Etwined souls

Prologue

Original
By: Kuroshiroi on fanfiction. net

Ciel set down his paperwork on his desk and sighed, it seemed that Lady Elizabeth had arrived unexpectedly, and just when he's started on an important document. He really did like his fiancée, but she tended to get on his nerves quite a bit, though he remembered that she only meant the best for him.

"Let her in." he grumbled, getting out of his chair and preparing himself for the affection only Lizzy could deliver.

"Cieeeel!" The young noble squealed as she swung her fiancé around for must have been the hundredth time.

Once she'd finished hugging, or as Ciel liked to say, smothering him, she turned to Sebastian.

"Oh, hello Sebastian! How are you?" Lizzy asked, her childish grin brightening the once dreary room.

Holding back a smirk at his master who was currently kneeling on the floor trying to overcome a wave of nausea, he replied with a hand on his heart, "I am very well, I thank your asking, my Lady."

The young mistress beamed and clapped her hands together, "Now, seeing as I've made everything super adorable, we'll have a ball t-"

"No, Elizabeth."

Lizzy looked over to Ciel, he had picked himself up off the floor and was brushing off his finely tailored suit.

"Ciel-" She was ready to intervene and convince Ciel to let her throw a ball, but was cut short by an angry tone.

"We are not having a ball tonight, understood?" Ciel spoke sternly, his hands clenched into fists at his side.

"C-Ciel, w-why are you so angry?" Tears started to brim in her bright emerald eyes, "I-I just wanted to make everything perfect and..."

The noble shrieked in frustration before storming out of the room, slamming the door behind her. The loud slam of the door echoed throughout the manor, leaving behind an eerie the Earl was sure that she was gone, he let his posture slip and brought a hand to his forehead.

"She's acting like a child, honestly." he sighed, slipping back into his office chair and laying his head back against the headrest as if the whole ordeal exhausted him.

"It looks like standing your ground wasn't the best idea, Young Master." Sebastian taunted, a smirk playing at his lips.

"And who's idea was it?" The teen asked rhetorically, to which the demon simply smirked wider, "You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?"

"I wouldn't say that, Master, I was simply giving you advice," he said in mock hurt, "In fact, I'm surprised you took it, I'm honoured." He finished, laying a hand on his chest where his heart would be if he were human.

"Shut it."

"Yes, my Lord."

It turns out that Elizabeth had charged out of the mansion and stated very clearly that she wanted to be left alone. The three servants had tried to comfort her after hearing her cries and had come back in looking shell-shocked.

"She 'as one 'ell of a temper on 'er, it's kinda scary." The cook said to no-one in particular as the other two nodded their heads vigorously in agreement.

"You must understand that Lady Elizabeth has been brought up this way, she doesn't know any better." The head butler of the household stated, suppressing a smirk. Humans are so very interesting, especially the one who seem to have no control over their emotions.

Just as Ciel was about to ignore the conversation going on between the servants and open the door to the front gardens, Finny grabbed his shoulder, a little too hard. Pain shot down his arm as he let out a small cry of distress. The Earl snapped his head round to glare at the gardener on instinct, who snatched his hand away quickly with a yelp.