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Chapter One

"Love"

(Prologue)

The lights by the highway flickered past his sleepy eyes. It was almost midnight. Just a little longer now and…

"Ciel? Ciel, wake up!" His mother's voice called out to him and pulled him from his sleep.

"uhhn? What…" he yawned and rubbed his eyes. "Happy tenth birthday, love!"

Ciel's smile widened and he laughed when his mother leaned towards him from the passenger seat to reach him and give him a small kiss on the forehead as he bounced in the back seat of joy. His father chuckled and his eyes left the road for a moment to watch the happy moment he was experiencing on their way home. He did not know it was going to be his last.

...

The annoying beeping of machines woke Ciel up. He felt strange and struggled to sit up. It was dark around him and he was all alone. Where on earth was he? Certainly not his room in the mansion his parents inherited when he was little. With a yelp he found that something was attached to his right hand. He pulled the thing and realized it was a tube. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Was he in hospital? Where were his parents?! And why was it still so dark? His eyes should have become accustomed to the lack of light by now.

His trembling left hand slowly reaches his head to brush his hair out of his eyes and he screams as he touches a thick bandage. The blackness grows even thicker as he faints.

The next thing he knows is someone touching him, stroking his hair and cooing him.

"M-mother? Is that…you?" The same moment he says those words he knows. That is most certainly not his mother. If it were, she would be hugging him, the moment his mouth opened.

"No…I'm so very sorry dear, but…your parents…" the nurse's voice failed her.

"Where are they?!" Ciel's heart was breaking. Why wouldn't she just take him to his mom and dad? Where were they anyway? What if they were injured too?

"Please, bring my parents here…" he sniffed and tore at the bandage.

"No, please don't touch that. No, Ciel, you're hurt!" The kind nurse gently snatched his hands and continued; "Listen sweetie, you were injured in the accident-

"What accident?" Ciel's blood froze and everything just felt surreal. If they had been in an accident…that must be why his parents hadn't come to see him yet! They were also at the hospital! Ciel couldn't believe her, although his whole body hurt and told him otherwise.

"Shush, listen, please…I know it's scary that you can't see right now, but-"

"I just want to see them, please…" his hands trembled beneath the touch of the nurse.

"Oh, I am so sorry, but you can't…Ciel…they died." The nurse looked at the small slate haired boy, sitting all patched up in a hospital bed and receiving the news of his parent's deaths. She started crying, holding his hand and slowly stroked his visible cheek.

"…No, no, you're lying…they can't be…dead?" Ciel cursed himself for even thinking that she might be telling him the truth and was just about to snatch his hands away, when he heard it. The soft sound of a crying woman, who desperately didn't want to cry. The same person that right now patted his cheek.

"I have gotten hold of you aunt; she'll be here any minute. I promise I'll stay until then."

"Aunt Ann…?" Ciel's body couldn't feel anything. His beloved mother with her bright blue eyes and blonde hair was gone. Forever. So was his father. The one person he had believed could never die, but had done just that, leaving him all alone.

Ciel screamed.