emotionless // black butler x y/n x Ciel

chapter one

I woke up at 4:30 as normal, and sat up from under my plush covers. I got into my horse riding outfit and headed down the stairs.

"Good morning my lady." My head butler, William greeted me. "Good morning William, is breakfast ready?" I asked in an emotionless tone. "No luck on the emotions yet?" He asked solemnly. I shook my head. "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do..." He said quietly. I turned to face him and hugged him. He was like a brother to me, we grew up together. I smiled a fake smile and he frowned. "Please don't smile if it's not real, my lady." He said, clearly upset. I dropped the smile and nodded. He led me to the dining room and handed me my breakfast and a letter. "What is this, William?" I asked in feigned curiosity. "A letter from the queen, my lady." He said. I nodded and took a knife from my pocket. I sliced the envelope open in one fell swoop, and pulled out the letter.

"Hello my dear diamond, there has been a case of horrible murders going around London, people have seen dismembered corpses that looked like the victim was torn apart by bare hands, I'd like you to investigate this with my guard dog, earl Phantomhive. Please complete this case soon."
(Thanks hxh, Johness the dissector)

I read aloud. He nodded and I sighed. "I'm going on a sunrise watch with night (your horse), put the servants to work on dealing with the house and garden, make sure to prepare a carriage for the trip.

Ciel's POV:
I finished reading the letter, saying that I'd be working with her diamond. 'tch, I don't need help with this, I can handle this just fine.' I thought in annoyance. "Prepare a guest room for the queen's diamond." I said to Sebastian. "Of course young master." He replied, bowing. He left the room and I sighed. I left the study and went to my office to complete my paperwork for the day. A few hours later, I received a knock on the door. "Come in", I said tiredly. I despised paperwork. Mey-rin entered and smiled. "The queen's diamond is here, yes she is." She said. I sighed and stood up from the desk. She led me to the main foyer, and I stood at the top of the steps, looking down. Sebastian opened the door and smiled. A young lady walked in and stood still a few steps from the door. She was in a dress of forest green, and she was beautiful.

Her long, black hair cascaded down her back, and her eyes were wide with innocence. Even though she was beautiful, her face was devoid of any emotion. She turned towards me and smiled and close eyed smile. It was lacking in any form of emotion, though. I walked down the steps and greeted her. "Good afternoon, lady
l/n. I am Earl Ciel Phantomhive, I hope you enjoy your stay here." I said with a hint of distaste that contradicted my smile. "Good afternoon to you too, Earl Phantomhive. I thank you for your concern of my well-being." She replied. I turned to my butler. "Sebastian, prepare a room for lady l/n and start on dinner. We will be eating in the gardens." I said. "William, help his butler with dinner." She said to her butler. "Yes my lady." He replied. I sceptically watched him walk away with Sebastian. 'He better not blow up the kitchen like Bardroy.' I thought sourly, I was tired of constantly dealing with repairs. "Follow me lady l/n." I said. I led her to my office and opened the door. I calmly sat down at the desk and she sat down across from me. "I have a few ideas for who could be behind these murders." She said calmly. I hadn't even thought of finding possible suspects yet, so I was quite surprised. "Right now, I have three suspects. The top suspect is a commoner named Johness, who has been to prison before for almost dismembering one of the queen's guards. The second suspect is a man who is identified as muscular, he has not revealed his real name. The third suspect is someone by the name of Grell, I believe you've dealt with them before?" She said before raising a question. I shuddered at the thought of the psychotic reaper. "I'll assume that's a yes." She said blankly after seeing my reaction. I nodded, still trying to rid my thoughts of images of the bastard. "We should hurry to the victim's families right away. We'll set for their families in the morning. Let's go to dinner." I stated. I didn't want to seem like I was leaving the work to her, that would both tarnish my reputation by leaving the work to a lady, and I - for some reason - didn't want to seem useless to her. She nodded calmly. We headed to dinner and Sebastian came in. He demonstrated the food prepared, and handed us our plates. We ate in comfortable silence and headed to bed. Sebastian was bathing me, and I was alone in my thoughts. 'Why doesn't she show any emotions?' I thought to myself. 'maybe she can't... Just how I have difficulty showing my own since that incident. But it's unnatural to not show emotions with no reason behind the disability... What if she went through a similar incident...' I thought. I decided not to pry, and went to bed.