Upon awakening elizabeth notices several things. 1 - she's still half lying on top of meliodas. 2 - his arms are no longer wrapped around her and 3 - they are both naked.

Pulling herself up she locks eyes with meliodas for a second, quickly looking away as she spots a glint of anger within their depths. "Umm.. what happened to our clothes?" she asks quietly and much to meliodas's surprise with a slight blush.

Meliodas averts his gaze and answers "i threw them away… they had blood stains on them.." although it's was a good enough reason he didn't want her to find out that the main reason was much more simple. They were the clothes she was wearing while pleasuring some other guy.. his were simply soaked in blood.

"Oh…" elizabeth slowly stood up and started turning toward the bathroom only to be stopped by meliodas's words

"Why did you allow that bastard to treat you like some whore off the street?" as elizabeth looked back toward the bed she noticed meliodas still hasn't even glanced at her. So smiling sadly she repeated the words so firmly embedded in her mind "it's my duty."

Those three simple word got a reaction as meliodas swiftly faced her almost shouting as he once again tried to reason with her flawed logic "IT IS NOT!" seeing her flinch he quickly gained control over his voice "elizabeth this is not you duty, it's not your purpose and it is not helping the kingdom. All of those thoughts are nothing but the sick, perverted ideals of the man who abused you. Whether you are royal by blood or not it doesn't change the fact that you are a princess of liones now. The only duty you have is to yourself first and to better the kingdom with your ideals not anyone else's. Do you understand what i'm saying?" he pleaded with her almost begging her to see reason.

With a sad smile she slowly walked back to the bed "i understand why you may think that but it's not true.. This is my purpose" she states keeping her head high.

Meliodas lets out a long suffering sigh "fine if that is what you believe.. But let me ask one thing and i require an honest answer. Do you enjoy doing.. That?" he asks sure of her answer but a small part of him scared he may be wrong.

Elizabeth looks down seeming thinking hard about her answer. "No.. i don't" she whispers before looking him in eyes and saying confidently "but i don't do it for my enjoyment. Sex is only for the enjoyment of the male participants. A woman should not take enjoyment from receiving only in the giving. I help the men in need of release"

Meliodas has to restrain himself from screaming out in frustration. "I accept the first part of your answer since that is the only part that's true." he smirks suddenly getting a idea maybe i could try to change what that bastard ingrained in her. Give her different kinds of lessons.. Standing up from the bed completely uncaring of his state of nakedness "Your forbidden from doing any sort of sexual activity while you stay at the boar hat."

"But-" elizabeth tries to interrupt only to be quickly silenced by a single finger placed in front of her face. "No buts.. I want you to understand that the things that bastard taught you are twisted. Understood?" meliodas states with finality waiting for her confirmation.

"May i make a request?" she asks while searching his face for some clue as to what he means to gain from this after all her belief is very strong. With something akin to caution in his green eyes he nods " i will abide by your rule of no sexual activity as long as.. It doesn't apply to you." she watched as his eyes widen comically and he tried to choke out a refusal only to be the one silenced with a finger this time "your whole argument is manufactured out of the fact i do not enjoy pleasing others but.. As i told you the day we reunited i really don't mind with you. In Fact i did enjoy it when i was pleasing you."

Seemingly stumped by her valid point meliodas tries to swallow the lump that seems to have grown in his throat before answering her request. "fine. I will teach you the way things should be when it comes to sex but unlike him i will not do anything without your consent. Do we have a deal?" he almost sags with relief when she nods her acceptance.

With that settled meliodas turns towards the wardrobe to get clothes for both himself and elizabeth. Passing the clothes to her she starts to walk again to the bathroom to have a quick shower while meliodas begins dressing for the day ahead. Reaching the door she pauses and without looking back she starts to speak just loud enough for meliodas to hear " you're a demon aren't you?" she hears his sharp intake of breath and can imagine that he has just straightened as if hit but lightning "it's ok you don't have to tell me… but i believe i'm right. You haven't aged a day in ten years, your eyes turn pitch black, you get black marks on your forehead and body, your extremely powerful and when you lose control your wrath is deadly. But even with all of that, you are still the one person that i trust completely."

On the other side of the room meliodas is standing half dressed listening to every word elizabeth is saying and once she's done he is speechless. She had figured out what he was and didn't hate him for it, she even trusts him still. That lump from before suddenly makes a reappearance and is a lot more stubborn this time about staying right there in his throat. As elizabeth starts walking into the bathroom he manages to get some words passed the strange lump "thank you… elizabeth." the word are extremely raw and quieter than he expected her to hear but as she turns her head while closing the door he sees a small genuine smile on her lips and he knows that she heard him.

After a relatively short journey on mama hawks back they arrive just outside the forest of white dreams. Hawk decides to stay with his mother as he is trying to keep his distance from meliodas, last night having finally been explained as they fixed the broken wall in elizabeth's room. Luckily at some point during the night when meliodas regained control he cleaned up the blood and threw the ripped off hand away. So it was just a simple patch up that needed done.

As meliodas and elizabeth walked through the forest of white dreams they talked about random times from their past. Meliodas told more stories about his adventures with the sins and elizabeth told him of the many times she snuck out of the castle to go riding on azura.

Before long they encountered a small group of what at first looked to be shadows but they soon became clearer taking the form of meliodas. Elizabeth stared at the scene before her and counted 11 meliodas's.

"Umm… which is the real you?" all of them started arguing at once each stating that he was in fact the real meliodas. "OK, OK, OK! I have an idea. All of you do what i say for a minute please. Hands behind your head and smirk please." all of them did it. "Ok now take out your sword." again they all complied "hmmmm….. Ok i know what the real one would do here… all of you.. Come here and i will use my mouth to pleasure each of you" all but one rushed towards her the one left behind suddenly had a spiral above his eye. "Meliodas now!" in a flash the real meliodas was in front of me and the imposters were lying in a heap at his feet now in there true forms.

"Clever… never do that again please." meliodas breathed reigning in his control in record time.

"Sorry i couldn't think of anything else that wouldn't tip them off" elizabeth tried to explain. Just then the imps recovered and started running farther into the forest with meliodas and elizabeth right behind them.

Up ahead the figure of a young girl came into view and as elizabeth started to worry for her she started to notice that this 'little girl' wasn't so little. She was huge! Skidding to a halt she and meliodas watched as the imps ran up to her and started yelling.

"Lady diane, lady diane. Sir king, sir king we accidently let in some holy knights!"

As the giant stood to her full height elizabeth noticed another form just above her shoulder floating on what looked to be a giant pillow.

"meliodas…. Is that?" elizabeth breathed taking a step back

Just then a hand swiped down and snatched up meliodas. As elizabeth prepared to scream she heard a faint voice from the figure behind lady diane

"Captain!? Is that you?"

"Yo! Didn't expect you to be here to king but i guess i should have, you've never left dianes side for long hehe"

Diane finally caught up and yelled out

"CAPTAIN!"

A/N sorry for the long wait will try get the next chapter out soon!