"um. could you tell me where i am? im afraid my memory is somewhat muddled at the moment" elizabeth asks quietly. not reacting to the hand on her breast in the slightest.
she learned from an early age after all that men would take what they wanted and she should be content with the attention that a man decides to grace the third princess of liones with. Meliodas quickly removes his has hand and stammers out something about checking her heartbeat somewhat confused as to why he didnt receive so much as a blush to touching a woman so indecently. quickly gathering his wits again he proudly states "your in the boar hat tavern, my bar." he looks her over concerned before asking "are you ok? you kinda fell in the door mumbling about the even deadly sins before you passed out"
Shrugging off the quick removal of his hand, her eyes widen "of course.. how could i have forgotten! i have been travelling for days searching for the sins. i must ask for their assistance in helping my father." she lets out in a rush almost looking frenzied "please do you have any information that could help me on my journey?" she blurts out looking pleadingly at meliodas. turning away and scratching his head meliodas simply says "sorry i dont… but why in the world would you be looking for them arent they criminals and traitors?" meliodas askes bluntly. he really hates that the sins are seen as traitors but he cant deny that they are in fact criminals even though they were trying to atone for their past sins. "NO! they are not traitors nor are they criminals and i refuse to believe otherwise!" elizabeth speaks up passionately before slapping a hand over her mouth and looking fearfully at him as he whirls around to stare dumbfoundedly at her.
they simply stare at each other for a few minutes before meliodas suddenly grins and walks towards the door calling behind him "why don't you come downstairs and i'll get you something to eat". elizabeth sits still for a few minutes not quite believing that she wasn't reprimanded for speaking out of turn. slowly she stands up from the bed following a.. pig? out the room and down a narrow flight of stairs to what looked like the bar area. she saw meliodas come from a door behind a bar carrying a plate of food, which he sat on the bar top. "well sit down.. i don't bite" he grinned cheekily, so following his orders she sat on the stool directly in front of him and cut a small piece of the meat to eat. as soon as the flavor hit her tongue she was tempted to spit it straight out but training and etiquette made her swallow the disgusting food. "sorry im not much of a cook.. as soon as i touch an ingredient it seems to turn against me… sorry" meliodas gets out rather sheepishly.
Elizabeth relaxes and lets out a small chuckle "its fine.. im sure its better that i could come up with". amazingly she goes in for another bite. " you know you really dont have to eat anymore of that if you dont want to" he laughs while contemplating her sanity if she thinks her cooking could possibly be any worse than his. "do you mind if i ask you a few questions?" meliodas asked hesitantly. "of course... that is your right" was elizabeth's only reply. meliodas is so confused but her at this point he doesnt even know where to begin.
alot of questions start forming in his head but the one thing that confuses him most is her earlier comment on him being innocent. "um..ok.. why are you so adamant about the seven deadly sins being innocent? i heard from a few holy knights that come to place the new wanted posters that there was concrete evidence that they are guilty" hes not quite sure what he expects to hear but it certainly wasnt the answer he got
"well to put it simply i knew their captain meliodas before they ran. he was always so kind to me when i was a child. though im afraid i dont have many memories left of him, i barely even remember what he looks like all i remember i blond hair, safety and a kindness that i havent received since they left" she looks so forlorn as she answers his question not that meliodas noticed he was to busy trying to stop his hearts beating out of his chest. As meliodas studies her the more he notices the silver locks, e big blue eyes, the facial features even the small chuckle held the same tone as "Ellie? is...is that really you?" he almost whispers. but the way her head snaps up to look him in the eyes he knows she heard "only my big sister veronica calls be that… how do you know my name?" meliodas gulp quickly looking her up and down then remembering that he basically molested her upstairs. "wow ellie… 10 years most definitely agreed with you" he smirked at her as her eyes widened comicaly "meliodas?" she breathed trying to taper off her excitement. his grin widened as he chuckled "in the flesh" before almost pulling her over the bar into a bear hug.
they both held on for dear life not wanting to let the other go in case they vanished but after a minute or two meliodas suddenly became very aware of how much she had changed as he found himself almost buried within her cleavage. which created a very big problem for him and as he backed away he was forever grateful that the bar was there to help cover said big problem...