I love this pairing a bit too much, so here's a dump for all the little things I wrote for them in the form of a 30 days challenge.

First few chapters describe their relationship early on, so they won't be that shippy yet. I do hope they all will be decent though.

Prompt: Beginning.

Genre: Hurt/Comfort.

Summary: He looked at her with different eyes, while she looked at him with the same.

Book Ends

Beginning

Link never thought that meeting the princess for the first time again would make him feel so aged and different.

She looked so carefree, so innocent and guiltless. He knew she was too wise for her age at the time, but he still couldn't help himself from thinking that she really was a child, a child that never experienced the bitterness of war, a child that had her entire life to live happily and peacefully.

It was hard to believe that her eyes in the future would be filled with guilt and sorrow, that her smile would seem so sad and pained, that she would be the ruler of a torn and broken land.

Now, go home, Link. Regain your lost time!

He knew things wouldn't ever feel or be the same; Navi left, he wasn't a Kokiri and he was on his own this time around.

Still, he thought as the princess told him about her suspicions regarding Ganondorf, I'm still grateful.

The princess tried her best to give him his life back - a life, he later realized, was already damaged beyond repair before his quest even began. He watched in an odd grief as she played her lullaby, wondering if he could perhaps embrace her before leaving, if he could assure her that he didn't blame her for her actions, if he could tell her that she really didn't need to ask forgiveness from him.

Thank you... Link... Goodbye.

He never said goodbye to her; his return to the past was too sudden to think properly. He couldn't even thank her for it.

So he decided to make it up to her in this time and not allow the same events to happen again.

Smiling fondly at the princess that was in front of him, he uttered with full conviction, "I believe you, Zelda."

Perhaps the way he said her name was weird; the princess smiled back with a furious blush adorning her cheeks. Perhaps this was how it should begin; him not becoming a hero and her not becoming a sage.

Home... where you are supposed to be... the way you are supposed to be...

Perhaps this was the way they were supposed to be.