Her Butler: The Return

"Mistress, please it's time to wake up now," a voice said. It sounded distant, like someone was calling me from a different world, "Come on death doesn't have you yet."
I opened my eyes slowly, the world slowly coming back into few. There was a still a sharp pain in my side and chest. I sat up breathing hard, my body was stained with blood but there was no wound or dagger.  "Sebastian?" I called. I felt a hand help me sit up, "My clothes please."
"Yes Mistress," he answered, "Are these yours Mistress?"
I looked at my clothing I had worn for so many years, "Yes."
"Does my Mistress not own any proper clothing?"
"Sebastian?"
"Yes Mistress?"
"Shut up and help me dress before I catch a cold." I ordered.
"Yes Mistress," He replied.
He slipped my shirt over my head and frowned, "Something wrong Sebastian?" I asked.
"No Mistress, but might I suggest a bath when we return home?" he asked.
I chuckled and nodded, "Very well, But don't think you're getting the chance to put me in a dress, that is the one thing I won't allow."
"Very well, at least you will be clean."  He still had a frown upon his face, but he finished dressing me without another word.
I slid off the table, my vision slightly spinning, I gripped Sebastian's coat for support as I fought to remain standing, "Thank you Undertaker, I owe you, and I will repay you one day, Grell, my offer still stands, you can think about it until that day comes," I said.
"Anytime young lady, maybe next time you won't be so lucky and I can finally fit you for one of me coffins," the Undertaker laughed.
"Now Sebastian, we are staying at the manor here in London until the estate is rebuilt," I told him.
Sebastian nodded and gave a slight bow to the other too, then helped me outside. "I don't see a carriage for my Mistress, would you like me to call one for you?"
"No, there is my horse, she is all we need for now," I answered and began to walk toward Thunder. A few steps later I fell to the ground.
"Mistress," Sebastian exclaim. I was suddenly off the ground and cradled in his arms.
"I fine really I am; the Undertaker must have gotten a little over zealous when it came to killing me." I said with a faint smile.
"Why did you go to them for help, if I might ask," Sebastian asked.
"I knew no one else would kill me in order to bring a demon here, it's really simple to think about it," I answered.
Sebastian set me on the horse's back the leapt on behind, my head had started to throb and my eyes grew tired, "Rest yourself you Mistress, I will have you home shortly," Sebastian said.
I leaned back against his chest and watched the city pass by, "Sebastian? How can you be warm yet you heart doesn't" beat," I asked.
"Hmm, well I never really thought about that, I guess it would be part of my disguise, a normal human isn't as cold as death, so if I want to blend in then, I need to appear human on the outside," he answered.
I glanced up at him, a hint of a smile played on my face, "I'm the queen's new guard dog you know, it's going to be harder to find Ciel while I have work to do."
"Mistress might I ask you something?"
"Go ahead."
"How is it you know of me, Grell, the Undertaker, yet I have never heard you be mention?"
"I am known as the Queen's Shadow. I lived in the dark and shadows, it is my job to take care of any problem that the queen didn't want to give to Ciel, or if she wants a problem to remain a secret then it is my job to do so. I live my life in the shadows never to be seen except by those who are anger the queen and those who must be exterminated. You are the only one who has ever caught a glimpse of me."
"Really when was that?"
"When you first started to work for Ciel, I caught a vase that was almost broken, when Mey-Rin ran into the pillar, you noticed me as I slipped back into the shadows, no one has ever seen me before, I thought for sure I was caught, but you never came looking."
"I thought I had seen something, a rat maybe. Besides I had more important things to do then to go looking for a shadow."
"That's what everyone says, and that's why I am the best for the job, I don't exist, not even my parents, wanted to recognize the fact that I was alive, I shouldn't be, conceived and born outside of marriage. I am the child that shouldn't exist, so of course the queen took advantage of that."
"Are you saying that you don't enjoy the life you live?"
"Yes and no, yes I enjoy the job I do, I never had a problem with that, but I would have liked to have known my little brother. One night when he was seven, he heard me leaving; he came running down the stairs, holding his favorite stuffed bunny. He had been waiting up late at night trying to find the secret person who could beat his father at chess, I honestly didn't understand why. Anyway I hid myself, and watched as he looked for me, do you know who badly I wanted to go over to him?"
    Sebastian remained quiet, "It's like a curse you know, the one thing you want in the world will never be yours no matter how hard you try to get it."
We remained silent for the rest of the trip, "I wouldn't have expected that the manor here would have remained standing, not after the fire," Sebastian said as we stopped in front of the large manor.
"Pluto wouldn't have dared burn this place, it had your scent and even though the angel had control of him he was still loyal to you," I replied smiling.
"Hmm, so that mongrel was of some use then." Sebastian's face wore a slight frown again.
I laughed and slipped off the horse, "He's more useful then you give him credit," I let out a loud whistle and a few seconds later Pluto came running around the corner.
He ran past me and leapt onto Sebastian, "How is this thing still alive!"
"You should know that pure bullets can't kill a demon hound, I found him after the fires went out and brought him here and helped him heal," I replied, "You're in charge of him for now."
"Is that an order Mistress," his spat out.
"Yes it is," I replied smiling, "I know how you hate dogs, but I need Pluto, so you're just going to have to deal with it. Now I'm going inside to rest don't disturbed me until I call."
I went inside and headed up to the room I was staying in and shut the door, sighing, I went over to the mirror and looked at my right eye. The purple pentacle stared back at me, I stared at it for a while thinking, eventually I laid down on the bed and drifted off to sleep.