Disclaimer: I own nothing but my ideas. Sorry it has taken so long to update. It's been a busy year, but here it is!

SPOV:

I couldn't believe my ears. Surely, I had lost every ounce of sanity I ever possessed; the voice calling to me was a hallucination. It had to be. But when I looked I saw those beautiful sapphire eyes looking at me weakly.

The tears only increased in frequency as I held him closer to me. "Ciel, oh Ciel. I thought you were dead! Why would you do that?! I told you to hold on, you said you would hold on! How could you give up on me?!" I was so angry, so happy, I didn't even know how to act towards him at that moment.

"Sebastian…? Why are you crying?" he asked in a voice hoarse from drowning. I laughed at the absurdity of his question.

"Why am I crying? Why am I crying? You just drowned. I just watched the man I love drown. Why wouldn't I be crying?" I couldn't bring myself to let go of him enough to see his reaction.

CPOV:

I stared at Sebastian, unable to comprehend what he had just said. "You… You love me? I drowned myself because I thought….. You won…. I thought you were going to take my soul…. I thought that you didn't love me….." Tears welled to my eyes. Was everything he was saying true?

"Master, how could you be so foolish? How could you be that blind? Of course I love you Ciel. How could I not? After all the years we've been together I would have to be completely heartless not to fall for you."

"It's ironic, isn't it? The man I love, who happens to love me in return, has to suck out my soul. The love of my life is going to end my life." I laughed a bit and I couldn't deny the insanity lurking beneath that laugh's surface.

Sebastian's face softened as he looked into my eyes. "Ciel, I'm no…." he started but I simply cut him off.

"It's okay. I wouldn't want anyone else to take it. It all belongs to you anyways, and I really don't mind the idea of death. Not if you are the one who ends it for me." I said closing my eyes as I waited for him to take my soul. But nothing happened.

Suddenly there was the lightest pressure on lips. I gasped and my eyes flew open, but Sebastian only took my surprise as a chance to deepen the kiss. My eyes fluttered close as I leaned into his kiss. His arms tightened around me, pulling me closer, closer, closer. I was drowning in him, his touch, his smell, it was consuming me.

He pulled back slowly, and I panted as I stared at him for a moment. "I would never take your soul Ciel. I've known…. Well for a while that when we made it to this point, that I would never be able to take your soul."

My heart clenched at his words but then my stomach dropped. "You have fulfilled your end of the bargain. You are free from our contract. You…. You no longer have to stay by my side." I dropped my eyes from his and tried weakly to sit up on my own.

His hands gently stopped me from moving away from him. "Sebastian, wha…" but the question was lost as he once again forced his mouth onto mine. I kissed back with a desperation, afraid that he would truly leave.

He pulled back again, but continued to trail kisses down my jaw and onto my neck. "I am not going anywhere, my lord. How could I leave now. As it so happens, our contract seems to have evolved. The mark of our contract remains on my hand, just as it remains in your eye. So…" he continued to speak as his lips teased my collar bone, causing a moan to escape from my lips. "Until the moment you decide you no longer love me, or no longer…. Desire me." He punctuated that with a bite to the sensitive spot. "I shall remain in your service."

I moaned in response as I forced his lips back to my own. "I am afraid then Sebastian, that you will be waiting an awfully long time." His smirk grew before he placed a light kiss to the tip of my nose. "I am used to waiting on you. Besides," he said standing, me still in his arms, "I have eternity to spend with you until then."

I smiled a watery smile at him. "Do you mean that? Will you really stay with me?" He kissed me gently before replying. "Of course I will. Come now, let's go home." He pressed a gentle kiss to my forehead before carrying me to our home.