Jack the Ripper
Recap
I was drinking some tea when my father handed me a newspaper. The headline said: Jack the Ripper Strikes Again.
"Damn it!" I yelled
"What's wrong dear?" My father asked.
"I thought we had him." I said showing him the article.
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I was running threw the whole night again. Who was it if not that creep. At least he's in prison now. "Lena stop worrying!" my father said. I didn't reply. "Lena..Lena. Are you sulking?"
"No. Sebastian had shown me the list of suspects. There was one other person that he thought it could be and it's bugging me so much because of who it is." I replied.
"Please dear take it easy."
"Yea sure."
"Good."
"Dad I'm going to take a walk."
"Okay! walks are good to clear your head."
"I'll be back soon." I said walking out the shop. I walked to the park and sat down. I sat there while a breeze made my hair sway. "Why is this happening?" I asked myself.
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I walked back in to the shop from my walk. Once I entered the door I saw Ciel and Sebastian. "Lord Phantomhive what a pleasure to see you again." I said.
"Lena I need your help again." Ciel said with defeat.
"Count me in." I said.
"Okay then."
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We were staking out the house if the next victim. Ciel was dressed as a commander. I was dressed in a black knee length dress, grey tights, black boots, and a long black coat. "This is not what I had in mind." I said shivering a little from the rain.
"He'll come if we stake out this place right?" Ciel asked.
"Yes." Sebastian said.
"You know I realized that the other prostitutes have had something else in common." Ciel said.
"The most beautiful glossy black hair." Sebastian muttered.
"But I still don't understand he had to go and kill them all."
"A very lovable that you could almost be a sin."
"And once more I..."
"Oh so lovable, so soft!" Sebastian interrupted while petting a cat.
"Listen to me when I'm talking to you!" Ciel yelled making me jump.
"Oh, I apologize sir but she's so beautiful and soft." Sebastian said.
Then we heard a scream and I took off towards it not caring what Ciel said. Opening the door I looked in. The smell of fresh blood filled my nostrils. The sight of the body was gruesome. Even for a reaper. Even for a daughter of the Undertaker. I couldn't handle it anymore. I stumbled backward. I slipped on the last step falling on my butt. I was frozen in fear. This is how my mother was murdered. The memory came back. I saw Ciel coming.
(Memory)
"Mom!" I yelled as I ran into the house. Her body had many cuts and she was bleeding out. The demon was gone but I know who it was. I will remember his name.
"Lena." she said hoarsely. "Never.....forget....me." Then her cinematic record showed. Most of it was of her and a man. Then me as a child.
"No." I said. "No, no, no, no, no." I yelled.
"Lena!" Will said from behind me.
"Will!" I said running to him. He hugged me and I cried into his shirt. "She's gone. She's never coming back."
(End of memory.)
I felt myself being pulled up by the waist and pulled backward. A hand covered my eyes. "Lena, are you okay?" Ciel asked.
"No." I said quietly. "But I have to be strong!" I moved Sebastian's hand and stepped in front of them. "I will never forget you, mother." I whispered.
"You've made quite a bloody mess in there, Jack the Ripper. Or rather Grell Sutcliff." Sebastian said as Grell walked out covered in blood.
"No...no your wrong. I heard the scream and rushed to help, but..."
"Why don't you drop the act Grell!" I said as he looked at me wide eyed. "You don't think I didn't recognize you, even in that body?"
"It's over." Sebastian finished.
"This is the first time I met someone like you in the human world." Grell said to Sebastian. "And dear, Lena. I never thought I'd see you helping his kind, after what they did to your mother."
"Shut up, Grell!" I yelled.
"You played the role of 'helpless' butler quite well. Your act had almost everybody fooled." Sebastian said.
"You think so." Grell said as he started laughing. "How kind. Great to hear because I am an actress." He looked at me. "And there's no reason to talk to someone who you consider your family, Lena."
"That was four years ago Grell. Now shut up! And your a guy so your an actor!" I said.
He started changing to his true form. "But you're not "Sebastian"either, are you?" Grell said ignoring me.
" Sebastian is the name my master gave me, so that is who I am at the moment." Sebastian said.
"So your playing the faithful dog. Well you're handsome enough to get away with it. Anyway here we are Sebastian... no I think I'll call you Bassy. Let me re-introduce myself. The Burnetts butler, Grell Sutcliff. What do you say. Let's get love." Grell said. Sebastian shuttered. "It's good to talk to you in my true form I've never seen a demon playing a butler before, so I was surprised when I first saw you!"
"I would say that about you. I would never imagine someone like you would play butler." Sebastian said. "You and Lena both are supposed to be intermediary between man and God. A grim reaper. Why would the divine being such as yourself bother to play butler?"
"Good question. Perhaps I should say I fell in love with a certain woman."
"That woman would be?" Sebastian asked.
"You don't really need to ask. Do you?" a voice said. Ciel moved Sebastian's hand away from his eyes. Out walk Madame Red.
"Madame?" Ciel said.
"I didn't calculate on anyone being able to see Grell for what he is. And Lena darling, I didn't expect you being one as well."
"All the better of a surprised!" I said venom dripped off my tongue.
"Actually you were on the initial suspect list from the very beginning. But your alibi was perfect."
"You suspected your own Aunt?" Madame Red said.
"I was looking for a murderer. Degree of relation to me do not matter. One of the humans and the suspect list could have committed all the murders. But if one had an inhuman accomplice, that would change everything." Ciel said.
"It would have to be someone that could enter and leave a room without anyone noticing. One who could also instantaneously get from the viscount's to the East End." I said as Grell stared at me then at Sebastian. Like he was seeing which one of us he'd attack first.
"You two are the only one too could be Jack the Ripper." Ciel said. "You Madame Red..."
"And Grell Sutcliff." I said.
"I began to look into what else of victims had in common. They all underwent a certain surgery at London's Central Hospital, same hospital where you work. We made a list of all the patient. One, the only one that was still alive was Mary Kelly. thought you'd show up here if we kept an eye on the place." Ciel said holding up the list.
"We couldn't save her in time." I said. My voice cracked.
"Does the sight of the victim bring back what happen to your dear mother, Lena." Grell said.
Tears fell from my eyes. "Grell, shut up before I kill you!" I yelled.
(Ciel)
She was crying. "Grell shut up before I kill you." Lena yelled. Grell was obviously baiting her. What happen to her mother? Lena fell on the ground.
"My darling nephew how unfortunately this turned out to me. If you hadn't figured it out, we could've played chess together again." Madame Red said. "But now, you've taken everything!" she yelled.
(Lena)
I had fallen to the ground. I couldn't take the taunting anymore. Until I heard Grell's death scythe. I summoned my scythe. Grell aimed for Ciel but Sebastian stopped it. Then I swung at Grell but missed. "What are those." I heard Ciel ask.
"Grim Reaper's use tools for harvesting souls. That is their reaper scythe." Sebastian said.
"Scythe is such a dull name; don't call it that. I worked very hard to customize it. This is a special death scythe. And it can hack any being into pieces."
"And you most likely did not get approval to upgrade it." I said plainly.
"I've behaved myself so well lately, I'm out of shape now! I need to get some real exercise with you Bassy."
"I could ask you not to say such repugnant things while I'm on duty." Sebastian said.
"How stoic are you! Yet another thing that makes you in resistible! You see,I love the color red. It's good for hair, clothes, and lipstick. So I painted all those women with pretty, pretty red blood. So Bassy, now make you look even better than you are now. And tear you up from the inside, and make you like it. You'll be as lovely as scattered rose petals." Grell said.
"Your Grim Reaper. Your job is to quietly harvest of souls of the dying. As a Butler you're supposed to follow your master like a shadow. You violated both these concept and quite frankly, I find that sickening." Sebastian said.
"Bassy you wound me. You know I'm more deadly then I seem."
"Really, because if my memory tells me right, I beat you at age nine Grell!" I said my anger rising.
"Yes and we'll have our rematch soon,Lena. And while we're doing that we can have a discuss on helping the kind that killed your mother."
"In my name and that of the queen, I order you Sebastian: to put an end to them!" Ciel said.
"Yes my Lord." Sebastian said. The demons eyes were now pink.
"Ciel what do you want me to do?" I asked.
"You need to collect your thoughts before you do anything. If you're not calm you'll miss every time you swing and not be able to dodge attacks." he replied.
"Okay." All of a sudden I got dizzy. I collapsed and everything went black. All I know is all my bad memories were coming back to me.
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(Ciel)
Lena collapsed. She looked like she was having a struggle with herself. I can't focus on her right now. "Oh yes, please run away! we can play tag, Bassy." Grell said while trying to hit Sebastian. Grell had gotten Sebastian on a wall and hit his shoulder with this scythe. "Let's see what happens if you're not fast enough. You get cut. It's more fun when it hurts a little bit. Doesn't it?"
"You're still the queen's guard dog, which means we are your prey. If it's hunt or be hunted there's only one choice!" Madame Red yelled pulling a knife and running toward me. She cut my arm.
"Your a doctor how could you do it?" I yelled.
"You wouldn't understand if I told you. Your just a child." She yelled back. She grabbed my throat and started choking me. "You...you brat." She raised the knife. "You shouldn't of been born in the first place!" She hesitated. "Sister."
"Master!" Sebastian yelled.
She stopped. "Stop Sebastian! Don't kill her!" I yelled. he stopped. I heard Lena whimpered but ignored her. Madame Red backed up and dropped the knife. Sebastian grabbed his shoulder. "Sebastian your arm!"
"Oh Bassy. Really what a prince. To think you'd sacrifice an arm for that brat. On the other hand, your disappointment Madame. Hurry up and kill the brat! And I'll kill this one after." Grell said pointing to Lena.
"I love my sister... I loved her husband... And I love their child...I can't. I can't kill him. can't kill their beloved son." She said crying into her hands.
"Really your going softhearted to me all of a sudden, after all those deaths. If you don't and him he'll end you." Grell said he was getting closer to us.
"Madame." I said.
"But....but this dear boy. This child is mi..." Madame Red started but got cut off by Grell's scythe going into her.
"To late for that. How disappointing. What use do I have for you if you're just another woman" then something else happened.
"Is that her...." Sebastian said.
"Part of the reapers job is to replay and examine the memories of people on the to 'die' list thus by the powers. From That we determine what kind of person they were, we see from their perspective what kind of life they lived, and wether they should be killed or left alive."
"In other words, you make their lives flash before their eyes."
"Oh please, that such a pedestrian term. So much it is so much more. This is reapers true power the cinematic record!"
We watch her record. Her pain and sorrow. Then it ended. She was dead. "How beautiful you were dyed in Crimson with your victims' blood Madame red. I loved you so. What a disappointment you turned out to be in the end. You don't have what it takes to wear red. Your cheap little melodrama ends now." Grell said taking her red coat and put it on. He picked up his death scythe. "It's over Madame Red. Goodbye." He started walking away. He picked up Lena up and threw her over his shoulder, then said. "Don't worry I'm not going to kill her. Just small threats to get her annoyed." He smirked. "I don't hurt family even if not she's not related to me. She's told me we were family a long time ago."
I took my hand and closed Madame Red's eyes. "What are you waiting for. I thought I told you to end Jack the Ripper. It's not over yet. One is left. Stop dawdling and kill him. And make sure Lena's out of his way." I ordered.
"Certainly my Lord." Sebastian said.
Grell leaned Lena on a wall then said "I was going to spare you, professional courtesy and all,but if you insist. I'll send you and the boy to heaven together."
"Heaven! You must be joking. I know nothing of heaven." Sebastian said trying to kick Grell.
"You would kick a lady in the face! You fiend!"
"Terribly sorry. You see I'm just one hell of a butler." Sebastian said.
"You think a demon like you can beat the reaper?"
"Why not?" a small voice said. We all turned our attention to Lena, who was standing, supported by her scythe. "I mean, if a half-reaper half-human can beat you I'm sure a demon can." Her hair was plastered on her face and neck from the rain. She looked like she was crying or was it rain?
"Miss Lena is right. If my master instructs me to win, I shall win." Sebastian said
"You care quite a lot about that puny brat, don't you. I'm jealous. Even a demon ceased to exist if I reap them with my death scythe. Are you frightened?" Grell said
"Not in the least. I belong to my master. My soul and my body. Down to the last hair on my head. The contract remains so I fallow his every order. That's the Butler aesthetic, you see." Sebastian said.
"And you are defiantly going to get demoted, Grell." Lena said. "If you don't get killed."
To be continued