The Devil Within (Sebastian x Demon!Reader)

Chapter 1

[A/N] - The first chapter will take place in the past and is necessary to the story's plot line. This is my first "x reader" I beg of you please show some mercy when criticizing this story. Also....WARNING: slight gore be prepared! Anyway hope y'all like Black Butler, well without further ado I present to to The Devil Within!

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I tossed and turned hoping sleep would come and soothe my stressed nerves allowing me to wake up the next morning, but to my misfortune sleep evaded me once more. I looked at the clock that read 2:58 AM sighing in defeat I swung my legs over the edge of my bed and stretched. I reached under my pillow and pulled out a pocket knife, then proceeded to make my way to my bedroom door after throwing on a black hoodie to help conceal me in the darkness of the night.

I silently slipped out of my bedroom and past my parent's bedroom, tiptoed to the front door, not bothering to put shoes on I put my knife in my pocket just in case I needed it, I didn't live in the safest of neighborhoods so it was good to always be prepared. I silently opened the door hoping that everyone would remain in their slumbering states. I slipped through the door silently closing it behind me and started walking down the dimly lit street, whenever I couldn't sleep late night walks always help to calm my mind.

I walked down the street tuning into the sounds around me, taking in deep calming breaths of cool night air. I listened to the sound of owl hooting loudly and the sound of crickets chirping noisily. I was beginning to near the end of the street where the street lights didn't reach leaving it over run and corrupted by darkness. I was about to turn back when I heard faint whispering, I looked up to see who was causing the whispering and say a group of 7 people standing in a circle, my heart began to race as their whispering ceased and they looked up at me, I couldn't see their faces as the darkness concealed their identities.

Six of them broke away from the circle leaving the one standing in darkness and began advancing towards me completely surrounding me cutting off all of my exits so that there was no escape. I readied my pocket knife even though I knew I was pretty much doomed, there was no way I would ever be able to take on 7 people attacking me all at once. I quickly noticed each one of them held a weapon, from bats to daggers. The circle was quickly becoming smaller and smaller as the closed in on me, it was now that I noticed they each were dressed in all black outfits and masks covered their faces hiding who they truly were, I pulled out my pocket knife and ran at the one in front of me and was quick to swing my knife landing it in their neck as my eyes widen, I had no intention of killing anyone I simply wanted to escape and go home locking all the doors and stay in my room.

A strangled cry of pain came from the persons throat as they fell to their knees on the ground before completely collapsing, tears ran down my face in a seemingly never-ending stream as I clutched the now blood covered knife. Then before I knew it my face was slammed against the cold ground along with my body, and someone was on my stomach holding a knife to my throat, I turned my head to face the person on my stomach they weren't looking at me thought they were looking at someone else near us. The last thing I saw before the world went completely black was someone walking over towards us as they raised a baseball bat over their head and brought the bat down on my head.

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My eyes shot open as I quickly sat up but immediately regretted it as a sharp pain shot through my head, I held my head a grunted in pain. I opened my eyes to find that I was stuck in a cage, as my vision cleared I noticed blood stains on the floor around me, some fresh some old. I raised my head and looked around and saw I was in a dark room with a few candles lit here and there. forming a somewhat large circle. It was completely silent leaving me to my own thoughts, giving me time to over thing what had happened, but then reality struck me, I KILLED A MAN!'I screamed in my head over and over as tears began streaming down my face, wait it was okay to kill if it was for your own survival right....but that still doesn't change the fact that I killed someone, I lay in a ball on the floor of my small cage tears streaming down my face. I remained a bawling mess for a few minutes before I calmed down and stared into the blackness of the room knowing that I could do absolutely nothing and had no control over what was going to happen to me from here on out. 'Damn it! All of this could have been avoided if it weren't me being such and idiot!' I yelled at myself for being so stupid. 'Huh....I wonder what everyone's gonna think.' I silently wondered hugging my knees to my chest, it's not like anyone will care that I'm gone anyway, nobody ever cared.