NNT ONE SHOTS

Shattered

F R I E N D S H I P

Summary: after a nightmare Meliodas goes to the alcohol shelf he has in his room, but he quickly shatters, along with the bottle.

Time line: a few weeks before Elizabeth meets Meliodas (again)

THIRD PERSON POV-

Shattered glass surrounded Meliodas as he was leaning against the wall, gasping for breath.

Meliodas had once again been awoken by a nightmare in the middle of the night...a nightmare...no..it was rather a memory. A memory of that night...that night everything went wrong...the night he and his beloved Elizabeth got cursed.
This one had been particularly bad though, but Meliodas couldn't quite say what was worse about it this time than all the other times he'd had that exact nightmare.

But he had gotten up and walked over to his display of alcohol in the corner of his room, even though he couldn't easily get drunk the alcohol helped calm his nerves...but as said, it was worse this time, and after taking a few gulps off a certain bottle he was overcome by anger and smashed the bottle against the wall, affectively cutting himself, but he didn't care as he then fell head first into a panic attack.

As he sat on the ground surrounded by the spilt alcohol and the shattered glass he didn't even notice that morning had come...
He knew that Hawk was probably already up and about and that he'd get annoyed if Meliodas didn't come down soon.
So after taking a deep breath Meliodas pushed himself up onto his feet, got dressed and the walked out of his room, not even bothering to clean the mess..

"Good morni- WOAH WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!" Hawk who was preparing the tavern for the service that evening yelled when he noticed the blood. It was easy to spot as Meliodas was wearing white.

"Hm?" Meliodas hummed as a question while his expression was quite carefree, as if he hadn't even noticed the blood on himself.

"THe BloOd MeLiODas!!!" Hawk screeched and his voice even cracked a couple of times, obviously very distressed by seeing his best friend like that.

"Ohhhhhhh" Meliodas gaped as if he was surprised and glanced over at his sleeve which was spotted with blood. "I broke a bottle, it must've cut me.." he says with a smile. A fake smile...

"You were drinking?! This early?!""

"Nah I woke up in the middle of the night...I couldn't really fall asleep again" Meliodas muttered the last part, and yet Hawk Easily caught onto the solemn tone in his voice. Something was bugging his friend, and Hawk sure wouldn't be a good friend if he let him go through whatever it was alone!

"Lay down...I'll get the first aid kit.." Hawk said and decided not to comment on the "couldn't sleep" part..

"Ah, no Hawk it's fine, we should finish prepping, so we need to stock u-" Meliodas said care freely, not very concerned about it himself.

"Lay. Down!" Hawk said harshly and continued to trot to the restroom where the first aid kit was stored.

It seemed like Meliodas got the memo after a few moments as he did in fact lay down on the floor up against the wall.
It was uncomfortable, but since Meliodas barely slept at all that night he felt his eyelids get heavy and had to fight to stay awake.
A fight he quickly lost.

"Hey Meliodas I got-..oh geez" hawk sighed as he walked into the room to see meliodas asleep just where he had left him.
In Hawks mouth he was carrying the first aid kit.
'Hmmm, I wonder if I can Pull this off while he sleeps?'

Hawk then begins to work on cleaning up Meliodas and getting all his injuries bandaged.
He carefully and slowly takes the glass out of Meliodas's skin trying to be as gentle as he can so he doesn't cause Meliodas anymore pain than he's probably already already in.

Hawk was amazed that Meliodas slept through it, but at least all he needed to do now was put a small bandaids on each cut. In fact, so s if the guys were actually so small that it wouldn't need it. They just needed a swift wipe with rubbing alcohol, which Hawk was sure would wake meliodas up.
And it did, but not the kind of flying into a sitting position due to shock, no he merely opened his eyes a little to gaze up at what Hawk was doing.

"Hawk?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks" Meliodas said genuinely which warmed Hawk's heart more than he thought it would.
Their friendship wasn't normally like this. They were always teasing each other and pulling pranks, so every time something like this was displayed it just hit differently.

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In the time that would come Hawk would continue to try and ask Meliodas what has happened that night that made him smash the bottle. He always knew it would be something more than "the bottle slipped" which was Meliodas's favorite excuse.

Soon after Elizabeth came to live with them.
Hawks was happy because Elizabeth was nice and it was new good company, but he was also slightly frightened as he now knew that Elizabeth was a princess, and he didn't want her to suddenly wake up to one of Meliodas's nightly drinks, and whatever would follow, but as time passed by the bags under  Meliodas's eyes disappeared, giving hints of an actual good sleep routine.

Hawk also began to ponder on the fact that he had never seen Meliodas quite as happy as when he was with Elizabeth, hawk didn't question it too much as he was just happy that his best friend seemed to be getting better.

He never understood till that day...

The day Meliodas finally explained about their curse...