The Queen's Demon Pet (A Black Butler Fanfic)

Chapter Twelve

Sorry this took so long lol
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Everyone in the sitting room sat in shocked silence.

"William is..." Ciel started slowly.

"Alive." Maria finished for him. Those who knew William drew in sharp breaths, while those who didn't tried to piece things together.

"And he's here." Ciel stated. It wasn't a question. Maria just nodded.

"Who is this... William you speak of?" Raoul finally asked, his cat eyes gleaming in the light as he sat next to Ciel. Maria looked to Sebastian, and he launched into the story. About an hour later, the shocked silence settled over the room again.

"That's..." Zeke started saying. Over the three years she had spent with them, Maria had never told them her past.

"That's fucked up, that's what it is!" Ronan burst out unexpectedly, and everyone looked at him in surprise.

"And what Castizel did to me wasn't?" Maria shot back frostily.

"Who is Castizel?" Raoul asked, and Ciel started to quietly tell him as the others sat stewing in their own moody thoughts.

"You said William said that a female was after you?" Sebastian asked Maria, and she nodded before saying, "I don't know who this could be though. Every woman I've ever known is dead, really."

"So we have absolutely nothing that could tell us who is after Maria?" Zeke growled in frustration, raking a hand through his thick brown hair. The tension in the room could be cut with one of the butter knives that Sebastian probably had on his person.

"I have an idea," Maria declared and waited for everyone's attention to be on her before she continued. "The only way to end this is if I let myself get captured. Then I can take whoever this lady is down." And I can also find out the truth. Was what William said true? Is this all fake?

"Absolutely not." Sebastian practically snarled. Others chorused his thoughts.

"No way in hell!" Ciel.

"Are you stupid?" Ronan.

"Maria, you're injured!" Zeke.

"Mistress..." In his distress Raoul reverted back to calling her his mistress.

Samuel frowned, Grell rolled his eyes. That plan had obviously not been well received.

"I'll wait until I'm better-" Maria started, then Sebastian roughly grabbed her arm and dragged her from the room. "Seb-? What are you doing? Let go of me! I wasn't done planning-"

"There will be no more planning coming from you." The male demon ceased her struggles by picking her up and running up the stairs to her room in demon speed.

"I have to do this! It'll end everything if I just take her down!"

"You'll be killed if there is no one there to protect you. If I'm not there to protect you-" Sebastian set her down and let out a deep sigh to calm himself. Maria stalked angrily across the room and pulled out a nightgown. She remained silent.

"Look, Maria, we don't know how powerful this lady is. Obviously she is strong enough to control an entire army of rogues and demons."

"The only reason why she controls them is because they think that there's some amazing reward," Maria snorted, then started to strip down. Sebastian, ever the gentleman, looked away politely.

"Do you have to change right now?" He growled, and Maria smirked as she slipped her dress over the head and threw it on the ground.

"If you don't like it then leave."

"No. We need to talk about this."

"About what? I'll do what I want-"

"Goddamnit Maria you aren't the Queen's little pet anymore! You're a demon! And just because you're a demon, doesn't mean you're invincible to everything and everyone! Those men downstairs are giving their time and their lives to protect you, and you running off into the hands of the unknown enemy to be killed is like walking all over their sacrifice! Do you-" He stopped and swallowed, then continued on in a quiet, more reserved tone that she had never heard from him before. Then again she hadn't heard him yell at he like that either.

"Do you really want to die that badly?"

Maria bit her lip and slid her nightgown over her head and straightened it so that it was presentable. Then, on bare feet, she quietly padded over to Sebastian. He turned as he heard her approach, and as soon as she was close enough she wrapped her arms around him in a hug. Immediately his arms enclosed around her too, and for a moment they just stood there, enveloped in each other's presence.

"I'm sorry." Maria finally mumbled against his chest. "I didn't look at it in that way. I only saw it as a way to finally end all this, so that we could all go our ways and live happy lives, and be carefree for once. I'm so tired of having someone come after us, attacking us." Her eyes teared up and he hugged her closer, sensing her distress. "I just don't want anyone to get hurt, or be killed."

"If we all work together, no one will die. We will find a way to end this, there has to be another way," Sebastian said quietly, and she took that as a promise.

They separated from their embrace, and Maria looked up slightly to meet his eyes.

"I love you, Maria." Sebastian suddenly said, and she momentarily stopped breathing. He continued, "I love you so much that it hurts. It hurts when I think of you in this position, being threatened like this and me being mostly helpless. It hurts when I think of all you've gone through. It hurts to see you in pain right now. It hurts to think of the pain you could potentially go through if I fail to protect you. And the thought of you dying-" He stopped, unable to go on. That is what would hurt me the most, remained left unsaid, but clearly implied.

Maria was crying now, her silent tears dripped to the hardwood floor beneath her.

"I-I love you too," she choked out, and Sebastian gently wiped her tears away. "I love you so much that the thought of you dying to protect me kills me inside. If you were to die, a part of me would die with you." She caught his hand, which had been gently cupping her cheek, and squeezed it to reassure herself.

"I'm not going anywhere," Sebastian murmured, then lightly kissed her on the cheek and tucked her into bed.
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Awwwwww they are so cute! Can I hear my Sebaria shippers crying? Yes, yes I can because I am too.

So how was this chapter? Kinda lame considering I've been gone forever, right? Whoops. I'll try to get on that. Someone give me a swift kick to the rear if I go that long without writing again, okay? Okay, great.

That's all for this chapter, folks! See ya next time around. :)
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