1 Day Later

Celeste's POV

It's was nightfall already and it was raining. I sat on the chair far from the table Ciel and madam were playing chess. I was reading a book not really I was reading a letter William sent me. I had a huge smile plastered on my face.

"Is this really the time for a game of chess?" Ciel asked.

"Obsessing about it won't help you solve the case. Why not just leave it all to Sebastian dear?" Madam asked Ciel.

"Cause he's simply my chess piece. I'm the one who moves him by giving orders but he's no ordinary piece. He can move as many squares as he needs to. Like that." Ciel said as he knocked a chess piece from Madams side.

"That was against the rules you know." Madam said.

"Indeed it would be if it was a real game. Rules just as that have no true meaning in the real world. There are always knights who break the rules and pawns who betray. If you left your guard down its checkmate." Ciel said as he checked Madam.

"You must have had other option in life besides policing England's Underworld. I'm sure my sister, your mother wanted something else for you. And yet after their deaths you return to be the queens guard dog. Is it because your trying to avenge your parents murders?" Madam asked Ciel.

I stood up and excused myself after I saw what time it was. I had work today and I knew that I had a name that isn't on my list. Probably will be given to me after I have finished collecting the souls.

After some time I heard someone knock on my door. Good thing I had changed to my nightgown. I put my light green robe on and walked over to my bed, "Enter." I said. The door opened and Ciel walked in followed by Sebastian, "Something wrong Ciel?" I asked. He was dress differently as a child from lower class.

"Celeste I have something to do. I will see you in the morning." Ciel said and walked away.

"Do you require something young mistress?" Sebastian asked.

"No Sebastian I don't. By the way if your going into town you might see me running over the roofs." I said and changed into my white and blue combat dress. I started to walk into the shadows when I was grabbed from behind and held to a chest.

"Young mistress you are indeed a beauty." Sebastian said as he smelled my neck.

"Sebastian?" I questioned and got out his grip. His eyes were glowing a fusia pink. Then they went back to normal.

"Sebastian!" I heard Ciel yell. He looked at me then left.

"Damn demon." I whispered and left the town house. I checked my list and saw the names changed. No flipping way the name that was assigned to me was of Madam Red and a Mary something. There is no way my aunt was scheduled to die today. I wouldn't be the one reaping her soul. I only take the ones that are killed unexpectantly.

Dammit it's the same reaper from before. No matter what we do, we just can't catch this fool. It takes me into overtime always. I wonder who took my original list.

I heard a scream pierce the night. I ran in that direction and when I got there Ciel was opening the door where I was suppose to be collecting the cinematic record. There was some blood on him and then Sebastian covered his eyes. Sebastian jumped away from the door and held onto Ciel's eye. Ciel was shaking trying to calm down but he was trembling badly.

I decided to listen on what they were saying, "You've made quite a bloody mess of things in there, Jack the Ripper." Sebastian said. I looked at the door and saw a figure coming out the house slowly, "Or rather Grell Sutcliff." No way Grell?!

"No, no your wrong. I- I heard a scream and rushed to help but-" Grell started and was interrupted.

"You can drop the innocent act Grell. It's over. You know this is actually the first time I've met someone like you in the human world. You play the role of a helpless butler well. Your act had almost everyone fooled." Sebastian said.

"You think so." Grell started to chuckle, "How kind. That's great to hear after all I am an actress. And quite a good one at that. Of course your not really Sebastian either are you?" Grell questioned after he changed his appearance.

"Sebastian is the name my master gave me. So that is who I am for now." Sebastian said. I was about to move in to get the cinematic record when I felt another presence in the house. So I stopped my self.

"Ah your playing the role of the faithful dog. Well your handsome enough to get away with it. Anyway here we are Sebastian. Now I'll call you Bassy. Let me introduce myself..." I blocked him out when I let the cinematic record come to me while standing on top the building, "For now let's say it was out of love for a women." Grell said.

"That women would be?" Sebastian asked.

"Come on you don't really need to ask now do you?" I questioned as I finished the report and looked down. I felt three sets of eyes on me.

"Celeste!" I heard Ciel and Grell yell. I looked at them after I finished sending the report. Madam was standing behind Grell.

"I didn't think anyone would be able to tell who Grell truly is." Madam said. I jumped down and landed by Ciel. My death Scythe in form of a bracelet again.

"Naturally you were on the list since the very beginning. But all of you alibis seemed flawless." Ciel said. He looked at me but I just kept a straight face on all this. I was staring at Grell trying to see if he was weapon less.

"You mean you actually suspected your own aunt." Madam said.

"I was looking for a murder. Degree of relation did not matter. None of the humans on the suspect list could've been responsible for all the murders. But if one of them had a inhuman accomplice that would change the game completely. It had to be someone who could enter and leave the room without being noticed. Someone who could travel from the Viscount's home to the east end instantaneously. In the end you two were the only ones who could be Jack the Ripper. You Madam Red and Grell Sutcliff. I began to look into what else the victims had in common besides prostitution. And then I noticed that they had undergone a certain surgery in the hospital wing you work. We made a list of all the patients. The only one who was still alive was under the name of Mary Kulin. We knew if we waited around here you would come for her eventually. But we were too late." Ciel said and looked at me again. I smiled lightly at him and then turned to Madam Red.

"My darling nephew and niece. How unfortunate this turned out to be. If you had both let it go then we could've played chess again. And now. YOU'VE TAKEN EVERYTHING!" Madam yelled and I heard Grell's modified scythe start up. He swung it at us and I let my weapon form. Before I could block it Sebastian did. They were aiming at Ciel not me.

"What is that?" Ciel questioned.

"Grim reapers use tools to harvest the souls. That's his reaper scythe. Illegal may I add. Grell I hope you know that sending me into over time is not something you should do." I said.

"How many times have I told you to not call it that Celeste! You know this is so much more than a scythe. I worked so hard to customize it. This is special death scythe of my own design. That can hack anyone into tiny pieces. I've been far to well behaved. I'm getting as ashamed I would like to exercise my skills. So shall we play?" Grell asked as he shot poses at Sebastian.

"Perhaps you can be a bit respectful of my position. I'm on duty after all." Sebastian said. Ciel and me sweat dropped. Grell was waving his scythe around.

"What a stoic man you are. That makes you even more irresistible." Grell started, "You know red is my favorite color. It's perfect for hair, clothes, for lipstick. So I painted all those women with pretty, pretty red blood. So Bassy now I'll make you even better looking than you are. I'll tear you up in the inside trust me I'll make you as lovely as a roses petals." Grell said.

Sebastian turned to us and started to unbutton his rain coat, "Your a grim reaper your job is to quietly harvest the souls of the ones dying. Like the young mistress does. And as a butler your job is to follow your master like a shadow." Sebastian said as he draped the coat over Ciel, "You have violated both of these expectations and quite frankly I find it sickening." Sebastian finished.

"Bassy you wound me. You know I am more deady efficient than I seem." Grell said and posed again.

"Lies your not. All you can do is dress me up." I said.

Ciel reached up to his medical eye patch, "In my name and that of the queen I order you Sebastian. Put an end to them." Ciel ordered.

"Indeed my young lord." Sebastian said as he bit the end of his glove with his teeth.

Grell and Sebastian started to fight against each other. Grell seemed to be to fast for Sebastian. Grell pinned him to the wall. We stayed in front of Madam Red, "Your still the Queen's Guard Dog. Which means that now I am your prey. But if its hunt or be hunted." Madam pulled out a knife and started to run at us, "There's only thing I can do!" She said As she tried to stab Ciel. I pushed him behind me and took the stab. It barley touched me but it was still enough to let some blood flow free.

"Celeste!" Ciel yelled. I fell back into Ciel holding onto the side of my stomach. I stood back up straight.

"Your a doctor. How could you do it?" I questioned her.

"You wouldn't understand if I told you. You're both just children!" She said and grabbed my neck and then Ciel's. Slamming both of us back into the wall, "You.. You rats. You both shouldn't have been born in the first place!" She yelled and tightened her grip on me. I saw her eyes widen.

"Master!" I heard Sebastian yell for Ciel. She let us go and I fell down to the ground gasping for air.

"Stop Sebastian don't kill her!" Ciel said. Madam took some steps up and I looked up at Sebastian to see him holding his arm.

"Sebastian. Your arm." I said.

"Oh how sweet you are Bassy. Really what a prince. Sacrificing your own poor limb to save that kid. Celeste I would've expected you to break out her hold. On the other hand you're a disappointment Madam. Come now. Hurry up and kill the brat already." Grell said.

Madam looked up from her hands, "I loved my sister. I loved her husband. I loved their children. I can't... I can't kill them. I can't kill their beloved daughter and son." Madam said as she looked down at me.

"Really your getting soft hearted on me all of a sudden. After all those deaths. If you don't end him he'll end you!" Grell said.

"Madam." Ciel said.

"That is their boy. This child is my-" Madam started but stopped when Grell put his scythe on her chest. He turned it on and cut her chest open.

"No! Grell why?!" I asked and yelled at him.

"Too late for that. How disappointing. What use do I have for you if your just another woman?" Grell said and he threw her to the side. I got up and tackled Grell. I pinned him down and looked through her cinematic record. Why am I surprised? She was on the list.

"Is that her?" Sebastian questioned.

Grell knocked me off him, "A part of the reapers job is to replay and examine the memories of those who were on the to die list. From that we determine what kind of person they were. We see from their own perspective what kind of life they lived. And we decide weather they should live or die." Grell explained.

"Their lives flash before their eyes." Sebastian said.

"Oh please. That's a pedestrian term. It is so much more than that. This is the reapers true power. The cinematic record." Grell said.

I looked at the record and listened to everything that was being said. My young mother and aunt were with our grandfather, "Rachel, Angelina come say hello to our guest, Lord Phantomhive." I saw our father there sitting on the couch.

I had hated the red hair I had inherited from my father.

"Your hair is very beautiful An. The color of spider lilies. Red suits you very well." Father said. They were outside standing in a field.

But I came to love it after all. I came to love the color red. I came to love him.

"An I have wonderful news." Mother said and was smiling at father. Sitting in the couch from earlier.

My sister, once again I hated the color red.

In the background Madam was sitting and our mother and father were getting married.

But I could never bring myself to hate them. Eventually I too met a man and got married.

Madam was shown with a man. He must've been our uncle. She was happy and wasn't faking it, "What do you think a boy or a girl?" Uncle asked.

"Men are so impatient. How would I know that yet?" Madam asked her husband.

It didn't happen at all the way I wanted it too. But still I thought I found happiness.

It went black and you could see a carriage wheel and hear horses, "That carriage hit someone. Call a doctor quickly!" Someone yelled.

But it all slipped away.

"Your husband died instantly. In order to save your life we were forced to remove you uterus with your unborn child with it. I am sorry but we had no choice." The doctor said. Madam looked dead the life left her eyes.

Everything. Everything slipped away from me. I lost the man I had learn to love. And the child I had loved so dearly before it was even born.

The carriage she was in came to a stop. She looked outside and gasped.

Stained spread. It covered everything. That color I so hated. The color red.

It showed when they buried our parents. The flowers on the coffin.

My sister was buried with the man she loved. If only, if only my heart had been buried with them.

Then when she was at work, "Honestly a child would only be in the way. I don't know who the father is and my customers wouldn't like a child hanging around." Some lady said.

I had lost everything that woman had what I wanted most. What I would never get a chance to have again. But she threw it away without a second thought. I wanted to stain her too.

She walked to the lady and then ran to her. Killing her in the rage she was in.

I decided to stain everything red. With my own hands.

"My my that was quite a show." Grell said. She looked up at him.

That's when I met my blood red grim reaper. A few months later my missing nephew reappeared. But not my beloved niece.

"Oh Ciel." Madam ran into the room Ciel was in.

With him he brought a butler dressed in black.

Madam smiled, "Your really safe." She said and walked to him. Hugging him to her.

I got at least one thing back.

"Thank goodness. At least we still have you. Let me take a look at your darling face." She said. She looked at Ciel and Ciel too looked like he lost the will to live.

The child of the man I loved and my sister. If this one child could come back. Why not his sister or my beloved. Why wasn't I the one he choose to marry. I finally decided that I would write all the wrongs I had been dealt. Then my darling beloved niece reappeared after two years.

She hurried to the manor after she got news of my reappearance. When she got there she personally escorted herself inside. She had Sebastian tell her where I was at and he walked her to my room and left. She stood there for a moment listening. She threw my room door open and rushed to my side, "Celeste my sweet girl how have you been?" In me she saw her sister much more than with Ciel.

My beloved niece was back. Still radiant and happy slowly bringing her brother back to life even if she can't see it.

Then it went to here last moments, "YOU'VE TAKEN EVERYTHING!" And then it stopped. Grell cut off the cinematic record.

"How beautiful you were dyed crimson in your victims blood. I loved you so." Grell said, "What a disappointment you turned out to be in the end. You don't have what it takes to wear red. Your cheap little melodrama ends now. Its over Madam Red. Good bye." Grell took Madam's red coat. He bent down and grabbed his weapon. He then moved over to me and picked me up from the ground. I was to shocked to even move away from him or wiggle out his grasp. I buried my head in his neck letting some tears flow free.

"What are you waiting for?" Ciel asked Sebastian, "I thought I ordered you to stop Jack the Ripper. It's not over yet." Grell stopped walking, "One is still left. Get my sister back and kill him." Ciel said.

"Certainly." Sebastian said.

"I was going to spare you professional courtesy and all that. But if you insist." Grell started his scythe and set me down. He swung at Sebastian, "I'll send you in the void to heaven together." Grell said.

"Heaven? Your joking." Sebastian jumped over Grell and landed on the scythe. He kicked at Grell's face but Grell dodged it for now.

"You would kick a lady in the face! Where are your manners sir?" Grell asked Sebastian.

"Terribly sorry. You see I'm simply one hell of a butler." Sebastian said.

"You think a demon like you could beat a reaper." Grell said.

"Certainly. You see if my master tells me to win. I shall win." Sebastian said.

"You care a lot about that puny little brat don't you?" Grell asked him, "I'm jealous. Demon or not you'll still be destroyed if I reap you with my death scythe. Aren't you frightened?" Grell questioned. I got up and backed away a little, "Celeste you best stay there or else." Grell said. I held still the tone he used was menacing.

"Not at all I belong to my master. My soul and body down to the last hair I use. The contract remains so I follow his every order. That's what it means to be a butler." Sebastian said.

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Here ya go! Oh Grell I think William will beat you to a bloody pulp. Anyways

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