Shotarella

Summary: Once upon a time in a land far far away lived a lonely prince and a pretty young girl who lived with her two evil step-mother and step-sisters. This is not their story. Oz Vessalius and his two step sisters are invited to a ball. Cinderella/PH parody!

Chapter 8- Glass Slipper

"Gil…" Oz whispers embarrassed by the way he was lying against the taller male's chest. Gilbert simply smiled down at him enjoying the fact that it was his master with the blush on his face instead on his self. "How did we end up on the bed like this?" He whispers not really remembering how but not really caring either; he liked the feeling of the arms wrapped around his shoulder holding him tightly.

"I don't remember… I think we fell over something." Gilbert mutters burying his face into Oz's hair smiling contently at the softness.

"Should we at least get up and put some clothing on? What if I maid were to come in here?" Oz whispers softly shivering slightly as Gilbert slides his hand down Oz's back to pull up the sheet up farther onto the boy.

"No one comes in here, Oz… This is my room; I clean myself so none of the maids have to waste their time cleaning it." Gilbert whispers soothingly as Oz looked up at him with desire in his eyes and Gilbert smiled before leaning down, pressing his lips against Oz's. Oz kissed back sighing glad he chose to tell his best friend that he was in love with him.

"Oz-niisama!" Alyss voice shouts as she banged on the door and Oz groaned wondering why people had to always ruin the mood.

"We should see what she wants…" Gilbert says with a small sigh sitting up and Oz let out a whine.

"Just pretend she's not there and she'll go away." Oz says with a pout on his lips and Gilbert gave him a small smile before kissing his lips softly.

"No she won't… She's your step sister, remember?" Gilbert says sliding off the bed and pulling a pair of dry pants on before he walked over and opened the door.

"I-Is my brother in there! We have a big problem! M-Mom is getting ready to go home to check on us at one. We need to get back to the mansion and hide the clothing! Please tell me he's there!" Alyss says in a panic and Oz sighs and climbed out of the bed.

"Calm down! I'm here okay? Give me a minute." Oz says with a sigh grabbing the pantaloons and other such stuff that were hanging to dry.

"No… We don't have a minute! We have to go now!" Alyss says pushing past Gilbert and grabbing Oz's hand starting to pull him towards the door.

"H-Hey, I'm naked!" Oz says with a red face causing Alyss to freeze and lower her head to the floor.

"Ah… s-sorry, please get dressed quickly..." She says rushing back out of the room and Gilbert sighs.

"She's about as clueless as her sister…" Gilbert mutters as he walked over to Oz and started to help his redress.

"It's cute, don't you think?" Oz says with a small laugh as Gilbert put the corset around his waist.

"Not at all…" He says softly grabbing the slip and pulling it over Oz's head.

"That's good enough!" Alice says reentering the room grabbing Oz throwing the wig onto his head before she started to pull him out of the room.

"Alyss-chan! This isn't funny! I'm in my underwear practically, I don't want people to see me like this, and it'll be an embarrassment to the royal family!" Oz stated grabbing the ball gown and tried to slip on the heels but she kept pulling him until they were heading down the hallway toward the back exit.

'Such a pushy brat…' Gilbert thought grabbing a shirt and pulling it on so he could return to the party. When he went to grab his shoes he noticed one of Oz's mother's shoes were still lying on the ground. Gilbert felt the corner of his lip twitch as if to smirk before he shook his head. 'At least this gives me a reason to go over to his house.' Gilbert thought slipping his shoes on as he heard someone appear in the doorway. "Shouldn't you be entertaining your guests, your majesty?" He says looking up at Jack with a curious look and Jack simply smiled at him.

"Should you be as well?" Jack says with a teasing grin and Gilbert only smirks before picking up Oz's shoe that was left behind. "I see Ella-chan left us a calling card." Jack says with a chuckle.

"This gives us a reason to pay a visit to their house so you can see how cruel Oz's step-mother is." He says calmly and Jack frowned slightly.

"From the stories Oz has told me when he visits, I don't think I even want to speak to her about my marriage proposal to Alyss." Jack says with a small sigh and Gilbert looked at him like he was stupid.

"Why'd you propose to her? Eh… Never mind, I have no room to ask that…" Gilbert says turning away from Jack. 'Seeing as I just confessed to and made out with my best friend of fifteen years.' Gilbert thought with a small sigh and Jack chuckled.

"But you did…" He says with a huge grin on his face. "It's because I fell in love with her and she's Oz's sister that always seems to be in ill health. I'm looking forward to visiting her tomorrow and seeing just how sick she is..." Jack says with a chuckle before he turned and walked over to the door. "You're planning on going to visit our little Cinderella anyway right?" He says glancing back and Gilbert blushed at his prince's words.

"Yes, I was planning on returning his shoe." Gilbert says calmly and Jack chuckles.

"Then we'll go tomorrow, since you have the day off." Jack says cheerfully and Gilbert smiled slightly before nodding.

"Yes, your majesty." He says fallowing the blonde male back to the party.

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"I'm really sorry." Alyss says curled up on one side of the carriage feeling awful because Oz had said he lost one of his shoes because Alyss was pulling him so hard.

"I said it was fine, Alyss. Gilbert will find it, I'm sure… and he'll bring it back." Oz says with a sigh and Alyss let out a small whimper. "Why are you crying?" Oz says looking at her curiously as the tears streamed down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry…" She whispers whipping her eyes with her handkerchief and Oz sighs.

"Stop that… You don't need to apologies for crying." Oz says leaning back against the carriage seat with a small sigh. 'But seriously don't cry; no tears… I hate tears.' He thought with a small frown closing his eyes and looked out of the window.

"Do you think we're going to beat mom home?" Alyss whispers and Oz let out a small chuckle.

"We should… Don't worry we'll be fine." Oz says calmly not opening his eyes and he listened to her shift as if uncomfortable.

"Oniichan…" Alyss says as if she is unsure she should be speaking.

"Yes?" Oz says opening one eye curiously and he noticed Alyss blushing slightly with tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes.

"Um… I want to ask you something." She says softly and Oz looked at her a bit nervous at what she was going to ask but he waited for her to ask her question. "W-Would…um… Would you give...Would you be the one to give me away?" Alyss says covering her face as if really embarrassed and Oz looked at her confused not sure what she meant by that.

"What do you mean? You're my little step-sister… of course I wouldn't do something like that." Oz says and Alyss looked at him with a slight panic.

"I-I think you misunderstood me! I-I-I Jack has asked… um… ah… marry m…me…um and I d-don't… um…" She says as her she looked away with bright red cheeks and Oz stared at her slowly putting her words together. "I-I don't have… um, a dad and um… Oz-niisama's dad, I don't really know… and eh… I know Oz-niisama a lot better and…" Alyss continues and Oz smiled at her finally understanding where she was going.

"You want me to be the one to give you to Jack during the wedding?" Oz says with a bright smile on his face and Alyss simply nodded too embarrassed to anything. "Okay…I will if you want me too. So Jack really did ask you to marry him? Congrats… We'll have to arrange a meeting and speak to the bakery down town about a wedding cake and arrange a date for measurements for your dress." Oz says with a slight grin on his face and Alyss giggles nodding in agreement. "Ah… We're home! Should we tell Mrs. Kate? Or should we wait and surprise her?" Oz says cheerfully opening the door and jumping out of the carriage glad he was going to be able to get out of the wet dress he had to wear home.

"Let's wait… I don't want mother to find out until Jack comes to visit us." Alyss says exiting from the carriage herself before she heard Oz sneeze. "We better get you out of that dress." She says with a small giggle and Oz chuckled.

"Even if it wasn't soaking wet I think it would be time to take it off." Oz says as they quickly entering the manor to change.

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"Kate! Where are Alyss and Oz?" Alice and Alyss's mother shouts with a glare on her face and Kate looked at her with a small curious look.

"They're upstairs sleeping… Oz-sama had come down stair a little while ago and collapsed from a fever. We were quite startled by it but he's quietly resting… upstairs?" Kate says as the woman stormed up the stairs to her daughter's room and Kate sighs with a small frown.

"You're not going to find what you're looking for up there." Kate muttered as she glanced over at the other maids that were hiding their laughs. "Come now, you have your duties to attend." She says shooing them away as a very tired Alice walked into the manor.

"Miss Kate… Can you help me out of this…?" She says in an exhausted voice and Kate laughs softly, leading her upstairs to dress her for bed.

"Alyss… wake up this instant!" Her mother shouts and Alyss jumped from her lying position and she looked at her mother in fear. "Stand still…" She says looking her daughter over for anything that looked suspicious. Alyss simply stood there hoping that she passed her mother's inspection. With a frustrated sigh, Alyss's mother turned away from her and stormed out of the room and Alyss let out a small sigh of relief, glad that she passed her mother's inspection.

'That was too close… We had a serious scared when Oz-niichan passed out.' Alyss thought with a small frown as he heard his mother shout in Oz's room and she bolt to the boy's room. "Mother don't! Oz has a fever, let him sleep!" She says quickly and her mother glares at her before mutter something like 'we'll see about that' as she walked over to Oz's bed where the boy still lay sleeping soundly. She placed her hand on his forehead before ripping her hand away with a small scowl.

"How the heck did he get a fever? He was fine when we left." His mother states and Alyss shook her head as if she didn't know but she felt awful because Oz had ridden the whole way home in a wet dress and it was the middle of a chilly autumn night. She watched her mother exit the room before she sighed and walked over to Oz with a frown.

"It really was sudden… I don't get it." She whispers and she heard Oz chuckle causing her to jump.

"It's called a hot water bottle… Mrs. Kate came up with that idea to trick mother." Oz says sitting up with a small sigh as he held up the hot water bottle that he had hidden behind his head like it was an ice pack. "Pretty clever, right? Even though I did feel a bit cold, this bad boy warmed me right up." He says with a slight chuckle and Alyss sighed before she pushed him.

"So why did you pretend to faint? You had me seriously worried!" Alyss shouts with a pout onto her face and Oz only smiled at her.

"You wouldn't have acted right and your mother would have figured it out." Oz says watching Alyss blush at the thought of being fooled before smiling and kissing Oz's cheek.

"You're too smart for your own good sometimes but thank you for doing all of this. You're the best nii-sama." She says sweetly before leaving the room and Oz sighed before lying back down.

'No… I'm not. I was surprised that it went so well… but it's not over yet. We still have to trick your mother into accepting that you got chosen and not Alice.' Oz thought with a small sigh before closing his eyes tiredly. 'At least I got to spend time with Gil.' He thought smiling warmly at the memory of how it felt to kiss his best friend.

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"Are you sure about coming with me, your Majesty?" Gilbert states with a raised eyebrow toward Jack who was staring out the window with a slight bored look on his face. Hearing Gilbert's word he looked back at Gilbert before smiling an eager grin.

"Of course, I want to surprise the princess…. And scare the shit out of her mother too." Jack says with a small chuckle at the end and Gilbert only shook his head knowing that things were going to get messy because his idiot prince did not think plans through very well when it came to women.

"Very well but you do realize that they'll all be in a panic." Gilbert says calmly and Jack chuckled with a slight grin on his face.

"I told Alice and Alyss-chan that I would be stopping by so they're preparing, only Oz and their mother do not know I am coming." Jack says watching Gilbert stare at him confusedly.

"I thought you said you wanted to surprise her." Gilbert questions and Jack simply looked back out the window letting Gilbert think about what he said. Gilbert did just that and scowled when he figured out what the man meant. "Oz isn't going to be happy that you called him a princess." Gilbert mutters crossing his legs as he pulled out the glass stiletto heal. 'How the hell did he walk in these without breaking them?' He thought staring at the thin heal that was sticking out from the back of the shoe.

"Our happy ending hasn't occurred yet…" Jack says with a small sigh causing Gilbert to look up at Jack, who was watching him with a slight smile. "For the two of us it's going to be hard. We may have our feelings returned by the ones we love but that is only the beginning out the hardships; acceptance from family, ridicule from others; even a complete rejection from people that haven't even met you." Jack says in a soft voice and Gilbert saw the worry in his eyes before shaking his head.

"I believe that Oz and I have to worry about this more than you do your Majesty… Alyss may be a bit of a pain but she is a respectable young lady when it comes to her loved ones. I believe she learned from when we were young what was wrong to say and what was right. She will be greatly liked by your father and even your brothers, I am sure." Gilbert says calmly and Jack looked back at him with a slight hopeful look.

"Yeah… Thank you, Gilbert-kun. I am sure that when I become king you and Oz will not have to hide the fact that you love one another from others that is what I hope for anyway. It'd be nice for everyone to love no matter what their status, age, or gender." Jack says with a slight smile and Gilbert smiled at his prince.

"I'm content with being able to stay by my master's side as well as his Majesty's side." Gilbert says as the carriage stops in front of the Vessalius Manor.