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I forgot a disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters.. I simply borrow them for my own delight.

Author's Note: This is my first posted Fan-Fic, so please review!

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Later that Night

Link laid down on his bed, wearied from all of the events of the day. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he heard a crinkling, like someone had wrinkled paper. Link stuck his hand underneath his pillow, and found a note. He pulled it out and read:

Dear Link,

I could not say this earlier, but I am so glad that you have returned to me. I don't know what I would have done if you had chosen not to remember me, us, what happened. I will be able to live through these years again happily, knowing that you are safe and near. I cried myself to sleep every night last time knowing that I was deceiving you. Please forgive me Link! This sin bears hard upon my heart, and I don't think I will be able to sleep knowing that you are angry with me over this.

Love,

Zelda

Link closed his eyes as a smile came across his face. "She must love me! I was not mistaken when I looked in her eyes. I had thought that maybe I had imagined it, but now I know!" Then he sighed a sorrowful sigh. "If only we weren't nine! It is hard to live in this body and know of a future! I suppose I will get used to this. I should talk to Zelda, she would understand... Zelda! I must write her... a... response..." And against his will, Link fell asleep.

"Oh Impa! He must still be angry with me! What will I do?" Zelda rested her head on the window. She got up off the window seat and began to pace the room. "How will I sleep knowing that he is angry with me? How will I sleep knowing that he is here?"

"Zelda!"

Zelda broke out of her train of thought and looked towards Impa. "Yes?"

"I've spoken your name three times now!" Even though Impa was trying to discipline Zelda, she could not help but smile. She sat down on the side of the bed and patted for Zelda to come sit next to her. She tried to suppress the grin tugging on her lips as she saw Zelda try to climb into the bed.

"I hate being this size!" She collapsed into a heap on the floor, and Impa reached down and picked her up and sat her on the bed. "Thank you." She couldn't help but smile with Impa.

"So," Impa began, "What is this that you were saying?"

"Saying?"

"About Link...?"

"Oh." She paused and then let out the words in a rush. "I wrote him a letter asking for his forgiveness for deceiving him, and implied that he should return in a letter, but he has not, and I..." Suddenly, she was silent. Impa looked at her questioningly, but saw her in a daze.



"I forgive you, Zelda."

"What?"

"I forgive... you... Zelda, and.... I love...."

"You love what?" Silence. "You love WHAT?"



Zelda sat up suddenly, surprised that she had been lying down.

"What happened?" Impa's eyes implored her as much as her words.

"I... I don't know. It was as if I was suddenly in this room, lit by hundreds of candles... but I couldn't really see the candles... it was more that I sensed them there. And then there was a voice... Link's voice! And he was telling me that he forgave me, and that he loved. I don't know what he loved, he left the room, or his presence, or whatever it was, and then I was sucked out, and I found myself lying here." Zelda stopped to take in a shaky breath before going on. "Am I going crazy Impa?" Zelda looked up at her, but found Impa turned the other way.

"No, your not going crazy, quite the opposite."

"But this isn't the only thing!"

"There's more?" Impa said cautiously.

"Yes. When I took the Ocarina from him, our fingers touched, and I laid my hand on top of his. After we had traveled through time my hand was tingling where he had touched it. And when we touched in the courtyard, I felt a jolt of energy pass from him to me."

Impa looked down at her hands, which were now clasped in her lap. "No, you are not going crazy. You've experienced what my people call a Connesx. It is very rare, but very beautiful."

"A Connesx? What does it mean?"

"To explain it simply, it is when two people's souls touch."

"Our SOULS?"

"Yes, Princess. The room that you were in was the Room of Longing. It was your souls that met there. But come, it is past your time to be in bed, you are only nine after all."

Zelda climbed under her blanket silently and whispered to herself after Impa left the room. "Our souls touched in a Connesx."

Link shot out of bed with sweat rolling down his face. He started pacing around his room, talking to himself. "What the heck was that? Am I going crazy? Not only am I having crazy dreams about her, but my skin tingles, TINGLES, where she touches it! Link, get a hold of yourself!" At that moment, he saw Impa standing in the doorway with a slight grin on her face. "IMPA! What are you..."?

"Shh, do you want to wake up everyone in the castle?"

Link sighed and looked at the ground. He looked back up and met her gaze. "How much of that did you hear?"

"Enough to know what happened... Would you like me to explain?"

"I can already explain it; I'm going crazy. What would the Zelda think if she heard what I just said?"

"Are you done yet?"

Link took in a deep breath. "Yes." A small smile crept over his face. "You can explain now if you'd like."

Impa sat down on the side of his bed, and patted for Link to join her. Once again, she had to struggle to keep a straight face as a small nine-year-old tried to climb up onto an adult sized bed. However, Link managed on his own, and was soon sitting expectantly next to Impa. "Link, I just left the Princess, and I knew you would need me, because the Princess just went through the same thing you did. The tingling hands, the jolt of energy, the room, she went through it too." Impa went through the same explanation about the Connesx and the Room of Longing that she did with Zelda. "However Link, there is something more... something I couldn't tell the princess."

Suddenly, for a reason he couldn't describe, Link started to become afraid. "What is it?"

"A Connesx does not usually take place until both people are at least young adults. It can happen at anytime in adulthood, but it does not happen to children."

"Well," Link began, "that's easy to explain. Yesterday, we we're young adults."

"Yes, that's the same conclusion I had come to. However, that doesn't make the next part any easier." Impa took a deep breath before continuing. "The room that your soul met with Zelda's is called the Room of Longing."

"I know that, you already told me this part."

"Be patient Link, there is more. It is not called the Room of Longing for nothing. Once to souls have meet in the Room, they begin to think of little else other then "being" together." Once they leave the room, they have roughly a week to, uh, consummate their relationship, or the desire will drive them mad." Impa paused, and turned to look into Link's face. The confusion and innocence almost made her stop, but she knew that he had to know. "Don't you see Link? You and Zelda are much to young to make love, but you certainly can't wait seven years..." Impa stopped and got off the bed. "You should go back to sleep, we'll deal with this with Zelda in the morning. It was wrong of me not to tell her. We'll all talk together, Goodnight Link." Impa had almost closed the door when she heard Link's voice.

"Impa, what happens if Zelda and I don't make love?"

Impa sighed and looked at the floor. "You'll both be dead in a week."