Maleficent's POV

Diaval and I were both in our nest together as I tending to him.

After tending to Diaval's bruised wound on his face as well as the injury I had unintentionally inflicted upon him with my magic...he had fallen asleep on my lap.

My eyes caught his scar like marks on his face.

His dark hair framed his face quite nicely, I couldn't help but lightly graze my hand over his face.

And as I observed his features...I started to take notice of every detail I could find about him as he continued to sleep soundly.

After a while of caressing his face his eyes fluttered open.

To my surprise, he slowly stopped my hand with his.

"Can I ask you something?" He asked as I held a soft glance toward him.

"Ask away." I spoke.

"To you...am I a man or a Raven?" As he asked that question he took my hand to his face with his own hand.

"Yes." I answered him with tenderness as his eyes softened, but he still seemed confused even after my answer to his question.

"Sorry?"

"You are both to me....Why do you ask?"

"Well..." He seemed quite serious about getting a straight answer from me as he sat up beside me, folding his hand in mine.

"You see Mistress...my love for you has made me...well, how do I put this?...it's made me...question who I really am? Umm...does that make any sense?"

"I'm unsure of what you are trying to convey? You are confused on what you are as a living being? You're unsure of your originality? Or of what you are now?"

After that, I  had seemed to accidentally confused him even further as well as myself.

But pondering for a few minutes...I seemed to understand what he meant.

I smiled at him as I turned him around.

"Let me see your back...Your bandages came undone."

Silence had happen to slip in between us both.

And then I spoke after some time of silence.

"Whether a man or a raven, you're you and that's that. You're Diaval...the man and the raven I love."

"But I can't even tell who I am anymore...I'm stuck between two worlds...afraid I'll forget my origins as a raven but also terrified to lose my human form...terrified that if I never change into a human...I'll never get to have a matching hand to hold to yours....I'll never be able to touch your face as you cry...I could never protect you as a raven...but as a man I could-"

"Enough. You are here as a human now, and even still...you're still a raven at heart. Diaval...don't fear. There is absolutely no reason to."

Diaval's POV

Her hand grazed my back as she spoke, relieving me of my unpleasant emotions of fear.

My tense muscles slacked under her touch.

As much as I wanted to turn around to see her, she disallowed me due to readjusting my bandages.

Once she was done I was able to turn around.

Once I did turn to face her, she had faced her sight to the ground.

"You know...I really do care for you. No matter how much I have to tolerate you and your cruel jokes or your stubborn pigheadedness. My heart yearns for you Diaval...I'm still pretty vulnerable to this feeling...so don't you dare mock me...don't joke or make light of what I'm saying...because I mean it Diaval..."

She looked up at me with the most teary and tender eyes.

Her left hand over her right arm, a position reading that she was a bit shy to tell me all this.

"I love you."

And my eyes brightened as well as my heart.

I don't think I shall ever get used to such words being directed to me by such a love at she.

"Mistress..."

Only her name...a familiar name I had given to her...Mistress was all I could get out of me.

Her earthy-toned gown swept perfectly around her as her hair fell all so perfectly.

Her dark horns contrasted with her bright eyes and pale skin.

Hearing the echoes of the birds in the forest just outside made this moment all the more memorable.

"I have always loved you." I proclaimed quite suddenly.

The sight of her...marked by such kindly feeling of such a benevolent face...

Her touch to my hand was so gentle...if I would have just met her...I would've never mistook her as a evil Fey at all...even if I were born a human...

She was just too beautiful...so magnificent.

She was no ordinary fairy or Fey...she was Maleficent.

She was my Mistress.

At this moment we shared words only secret to us...only words and feelings beyond words could convey.

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As the day wore on we had decided to sit outside in an open field to see the stars.

Maleficent had surprisingly allowed me to lay on one of her wings for support of my injured back.

It was so dark that the stars reflected on Maleficent's eyes.

"They are beautiful aren't they Diaval."

"Not as beautiful as you."

"Hardly even a question." Her eyes appeared playful as she spoke.

"Absolutely. I agree entirely."

She smirked at me as she began to chuckle.

"You sure are a rare one indeed."

I turned to my side as my left arm supported me upward to see her.

"This is a new beginning for us...and I want to cherish it for as long as I can...even as death, an unmovable obstacle we all must travel to one day, inches closer every second we're alive...with you, I'm not afraid to die alone. Not anymore. Not when my heart belongs to you as well as our dear Aurora."

"I agree wholeheartedly Mistress."

She locked eyes with me, smiling.

"Move closer."

I did as told as she snuggled into me, wrapping her wings around us, shielding us from the crisp night breeze.

"I never want to let go...is that too selfish of me?" She said to me as I moved locks of hair away from her face.

"Not at all. If anything, I want you to be only mine...and no one else's."

She laughed a small laugh.

So clear and sweet that my heart skipped a beat.

"I guess we are quite the even pair then."

"At the utmost." I spoke near her ear as I hugged her.

Once the day comes for us to call our separate ways into the grave...

Let our love for one another be ever so endless...

That, maybe before our roads end...that we may even start a family of our own.

Having our own children together someday.

And her as my love.

But if our lives are written in such a way to where we only have each other...

That's all the more special to me...

Just me and my dearest Maleficent together in our own little world.

And I shall ever be by her side until my very last breath.

Until death do us part.

I shall stay here together with you, my Mistress.

~Thee End~

~Hope you enjoyed this fanfiction of mine XD I had lots of fun making this.