Title: Reminiscing

Theme: #16 Excessive Chain

Fandom: Nanatsu no Taizai/Seven Deadly Sins

Pairing: KingxDiane

Note: ...Do I seriously have to keep telling y'all that there are spoilers here or have y'all wised up yet?

Disclaimer: You can't own true love. Sorry. But Nakaba-sensei does own King and Diane and the world of NNT. I wouldn't mind if HE WOULD JUST GIVE US KIANE SMUT. Banlaine got some, I don't understand why our Kiane hasn't!


Reminiscing


He sat at the top of the Holy tree one early morning, in the hours before dawn while his kingdom slumbered. His dear Diane slept as well, curled up at the base of the tree in the cave he had fashioned for them, so very much like the one they once shared so many years ago. The forest was silent save for the snores of fairies and calls of owls. The horizon featured a strip of light from where the sun would soon peek out from. The Fairy King sighed, content, looking over his realm with pride and thinking about everything that had happened to bring him to the place he was now.

Never could he have imagined that a single event would trigger everything that came after and leading him to what would ultimately be his greatest happiness.

When he had chased after Helbram, hunting the human that had murdered so many of his people, he never could have fathomed that falling into the river would find him face to face with Diane.

Diane.

Sweet and charming Diane. She had been only a girl when they had met and he had cared for her, looking after her well-being, unaware of what that care would later become.

"Diane was so cute back then!" He mused thoughtfully. "I hope when we have a kind of our own in the future they'll look like she did as a child."

When he had first met Diane he had thought she was an adorable girl. So kind and willing to share, not common traits among the Giants. She nursed him back to health without any ulterior motive. They went on to enjoy each others company for two-hundred years until events forced King to face his failings and he had fled, taking Diane's memories with him, something he still regretted doing.

After that they had met again when King joined the Seven Deadly Sins. Her memories were still locked away so she hadn't been aware of his identity and to avoid any chance she would remember he had presented himself in his human form, ensuring his continued deception.

'I was such a fool then.' Diane hadn't blamed him when she recovered her memories though she had every right to. Instead she had given him a simple but sad smile before leaning forward to press a kiss to his cheek. She loved him despite the mistakes of his past. That meant more to him than she could ever know.

Then they had gone into hiding, escaping the Holy Knights of Liones after being accused of a false crime. King had discarded his human form for the time, being separated from Diane giving him a reason to go back home to see his people. Instead he had met with disaster, the forest gone and his sister dead.

Those had been the hardest years for him. He had thought himself nothing more than a failure and sought revenge against Ban in a misguided attempt to assuage himself of any guilt. He had known the truth. He had been the one to blame. His only saving grace then had been thoughts of Diane though he spent so many of them worrying over her safety and with the foolish hope that she was thinking of him as well.

Then came the day that changed everything.

She had appeared after he had attacked Ban near the capital of the dead and he had barely managed to keep himself together. She was a little older and even more beautiful than the ten years previous. She greeted him with her usual cheer, bending forward just so and he had caught sight of her generous cleavage. Taking care not to show any emotion he had slowly fled back into the trees where he promptly fell against Chastiefol with a giddy sigh.

That was the start of the adventure that would bring them closer than ever. Elizabeth had been the catalyst that brought the Seven Deadly Sins back together. What all of them went through was incredible and heartbreaking but King and Diane had survived, finding each other and their memories again and again throughout their journey. Once Diane confessed her feelings for him he was completely lost. King disappeared and in his place was Harlequin, the Fairy King who had fallen in love with a Giantess.

"Haaarrrleeequiiiiiin!"

King peered over the edge of his perch, happily calling back down to his beloved. "Diane!"

Taking a leap off the branch Harlequin allowed himself to plummet several feet before throwing his wings out, letting them catch the air. With several lazy flaps he gracefully floated down to where Diane waited at human-sized height.

She greeted him with a shy kiss that he deepened, making her give a small sound of surprise before she pulled away with a heavy blush. "What were you doing?" She asked breathlessly.

Harlequin studied her face for a long pause, searching her eyes as he reached a hand up to delicately caress her skin. "Just reminiscing." He finally answered, his voice low and choked with emotion.

Diane heard the catch in his words and eyed him worriedly. "Are you okay?"

She looked so concerned, so young and so beautiful in that moment. It still struck him that he was standing before her not just as Harlequin the Fairy or King of the Seven Deadly Sins. She was his wife and he stood before her as her husband and lover. She loved him just as much as he had always loved her and the reality of that always crashed around him with a kind of hopeful intoxication. She made him feel as if his feet would never touch the ground again. She was everything that was precious and pure in his world and he loved nothing more than showing her how much he valued her each and every day.

He leaned in and molded his mouth to hers, wrapping her in his embrace before giving an almighty flap and sending them airborne. Diane responded to him without hesitation, crushing her body to his as she wrapped her arms around his neck and letting him support her in the air. He flew above the tree line, past the clouds, and into the air where the sky was swathed in petal-soft orange and the sun brilliantly gleamed.

He pulled back and tucked her head underneath his chin, content to just hold her. Diane couldn't keep the sheer happiness from showing on her face as she rested against his shoulder.

They had waited so long to finally come together, fighting against so many obstacles, beating all the odds. They were together and neither wanted to ever let go.

"I love you." One of them said as the other responded in kind.

After a long while King finally spoke, asking Diane a question he finally felt ready to hear an answer to. "Diane?" At her affirmative hum he paused before forging ahead. "What do you think about kids?"

Diane reacted so suddenly Harlequin almost dropped her. Her face split into an exuberant grin as she loudly announced into his face, "I'd love to!"

At his stunned expression she laughed and gripped him into another hug. "A baby with Harlequin! That would make me so happy!"

"Yeah!?" He shouldn't have sounded so surprised but he couldn't figure out how to properly express his excitement.

Diane peppered his face in kisses, holding his cheeks in between her hands. "Of course!" She all but crowed. "I've been wanting this since we defeated the Demon King!"

King was shock-still only a second longer before he threw Diane into the air with a spin, eliciting an alarmed cry from her before he caught her bridal style and began rocketing down back to the forest at breakneck speed.

"Harlequin?!"

He grinned at her impishly. "What are we waiting for?! You want a baby right?"

It took her a minute to understand his question but when she did Diane burst crimson and gave a peal of laughter, securing her hold on him as she allowed her Harlequin to take her to the privacy of their home where the two stayed for the next several months until Elaine showed up to crossly kick the two back into civilization.


Owari


Lighthearted fluff to counter that depress-fest from the previous chapter. Wrote this one in one sitting so sorry it sucks.

I am so damn grateful to everyone who has read and reviewed so far. I never believed this challenge would become as big as it did. I'm really excited to see it through to the end so I hope I don't disappoint with the final chapter and theme. Please look forward to it!

Twenty-nine down. ONE MORE TO GO.