His Butler // Larry

10

Classical music plays as the next victim to Jack the Ripper squirms in a chair. Her makeup and hair are still done so perfectly. Her sobbing though is starting to smudge and mess up her eye makeup. However, that wasn't important. She hears footsteps and whimpers are heard as he stands in front of her. She can't speak of course, due to the gag in her mouth. 

The killer reaches behind her and unties the gag. The scared woman whimpers and shuts her eyes tight and feels tears roll down her cheeks. Once the gag is removed she lets out a scared gasp and looks to him slowly. He only smiles before putting his finger to his mouth, only shushing her

He pulls out the lip paint and gently glides it across her lips. She is still, of course, she is still. She is too terrified to even move a centimeter. As the killer is doing the lip, thunder suddenly strikes and he ends up messing it up just the slightest, but that won't do. He growls and grabs her jaw roughly to fix the stain. 

It doesn't matter anyway, she would be dead soon.

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"This is no time to play chess," Louis said with a grumble as his aunt moves the knight. 

"Doing this work obsessively is never good." His aunt scolds before sitting back on the chair and resting her head on her fist. "Why don't you leave everything to Harry to take care of?"

"He's my chess piece...his moves are by my orders." He said simply as he reaches down, "He isn't an ordinary chess piece, however. He moves as many spaces as he wants. Like this..." Louis said demonstrating with the chess piece he has. He takes it and knocks over the queen causing his aunt to gasp unsure how he managed that. Then she realizes he couldn't have been able to

"Come on now, you know that's against the rules." She said fixing her piece.

"Yes, if this were a game, it would be. But in this world, rules have no meaning." He said resting his head on his two folded hands. "Knights, pawns...they all break the rules. You let your guard down, it's checkmate." He said.

After a while, Madam Red is escorted to the door due to Louis's request. Harry puts on her coat. "I can walk from here Harry." She said smiling fondly at the butler.

"But my lady-"

"Please don't ever leave his side. Make sure he doesn't stray from the path and doesn't get lost." She said. Harry is taken aback but he nods with a bow.

"I promised him this and I shall promise you as well. I shall stay by his side until the end." He said. Madam Red nods and she opens the door and has Daniel waiting outside with an umbrella. Harry watches the door close before he turns to go to his master's bedroom. He knocks and enters and Louis sits up

"Well?" He asks expectantly

Harry comes in with the papers. "No matter how many times I look at it, the result is the same." He states as he comes in and looks through the papers.

"The viscount had nothing to do with yesterday's murder," Louis said with a drawn-out sigh. "Your investigation better not of slacked." He said to the demon

"Master...my investigations never slacked. I made sure to look at every alibi and every person. The viscount was the only one that fit." He said. "I am merely one hell of a butler and I only follow my master's orders as told." The papers are then thrown to the side. "So my lord...what is the next move of your pawn?" Harry asked with a dark smirk

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The rain hits the hard cobbled streets as Louis and Harry stand in an alley. Louis is dressed in more commoner clothing, and Harry wears a lengthy trench coat, with his collar popped up. The perfect undercover work clothing for the two. "He'll show up if we stake this place out, right?" He asks Harry

"Yes," Harry replies 

"It's true that the murdered prostitutes had other things in common, besides having the uterus removed," Louis said leaning against the wall. "But why should he have to kill them...and I-" 

"So soft..." Harry mumbles as he is stroking a stray cat. Louis growls at the butler

"Listen when I am talking to you!" He snaps startling the cat. Harry strokes the cat and calms it down

"Sorry...she's a rare beauty..."

After he says that a loud scream is heard making them both gasp and look back. The cat runs away and Louis is confused. "Nobody could have passed us!" He exclaimed

"Then let's hurry," Harry said as they hurriedly ran to the door they were staking out. Louis opens the door quickly but stops at the scene. It was horrifying to him and Louis was frozen, so Harry acted quickly and jumped back a great distance with him in his arms. 

The butler looks up when he hears the footsteps coming near. He can't help but smirk seeing who the true killer was. "Quite a mess you made there Jack...or should I say...Daniel." 

"No wait please...you have it all wrong! I heard the scream before I tried to find her...when I did..she was-"

"Stop playing innocent Daniel. This is the first time I met someone like you in the human world. You played the role of innocent incompetent butler quite well." He said

The blood covered butler stares at him for the longest time before he flashes a grin. His sharp teeth are shown. "You really think so? Well, ya caught me. I'm an actress honey. And I am absolutely first rate." He said as his disguise slowly began to vanish and showed more of his demonic true form. "But you aren't Harry...are you?"

"That is the name my master gave me for the time being, so yes I am Harry," Harry replies watching his transformation happen right in front of him.

"Well...now that you know my true form, I am sure we can get along quite well now." He said blowing him a kiss making Harry cringe at that. He had no interest in this man, or whatever this creature was, at all. "It's so nice to finally meet you in my true form."

"I am quite surprised as well...to see a man like you play this part," Harry said. "A grim reaper...why would you want to play that role?" 

"Simple...because I fell in love with a certain woman..." He responded. Louis stiffens in Harry's grip. The butler knows of this women, but he goes ahead and speaks anyway

"And that woman is?" He asked

"Do you even have to ask?" 

Louis removes Harry's hand and of course, there stood in front of him. "Madam Red..." He said softly. She tilts her head to the boy with crossed arms

"You were on the suspect list...but your alibi was perfect." 

"You suspected your own aunt?" Madam Red asks 

"Being Jack makes any blood relation irrelevant," Louis said as he looks away as if in shame. "No humans could cause all those murders. But with an inhuman accomplice, it makes things easier. You two are Jack the Ripper."

A/N Oh shit...what a plot twist. Whaaaat

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