Zelink couple: Skyward Sword

Prompt: summer

~Summer Rain~

"I can't remember the last time we were here." Zelda sat at water's edge, her bare feet scattering tiny aquatic plants.

Link sighed, eyes still shut as he continued to lay his head in her lap. Zelda ran her fingers through his hair, peeking at his bare chest now and again as the sun's rays shined off of his brilliant skin. She had not a care in the world for the little scars that etched stories into his chest. She found them sad, yet charming; they were apart of their history. The couple had began building a surface colony along with a few other brave Skyloftians. A year had passed since their lives were turned upside-down, and the pair decided to finally submit to the inevitable just a few short months since the colony began: a courtship.

"This was one of my favorite islands, a place that only we knew," she muttered, lost in thought.

Link heaved another happy sigh, "It's still a place that only we know about, right? I've never seen anyone else here before."

"I suppose you're right." Zelda started to massage the tips of his ears.

"You're going to make me fall asleep."

"What else is new?"

Link stuck his tongue out at her but said nothing.

She continued to admire their little place. It was an sky island on the edge of the populated ones, rarely visited by people with better things to do. A magic, never ending spring bubbled from the small isle, cascading a shimmering rain into the clouds below. Overhead, their Loftwings fluttered lazily in the summer sky.

Zelda took in a short breath, pondering if she should ask the question that had been weighing on her mind for quite some time.

"Hm?"

"Oh, nothing," she insisted.

Link chuckled, eyes still closed. "You do that when you want to say something but think better of it."

She poked his nose, "Right again you are."

"Sooo?" He finally opened his eyes, squinting at the sun, trying to see her face against the blinding light.

"Well… I've been thinking for a while, what would you have done if none of this had ever happened?"

"None of what? The war?" Link sat up, swiveling around to face her, legs crossed.

"Yeah, everything since the goddess ceremony."

"I'm not really sure what you're getting at. You mean between us?" he asked, heart thudding at the thought. What would I have done?

She nodded, averting his gaze and fidgeting with the orange frill of her short summer dress.

"I-" Link started but paused. He fretted over the worried look in her eyes, knowing the longer it took to answer, the worse it would get. "We were-are-best friends. It took you getting kidnapped by a black tornado to make me really realize what I had. My feelings had be apparent for a good while before that, but my head was so deeply stuffed in the clouds I never did anything about it. Looking back I sometimes wonder if Groose would have won you over in the end. I certainly wasn't good at communicating."

Zelda giggled, her laughter crescendoing into a cackle.

"What!?" He shoved her a little, slightly offended.

"I would have ended up with Stritch before that oaf."

"Rude," he teased.

"Well, Stritch can be creepy, but he's nice in the end. ALL of us have grown since then, but I promise I had my mind on another certain someone during that time."

"Really?" Link asked, a tiny smirk appearing at the corner of his lips.

"Really." Zelda leaned in, planting a long, meaningful kiss on his smile.

With one hand, Link brushed her jawline, taking in her familiar scent and thinking of how her lips always reminded him of summer rain. With the other hand, he pressed on his pants pocket to triple check that the ring was still there. Not just yet, he thought.

A/N: Some more fluff. Thanks for reading!