『My Darling Spider』

( XI ) Strange Occurance

《 Previously On My Darling Spider 》

"Can I come with?" He shook his head and apologizes to me, "No, sorry. I'm going to have a private conversation with your young lord. Please do not exit out of the room. I don't want a certain someone to grab you..." Claude says, whispering the last part to himself. However I happen to catch only a glimpse of what he said. He exits out of the room quickly and I tilt my head in confusion.

'I wonder who he was implying..?'

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(Y/N's P.O.V.)

It was rather boring and tedious waiting for Claude. There was not much I can do, so I decided to sleep and let the time pass, hoping that once I wake up, Claude would be there. Unfortunately, only a mere hour had passed, that's when I heard a rather loud thud at the window to my right. To my curiosity, I stood up from the warm, cozy (F/C) bed, deciding to investigate what had made the thud.

I looked out of the window to see a beautiful black crow. Their left wing had appeared to be injured which made me hypothesize that the injury must've taken it to the wrong direction, landing straight towards my window. With no hesitation, I open the large window that separated me from the poor creature. I scoop them up with both of my hands and head to the bathroom, where I can tend its wound. I attempt to try and look into the wound further but every time I do so, it would flutter its feathers around as if I have hurt them. "Please stay still, I can't treat your wound if you move around," I say to the crow. It doesn't seem to be listening– or rather it does not understand what I was saying; it keeps struggling around my palms in a panic state. Perhaps the little fellow has trouble trusting me? Should I feed it to get it warm up to me? It's better than nothing that's for sure. I motion the crow to stay put and open the exit of the bathroom. As I open the door, I felt a slight breeze, making me shiver. "Why is it so cold..?" I whisper to myself. I inspected around the room and noticed the window, which I had found the crow, was opened. I must've forgotten to close it in worry for the poor creature. I close the windows and turn back to the exit of the room.

I take a peek out the door, where the hallways were. I'm hoping I'll spot either the triplets or Hannah since I am unable to exit out of the room. To my relief, one of them was here. Which happened to be one of the triplets. I assume it was Canterbury, as his hair was swept to the left of his face. "Err, excuse me, Canterbury?" The triplet stopped his action and turned to face at me. He gave me a nod and waited for my reply. "I was wondering, may you bring me some seeds please?" He simply nods once again and starts heading in the direction of where the kitchen was. I stop peeking out the door and close it. I decided to wait patiently inside the room while he goes and grabs a few seeds. To occupy myself, I kept an eye on the little crow. It was slowly walking to adjust itself and was looking around the room, possibly to find out where they were at. I never noticed until now... but this crow was different from the others. It's not how they're acting– but the fact that its features were a bit different. It can't be just me can it? Their eyes– they're red. Like a deep crimson color.

*Knock Knock*

'Ah! That must be Canterbury!'

"Coming!" I say loudly for him to hear. I open the door expecting to see him but instead, I was met with Claude. He was holding the seeds I had requested and was about to speak until he briefly paused. His eyes were lingering towards something else. I later notice he was staring at the crow. "Umm... What are you doing here, Claude? Where's Canterbury?" I question Claude, glancing behind him to see if Canterbury was nearby. It took awhile for him to respond. Perhaps distracted from the bird. After he had noticed I gone quiet, he took a moment to process what I had said earlier. "He suggested that I should spend more time with you and offered to let me bring these seeds for you," Claude replies back. My cheeks rise up to form a blush. To think Canterbury would disturb Claude from his job just to bring my a pack of seeds. I thought that I must've been bothersome and laid my head down to avoid contact. "You didn't have to..." I whispered, almost inaudible to hear. Since Claude was a demon, he of course, heard what I said and let out a small sigh. He places the seeds down on the nearest table and comes closer to me. Gently, Claude lifts up my chin and stares at my face for a few minutes. My heart quickly beats to the point where I close my eyes for how close Claude was. "He didn't force me to do it... I wanted to do it myself, I agreed to it," he says closely to my ear. "B-But what a-about Ciel?" I stutter, placing my hands on his chest to try and prevent him from getting any closer. "I've let Hannah finished up the rest," he hugs me and nibbles on my ear, making me gasp. My heart was quickening so much that I couldn't control myself. 'This is so unfair...' To let a man like Claude make my heart race this quick, it's humiliating. But... I can't help it. Everything he does makes my heart quicken, it makes me admire him more. I wonder if he realizes how he affects me, how much he knows that I need him. "C-Claude... You can't..! W-We... need to take c-care of the bird," I managed to gasp out these words and luckily enough, he stopped what he was doing. 'What a relief...' If he had done more, I don't know how much I can take it.

Though Claude had stopped on what he did before, his face was not exactly very happy. He seemed a bit sad or disappointed. It's hard to tell when he keeps his emotions distant from himself. "Speaking of the bird," Claude says, "I never knew you had one." I grab the seeds from the table and open it, readying to feed the bird. "I never did," I say, as I pour the seeds into my palms, "the poor thing was hurt by the window ledge." Once the seeds were on my palms, the little crow leans towards to eat the seeds. Claude stares at the crow for a good few seconds, "I see..." I gently dropped down the crow to the bed, along with the seeds so he can still eat. "I wanted it to trust me more so I can tend the wounds easier, that was my original plan," I say as I went back to Claude. "I can tend him for you," he suggests. I shake my head, telling him that I can do it myself. "Then," Claude says, "since I'm free, would you like to go on a date somewhere..?" My eyes widened and I nodded excitingly, "S-Sure! Just let me finish up this..!"

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"Done!"

It took a while to prepare myself, my clothes were changed into something more appropriate for the date and I just about finished tending the crow's injury. I smile at Claude, it seems like he also changed his attire for the date. It's rare to ever get to see his without the butler attire. "Lets go then?" Claude lets out a nod and holds my hand, opening the door for me so we can head out, "Of course."

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Hoi people! Just wanted to thank Sebastian20007 for helping me do this part of the story uwu

They read a preview of my chapter and rewrote some parts to help make words sound more appealing, so that's why the beginning sounds really fancy >3>