(A/N) For my claim at drabble100 in LJ. Hope you enjoy it!
Title: Tomorrow.
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Characters: Sheik, Link.
Drabble Number: 009.
Prompt Number: 014.
Prompt Word: Black.
Rating: PG-13.
Gerne: Angst.
Quote: "The future is... black." James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American writer.
Word Count: 268.
Notes: Because black can be the greatest comfort. Enjoy.
Tomorrow.
It's been long since he's stopped counting the days. He no longer cares it's been a month or a year... he feels it was a century and yet another century to come.
Sheik was careless. Far too careless and far too confident.
Link had gotten him drunk in a sense of security that Ganondorf was all too glad to break.
He lives in the darkness, the colorless darkness where everything is black. He cannot see, because no light is allowed to where he is, only the mocking laughter from time to time, when the King of Evil is too bored with everything else. Then, he comes to see him, mocking him, laughing at his misery as he tells him lie after lie.
Because the Evil King cannot tell the truth. What he says, cannot be true.
Link and the Princess and Kakariko and Impa. They're alive. They're strong and plotting and rebelling and whatever Ganondorf has planned, it will be eventually defeated, because Good always defeats Evil. Because they would never give up on the fight, they would never stop trying.
Link would never give up looking for him.
So Ganondorf can tell him all the lies he wants, Sheik will simply curl on the darkness, making warmth out of the black and waiting. Because surely, surely Link will come and rescue him, he will defeat Ganondorf and then Sheik will laugh and tell him that all was lies.
Link doesn't come today. But Sheik doesn't despair, that's what Ganondorf wants, and he sits in his black hole, waiting.
If not today, tomorrow... tomorrow Link would come.
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