In the shadowed halls of the Phantomhive estate, where secrets cling to every polished surface and danger breathes beneath every command, Velanna walks unseen-but never unaware. To the world, she is a poised governess: intelligent, composed, and unfailingly loyal to young Ciel Phantomhive. But beneath that careful exterior lies something far older... and far more dangerous. Velanna is an immortal witch-cursed to endure the passage of time, burdened with memories that refuse to fade, and driven by a quiet, unrelenting hunger for revenge. She does not rush. She does not falter. She waits. As she becomes entangled with the Phantomhive household-and with Sebastian, the demon whose very nature mirrors the darkness she hides-Velanna's carefully controlled existence begins to fracture. Schemes tighten, past and present collide, and the line between ally and enemy grows perilously thin. Because Velanna is not merely surviving this game. She is playing it. And when the time comes, the reckoning she brings will be as merciless as it is inevitable.

[[OLD STORY, LOTS OF TYPOS]] A demon cannot love, they said. They're all evil, they said. But the true villains of all are humans. When a daughter of both species struggled from her horrific past, tossed here and there around London, she came across one thing she thought she could never have. Love. He was like the last piece of the puzzle for her. While she was like a cold case for him, trying to solve it. Hard decisions were made to protect one another. But the love they had for each other could outstand the world. After all, all she needed was a little help. ∆∆∆ Started - 2018 Finished - 2018 Rewritten - 2021 Previously titled Helping Hands ×××××× Black Butler belongs to Yana Toboso as well as her characters. I only own some of the storylines and characters that I created on my own.