NNT ONE SHOTS

Siblings

THE SINS

Kind of an au because Escanor is the but the coffin of eternal darkness isn't broken yet?

Summary; when the drunken conversation is about wether the individual sin has siblings meliodas can't bring himself to deny his brother's existence.

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THIRD PERSON POV
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Meliodas had only just left to room to get more alcohol, not that it was at all needed as ban was already very drunk, but by the time he arrived back the conversation had changed from that of what ale tasted next to a deeper topic.

"I really didn't know...is she dead?"

"Ya! She ded when she turned...four?...four!" Ban mumbled in his drunken stupor.

"What are we talking about guys?" Meliodas asked as he took a seat in between Elizabeth and Ban.

"Oh, sir Ban was just telling us about his little sister, Killia" Elizabeth explained seeming sad from the story of bans apparently dead littke sister.
A life ended before it barely begun. Happened tragically often.

"Well now I'm curious, does anyone else here have siblings?" King asked and immediately the room turned deadly quiet. No one dared move or say anything.
Secrets was obviously asked to be spilt.
"Cause I know that lady Elizabeth, me, and ban do, but I've heard any of you other talk about your family"

"What makes a family? If it is blood relations then I have no family. I gave no real blood" Gowther Said ever as nonchalant, but as usual everyone ignored his weirdness.

"Well uh" Escanor began awkwardly as he fixed his glasses. "I do in fact have an older brother, his name was Raymond"

"Well what'd ya know there's other siblings in the sins" ban laughed.

"Yes well I havnt seen him for a very long time and can only imagine he is dead"

"More dead siblings too apparently"

Meliodas remembered when Escanor first joined the sins and he had learned that he was one a prince of the kingdom Castellio that was destroyed by savages many years ago. Ironically enough they had exiled the one man in their kingdom that could have saved them.
Escanor.

"D-Diane, do you have siblings?" King turfed to his crush, the giant girl Diane.

"Uh? Um...no, though...maybe? Sorta?" She seemed saddened as she spoke.
Delores had been like a sister to her but had died. She didn't even get to say goodbye.
And then there was Matrona who had actually tried to act like her big sister but hadn't quite known how to.
"They're dead" she said as it sounded like she was about to cry, but just as king was about to have his moment to comfort her, Escanor asked Merlin if she had any siblings.

Both meliodas and Merlin froze at the question for obvious reasons.
Merlin still considered Elizabeth her big sis sis. Her big sister, but the sister she once has was dead...
"I have...an older sister"

"R-really!? I don't know why but i B always thought you was the older sister type"

"Can't really choose that now can You?..."

"But seriously is there anyone here with loving siblings?!" Ban punched the table and then turned to his captain.
"Cap'n! Say your sibling is alive!"

"Why said I have any?..."

"You don't?"

Meliodas opened his mouth to answer "no" but it didn't seem right to deny his brother's existences.
"I do"

"Oh?!" All of the sins now seemed interested. Their captain who was one of the most irresponsible of them gad siblings?
It was also the only fact they had ever heard about his life before he forged the seven deadly sins.

"Two younger brothers..." meliodas confirmed, but from the look of his face it as obvious he wasn't too happy talking about it.

"Seriously?!"

"Are they alive?"

"Yeah they're alive" Meliodas slowly nodded.

"Well why havnt you introduced us? I'm sure they're just as cute as you" Diane giggled and blushed a little.
Nobody noticed Meliodas's grip on his mug tighten.

"We aren't on speaking terms" Meliodas just said it as it was.
There was no way around it.
His brothers hated him for what he had done, choosing Elizabeth over them and their clan and leaving them to pick up the pieces of what he destroyed when he left.
He also caused zeldris unimaginable pain by being the reason that he had to lock the wish he loved away.
When it came to Estarossa his hatred was more simply, that being of absolute betrayal, but memories of the tiger he fought Estarossa he was sure that his betrayal had made his younger brother insage.
He had lost his mind because of him.

He left them all alone in the clutches of their father..

"Meliodas?"

Meliodas turned his head to Elizabeth's sweet voice and was met with a look of concern.

"What's wrong?"

"Well it's just..."

"You seemed kind of lost for a moment Captain" king pointed out rather nervously.
He didn't want to hit a sore spot.
He understood just how much it could m hurt to not be able to Ralf to ones sibling.

"D-Does it make you sad that you don't speak to them Captain?" Escanor asked.

"Of course it does" Meliodas nodded. "They're my brothers and I love them, but...I do understand why they hate me"

"Oh sir meliodas I'm sure they doesn't actually hate you " Elizabeth tried to comfort him, but he knew that she was naive about this.
She had always been so close to her sisters so naturally they would fight but always make up again.
Meliodas and his brothers just wasn't like that.

He smiled, because at least he knew that Elizabeth meant well when she was trying to cheer him up.
"Nah, they do"

"Why?" Ban had lost his boundaries after getting drunk so he kept on asking further.
"Why? Why? Wh-"

"Because...well I was a bad brother" meliodas sighed.
It was a truth he had long since accepted, but he still wish that he could turn back time and be better.
Be the big brother that Zeldris and Estarossa needed and wanted.
One that didn't just teach them the way of the sword, but also loved them.

"Welcome to the club" king mumbled, feeling like a terrible brother himself.

"I can't believe that" Elizabeth said. "You're so kind sir meliodas? I can't imagine you being a bad big brother at all"

Once again meliodas smiled sadly.
"Thanks, but I was younger, and more stupid...I hadn't been given much love so I didn't know how to give my brothers any either. I had no idea how to be what they needed"

The room turned quiet as they all took Meliodas's words in and realized that he probably grew up neglected or worse, abused and that that obviously had an affect on how he treated his younger siblings.

"Well" Meliodas clapped his hands together, "it's been a good talk but I'll head up and get an early nights rest, Goodnight everyone"

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Meliodas didn't go to bed, instead he went up to the boar hats balcony and watched the dark night sky.
It had been a long time sibe he had talked so freely about his brother and he was amazed at the feeling of relief mixed with feeling of hurt as painful memories returned.
"I'm gonna make it right...just...give me some time..Zel, Estarossa..."

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I know Estarossa is not real but meliodas doesn't know yet