(Seven Deadly Sins, Ban x reader) Waiting For The End

12. I Love You~

(Y/n) pov

"So meli, how long until our next stop?" I pull a wooden stool towards me and sit on it at the bar.

"Tomorrow morning." The Captain tells me.

"Where are we going?"

"We're following a lead on Escanor. Someone mentioned seeing him in the town of yesterday." He explains,making my heart drop.

"The town of yesterday?" I bounce my knee, biting the inside of my cheek.

"Yeah, you know the place?" He wonders.

"No, it's just an interesting name for a town." I respond.
"You said we were going to be on the road until tomorrow?"

"Yeah,"

"Cool, cool, cool." I say while reaching over the bar to grab a drink, not hesitating to consume it, then another, and another, and another, and another...

I sit back down, so the opposite of how I was before, so my back is resting on the bar, and I can see King, Diane, Ban, and gowther as I continue to drink, feeling my stomach get warm.

"Meli~, are you charging me for the ale? Or like, do I get an employee discount? Especially because you're a meanie who makes me wait on the scary big men." I lifted my chin up, trying to talk behind me.

"(Y/n), you could easily kick any of their asses." Meliodas replies.

"That doesn't mean they aren't scary." I pout.
"And how am I supposed to know when they've gone far enough for me to kick ass? And what if while I'm kicking, my skirt goes up too high?"

"Fine, I won't charge you for the ale." He says.

"Yay!" I finish my ale to celebrate my victory.
"Oh, king!" I hop off the stool and stumble over to where he is.

"(y/n)? are you ok?" King raises an eyebrow.

"noooo I to tell you a secret!" I announce.

"You want to tell me a secret?"

"Yes~, and it's really important!" I lean close to him.
"I love you~ but like no homo because you're like a little brother to me or older brother cause I forgot how old you are." I explain.

"Oh, ok?" His confusion is obvious.

I dramatically gasp.
"Are you saying you don't love me?" I pout.

"What? I, I didn't say I didn't." He blushes.

"Oh! Diane! I also love you, too, but a little homo because I'd probably make out with if, if I was drunk or something." I wiggle my eyebrows.

"Thank you? But unfortunately, you'll need to wait until I'm drunk, too." Diane giggles.

"Meli! I forgot, I also love you, but I love you like a little sister!" I yelled to him.

"Ok (y/n), I think you need some water." Ban picks me up to set me down on a chair, then gets me some water.

"Ban, you know I think I might love you the mostest." I tell him.

"Oh really?" He raises an eyebrow.

"Yeah, but not like how I love everyone else! You're really there for me. You know? " I cover my mouth to burb.

"Then what way do you love me?" Ban asks.

"That's easy in like, in the same way I loved that one guy." I state

"And in what way did you love him?" He chuckles.

"Like the way I loved the cool blue haired, robber guy."
I explain, gently resting my head on my arm

Flashback

"Dad!" I screamed his name as his hand goes limp.

I look around seeing the rubble of the kingdom I was supposed to rule someday, and a red demon walking away destroying everything in his path but I couldn't do anything I had no skills to protect anyone.

I'm helpless. My leg is caught, crushed under a fallen chimney, but I was too much of a cowered to cut it off, even knowing it will immediately come back.

"Damn it! You selfish basterd!" I cry yelling at my lifeless father.
"Why do I have to be the one who has to live?!"

I continue to cry, screaming while the sun moves across the sky, dipping behind the trees and reappearing from the mountains, over, and over, and over again as I sob. Until I hear a faint scream.

"Hello?! Is anyone there?! Can you hear me?!" I yell, almost hopeful, but I never hear back.
"Hello!" I try one more time, consumed with anxiety.

I look around, hyperventilating, trying to pull at my leg. It would heal completely the second the wight is off of it.

"Anyone?!" I scream, desperately.

Feeling like it's now or never, I finally get myself to part with my leg. The physical was nothing like I would have expected. It almost didn't hurt at all with how quickly it healed.

"Hello!" I sob, walking through the kingdom, screaming. Feeling more and more guilty seeing people I know, and recognize on the streets.

I could have helped, maybe if I escaped sooner I could have been able to help someone, anyone survive.

I go months doing nothing but search the kingdom for survivors. Hoping to find the owner of the voice who screamed, though I know it's likely I already found them. It was like one of the hundreds of pulseless bodies.

My face had been dry for weeks, now decensitize from the images, from the feeling of cold skin. Until I trip on her.

Melissa, my little sisters who I had practically raised with my fist love.

My tears start falling again. I just want my family back. I want my dad, my mom, my Danny, my sister, my, my, my...

Ban...

Ban is likely still alive. I might have a chance to see him again. I could find him. Even if someday I'd lose him too, I could have someone I know again. I wouldn't have to be alone. I could be with someone I love.

(975 words)