Tangled Web (A Black Butler Fan Fiction)

Chapter Seventeen

I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to leave but I had to. I had to tell Ciel before I started packing. Knowing him, he would try his hardest to get me to stay. With tears stinging my eyes, I knocked on his office door, where he was doing work for the Funtom Co.

"You may enter," he called.

I opened the door after wiping the tear.

"Selena, what do you need?" His voice sounded normal and almost cheerful.

I smiled at him, letting him know I accepted his welcome. "Ciel, do you want to take a break and take a walk through the gardens with me?"

He gave me half a smile before finishing what he was writing and looked back up to me. "Sure, let me finish signing these documents."

I tilted my head with wonder. "Would you like for me to wait for you here or out on the terrace?"

"Here, that way you remind me to stop working and enjoy something," he said as he finished signing one document and went to the other.

I sat down across from him on the other side of his desk. I watched him as he diligently worked and occasionally looked up, making sure I was still there. When he was at the last document, he looked to me, smiled, and dotted the 'i' and crossed the 't' on Phantomhive.

He stood up and walked from behind the desk. He stopped at me. "I'm ready if you are."

I stood up with a smile and took his extended hand. Since the incident with Alois a week ago, he's been different than the Ciel I've grown used to. There was something different about him. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

We walked through the manor and to the terrace where the garden was. When we descended the stairs that ended with the path to the gardens, he looked at me, wondering if I was serious about walking through the gardens.

"I am sure, Ciel," I said as I gave him a small smile.

We stepped onto the path and started walking to the far edges of it or the middle, just so we were alone.

"Selena, it's a good thing we are getting this time alone, there is something I've been meaning to talk to you about," Ciel said.

The sun shined on his black hair. In that light, he definately reminded me of Vincent. But his eyes were his mother's.

"Really? There is something I wanted to tell you, or talk to you about," I said.

"Then this is perfect," he said as he walked down one of the rows of white roses and to another row, making sure we couldn't be found.

"Selena, I wanted to talk about what happened at Trancy's," Ciel said as he hung his head.

I looked at him as we stopped walking.

"Yes?"

"How much of it did you hear? I knew you were there for some of it."

Okay, okay, he caught me. It was my turn to lower my head. "I was there for most of it. I watched through a crack in the door."

"I knew it had to be something like that."

I turned to him with a smile when I thought about what transpired that day with Alois.

"Thanks for tackling him," I said.

"You're welcome, what did he say to you?"

I shrugged. When Ciel didn't believe that, I said, "He warned me about being open-minded and that he could make sure no one ever saw me again."

I watched as Ciel tensed his muscles. Of course he would be a little enraged when I said that. I wondered if Ciel heard Alois or if he was mad that I was scared out of my mind and Alois was causing it.