he scanned a few of the bodies “my lord…it seems something is-“
he’s cut off by a pained noise from a familiar boy, Finny. He was in a similar predicament as Ciel, in his pajamas as if he had also recently gone to sleep. A simple glance at the clock in the room however let them know it was early afternoon. “Young…young master? Sebastian?…” they could hear as finny goes to stand up, he wobbled over to the two while taking in the rooms appearance, he looks utterly confused and bewildered by the time he reached the two.
“What’s happening?” He asks hesitantly with an unsure smile on his face “are…are we hosting an event or something?…is that why there’s a bunch of people in here ?” There’s a unsure look as if trying to decide how to speak about the situation “Well-“ sebastian started, only pausing when they start hearing multiple groans in the room, he frowned to himself as he stood up, gently lifting Ciel off the ground and into his arms as he does so, just to make it easier if sebastian had to once again save the boy from any danger. He was too busy in thought to notice Mey-Rin, Baldroy and even tanaka at their side, looking just as weary as he and Ciel were.
“Ciel-“ a familiar loud squeal was heard, running towards the group excitedly, Elizabeth was basically jumping up and down on her feet with happiness before she as well,stilled at a relisation, she frowned softly to herself as she simply looked to the left and right then back at Ciel “this isn’t a room in your house …” she muttered hesitantly “good observation Elizabeth-“‘it’s lizzy’ “ but we have as much of an idea as you I’m afraid to say” he says calmly to appease the girl, however it seemed like it did the exact opposite as she looked slightly nervous. What was more worrying was the simple fact she wasn’t looking at them, but rather behind them “what is it?..”
Elizabeth huffs out slightly, trying to calm her nerves and failing before “aunt Rachel? uncle Vincent? How are you….” Her words wondered off, she looked awkward and horrified. Meanwhile sebastian had felt Ciel still in his arms as he turned around to face the two.
There were two people standing there looking just as confused and tired as them, they looked slightly shocked at the boy as well “Ciel ? Is that you dear?….” Rachel spoke finally, looking slightly doubtly, Ciel frowned heavily at this, shifting to look away from them immediately as if to ignore them, meanwhile there was a dash of red sprinting past the small group, directly towards Ciels mother
“Sister ! H…how could this be ?! You….you’re alive ?!” She looked near tears, now looking equally as shocked Vincent speaks up “what do you mean alive ?….you saw us thirty minutes ago….whats going on here ?..we’re meant to be asleep…it’s a long day tomorrow considering it’s the twi-“
“Hello folks” a slightly annoying voice spoke, Sebastian’s smile twitches “undertaker….wahtever are you doing here ?…you’ve left your shop to do something other than messing with corpses ?” He asks condescendingly, undertakers cackling could be heard immediately, a few having to cover their ears “I think you’re mistaken butler! You see….ive gathered you lot here to watch something I managed to get my hands on, it’s quite a,using you see and I’m sure it’ll get a great laugh out of me” he says with yet another cackle, slapping his hand on the wall right next to the projector.
“and what of…exactly?” Sebastian asked, boredom in his tone, the ones closest to him could hear the edge of annoyance to his tone however “to the young earls life of course” that simple sentence could basically still the room, Sebastian frowned deepens, Ciel lifted his head up alarmed “we won’t be doing such a thing undertaker!” He sounds enraged
“Why not young lord ? I thought you liked games” undertaker responded happily, and just before Ciel could angrily retort back he continued “anyway…it’s the only way out…otherwise none of you will be able to leave” he states it as if it were a fact, few looked happy, and the ones that did were faking their relaxed forms. The only one truly happy was undertaker “well….come take a seat everyone! I’m sure there’s loads of spaces to sit “ he waves his hand across the room.
The room simply glanced at each other with hesitancy, annoyance and fear before they started heading to their seats.
Sebastian and Ciel shared a look of uneaseat each other as sebastian sat him down on the comfiest looking seat before going to stand right behind his seat, as if he were a guard dog.
All they know is that it’s going to be a terrible time, with all secrets of the young earl leaking out into the open.