Mask (Black Butler fanfic )

Say goodbye

Levvinne clutched the basket in her near-numb fingers,  the weight of the groceries tugging on her already aching muscles, she was nearing the edge of the city, it was a strip of dodgy looking shops before the twenty minute trudge down a gravel road to get home,  she was juat passing the dingy old undertaker's shop when the door swung open violently,  she stopped and pretended to be checking something in the basket as she peeked out of the corner of her eye, trying to guess what was happening,  there was a girlish yell and a red clad, red haired figure grabbed her by the wrist, dragging her into the poorly lit room, the figure, apparently male, sat her on a coffin and pointed a knife at her throat "not a peep Levvinne" she nodded and swallowed hard, hoping she didn't look half as scared as she felt,  a chuckle filled the air and a man with knee length silver hair in black robes stepped out "Grell, you're scaring the poor girl" the red head sighed and dropped the knife, it stuck into the floor just millimeters from her foot "I am sorry about him, he is a bit of an idiot" the white haired man laughed, pulling a cloudy, stained beaker off the shelf "care for a drink Miss?" she nodded cautiously,  becoming aware of her dry throat "please" this could take a while.

"so what are you hiding behind that smile, you have a secret and it's screwing up our to die list" Grell snapped, Undertaker sighed "shut it Grell, you're going to get no where like that" Undertaker sat down next to her "what happened that you have to hide it this way?" Levi was caught off guard and before she could think to deny or lie she was talking "my mother has never been of the best mental health, so I always relied on my father to look after me and when I was a kid he used to play games with me, one day I went looking for him and found my mother standing over his body, his skin had been ripped off and he'd been all cut up; mother made me help her carry all the pieces down to the kitchen and burn them up in the stove, then she swore me never to tell" she stared at her hands,  Undertaker nodded "what if I could take all that hurt and make it go away?" his green eyes glowed under his hair, she nodded cautiously "what's the catch?" Grell laughed "clever girl,  for this to work you're going to forget a lot of stuff"

Levi declined the offer and decided that she should go "it was lovely to meet you, and thank you for not killing me as it seemed you intended to,  but my mother will be getting awfully worried" she stood up, only to find herself falling, she couldn't feel her legs and her head was starting to spin "what...what did you do to me?...." she mumbled and tried to stop her eyes closing as the dark moved in "say goodbye Miss Cagliostro".