NNT ONE SHOTS

Guilt

Melizabeth
Brotherly love

Summary: after fighting Zeldris the guilt of ever having abandoned him in the first place Brings Meliodas ti his absolute lowest.

Time line: not too long after meliodas joined stigma.

Thanks to Snart_Stew for requesting this!

Third person POV-

Meliodas had had a bad day.
A very bad day in fact.

He had give out into battle with stigma's forces s as he does so often nowadays, and while fighting the demons forces...he saw him.
They're eyes met.
"Zeldris..." meliodas has whispered in disbelief. And then all hell berries loose.

They fought, and zeldris....he was hurt..mentally.
And of course have to fight him, and having to see him like that hurt Meliodas as well.

Of course meliodas won the fight, not that it was something he'd ever celebrate.
He returned to the forest where slavery was waiting.
She was happy to see him, for a few seconds at least, then she saw the look on his face.
"Honey, hey what's wrong? You're so pale" Elizabeth stated and cupped his face.

"Uhhhuhh" Meliodas hummed in simple agreement and then he took her hand and dragged her along.

"Where are we going?"

"Heavens theatre"

Elizabeth didn't question it further, she knew that he needed to hi to heavens theatre when he had something private to discuss.

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Elizabeth sat on the worn old steps of heavens theatre, and her head turned left..right...then left again...and right.
The reason was that she was following Meliodas's movements as he was pacing and closing as his own hair.
"I saw him today" Merida finally said something, but Elizabeth wasn't sure what it meant.
"He's hurting... he's hurting Elizabeth...god... our dad he's making him... he's-"

"Is this about zeldris?" Elizabeth guessed once meliodas mentioned his father.

"Yes! Yes he was there.... he's-... he's the leader of the commandments now..."

"Oh my goodness" Elizabeth gasped and bright a hand up to her mouth.
Zeldris has always been the one who would take over if meliodas couldnt anymore, and yet meliodas has always wished that it would never come to be. That maybe his father sight think he could do it and choose someone else.

"Zeldris is following our fathers orders now, just like I used to. I never ever wanted him to-.." meliodas stopped himself before he started yelling.
"One thing is fighting the army, but as the leader of the commandments it's-... it's so much worse. I used to do it. I used to be my father's puppeteer...his killing machine.." meliodas sighed, and he went from clawing at his hair and pacing to putting his hands in front of his face and sitting down.
"I still feel like I'll throw up... how can one man be so evil?"

"Well your father is-" Elizabeth started, although hesitantly, trying to find an afar to Meliodas's question, but he cut her off.

"No. I was talking about myself" Meliodas stated, never looking up at Elizabeth.
"I killed. Everyone. Woman, children, people who was innocent... and people of every race...I never questioned it... I just did it. And then... then I up and abandon my brother to go through the exact same... no wonder he hates me"

"Y'know... deep down I don't think that zeldris hates you. I just think he's sad, and he doesn't like that so he tries to act tonight about it and kept it inside until it exploded, and that explosion can be misinterpreted as anger. Deep die. He probably still loves you"

Elizabeth got up without saying anything and sat in the ground next to meliodas so that they sat shoulder to shoulder.
Meliodas then wrapped his arm around Elizabeth now as he pressed his face into the crook of her neck.
"I love him too...... before I knew what "I love you" means I- well... that was that, I simply didn't know... but then when I found out. When I found out I loved him... I couldn't tell him. because my father is cruel like that. He would've probably killed me. Or him. Or both of us. Because it'd be a sign of weakness... but....I- I still I want to say it to him...I want him to know I hasn't abandoned him...not really...god...I'm suCh a coward.." Meliodas spoke, and the crack at the end indicated that meliodas was very emotional, probably to the level of almost crying.

Elizabeth was at a loss. Unable to figure out how to console her lover.
She had never had to go through acting like this since she had no siblings, and the fact that Elizabeth never was in the situation of not knowing what love is...
"...you..are not evil, and you are certainly not a coward Meliodas. Nobody, is more forgiving, compassionate and thoughtful than you. But it's not the side of you that Zeldris knows too well just yet, but that's not a bad thing. Once you reconcile you'll be able to get to knit each other all over again... To start over..."

"... you think so?"

"...you know what? I'm certain of it"