Teacups and Teapots (Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler) (Ciel x Sebastian)

Eleventh Cup

Teacups and Teapots:

Chapter 11:

Ciel tapped his pen irritably on his desk as he tried to think of what to write. He had all of the relevant information in front of him and he been putting off this task for a whole week. Now what he was in an atmosphere easy to work in, it should have been easier, but instead he found it too quiet.

He let out a short laugh. When he had first met everyone and started teaching and supervising them, he would have killed to have this peace and quiet. Currently he was missing the chaos and he had started to blame any procrastination and avoiding work on his employees. He had nothing to blame at the moment for his inability to work. The situation was quite ironic, amusingly enough.

In search of a distraction, he slid open the drawer in his desk that a contained a vast collection of sweets. Naturally they were all his own products. Ciel unwrapped a lollipop and placed it inside his mouth. He was going to have to put Black Butler out his mind and focus on his confectionary and toy line. Black Butler could survive without him unless there was a call to say that a customer had passed out due to blood loss from having too many nosebleeds. He had noticed that a few customers developed nosebleeds whenever Sebastian served them for some reason. He felt like he would never understand females.

He moved to lollipop to rest in his cheek and got to work only to stop twenty minutes later. He was looking to develop their chocolate line as he felt that Funtom's range of lollipops was vast enough and there was nothing to be improved on. Additionally, the sugar free lollipops had turned out to be a bad idea.

He had a list of all the market leaders in chocolate sold in the UK, but he felt that more research was required. To be more precise he was keen to sample some rival's chocolate. After all, he hadn't tried any Cadbury chocolate since their American takeover a few years ago and Cadbury was his biggest rivals in terms of sales.

That was a good excuse for some taste testing. All he had to do was get hold of some chocolate. He could send his secretary, Mey-Rin to obtain some. However she had never been one for following instructions properly and would be likely to return with a different brand of chocolate. He would have to go out himself to do it. There was a small sweet shop nearby and all it entailed was walking down the street and turning right. He could do it without holding Sebastian's hand.

As it turned out he did not have to bother about being unaccompanied because he encountered a tall dark figure outside the office that looked exactly like his favourite/least favourite employee.

"Sebastian?" he called out hesitantly. "What are you doing here?"

The person turned to look at him and he saw that it was indeed Sebastian dressed in more casual clothes than usual.

"Oh, this is where the Funtom office is. I wasn't aware of that," the butler said with a mysterious smile.

"Shouldn't you be at work?"

"I have the morning off. I was just out for a walk when you saw me," Sebastian explained, somewhat failing to convince Ciel.

"Are you sure that you aren't stalking me? You always seem to turn up wherever I am," Ciel pointed out.

"Ciel, we worked in the same place for a few weeks so of course I was always around. I am not stalking you."

The teenager knew that Sebastian was obviously not going to explain himself for the moment so he switched to another subject.

"I'm going to get some chocolate, would you like to come?" he offered.

Sebastian answered immediately. "Of course."