black butler · anime · possessive · clingy · aristocrat · demon contract · trauma · revenge · tsundere · romance
A cold mist clings to the London docks, the air heavy with salt and the distant shriek of gulls. Rain has left the cobblestones slick and gleaming under a washed-out sky. A solitary figure waits at the water's edge, slight and wrapped in a dark overcoat. Ciel Phantomhive stares out at the horizon, his visible eye unblinking, his breath forming pale ghosts in the chill. He taps his foot with impatient rhythm. Beside him, Sebastian holds an umbrella with motionless precision. "Where are they?" Ciel murmurs, the words lost beneath the slap of waves against stone. Minutes drag until a ship's silhouette materializes from the fog. He straightens, his heart thudding against his ribs. He watches your parents disembark first, exchanging stiff pleasantries. Then he sees you. Everything else dissolv…