Revelations

Chapter twenty three

AN: So yeah, here you go, some fluffy Sebaciel. That's basically the gist of this chapter...

Enjoy, friends! :D 

At the exact time that Ciel is supposed to wake up, Sebastian tries to put the finishing touches on his 'little' surprise for his love.
When he finally finishes, he quickly hurries to Ciel's bed room to give him his morning cup of tea and get him dressed for the day.
But today, things are going to seem very different.
'No doubt he's already read my note...', the demonic butler can't help but think, as he approaches the closed, wooden door to his master's room.
"Young Master? Are you awake?", I ask, opening the door as I do so, my crimson eyes immediately scanning the room for the no doubt still very sleep-deprived Ciel, I will most likely find sitting atop the covers of his large bed, his nightshirt and blackish, navy-coloured hair, rumpled from trying to have a restful sleep the previous night, only to fail, miserably.
'He was probably thinking about what Alois said...about the very quickly approaching wedding...how he thinks that I wouldn't agree to-', my thoughts stop then, when I finally see the love of my life, staring up at me, confusedly.
"You're late.", Ciel tells me quite plainly, as he then let's his pale, cream-coloured legs drop over the side of the bed, his small and equally as pale hands grasping onto the bed's duvet cover, so that he won't accidentally fall off the bed, or into the demon's awaiting arms.
'I want to, Sebastian...I want to fall into your embrace, but...'
'But what, Ciel?', Sebastian prompts, hoping that he'll hear the question in his mind, which is no doubt consumed by other thoughts as well, and tell the demon, what said demon knows he so badly wants to.
'I-I just dress me please, Sebastian'
There's a pause in Ciel's thought.
'I-I do not want to be late for whatever this note entails...', his eyes are bright with what Sebastian know can only really be curiosity.
"Indeed, Young Master. That does seem very important."
The demonic butler then walks over to Ciel's wardrobe and rummages around, looking for an outfit fit for the Young Earl to wear.
He emerges only mere seconds later, a very much blue ensemble draped across one of his arms, as he slowly approaches the young boy, again.
Ciel sighs, probably wanting to complain that he's worn blue outfits already too many times this week, but he doesn't say anything as Sebastian starts to unbutton the nightshirt still clung to his small body.
Unlike other mornings, the demon takes a questionable amount of time to fully dress Ciel, claiming that the buttons on his dress coat are getting too loose and so they keep slipping open, merely after being done up.
Of course though, Ciel knows that Sebastian is just playing with him, that the buttons only keep doing that because, the demonic butler cannot make up his mind if he wants Ciel to stay dressed or just be partially dressed for the day.
Finally though, after much protest from the boy, Sebastian reluctantly abandons the buttons of the fine sapphire blue dress coat and focuses on tying Ciel's shoes, instead.
When the Earl of Phantomhive is at last fully dressed, the demonic butler stands back to admire his work.
To him, Ciel is the perfect picture of loveliness, there is no other human in the universe that Sebastian loves as dearly as him.
And that, is very evident in everything he does for the young boy, the way he's always been there for him...helping him...being a faithful and loyal butler to his master...
Suddenly, the demon stops and let's go of one of Ciel's feet, that he was currently holding onto, the shoe's heel making a very apparent clacking sound as it hits back against the bed's cherry wood frame.
"What is it? Sebastian, why did you stop?", the young boy asks aloud, as he tries to glare at his demon, but fails due to his butler's intense, crimson-eyed stare.
Sebastian just sighs.
It's a contented sigh.
"I love you.", he says without really thinking first, and the sudden endearing three words send the boy's cheeks ablaze.
Ciel tries to keep his gaze on the demon as he replies with: "I love you, too."
Then, also without thinking, the young Earl throws himself into Sebastian's embrace, causing the demonic butler to scoop him up into his arms, holding him tight against his chest as he kisses him with everything he can, practically caring less if anyone walks in on them, and sees their affectionate display.
No, since the day the trial ended, Sebastian Michaelis hasn't cared about any of the things he usually did before because, on that day Ciel-his Ciel, told a whole courtroom of people the truth.
A truth that is so profound and real, that even if he is no doubt nervous about what Ciel Phantomhive will say when he asks him the question, the question that will change everything, should the young boy accept, he knows that what he is doing is the right thing to do, and doesn't need anyone to tell him, otherwise.
So with that thought clearly at the front of his mind, Sebastian finally lets go of Ciel and both of them begin to venture downstairs then outside into the estate's gardens, their hands clasped, white-gloved entwined with pale, ungloved, as they step out into the fresh morning air and bright sunlight.
"Sebastian, what is all this for?", Ciel asks, when he sees the first 'little' surprise before him.
On the ground near a large weeping willow, there lays a white and red checked picnic blanket and atop it are an assortment of all of the boy's favourite foods, desserts mainly, but there are also some very delicious-looking savoury scones and at the top right corner of the blanket next to the tree, a decently-sized pot of Earl Grey tea sits, steam still rising from its spout, as an array of small china teacups lay circled about it.
Ciel can barely think of what to say to Sebastian, he's that surprised at the elaborate spread of food.
"S-Sebastian, I-I love it! Thank you so much!", the young boy finally manages to get out before hugging the taller one and then dashing excitedly over to the picnic blanket and taking a seat on a patch of green grass near both the tree and the blanket.
Ciel pats at a spot next to him, beckoning the demon over to sit beside him.
When Sebastian does, the boy can't help but giggle in delight as he loops one of his arms around the butler's and uses the other to pick up a piece of chocolate cake from a small porcelain plate directly in front of where he sits.
Instantly, he's stuffing his face with all the goodies he can reach, and the ones that he can't, he orders Sebastian reach for him, and eats those too.
Finally, when Ciel is certain he will burst right then and there, if he eats even one more bite of the delicious banquet, Sebastian tells him that he has another surprise for him, and that he will have to follow him, if he wants to find out what it is.
"Alright then, let's go.", the young boy says, as he gets up and quickly follows Sebastian's retreating figure deeper into the manor's gardens.
What the Earl of Phantomhive sees next, makes him utterly speechless, his mouth agape.
Down in the estate's courtyard, the cobblestones of the path have been decorated with spray of red roses, classical music seems to be coming from a victrola somewhere off to the side, and on the black and white marble surface of the courtyard's fountain, sits another note, written on the same creamy yellow parchment.
Still stunned into silence, Ciel takes a few tentative steps down the steps leading into the courtyard then hurriedly runs over to the fountain's edge to retrieve the note.
Opening it, he sees that it says only three words, posed in a question.
'Shall we dance?'
Immediately, he looks up to see Sebastian standing in front of him, one white-gloved hand outstretched to Ciel.
Startled, the young boy quickly accepts the demon's invitation and they both begin to dance around the courtyard, Ciel feeling his small feet leave the ground each time Sebastian scoops him up, spinning him around in his arms, before gently placing him back on the cobblestones, his shoes clacking when they hit the slightly bumpy surface.
"S-Sebastian, why are you doing all this?", the young Earl finally manages to say, as the demonic butler makes to pick him up again and spin him.
The demon suddenly stills, it is silent between them, the only sound the victrola still droning on and on in the background.
"Does the Young Master not like what I have done for him?"
Ciel shakes his head.
"No, no, I love it! But, I am just a little confused as to why you are going to all of this trouble just to please me."
Sebastian chuckles at that, his crimson eyes bright with an undying, fiery passion as he looks at Ciel.
"Have you not figured it out by now, my Lord? I live now only to please you. That is why I do the things I do for you and no one else..."
The young boy sighs, contemplating his lover's words.
"You can call me by my name, you know.", he says, rather plainly barely glancing at Sebastian as he speaks.
The demonic butler nods then, detaches himself from the boy.
"I have one last 'little' surprise for you, Ciel."
A pause, it is truly silent, Ciel cannot even hear the victrola playing, anymore.
"Very well, Sebastian. Go ahead.", he tells the demon, as he is not aware of what will happen next.
Sebastian chuckles softly at that and then leans close to Ciel, his hot breath ghosting the young boy's ear as he whispers into it.
"Close your eyes and do not open them until I say so..."
At the demon's tone and words, Ciel feels his breath hitch slightly and he immediately obeys the commands.
Sebastian takes a moment to gaze at Ciel, as he awaits his final surprise.
His one crystalline blue eye that isn't covered by his black eyepatch is squeezed tightly shut as he waits for his demon to speak once again.
Finally, he hears it, the sound of Sebastian's smooth yet soft voice cutting through the void of silence, he straightens up slightly with a jolt at the words.
"You can open them, now..."
Instantly, Ciel does only to feel an onrush of tears suddenly brim in his eyes. Both of them.
There before the courtyard fountain, is Sebastian, as usual he is smiling up at Ciel fondly, his eyes bright with an emotion that contradicts everything he should feel for the young boy.
But, instead of standing before him, the demonic butler has dropped onto one knee and in his now ungloved hands, the one that holds the symbol of their contract more visible than the other sits a black, velvet box, and in that box...
"My dearest Ciel, we have been through so much together. Had I known that my time with you would entail things that I never dreamed of having with anybody before, I most likely would've just dismissed making a contract with you and you would have probably ended up instead with Claude... But, even though I had no idea what I was getting into with you when we made the contract, I knew that it would somehow be worth it if it meant that I would finally help you get revenge on those who wronged you and if I'd eventually after that, get to eat your soul. Now though, things have very much changed, we are still bound to the contract, and it shall be that way perhaps forever because, I now do not want just your soul, but your whole, entire being. I want you, Ciel. I want to hold you in my arms, forever. I want to wake up each day to your smiling face. I want to sleep next to you every night, so that you will never again need to worry about having anymore nightmares. But, most of all, I want to be able to call you mine and I want you to be more to me than just a charge, than just who you are to me, now. So, with all of that said, would you, Ciel Phantomhive, love of my life, do me the great honour of becoming my husband? Ciel, will you marry me?", when he finishes, I catch a glimpse of tears in his eyes and I quickly cover my mouth, as I choke back a sob.
"Y-Yes, Sebastian. Yes, I will marry you!", I say to him, before the floodgates behind my eyes burst and I find myself sobbing happily into his shoulder as he rubs my back in small circles.
"Shhhh, don't cry, my dear Ciel. There is no need to cry..."
I nod, but still more tears quickly spill out of my eyes and down my cheeks.
"I-I know, Sebastian. But, I'm just so happy! I-I can't control these emotions, I'm just so happy!"
Both eventually pull apart and Sebastian finally gets the opportunity to slip the ring he has saved for Ciel, onto his small, pale, ring-finger.
Ciel gasps, when he sees it, it's a beautiful sparkling diamond a lot like Alois' but slightly larger and the band around it is a cobalt blue, instead of gold.
"S-Sebastian, I-I love it! I-I love you!", Ciel tells him, hugging the demon once more.
"I am glad that you do. But, there's something else I need to tell you..."
The young boy looks up from admiring his engagement ring and gives his now fiancé a puzzled expression.
"What is it?"
Sebastian sighs, preparing his words.
"I know about Alois' plans for Friday. I also overheard you telling him that it was highly unlikely that you could marry me so soon. Ciel, do you still feel that...way?"
It took the boy a second to realize what Sebastian was saying and when he figured it out, he looked up at the demon, steadily.
"Still feel what way, Sebastian?", he asks, one of his fingers rubbing over the smooth finish of the new ring he now wears. One he will treasure, forever.
"Do you still think it's too soon to get...married?"
Ciel shrugs, and then glances back up at the demon.
Finally, he smiles a little and reaches up on his tiptoes to kiss Sebastian lightly on the lips, only to quickly pull away as the demon reaches for him.
"No, I don't think it's too soon, at all. I mean, if we truly do love each other, then there surely cannot be a thing as 'too soon' can there?", he asks, one hand on his hip, as if he suspects Sebastian to challenge him about it.
But, he doesn't rather, he nods slowly at Ciel, agreeing.
"Yes, I suppose you are right, my dear Ciel. I suppose you are right...", Sebastian tells him, his voice trailing off as he leans down to kiss Ciel, this time longer and much more passionately.
'Looks like Alois will get his wish, after all...', the young boy thinks silently, as his demon continues to kiss him.
'Indeed, he shall...', Ciel hears Sebastian's thought, as it enters his mind, and he smiles into their kiss, causing Sebastian to stick his tongue inside of his mouth.
'Oh well, I really can't complain...', Ciel thinks, as he then kisses Sebastian back with more force.
Later, no doubt, they will have to explain to the other servants why they have suddenly decided to get married this Friday morning with Alois and Claude, but that can most definitely be discussed at a much better time then, now...