Amelia d'Assy : cousin of Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler fanfiction)

Chapter 5 : Cruise (Part I)

Town house of Ciel Phantomhive

"I am bored, Ciel! Play with me a game of chest!"

Ciel sighed as the Prince tried to force him to play again a game with him even if he always lose to him. Amelia chuckled at her Cousin's misfortune.

He wasn't happy of that. Lau had left them to go back to his business since he wasn't any more needed. Ciel had a really mixed feelings about that man, he was certainly useful but he had to treat him carefully.

He didn't know much despise having brought him to his side. It was different from his servants, Sebastian and all the networks of the Phantomhive that had been built through generations of count and countess.

He was part of the Chinese mafia, Ciel was aware of that and that it meant illegal affairs related to him. All this was meant to be eventually a problem for him but for now, the fact that Lau dealt with the Est End was very useful for him. He didn't need to find someone to infiltrate it and to impose himself in a way to take control of it, it would prove to be quite inefficient.

Lau was an unpredictable element in his entourage that he had to look after carefully. The only thing that makes him less suspicious of him was that he had some sort of relation with his Cousin. Another mysterious character, the daughter of his aunt that developed the most complex network of information while establishing her businesses.

She had contacts all over the world, nothing was unknown by her and she was even the unofficial informant of the Queen. Although, this daughter of her was even more a mystery. She wasn't meant to inherit her mother's network, her older brother was chosen instead.

Amelia preferred to be a social bird of good society rather than try to deal with her brothers on their parent's spy network or so it seemed. Ciel wasn't convinced that she was really outside of all that informant business.

He couldn't quite grasp what she did in all this because she had certainly inherited her mother's talent to make people confess their deepest secrets or the spiciest gossip.

Amelia was even more aware of information and gossips in the high society than Madam Red when she was alive. The Count sometimes wondered what she was really doing of her free time, it was utterly useless to try to imagine it. He would probably never know. If a demon wasn't able to tail her, he had really no hope of understanding whom she was really.

"I can always try to play a game if you want, Soma." His Cousin offered.

She put down a book about a romantic story between a man and a girl from different classes falling in love just for the time of a boat trip.

Soma blushed a bit but nodded with shiny eyes. They started playing, the Prince had acted very differently from his usual self each time it involved his cousin.

He had almost let out a laughed once when she had gone to give him back something that he had forgotten in the living room. The Prince almost passed out when their hands touched and Agni had to stop him from falling on the ground.

Although, they would have to deal with these two while Lord Randall's visit. He couldn't think of trying to shoo off his cousin, if she was still there that meant that she either had a reason to stay or wanted to witness his meeting with him.

In any cases, it would lead to a fruitless debate between them and he knew that he would lose it to Amelia. Just thinking about it drove him to make, he really became irked with the fact that she was better than him.

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Amelia was standing beside Ciel waiting for Lord Randall to arrive, she had never been present when those meetings occurred. It had always intrigued her all this process.