Title: A Little at a Time...
Theme: #27 Overflow
Fandom: Nanatsu no Taizai/Seven Deadly Sins
Pairing: KingxDiane
Note: Spoilers for the manga. Honestly...if you're still reading these then you should be used to spoilers.
Disclaimer: Owning Diane and King would bring me no joy because you can't own love like theirs. You can only watch, adore, and believe in it as you do your best to celebrate it in the only ways you know how. The song One Step at a Time belongs to Jordin Sparks. Not me.
A Little at a Time:
One step at a time
There's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly, Or falling in love
It's gonna happen and it's supposed to happen
that we find the reasons why
One step at a time
I want to be so much for you.
I see the stars in the sky and they make me think of you. The way you used to look in their direction and tell me about your dreams. How much you wanted to have friends. How you wished you had known who your parents were. Your love of pork. You told me so much on nights when we would just lay in the grass after dinner and stare at the sky. I fell in love with you under those stars, watching the way your eyes lit up when the moon was round and bright and the water reflected your joy. I got to know you when the stars slept behind dark clouds and you huddled in fear of the dark. You were so afraid then. You had been alone for so long, trying to convince yourself that the company of two little golems you had made for yourself would be enough to keep you from falling into sorrow. I tried to ease your pain with my presence, only too happy to stay by your side. You seemed to appreciate my efforts and often cuddled me close to your chest when nightmares kept you from sleep.
I couldn't keep myself from falling in love in you.
When you were older and not a shred of memory of me existed in your heart I still loved you. I became a partner to you, a comrade in arms as I watched you pledge yourself to the Captain as one of the Seven Deadly Sins. It pained me, to see you throwing yourself into fights, the gentle girl from the past now a woman with a cursed symbol marking her a criminal. Still I loved you, for not even that could keep your smile away for too long. We got into so many kinds of trouble, battles that could only be remembered in song over campfires, working together and becoming legends to the realm we were charged with protecting. You never spared me any special attention, finding me humorous and odd. It was hard to see you lavish your attention on the Captain, never seeing me for who I really was. It was what I had asked for, what I had done to myself, but it didn't stop me from yearning. Nor did it stop me from loving you even more.
Meeting you again, after years of nothing, had only proven that I could never keep myself from loving you. I hadn't thought that you would miss me. Never mind that my every waking thought when not actively involved in pursuit of Ban or heeding Helbram's advice was of you. I would spend days on the top of a ridge or the canopy of a mushroom, sitting alone with only my dreams of you to pass the time. I didn't believe Ban when he told me of your confession on the day we had left the Sins again. A part of me recognized that such a joke was not particularly to his style but I was afraid to believe. Scared that perhaps you might have come to remember what we shared and with that, what I had done. Still, there was no stopping the hope in my heart when he repeated the words later and I realized that I couldn't keep the swell of my love for you inside any longer.
Now that you've once again lost all memory of me I still love you.
It didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now. No matter what happens, whatever obstacle comes between us, I'm going to love you.
I will never ever stop loving you Diane.
So close, but so far away
Everything that you've always dreamed of
Close enough for you to taste
but you just can't touch
I didn't know I could believe in someone so much.
When I opened my eyes that time, all I could smell were flowers, all I could feel was the pain in my gut from the gaping hole there. But I could see you. Could see your back to me as you kept yourself between me and the enemy. You were so brave then. Protecting me as if I were the most important person in the world to you. Treating me like no one had ever treated me before. I didn't know I would fall in love with you. I could only recall just a shred of a vision, a back like yours, a warmth that I wanted to keep, and the sweetest scent I'd ever known. It must have been a dream you'd said. It was. A dream that I wanted so much to be real.
When I finally told the princess my real feelings, when I was able to voice them out loud, it was as if my heart was full after being empty for so long. There had been a hollowness there that I had never noticed until you were back in my life. A realization that I hadn't been able to make because you hadn't been near enough for me to see. I was certain then that I never wanted to let you go. The ache, the loss I felt, it was only expanded with the thought that you would not return. I needed to see you. To know you were there. To be with you. My heart was aching for the dream that had somehow turned out to be my truth. I had to be with you.
When I faced Gowther later that day I knew what he had done without him having to say. I couldn't tell you. Couldn't tell anyone. But the look in his eyes when I cried out the truth of my heart made me realize what he would do next. And I was helpless to stop it. Before that moment could vanish I thought but one thing to myself. I knew, knew without even having to worry that you would find a way. Even if this feeling vanished and my memories were gone I knew you would find a way. I'm going to fall in love with you again. I'm sure of it. Because you're going to come back, like you always do, and you're going to love me. You're going to love me and I'm not going to be able to resist. Because I love you too and that's something not even magic can take away from us. You and I are going to be in love and even now, as I surrender to his powerful spell, I'm thinking of you, seeing only you, the person I love most in this world.
Even when I don't remember you I love you.
I won't stop fighting... and I know you won't stop trying...
So please.. Harlequin...
Find me again and again, as long as it takes...
Until we can be together again.
It's gonna happen
It's supposed to happen
And we find the reasons why
One Step at a Time
-OWARI-
Short one this round. Sometimes less is more. Or in this case I missed my deadline and will be doing my damndest to get the next chapter out by Christmas. XD XD
Just have to take a moment to freak out happily over here! This fic is officially over a year old! WHOOHOO! LOVE KIANE!
Only fourteen more to go! Wish me luck! ^-^