His Butler: Punishment

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Alois looked at him in shock. "The child inside of me is my brother Luka? But I thought that Hannah devoured my brother's soul a long time ago. How could it be inside of me, and in the form of my child?" Now she had even more of a harder choice to make. Should she still keep it, knowing it was his brother reborn?  

[Claude Faustus]

Claude was frowning. "I do not know how Hannah was able to put the soul within your child, only that she was so sure that it win your favor to give him back to you....she loved you after all, but the heart she borrowed to express that love was stolen from me." He said carefully showing him the box that contained his heart.
Claude was not satisfied exactly. Hannah was dead but it was Lilith that he wanted to kill next, She had taken something of his person that he could not forgive. With the sword he now had an equal chance of doing that, He would not be taken unawares again.  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Alois sighed as she listened to Claude. "Alright. I'm still considering having that child regardless because it would make Isabella happy. Well thank you for telling me anyways. You were always the best servant ever. Say hi to everyone at the Phantomhive Estate for me." She then smiled and waved good bye to him.  

[Claude Faustus]

Claude bowed again and departed.

On his way back Claude paused, the birds and animals had stopped calling, it was a clear sign that there was a very strong demon nearby...or a great many of them. Claude knelt and dug a hole in the ground he placed the box in the hole and buried it. Standing over it, he looked around. "Lilith....I know that your there...."
Her laugh flowed around him in a sinuous embrace. "Thammuz, for whom the woman weep for..." Lilith appeared in front of him, holding a parasol over her head. "As perfect as ever I see....How absolutely delicious you are."
Claude frowned. "Enough with the pleasantries Lilith, why are you here?"
"I am here to make a deal with you Claude."
"A deal?" Claude blinked and watched as the mother of all demons walked closer to him, not armed with anything other then her body which peeked out from the flowing red and purple silk loosely wrapped around her, She was a seductive creature He found his eyes wandering over her form. "What kind of deal?"
"I arranged things so that you would receive the Laevateinn."
"Did you? You sacrificed Hannah for me?"
"Yes, because I needed you strong again Claude. I need a powerful demon with his full strength."
The Spider demon glanced down to see her hand on his chest, her lips near his. Her eyes fixed onto his. She purred in a low tone. "...I want you to be my King of Hell."
"You want me to be your King?"

"Yes...." Lilith pressed herself close to him, he could smell her perfume, the scent of lust and desire, His eyes truned from golden to a glowing red. His lips parting in soft aroused pants. Lilith smiled up at him. "You have the Laevateinn, you can kill Grell and take her title, even a god cannot destroy the wielder of Laevateinn as long as it is sheathed within you. That's why I had to take your heart from you Thammuz, Human emotions weaken a demon. You saw how easily Hannah was swayed once she was able to feel for that human boy."
"Y-you used me?" Claude had difficulty fighting his carnal urges much less his brain.
"No....don't think that my sweet one, I restored you back to yourself. The way you where supposed to be. How you are supposed to be. And I helped you become even more powerful. Isn't it what you always wanted Thammuz? Unlimited power? It can be yours, all of hell can be yours, < I > will be yours."

Claude gritted his teeth to resist her, his hand shot out, but she was faster, Lilith landed with hardly a sound a few feet away. "I will leave you to consider my offer. Thanmmuz. You have not let me down yet." She smirked and winked at him as she disappeared.

The spider butler waited a good long time, listening with his ears as well as his finely honed demon senses. The sounds of the birds came back indicating that Lilith and her silent army of rouge demons had gone.
Picking his heart-box up he gave one more look around then went on his way.

Back within the Phantomhive manor, Claude looked around, He was looking for Sebastian. He found the other demon butler serving Ciel his afternoon tea in his study. He walked in still holding his heart-box under one arm. "I am sorry to disturb you Master Phantomhive, but there is an important matter that I wish to discuss with Mr.Michealis."  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Sebastian saw Claude walking into the room and wondered what was so important that he wanted to talk with him in private. He saw the heart chest in the box and smiled a bit. Well at least he got his heart back. He looked at Ciel to see if it was okay to talk with him alone and Ciel nodded after seeing the look on Claude's face. Something was up and could tell that the two lovers needed to talk. Sebastian went into the other room with Claude so that they could talk alone. "What is it Claude?"  

[Claude Faustus]

Claude held the box out to him. "Mr.Michaelis, I would like to request that you take this and keep it." The spider butler hardly blinked. "If this was still still in Lilith's possession , she could have used it to pass through the barrier and attack this manor. As your position as Queen Grell's favorite, I believe that it would be safer with you." He said still holding out the Heart-box to Sebastian. He had been thinking of this while on his back and couldn't come up with a viable solution. He didn't want such a thing be destroyed either.  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Sebastian blushed a bit when after all that's happened Claude still wants him to hold onto his heart...this time though quite literally. "Okay I promise to keep it safe, but what's to say that she won't come after my human heart next? There's more then one demon with a human heart within this manor, and she always play dirty just to get what she wants. I'm holding your heart not as a favor to Grell. With my own heart I still love you with all of it, and I don't want any harm to the one heart that loves me back. When Lilith is gone I'm going to give it back to you so that we can start that family of ours. Maybe my heart does make me weak...but what would I really do without it?"  

[Claude Faustus]

Claude smiled, his guess had been correct, Sebastian's feelings for him, wouldn't allow the other demon to betray him or Do anything with his heart. He gave Sebastian a nod. "Perhaps you could have been my foe, but I'd rather take you as my mate." He said, his smile truned sexy. "With those chocolates, you could still bare my children."  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Sebastian couldn't help but melt at that very sexy smirk of his. He didn't know anything about the offer that Lilith had given the other because he wasn't a mind reader, but right now all he read were his seductive advances. "I wouldn't want it any other way. I'd love to still bare your children. We were planning on tonight. Still sound good to you? If so then I'll go and get them out. They're in our apartment."  

[Claude Faustus]

"Yes, tonight" Claude purred. He couldn't believe his luck today. He woke up without his heart, received Grell's favor, arranged for Hannah to be killed and received the Laevateinn sword as well as the three-headed demon-snake as servant. And now his once rival truned lover was willing to change his gender and becomes his mate. Everything was sperfect....well he still had to find a way to kill both Lilith and Grell. Then this way Sebastian would be his queen.  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Sebastian smirked and as soon as he had placed Claude's heart in a safe place he was called in by Ciel again to take his tea and snack dishes to the sink. He went in to take them into the kitchen, glad that he would still get to keep his sexy spider demon to himself, regardless if he had a heart or not.  

[Claude Faustus]

Claude resumed his duties as normally, as he worked an plan began to solidify in his mind. It would involve sacrificing is lover but the reward could be the throne of Hell.
The spider butler smiled ahh yes, he'd draw them all into his web and the end result would be He, would be the last one left standing....

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It was nearing supper and the sun was just setting as Sebastian served the Earl his upper, Claude stayed behind in the kitchen to do the clean up, since Sammael had gone to be with Miss Isabella at the Trancy manor. He didn't trust Bardroy the chefs idea of 'cleaning up' was to take a blowtorch to the whole kitchen,
After cashing the irate man away, Claude went outside, passing though the barrier. "Lilith, I have decided to agree....What is it that you wish me to do?"
Lilith appeared behind Claude, putting her arms around him. "Hmmm.....My dearest Thammuz, I am so glad. We have to somehow corner Grell and kill her with the Laevateinn."
"I do believe that I know of a way."
"Oh? You already have a plan?"
"Yes, Sebastian...or rather Belial is the favorite of Grell. She would do anything to protect him. We can use him as bait to draw her out."
"Interesting, tell me more." Lilith reached down and started to rub the front of his crotch. Claude didn't hesitate. "I will convince Belial to go with me to a location under the assumption that we are going to ambush you. but Instead, we ambush him, the attack would draw Grell's attention and upon her appearance, I will kill her." He said, not even moving an inch as the female demons rubbed him to full arousal.
"She is a mind reader how do we keep her from knowing our plan?" Lilith asked, her hand going into the front of his pants now.
"If we do this correctly, then she won't have time to read the plan from my thoughts."
"Lilith chuckled. "Sounds very fool proof Claude, That's why I'd chosen you....you've proven time and again that you could always be counted on."
"Indeed....my Queen." Claude said, Her hand slipped out of his pants.
"Tomorrow morning.....just before dawn. By teh fork in the river."
"Agreed."


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Claude walked back into the apartment, He was pretty sure that Sebastian wold be off duty soon and he went to make him a cup of tea as usual to wait for him.  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Sebastian was soon off duty and he said good night to Ciel before going down into the apartment. He saw Claude there as usual with a cup of tea and smiled before sitting down to drink it. "Good evening Claude. How was the rest of your day?"  

[Claude Faustus]

"It was fairly quiet. " Claude said taking none of the tea for himself, he didn't' have much of a taste for the drink. He waited a bit for Sebastian to take a sip of his tea before starting. "I was approached by Lilith today. She tried to tempt me into siding with her, since She knows that I no longer have a heart."  

[JuuzousJason XIII]

Sebastian drunk his tea and looked up at Claude when he mentioned Lilith. "It doesn't surprise me that she would try something underhanded like that. She would know that since she's the one that took it. What did you tell her? How did that conversation go?"