Colors in bloom

Chapter 9

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THIRD PERSON'S POV-
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Meliodas, despite the pain it had brought him had moved a bit to one side of the bed to make room for Elizabeth, so right now she was sitting next to him ave he had his arm loosely around her.
"Do you know if it's a c boy or a girl?" He asked as he, with his other hand, gentle strokes her stomach. It was in treasury still very flat, but it had definitely changed if not only a little bit.

"I had an ultrasound two weeks ago... it's a boy..." Elizabeth smiled and kissed his chin.
Meliodas was still somewhat in a daze, the right if becoming a father gazing overwhelmed him.

"A boy..." he repeated in a whisper and then he leaned his head against Elizabeth. "Our baby boy... have you come up with names yet?"

Elizabeth shook her head no.
"I wanted you to be the one to name him"

"... what if I hadn't made it?"

"Then I would've named him after you, with a added Junior of course"

"Meliodas Junior" meliodas laughed.
"I'm sure I can come up with something better, but I do need a little while to think"

"Of course" Elizabeth nodded.

Then the sweet moment was interrupted when two police officers walked into the hospital room.
"Mr Damon" one if the police officers greeted.
"I'm officer Dreyfus and this is my partner Hendrickson...we're gonna talk to you about what haired that day 2 months ago" Dreyfus said while Hendrickson got them both a chair each grin the corner.
They then sat down in front of the bed.
"Ma'am are you-"

"She's staying" meliodas said, with no room for discussion, and if that was his wish then the police officers had to oblige.

"Mr Damon, two months ago, Friday at 23:12 an armed man, by the name if Estarossa dea walked into your bar armed with a Merkel 200E shotgun, and he fired 8 shots, one of which was at the curling and the seven others were at you" Dreyfus started by explaining the way stuff first.

"Okay? But why did he shoot?" Meliodas asked a bit impatiently.
"Estarossa suffers from Schizophrenia and is classified as insane...as for why he went after you in such a manner as he did...well that's where thugs get a little complicated...it would seem that Estarossa has a twin brother named Mael, who is perfectly healthy by the way, and both it them...is your half brothers"

Meliodas's only reacting was to look down and clutch at his forehead.
He wished he cubs trek hindered that it was his fathers, that he had a mistress, but every instinct in meliodas told him that Mael and Estarossa belonged to his mother and whoever she ran off with.
"Okay...explain further" meliodas said abd elizabeth put her forehead against the side of his head and whispered sweet words to him.

"Estarossa complains that his mother always loved you more, that she never stopped talking about you. We have also talked to Mael and he says the same, Tara she talked about you and your under brother a lot, but from Mael's statement we believed that it was just the normal amount you'd talk about your other children and that Estarossa's schizophrenia probably made it look as if it was worse...He was very loved, but he's very sick... thats all there's to it"

When meliodas was growing up without his mother he always thought I'd hire nice it with be to just know if she ever thought of him. But note that he knew, he Det nothing but anger.
She chose to leave her children, there apparently weren't important enough. She didn't even stay in touch... she surface forgotten sky that post of her life. She should've forgotten about her first children.

"Another thing... the doctors are morbidly the ones to announce this but.." Hendrickson spoke directly the first time, then paused.
"Mael...and your mother are both here, ave would like to speak with you"