Lover to one, daughter to the other. A black butler fanfic

Chp.15 The Secret Is Out

I look down on this swarm of people, but they are getting smaller. They are all screaming. I don't understand why everything is getting smaller and redder. Suddenly I seem to be watching everything and not able to control my own body. I start destroying everything and people are running away and all I can hear is screaming and crashing. My head turns and looks at a building and a fire bursts out of the windows.

Soon everything is on fire, the screaming was replaced by painful moans and sobs. I regain control and look around, seeing that not only this town but the one next to it are both decimated. Everything starts going back to its normal size.

I start to wonder around, confused and frightened. I am just about to collapse when I see my mom, lying face down on the ground not moving. I run over to her and struggle to flip her over.

"Mommy? MOMMY! Why won't you answer?" I ask her, she is obviously awake and I look to see what she is looking at but there is nothing there. "Mommy, see I found you, I made it. Mommy please look at me. Why aren't you answering? What are you looking at? Mommy?" I realized that she wasn't breathing. "Mommy come on you have to breath, you can't leave me. Mommy..." I shake the body crying out for her but no reaction. "Mommy please you can punish me, I have been bad, I deserve it, just please don't be dead." I cry out for her, and my body starts shaking violently.

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I wake up to Claude looking down at me. "W-what's w-wrong?" I can hear it in my voice that I had been crying in my sleep. Why did they start up again? Why now?

"You were calling out for your mother and you were crying, and your eyes and hair had a glow to them. I was worried about you." Claude said, it seems that he only shows emotion when it comes to me, well only the positive ones.

"I am sorry, I was just having a dream." I say to ease his worry.

"That is not what 'just a dream' looks like. That was a memory. Do you want to talk about it?" He asked shifting so that I was cradled in his arms, it was nice, not like that time with Sebastian nice, but a different type of nice. I felt comfortable and safe.

"Did you ever hear about those two towns that were destroyed by some sort of disaster?" I paused and he seemed to know what I was talking about so I continued. "Well that was me, I had been bullied and I lost control of me emotions and my powers for the first time. It is also when my mother died. I had gone back to myself and saw her and being a child, I still saw the best in her and I cried over her body. That is what that was." I curled up closer to him breathing in his smell, which had a father type of smell. "What time is it?"

"It is time to get you ready to go for our trip to the sea. And you will no longer have to worry about anything of the sort. Now I picked out a dress which I think would suit you." He places me back onto the bed and gets up to show me a beautifully designed corset dress, with a lace bodice and intricate designs of flowers. It was even a beautiful orange with pink and red highlights and tones to bring out my shape, which didn't need much assistance to begin with. "Do you wish me to help you or would you like me to send Hannah?"

"You can help me unless you need to go take care of Alois." I say as I stand and get ready to be dressed. "I am not worried about you seeing me, after all you are my father." #she has a weird sense of family values but hey she had a messed up childhood#

"As you wish, my little one." He says before walking over and starts helping me with the corset, which he does a little tight, but with this dress it works. Then he helps me into the dress and does it up and then puts my hair into a crown like braid across the top and leaves the back loose. He leaves my ears out, and I realized that I don't need to hide them with these people. "You know, I usually don't like cats, they are vile and arrogant, but you are the one exception, my little one."

I giggle. "It's ok, I don't like cats that much either, I much would have preferred being a dog or a spider. Well shall we go, I doubt Alois likes being kept waiting." My father nods and goes to lead the way.

As we walk I make sure to stay a step behind him as proper culture deems appropriate. When we get to the dinning room, I go and sit near Alois, which is were my spot had been laid out. "Good morning Rouge. What are those things on your head?" Alois asks, ticking me off right off the bat.

"They are my ears, I have already told you that I am part demon and part angel, well unlike both, I cannot always hide my true nature. And I would very much appreciate it if you would not stare at them or make rude comments about them or the fact that I am a cat-demon." I state as if I had the whole thing planned out, which took him by surprise.

"Uh... fine then. Anyways we are to leave today so I hope you are ready. Also that dress makes you look absolutely delicious, it makes me wonder what you would look like without it." He purrs as he gets up right close to my ear.

"Remember our chat from yesterday. Keep your filthy paws off me and I will not hurt you. I somewhat like your company and it is nice to be away from that crow. So if we can eat and get going I cannot wait to see the sea." I say nonchalantly, Alois shifts back into his chair and I take a bite of the feta and olive omelette that was set in front of me.

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After we had finished breakfast with small conversation, we go out the front door and go down the steps where there are two carriages, one which was more ornate and obviously meant for Alois and I and the other was covered in baggage and triplets with purple hair who were tying everything down. Claude offered me his hand to help get in the coach, and I gladly took his hand as I climbed in with Alois soon after.

"So what do you think of my butler? Do you have feelings for him? He treats you in such a way I have never seen before from him." Alois basically interrogates me.

"I think he is charming and a nice person if you get to know him. But if you think we are fooling around, I would never have such feelings for him." I answer without giving away the secret. I knew that Claude could hear us too.

We are just pulling out of the mansions drive, when Alois comes out with another question. "Why could you never feel that way about him? I don't understand, I am glad that he cannot steal you from me but I wish to understand."

"You do not need to, and also you need not be jealous of something that isn't yours. I am not yours, therefore I cannot be taken away from you." I say, playing off the question once more. Alois looks frustrated with the answers I am giving.

"I am letting you have your space, I am letting you ride with me and not with the servants, which is where you should be, so learn your place!" He yells and the carriage jerks to a halt and the door goes flying off.

"Do not speak to my daughter in that tone you filthy human! You might be a lord but you are so far beneath her status that it's like an ant to an elephant. And if go to touch her or think about her in anything less then what she is wearing, I will break our contract and kill you all over again." Claude said from the door, black mist shading his silhouette so that only his eyes were visible. Alois looked dumbfounded.

"W-what do you mean daughter I thought you didn't know her?"

"He specifically said he had never seen me before which is true because my mother left him before I was born and we had never meet after that." I say, making the dots connecte in Alois' thoughts. "And since he knows now, papa, could you go back to driving, I think he gets the idea."

We spend the whole day in the carriage, Alois staying quiet. We stop for the night at a very nice inn before we continue our journey to the sea.