アニーの遺産

"Be careful man! You're going to break me!" I hissed. The butler didn't let up on the abuse. "There has yet to be a lady who has split in half from a corset being tied." He snapped back, and with a nightly yank, I could feel my insides be pushed up where as my breasts were touching my neck. I'm sure if I straightened up they wouldn't currently be choking me now, but I needed my hands on the wall for this.

God this hurt. I sucked in a sharp breath, that would have done well to choke me as it made its way to my constricted lungs. The Feral wanted to come out, and it wanted to DESTROY who was inflicting this pain and pure ABUSE. "You might wanna ease up on that, butler..." I muttered, my nails now digging into the walls. "Miss Annie, I ask that you refrain from damaging our wallpaper." He says. The cockiness of this bastard! I could snap his neck!

I pushed such thoughts away as I could feel the Feral was getting worse. I wanted to snap his neck. After all, he was trying to split me in half! I hissed as another yank sounded and a squeezing pain ripped through me. How much did he want me to shrink?!

"Your figure proves to be quite difficult to fit into a corset, Miss Annie..."

Okay. That was it. Someone was in need of a royal ass kicking. Did he just call me fat? He called me fat. Asshole. I felt the pupils on my eyes open in a way. If I hadn't had on a blind fold, flames would be coming from my eyes.

No really.

My fingers just full on dug into the walls, the plaster and everything. I could feel the butler stop what he was doing all of a sudden to look at what I was doing to the wall. "Miss Annie wha-" cutting him off, I swung around on one leg and aimed with my other. Missing his head by a few inches. The butlers expression never faltered, nor has it changed. The Feral me, has now taken over.

Though I'm not sure how long the Feral had me under control, I do recall feeling unexpectedly sore in my arms, my legs, and most of all, my head had such a pounding headache. I blinked from underneath my blindfold, adjusting to the functions of the blindfold as I normally do when waking up. I saw the butlers face, hovering only a few inches above mine.

"Get off." I said, my voice also sounded a bit strange as well. The butler wasn't having any of it. "I said get off. Are you deaf?!" I said, and immediately the butler gave a quiet "tsk" before lifting himself off of me. "I wasn't expecting that to say the least, Miss Annie. Though now that calls into a question I think deserves answering now..." he said. I sat up, leaning back on my arms, which were killing me. Just what was it that I did? I furrowed my brows, and frowned a bit. I blinked, and felt my eyes have the same kind of I've-been-awake-for-too-long feeling I get when me and the Feral switch places for a very long time. Usually after an hour the Feral backs out, but now that I called into question my body... how long was I gone?

"What may that question be?"

"Are you human, Miss Annie?" He asked. His ruby eyes holding a slight shine in them, but they held a sort of... lifelessness that I couldn't pinpoint. I didn't waste my time answering the question.

"No."

This seemed to startle the butler slightly, as I saw his eyes widen for a split second before they returned back to their normal size. "Is that so?" He said, it being less a question and more a statement confirming what I had just said.

"Yes." I answered it anyway. I saw no point in hiding what I am. Though that would probably be a good idea to do so... I have a feeling my "secret" won't spill anytime soon. "But neither are you." I added. The butler smirked for a moment, letting out a slight 'hm' before going back to his previous expression. "That may be so, Miss Annie. Seems we have a common ground somewhere then..." he said, and I kept my mouth in a straight line.

"Just a matter of fact... I cannot remember what happened just now. So anything I did... was probably justified in its own way." I said, and somehow managed to get up. Sebastian-the-not-human looked at me, somewhat surprised, then unamused at what I said. "You do not recall attacking me?" He asked, and I let out a sort of smile at him, "No. I remember that." I said. I crossed my arms, and leaned on one leg.

The butler seemed to contemplate something for a moment, before sighing. "Well, thirty minutes has passed, and I have a lot of work to do. Therefore, I must finish dressing you at once." He said, and I moved backwards when he moved forward. "I will not tighten the corset more than it ready has been, Miss Annie." he said calmly.

I furrowed my brows and frowned at him, "I can't promise you will be okay a second time if you try anything, butler." He seemed slightly amused at that statement. "I managed the first time. A second won't deter me from anything at all, Miss Annie." He said this with calmness that it almost scared me. He was so... composed. It made me wonder what storm could be brewing inside.

As he came near me, I tensed. I didn't like people this close to me. Especially not like this. With a corset pushing my breasts up further than they normally are, and a rather nice looking one too. I watched as he grabbed a white petticoat, and gestured for me to raise my arms. I did so, and he pulled it right over my head. "We recently had a tailor come by and design new clothes for the servants, the Young Master, and myself. Since she is soon to be on her way here in a few weeks, you might as well do so and stay with us for the time being until we can figure out someway to get you back to where you come from... you will just wear one of Meylene's maid dresses for now..." He said. And just like that, he pulled out a simple dark blue gown. "Allow me to tailor it slightly to make it a bit more fashionable for our guest..." he said, and quickly turned around, and I immediately heard cutting and ripping noises. I stared at his back a bit baffled by how much noise he was making. "Ahh ha... you don't need to-"

"Nonsense! To have a guest of Phantomhive wear a servants dress would be very inappropriate, and it would smear the Phantomhive name!" He said, before turning around. "Besides. I'm already done modifying it so it is no longer a servants dress, but is now-" taking the dress out of no where, I stared at the newly made casual dress.

Though the amount of frills and bows put me off a bit when he said it was designed to "walk around the manor in casually". I sighed inwardly, and lifted my arms. "Alrighty then. Do the deed." I said, and heard a slight chuckle come from the butler. He was amused. I watched his face, he did have on a blind fold earlier, but I guess it slipped off when we were fighting... speaking of which, how did he know when to-

"You could see through the blindfold, couldn't you?" I asked once he had the dress on me. Turning me around, he buttoned up the back buttons quickly. "Not clearly, but yes. You can see through yours, correct?" He said, and I rolled my eyes. "Yes I can." I said. I turned around on my own, and crossed my arms, "Though this blindfold's purpose is not to keep me from seeing anything." I added.

I walked out of the room before he could say anything else.