Now, can they forgive themselves? (Oh, I feel like one of those dorky hosts to some soap opera though I cannot be sure, I've never watched any...) I guess just read it... I do throw a bit of a twist to it... heh heh...

Enjoy!


Saria had just finished her dinner, a small meal of potatoes and some beef that Xavier had bought for them a little while ago.

Full, she walked into her room to mope. She felt that Link not only had every reason in the world to hate her, but also may never come back because of her actions.

So she cried, and felt all around miserable in the cold and getting colder weather.


Outside her room, the rest of her surrogate family was eating their dinner still.

Tommy, still being too little to eat beef, only got the potatoes and some more diced apple.

"Jeez, Saria is in a bad mood today…" Rareen said, very worried.

"Yeah, but I don't think she's mad at Link anymore." Cheryl commented, noting her sad behavior.

"The fickle minds of kids…" Xavier sighed.

"Says you." Cheryl turned to him giving him a funny look.

"What?"

"You are still switching from loving this child as a blessing, and hating him as a curse." (A/N: Hmm... Blessing? Curse? That sounds oddly familiar... I wonder where I came up with these two words... hmm...)

"So are you! Rareen, you agree with me here, right?"

"What? Saria? Are you calling my name?" Rareen quickly sarfed down the rest of her food and wandered to her own room, on the opposite side of the house.

"No way did she just ignore me." Xavier said defeated.

"Yep, looks like you're the fickle one now."

"Hey! How can you hate him from his appearance? He's just as adorable as you have ever been, and has a child cuteness about him."

"That also just makes you want to squeeze he cheeks and squeak about him." Cheryl knew the feeling all too well.

"Yeah, but hee can also be as annoying as you, through whining-"

"That comes from you." Cheryl interrupted in his dialogue.

"And his squealing and groaning." Xavier shot Cheryl a devilish look.

"That's not fair." Cheryl said seductively, knowing what he meant.

"I know, but I have to set a good mood before we go to bed tonight, it just seems wrong to go to bed angry."

"Yeah, we don't want a Link and Saria repeat now do we? Do you think those two are going to fix things up?"

"I don't know…"

Suddenly, the front door opened, and a cold, wet, and shivering Link entered the house.

"I think that may answer your question." Xavier added to his previous claim.

Link only sighed, shutting the door that was attacking the temperature in the house, and trudged off to his room, obviously tired and maybe a bit sleepy.

"Yeah, it might be a good idea to go to bed." Cheryl said quietly.

Then the two looked at Tommy, who obviously agreed, seeing as he had made a nice pillow out of his mashed potatoes.

The two lovers giggled, and cleaned their son's face off. Together, they lifted the lightweight package, and brought him to their room so they could all sleep together peacefully.


Saria was at her window, looking outside to the south, towards Lake Hylia and all of the vast Hyrule Field. It was lovely, even in the middle of the night when the Stachild came out to prey on stray travelers.

She was in her nightgown, and just that, planning on spending another sleepless, lonely night without Link.

"Oh he hates me… How could I be so stupid."

She turned at the sound of a door, he door, opening.

There was the very figure who she had hit and yelled at the other night ago.

She tried to read his red, tired face for an emotion, and found none.

"Link?" She asked in the least sad voice she could muster.

Link said nothing, and just stored away his equipment, getting back into his shorts that he always wore at night.

"Link?" She asked again, her voice quavering at the ever more possibility of Link actually hating her.

Link walked to his half of the bed, and crawled in, his mind racked with thoughts about how he should talk to Saria. He knew she wanted to talk to him, but he wasn't sure if he could have her hit him again. He knew he should apologize for being an idiot and being a stubborn idiot at that, but he was afraid of how Saria would react.

"Link?" Her voice was now obviously on the verge of tears.

Why is she sad? Does she not want me here?

"Yes Saria?" He sighed, very tired.

"Why are you back?" Her voice was a bit stronger now.

"Where else would I be?" He sighed again. Not helping Saria's fear.

"I don't know, with Ruto?" Saria crawled onto her side of the bed, a rift of space between them.

"Listen Saria…"

Saria prepared herself for the worst.

"I-I want to apologize for being a moron to you. You are totally right, I should've listened to you. It DID get to my head. And I realized this only after fighting with you about it. I hope you can forgive me." Link closed his eyes, waiting for a slap again.

"Link, this works out kind of nicely, because I wanted to apologize myself. I acted like a total bitch last night; and all because I was a jealous wreck. I know deep down you and Ruto don't exist as a couple, but I shouldn't have thought it, and I should've known that it was only like you to help people. I shouldn't come in between you and what you were born to do… I'm sorry… I am so sorry. Will you forgive me?"

"Only if you forgive me." Link feigned a smile.

"Then I forgive you. Please Link, let's NEVER fight like that again… I really do love you, with all of my heart, I even gave up my immortality just for you. But, I know I shouldn't be so selfish, if you want, you can go back to Ruto's and fish some more tomorrow."

At first, Link considered it, but his original decision stayed firm.

"No."

Saria was shocked, Link loved being the hero, didn't he?

"I don't want to fish for a while." Link continued, "You were completely right, I shouldn't go and love the fishing more than I love the most beautiful, charming, and intelligent woman on this planet. And that's not even going into how devoted she is to me, seeing as I was a total jerk to her, and don't even deserve her, yet she is sitting right here in front of me, and has been waiting here, just for when I come back."

"Then I really deserve the Hero of Time?"

"I'm just Link tonight."

Tears welled in her eyes, and she wriggled her way back to Link.

"Are you sure you're just Link?" Saria asked cutely.

"And not to mention yours." Link smiled, seeing what she was getting at.

The two pulled their heads together for a long, passionate kiss that made them feel like little kids again.

"Saria, is there any way that I could make up for being a stupid moron to you?"

"If this wasn't enough, I do have one thing." Saria smirked.

She grabbed Link's hands, and pulled the covers over her and Link. Moving Link's hands, she helped him loosen her nightgown. (A/N: What naughty teeangers...)

"Saria? Are you trying to seduce me?"

"Maybe just a little." She giggled faintly as Link's hands made contact with her bare chest, seeing as the nightgown was all she was wearing. (A/N: And as if loosening her nightgown wasn't enough... tsk tsk tsk...

"Well, there's one good thing that can and will come from this." Link said in a joking manner as he did exactly as Saria commanded him to do.

"And what's that?" Saria's breathing was deeper.

"This cold weather isn't going to bother us tonight." Link smirked.

"No it won't." Saria cackled as she took off her night gown completely, and cast it to the side of the bed.

"And I'm assuming you want me to do that same?" Link said after a brief stop.

"That's the plan." Saria smirked.

"Well, good, I like this plan a lot." Link said as he mimicked Saria with his shorts, the two underneath the covers completely save only their heads, and the tops of their shoulders.

"Kiss me again?" Saria begged innocently.

"Of course." Link moved his lips to her head, and she slid her tongue inside of his mouth.

After a few moments of their tongues mingling, they pulled away at a new pleasure, and the room began to get hot. (A/N: Note, I didn't say WHAT pleasure, for all we know they may have invented a fun new game. Or maybe I am just expressing the 'M' rating again... lol)


About fifteen minutes later, Link collapsed onto Saria, both of them sweating profusely with their tongues again in the other's mouths, trying to preserve the pleasure for as long as they could.

"I guess we do forgive each other then…" Link smiled, happy with how Saria felt.

Saria, under him, smiled back, and then nudged his side, seeing as that she was finding it hard to breath.

Link tilted to the side, and let Saria do as she pleased.

She turned herself around, still pressed against Link's rugged chest, and pulled Link's arms around her, as if the covers weren't enough.

"How is swordplay going to cover this one?" She asked, very tired.

"We'll make something up, won't we? Let's say you have a drooling problem."

"No, better, you saw me change. After all, you would drool if I changed."

"Saria, I drool at anything you do, you know that."

"I know that." She repeated, pulling Link's head over her shoulder so that she could get one kiss more before she fell asleep.

Moments later, she collapsed from exhaustion, it had been a stressful day, and to end it like this was a colossal feat, she gladly let the warmth of Link and Link's soft touch lull her to sleep.

Link followed her gladly to her lands of sleep, and closed his eyes with one last smell of Saria's hair, always smelling like a forest after a day of rain.


Far off in some faraway land, more than likely unfathomable by all creatures of Hyrule and the surrounding areas, a pair of emerald green eyes stared off into space.

"Oh my, oh my. This is going to get huge." (A/N: Who could that be? dumbly)

"What was that Xavier?" A female voice from within the figure asked.

"Pay no never mind Librarian, I just have something to do after I get you to your Didact."

"I can't believe you, an AI, could do such things to people…"

"It is my job after all… And the story can only get better from here… Muhohohoho!" The oily cackle made the female within him smile, she had been with 

this crazy AI for a while, he had saved her just to be with the man she loved, and together, the AI and the Librarian were propelled through space at a speed faster than anything ever imaginable, hoping to catch the emigration of the female's kind.

That last little bit was actually a plan for another story I want to write, a Halo one (maybe one of three short fictions,) this particular being about the Halo romance between the Forerunner's named Librarian, and Didact. (Read the terminals...)

But, yeah, those of you who wanted XT in the story, well, figure it out.

"Why did the 'AI' stop I wonder? What could possibly have caught his all-seeing eye?" (Think really hard...)

More coming soon...