Quest for the Lost--Sebastian's Daughter Sequel (A Black Butler Fanfic) COMPLETE

Chapter 12

I stared at Maria's ex husband until my eyes felt dry, then blinked and turned my head. I didn't notice until Finny's hand rested in my shoulder that I was taking short, quick breaths. I breathed in deeply, but couldn't calm my racing heart.

"Did you think we would let the man that was trying to kill you get away once we were able to finally catch him?" Maria asked, not once looking at the man. Her arms were folded across her chest, and she was leaning against the door.

"But Finny said its been five days. Shouldn't you have done something with him by now?"

"We have been," Maria said, straightening herself. "We took him with us to search for your mother. It made me less suspicious to the other scientists who didn't know about our breakup."

"So why are you hanging onto him? He could beat you back in here and finish me off. I thought he would be gone when I woke up..." I whispered the last part, fear creeping up to me. Then I added quietly, "If I woke up."

Maria and her ex didn't seem to have heard me, but Dad and Finny were close enough to hear, and they both frowned.

"We wanted to hear your side of the story before we did anything, if you can remember," my father said.

How could I forget? I told a man to kill me, then almost committed suicide in front of my mother. Should I tell them everything?

"The only reason Finny is still here is because of what he told us," my father added. "If your story doesn't match, he's doomed."

I smiled a little, my heartbeat starting to return to normal. My father was just trying to be protective, but I knew he would never hurt anyone I cared about. I learned that when he spared Maria that night I was attacked by other scientists and locked myself in the bathroom.

I sighed, then looked at my father with tearful eyes. "I told him to kill me," I said, then glanced down at my hands. "I told him I wasn't going to stop him."

"Why would you do that?" Maria asked, her sadness unmistakable in her voice.

"Because," I said, looking at her. "Because I was tired of everything. I was tired of running and hiding, of hurting, of not being able to defend my self." My voice broke. "Of being in everyone's way..."

Finny's grip on my shoulder tightened, Dad grabbed my hand, and Maria walked closer to us, but stayed close to the door.

Dad opened his mouth to speak, but I interrupted. I didn't want to hear him say I wasn't in everyone's way, so I changed the subject.

"I saw Mom, in that world. While I was out..."

"And?" My father asked.

"Nothing about her body, sorry. I was just sent there. Then I tried to die there, too..."

"Selena..." my father said sadly.

"She was able to stop me somehow. With a wave of her hand, I was back into this world, dreaming, remembering the past."

"I'm glad she did." Maria said.

I opened my mouth to reply, but instead I cried out in pain. I looked down at my stomach to see a blood spot on my dress, larger than my head.

Everyone around me sprang into action. My father had Finny gently force me back into a laying position on the bed, then he grabbed Finny's arm and both of them left the room. Maria shoved her ex husband out to join them before rushing over to me, somehow already holding bandages.

Maria removed my dress and underdress, and rewrapped my wound. She then grabbed new dresses, which I assumed she and my father had bought for me, because I had none at the time, and helped me back into them. The dress was white, to reflect heat. Then Maria gave me my stuffed bear, and I lay back down on the bed.

Maria opened the door and told the boys they could come back in, and Finny retook his place sitting on the bed beside me. My father stood beside me, Maria's ex in a chair on the opposite side of the room, and Maria by the door, keeping her ex from making a run for it.

Maria then looked over at her ex and walked up to him in rage. "Do you see what you did to her!? You've tried to kill her three times now!"

"He hesitated," I said quietly.

"Don't you feel shame?! You can't go around killing people, even if they aren't human!!"

"He stopped," I said.

"And furthermore-"

"Maria!"

They all looked at me. I had sat up, and was exhausted, sweaty, weak, and trembling in pain. I put my arms to my wound. It hurt even more to yell.

"Selena, lie dow-"

"No! Hear me out."

My father looked at me with concern. I did my best to ignore it.

"He hesitated." I repeated. "He was going to stab me, kill me then, like I wanted him to. But at the last moment, he hesitated, and delivered a not-fatal blow to my stomach."

Everyone looked over at him. Everyone except for me. I kept my head down, watching the people I cared about out the corners of my eyes.

"Why did you not kill me?" I asked.

He stood, and my father stood in front of me, Finny put his arms around me protectively, and Maria I couldn't see.

"I decided that I would let you suffer a little while longer," he said. "I'll be watching your misery from afar, and that will be enough to keep me happy."

Dad was behind the man in an instant. He grabbed the man's arms and shoved them behind his back.

The man lowered his head, his mouth digging around in his lab coat.

"Da-"

I was cut off by the man producing a small tube in his mouth, which must have been inside a secret pocket.

He threw the little tube at me via his mouth, and time seemed to be moving in slow motion. I saw my father rushing toward me, but the tube got to me first. Before it hit me, it turned into a shiny silver dagger that looked like it could be hollow. The blade of the dagger hit my left shoulder, just above where my heart was beating a million times a minute.

I could feel something running from the dagger to my veins, and it didn't feel good. I felt myself becoming weaker, more tired, and in more pain in my wings and my stomach.

"Try removing that poison now without the proper equipment," said the man, but I didn't see him in the room. He had disappeared faster than my mother had been able to fly.

Finny was holding me up, and probably felt me trembling. Maria was at my side in an instant, carefully removing the dagger from my shoulder.

"Sebastian, please, get me my bag. I might..."

I didn't hear what she said next, because I became lightheaded and dizzy, and passed out in Finny's arms.