Tangled Web (A Black Butler Fan Fiction)

Chapter Twenty-Four

That night was the longest night ever. It didn't even compare to the night when I contracted with Sebastian. I would fall asleep, thinking it would all end if I closed my eyes and awaited morning. It seemed like everytime I closed my eyes, I'd wake up thinking something big happened and I missed it. I didn't want to miss anything big, yet I knew I was tired. That was until I had what I thought was a dream. I couldn't tell. Everything felt so real.

"Selena?" I heard a voice calling from a distance. It echoed and resinated in my head.

"Ciel?" My voice echoed a little bit as I turned around and looked for Ciel to appear somewhere.

"Selena," Ciel said as he appeared from the all black world we were in.

"Ciel," I called as I ran to him. "Is that really you?"

Ciel nodded his head. "I want to thank you for everything you did for me."

Oh," I said, taken back a little. "You're welcome." Now was my chance. "What happened to you when you disappeared?"

Ciel bowed his head a little, like he was thinking. Or maybe he was remembering. "Selena, in due time, I will tell you. I promise on the demon that we're contracted to. However, there is someone else who would like to talk to you."

Alois appeared from the blackness. My heart skipped a beat with fear. Was he going to do to me now?

"Nice to see you again, Selena," he said. He wasn't like himself at all. Usually, he would make sure I was writhing in fear before he spoke like that.

"You too, Alois," I said trying to keep my voice from shaking like my knees were.

"I wanted to tell you myself what happened," Alois said. Ciel looked at him with disgust. "Sorry, we wanted to explain to you everything."

"I'm all ears. You can start with why the hell you decided to engage yourself to me, or what hole your crawled out of." Ciel snickered a little.

Alois looked at Ciel with an angered expression on his face. "I do owe you a lot of explanation."

"No kidding," Ciel said.

"I decided to be betrothed to you because you have a title. As for the hole I crawled out of, you and Ciel should know this." Ciel and I looked at him. I stepped a little closer knowing that if Alois tried anything, I know Ciel would make it right. "My real name is Jim Macken. My brother and I were treated horribly in the town we lived in. One day, after giving my brother my usual about how life would be if everyone who treated us terribly died, the town was set in fire and everyone in the town died. My brother included."

I widened my eyes. "So you contracted with Claude?"

"Yes, I just wanted someone to care about me. Sort of how like Ciel cares about you," he said.

Ciel and I simutaneously looked at each other and blushed. This has to be a dream, I thought; Ciel doesn't blush.

Alois turned to the darkness behind him. "I must go now." Alois stepped to me. He took my hand lightly, like a true gentleman, and kissed it. "It was a pleasure to have met someone like you, Selena. Whoever marries you is one lucky man."

"Thank you, Alois," I said.

Alois stepped away and towards the darkness he was once staring at. He looked to Ciel. They shared a nod before Alois stepped into the blackness and I never heard from him again. I turned to Ciel.

"Do you have any idea what just happened?"

Ciel smiled. "It will be explained. Let's say Alois and I came to an agreement."

I never knew Alois was the negotiating type. I shurgged off the thought.

"I wanted to ask you something, Selena," Ciel said after the moment's pause.

"Yes?" My heart started pounding.

"What happened when I thought I was Alois?"

I felt myself turn a shade of pink. "You confused me. I tried to explain to you that you weren't Alois. It didn't work." I wanted to leave out that we kissed. It's not something I wanted to tell him right away.

"Odd, I remembered seeing you."

Don't say you remember us kissing. That would just ruin this. Ciel looked at me, like he knew my feelings for him.

"Selena, we will see each other out of this place. I promise. For now, I must go." Ciel looked dispassionate but his eyes were disappointed. "Until next time, Selena." He took my hand and kissed it and then hugged me.

As I still surrendered to the shock, Ciel whispered in my hear, "I'll miss you."

When we parted, he ascended into the darkness. As he faded and I couldn't see him no longer, I felt abandoned. Alois wasn't there anymore and neither was Ciel. I was alone in the darkness. So, where was Sebastian?

"I'll miss you too, Ciel," I said as I dropped to my knees. I regretted not telling him to his face. I could tell him I loved him when he thought he was Alois, but I can't tell him I would miss him to his face?

I jolted out up from my pillow. I didn't remember how I made it to my bed. Everything was a dream, right? Ciel didn't really hug me and Alois never really apologized? I got out of bed just before the sun rose to make the colors fade into the normal of the daylight. Something big happened to them last night. I felt it deep within me. I just wanted to know what.

I got ready as I normally did for the day, as if nothing happened and I slept all night. I wondered if I anything happened and if anything that happened last night while Ciel and Alois talked to me in my dreams. Wait, Alois and Ciel hate each other? Why would they see me in my dreams together?

I shook off my weird, realistic dream and made my way to the breakfast. Lizzie had already coaxed Paula to allow us to eat on the terrace. It truely was a beautiful day.

"Oh, Selena, after breakfast, there were packages that came for each of us," Lizzie said as we ate. Once again, since I was around Lizzie, they refused to join us.

"Packages?" I asked. "Who from?"

"I don't know," she answered. "It wasn't someone we knew."

"Hm." Then who was it and what were they dropping off, I thought.