A-Z of Melizabeth by Fullmetal Pyromaniac
K is for...
Kindness
Prompt by Pen Name Cambria
Ruby takes another week out of our scheduled programme to give you this AU...
Elizabeth sighed as she walked along the quiet street of Edinburg. It had been a rough day working at the hospital, the kind old man from ward 20 had died suddenly, one of Gilthunders staff had gone insane and Elizabeth was told to swap wards for the day. She vowed never to work in urology again.
The night was cold, making Elizabeth shiver and clutch her shoulder bag strap tighter, her phone safely clasped in her other hand. There had been reports of gang fights in the area recently, the feared Seven Deadly Sins gang was being violent again.
She huffed and her stoop steps became heavy, there didn't seem to be anything particularly threatening about them. Just the rumours.
Apparently one of them was impaled twenty seven times, then decapitated in front of the police that captured him, and was back to stealing alcohol within the hour.
It was then Elizabeth noticed that the streets were virtually empty.
Everything was silent. Only her footsteps resounded in the streets.
Keeping her head down, Elizabeth sped up.
Dear mother, if you let me get home safely I'll never refuse a lift from Margaret just because she's working later and I want to get home quickly and finish watching Bake Off, I'll also try and get up earlier, and stop using all the hot water in the bath.
I'll also stop muttering under my breath when I've finished looking after rude patients, I'll make the tea when I get home, I'll clean the whole apartment, I'll do almost anything. Just give me luck, mother, and let me get home sa-
A gunshot rang out. Elizabeth let out a short scream and bolted. She ran and ran forward, eventually ducking into an alley to catch her breath.
This was a mistake, a big, big, mistake. It wasn't too late to call Gil, or Margaret, or even Veronica, and ask for a lift back to their shared apartment. She fumbled in her bag for her phone and pulled to out.
There was a cough from further down in the alley.
Elizabeth squeaked again and raised the phone like a weapon.
"W-Who's there? I'm a-armed, so- so don't come near m-me"
The shadow coughed again, it wheezed and spluttered. Elizabeth almost felt sorry for it.
"Don't worry, I don't think I'll be going anywhere for a while" it groaned, "Incase you hadn't heard, or noticed, I've been shot"
Elizabeth frowned and turned the torch on her phone on, shining it into the darkness. Leant against the wall on Elizabeth's left lay a young man, barely older than twenty, with shaggy blonde hair and drooped green eyes. He was recognisable instantly.
"You're Meliodas" She breathed out, "You're the dragon sin of wrath"
"Yep" he confirmed wearily, "that's me"
"And you've been shot..." She stated, slightly dazed. Meliodas nodded weakly.
"Yep...if you couldn't already tell from the blood pouring out my shoulder"
Elizabeth looked closer and, yes indeed, blood was pouring steadily from a gun wound in his bare shoulder. His white top was being turned red quickly. She jumped suddenly.
"Oh my god you've been shot!" She exclaimed, Meliodas lightly rolled his eyes.
"Finally, you noticed" he sassed, Elizabeth rushed forward and examined his wound.
"Oh gosh, it's not too deep thankfully, but you'll still need surgery" she stood up again and began pacing nervously.
"You need a hospital, but you can't take a wanted criminal to the hospital, can you Elizabeth? No! No! You can't! Idiot! Maybe I could perform the surgery but I can't take him home, and I can't call Margaret or Veronica. Imagine explaining that to them!?"
"Not to worry you or anything...but I'm feelin' kinda woozy" he slurred.
"No wait!" Elizabeth exclaimed, clutching his shoulders and trying to keep him concious.
"I'm Elizabeth, you need to stay concious! I can't treat you at my house or at the hospital, is there anywhere you can go? Will it have medical supplies?"
"There's a warehouse...at the end of Forth Street...that's where you can go...there's probably medical supplies, though...I can't promise anything. My friends can be a little...hostile, so don't mind them too much..."
Meliodas gave Elizabeth a sideways grin which set her cheeks ablaze. Ripping a bit of her shirt sleeve off and wrapping it tightly around Meliodas' wound, she carefully hoisted him on her back.
Forth Street was about fifteen minutes away, if she walked fast she could be there sooner. So she began walking, looking behind her every so often to check on Meliodas and to see if she was being followed, which she wasn't.
"T...hank...'Liz...beth" Meliodas mumbled sleepily while she was reaching the main road, she should probably stick to the shadows for now. It was late so hopefully no one would see her.
Elizabeth smiles softly, "No problem, Meliodas"
Now, the next challenge was meeting the rest of the sins.
*~*~K is for...~*~*
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!"
Elizabeth winced, the woman in front of her stood well above her. Her purple eyes narrowed in rage.
She was in the warehouse with the sins, they hadn't taken kindly to Elizabeth showing up with their injured captain on her back, but they'd let her in and placed Meliodas on a nearby table. It was very empty inside, there was an upstairs though, and that was where they probably slept
"I...uh, well..."
"Spit it out!"
"He was shot" the woman rolled her eyes and scoffed, "I ran into an alleyway to hide and found him leaning against a wall. He told me you have medical supplies, I'm a nurse and he needs surgery soon"
The woman scowled down at her, "It just sounds all very...convenient...how do we know you weren't the one who shot him?"
"You don't" Elizabeth replied sharply. "But look at me, do you really think I could stomach to pick up a gun, let alone shoot a man with it?"
This seemed to convince the woman, who raised her eyebrows and walked away to where three men stood watching Elizabeth carefully.
"Okay, can I have your first aid kit?" She asked, one nodded silently and retrieved it. Elizabeth got to work cleaning the wound and preparing the tweezers -she got one of the sins to hold up her phone torch as a makeshift light- then she quickly pushed them in and pulled out the bullet, placing it on the bench.
Meliodas groaned in pain and Elizabeth put thread through the needle and clipped the ends of it. She then proceeded to stitch the wound closed.
By the time she was finished, Elizabeth was speckled with blood and sweat. Her fringe stuck to her face and her shirt was covered in little splotches of blood. She placed a large plaster over the stitched up wound and sighed, looking over at the sins who's eyes were wide as saucers.
"I'm all finished, would someone help me move Meliodas to his bedroom?"
"I'll help ya, the captains pretty heavy, I'm surprised you managed to carry him here"
Elizabeth smiled gratefully as a tall, white haired man picked up Meliodas with ease and hoisted him over his shoulder. She had to jog to keep up with the mans long strides. The man lead Elizabeth up the stairs to where the sins slept.
"Uh, could you- could you wait a minute" she breathed out, running to keep up with the man. He turned around and gave a sheepish smile.
"Ah sorry, long legs ya see. I'm Ban, by the way, but you probably already know me. I'm pretty famous, if I don't say so myself"
"I'm Elizabeth, I'm not as famous as you unfortunately. You're the sin who was decapitated and impaled, weren't you? How did you survive?"
"Ah," Ban smirked, tapping his nose with his finger, "A magician never reveals his secrets" he turned a corner and Elizabeth found herself in Meliodas' room.
It was vaguely clean, there was a double bed with thin sheets covering it and clumpy looking pillows. There was a dresser with clothes hanging out of the drawers, looking like the drawers were drooling, or vomiting. Elizabeth tried to ignore the questionable magazines that were shoved hastily under the bed.
Ban dropped Meliodas on his bed, which squeaked under the sudden weight. He groaned and rolled over on his side, Elizabeth moved forward and pulled the covers over him, making sure his head was lying directly on his pillows.
"Okay, no strenuous activities for a while, no fighting and no getting the stitches wet, I'll come back here in a few weeks to check up on the stitches and the wound. Don't try and remove them yourselves, you don't know how many people have made things worse by trying to remove the stitches themselves"
"Why're you helping?" He inquired, interrupting Elizabeth, who cocked her head in confusion.
"Why wouldn't I?"
"We've killed people, Elizabeth. Meliodas especially. We've got so much blood on our hands. We're criminals, and by helping us you could be arrested. So why do it?"
Elizabeth shrugged, "I don't know, maybe because you all don't seem so bad."
She pulled the covers further up Meliodas until they rested under his chin. She swept the blonde hair off of his sweaty forehead.
Elizabeth gathered her bag, gave a final farewell to the sins, learned all of their names and began to walk home. Then she realised that blood was still dotted on her shirt, and so Elizabeth spent the entire walk making up excuses on why she was late and how she ended up covered in blood.
It was worth it though, despite the fact that he was a criminal, she couldn't wait to see Meliodas again.
*~*~K is for...~*~*
Meliodas awoke to the sins crowding round him, he groaned and ran a hand through his hair. He winced as a searing pain shot through his arm.
"Careful, captain, Elizabeth said that you shouldn't be moving it too much"
Elizabeth? Who was...oh wait. Her, the woman who saved his life.
"Huh? What happened, where is she?!" Meliodas shouted, Ban raised his hands in surrender.
"Woahhh, calm down there. No 'strenuous' activities, remember? She left last night, it's noon now."
"Is she safe?" Meliodas asked next, his voice deadly calm. Diane, who had been leaning against the wall of his bedroom shrugged.
"Don't know, King was scoping last knight with Gowther"
King shook his head, Gowther stood stone faced.
"I don't think so, as she was walking back to Main Street, I saw Hendrickson tailing her. He was quite far behind her so he lost her after a bit. Merlin radioed in this morning, saw him behind her as she was walking into work at the hospital. We should keep an eye on her"
Everyone nodded in agreement,
"Yeah, it's the least we can do for what she did for us" Diane added.
"Yep, now if you would all excuse me, I need to get dressed"
Diane turned red and stormed out, King, Ban and Gowther following her. Meliodas stood up and closed the door, locking it. He sat on the edge of his bed and sighed, all she had done was help him, she saved his life, and already Elizabeth was possibly being stalked by possibly the most influential and evil man in Britannia.
He had already got someone mixed in with his mess and where were they? Well, she was buried under the Oak tree in the local cemetery.
Meliodas unbuttoned his shirt, standing and throwing it on his bed. His arm ached something fierce. Something fluttered across his vision, a small white piece of paper had fallen out of his shirt pocket, it twirled and floated until it had landed on the wooden floor.
Not without discomfort, Meliodas bent down and picked it up.
To Meliodas,
I'm sorry I won't be there when you wake up but I have to get home. My sisters will be worried sick. Your arm is going to hurt for a while, so if you think it's infected or something goes wrong phone me-
xxxxx-xxx-xxx
If you don't contact me, I'll be back in two weeks to check up on it.
See you later
- Elizabeth
Meliodas smiled and placed the note on his dresser, he got changed and typed the number into his phone. He'd see her sooner rather than later, after all he had to repay her kindness.
He just hoped she wouldn't end up like his last civilian friend.
The End.
A.N. So...guess who's back? Back, back, back again? Ruby's back, tell a friend.
Okay, I have a multitude of excuses, none of which I think you want to hear. (School has been super stressful, like depression inducing stressful) I ran into a wall...I've got nerve damage in my knee because of it, three days later a hockey ball hit it so now I've got a yellow bruise too, and last Saturday the hockey ball hit my nose...so I've been very busy xD
Anyway, this chapter is out now and hopefully I'll have better luck writing the next one. 'L', I think I have a prompt but give me one anyway ^\\\^
Check out my story 'Stand By Me' if you haven't already, now cross-posted on my wattpad, along with my original story that I submitted for my English portfolio (which got the highest score in my class) called 'The Ring'
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-Ruby