Chapter 26: Forever My Love

We were sitting on the bed next to each other. "C-Claude…." I whispered out to him in hesitation, staring at him with unknown fear in me. I curled my fingers into a tight ball. I couldn't look at him, I kept my head down to look at my skirt.

"Yes, what is wrong?" He touched my clenched fists. My breath hitched from his touch. It felt so foreign…

"You're… You're my replacement of Sebastian, am I right?" I slowly lifted up my head to meet his golden yellow eyes in fear. From what I dreamt of that day, it's haunting me. He was about to cup my face with his hands, but I slapped them away. "Don't touch me!" I harshly said to him with a serious face, not breaking his gaze.

"My, my…. Cynthia, why would you say that to me?" He grabbed my face harshly in a menace voice. He was different from his usual self.

"C… Claude…!" I grabbed his wrist that was holding my face. I attempted to scratch his hands, but it had no affect on him. "I will… Kill you…!" I struggled saying to him, as it was getting harder to breathe.

Claude swung me to the floor. "Gah…!" I winced in pain as my body impacted onto the floor. I slowly got myself up, but then was forcefully kicked. I gasped in pain from that big blow.

"You are too weak to kill me like that." Claude chuckled at me, watching me in pain, trying to get myself up from the ground.

I swiftly ran out of the manor to the Phantomhive's manor. I kept on knocking the door for someone to open the door. "Please come on!" I was in such a hurry.

There the door opened to see Sebastian. "Sebastian stared in disbelief that I was here at the door, and I said to him, "save me!" I jumped into his arms. He tightly wrapped his arms around me safely.

"What's wrong?!" He said, trying to sound calm towards me.

"You. You were in my dreams, weren't you?" I said fast to him. "When I was at that meadow." I reminded him.

"H-how…!" He looked at me with his eyes wide opened.

I grabbed his face with my hands. "All those things you said in my dream were bothering me! I made Claude mad and now, he's out to get me!" I explained to him.

And then, I choked on my blood from being stabbed in the back. "It's ashamed that you have to die in his arms." I looked down to see the tip of the blade poking through the front part of me.

"Claude! This- this is the demon blade!" Sebastian held me tightly in fear of me dying again. He yelling was loud and filled with anger.

I could feel the blade burning into my skin. It was hurting a lot. My blood was staining my dress. "Sebastian, you… You can't save me…!" My breathing started to quickened from fear and blood loss.

Sebastian stared down at me with tears in his eyes, not letting it fall down his face. "I'm not going to let you die! I lost you once, I'm not going to lose you twice!" He shouts, as his demonic side started to come out. Sebastian pulled out the demon sword out from me. "You are not going to die, I promise." He promised me, but I can't guarantee that I will make it out alive.

"Just let me go…" I whispered at him, with tears streaming down my face.

"No!" His dark aura unleashed and Sebastian was now in his demon form. "I will kill anyone for you just to make you stay with me!" He carried me bridal style and kissed my forehead.

"Die, Claude." Sebastian didn't care, he dark aura surrounded Claude and killed him. We weren't in the manor no more, we were somewhere dark and cold.

"Where are we…?" I asked him.

"Somewhere safe." That's all he replied.

It was like the gateway to hell, as the dark and cold scenery changed into red flames bursting out from the place. "I will save you here, love. This is the place that we will be living. This is my home." The pain that I felt from the stabbed stopped hurting me as we came closer to his home.

As he made his way inside the house, he went to this room that must be his. He lie me down on this big bed and hovered on top of me, as he stroked my face with a gentle face. I placed my hands on his shoulders. "No one can take you away from me now." He kissed me passionately.

All these memories of us flooding into my head as he was the one that I was supposed to love and be with for an eternity… The one who dressed in black.