He knew that she left him alone after that. He wondered why though. It seemed like she had waited quite a while to talk to him after al…He started chuckling again, why did it even bother him? It's not like she meant anything to him, like she could possibly care about him. He was sure he had hurt her way too much for that.
Stretching his muscles, he stood up and walked around his small cell for a bit. It felt as if he hadn't walked in weeks , which might have actually been the case, for he had long since lost track of the time he spent in his cell.
He wanted someone to talk to. The though itself surprised him. After a while though, it felt as if he NEEDED someone to talk to, if he stayed like this here, in the boring cell, he would certainly turn mad, well madder then he already was. But that would just be his luck all over again, to regain his sanity, only to lose it the next moment, because of the precautions they took for him.
And then he heard it again, the slight tapping against the stones. His mind soared, she was coming back, she wasn't leaving him here to rot after all. And then he got the surprise of his life. Instead of just opening the small window so that she could talk to him, she opened the door, and before he knew it, she was standing there, in front of him, all alone. The darker side of his mind, still not forgotten, told him that this was his change, his only change to get revenge on her. But right now, revenge was shoved in the back of his mind. After all, he finally had someone to talk to. Besides, she would probably take him down in the blink of an eye, his body felt as if he hadn't been training or either properly for a couple of months.
At first, she just stood there awkwardly, candle in hand, cape barely hiding her bright smile. Why was she smiling? His mind couldn't think up a logical explanation, she was in a dark room standing in front of a deadly, well not so deadly right now he thought bitterly, mad man. In front of her lost champion. And then she, she walked over to him and pulled him in for a hug. The dark side screamed to push her away but he didn't, it felt as if he didn't have the strength to it, but a small part of him quite liked the embrace, although he would swear till his death that he didn't like it. He awkwardly put his arms around her, not quite knowing if this was what she was expecting of him, or why she was hugging him at all.
Drawing back, she giggled before telling him that she would send someone down here to get him cleaned up, since he smelled like a skullkid. Stunned but also quite offended, he sniffed under his armpit….And immediately got what she meant. Din, he smelled awful. That she could stand to be near him at all. And why hadn't he noticed this before?
His expression probably told her all she needed to know, because she sat down, on his make shift bed, and told him that it was ok, that she was glad that he was back, even if he smelled bad. And he laughed at that, not a chuckle or a sarcastic one, but a genuine one. And unknown to him, it made him glow.
She just smiled at him, and waited, waited for him to start talking. It was weird, he had desperately longed for someone to talk to, and now that she was there, he didn't know what to discuss. As if his mind was blank, which was quite a nice feeling actually. He didn't mind that one at all. So he said down next to her, and said: Hey, how have you been?
And from that on, they started a conversation, one so long that it probably lasted a couple of hours. Link knew it must have been hours, for someone came to his cell to inform the princess that her father was waiting for her in the dining room. Apparently she had kept everyone waiting. She blushed at that, straightened her skirts, and made to leave the cell, but he grabbed her arm before she could.
"Don't leave me….I…."
"I'll come back after dinner, I promise"
As an after thought she added: "but in the mean time, I'll send someone down here to get you cleaned up, and get someone to bring you a proper meal. You smell like a skullkid and you surely look like one "
He could muster an annoyed "Hey" and then she was gone, leaving him alone in his darkness. AGAIN.
Slowly, day by day, Zelda watched Link win over the last remnants of his darkness. She knew that she shouldn't be here that much as she was, that it wasn't proper for a princess to care so much about a lowly peasant, much less an insane one, but she couldn't care less. They didn't know how much she needed him.
The past few months, Zelda had been so lonely. She was latterly locked inside the castle (a war was raging after all), and her best friend was locked down in a dark cell, screaming dark insanities whenever he was awake. So she took to visiting him, even if all he did was scream at her, at least then, she wasn't alone.
Her father had been pressing her to make a decision on what to do with Link. Zelda couldn't and wouldn't give up hope that he would come back from the darkness, but the physicians weren't that convinced. They had given up all hope when he tried to strange one of them when they were treating him. Oh well, Zelda couldn't exactly blame Link, after all, she was sane, or close enough, and they annoyed the hell out of her. She couldn't only imagine what they would do to an insane Link.
The worst part of all, Zelda felt guilty. More guilty then everyone besides Zelda could possibly ever feel. It was her fault that he lost his sanity. He did it for her; everything he did was for her. That might seem slightly disturbing to most people, but they weren't most people. Link and Zelda both had dealed with more horrifying scenes in their short lives then most elderly people, so people weren't that surprised when Link lost his mind. But they didn't know the truth. They never had, and probably never would. It would shock their world beyond believe.
Zelda herself could barely believe it, and SHE had the triforce of wisdom. It's not an everyday event that your worst becomes the savior of the very world he once tried to destroy.
Worse even. If she was Link, she would have probably been suffering the same fate. She didn't want to know what it would have done to her, to find out that the guy who tried to kill you on multiple occasions actually is your dad. And that he tried to do so to fulfil his own destiny.
She couldn't believe that the Goddesses could be so cruel
