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Chapter 9: Thorough Inspections Pt. 1

Author's POV:

As the demon known as Sebastian slowly creeps his way towards the girl he is interrupted by Joker pacing towards in tiredly. "Excuse me! You fellow, ah you're a bit of a fast one aren't ya. What you did back there during the performance was quite a show... treatin' ol' Betty like she was a mere kitten." He laughed. "You sure you aren't hurt anywhere? We can give you a checkup we have a doctor here to look at you." 

Sebastian look back towards the girl only to see that she's gone. He turns and finds his Master watching from another part of the circus. Ciel nods his head and looks back to Joker who looks genuinely worried. He smiled at him "I think that would be a marvelous idea." 

"Perfect! Won't you follow me, Sir?"

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"Good, there he is. Oi doc." Joker led Sebastian in to see the Doctor. "Yes?" A rather middle-aged man replied to Joker. "Joker! What can I do for you tonight? Is your hand acting up again?"Haha, no. I brought a different patient. See? " He replied

"What?! Wait. Him?! He's that bloke from tonight's tiger act! He was the one that got bit by Betty!" Dagger shot up from behind the Docter, pointing his finger at Sebastian. "Hold on! What?! Goodness, how terrible! We need to get you to the infirmary!"

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"Are you quite certain you've been bitten by a tiger? I don't see any gashes or broken skin?" The Doctor asked inspecting the back of the butler's head. He arose and his aura beamed at the silly question he asked. "It was just an affectionate nip."

"Affectionate, ey?" Joker said puzzled. "Just a nip, ey?" Dagger followed. "Well, I'm just glad you're alright. That could have been a serious injury indeed." The middle-aged man told Sebastian. "Too true. Too true. Imagine letting a customer get injured. If I did that a troop leader would kill me." Joker held his hand against his heart trying to slow it down from the anxiety welling up inside him.

Jokers POV:

I tried slowing my heartbeat down from the overwhelming anxiety. Just even imagining letting a customer get hurt would ruin the circus business for good probably. That Betty sure gave me quite the fright during the performance. I'm sure it wasn't her fault though... I think anyone would be afraid if a stranger came up to them unexpectedly. She didn't hurt him which is fine... That las' is full of surprises but she's been very trustworthy so far. Maybe she'd like to come with us when we leave out of England and find somewhere else to take the circus.

I wonder where she is though... I'll have to give her a talk later.

"I had the impression you were the troop leader?" The tailor-coated man looked me in the eye. This fellow made me feel pretty intimidated. I don't know if it was his crimson colored eyes. But, every time he looked at me I couldn't help but shiver, I felt as if my soul was left wide open. "No, not me. Afraid I'm only the hired up. Real leaders downright scary, not someone you want to cross." I explained to the stranger. Dagger walked up to me so I rested my arm on his shoulder for some support. "Brave of you to say so. That kinda talk will get you in trouble." Dagger tested. I only laughed at his response for his mockery.

It was actually kinda hard acting normal... especially after what pa did to all those youngsters...

That's when the whole conversation was interrupted by Beast. I mentally thanked her for bargin' in on this very awkward conversation. She sounded a little down in the blue though. "Hey, Doc. Do you got a minute to look at my leg?" She looked over to the Doctor.  "Hello, Beast!" Dagger cooed to the tall beauty making her way in the infirmary. Ah, Dagger... the poor las' always had an eye on Beast ever since we grew up together. He hasn't got a chance. I smirked to myself thinking about the day we all agreed to make a circus. "Why are you here?!" She yelled.

"Just the same as you I came to have Doc take a look at my leg too." He crouched down in front of the lady. "It's just further proof that were destined-"

"You're that Dandy from earlier! What do you think you're doing?! After the way, you ruined my act you outta be -" "That's enough! Speaking that way to a guest is just plain unacceptable. This wasn't his fault it was yours for not being able to control Betty properly." The Doctor interrupted. "But, he just walked up and started touchin' her!" 

"No excuses, you are a professional." I decided to bump into the conversation... It started to get a bit out of hand. "Let's take it easy there Doc. What's our guest going to think of us yelling at each other and screaming like this." Beast seemed really angry. I can kind of understand why the blasphemy that man pulled today would make any professional look like a runt. 

"By the way Beast. Why do you look so down all of a sudden? Did something happen?" She looked down away from me. "I don't wanna talk about it." "Oh, come on it can't be that bad now right?"

"Betty has run off! I thought she would be back but she just left like no tomorrow!" Beast started to ball her eyes out at this point. My heart sunk... I hope this stranger doesn't think that we don't care for our pets! It's going to ruin us... a tiger on the loose?! All was going down too fast... and to think I was going to give Betty a talk and welcome her into the family. I guess beggars can't be choosers after all. "What do you mean Betty has gotten out of her cage were you positive that you locked it?!" 

"Yes, of course, I locked it! But, when I got back the lock was broken into pieces."

I felt uneasy the more and more lies that came out from Beast and Doc's mouth... There was no Tiger and she's never locked in a cage if she is... The las' seems to like being in her tiger form quite a lot and I'm starting to think that she really was hidin' out from someone that day. Everything starts to get more and fishier every day. It's a little-complicated keeping up at this point. "Betty, on the loose?" The stranger stood up. "Well, I certainly hope you'll be able to find her. Who knows what dangers lurk out in the cold nights of England." He walked behind Beast. He was a little too close to her which made me uncomfortable. I wanted him to leave at this point... Doc told him he was just fine so I don't understand why he hasn't gone home by now.He sat back down in another part of the hut. The Doc sighed not wanting to hear anything else more stressful. The day was almost over and we didn't want to end it off on a bad foot. "Alright, show me your prosthesis." He stated. "A prosthesis?" The man watched Doc move beast onto the high bed. "You'll find a bit of us performers an unusual bunch.  It's sort of a gathering of people with a certain type of problem you might say." I responded "Just look at me... missing an arm when the Doc her gave me a right fine replacement for it. Pretty nice don't ya think?" I showed off my replacement hand for the stranger to view. "That one needs constant adjustment though. I should never have let you choose the design. Coming in every day asking me to look at it." Doc complained.

"You craft prothesis for performers." The stranger asked, "That is your main task?" He finished. "Essentially, and quite a task it is, I do everything from carving the parts to the final fitting."