Moonlit Meetings:

Chapter 11:

As he had known what Ciel was about to do, Sebastian covered his eyes before the flash bomb went off and pulled Alois Trancy out of Ash's hold and knocked the knife away whilst Ash was blinded by the flash. When Ash opened his eyes again, he found that he was handcuffed and the knife was on the floor some distance away from him.

Sebastian's former foster father was more focused on Ciel than the fact that he was restrained.

"Who is the other phantom thief?" he demanded.

"Sebastian relegated me to being the backup phantom thief," Ciel complained. "I had to climb in through the open window on the first floor to get in once the lights had gone out."

Sebastian turned to smirk at Ash. "When you said you had left Ciel alone until now, I realised that you potentially didn't know what he currently looked like and would go after anyone that was male, short in height with a dark hair colour and wearing the right clothes so I got someone else to wear the costume and dye their hair."

"I raised you well," Ash sighed and shook his handcuffs. "I have lost then."

Sebastian was not fooled by his act. He knew Ash well enough to presume that he had something else up his sleeve and was only trying to distract him. Ash had never been a person to admit defeat.

"If you are waiting for Angela to come and save you, we outnumber her," Ciel observed, his thoughts on the same track as Sebastian's.

"You killed Pluto," Ash pointed out. "She will be very willing to go on a rampage now."

Sebastian went back out into the hallway and saw something approaching that he was very glad to see. It was exceedingly fortunate that Ciel's aunt was strong as well as good at making threats.

"If you wanted help from Angela, I don't think it's coming now," he told Ash triumphantly as a ruffled looking Angelina dragged Angela Landers into the room. Angela was currently trapped in a headlock.

Ash glared malevolently, finally giving up the act.

"It was tough, but I managed to restrain her," Angelina said. "Are the handcuffs ready?"

Ciel produced them and joined his aunt to put them on Angela. After one wrist was cuffed Angelina let her grip loosen slightly which was all the opportunity Angela needed to slip out the headlock and grab the knife on the floor that had been knocked away from Ash.

Everyone backed away from her slowly and Ciel pushed Alois behind him. His best friend had already been concussed in his stead and he didn't want to cause his death too. Angela fixed her eyes on Ciel, raised the knife and ran towards him.

Ciel was frozen in fear and surprise and expected to feel the pain of the knife plunging into him. It didn't come and he found that Sebastian had stepped in front of him.

His aunt took control of the situation and grabbed Angela again and Alois attached the other handcuff whilst Ciel checked Sebastian for injuries. If blood dripped on the floor, the forensics team would find it and start to add up facts that they didn't want to be linked together.

"I didn't realise I liked you enough to get stabbed instead of you," Sebastian murmured.

"You mean scratched," Ciel corrected. "She caught the side of your cheek. Stop being dramatic."

"It was fortunate that her aim was extremely bad," Sebastian said with a grimace before turning serious. "We need to continue to the next part of the plan before everyone wakes up from the sedative."

Alois sighed loudly. "I was enjoying the scene. You should have let Ciel nurse you for longer and you should have added another romantic line in too."

"There's a time and a place for that and it isn't now," Sebastian said and accepted a tissue from Ciel. "Ciel, you wanted to ask Ash something."

Ciel nodded and walked over to his parents' murderer. He had been waiting for this moment for years and he couldn't spoil it now by not knowing what to say. He had to choose his words carefully or the plan would be ruined.

"Why did you kill my parents?"

Ash looked unsurprised by the question and was brutally honest.

"Because they were in my way. Vincent Phantomhive was in the midst of setting up a confectionary line that would rival my own. I prefer to kill my competition before they get too successful."

Ciel moved onto the next question. They needed confirmation of Angela's role in the whole affair.

"How do you choose rivals to kill? Do you decide or is it your wife?"

At the mention of her name, Angela narrowed her eyes at him.

"Angela does. She is a germophobe and hates the sight of blood so I do the killing."

The phantom thief turned to the female involved.

"Is that true?"

"Yes," she answered. "I choose, he kills."

"Who decided on the tax evasion?" he changed the subject.

"I did," Ash volunteered. "Why are you asking all these questions?"

"I will tell you after the next one," Ciel replied with a smirk. "Is it true that you bribe members of the Police?"

"I do. It is amazing what you can do if you are rich."

Ciel drew a phone out of his pocket and stopped the recording that had been in process.

"Thank you for your cooperation, we just needed a little more undisputable evidence to ensure you both get a long prison sentence," he said and pocketed the phone again. "How long do we have left?"

Sebastian checked his watch. "Four minutes at the shortest. Take the back door as we need to the climbing equipment to suggest the thief came from outside."

Ciel and his aunt left the room whilst Sebastian helped Alois take off the phantom thief costume from over his clothes.

"When everyone wakes up, it will appear that the phantom thief has restrained you two and escaped," Sebastian explained. "Don't bother trying to tell the truth about this heist: no one will believe you. You were the ones to attack Tanaka, Chief Inspector Durless and myself. Those are hardly the actions of truthful and reliable witnesses."

That part of the plan went without a hitch. Ash was smart enough to know he had no chance of protesting his innocence with his fingerprints all over the knife found at the scene, the book used to knock "Ciel" out and Angela's prints over another knife that had been used to stab Tanaka. The former butler had been taken away by ambulance and the paramedics were optimistic about his recovery as the wound had not been deep. "Ciel" was treated at the scene for his head injury and Sebastian's cheek had stitches.

The evidence they had found left the house in Mey-Rin's bag as her questioning went on for the shortest time because she had been unconscious for the entire heist.

A week after the heist, Ciel anonymously sent one copy of the evidence and an edited version of the recording to Scotland Yard and another copy to the press. He and Sebastian had decided that certain newspapers would jump at the chance of unveiling a major figure in the business world as being a criminal. That decision was made in case Scotland Yard dismissed the evidence as being fake or tried to cover it up.

In the face of Ash and Angela's arrests at the heist for assaulting members of the investigation team, the evidence was used by the Police to bring several counts of murder, coercion and tax evasion against the pair and the case was highly publicised in the media.

After tests found traces of Vincent and Rachel Phantomhive's blood on one of the knives found in the house, that charge was also brought against Ash much to Ciel's satisfaction. When he was younger he had wanted to kill his parents' murderer and as he had grown up, he had realised that killing him would be too kind and it would be more satisfying to see him publically humiliated and rot in prison.

A fortnight after the submission of the evidence, Ciel sent a retirement notice from the phantom thief to Scotland Yard to announce he had given up his life of crime and provided a list of the illegal activities of the previous targets so they could also be investigated. Once those investigations had been completed and most had been arrested or fined, the phantom thief investigation team was disbanded.

Tanaka retired from the Police and Mey-Rin handed in her resignation, both having completed Ciel's orders and had no need to continue working there. Ciel was undecided about resigning or staying on at Scotland Yard. At the moment he had been moved to investigate a different case and Sebastian was working on a different case down the corridor.

Ciel knew that part of his reason for being undecided about staying or leaving was Sebastian. Following the dissolution of the investigation, they had not really talked and only exchanged greetings when they encountered each other. Ciel began to think that Sebastian had only briefly liked him because they had the same agenda and once the case was concluded and they had ceased to have anything in common, he no longer liked him. Ciel had realised along the way that he had liked Sebastian,

One day the conflicting feelings came to fruition when he found Sebastian sitting alone at a table in the canteen. Ciel was only still at work because he was working overtime on a complex case and had come to the canteen for some cake. He paused for a moment and sat down opposite Sebastian with his cake.

"Are you working late too?" he asked casually.

Sebastian looked up and smiled at him. "Just for a while. How are you getting on with your case?"

They talked Police matters for several minutes and then Sebastian asked after his aunt, Mey-Rin and Tanaka.

"They are doing fine. Aunt Ann was thinking about moving out of London and to the country with them because we have done all we needed to here. The decision is dependent on me though as they want me to come with them."

"That's interesting," was Sebastian's only comment.

Ciel scowled. The conversation wasn't going how he wanted it.

"What do you think?"

"It's your decision," Sebastian said unhelpfully. "You can stay here and slave away investigating cases or you can move to the countryside and have a break from investigating forever."

Ciel ruffled his hair in exasperation. That hasn't helped at all, he was still undecided.

"I still don't know what to do."

Sebastian's response came as a surprise. "Would life in London be more interesting if we dated?"

Ciel blushed the colour of a tomato instantly. "Are you making me an offer?"

His former rival turned his head away and Ciel spotted that his ears were red which caused him to smile.

"I'll take that as a yes," he hesitated before adding something else."Why didn't you ask me sooner?"

"The time was never right and you never told me if you liked me or not so I didn't want to force something potentially unwanted on you. When you told me about Angelina's plans, I thought you were trying to hint that you wanted me to ask you to stay here."

Ciel flushed even harder. Sebastian was correct, he had never given Sebastian a proper indication that he liked him and had only told him about moving because he wanted to be told not to go.

"Sorry. It's little late but, I do like you."

"It's better late than never," Sebastian replied. "So, will you accept my offer? I will make you tea every day."

"You didn't need to add that part about tea in, I would have accepted anyway."

Ciel knew that he liked Sebastian for more than his tea making skills or his desire to arrest Ash. He liked Sebastian for his other qualities.

"Do I have a chance of getting a kiss that won't be followed by chloroform?" Sebastian enquired with a wink and was happy when Ciel gave him one.

The End

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