Orange

Summary: When Elizabeth's eye turns orange, she thinks about it while looking in the mirror.

Characters: Elizabeth, Margaret, Veronica

Relationships: Elizabeth/Margaret/Veronica (Siblings)

Genre: Family, Hurt/Comfort

Elizabeth's eyes widened at her reflection in the mirror. The young princess was definitely taken aback by what she saw reflected back at her.

Her eye was orange! And on top of that…It had a strange symbol in it that was replacing her pupil.

Elizabeth knew what she saw was real; it would be far too strange for her to simply be imagining this. An eye like that was completely out of the ordinary! She had never seen nor heard anything like it!

Elizabeth slowly moved her hand to cover her eye as tears gathered in her eyes and rolled down her cheeks.

Her eye hadn't been that colour when she fell asleep last night and it definitely did not have that strange symbol in it. Elizabeth didn't know much about the world outside her castle but she was pretty sure this was a far from normal thing to happen.

Elizabeth was afraid about what everyone else would think when they saw such an abnormality in her eye. They would probably hate her even more than they already did. Elizabeth knew quite a few people around the castle didn't like her, she didn't know why but she had overheard many say horrible things about her, she may not have fully understood what they meant but she did at least pick up on the fact they weren't nice.

This would give everyone more reason to hate her. It was strange and it was scary and those kinds of things got hated.

As much as she really didn't want to leave her room right now… Elizabeth had to, she had promised her sisters she would play with them and she couldn't just go back on her promise. Maybe she could find some way to hide her eye before she left?

Moving her hair around, Elizabeth tried to move it in such a way that it covered her eye without it falling out of place. Sadly she couldn't get her hair to do that and so she began looking around her room for something that would either cover her eye or hold her hair in a place where it could cover her eye.

Caught up in this… Elizabeth didn't pay attention to the time. Before she knew it, she had already missed the meeting time by almost an hour and her sisters grew worried at her absence.

It wasn't like their youngest sister to be this late; sure she had a tendency to let time get away from her, but not usually to this extent.

Filled with concern for their sister, Margaret and Veronica made their way over to her room, hoping that she would be there, instead of wandering the halls like she usually did.

Once they made it there Margaret knocked on the door as Veronica shifted around trying to stop herself from just bursting into Elizabeth's room.

Elizabeth jumped at the familiar knock at her door, looking at the sun dial outside her window she realised she wasn't just late; she was really late to her play date with her sisters.

Her tears had long since stopped flowing and were now all dried up, Elizabeth was aware that there were traces of her tears on her face and so she wiped them off with her sleeves in order to not worry her sisters.

"Yes?" She asked her sisters, trying to keep her voice as steady as possible, so they wouldn't know there was anything wrong.

At their sister's voice, Margaret and Veronica quickly opened the door and stumbled into her room before rushing over to their little sister.

And just before they managed to open the door, Elizabeth quickly covered her strange eye with her hand once more.

"Eli, are you alright?!" Veronica asked her younger sister frantically, grabbing her sister's shoulders. When she had spoken Eli's voice had cracked; it was very slight but both Veronica and Margaret had heard it and that just served to worry them further.

"Eli, is there something wrong with your eye?" Margaret asked her, pulling Veronica away from her and gently placing a hand on her wrist trying to take her hand away from her sister's eye so she could take a look at it.

Elizabeth made a sound of protest and moved away from her sister, successfully pulling away from Margaret's gentle hands.

The two elder Liones sisters frowned at the action and Margaret tried to get Elizabeth to remove her hand once more, only for Elizabeth to move back once more.

"Elizabeth, we can't help you if we don't know what's wrong." Margaret told her, if she couldn't remove her hand, then she had to make Elizabeth want to move it herself. If there was something wrong with her eye then it needed to be looked at.

Elizabeth shook her head and much to her surprise tears started to flow down her cheeks once again, she didn't think she had anything left in her to be able to cry anymore.

"…No…" Elizabeth uttered, her voice coming out rather shakily and barely loud enough for her sisters to hear.

Elizabeth hadn't been thinking about it before but now her sisters were here she thought… maybe they would hate her too. She didn't want her sisters to hate her, she loved her sisters more than anything, she didn't know what she'd do if they hated her.

Elizabeth didn't want anyone to hate her, she had always thought being hated would be a horrible feeling, but her sisters or her father or anyone else she loved hating her… would hurt more than she could imagine. She would be okay with everyone else hating her, so long as her sisters, her father and anyone else she loved did not.

So, Elizabeth figured that it would be best to never let them find out about it at all. If they never knew about her strange new eye then they could never hate her for it.

…But how would she hide her eye? She couldn't hide it with her hair unless she grew it out but that would take a while and she couldn't just lock herself in her room for that long.

Maybe there was a way to make her hair grow longer instantly? As someone who had grown up around Holy Knights; Elizabeth was more than aware that something like that was, more likely than not, possible.

But Elizabeth knew one thing for sure. She absolutely would not allow anyone to know about her eye!

So that was the very first oneshot of the story and I think it was a pretty good start to the oneshots. Although a part of me can't help but feel like something is missing from it.