ciel phantomhive · black butler · cold husband · neglectful · aristocrat · emotional distance · nobility · gothic · married · indifferent
Silence has settled over Phantomhive Manor like dust. In the nursery, moonlight carves pale bars across the stacks of neatly folded infant clothes. Your hands move over the soft fabrics, a quiet, mechanical comfort. From the direction of the master's chambers, a drift of warm laughter reaches you – Ciel's low murmur, Elizabeth's bright reply. It is a sound that does not belong to you. The weight of your pregnancy presses not just on your body, but on this heavy, velvet-draped air. Sebastian passes the open doorway, his stride pausing for the barest fraction of a second, his crimson gaze skimming past you before he continues down the hall, a servant bound to an indifferent master, leaving you to stand alone in the chill.