| Melizabeth | W R A T H~

~The Life I'll Take From You~

Meliodas
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We teleported into the boar hat tavern, our old HQ from before all of this nonsense. Elizabeth stood besides me, her eyes on the abnormally large moon in the sky.

"Feel like painting?" I smiled, realizing why she was really looking. "I gave that up... She's been taking the little privileges I have left. But she cannot take away my education.. that's why I agreed to those terms. I wanted to have one thing left I could be happy about."

"Ellie.. I want you to be able to do everything you desire. Experience everything you haven't, learn the unknown and know the unheard of.. I want you to have it all. The man you love, the family you deserve.. friends.. all of it. Why do you stay?" I replied a bit too honestly.

..My heart pounded the moment her cheeks reddened though..

"She's the only person I know.. the only being I have." I watched the love of my life bite down on her lip and twiddle with her shirt.

"Would you think I'm crazy if I said it doesn't have to be this way?"

Elizabeth's beautiful expression softened and the redness on her cheeks deepened. "Meliodas.. I—-"

"Captain we're ready for you." Elaine smiled at the both of us, turned on her heel and walked back towards the house. "Save that thought." I sighed. She giggled sweetly, a sound I had missed for far too long.

Having her here makes this feel too easy..

Let's not get ahead of myself.

"Whoa. Great job guys" I complimented, my eyes darting between each photograph. Elizabeth hovered next to me her expression changing as she scanned the photos herself. "This is from that place?" Ellie questioned us all.

"Yes. In each rotted cell in the basement was a just as beaten child. None in the basement were under the age of Eleven. Undoubtedly the other floors had been organized by age. This 'lab' is where she conducts her experiments" Gowther had begun to guide us through each photo. The longer this went on the more I could tell Ellie was going to be sick.

"She's doing this? I never even knew there was a basement as massive as this!" Elizabeth separated the pictures by room to get a better view of just how grand this basement is.

"Our theory is she had an asylum built on top of an old chemical factory. It would be the place to have the perfect kind of equipment for blood experimentation." Merlin butted in as well. "How do we know it's that?" I questioned the two.

Diane began passing out mugs of ale while Ban stepped behind the bar to whip up something for the lot of us. Elaine prepared the bar tables we weren't on for the food.

"We found a blood bank down there. Each one very organized might I add." Diane chimed, taking a second to ponder it after. "She had this one room with blood labeled X on it". As Diane was speaking of it, King searched for the picture they took of the mysterious room.

"Here" he slid the photo over. "Diane and I had no clue what it meant but we stole a sample of it. That's in the fridge" Harlequin explained in greater detail.

"I can't believe this.." Elizabeth whispered to herself. "What are you guys going to do?" She questioned all of us now.

"We need to stop whatever she is doing here.. too many kids have gone missing and we owe it to their parents to return them safely" Elaine explained from the side of the room.

"No matter what? Because from my point of view this is the most important thing to my mom right now. She will fight back" Ellie looked to me. "What will you do then? When you see that she won't stop until the person that destroyed her favorite project is dead." Her eyes glossed in worry, her bottom lip had quivered on the last syllable she spoke.

"I won't stop either."

Tristan sat at the bar with Lance and Ban. I could see the occasional glances he took and feel how tense my boy is right now.

"You'd kill her?" Elizabeth's face dared me to say yes. "I would ask you how you felt about it. Then I'd kill her." I replied cold heartedly.

"Because that makes sense instead? She's my mother she may seem like a monster but she isn't Meliodas. If you solve all of your problems with violence how do you expect to grow as a better being? For your future, think of all your options before deciding on the most gruesome" she replied as wicked hearted as I.

"You have no idea what I have been through"

"Princess. The Deity has done a lot to us sins. She stole the soul of our closest friend.. and used it to benefit herself. We've been digging into this for years.. trust someone other than the woman who raised you" Ban interrupted which broke Elizabeth's hardcore staring into my soul.

"I want in." She demanded.

"What?" I questioned her. Elizabeth stood cross armed with her hip popped out slightly, her knee bent. "I have to make sure YOU don't kill her. I want in. You can think of me as your inside woman." She demanded once more.

The others laughed knowingly. "Welcome to the team Princess!" Ban shouted. "It's a pleasure to have you Elizabeth" Diane and Elaine harmonized with each other.

Elizabeth's cheeks reddened again. A huge smile to go with her gorgeous glow. She can find her happiness here again..

I'm confident she will.

"Hey.. could I talk to you?" Tristan tugged onto me. "Be back. Guys fill in our new member while I talk to Tristan." I ordered, turning around and walking outside the door with him.

"Moms here" he started "I know" I replied kinda confused.

"Moms here dad. What do I do? I don't even know how to talk anymore!" He began to freak out. His pacing back and forth making my own nerves run wild.

"First, calm down. She isn't mom yet. Right now she's just Elizabeth.. a girl your dad is planning to take for himself" I smirked, grossing him out a bit. "Not what I want to hear dad. What do I call you when we're together ? If I say dad she's gonna think you're 80" he explained

I deadpanned. "Are you calling me old?" I questioned seriously. "That's not the topic" he groaned. "Okay okay. Call me Captain but as soon as we are alone you call me dad. I don't want to hear that at home. You can say anything you want to Ellie.. she doesn't bite. Maybe you should get to know the girl I fell for and made you with" I chuckled.

"That's the plan.." Tristan muttered before heading back in for a long night of planning.

One thought still lingers on my mind..
How long until that wretched Deity finds my Ellie?

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Rubi
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