Never Mine: (SDS/NNT Fanfic)

Part 10

Finale

By the time he got back to the castle, he was welcomed with his brother crossing his arms, eyes desplaying nothing but coldness. It actually intimidated him that he looks so calm, but is probably so angry right now. With that in mind, he bit his lower lip climbing  off Hawk... not only did he stole his dragon, he also disobeyed his orders.

He was too desperate for his own good.

Fear eventually started to pervade his heart at the sight of a red haired doll, standing beside his brother. He wanted to climbe back up unto Hawk, fly as far as possible yet that was something he could never do. Why? Because one, the dragon is loyal to Meliodas, two because Meliodas is thrice faster than the dragon. It was a hopeless situatiom.

Meliodas was going to find out about it all, about him knowing about the blonde and the goddess, about observing them and the worse of them all is that he might-no, he will know about the fact that he loves Elizabeth. It scares him of what his brother is capable of doing in such a situation, because one way or another he's sure he'd end up not being able to see Elizabeth ever again.

He knelt down, knowing that he was before their king, looking down at his foot while finding the words left behind his tongue.

"I apologize for disobeying you, your majesty." He said hesitantly, his eyes feeling hot. All his hearts were beating wildly, as he gathered up all the courage he could get to look up and meet his eyes.

"But before I reach my judgement, I've been meaning to tell you something... would you at least hear me out?"

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"You knew?" Estarossa couldn't look at his brother as of the moment. The silence before his response was defeaning, it was giving nothing but discomfort as he tried to anticipate his response.

"For how long now?" Meliodas asks, sitting on his bed, petting his dragon which has been trying to seek his attention. The silverette remained with his head lowered down, scared of what his brother's judgement might be.

"Almost half a year... Zeldris said that you were acting odd so he told me to follow you... but I swear I hadn't told anyone about it!" He quickly added, now lifting his head wantig nothing but to convince the blonde. There was no response but silence, it was as if Meliodas wanted him to go on.

"The-then I saw you were with Elizabeth... I thought that I should kill her but I couldn't... you- you were happy with her and I immediately knew that she means a lot to you... I couldn't..." He stuttered, as he was pinching his own fingers out of nervousness.

"Sh-she found me... tried to talk to me but I ignored her... wanted to leave her but you might see me and figure it all out... tried to go somewhere else yet she'd follow me... I didn't quite understand why she would do that considering that I have been nothing but rude toward her." He could still remember all their irritating moments with her, but he'd laugh at it eventually by the end. Before he knew it, he started looking forward of seeing her again.

"W-we grew close... " he hesitantly uttered, and just like how he anticipated things would be...

The blonde figured out.

"Then you fell inlove with her."

"I-i'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to---I didn't---"