A/N: Chapter 57 – 'nuff said.

Personally, I've loved Lizzy from the very beginning. I mean, for the love of God, she's a twelve-thirteen year old girl. She's allowed to be cute and obsessed with adorable things and hell she's even allowed her tantrums. But all things considered, she's pretty mature – anything she does she does for Ciel, and if she thinks she's hurt Ciel, she's instantly repentant. How can you fangirls who love Ciel so much hate someone who's exactly the same?

Oh, yeah, cos she gets in the way of your precious pedophiliac yaoi between a demon who has stated that he hates Ciel and intends to kill him and a young boy who was bound to the demon with little say on the matter. But what does that matter? They're hot (No,they'renot,sickos) together.

…What the hell is wrong with you people?

UGH. I'm ranting again.

Ah, anyway, onto the story~.

Lizzy is in love with Ciel Phantomhive.

Lizzy is in love with Ciel Phantomhive.

Lizzy is in love with Ciel Phantomhive, and she will do anything to make him love her too.

She hides behind sweet smiles and gentle words and ribbons and bows, but that fact overrides all else.

Lizzy is in love with Ciel Phantomhive, and she will do anything to make him happy.

He does love her, and she can tell, but that's not good enough. He has to be happy in his love; she has to make him happy. That's why she hides behind cute things, because perhaps something sweet and childish will remind him of his childhood, stolen from him cruelly, painfully, and perhaps she can make some feeble attempt to give it back to him.

Oh yes, Lizzy knows so much more than Ciel thinks she does. But Lizzy wants him to be happy, and she knows he's been trying oh-so-hard to protect her from his family's horrible secrets. And so she'd acted innocent and naïve because Ciel never wanted to fail in such a thing, and she knows it.

Not anymore.

They will shoulder the burden together. Perhaps he will be able to smile, if the weight is not quite so much.

But dammit he can't smile if he's dead.

But that's okay. She will not let him die. Finally, it's her turn to protect him.

She will kill each and every one of them.

No one, not even demons from hell itself, will hurt her Ciel.

"The wife of the Queen's Watchdog!"