A Contract From Hell

His Master, Scars

The children walked up to the games room looking around. The room was dark with boards like poker, pool and card games set out. Not really the most fun for younger children. They arrived in the room and Alois stayed with his back to the door. "So Ciel I heard my brother has gotten new servants. Humans as well. Tell me about them" Murmur sat down on a large chair.
"Yes there are three. Miss MeyRin, Mister Finnian and Mister Bardroy. They are very, very nice" Ciel smiled.
"I would love to meet them. Humans are so very interesting" the younger brother smiled genuinely.
"I agree all humans have stories to tell if people were to just listen" Ciel smiled.
"Yes you're right. Did I tell you about Annie. She's so very interesting!" Lilitu told them.
"Annie no. I don't think you did". Lilitu began to tell the story of the little human girl who serves in her classes.

In the main room the children were talking among themselves when a telephone rang and their father excused himself to answer it. A huge wave of relaxation filled the room when he left. The atmosphere around the man was incredibly tense. "I heard you hired humans as servants. Why can I ask?" Sebastian's sister asked.
"Humans are more hard working than demons in my opinion. I have three all trained, if you can call it that, in some form of combat, an army man, the sharpest shooter I think I've ever seen and a boy a couple of years older than Ciel with the strength that exceeds any from a human I've ever seen. They protect the house as well as be company for Ciel. Ever since I... got rid of Abdiel and Incubus he has had no one around. He seemed to miss the interaction from your servants and the youngest of our siblings. He needed someone" Sebastian looked down into the glass. "Though they are clumsy and quite frankly idiotic it's rather entertaining having the three of them around".
"I want to meet them they sound fascinating."
"Really you do? That's very strange coming from you".

A bell rung from the main room and all the servants shut up talking and looked at the door. "Who do you think is being called?" Daniel asked.
"I'll go. If it is any of you I'll come back and get you" Alois said before turning away. His shirt was too big and it fell down revealing scars on his shoulder and suddenly Ciel felt a chill as he thought about the mark that branded his back.

When he was in the cult he was forced down onto a table with men and women watching. He cried out for help but no one did. No one ever helped him. Instead he was stripped down and a piercing hot metal stamp was branded onto his skin. It was the worse pain that he had ever felt. The pain lasted longer then anything Sebastian had ever done to him. The contract symbol made his eye bleed and a shooting pain shot through from his neck to his eye but it was numbed because of the horrible state he was in. Even when Sebastian broke one of his ribs the pain was less then the branding. No one had ever seen Ciel's mark on his back except Sebastian from when Ciel was bathing that very first time in his room. He shuddered slightly and fixed his collar. He didn't want anyone to see it. It was awful.

"Ciel are you okay? You've gone pale all of a sudden" Murmur came over and placed his hand on Ciel's forehead. "You're cold. I say you're not ill are you?" He asked. Ciel shook his head.
"N... No I'm not ill" he stuttered. Seeing the markings had brought back a lot of horrible memories for Ciel and it caused him to panic as the thoughts came flooding back to him. "I'm going to get my brother" Murmur stood up and went to the door.
"No please don't... I'm fine. Don't get my master" he shook his head to try and focus "I just need to... to sit down..." All of a sudden an image appeared in his mind. One he thought he had gotten rid of forever. He was frozen on the spot and couldn't react or speak.
"I'm getting Sebastian. Danny, Amy, sister stay with him" Murmur ran upstairs.

The whole room was spinning and the sound of smashing glass and screams could be heard. Female screams and male screams. Screams... screams... screams...

"Big brothers? Is he going to be okay..." Lilitu asked softly as she sat at Ciel's side.
"Yes he just fainted no damage. He should wake up any minute" one of the twins told her.
"He will be fine" the other comforted the little girl. Ciel's eyes fluttered open and he looked around before groaning. He sat up slowly.
"I passed out again didn't I..." he bit his lip. "I didn't cause too much trouble... did I?" The twins looked at each other an identical gleam in each eye.
"You didn't cause any trouble at all but yes you did pass out" they said in perfect unison. "Our brother has gone out to get you some medicine. The only medicine in this house is fit for demons." Ciel tried to stand up.
"Oh no no he doesn't have to do that... I'm fine honestly. It was just bad memories clogging up my mind."
"Bad memories what kind of bad memories?" Lilitu asked him softly.
"Lilitu you do not ask questions like that" the twins said together.
"It is her right to ask masters. As a servant I must do whatever my master says and he said to treat everyone with the upmost respect and so I will" Ciel said before falling back against a pillow. Lilitu put a blanket over him.
"Feel better soon" she whispered.

Later that evening Ciel awoke again only this time he was in a different room in different clothes. He looked around and found he was all alone. Naturally he began to panic thinking only the worse. He got up and his legs tried to steady themselves but he ended up falling against the bed. Today was not his day... at all. He tried to whisper into the darkness. "Hello? Hello?" His body began to shake. He was all alone abandoned. "Anyone? Please help me! Please" he begged into the darkness. There was a creaking and a door slowly opened.
"Oh good you're awake I'm very glad about that". Thank goodness.
"Master?" Ciel asked hopefully.
"You gave us all quite a shock didn't you" he came over and sat on the bed beside the boy. "Now Ciel stay calm and tell me exactly what happened today?"

Ciel took a deep breath to calm himself and then started explaining about the scars on Alois's back and the memories that all came crashing back into his mind like broken records. Sebastian listened. "Ahh. I see" he looked down at the boy and patted his head.
"Don't be so afraid Ciel you're alive and that's all that matters".