Memory of the Past Life

Summary: When with Meliodas one day Elizabeth sees something and she suddenly remembers an all too familiar situation that she knows never happened so where did this memory come from? Request from TheAngelofOblivion-DarkMadness

Characters: Meliodas, Elizabeth, Liz

Relationships: Meliodas/Elizabeth (Romance), Meliodas/Liz (Romance)

Genre: Romance, Hurt/Comfort

"Elizabeth, do you want to gather supplies with me?" Meliodas asked the silver haired girl sitting next to him. She looked up at him as she ate another bite of the breakfast made by Ban. Thanks to Merlin, making a brand new Boar Hat was accomplished quickly (as soon as they figured out the design) and they were able to travel as usual. The only difference was Diane and King weren't with them but Escanor was.

Always happy to spend time with Meliodas, Elizabeth smiled at him and agreed before pushing the empty plate away from her and standing up to go change her clothes.

As she walked up the stairs, Elizabeth flushed and giggled at Ban's question "You're not gonna follow her, Cap'n?"

"Nishishi"

"In that case, I'm going to get changed." An unfamiliar pink haired girl announced to one very familiar blonde and a relatively familiar old man.

"I'm surprised you're not going to try and follow her, Meliodas." The old man, Elizabeth vaguely recognised as Cain, that man from Danafor who had fought Meliodas during the Vaizel Fight Festival and had told her about Meliodas' deceased lover, Liz.

"Nishishi"

"…Huh?" Elizabeth tripped slightly but, thanks to her hold on the railing, did not fall over. What was that?

"Elizabeth? Is something wrong?" Meliodas asked her, having decided to follow her and witnessed her almost trip on the stairs.

"Eep!" Elizabeth squealed, turning around and almost falling again, surprised by Meliodas' sudden appearance.

Flashing forward and catching her before she could, Meliodas held up Elizabeth concerned for her. "Whoa there" Meliodas cursed himself for surprising her and almost making her fall again, he should have given her some other indication that he was behind her instead of talking to her so suddenly.

"Meliodas, you surprised me." Elizabeth told him, placing her hands on his shoulders and pushing back slightly, so she was standing straight rather than leaning so heavily against him.

"I know, I'm sorry" Meliodas told her, giving her an apologetic look and tightening his grip on her slightly.

"It's alright. I'm okay." Elizabeth told him, trying to make him feel better. He hadn't meant to surprise her and he had caught her before she fell.

…

Once she and Meliodas had gotten changed, they left the Boar Hat and headed for Bernia Village. They had just left Liones and they needed to get more Bernia Ale, they had gotten food from Liones but they had to go to Bernia in order to get the ale they made there.

The villagers greeted them and while Elizabeth greeted them in return, Meliodas simply nodded at them in acknowledgement. For a little while at least, it didn't take long for him to get tired of all the constant interruptions in their conversation that he just ended up glaring at anyone that talked to them in the end.

"Oh you're back again, Miss Elizabeth? Weren't you here not so long ago?" The mayor asked the silver haired princess, although not unkindly, he seemed more amused if anything.

"Yes… but… everything got destroyed." Elizabeth told him, averting her eyes and thinking back to Hawk's Mother taking a punch from Ten Commandments: Derriere, which destroyed the Boar's Hat and pretty much everything in it. "I'm sorry." She apologised, she knew har hard the villagers worked to create Bernia Ale and knew how important that was to them, so she felt the need to apologise for its destruction.

"No need to apologise, my dear. I'm sure it wasn't your fault." The mayor told her waving his hand, Elizabeth nodded and gave him a smile. "I take it your Tavern got destroyed too?"

"Ah, yes. But it's his Tavern." Elizabeth told the man moving to the side and pointing at the blonde haired sin that had been standing behind her.

"I see the Tavern Owner is back in business but... since you introduced yourself as the new Tavern Owner I had assumed that the Tavern belonged to both of you now." He told her, much to her confusion, how could the Tavern belong to both of them?

"Huh? What made you think that?" Elizabeth asked him, wanting to know the answer so she would no longer be confused.

"I thought you two were lovers." He replied bluntly, Elizabeth's face exploded in colour at the remark, looking over at Meliodas, who seemed delighted by the assumption, before looking back at the man in front of her.

"O-Oh! N-no we, we aren't-"

"Aww, there's no need to be shy." Meliodas commentated wrapping his hands around her placing one of his hands on her breast and squeezing lightly.

"You mean you two, aren't lovers?" A woman asked, looking genuinely surprised.

"What…? No!" Liz protested, although with the flush painted across her face, the woman probably didn't believe her.

"No need to protest so, Liz." Meliodas teased her, placing one of his hands on her butt, Liz responded by slapping his hand away and glaring at him but with the blush across her face it really wasn't intimidating.

"...Huh?" Elizabeth asked for the second time that day.

"..."

"What's wrong, Elizabeth?" Meliodas asked her taking his hand of her breast and placing it on her waist instead.

"It's… nothing. Don't worry about it." Elizabeth told him, she didn't really know what to say to him and besides she was only confused, it wasn't a big deal. Why was she seeing these things? Did they really happen? She wanted to know the answers but… the only person that could tell her the answer was Meliodas and… she didn't want to bring up his dead lover to satisfy her curiosity. She knew he'd know the answer to the second question at least, as he was in both of them, but she just couldn't bring it up to him.

Meliodas frowned at her words, knowing it wasn't entirely true but, since she didn't want to talk about it, he relented and didn't push it further.

…

Meliodas was carrying the crates of ale to the Boar Hat with Elizabeth watching him in awe. How could he carry that many crates and still move without dropping anything or tripping? They covered his vision and were swaying wildly and he was still moving at a steady pace without a problem. Granted in order to see where to go, he simply had to move his head slightly but it was still impressive

"You're amazing, Meliodas. Carrying them like that." Elizabeth told him, she knew Meliodas was strong and had excellent balance but she didn't think he good do this.

Meliodas seemed pleased with her praise as his chest puffed out slightly "Thank you." he told her giving her his full attention. A mistake as he tripped over slightly and would have dropped the crates if one of the villagers hadn't held them up.

"Show off." Liz muttered as she watched Meliodas carry a stack of crates across the yard.

"Come on, Liz, I'm not showing off, I'm doing what Barzad told me to do." He told her, faking a pout at her comment. Liz rolled her eyes, ignoring his comment.

Elizabeth paused at the memory, it hadn't surprised her as much as the other two, she had kind of expected to see more after the second one had happened but it had still come out of nowhere.

"I don't need help." Meliodas told the man who was still holding up the crates for him.

Shaking off the… well she didn't really know what to call it, but she was going to shake it off anyway, she stepped into the conversation. "It's alright, Sir. I'm sure he's fine, he was just distracted that's all." She told the man helping out Meliodas, it was sweet of him to offer his assistance again, but she truly believed Meliodas could handle it.

"But Miss Elizabeth you always accept my help." He protested, wanting to make himself look good for the silver haired beauty.

"Yes but that was because it would take forever for me to get all the crates to the Tavern by myself and you seemed like you really wanted to help and the other villagers helped too." She told him, hastily. After the words had gotten out, she winced thinking they might have come off a little harsh. It hadn't been her intention but she didn't want the nice man to go out of his way to help them out when he didn't have too. Besides Meliodas didn't want the help and with his, um, more demonic attitude, it probably wasn't the best idea to upset him around so many people.

…

Throughout the day, these odd… things she was seeing, kept playing through her mind. To her shock not all of them involved Liz, some involved a different woman, however these different women still held a striking resemblance towards her.

Meliodas and the others were getting increasingly worried about her, the more these things played, the more confused she got and the more she wanted an answer to them. Who were the other woman that looked like her and Liz? Why was Meliodas with each of them? And once again, why was she seeing these things? These were all things that she couldn't possibly have any knowledge of… right?

The more confused she was, the more she thought about it and the more she thought about it, the more confused she got. She was lying awake in bed right now thinking about it. She just couldn't get to sleep, she had tried but her thoughts had over plans.

Should she just relent and ask Meliodas about it? These thoughts were keeping her up and they had affected her behaviour and performance all day. It would be bad if she didn't find away to stop them soon but the only way she could think of doing that was asking Meliodas about it. He'd be able to give her the answers she craved, she was sure of it.

Oh, but he was asleep. She couldn't wake him up just so he could satisfy her. She'd just ask him in the morning. Yeah, that worked.

Her thoughts, apparently, settled for the time being, Elizabeth was finally able to close her eyes and get to sleep.

Unfortunately, although her thoughts had decided to let up enough for her to get some sleep, they had also decided to make sure her sleep wasn't pleasant.

Her nightmare consisted of the women she had seen and their deaths. The first she had seen was the death of the girl with white wings, the one she was pretty sure was a Goddess, her wings were ripped right of her back and her screams of agony blocked out most other noises. Meliodas had showed up just as her screams were dying down and… just as the last of her life slipt away. "I'm… so...rry" she had managed to get out before it all went black. The last thing she saw was Meliodas devastated face and the tears running down his cheeks as he begged and pleaded for her to hang on.

The last she had seen was Liz's death. "Don't cry… We'll see each other... again…" She had told him., everything went black once more as Meliodas released a scream.

That was when she woke up with a gasp, her body shivering and tears streaming down her cheeks, her breath was labored and she was hunched over, having shot up when she awoke.

Multi-coloured eyes darting over to Meliodas, she was surprised to find he was still asleep. She had felt for sure she would have woken up thanks to her nightmare. Thinking on it though, if she had woken him, he would have tried to wake her.

Her hands shooting to the rope tying him, she began to pull at it, trying to get it , of course, woke him. "...Elizabeth…?" He questioned her confused, he couldn't see the tears and he was still half asleep so he hadn't noticed her wild shaking either.

"Meliodas… Am… I... Going to… Die…?" She asked him in between her sob and all fatigue was instantly dissipated as his body froze for a split second before the broken rope scattered everywhere. He wrapped his arms around the sobbing girl and stroked her hair, hoping to comfort her.

"I will do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen." He told her, his voice and face conveying absolute seriousness. He said he was going to do everything he could to protect her and he meant it.

"But… I'm going to die… just like… all those before me…" She told him, her sobs increasing in intensity. Elizabeth had never been afraid of death before, or at least she had never been afraid of her own death before. But seeing all those women die, all of her past incarnations die, petrified her. She was going to die, she didn't know when or how, but she was going to die, and she was terrified.

"All those before me" Meliodas repeated, his eyes widening. It didn't take him long to realise what she meant by that, she knew. She knew about all of her past incarnations. He didn't know how, this had never happened before, but figuring that out could wait. "Elizabeth, I've failed to protect your past incarnations again and again but… that doesn't mean it'll definitely happen again." He told her, he knew he was right, he had failed so many times but there was a chance he wouldn't fail this time and he was determined to make that chance reality.

"I don't want to die!"

"I know, you won't. I promise."