A/N: I wrote it, so why not put it up. It was for a drabble community (like the Shannara fic, "Rain"). Um, it's corny. And I'm sure everyone else has wrote about Zelda and Link, but whatever, man. XD Read and review, my friends… read and review. :B (Or even better, read and review, and then review all my other stuff, that is, if you like Shannara. PLUGS!)
Oh, and I guess this is something like alternate universe, since Link doesn't go back in time like the game says, but goes somewhere else. Yes.
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"It's been a while."
The voice came from the window, and
she whirled around to see who it was. But no one was there.
"How many years has it been? Three?"
This time, the voice was above her,
and she looked up to see a shadow perched in the rafters. It dropped from the
ceiling and lowered its head. "I've missed you, Zelda."
That stance. She remembered seeing it
before, in another time, another place. And she remembered who made it, too.
"Link."
He straightened himself and smiled at
her. She hadn't seen him in three years, not since the fall of Ganondorf, but
he still looked the same as always. Green tunic, green hat. "I love my
longshot," he said, holding it up. "Certainly got me from the windowsill to
your ceiling fast."
Zelda didn't know whether to laugh or
to cry. "I've missed you too, Link." Her voice sounded flat, unemotional, the
opposite of what she was feeling. He had disappeared only days after he and the
seven sages had defeated Ganondorf, without a word. Even she hadn't known. She
would have stopped him, to tell him to stay, to tell him how she felt. About
him. But she hadn't been able to, and for three years, it had been eating away
at her mind.
She blinked, realizing that no one had
said anything for the past few minutes. "You… you finally came back. Where were
you? What were you doing?"
To her surprise, he tossed the
longshot aside and held her close. "It was terrible," he whispered in her ear.
"After… after I killed him. After years of doing nothing but killing things.
After I finally freed you, and Navi wasn't there anymore to see me through." A
sigh. "Did you ever get the feeling that you couldn't trust anyone in the
world? I felt that way. I… I left to find myself again… alone… to see if I
could possibly become someone other than the Hero of Time, slayer of all. It
was miserable." He held her even closer. "I stayed at the Spirit Temple. And I
thought. A lot. And I realized that I couldn't change unless someone was there
with me. So cliché, but… I was incomplete."
Zelda could feel him stiffen. "I came
back to Hyrule. To… to you. I had vowed to fight by your side forever, and I
wasn't going to throw that aside."
"No matter where, no matter when,
for the sake of Hyrule, and you, Princess Zelda… I shall fight." She could
quote him word for word.
Link blushed. "Yes, well. I wasn't
lying. You mean the world to me…"
And you mean the world to me, too.
"I've come back, Zelda. I promise."
"I've been alone for so long…"
He took her hand. "You'll never be
alone again."
They smiled at each other, and Hyrule's princess and the Hero of Time were together at last.