Hi folks, as you may have read, this is an AU fan-fiction. So just to say…

Ciel is 15 (in the line of the story from 2nd chap onwards)

Sebastian is 17 (he's older, but he looks like he's 17… you'll understand :D)

Also, I'm using some facts that are in manga, but I change them to my liking, so mind that. :p

Warning: AU, Slash, OoC quite possible, Mpreg... I can't think of more for the time being.

- The Layer of Ice -

1. What you mean to me

(Sebastian's POV)

I've never believed that there might exist a feeling this searing... Until I met you.

Is it really possible, for this to happen? And... can even someone like me fall in love?

Why is it that I want to be taught what is love like by you? You, who were starved of love for so long.

But believe me, put your trust in me and I won't ever let you down.

We belong together. Of all things in the word, this is what I am sure about.

Allow me to love you. I swear that it would be a decision you'd never regret.

Please, give me a chance to prove it.

Let me be the one who melts the ice which covered your heart.

-/-/-

When I had to move into London, I did not really care. We have always been on the move. It was annoying not because of relationships I had to cut off - as if there were any - but because we had to change our names every other time.

'Not ageing sucks sometimes.' I always thought. The move to London however seemed to be a bit of a brighter experience to me.

'This time I even have my real name.' I could only laugh to myself. I had to look hard to find a bright side every time we moved. This time however I felt that something good was about to happen to me.

I have almost given up the hope.

It was because of the fact that we were different than others. We as in me and my family. We are demons.

We don't age, once we reach certain age, which is why we have to move all the time.

We are ranked high, in the demon society, to boot. - Of course I am a bit lower than my parents. It is due to the fact that they were adult demons. No demon is considered fully adult until he (or she) mates.

I was not planning to take on a mate though. I simply did not meet anyone who I thought would be pleasant to spend the eternity with. Someone who would struck me speechless. Someone to love. Someone who would not run away if I told them of my... heritage.

I spent one hundred years like that. Thinking that love is just some illusion fools believe. That was until I met him.

Ciel.

His name means sky in French, the language of artists and poets.

True to that his eyes had the blue colour of the late evening. The loveliest colour one can imagine. And his hair were not black as raven's wings as mine were, they had that silver tint to them that made him even more attractive to me.

It took only one look and I could already feel the pull that was headed towards him.

But... no one is perfect, fearless, without a weakness.

As for Ciel, there were scars on his soul. I could see them, marring his pure heart.

I knew they were there.

-/-/-

When we came here for the first time was when Ciel was nine years old. He was such a bright and sweet child back then. A child that loved his family dearly.

The Phantomhives.

The family may have been old and rich, but Ciel was not that usual spoiled brat a lot thought he was. He was a kind, gentle child and he deeply cared about what was going on with around him.

That is why when that tragedy struck it had devastated him.

-/-/-

It happened on his eleventh birthday.

When he came home from visiting his aunt (known city-wide as Madam Red) he found the house they lived in on fire.

I was keeping an eye on him that day – as every other – and that was why I saw when he ran into the burning house.

He called out for his parents desperately, but it was of no use. The fire started in the bedroom, where they were sleeping.

When Ciel opened the door into that room and saw the beds where his parents were bathed in flames he started screaming. About few seconds later he fainted. I caught him and carried him out of the house, where fire men were already trying to put the fire off. There was also an ambulance to which I carried Ciel to.

I laid that fragile figure in one of doctor's arms, quite reluctantly I have to say.

It was that one day that I realized that I don't want him to ever get hurt.

It was that day that I realized that I was in love with him.

I watched the doctor examining him and sighed. I was not sure whether I wanted him to know that the one who saved him was me. He did not even know me back then. I thought that if I approached him later in the future, it might take a bit shorter time to become friends, and thus my non-ageing face and body would not give anything away unless I wanted it to.

When some police man started asking me questions I only told him I was his acquaintance who came to wish him happy birthday. Well not so happy, it seemed. I also told him that it would be better if he was not told that I was the one to save him. When the man asked why I somehow evaded answering. Instead I told him to give him my birthday gift.

It was a chain on which a ring with a blue stone was. A ring was a gift that was given by us demons to our intended mates. By giving Ciel the ring I was telling other demons that he is taken, that they have no rights on him, it was a way to protect him from any harm.

I had the same ring, but with red stone. Once we had both of our rings on our ring fingers, we were never to take them off. It will be a sign of our bond. I planned to hope for it to be mutual, however, so I did not put the ring on, It was not the right time, not yet.

I don't want to pull Ciel into a relationship he does not want to be in.

I cherish him that much.

-/-/-

Five years later

'I can't let them catch me!' I thought desperately, which was not an emotion that I felt often, as I held the fragile body in my arms tighter to my chest.

It was driving me mad, that he still did not wake up. It was not how anybody would imagine a day which started as perfectly as that one did.

It shouldn't have ended with Ciel unconscious and Blood hounds after us.

"I won't let them harm you!" I whispered softly into Ciel's ear. Then ran even faster, the trees around us being everything but one unrecognisable blur.

"I will not let them harm you." I repeated over and over to him, to myself... If not a demon I would have turned to God already.

"Not you, not our child."

Done~

The next chapter will start like year before the last part ( take it as a premonition ;)) and will be updated once I have it done (-0-) which I don't expect in less than a week anyway xD

Anyway, What do you think so far? I'd like to hear some opinions~ Don't hesitate (^^)

See ya~ ( "-.-)/