Those Actors, In Love [SebaCiel || AU]

8 || Hold

It was another day of shooting, and the clock indicated it was 9:00 in the morning. The sun's bright light filled up the rooms with windows of the manor - the shooting place - and made the place lively. Children would have played at a time like this, and Ciel used to with his childhood friends.

"Three, two, one...action!"

The British earl sat on his comfortable chair, with his face buried in his thin, clothed arms, laying on the wooden desk where his paperworks were sitting. An audible sigh escaped his lips.

"I believe the wisest thing to do today would be to go along with her plan and then ask her to leave," Sebastian starts. This would be a line he would also say if the story in the anime really did happen in real life and the casts would be in the same state as the characters in the show...just like how Sebastian is feeling something unique for Ciel.

Ciel raises his head up and complains, "Just give her some dinner or something and get her out of here! I don't have the time to go along with her girlish hobbies."

The whole time, Sebastian was preparing a tea for his young master who was disappointed and kind of stressed at his 'betrothed''s desire to dance with him. While saying his line, he gave the cup of tea to the young earl. "But my lord, it appears Lady Elizabeth desires a dance."

Ciel holds the cup by its handle and its fragrance reached his nostrils. He would've enjoyed the aroma if the script didn't tell him to look embarrassed since the butler mentioned his fiancée wanting a dance with him.

"Young master?" Sebastian asks.

"What?"

"I've never seen you dance, but I presume you can do it?"

Ciel then awkwardly grabs the paperworks in front of him to cover his face that clearly suggests that he would do anything not to dance. The young earl really despises parties and such, and sometimes if he gets invited, he rejects the invitation without any hesitation or second thought.

The action made by his young master made the butler sigh. "Well, that explains why you play the wallflower when you go to parties," Sebastian says disappointedly at how his master would give up on something like this. He grabs the breadknife and prepares the cake then.

Ciel was still covering his face with the paperworks he was reading pretendedly while saying his line, "I'm busy with work. I have no time to waste on play-" And at the right timing and smooth-as-silk movements, Sebastian snatches the paper away from the young boy, but still with respect. As scripted, Ciel was surprised by the sudden movement.

"With all due respect, young master, it's called 'social dance' for a reason, and is a skill that will naturally be necessary at soirees and banquets," Sebastian speaks flawlessly, holding the plate of Orchard Fruit Cake in front of the startled boy whose blood was rushing to his plump cheeks.

"The world expects a first class gentleman to know how to dance. If you reject any more dance invitations, your reputation in society circles will plummet," the butler continues to explain.

"Fine, I'll do it!" That'll make you happy, right? Call a tutor or something. Mrs. Bright or Mrs. Rodkin..." Ciel gives up and gives in to his butler's forced request.

Sebastian fishes out his pocket watch and opens it, saying, "There's no time to call a madam now. By your leave..." then he closes the pocket watch in his hands and keeps it again, "I will instruct you in dancing."

Their shooting continued and the lines were about Sebastian convincing why he and his skills would be enough to teach the young earl, who was still disagreeing with the whole idea. Ciel gives up and Sebastian asks, "May I have this dance, my lord?" with a face surely no one would reject, surely would make anyone blush at the sight of the raven-haired, good-looking man offering his hand for a dance.

"Cut!" Edward shouts. That was only the second time they shot the scene, and everything went pretty well.

The next scene was for Sebastian to tutor Ciel how to dance. Since the lesson is pretty rushed, and Ciel knows the basic about dancing, they applied the knowledge of the young boy in the real dance, and that meant touching Ciel, for Sebastian. He felt a bit uncomfortable by the sound of it, but he wanted to do it, deep down inside his heart.

Sebastian positioned himself with Ciel as they were being shot by the camera, while saying his lines. Sebastian held the young boy's hand delicately, as if Ciel was the most fragile thing in the world and he was dreading to break him.

Before he placed his hand gently on the young earl's shoulder, Sebastian positioned Ciel's other available hand on the butler's hip. The bluenette felt uncomfortable in the position, even though it wasn't scripted. Yet even though he felt uneasy with it, he wanted to take this chance to hold the ravenette like this, right now, for some unknown reasons.

They took a lot of bloopers in that scene, and the duo would often forget what to say, their timings, and what they were supposed to do while shooting that scene. Perhaps they were both focused to dancing with each other and falling into another dimension completely and only to be pulled back to reality by the yells of the director.

After a lot of takes, ten to be exact, they finished the scene successfully. The duo were a blushing mess after letting their panicking emotions out after they've shot a very intense scene, at least for the both of them. Well, just look how their bodies are touching each other, and how they felt each other's contact.

Ciel suddenly found himself to be overthinking about this thing and a difficult question which would probably be very hard for him to answer came to his mind.

"Why am I even blushing in the first place? I know this happened when Sebastian is...topless...but this is very different. He's completely covered with decent clothes but...there's a strange vibe he's been sending me since we started that crappy dance scene," the bluenette thought, his ideas being messed up.

Sebastian perfectly knew what he was feeling. He likes Ciel, he won't deny it. But he's a boy, and that's the problem here. He used to have trouble with those strange emotions but now he's questioning his own gender. But he didn't give a single shit about it, for all he knew...

...he's utterly in love with Ciel Phantomhive.

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I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. >///<

Anyway, I'd like you guys to check out my poem book that goes by the title, "INSPIRED". I'm currently writing SebaCiel-inspired poems so...you might wanna check them out. :D

~published on 10•08•16