LP one day acting like a normal human being to the elgang and not an asshole, but then the next day he isn't with them, his trail leads an elgang member to his ransacked and abandoned home and he is found in his mother's greenhouse and caring for a lone flower which he then brings to a makeshift grave. LP sorrowfully sings 'Happy Birthday' to his deceased mother and whoever followed him comforts him.
Add almost threw what looked to be a bouquet of plants at Ciel’s disposal. The demon looked at him in alarm, catching them with no trouble.
“The cookies won’t be done for another few minutes,” Ciel said. “But thank you for the herbs. I don’t remember requesting them.”
“It’s not the cookies,” Add said with harshness in his voice, but mumbled a thanks for the cookies that weren’t finished. Ciel hummed in understanding, but when he looked up to say something to the brawler, Add was over at the kitchen sink talking to Rena.
She let the brawler hand her over a bag of vegetables from the opposite side of the counter and handed him a bowl of chopped celery and bits of peanut butter.“Healthier option for snacks,” Rena beamed when Add looked at her in question. Blinking at her, he huffed and pretended to be annoyed, but a rare smile found its way before he forced it back into a scowl.
“Where is he going?” Ciel asked when he disappeared.
Rena shrugged, “I saw him helping Raven with his Arm earlier today. Maybe he’s doing the same with everyone?”
When did the brawler become this generous around them? If this was any other person, he would have figured it was because he was influenced by everyone to be helpful, but this was Add they were talking about. The same man who placed his machines over the rest of the group if it involved vital research on what he refused to reveal to anyone. Not that they would understand. When he went to knock on Add’s door later that day to deliver the cookies, the room’s occupant had gone missing.
Ciel wasn’t a full demon, but it wasn’t the cold that made him shiver when he saw the soulless eyes of fallen demons with unnatural looking cuts past midnight. Following the trail of demons, he soon found himself at the edge of a ruined building. Judging from the chipped porcelain and expensive silverware sticking out of the ground, it belonged to a wealthy person. Standing in a pile of dead leaves was Add, moonlight washed over his pale figure with his back turned away. The brawler leaning down with his hands almost touching the ground.
“Happy birthday, dear Mother…” Was he singing? It took Ciel a moment to realize Add was tending to a flower. Its petals were still new and barely opened, but it was recently watered with water droplets dripping down the stem. He froze when Add stopped singing and straightened his back, turning around to look at him in the eye.
“Are you here to laugh at me?”
Ciel shook his head, “No.”
Add opened his mouth, but no words fell out. Dozens of questions swirled in Ciel’s mind at everything he had witnessed. A charred house with nothing left but dead leaves and broken pieces of china, melted plastic fused together, the flower being the only living thing – but all of that didn’t matter when Add sat down and began to cry silent tears. He shook when Ciel placed a hand on him, but didn’t protest when the butler handed him a handkerchief to dab at the corners of his eyes.
“It’s your mother’s birthday, isn’t it?” Ciel asked, “Do you want me to make something for her?”
His eyes widened at the request, but Add breathed, “She likes strawberry cake.”
“I can work with that.” Ciel chuckled, “We can come here tomorrow night with the cake.” Add’s body shook and he only nodded in agreement to his suggestion, but mouthed a thanks to him that made him smile in sadness.
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