Lady Shadowhive and her Demon Butler Lucius Dracovich. PT 2

What Will You Do

This will be just before Jade wakes up. This is how Lucius is feeling during her death like sleep.

Lucius's POV
She has been still for almost two days...this is the second day she has been asleep. She isnt dead but this dream must have dragged her into the deepest part of her mind. I sent the letter to Lord Phantomhive as ordered telling him how my mistress was going to take longer than she thought. His return letter said he was filled to the neck with documents to oversee for the new doll presentation of his company. He wished her luck with the investigation and looked forward to her return home. Hmph... that manor is not her home. She barely sleeps a wink in that manor.. she spends her nights tossing and turning surrounded by the unfamiliar walls of her new home. I wonder if she will ever feel that peace of mind she had at her manor. She seemed most at peace when she was looking out amongst the roses of the garden, perhaps its a simple fact that women enjoy flowers. I sighed as i hung my head and rested it on my palm as my elbow propped on my leg. I stared at the ground my hair hanging loosely... Two days.... I was starting to wonder if she would wake... She normally tossed and turned in her dreams, yet she has remained as still as the dead lays in their coffins. I knew the day would come eventually... the day she died and i take her soul... but as i sit here idly waiting i couldnt help but feel a pain inside my chest at the thought of her passing. Her breathing was even and undisturbed, her body wasnt wasting away and her color stayed in her cheeks. Yet as i look at her and think of her body on that podium of the church. Her gentle frame of youth lying in that coffin... I felt pain in my chest where a heart should have been.

"Still no change i see...."

The devil curse you Michaelis... He has been coming to check on Jade's condition on request of Lord Phantomhive... although as far as Ciel was concerned i knew nothing of his visits.

"No... she remains asleep and has yet to move or even mumble in her sleep."

He walked over nonchalantly to her side and peered at her face. This was what he's done any time he visits.

"Perhaps she's fallen ill."

"Then she would have a fever or some sort of sign as to her being sick... Michaelis what do you want this time."

"My master is tearing his hair out over her health... Its taking every fiber of his being not to drop his work and rush down here."

I scoffed at this childish reaction. She is a grown woman who was capable of handling herself long before she ever met this boy, and here he thinks that the smallest faint and he needs to charge in like a shining knight in armor.

"You keep belittling my master Dracovich, to be honest i cant tell whether i find it amusing or annoying. Perhaps both."

I sighed again and rubbed my temples. I felt on edge, not knowing what was wrong with my master was sending me into a state of unrest.

"Relax Dracovich you know very well she'll wake soon... I dont see why you continue fussing over this."

I looked at him with a raised brow.

"You try to make yourself sound more superior but i know very well if this was Ciel lying in that bed you would be just as on edge as I am... Its our job to know what ails our masters.... surely it drives you insane as well when suddenly your master gets into a fit of rage"

"Ahh yes.. the temperaments of a child, youth is such a curse dont you think Lucius."

"A curse indeed, yet without the rage of a child we would starve from no contracts Michaelis. Tell me.... you've been with the Lord Phantomhive for nearly 4 years now... how will you react when its time your precious master has to die."