The Earl of Phantomhive (DemonCielXLizzy fic)

Chapter Nine

In Fear of Memory 

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She was in a dark room. Still asleep, surely. The silence was nerve wrecking and the darkness seemed to be filling. Her heart was breaking, as was her body. She could feel the fatigue set in as she could no longer fight. Sleep, a deep sleep, was taking her. Heartbeats softened under the cotton blankets and her body grew weaker.

Where was she?

Why was the room so dark?

Sebastian? Ciel? Anyone? There was no one. Her eyes fluttered open and green lit up the room. Ciel had been right all those times he told her she could light up a room in more ways than one. 

She didn't want to, but she forced herself to her feet. It was hard to see inside the room, but she could make out a crack of light coming from a far off door. If she could just reach it..

The closer she got to the door, the hotter she felt. Her feet were burning and her hands were stinging but she couldn't stop now. She had to find a way out, there had to be something behind this door! 

She opened it swiftly after feeling the all too real pain from the scorching door knob. Fire rolled into the room along with smoke. The manor was on fire?! 

With one hand over her mouth and another waving the flames from her path, she forced her way out of the room. Her legs bled with searing pain as the fire picked at her dress and bare feet. The walls were peeling from the sheer heat of the flames around them and the floor boards were peeling up.

"Hello?! Is anyone still in here?!" She gave a cough and continued down the hall the best she could, "Hello?!"

Go back

"What?" She stopped and looked around at the burning interior. She heard a very faint whisper coming from all around her.

Go back to your room, Elizabeth. It's safe there.

"But I'll die if I stay in there! I'll burn to death..!" She yelled back at the unknown, eerie voice.

Go back to your safe room. The safe room..

"No! I won't go back to that room! I can't hide in there and die! I have to get out! I have to find Ciel, Do you know where he is?!"

And just like that, the voice was gone. Elizabeth pressed on down the long corridor until she heard another voice. 

"Mom?? Dad??! Mom!!?"

Her breath caught in her throat, she knew that voice! "Ciel??? Ciel, darling, where are you?!"

She received no answer, "Ciel?!" Elizabeth broke out into a run. Fire ripping at her arms and legs as she rushed through it. She ignored the pain and kept going. "Ciel??! Sebastian?!" She stopped when she reached the top of a long stairwell. She recognized it as the old stairwell of the Phantomhive manor, before it burned to the ground and was rebuilt. At the bottom of the stairs stood a small boy, shaking and crying. "Ciel, I'm coming. Just hold on.." The banisters were ablaze and so was every other step. "Wait right there for me Ciel, don't move."

"I'm scared.."

"I said wait for me!"

Dazzling blue eyes looked up at her through flames of red and white, "Okay.." He wiped the tears from his eyes as Elizabeth focused on getting down the stairs.

"Mom and dad are gone now.. it's just me.."

"You're not alone, Ciel. You have me, you have Sebastian.. you have many, many people that love you."