"Vio?" Red called as he hesitantly knocked on the dark purple door of his similarly colored teammate. "Can I come in? I kept the lights out here off." His question was met with silence.
"Vio?" He asked as he rapped against the door again, "I know you're in there. Can I please come in?" Again, there was no response from the other side of the door. Red felt a hand on his left shoulder, but didn't let the added weight stop him from knocking a third time.
"Red," Blue started from where he stood slightly behind the ruby-clothed teen. The younger looking hero knocked again. "Red, please, let's just try again tomorrow." As the slightly-less-stubborn teammate's knuckles once more tapped against the dark purple wood, Blue sighed. "He just needs some time to think, that's all. Come on, we need to go back to town to," Blue's eyes darted between Vio's room and Red, "get some groceries."
"Why not just go wi-" realization dawned on Red's face as he began the question. "Oh. Right." the innocent Link's sudden clarity twisted into a disappointed expression as he turned his focus back to the door. "Vio, I'm gonna go out to Castle Town. It shouldn't take too long; I'll be back before 10. If you need anything, Green's training in the backyard, and I'll leave the hallway lights off." Blue began walking down the hallway, signaling to Red that he'd better hurry. "Well, I gotta go now. Bye, Vio! Bye, Vio's roommate! See you guys soon!" He had begun his goodbyes as he walked towards the foyer, and the further Red got from the purple hero's doorway, the louder he'd gotten until he'd called his last farewell from the door at the end of the hallway.
"Ready?" Blue asked impatiently from the front doorway.
"Yeah, just let me get my coat. It gets cold after dark and I don't think we'll be back while it's still light out." Red turned away from Blue and moved towards the place where the Links stored the clothes that they don't wear every day.
"I'm giving you one minute."
"But, Blue! I need at least two!" Red whined in retaliation from the armoire that was placed next to the door leading to the kitchen (the Links usually only needed their jackets when they were out on patrol or an adventure, which meant that they would be too hungry when they got home to think about anything like orderliness or personal storage).
Blue sighed in irritation as he leaned against the front door and crossed his arms. He rested his head against the white-painted wood and angled it back so that he was looking at the ceiling, his hat sliding forward until it shielded his eyes and closed the blue orbs against the anger boiling up his throat. It was bad enough Red always dragged him along whenever he went anywhere, but did he really need to be so damn slow about it? Besides, did he really need to bring his coat? Blue had already been frozen in a block of ice. If he could survive being literally frozen, then Red could definitely survive a slight chill. The jackets look stupid over their tunics anyway.
Less than a minute after Blue let his thoughts wander, the sound of a zipper caught his attention, and he turned his head –fixing his hat as he did so- towards the noise.
Red stood next to his teammate with a goofy grin on his face as he held out the tempered Link's midnight blue hoodie.
"I figured you'd complain about it being cold if I didn't give you yours." Red added, lifting the garment on "yours" for further enunciation. Blue looked at the jacket for a second. The sapphire hero pulled his hands away from where they were messing with the trademark cone on his head and took the offered piece of clothing.
"Thanks," he replied as he put his arms into the armholes, choosing to ignore the fact that the only difference between his and Red's jacket was the fact that Red's was dark pink (Cerise, Red had insisted when they'd bought them, is not pink) which meant that the two were still matching and that he'd been cursing the thoughts of wearing a jacket not one minute prior. Red blinked at Blue in slight surprise before returning his expression back to the gushing grin.
"You're welcome!" He squeaked as he pushed past Blue to open the front door, all traces of earlier bad memories vanished from his mind and voice, "What's got you in such a good mood today?"
"What do you mean?" Blue asked in response as he followed his shorter teammate outside. Blue turned to close the door behind him, but knew he didn't really have to lock it. Their house stood on the opposite side of a thick forest from castle town (it'd been built to specifically make it more difficult for fans and tough guys to bother the four Links) with the only path to town being a dirt road built specifically to connect the two destinations (Zelda still wanted to be able to visit her friends, after all, so they couldn't make it too inconvenient). Besides, even if Vio was still in a funk –as Blue kept calling it in his head- Green could easily handle any burglars that might come to the house.
"I mean," Red began, adding an eye roll to show Blue how clueless he was, "that you never say thank you or let me do something for you without a fight. But you just did both. So, what's got you-," Red cut himself off with a slight gasp in excitement. They'd begun walking towards town while Red had been talking, and now the childish Link tugged on Blue's arm until they stopped. He whipped a bright-eyed, too-happy expression in Blue's direction, "Is it a girl?!"
"What?!" Blue asked much too loudly as his eyes widened in surprise. He backed away from Red's grip on the cotton of his jacket and held up his hands not at all defensively "No! Of course not!"
Red gasped again, a too-bright smile lighting even further. "It IS a girl! What's her name? What does she look like? Come on, Blue, did you honestly think you could hide something like-" Red was bouncing up and down with excitement, creating a scarlet blur in Blue's vision. The sapphire hero put his hands on Red's shoulders to still the ruby ball of energy before sighing.
"Red, there's no girl," Blue's voice leveled into a normal volume now that he'd gotten the initial panic in-control. "First of all, we haven't left the house for anything not work-related in a month. There's no possible way I could have met a girl in that time. Secondly, we've been too busy going between training to earning money to trying to help Vio with Shadow for me to focus on anything like a personal life. Lastly, you're always clinging to my side, there's no possible way for me to have a friend –let alone a girlfriend- that you don't know about." He gave Red's shoulders a pat before continuing down the trail again. "I swear. Now we'd better hurry, or we'll be late to Mrs. Loyahl's, and I'm not helping you babysit those brats of hers if you're crying an apology."
"Hm, if you're sure!" Red called as he jogged to catch up with Blue. Blue wasn't looking back, but he could hear the taunt in Red's voice as the ruby hero caught up with him.
And if Blue hadn't been looking back to see Red exhale in relief and smile a little more when Blue swore that he didn't have a girlfriend… well, that was all the better.