[Okay, so it had been a bit overboard. Really though, he'd wanted to tease. He could never quite get enough of it with Ciel and now that he had Vincent back to poke at, what was he to do? Vincent started it and that was his excuse.]

[Water in kettle, kettle on the stove, he sets the burner as if nothing had happened.] You could call it that. It's not anything I was able to do in life. Have I sufficiently impressed you enough to distract you from hating me? I can do it again, if that's not doing it for you.