Black Butler| Dual Destiny

Chapter 5

((This is gonna be a kinda short chapter because its mostly explaining what Sebby was doing at night and such))

Sebastian walked ridged threw the halls holding the coke basket in one hand and a candelabra in the other. The only sound was the click of his shoes on the manor's floors. "Now then" he mumbled walking into Mr.Siemen's bedroom which sat untouched and silent. "To 'Make sure there is enough coke to keep the fires going through the night'... was it?" Sebastian asked himself staring at the fire place. The dead wood and coal made a crunching sound as Sebastian raked threw it "I should have known. . ." he mumbled *SPLAT*

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"Baldo!" Bard swung his gun hand out in front of him startled by the sudden call of his name. It was Sebastian that grabbed his back hand swing before it hit him.

"What the heck! It's just you! Don't sneak up on me all silent, like! I near took you for a ghost or something'!" Bard said holding his gun hand in his other "What d'ya want?"

"Its about the menu for tomorrow" Sebastian said plainly and Bard rolled over.

"We can talk about that stuff in the mornin', can't we!? Im beat, y'know"

Sebastian's eyes narrowed he yanked some of the blanket off Bard and he sat up "I want you to listen now"

"Tch! Yeeeeah, all right" Bard gave in and Sebastian smiled

"First, tomorrow's breakfast. As I think the guests will be eating around noon, please prepare something somewhat filling. I have prepared Herring Pie and Spinach Quiche and put them in larder, so please serve those to the guests. Please be vigilant and avoid cooking and serving something like kidney pie. Here is a stockpot full of curry that I have made on the stove, so serve that for dinner. For hors d'oeuvres there are chopped there are chopped-" Bard cut him off with a yawn

"Hey, Hey! Even if you sprout all that off at me in one go, I ain't some secretary! I'll never remember it all!"

"Quite." Sebastian said plainly at Bard's yelling "Thus I have seen to the menu for the next three days, taken care of preliminary arrangements. . ." He pulled some papers out of his tailcoat "And write a memo detailing where the foodstuffs may be found and the procedure for warming them up"

"Hunh? I don't need this. You just gotta tell me straight what you want done"

"Wha's goin' ooon?" Finny asked rising groggy

"I am sorry to have woken you, Finny." Sebastian said turing to his bed.

"Mister Sebastian? What're you doing' up at this hour...?"

"Finny, due to the storm, you will be unable to wrk on the garden for some time. Starting tomorrow, I would like you to see to replacing the coke for the fires, and before tending to that do check up on Miss Rothwell's cat and make sure it has not wandered into Young Master's things" Sebastian sighed "Do it first thing in the morning. Understood?"

"Yessssh!!" Finny said before falling back down.

"Now to bed with you. Tomorrow will be another early start" Sebastian said pulling the cover back over Finny "Well then, I entrust tomorrow to you..." Sebastian turned back from walking out "Chef"

"Yep" Bard mumbled groggily laying back down and Sebastian shut the door "Did he say Chef?!"

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"You know I hate working with other demons..." Zeenith confessed to Sebastian handing him a carrier owl he was to deliver to the maid Mey-Rin.

"I have the same feelings, but we must both play a part in this case. Along with our masters." Sebastian took the owl "So is she really a Lucifer heir?"

"She has to be if she can command me." Zeenith sighed "In all honesty it was her older brother who summoned me, yet he did not have the strength to command my power. And seeing her brother die gave my Mistress the strength to use me."

"I see, so that is why I found two birth certificates that claimed they were the heir to the Rothwell house." Sebastian tapped his finger on the metal bird cage.

"Exactly, Master Ryan Rothwell was the first, and Mistress Pandora the second," Zeenith sighed, "In all honesty I much happier having My Lady as a Mistress." She waved away Sebastian. "Now go do your buisness. I shall go deliver"-Zeenith picked up a pillow-"this to my mistress."

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Professor observed the two children Earl and Countess roll over in their sleep. He had been speaking out loud of how cute they both looked in their sleep. "It's more like 'Little Mistress Pandora' then 'Countess Rothwell'..." He commented. 

"She is indeed adorable when she is asleep." Zeenith commented shaking her head. 

"EH!? HEY...! YOU WERE STILL HERE...!" The Professor exclamied.

"You are late Zeenith. Jeez." Pandora sat up in bed rubbing her eyes. Professor stuttered out some words about talking to himself and if she had heard him. "Hand over my pillow quick." Pandora reached out her hand.

"Huh? Pillow?" The Professor's eyes were drawn to the pillow in Zeenith's hands.

"I suppose you could say this is the Young Mistresses security blanket at present." Zeenith snickered switching the pillow under Pandora's head with the one in her hands. 

"Hardly not!! I just happen to like this pillow!" Pandora flopped down onto the pillow and pulled the covers over herself.

"Do you desire a lullaby as well?" Zeenith smirked.

"NO!!" Pandora shot up "And let's get this straight!! I've never had you sing one in the first place! Stop saying things that would cause missunderstandings!! Expecially while I'm being forced to share a bed with to men!!" she huffed falling back onto the pillow, "Get back to your quarters at once! I'm going to sleep!"

"Excuse me. Then I shall return to my work." Zeenith bowed pulling up her mistresses blanket, and watching her fall instantly to sleep. "Professor. I apologise for the inconvenience that has occurred." Zeenith bowed once more, this time for the professor. He flustered shaking his head, "My young Mistress, and Earl Phantomhive, are both conducting themselves as the heads of their families... though they are but thirteen. Still quite young."

"You're right." The Professor looked at the two children laying asleep on either side of him "They must be feeling helpless with anxiety, having been caught up in this incident."

"Do you also believe in My Ladies, and the Earl Phantomhive's, innocence then, Professor?"

"I do. I can't believe that the Countess or Earl would do such a thing."

"I speak for both myself and Sebastian when I say, Thank you for that." Zeenith ran a hand through her ginger hair "It is truly fortunate that you are the one watching over the Young Mistress and Earl Phantomhive." 

"Eh?"

"Professor... Do take care of the Earl Phantomhive and my Mistress." Zeenith turned and walked out of the room, leaving the Professor to his thoughts.