Third person POV-
"So what now?" Elizabeth asked.
She was leaning up against meliodas, who was cuddling her while leaning his back against the frame of his bed.
"Mmmm" Meliodas hummed and kissed the top of her head.
He hadn't even heard her question.
Elizabeth blushed from the sweet act, but continued to push.
"Meliodas..what is this gonna lead to?"
"Whatever you want it to lead to.." he said calmly.
The last thing he wanted was to push her into doing something she was uncomfortable with.
"...I-..I want to be with you.." she said and rotated her body so that she could wrap her arms around him.
"But how? We're both the rulers of our respected territory..."
Meliodas thought about Elizabeth's words.
"I could retire from the throne?"
"Don't be silly, you can't do that..."
Meliodas then had a flashback to 300 years ago when he betrayed his family and entire race just to be with the goddess Elizabeth.
"Oh yes I can"
"Meliodas..." Elizabeth scolded.
She thought he was kidding with her.
"Elizabeth...ask me for anything..I won't deny you anything" Meliodas said sweetly and kissed her square on the lips again.
Once again Elizabeth's hands sought refuge in his wild hair, his hands however landed on her waist, and she made a little yelp from the contact there, causing Meliodas to chuckle into the kiss.
"You don't make sense to me" Elizabeth says when they parted, causing Meliodas to humorously raise an eyebrow.
"How can you say all that...and how can I like you so much, when we've only known each other for such a short amount of time?" Elizabeth continued.
"You're still taking about that?"
"How can I not? What we're doing right now...it's against everything I've ever been taught"
'Once again, another perfect fit between you and your past life' Meliodas thought.
"Does that makes it wrong?"
"...I don't know...it-it doesn't feel wrong" she whispered and snuggled into him.
"Then that's all we need to know"
Elizabeth thought about what to say to that, but she ended up just nodding.
They stayed like that for a while, just wrapped in each other's arms.
Meliodas finally felt whole again, but he was somewhat guilty...
If he ended up having to leave her again, it would break her heart. He knew that.
'I'll just have to find a way to stay with her forever'
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After laying together for what felt like hours Elizabeth had fallen asleep for a short while.
So when she woke up she glanced out of the window to see how late it had gotten.
The sun had set.
"Ah! I- I should get going, my sisters are probably wondering where I am" She squealed and immediately sprung up to straighten her hair and her dress, all the whole meliodas looked on I bafflement.
"Yeah, okay"
"I'm sorry it's just-" She said, quickly getting frustrated, after all it's not like she could openly tell her sisters where she had been. They had already made it clear that they thought that Meliodas wasn't the one for her.
She then paused, thinking it over.
'The one? When did I draw that conclusion?'
She shook her head trying to escape those confusing thoughts. Then she caught her reflection in the body mirror standing in the corner of the room.
Her hair was a mess and so she quickly walked over to the mirror to try and fix it.
Her hair had originally been set up in a ponytail, in which the hair that was pulled into the ponytail was braided, and of course her signature bangs covering her right eye.
Meliodas laughed a little at seeing her frantically set her hair again, but fail.
"Just keep it loose" he told her cheekily.
"But that's-..." Elizabeth trailed off.
There wasn't really anything wrong with having her hair loose. She just wasn't as used to it.
"Here...let me help" Meliodas said and got up from the bed.
He carefully helped her untied her hair from the now messy ponytail and braids. He then ran his hands through it a couple of times to see if there were any major knots.
There were, so he took the brush that laid on the bedside table and started carefully brushing her hair, all the while Elizabeth looked at him with shock through his reflection in the mirror.
It only took a few minutes, and then Meliodas tugged the last few strands of hair behind her ears, before looking in at her reflection with doubt.
She turned her head slightly to look directly at him, trying to make out what he was thinking about.
Then, hesitantly Meliodas raised his hand and evenly distributed her bangs over her entire forehead, uncovering her right eye, which quickly made her close her eyes in shame, but meliodas had already caught eye of her orange eye.
Orange..and with a white symbol in the middle.
It was the eye of the goddess clan.
Meliodas had already been sure that she was his Elizabeth, but seeing true, living proof of it made his heart leap with joy, and so he hugged her from behind.
Elizabeth's eyes were still closed, but she raised her hands to try and correct her bangs, only for her wrist to gently be caught by Meliodas's hand.
"Why hide it?"
"I don't like it..." Elizabeth explained as her eyes locked with Meliodas's through their reflection.
"Why not?"
"...my sisters eyes aren't like that...not my fathers, or my mothers, as far as I can remember...it makes me feel like I'm different from all of them.."
Meliodas understood, at least to an extent.
If she felt bad showing it to others then he wouldn't push her. All he could do was reassure her and hope that it would one day lead to something.
He let go of her wrist, which he had been softly stroking, allowing her to fix her hair.
"You're perfect, with that eye and without...I'm sure everyone else would agree"
Elizabeth couldn't do anything but smile, and turn around in his arms.
"Thank you" she whispered, and then remembered that the resson they even dud her hair was because she had to leave.
"I really have to get going"
"I know" Meliodas answered and unwrapped his arms from around her.
Immediately Elizabeth missed his warmth, but she quickly focused on something else.
The thing she focused on being the door...
"Okay...so...you won't lock yourself in anymore...right?" She says and she grabbed the door handle, but she didn't press down.
"Yeah..now that we've cleared this it won't be a problem" Meliodas said and put his hands behind his head as he grinned.
Elizabeth smiled and nodded, and so she left the room.
The moment she closed the door after her and stood alone in the hallway it was as if someone had dumped a bucket of ice water over her.
'W-We kisses! And-wha-...' she thought in a panic.
It was as if walking into his room, and finally standing behind him had put her in some kind of trance.
'I said yes to him kissing me!! And I kissed him back! Oh gosh!...'
Her face was as red as a ripe strawberry.
'Yeah...move focus..strawberries..that sounds good just about now!' She thought you herself.
She really needed something to take her mind off of Meliodas for at least a short while, and if strawberries were what could help, then so be it, even if it spoiled her dinner.
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"Are you a demon too then?~" Ban asked Merlin during dinner later that evening.
He was already drunk and hadn't realized till now that Meliodas, the guy he was chatting with was the demon king.
"Me? Oh no, I'm human...or a wisemen to be precise"
"Oh~" Ban said, but then leaned down to Meliodas's level to whisper:
"I don't know what that means man~"
Maybe it was because he was drunk, or maybe it's because he actually got to learn that Meliodas wasn't that bad of a guy while chatting with him.
But many people around then who knew Ban was surprised he hadn't tried to instigate a fight with the demon king, as Ban had on more than one occasion promised to eliminate the demons off the face of the earth after what they did to his beloved Elaine.
"Do you want the long explanation or the short one?" Meliodas asked, knowing quite a lot about wisemen as there was more of them 300 years ago.
"Short one, duh!~"
"Very very powerful wizards"
"OoOhH! Does that mean you can make things float?~" Ban asked.
"Oh that's child's play" Merlin smirked, and on cue a mug of ale floated up in front of Ban.
"I like your style Merkin!~"
"Merlin" Merlin corrected.
"Whatever~"
"Hah!.." Meliodas laughed.
He kinda liked this Ban guy.
But he sure couldn't hold his liquor.
Then again, if you go 300 years back, Meliodas was a lightweight as well. He just grew very tolerant to alcohol over time as it was one of his many unhealthy coping mechanisms after Elizabeth died.
"Heh heh! You funny Demon...you're not as bad as the red one~" Ban said flicked Meliodas's ahoge.
"The...red one?" Meliodas asked, a tiny bit confused. He assumed that ban was talking about a demon from the red family, but the red demons power level was only 1000-1300, which is very weak.
Meliodas had assumed that the sister of the fairy king, and her chosen spouse would've been stronger than that.
"Yeah Y'know, big disgusting, Blurgh!~" Ban says, going for sounds affects instead of actual words, but Meliodas understood.
"Ever stumbled upon any other demons?"
"You"
"Fair point"
"But you seem a lot better! But then again you're just a kid~"
This caused Meliodas to pause.
He was used to being mistaken for a child, but it still was annoying to have to explain every time.
He had only grown about 7 inches in the past 300 years, and his face hadn't changed that much either.
Meliodas did however find comfort in the fact that his brother Zeldris hadn't matured much appearance-wise either.
"Sorry pal but I'm not a kid...I'm the equivalent to a man in his early twenties" Meliodas states looking up and man who had put his hand on top of Meliodas's head.
Now it was Bans turn to pause for a bit, but after a couple of seconds he bursted out laughing, thinking that Meliodas was joking.
But his laughter quickly died as he saw that neither Meliodas nor Merkin was laughing.
"Oh...you're serious~" Ban stated, having figured it out.
"Then how come..~" Ban trailed off. He moved his hand from Meliodas's he'd to his own, and so he went back and forth like that for a little while.
He was clearly talking about Meliodas's height.
Ban was already very tall for someone his age, and so, with Meliodas being so short the height difference was enormous.
"I'm just a late bloomer is all" Meliodas says and sweat dropped slightly.
How did they even get to this subject?
Oh right, bad demons.
"Then again, it wouldn't really matter if I was old or young, age is what brings out the bad in people after all" Meliodas continued.
He knew from experience that the thing that did bring out the worst in people was the way they were raised, so in fact it would've been worse had Meliodas met Ban when he was younger, when he still blindly followed his fathers command.
"But my childhood were crap, and yet I turned out fine~" Ban countered, not to start a argument, but due to his intoxicated state he just didn't understand.
"There must've been something good enough to turn your situation around for you..meeting your wife for example?" Meliodas questioned, having heard a bit of Ban and Elaine's story from Elizabeth the other day.
"Yeahhh, but Zhivago and Sellion was a big help too~" Ban says happily.
Zhivago had saved Ban from a life life of abuse.
Back then he didn't know that his new adoptive father was a werefox, but Ban was an adventurous and curios kid, so one night when Zhivago went out to go see his biological son, Sellion, Ban followed, and found out the truth.
Zhivago had immediately thought that Ban would hate him, But something like his race wasn't enough to make Ban forget what he had done for him, and he promised to one day repay it.
That's why he was the beast-men's representative, as many people were still too scared of the beast men it was easier for ban, a human to attend things like this without scaring everyone.
"Zhivago? Sellion? Friends of yours?" Meliodas asked.
"Huh? Nah-Uh, Zhivago is my dad! And Sellion is my brother!...well adoptive dad and brother~"
The moment the word 'adoptive' was added Meliodas understood.
'Probably had an abusive family and was lucky to be taken in by some kind man' Meliodas thought with a fond smile.
He was glad people like this Zhivago still existed.
"Sounds like you got a good family, I'm happy for ya!" Meliodas said and gave a thumbs up.
He still didn't know a an thaaatt well, but Meliodas would always be happy for someone like Ban.
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A/N
Ahhhh yes, a blooming lovers relationship and a blooming friendship.
Meliodas is really scoring!
