Ciel's POV

"Sir," Sebastian said, "We're here."

I stepped out of the carriage to see a large plain looking building. The windows on the building were barred over; it seemed unwelcoming to say the least. "Wait here," I ordered as I walked into the familiar, unwelcoming place. The nurse at the front desk recognized me and escorted me to where Cathryn was. I was left in a hall that over looked a treatment room. Cathryn was belted down to a bed and was screaming at the top of her lungs. They still refused to tell me what she was in here for, she wouldn't even tell me what they were treating her with; they just knew that I would watcher her for a long while before I left. Her hair was very long, they refused to cut it during her time here, and it was normally covering right eye, like my eye patch normally would. She was only wearing a long dress shirt, I wish that they would give her more clothes, but since the sate was paying for her they wouldn't give her anymore clothes. She cried out in pain, begging for whatever it was to stop, and no one came to help her. The doctors in the room didn't do anything, they stood and watched. My heart broke, when we were young I promised to protect her, but after the fire I wasn't able to keep that promise, even now I couldn't keep it. Maybe I couldn't do anything without Sebastian.

"Sir," Sebastian said appearing out of nowhere.

"Sebastian," I said shocked and turning to him. The screaming stopped and I instantly looked through the window again. Cathryn was gasping for breath on the table. A doctor went up to her and injected her with some unknown substance. She took a few gasps of breath and her eyes opened a little bit, but then she seemed to choke and she closed her eyes again as she struggled against the belts that held her down. I put a hand to the glass and took a breath. The doctors did nothing again, and I was convinced that she was dying.

"Cathryn P," Sebastian told me, "an orphan that was sent here to be part of an experiment two years ago and has been here since; being put on a different experiment when one ended. She doesn't know who she is, or where she came from. Her body is becoming week, a few more experiments and she'll die." I just looked helplessly through the glass at her, now coughing loudly. "Her last name is unknown; all that's known is that it starts with a P, which stands for Phantomhive, correct sir?" My jaw clenched, her eyes had rolled back into her head and she had stopped moving. "She's your sister."

"Save her," I screamed in a whisper at the doctors. "Save her now! You're going to kill her!"

"Do you have an order for me," Sebastian asked with a mischievous look in his eye. "She is alive, but do you trust the doctors?" Just then there was a loud scream, she was screaming again, which meant that she was breathing. "Why don't you bring her home? You have proof that she's your family, the pictures at Lady Elizabeth's house."

"She's better off here."

"She's going to die if these tests keep going on."

"She won't be in danger though. That's what I keep telling myself, that she'll be safer here, that way I can't hurt her."

Sebastian hummed a bit, "some on that my young master cares for.

When she stopped screaming the doctors walked around her with one last syringe, they said something that I couldn't hear and I looked to Sebastian for what was said.

"Is it worth it," He said as one of the doctor's lips moved. Another's lips moved, "she'll die anyway. Why not try it? They wanna know if it's lethal." A third doctor's lips moved and Sebastian looked surprised, "only you humans."

"What's going on," I demanded unhappily. They were negotiating something between the five of the doctors. "What are they debating?"

"That drug has killed every animal it's been tested on," he told me. "They want to know if it will do the same to humans. Only humans, brutal even to those of your own kind."

"I need to help her," I said in a raspy voice. I was paralyzed with fear that I would lose her, I had just found her a month ago and I didn't want to lose her again. Somehow I found movement of my legs again and ran to the front desk, the women knew me instantly, "I would like to check her out. Cathryn, I want to check her out of here."

She looked at me and just blinked for a minute, "do you have any relations with her, sir?"

"Master," Sebastian said behind me, "They are preparing to administer the drug."

I whipped back to the women, "I'm her older brother. Stop her treatment now. I can prove it within the hour."

She looked at me for a moment before getting up and going away. She came back a long while later and told me that the treatment had been postponed until I was able to prove or not prove that I was her elder brother. I borrowed her phone and rung Elizabeth's house. I talked to her father and Elizabeth and her nurse maid would be on their way as soon as possible, the latest they would arrive is forty-five minutes. I thanked him and hung up. The women at the front desk asked if I wanted to see Cathryn, and I said yes. Another nurse led Sebastian and I to her room. It was small, only a bed, washstand, and a small table with two chairs under the window. Cathryn was asleep on the bed, tucked under the blankets very messily. She would move every now and then to make herself comfortable as she slept, she had moved when we came into the room, but other than that her breathing was very abnormal. No doctors came to check on her or anything, and I couldn't help but hate them all. I sat on the side of her bed and brushed her long hair from her eye, I found a white eye patch over her eye, much like the one that I would wear while I was undercover.

"She attempted to scratch her eye out shortly after she got here," Sebastian told me looking at me from the other side of her room. "She was scared around the eye and that eye is sensitive to light, so they put an eye patch over it to keep her from doing anything. She seems to keep it on at all times, like there was something she doesn't want anyone to see."

"Worry about it later," I told him. For the rest of the time we waited for Elizabeth I sat like that. Watching her sleep and just running my hand through her hair, my little sister was so peaceful. It didn't take her long to grab onto one of my hands, pry the only thing that offered her comfort in the last few years. She didn't wake up, and although it concerned me I had nothing that I could do about it. Elizabeth came as she said she would, and a nurse escorted her and her nursemaid to Cathryn's room. When the two came Sebastian elected to go stand out in the hall, so I was happily abandoned in a room of girls.

Elizabeth came and stood by me at her bedside, and as we talked she started to braid Cathryn's hair. "So she's not dead," she asked.

"She's breathing," I said almost unhappily, "that means that she's alive."

"How long ago did you find her?"

"A month or so. I come watch her once a week to make sure that she's alright. I had to stop them during their 'treatment' this time though, and now I've decided that due to these unsafe conditions I'll bring her home with me."

"So, she's coming back?" When I nodded in response Elizabeth jumped up happily and pulled the picture out of her bag. It was a picture of Cathryn and I the day before the fire, we had chosen to celebrate our birthday with our family a day early so that we wouldn't have to bother on our actual birthday. We sat there for a while longer. Elizabeth chose to stay with Cathryn while I signed the paper work, so I was released to do just that with Sebastian by my side. When we came back to the room Elizabeth had sat down and was playing a game with her nurse maid at the small table, Cathryn was still asleep. It had only been an hour and a half, but I started to become worried. The smell of the building was getting to me, I disliked hospitals and I especially disliked the smell of medical supplies in this place. Every now and then there would be a distant scream from somewhere, another patient that was getting treated in some form maybe, or maybe another victim of these experiments.

"Master," Sebastian probed behind me.

"What is it," I spat with distaste.

"It's noon, lunch time, are you hungry?"

I turned away from my twin and looked at Elizabeth, "Lizi, are you hungry? Would you like some food?"

Lizi looked at me happily, "I'm fine. I just want Cat to wake up."

I gave my fiancée a weak smile, "so do I."

"Then maybe this could be of help," Sebastian reached into his pocket and pulled a scented oil from his pocket. I recognized it as the liquid that was put into my bath every morning, and I looked at him questioningly. He stalked over to the bed and pulled the cap off of the bottle before holding it under Cathryn's nose. I was amazed when she started to stir, and her eyes eventually fluttered open. "There you are mistress," he said brightly. "You've been through a lot today, would you like some water?"

She looked at him blankly before rubbing her eyes and looking at him again. Her gaze looked at me, and she just looked at me, not doing anything. She looked back at Sebastian again before covering her face with her pillow. I explained everything to her; that I was her brother, how I found her, what she had truly been through. Then I introduced her to Lizi, Paula, and Sebastian to her. She didn't move though. She seemed to recognize me at least; I don't think that she knew where she recognized me from though. She seemed to trust me though, when we went to move and I told her where we were going she seemed accepting enough of the idea. Sebastian seemed to know that this would happen; he had another pair of pants in the carriage for Cathryn to put on. Elizabeth hated that she wasn't wearing a dress, but she understood. I kissed her hand good bye and we parted ways. Since Cathryn was already in the carriage I was the last one in. Sebastian helped me in and I found Cathryn laying on the seats, seeming to be uncomfortable.

"May I sit there," I asked pointing to where her head was. She sat up timidly to make room for me. I sat down where I wanted and I watched her ball up on the opposite side of the bench. "You seem tired," I told her once we started to move. If you want you can use my lap as a pillow and get some sleep." I patted just above my knee to encourage her, and after a few minutes she timidly did as I suggested. The rest of the ride I let her use me as a pillow, and I simply ran my hand through her hair, trying to comfort her a little bit. She smelt horrible, earlier I had thought that it was sjust the hospital, but obviously she had acquired a sent as well. Her hair was also very dirty; I wonder when the last time she was bathed was. It was cold and I worried about her getting sick, so when we made it home I simply forced her inside quickly and without question. When we got inside the servants questioned who the Cathryn was, and I told them what happened, they seemed sad about the story, but Fin seemed to be intrigued by her and touched by her story. I remembered his story and it started to make sense.

I put a hand on her back, and I found dried sweat all the way down her back. "I think that you need a bath, Cathryn." She looked at me wish a questioning look. "Baldory, Mey-Rin, Finn, can you three handle lunch preparations?"

"Yes sir," they said in unison happily.

I guided Cathryn up the stairs and she came with me obediently, looking at her feet the entire way. "Sebastian, come, you're going to help me." I heard his foot steps behind us, so I lead us to the closest washroom. When we got there I started to look through the scents that were on the shelf before turning to start the bath. Then I realized that I had no idea how to do this and stopped.

Sebastian intervened, "Master, would you like for me to run a bath for her?"

I gave him the lavender sent that I had picked out, "yes, with this please." He started to run the bath before turning to the two of us. "Are you going to bath her, sir?" I looked at Cathryn, who had moved to the corner and was now just watching her feet. "You don't know how, do you? And you don't want me touching her, do you? Sir, you always have the hardest choices to make."

"Bath her," I commanded unhappily walking over to Cathryn. I pushed her hair back from her eye. She looked up at me slowly, as if trying to plan my movements. "May we give you a bath? I promise nothing will happen, we just want to get you clean." I put my hand over her eye patch and she pulled back a little. "It's alright," I said quietly, "I just want to take it off. Sebastian and I have seen a lot of things; you don't have to hide whatever it is under that eye patch." She nodded timidly, still not saying anything. I took a step back as she took off the pants, but she didn't seem too confident and stopped there. I went to go help her and she instinctively froze, I wondered if she remembered that we took baths together when we were young. "I'm your brother," I reminded her, "I'm not going to let anything hurt you." I continued and when the buttons were done I took a step back. She pulled the shirt around herself tightly.

"Master, Mistress," Sebastian called, "that bath is ready."

I lead her to the bath and put my hands out for her shirt. She looked between my outstretched hands and my face. She timidly took the shirt off and gave it to me, and then I helped her into the bath where she just seemed to relax in the warm water. Sebastian was on one side of the bath and I was on the other. I put my hand over her hand that was resting on the edge of the tub. After some coxing Sebastian and I convinced her to allow Sebastian to bath her, but the entire time she was watching him closely. When it came time for her hair I grimaced inwardly. Sebastian poured some water over her head and she squealed, but she gave no clue to if it was a squeal of delight or horror.

"I'm sorry miss," Sebastian said after he had poured the basin over her. "The water has cooled." He started to work on her hair and grimaced openly, "My lady, when was the last time you bathed?" He went back to working her hair, knowing that if he did nothing the problem would continue, while Cathryn seemed to count something on her figures. She held up all ten of her fingers for me to see. When Sebastian saw the look of confusion on my face he clarified, "I would assume she bathed last ten days ago, my lord." After washing Cathryn's hair, a lot, I helped her out of the bath and handed her a towel to dry off. She did so herself and then wrapped herself in the towel that was much too large for her. Sebastian brought me out into the hall after a moment.

"Master," Sebastian asked, "what clothes shall she wear? The only clothes we have for a female are Mey-Rin's maid dresses, and those won't fit her properly."

I thought about it for a moment, "Until we get her clothes she shall wear mine," I said after thinking. "We'll go get her new clothes tomorrow."

He nodded and went to go get the clothes, while I reentered the wash room. There was a large crash, and I found that Cathryn had managed to break a bottle of break a bottle of something. I ran over to make sure that she was alright, and then she and I went to clean the mess up the best we could before Sebastian came. I didn't want to get the look that he gave to all of the servants. That didn't work though, and when Sebastian came back I made Cathryn stand up like me and I told him to clean it up. He sighed before dressing Cathryn, That's when I noticed that she never took the eye patch off, and now it was a wet mess. I sighed, this was going to be a lot of work.