a/n: Just a lil' songfic (my first one!) on the song "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera, on how Link feels in Termina having to hide behind so many masks...I just had to change the word "girl" in the chorus to "boy"...This is kinda an angsty fic, so...

Reflection
by Mu The Mucca

Look at me
You may think you see who I really am
But you'll never know me
Ev'ry day
It's as if I play a part

Link smashed another box in the Laundry Pool. Why did it have to be so hard? Why did he have to memorize all the functions, of Goron Link, of Zora Link, of Deku Link? Why did HE have to save Termina? He had Epona again, he had his Ocarina...why couldn't he just leave?

Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart

Link sat down and looked around...it was the final day. He wouldn't finish his task on time...and he didn't have the energy to do it again. He barely even felt the energy to lift his Ocarina. If he couldn't finish his mission, would that be how he survived? Playing the Song of Time every three days?

Who is that boy I see
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

Link looked sadly at the crying Anju. It was too late...he couldn't help her. He couldn't reunite her and Kafei. After all...it was just for another mask, wasn't it? Just for another mask that would aid him with his impossible mission. It was just a mask.

I am now in a world where I have to hide my heart
And what I believe in
But somehow I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am

It was night. Link covered his ears. Would that foolish man, the one that gave him the mask, the one who reminded him of the Windmill Man of Hyrule, stop playing music? He should just take cover. It would all be over soon. Couldn't he think like the rest of Termina, just think taking refuge would save him?

Who is that boy I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

Link watched Kafei leave the Curiosity Shop. He must have been leaving for Ikana Valley now. He was still wearing that mask...the yellow one. Link forgot the name. The were all the same. Just tools making him something he was not, something he didn't want to be.

There's a heart that must be free to fly
That burns with a need to know the reason why
Why we must all conceal
What we think
How we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?

Link sighed and looked at the haunting moon as that eerie music starting playing, signaling six hours were left. It was strange how the hours passed like minutes. It was almost over...even the Windmill Man was packing up and leaving.

I won't pretend that I'm someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

Link looked down and covered his head as the last second ticked by. Then, the moon slowly came crashing down into Clock Town. He felt nothing, he saw nothing...but he knew when it ended. It was done. There was no more.

When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"