(IMPORTANT NOTE-) This story is set right after The Ocarina of Time game and is Link's point of view. (P.O.V.)

(A.N.) This is my first ever Zelda fanfic. (YAY!) The main coupling in this is ZeldaXLink because I absolutely LOVE their chemistry in the games! They were so meant to be. I can't wait for the new Gamecube Zelda game! (Twilight Princess) And now onward with more important things…like the story.

My Midnight Angel

Chapter One

I could hear the lush green grass crumple under my worn leather boots as I dismounted my stallion and strode across the meadow towards Hyrule Castle. Epona whinnied to me as if to call out a wish for my good luck. I was grateful for my steed's concern, but I didn't need it. I had snuck into the castle a countless number of times, so I was now quite the professional at dodging the ever-watchful eyes of the dozens of guards that stood at their posts or paced around the many paths that led into the heart of the castle.

If only the King of Hyrule hadn't forbidden Zelda to ever see me, or banished me from his kingdom, then I wouldn't have to sneak around here just to see her. Although I'm pretty sure that even if I wasn't banished, he wouldn't want his daughter coming out with me in the middle of the night. Talk about an over protective father; just because he wants his daughter to marry some stupid, rich, stuck up prince instead of me, he won't even let me see her anymore.

As I strode down my usual off-road path, I spotted my old and dear friend, the usual guard that stood lazily at his post near the main entrance of the castle. I didn't duck down or even look for cover, for I knew that, as usual, my little guard friend would be fast asleep. Sure enough, I walked right past him only to hear snoring away. Too bad the rest of the guards that were posted outside of the princess's quarters weren't this easy to get past.

After slipping past the rest of the guards and hopping the ivy-covered stonewall, I landed almost directly under Zelda's bedroom window. As I gazed up towards my objective, I took a few silent moments to stare up into the sky and notice the enormous full moon and thousands of shimmering stars that surrounded it. This was an absolutely perfect night for what I hoped to accomplish.

After taking one last deep, calming breath, I reached back into my pack to retrieve my Ocarina. I took another shallow breath and put my lips to the Ocarina's opening. She may have already been asleep, but I was sure that she would awake when the unmistakable melody of the lullaby that her guardian played for her as a child reached her Elvin ears.

When I was finished playing the song, I put my Ocarina back in my pack and turned my eyes up towards her open window. A slight smile crossed my lips when her sleepy figure appeared in the windowsill. She was even beautiful when she was half asleep. After pushing back her white see-through drapes, and rubbing her sleepy eyes to clear her vision and focus on the greenish figure below her window, she called out to me.

"Link?" She said fairly loudly in her astonishment that I was standing there, but then quieted her voice so that none of the guards would be alerted of my presence. "What are you doing here?"

"Come down." I said while making a motion for her to join me with a wave of my now ungloved hand. Zelda had convinced me to stop wearing my leather gloves after I was finished with all of the fighting that I was obligated to do in order to save Hyrule.

"What do you mean 'come down'?"

I chuckled quietly to myself at her reluctance to join me. Zelda was never much of a risk taker. I was going to have to change that. "Come down out here and come with me!"

"Where?"

"I'll show you." I said slyly, not wanting to reveal the place of our destination. This mystery struck her curiosity and I could tell then that she was considering coming with me now.

"What if-"

"Zelda! Just come down here with me! Don't worry about anything, I promise I'll have you back soon and your father will never know."

She sighed and pretended to pout in defeat. She was always so cute when she was angry. "Fine. Just hold on for a second and let me get dressed."

I waited for a few minutes that seemed to be endless because I was eager to get off on our midnight journey. When she finally came back out and climbed down out of her window she wore her pants that she used when riding horses, and a light colored tank top. I loved when she wore her casual clothes. When she was in her normal attire, she always looked to fancy and proper. I also enjoyed the fact that her causal garments showed off a little more of her perfect porcelain skin. She had a flawless body, but I was thankful that she only showed it off when I was around.

Just when I snapped back out of my thoughts Zelda was giving me an intent look and I could tell that she had caught me starring at her again.

"Link… are you okay?" she asked while peering into my eyes and lightly touching my arm to make sure I was all right.

My hand went up to the back of my neck, one of my nervous habits, as I tried to regain my composure. "What? Oh…uh…yeah! I'm fine…really… Let's just go."

With that I took one of her small, silky-soft hands into one of my own, more coarse hands as I led her over to the block wall that I planned to go over. I was sure that I could use the wooden slats that were placed there for the ivy to grow on to get to the top of wall and then vault over. The problem was getting her over with me.

After I had managed to scramble up to the top of the wall, I reached my hand out so that she would be able to grasp on to it and pull herself up to where I was. That part worked out perfectly, but when I tried to stand up in hopes of being able to jump to the ground, my damn boot got stuck in a crack in the wall and it sent me stumbling backwards and onto the not-so-soft ground.

"AHHHHH! Umph-" In an instant I lay flat on back with all of my breath forced out of my lungs. Being quite pissed at this situation, and also extremely embarrassed, seeing as Zelda was standing right above me and had witnessed the entire incident, I mumbled angrily under my breath, "Shit…"

I could plainly see Zelda staring down at me while trying to look concerned for me, but also trying to contain the laughter that I could hear surfacing through her words that was most likely caused by my amusing predicament.

"Link…" She paused between her words to control her constant giggling. "Are you…okay?" She tried to cover her mouth to stop her barely controllable laughing but instead of preventing her laughter, she erupted into a fit of irrepressible giggles.

I sat up as far as I could without feeling the numbness and pain that now coursed through my ass and I attempted to give her the best death glare that I could possibly fake at the moment. As soon as I had propped myself up on my elbows, I was abruptly pushed back down to the uninviting ground as Zelda, who had apparently slipped off of the wall in the same way that I had previously done, landed right on top of me.

"Sorry Link." Zelda said while giggling lightly.

"No problem, Zel…No problem whatsoever…I'm fine…just dandy" I said pretending not to notice the intense pain that I was obviously feeling. Neither of us seemed to notice the awkwardness of the position that we were in for a few short seconds, but after that I became painfully aware of the fact that she was laying directly on top of me.

We both laughed nervously for a split second and when she turned her eyes down in embarrassment I could faintly see her cheeks turn pink in the full moon's illumination.

I found myself once again scratching the back of my head uncomfortably as I looked down at her body resting on top of my own. "I…uh…we better go…you know…if we want to get back before morning… I would hate to see what your father would do if he found out that you were with me all night…"

Zelda continued looking absent-mindedly downward and said, "Uh…yeah."

I stood up leisurely and brought her up with me so that we were both standing once again. After she finished brushing of some of the grass that clung to her clothing, she changed the subject. "So are you going to tell me where we're going yet?"

I flashed her a devilish grin while reaching for my Ocarina once again. "You'll see…" Zelda pretended to pout because I wouldn't tell her anything. "I want it to be a surprise. You'll love it, I promise." She rolled her eyes at me, but I knew that inside she was overwhelmingly excited.

I allowed my lips to rest on the opening of my trusty instrument that Zelda had given me as a child, and proceeded to play the tune, which Malon nicknamed Epona's Song. As I did this she peered into the horizon to search for my horse's approaching figure. For some reason that was unknown to Malon and myself, Epona took a liking to this song as a pony and I've used it to call her to me since then.

"There she is!" Zelda shouted while pointing her index finger towards the brown and white figure coming over a hill to our left.

I stashed my Ocarina away and greeted my stallion with a loving pat on her nose. "Hey girl!" I said while walking around to her side and motioning for Zelda to come stand next to me. As she walked past Epona, she gave her a warm smile and stroked her off-white mane. Zelda was just about as fond of horses as I was.

When Zelda was close enough, I grabbed her at her particularly slim waist and effortlessly lifted her up and onto Epona's back. She stared down at me for a moment and her sapphire eyes showed signs of astonishment; I guessed it was because she was surprised by the fact that I was able to lift her with no trouble at all. All those years of fighting with swords must have strengthened my upper body significantly, for I now had massive biceps that could easily be seen through my tunic.

I then placed my foot on one of her saddle's stirrups before cautiously mounting her to seat myself in front of Zelda. "Ready?" I asked while glancing back at her to make sure that she was holding on tight so that she wouldn't fall off as we rode.

While I turned my eyes back to the open, grassy meadow before us and held on to the reigns, her arms found their way around my torso and held on to me tightly. "Ready!" she said excitedly while smiling and hugging her body to mine.

She was so eager to get on with our late-night adventure that she didn't notice the uneasiness in the tone of my voice that was the effect of her being so close to me again. "Okay…but you have to promise to keep your eyes closed until we get there so it will be a surprise." Zelda complied with my request and promptly closed her beautiful azure eyes.

As we approached our final destination, I attempted to calm myself down and relieve my stomach of the nervous knot that had just formed. Why was I so nervous? I knew why: I was uptight because this was the night that I was finally going to tell Zelda how I felt about her. I was afraid that she wouldn't feel the same way as I do, and then she wouldn't want to see me again. This one night could ruin our entire friendship.

But I had to go through with this, even if I lost her forever. I couldn't live the rest of my life and not confess my feelings to her, I knew that could never work, I would never be completely happy, there would always be something missing. So this was it. I had made up my mind and I wasn't going to back out of it now. It was either all, or nothing. I either had her, or I didn't.

I pulled Epona to a halt as we reached our destination and turned to the remarkably stunning woman that sat behind me and was still latched on to my torso. "Are we here?" She asked me while still holding on to me and keeping her eyelids firmly pressed together like I had asked her to. Zelda was never one to ruin a surprise.

"Yeah, we're here. You can open your eyes now." I said as I dismounted Epona.

Zelda opened her oceanic blue eyes gradually and after blinking a couple of times and taking in the amazing scene that lay around them remarked almost breathlessly, "Oh Link…it's so beautiful." She dismounted Epona to join Link as she continued to look around in awe.

There, around us, stood dozens of tall, flourishing trees that created a sort of tunnel that she could see led into some sort clearing. I took her hand in mine and cautiously laced my fingers through hers. She didn't seem to notice that I was adding more of a romantic touch to holding her hand, rather than just taking her hand to lead her somewhere. I led her down the dim pathway to the place of our final destination.

When we entered the dimly lit clearing she seemed to be breathless, and so was I when I first found this magically romantic place. The clearing in which the two of us stood, was covered by lush, green and yellow grass, and was completely surrounded by huge, thick trees that reached high above us and left a sort of natural sky-light from which we could see thousands of bright stars and the full moon that illuminated the area and reflected off of the large, crystal-clear pool of water that held the now-blooming water lilies and dozens of brightly colored fish.

When Zelda finally spoke it was almost in a whisper. "Wow… It's unbelievable… How did you ever find this place Link?"

"I stumbled over it one day while I was riding Epona. Pretty neat, huh?" I asked as I turned to steal another look at her before she noticed that I was staring at her again.

"It's absolutely wonderful… But, why did you bring me here?" She asked as her eyes returned to mine once more.

I didn't want to tell her the real and most important reason now, so I strode over to the middle of the clearing and reluctantly let go of her hand so that I could sit down of a patch of exceptionally soft grass. She watched me as I sprawled myself out on the grass and put my hands under my head for support before she did the same. I liked the fact that just because she was a princess, she wasn't afraid to lie down on the ground with me.

I was quite surprised when she rested her head on my chest, so I decided to go on and answer her question to help and chase away the nervous knot in the pit of my stomach. "I brought you here so we could…uh…" I hesitated for a few seconds to stop myself from saying out loud what my mind was screaming which happened to be, 'I brought you here so we could make-out!' After telling myself to shut the hell up and come back to my senses before she thought something was wrong with me I turned to meet her gaze and blurted out, "I brought you here to…uh…look…at the stars!"

"Oh." She said while she turned her eyes back up to the sky as I breathed a sigh of relief that I didn't say something really stupid like what I was thinking, or worse.

Somehow, I thought I could sense a bit of disappointment in her voice and I vaguely wondered why, so I confronted her about it. "You sound disappointed."

She continued to gaze up into the sky, but said quietly and unsurely, "I'm not… It's just…" her voice trailed off and she continued to avoid my intent stare.

"What?" I kept looking her in the eyes, even though she wouldn't look back at me, hoping that she would tell me the absolute truth.

"Nothing. I love the stars and the moon… This is just perfect. Really." She turned to me now and produced a warm smile. I love her smiles. No matter what's happening, or how terrible or hopeless things seemed, one of her sunny smiles could make all of the bad things disappear.

I was going to fake a yawn so that I could put my arm around her, (One of the oldest tricks in the book.) but I was getting a little sleepy and a real yawn escaped my lungs so I took the opportunity to stretch out my arm and place it around her shoulders and pull her petite frame closer to me. I was desperately praying that she wouldn't freak out because of my movements, but I was pleased when, instead of jumping up and slapping me upside the head for trying to be fresh with her, she snuggled closer to my chest.

I figured that this was it. I had to tell her now or never. So I leaned forward and whispered huskily into one of her Elvin ears, "I love you, Zelda." There, I finally said it. Now it was up to her. It was all or nothing. Yes or no. I had her or I lost her. She either loved me back…or not at all.

She sat up and I soon followed. She looked deeply into my eyes and I could tell that she was nearly speechless from astonishment. "W-what did…you just…say…?"

I put my hand over one of hers and repeated myself, "I said I love you." She looked away from me, still in a complete state of shock, so I continued to explain myself even though I thought the statement, 'I love you' was pretty self-explanatory. "I fell in love with you the first day we met all those years ago and I've been constantly in love with you ever since." I sat there in complete silence while I eagerly awaited her response. My heart was beating wildly and I was beginning feel short of breath and I could feel my hand beginning to shake uncontrollably so I removed it from atop hers.

I felt like my heart was going to leap out of my chest until she finally looked back into my eyes and began to speak. "Do you mean that?"

Her blue orbs showed signs somewhat fearfulness. "Of course I mean it. I mean it with all of my heart, and all that I am. I could never, and would never lie to you Zelda. Especially not about something as serious as this."

Her concerned eyes suddenly welled up with tears that I could tell were from happiness. "I love you too, Link." She smiled up at me again and I couldn't help but grin back at her. (Did I mention how much I love her smiles?)

The last bit of all my nervousness vanished in that moment and I leaned forward and used my knuckle to tilt her chin up so that I could brush my lips against hers. Again I surprised her with another one or my quite sudden and unexpected movements, but she complied willingly. I placed one hand on the side of her delicate face and used my other hand, that rested on her slim waist, to bring her closer to me and pull her into my lap as I continued to press my lips to hers. While I massaged her lips with my own she snaked her hands over my broad shoulders and behind my head so that she was able to make light ministrations at the base of my neck.

After another few moments of this, I lightly began licking her bottom lip and she reacted by opening her mouth to let my tongue in. When she did this I immediately slipped my tongue inside and began exploring and ravishing the unexplored territory of her mouth.

I was a bit bewildered when she began to return my actions and use her own warm, velvety tongue to tangle with mine and explore mine; I was surprised, but I was definitely not complaining.

Quite a few times I moved down to nip and suck on her ear, neck, and collarbone, and for this I received a little moan or two from her silky-smooth lips as my reward for pleasuring her. She even did the same to me a few times.

We stayed like that for at least a half-hour, and by then we were both completely out of breath. I used my eyes to ask for approval and the look in her eyes told me that she was ready. So I lowered her down until she was lying on the cool grass beneath us, and I came down with her so that I was lying directly on top of her. We shared another passionate kiss before reached down to remove her shirt…

(A.N) Okay. I'm done with chappie number one. Sooooo… How did you like it? Please, PLEASE review to give me questions, comments, suggestions, criticism, or any other thoughts that you have on this fic!

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