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Elizabeth glanced around the corner warily. She wasn’t used to the halls of King Arthur's castle, but hopefully, she would be able to find her way out with enough ease. She had gotten out of the first hall, so that was progress.
She tiptoed around the wall and took hushed steps as she tried to escape. However, when she passed one of the open doors-
YANK!
Elizabeth yelped as something grabbed the back of her shirt and lifted her high up. She squirmed in the hold before glaring up to her captor. Cusack sighed, “Lady Elizabeth, this must end…”
Her answer was a small humph as she turned her head away in annoyance. "No. I will escape!”
Cusack sighed and shook his head as he walked back with her under his arm. “I’m starting to see why lord Meliodas is so keen on your staying put.” He walked her back to the throne room and kicked open the doors. “Found her.”
Elizabeth crossed her arms with a pout as she was carried over to Zeldris and Chandler. The old, short man sighed at her. “Finally! You better not run off again, do you hear me?! I may dislike you to no extent, but if you disappear, then-”
" Elizabeth !”
Cusack and Chandler stiffened in slight panic wherease Zeldris turned to the coming voice with a look of boredom. “We got her.” Elizabeth growled under her breath as she glared to the newcomer. Meliodas stormed into the room, a glare on his own features as his hellblaze grew in its assault mode. “I told you to stay put!”
Elizabeth squirmed out of Cusacks hold and glared towards Meliodas, “I don’t care! I refuse to sit down and allow you to go through with this!” Meliodas grabbed her arm in what seemed to be in a harsh way, but by the look on Elizabeth's face, the others would guess that he was being quite gentle with her.
“It’s not your decision-”
“It’s as much my decision as it is yours!”
Zeris groaned in annoyance, gaining all their attention as his head fell back with a growl. “Will you both take your lovers quarrel somewhere else? I’m tired, and I’d rather not have to hear any of it.” Elizabeth blushed madly at the word lover, but shook it off in her anger. “Meliodas! You have to snap out of this! If you don’t, then I will continue to try and leave to the Sins, no matter what!”
Meliodas sighed and tugged her arm, leading her out of the room as he yelled back to the others. “Put a barrier around this damned place, will ya?!” Chandler nodded as he flew off.
Elizabeth grumbled as Meliodas led her back to their room. Ever since he had commanded his brothers to retrieve the other commandments, she had been put onto lockdown inside of Camelots castle. It honestly wasn’t fair. He wouldn’t let her out of his sight as he would just… watch her. He would press against her every now and then, holding her to his chest, as if to make sure that she was really there. Elizabeth didn’t get it.
He said that he didn’t feel anything for her anymore, and yet… He still acted as if he loved her. It was similar to how he first acted when they had first started to meet up together thousands of years ago. She… she missed it honestly. While it was once in a while hard to work with, him once in a while coming off as rude or whatnot, she found it endearing and rather adorable.
As they entered the room, Meliodas basically pushed her onto the bed, to her surprise. Elizabeth's face heated up as he crawled to hold himself above her frame. She could only manage out a small squeak as his face came down to rub it’s cheek to her own.
"Damn it, Elizabeth… Will you please just stay here, where I know you’ll be safe?” Before she could choke out a retort, he pulled back to give her a saddened look, his eyes temporarily turned to her favorite shade of green. “I can’t lose you again…”
Elizabeth could feel her heart breaking at the pain in his eyes, and she gently pulled his face closer to her own. “Meliodas… I understand, and I want to, but… I can’t allow for you to become the Demon King. At least not like this…”
She let him go and turned her head to look away from his face, not wanting to know what his reaction would look like. After a moment of silence, she could feel him slowly move to lay down beside her. Meliodas sighed and she saw his hand rustle his hair in aggravation.
“Of all the Goddess and beings I could have somehow fallen in love with… I just had to fall for the most stubborn one of all…” She couldn't help herself as she tried to stifle a small laugh, remembering how it had first been for them. “Do you remember, when we first started to meet in secret?”
“...Yeah.” “You weren’t as blunt as you are now when it came to affection, and you definitely weren’t as perverted.” She heard his deep chuckle at the memory, and she found herself turning to face him as she layed on her side, a small smile climbing to her face. “I remember how stubborn you were to admitting you liked me… You would always push it off as you worrying over my clumsiness, but you still insisted to hold onto me even when it was clear I was safe.”
She reached out and tenderly placed her hand to his chest, barely noticing as his hellblaze moved to encircle her wrist. “The first time you had accidently touched me… It was so adorable, how flustered you became.”
Meliodas scoffed as he turned to face her, one hand propping his side up as he looked down her body, as his other hand traced his line of sight down the side of her shirt. “Yeah, what you call adorable was really just a weakness.” Elizabeth frowned at this as she pushed herself closer to him, her nose barely touching his own as she held his gaze, “Is that what you believe it is? Your feelings for me, are just a weakness?” She immediately pulled away to sit up, an annoyed look now gracing her face.
Meliodas sighed and sat up, his hand reaching to her shoulder, “Elizabeth-” She thrust her shoulder away when his fingers touched her skin. “-You know it’s different now.”
"Is it?!” Elizabeth whipped her head around to glare at the demon, fury in her eyes. “Is it really?! You said so yourself: You feel nothing. You don’t love me anymore!” With that, Meliodas watched in shock as Elizabeth jumped to a stand and stormed towards the door. Meliodas rushed over to block her path, “What did I just-?!”
Elizabeth glared to him, cold ice in her blue and gold eyes. “I'll be staying in another room. I refuse to be with you, until I know the man I love; is back.”
She pushed past him, slamming the door behind her into his face as she went. As she entered the hall, Zeldris happened to be walking over in that moment. He frowned to her, “You aren’t making a run for it, are you?”
Elizabeth shook her head, “No, I’m too annoyed. I’m going to look for another room is all. You’re brother is being a dick.” She didn’t even think on her vulgar words, but by Zeldris’ expression, she would guess he didn’t mind. He actually seemed to smirk slightly at this as he nodded, “Understandable. I’ll show you to one.”
Meliodas grumbled lightly as he sat on Camelots throne.
“Goddammit… Chander! Tell Elizabeth that I order her to come to me, this instant!” He barked out to the old demon. However, his old teacher merely glanced up to him from his cup of tea and rolled his eyes. “Young Master, do you truly believe that will work? Elizbaeth has made it clear that she refuses to be in your presence.”
When he received a glare from his student, Chandler waved for Cusack to go in his place. “Meliodas, you know more than anyone that she will not listen to you. Currently, she’s barricaded herself in, and refuses to exit. She’s not even trying to escape anymore, just to be sure not to see you.” He gave a wide grin, “Perhaps it is time that you moved on? We could just-”
“Not. Another. Word.”
Chandlers mouth snapped shut and he shook his head sadly. Just a minute or so later, a large explosion sounded from above them. A surge of light energy could be sensed by all demons for a few miles radius. Both demons looked up in shock as the explosion shot a turbulence around them. Meliodas’ eyes zeroed in as he looked up in panic. “ELIZABETH!!!”
They waited in shocked silence, both taking note that no one was hurt, as not a single soul moved on to the next life. After another moment or so, Cusack barged into the room, stuck in a deep coughing fit. Meliodas and Chandler blinked in surprise as they watched Cusack walk in with a depressed grumble, black all over as he was burnt to a crisp. “She, uh… She refused…”
Meliodas groaned as he stormed towards the door, “The fucking hell, Elizabeth?!”
Chandler frowned to Cusack, “Did she really get you that bad?” Cusack nodded glumly, “I thought I could dodge, but as it turns out; she’s a lot better than she looks.”
Meliodas stopped when he came in front of Elizabeth's door. He banged his fist to it, “Elizabeth?! Open this damned door right now!”
He listened as Elizabeth scoffed from a far side of the room. “Or what? Forget it, Sir Meliodas, I’m not answering to you.” Meliodas growled under his breath, and right before he was about to break down the door, Zeldris walked over holding a small tray with some food and a cup of tea. “Is she still ignoring you? Don’t know what you were thinking, but it obviously was stupid.”
“Fuck off. What’s the tray for?”
Zeldris rolled his eyes at his brothers obliviousness as he knocked on the door, his being more gentle than Meliodas’. “Elizabeth? It’s Zeldris."
Meliodas felt like rolling his eyes. If Elizabeth didn’t answer to him, than what made him think she would to his younger brother? Well, as it happened, Elizabeth must have heard his thoughts and was pissed off enough to spite him. His jaw dropped when Elizabeth opened the door with a polite smile. “Oh! Thank you so much, Sir Zeldris.”
Zeldris wore a small smirk, “Yeah, that may go for everyone else, but… Please don’t add ‘Sir’ to my name. I already have Cusack calling me Master and Young Lord.” Meliodas could only gape like a fish as Elizabeth spoke easily with his younger brother. “Of course~ Thank you for bringing my meal.”
Zeldris nodded, “Sure. And don’t worry, I’m not a horrible cook like my brother.”
Meliodas scowled before frowning to Elizabeth, “Eli-” She glared to him, “Did I say you could speak to me?” Her voice came off as cold as it could manage, and it luckily held the effect she wanted. Meliodas stiffened while Zeldris bit his lip to hold in a laugh at smirbrother's reaction. Elizabeth gave the younger brother one last smile before returning into her room, slamming the door and locking it behind her.
Zeldris smirked to Meliodas, “Not so much the ladies man, huh?” He snickered as he turned and walked down the hall. Meliodas snapped out of his shock and rushed over to walk beside him. “How?! She won’t speak to me unless it’s to tell me to fuck off, and she’s even starting to blow up an arc in Cusack and Chandler's face!”
Zeldris shrugged as he gave a small yawn. “Well, to put it simply; I wasn’t acting like a complete dick head. No offense, but if you’re trying to win her over again, you’re doing a terrible job. She wants nothing to do with you when you basically treat her as your possession, not caring for anything but some promise you made her. You even go to the extent of lying to her at that.”
Meliodas frowned, “What? I didn’t-” Zeldris sent him a look with a single brow raised. “Don’t even. You told her you don’t feel anything for her anymore. That itself has got to be the most stupid thing I’ve heard in over 3,000 years.”
He came to a stop and pointed to his older brother in an accusatory manner. “You don’t care for her, but you care for your promise to her? That’s not logical. If you didn’t feel for her anymore, you would be leaving her alone, not caring for the curse, and living out eternity as you please. You would have ignored her existence, no matter how many more there may be. You saying you only care for your promise to her, is you admitting that you still love her.”
Meliodas remained frozen in his spot as Zeldris walked on, a small humm escaping him. “Honestly, I’m surprised Elizabeth hasn’t caught onto that yet. It’s pretty obvious, when you really think about it.”
Elizabeth brushed her hair for what had to have been the twentieth time in the past hour. She sighed as she set the brush down on the vanity. She stood up and walked up to one of the dressers, grumbling when she found the few clothes inside of it being for men. She rummaged through it until she found a white, long sleeved, button up shirt. As she undressed and put it on, the highest button came down to the middle of her cleavage, while the bottom ended at the center of her pink panties.
Well; at least she wasn't sleeping with anyone tonight.
Elizabeth didn’t want to go to sleep. She wanted to be awake until the end of the curses’ cycle. To be honest, no matter what the Sins and Meliodas believed, Elizabeth didn’t believe the curse would end this time around. They only had less than three days. There was no way they could end it this time around.
She laid under the comforter of the large queen sized bed, and blew out the candle beside her. Meliodas wouldn’t let her go, so she had no point in staying awake. She might as well fall into unconsciousness.
She didn’t fall asleep right away. She merely laid there with her eyes closed, her mind void of any thoughts as she layed. Silence filled the castle all around until she heard the faint noise of the door being unlocked and creaking open. She didn’t need to peak a glance to know who had entered without permission.
Meliodas came over to kneel before her, his hand resting gently on her hip. “Elizabeth… Please open your eyes. I know you’re awake.”
She pouted at this before opening her eyes. They widened in surprise when Meliodas smiled to her, his eyes back to her favorite emerald green as his hellblaze was replaced by his old boar hat uniform. Elizabeth sat up slightly to look at him in surprise, “Sir Meliodas?”
His smile grew as he stood up with his playful grin, “Who else? Mind scootin’ over? I’d much rather sleep with my favorite little princess then alone~”
Elizabeth's smile grew for a moment before she shook her head to snap out of it. “N-no! I told you to go away, didn’t I?!” She turned her back with a small pout, eliciting a small chuckle from the blonde. “Oh, come on, Elizabeth. Please? I just want to lay with you again.”
She turned to look in his eyes, seeing they shown with the same playful mischief she had come to love so much. She blushed just slightly before looking away. “What is this all of a sudden…? I thought you didn’t feel anything for me anymore…”
Meliodas stiffened for a moment before letting go of a nervous chuckle, “Uh, honestly? My brother may or may not have told me how much of a dick I was being, and pointed out a few obvious things that I should have noticed…” Meliodas sat down beside Elizabeth and leaned over, kissing the back of her neck in a feather light movement. “I’m sorry.” Elizabeth didn’t respond as she let him continue kissing around her neck and shoulders. Her silence was his OK to keep going.
Due to his kissing her, he didn’t at all notice the conflict going inside of Elizabeth, which could be easily seen on her face. Her cheeks were stained red as she tried with all her might to remain silent and keep her mouth shut. If her lips parted to make a single noise, she knew it wouldn’t be anything besides a moan. No way in hell was she going to give him that satisfaction with how much of a prick he was being earlier. The little jerk was now trying to get on her good side through pleasure. She wasn’t even sure if it was working! She didn’t want it to, but his mouth on her skin was saying otherwise.
She shifted just a bit, her shoulders pushing down, moving the collar of the shirt to run slowly down her arm, only stopping midway down her chest due to her breasts keeping it from stripping her fully. Okay, she hadn’t meant for it to show so much, but then again, she still had it opening to him. She heard his breath still for only a moment before she felt his hands move to and down her shoulders and arms, moving farther down to pull her sleeves off. Elizabeth squeaked as her hands rushed up to hold her shirt to her chest, having remembered that she had torn off her bra to not be uncomfortable while sleeping.
Meliodas smiled wickedly at her chest. “Nish, nish, Elizabeth~ Come on! I think I’m allowed to see these beauties after all this time.”
Elizabeth gulped and turned to avoid his gaze, “I-i can’t-! With how you are now, I shouldn’t be…” Meliodas interrupted her as his face surged forward, placing itself into her chest. Elizabeth cried out in shock as she fell onto her back, Meliodas pushing over her with his hands groping her chest all too happily as he rubbed his face into her breasts. “Hmm, my favorite pillow!”
“S-sir Meliodas-! You can’t just do something like this at this time!” “Why not?”
Elizabeth's eyes opened in surprise as she looked to him. Meliodas smiled sadly to her. “I’m sorry, Elizabeth. I was wrong about what I had said. You know I care for you. You know I love you- more than anything else. That’s why I’ve been doing this; I want for us to finally be together, for real. No curse in between us.” She stared into his eyes and smiled, “I want the same… I just want to be doing it with you. I don’t want to sit back and watch as you give yourself up to your father like this- I want to be there with you and the sins; destroying this curse together.”
She pulled his face down to her own gently and finally allowed him to kiss her again, after all those years. For the first time in forever though: she let him take her.
Elizabeth sighed as she stirred in the bed. A light from the window seemed to be shining over her eye.
“Meliodas, can you close the curtain?”
She heard no answer, and she felt no movement of the bed. In fact… she didn’t feel anything. Meliodas’ presence wasn’t in the room. However, she could feel other familiar people were in the building...
Elizabeth's eyes shot open and she sat up with a gasp in surprise. She was back in her and Meliodas’ room in the Boar Hat. But how?!
The door was kicked open by Hawk as he flew in with tears pouring down, the other Sins following in suite. “Elizabeth! You’re awake!” Merlin rushed over and looked to her in worry, “Sissy, are you alright?! WHat happened?!”
Elizabeth couldn’t help but look to the other side of the bed sadly, even though she knew he wasn’t there. “...Meliodas brought me back, didn’t he?” The others looked to her in surprise. Escanor frowned, “We had believed you escaped and came yourself…?”
Elizabeth shook her head, “I tried, but they wouldn’t let me go, really. Last night though… I’m positive he brought me back after what we talked about.” Of course he would bring her back. It was his way of agreeing with her, and allowing her to do as she wanted to try to end the curse. Elizabeth shifted under the sheet and froze.
What was she wearing?
Elizabeth glanced down to her outfit and pulled off the sheet, burning red in embarrassment when the others blanked at the sight of her clothes. To be more accurate: they weren’t hers. They were Meliodas’
Diane couldn’t help but smile sneakily, “Well~ Someone sure misses the captain~”
Elizabeth cursed swiftly, “That perverted jerk! Not only did he change my clothes, but he didn’t even use the right ones!” Hawk yelped in anger, “He did what ?!