The Demon, The Shinigami and The Maid

His Butler: Unnerved

To say the least, Ciel Phantomhive was a kid who was to mature, cold and calculating for his own good. He had eyed her suspiciously and listened quite boredly to his butler's explanation about her presence which was to replace the person called Meyrin. For once in her life Alice felt the need to keep silent and just let the infuriating butler do his job of been a kiss ass, she didn't trust her own tongue and he knew it too.

It was that afternoon when she was dragged to town to some man called the undertaker to see if he knew anything about what could have happened to her. She frowned as she sat in the carriage across from the butler, in just a simple morning she had been subjected to more work than what she was used to doing in her own home, but something about where she was, was starting to gnaw at the back of her mind, something about where she was seemed to familiar and strange and it was only confirmed when she laid eyes on the undertaker himself that she finally clicked and realized where she was and whose place she had taken. Not that she would utter a word of it to anyone around her in case she was called a witch or something.

She watched the undertaker as he studied her carefully. "So is there any way I'm getting home?" Alice grumbled bluntly only to earn a chuckle from the strange man.

"Oh my dear what a strange one you are~" his voice trilled like a giddy school girl. "No unfortunately there is no way for you to get home as we speak and I doubt any way for you to return will show its head either." He chuckled watching her reaction.

She rolled her eyes and let out a heavy sigh. "Good lord I need a drink." She muttered as she crouched down on the floor only to shoot up at the sensation of her ribs feeling like they were been crushed by the corset she had been shoved into. "Correction, I need to get horribly hammered." She groaned as she looked at the two men who stood watching her.

"She has the most peculiar way of speaking." The undertaker chuckled only to have the young woman shoot him a look.

"I could say the same for you and Sebastian. And you do realize I am right here damn it so don't speak about me like I'm not present." She ground out huffing and seating herself down on a coffin.

"Undertaker, would you mind watching her for a while, I have some errands to run, I will fetch her as soon as I am done." The butler smirked as the strange silver haired man nodded, his creepy grin ever present.

"Why I'd be delighted Sebas-chan." He chuckled as the butler turned and left before their new guest could even protest. She sighed in defeat swinging her feet boredly as she watched the undertaker walk over to a body. This naturally perked her interest, not that she would actually mention that he was her favorite character from when she watched the anime and read the manga. She slipped down and slowly walked over to where he busied himself.

"I won't ask exactly what happened, I'd prefer to guess, but wow she looks pretty brutally beaten." Alice commented as she leaned over the man's shoulder to get a better look at what he was doing.

"Well then my dear Alice-chan do tell me what you believed was the undoing of this young lady." He giggled as she sat on a coffin across from where he was working.

"I believe she was maybe drugged, raped and murdered after the deed had been done." She said in a melancholy tone as she glanced between the body and the hands that worked on it.

"Why aren't you bothered my dear, you seem so familiar with this." He lifted his head and faced her, grinning as she flushed and fiddled with her apron. Next thing she knew he was in front of her studying her features from what she assumed since she couldn't see his eyes, but from what she knew they were gorgeous when he did show them. "Tell me what you know little magpie." His eerie voice washed over her.

"I'm beginning to think too much for my own good. I studied this stuff back home. And home is definitely not what or where you think it is." She mumbled noticing she had seemingly perked his interest.

"And where is your home?" He chuckled watching as her cheeks reddened even more.

"A completely different Era to this. Then this world is taken from an Era but only made more interesting, with yeah.... uh.... stuff so I have no idea how I ended up here but all this place ever was to me was a story." She hesitated before glancing up at the man who hummed.

The undertaker chuckled as he watched her carefully taking in each small detail of the girl who sat on one of his coffins in front of him. He watched as her brows knitted together in thought before she looked up at him, a question on the tip of her tongue, but she remained silent deciding on keeping the question rather than making the situation anymore awkward. But the notion vanished when her stomach let off a ravenous growl causing the man watching her too burst into a fit of laughter.

"I'm sorry that demonic butler hasn't fed me yet as punishment for been so 'insolent' this morning when he found me." She grumbled hiding her face in her palms. The undertakers grin widened as he tapped a jet black nailed finger against his chin.

"Would you like some tea and biscuits?" he asked in his creepy, jovial tone watching as her features lit up at the idea of having something to quiet her stomach.

"Yes please." She chimed happily as she hopped down from the coffin and followed him to his kitchen eagerly.

The man was amused at how simple it was to make the young female happy, yet felt slightly guilty that Sebastian had punished her by not feeding her and making her work so much. "So I am lead to believe that one may ask a favor in turn for a laugh." She mused as he handed her a beaker of tea and a bone shaped cookie. "Thank you." She added quickly as she watched him.

"That is true." He smirked expecting a question to follow instead the girl remained silent and simply nodded her head as she devoured the cookie in silence with a silly smile on her face. "One would think a pretty little thing like you wouldn't have an appetite in a place like this." He commented with his silly grin on his face.

She looked up at him and shook her head. "I think you realized it by now, but I am no normal female back where I came from in my time I was studying forensic criminology these things are normal to me, while juggling work in between." She chuckled as she sipped on her tea careful not to scold her mouth. "Is it okay if I come visit when the butler comes into town?" she asked wearily.

At this the man's grin only widened. "Feel free my dear." she smirked and nodded her head, her long locks bouncing with the movement as she chuckled.

Sebastian opened the door shocked to see her sitting and smiling with the undertaker chatting happily about who knows what. It made something in him slightly snap that she had been so rude with him, yet she was been so civil with the undertaker.

He nodded when she stopped and looked at him coldly, her stoic façade back in place.