A-Z of Melizabeth by Fullmetal Pyromaniac
Q is for...
Quit
Ruby take a week out of the usual schedule to bring you this AU- sorry for the delay!
Prompt suggested by Bluestar322
"I quit!"
The words hung in the air like smoke. Meliodas gaped, eyes and mouth wide. Elizabeth stood in front of him, her small arms crossed in front of her chest, pouting.
"What'd you mean?" He asked, putting down the pink plastic cup on the table. Elizabeth glared slightly.
"I don't want to work here anymore, I don't do anything!" The rest of their friends we're sitting at the large table in the middle of the play area, staring at the two in shock.
"But Elizabeth, you serve the drinks and food to our loving customers" Meliodas gestured to the teddy bears and dolls that sat in the vacant seats, "That's what you're good at"
Diane sighed, slapping her forehead with her hand and Elizabeths round eyes widened, tears welling up in the corners.
"Are you saying that's all I'm good at? Serving?" she asked, bottom lip trembling. Meliodas shook his hands vigourously.
"Not at all, I'm just saying that there's no room for you in the kitchen. You're so clumsy you'd probably break all the plates!" he smiled, waiting for a tinkling laugh. But there was none, instead Elizabeth scowled, ripped the Hello Kitty apron off of her body and threw it into a crumpled heap on the floor.
"I quit!" She yelled and stomped off. The bell rang for the end of break, and he lost her in the sea of people.
*~*~Q is for...*~*~
"I just don't get it..." Meliodas sighed, dipping his brush in the red paint pot and splattering it on the paper, not really caring. "I don't understand why she was so mad"
Ban and King both groaned, "Captain you have no tact. If you ever want you and Ellie to be a thing, you gotta know how the girls brain works" Ban said, drawing a picture of a princess, "They're very complex"
"I agree, I can never tell how Diane is feeling" King sighed, finishing off his picture of a flower and gazing at her from afar. Meliodas glared and blushed slightly.
"What did I say that was so wrong?" He growled, Ban flicked paint at him.
"You basically called her useless" Ban deadpanned, King nodded in agreement. "You told her that she would break everything, you know what she's like"
And Meliodas did, they all did. For years she was Smelly Ellie, a curse of bad luck, everything she touched broke. This wasn't true, and whatever did being smelly had to do with breaking things. Meliodas vehemently disagreed with everything they said, she was just a little bit clumsy, and she smelled beautiful -not that he ever smelled her on purpose- but she was very self conscious about her clumsiness. He should have remembered that.
"Ah crap" He sighed, hitting himself on the forehead, "I'm an idiot"
"Yep" King said with a smug smile, "You are"
Throwing his paintbrush down on the table, Meliodas threw his arms up in the air, narrowly missing Ban's nose.
"Well I'm done for aren't I? Elizabeth's never gonna talk to me again"
King snorted, "Of course she will, you just gotta make it up to her"
"How the heck am I gonna do that?"
"Well..." Ban drawled, "I have a few ideas..."
*~*~Q is for...*~*~
At lunch, Elizabeth was sitting alone reading a book in the corner of the lunch hall. Meliodas felt bad, though she was shy Elizabeth loved talking to people, however he was glad she was alone. This way he could do his plan without fear of being interrupted. Slowly walking up to her table, Meliodas took the seat opposite her, Elizabeth didn't make any movements to acknowledge him.
He sat there for a bit, pages turned and turned, but Elizabeth didn't acknowledge him. Meliodas coughed loudly, making Elizabeth look up, eyes filled with annoyance.
"Yes?" She bit out, causing Meliodas to flinch at the tone. He put on a shaky grin and lifted his hands from under the table, revealing a small - very small - bouquet of daisies. Elizabeth took them hesitantly, he then took out a piece of paper and uncrumpled it.
"Dear Elizabeth" He began. "please accept my humblest apologies, I deeply regret what I said earlier, it was completely...uh...uhhh...wrong of me to say that about you, given you previous accusations of being clumsy. I very much hope that you accept these daisies as a token of my apology. Sincerely, Meliodas"
Meliodas looked up from the paper to see a very unamused Elizabeth, she placed the daisies on the table and closed her book.
"Who wrote that?" She asked, stone faced. Elizabeth appeared to be looking behind him. Reluctantly, he turned around and saw Gowther, King, Ban, and Diane staring at him hopefully. He glared and all four quickly diverted their looks. Elizabeth sighed and stood up.
"Listen Meliodas, if you want to apologise then I'll listen, but don't get everyone to do it for you"
He was at a loss for words as Elizabeth stormed out the hall, possibly even more mad than before.
*~*~Q is for...*~*~
The sound of a fist hitting the bathroom wall resounded in Ban's ears.
"You said it would work!" Meliodas roared, Ban rolled his eyes.
"No" he enunciated, "I said it would work if you changed it up a bit. That was just an outline, I figured you were smarter than that"
Meliodas spun to him, eyes blazing, "Not the time, Ban" he warned lowly.
Ban sighed and leant against the wall, "Maybe if you just went and told her how you felt you wouldn't be having this problem" When Meliodas sent him a done look, he ran a hand through his spiked white hair, "Apologise on your own and tell her what you feel"
The boy's conversation was interrupted by a loud banging, the bathroom door was flung open and a small girl came running in.
"Ban! Ban!" King's little sister Elaine, a girl in the year below them, bounded up to them, eyes wide.
"Wha's going on Elaine?" Ban asked (semi) casually, Meliodas smirked at the slight blush on his cheeks.
"The boys, the boys! They're pushing Elizabeth around, you have to help!"
Meliodas stood poker straight, and Ban cursed softly under his breath.
"I'll go get the guys" He turned to Elaine, "Could you take Meliodas to where Elizabeth is?"
Elaine nodded determinedly and grabbed Meliodas' hand, dragging the murderous 10 year old out of the bathroom to where his love awaited.
*~*~Q is for...*~*~
A once treasured book lay torn to shreds in the mud, Elizabeth stared at it in shock, the book that belonged to her mother. Above her, her tormentors laughed cruelly, finally a moment weak, useless, smelly Ellie wasn't being protected by Meliodas and his friends.
She was all theirs for entertainment.
One poured a bucketful of mud over her head, using that back of her jumper as a wipe. Elizabeth sat there feeling more useless than usual.
God, I'm such a failure...I'm so scared that I can't even fight back.
"What the heck d'you think you're doing?" A voice announced it's appearance from behind Elizabeth, the colour drained from the faces of the boys in front of her. Stuttering and stumbling to get away from the Sins- not before throwing one last bit of dirt on Elizabeth.
"You dirty rats!" Diane yelled after them, shaking a fist, "I'll beat you up one day for sure!"
Elizabeth couldn't look at her friends as they helped her up and brushed off the excess dirt. She couldn't look at Meliodas when he picked up the remains of her precious book and made a strange noise in the back of his throat.
"Elizabeth...I'm so sorr"
"Save it" She snapped, curling her arms around herself and keeping her gaze low, "I don't care, it was a stupid book. I'm going to go home, I'll call father. See you later"
She ran off without looking back, tears streaming down her face.
weak...useless...pathetic...
*~*~Q is for...*~*~
It was later that night after a nice warm bath and some fatherly cuddles, Elizabeth was curled up in bed with a hot chocolate, looking at the pictures that laced her wall. Her and Diane, her and King, her and Meliodas...Meliodas. She cringed and held onto her cup so it burned her fingers and palm. There's no way he'd talk to her again, she was such a cry baby, storming off over a stupid game.
A faint knocking noise came from the window opposite the bed, Elizabeth looked up to see Meliodas perching precariously on the windowsill, looking sheepish. Elizabeth leapt off her bed to let him in before he fell off, he nearly fell into her room face first, dropping a package on the floor in the process though he kicked it behind him before Elizabeth could pick it up.
Suddenly the relief of seeing her crush faded and the annoyance at herself seeped into her mind, "What're you doing here?" she asked, wearily, sitting back on her bed, "If father finds you in here he'll be mad"
"I know, I just" Meliodas paused, trying to choose his words carefully, "I wanted to see how you were...and apologise for earlier"
"You don't need to apologise" She sighed, playing with the hem of her nightdress, "I was just being immature and stupid. I'm sorry"
"Nope, if I accept your apology you gotta listen to mines, I've been practising" Elizabeth smiled softly and gestured for him to continue.
Meliodas took a breath, "Right, okay, so. I'm not very good at this. I've known you for years Elizabeth, and you're the strongest person I know, honestly, so you shouldn't worry about being weak or whatever okay? You don't need to change" he took a deep breath, "as for earlier, I was just trying to make a joke but I can see how it made you so annoyed.
"So would you consider joining the sins again?" He asked, blushing and holding out the wrapped package. Elizabeth took it gingerly and opened it; it was the exact same book her mother gave her, the one that had been ripped up earlier. With teary eyes she engulfed Meliodas in a hug, and felt secure when he wrapped his arms around her too.
"I would love to, I'm sorry Meliodas"
"I'm sorry too Elizabeth, thank you"
It didn't mean her problems were magically solved, Elizabeth knew she wasn't a fighter. But she would become stronger and fight back.
When she was in Meliodas' arms- it felt like she could do anything.
The End.
A.N. IM SORRY...
IM SO SORRY
I know i've been abandoning this story but I had a whole angsty thing going on where Elizabeth is a queen who gets assassinated, then where she's left behind by the Sins and it's too quiet, but neither flowed. And after the events in Manchester, I decided on a cute fluffy fix-it-fic to try and lift some spirits, armed police have been deployed near my house, so mines were pretty low. So I wrote this in a couple of hours and honestly I'm not 100% pleased but it'll do. I may end up rewriting it in the future.
Thank you to the 90-95 people who can actually put up with the shitty schedule for this story, R will be out soon I promise!
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THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO THE 22+ PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED BY A TERRORIST IN MANCHESTER ON THE 22.05.17
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