A.N.- Hi everyone. I would first like to say thank you to Cookie for the last few reviews! Hope to hear more from you! Without further adieu here's chapter 21!

Warning may contain The Feels.

Sheik appeared in his home with a limp Link in arms not seconds later. He placed Link on his bed as he began to look over the wound on his chest. The wound was very deep and more blood kept flooding out. Sheik tried to stop it as best as he could but he was afraid that he was losing Link instead of helping him.

"Please Link, hold on! I'm trying to help! Please!" then leaned his face down to Link's and rested his forehead on Link's. Sheik lifted his head from Link's and continued to press down on the wound. The one good thing about pressing down on the wound was the occasional moan or whimper from Link to signal he was still alive. Sheik knew that he had to close the wound but first he had to stop the bleeding. So he started a fire and got his blade hot before whispered to Link,

"I'm sorry to do this to you but I have no other choice." then kissed Link's forehead before he stabbed the wound with the very hot, smoldering blade. Link immediately jerked in pain but do to Sheik straddling him and holding him down, Sheik managed to get the blade all the way to the bottom of the wound. Link passed out from the pain as Sheik did that and that worried him.

"I'm sorry, my love. I'm so sorry." Sheik cried to the unconscious Link on the bed as he held his hand and kissed his forehead. With the wound was cauterized, Sheik began to wrap Link up in a bandage all the way around from his left shoulder to his right hip. Once wrapped, Sheik grabbed a chair and sat down next to Link as he waited for him to wake up.

After a few hours went by and still no movement from Link, Sheik decided it was time to go back to the temple and get Navi. He had left her and Saria there when he had to fight the phantom form of Ganondorf. So with one last kiss this time to the lips, Sheik took out a deku nut and imagined the temple boss chamber.

However, where he arrived was not the temple but his own house again because he saw Link in the same position on his bed.

"Great. I thought I had the imagine of the temple. Stupid mind. Stop worrying about Link right now and think about the one fairy who risked her life to try and save Link." he whisper scolded himself before he took out another nut and did the same thing only this time he arrived at the temple entrance.

"Close enough." Sheik told himself as he jumped up to the nearest tree in order to reach the entrance. He jumped down from the tree above the entrance and entered the temple. Once inside, Sheik walked all the way to the main room and went down to the lowest floor.

After he landed on the ground floor, Sheik made his way to the boss chamber and entered it. Once inside, he made his way up a few steps to reach the circular platform with a bloodied fairy and a pale, bruised Kokiri. Sheik first went to Navi and picked up her two halves gently as he whispered,

"Oh Navi… Why must this happen to you? I mean you didn't deserve this ending. I swear I will give you a better ending. I'll bury you when Link is better because if I do it now it will only make matters worse after I tell him you are dead." then he wrapped her two broken, bloody halves in a clean cloth from his pocket. Sheik placed her into his pack then made his way over to Saria.

He kneeled by her and he gently picked her up only to find her head rolled a little too much for someone to be dead. So he placed her back down, and moved around her neck to find it was broken. Someone had snapped her neck and it was most likely that phantom Ganondorf.

"Oh Goddesses…. Saria…." Sheik felt horrible that he couldn't save her but he knew it wasn't his job to protect her. His job was to only teach the songs of every temple to Link but now it's to guide Link on his journey to stop Ganondorf and save the land of Hyrule. Sheik picked her up again and carried her out of this dark and damp dungeon.

Sheik carried Saria to the platform with the Triforce then laid her down upon it before he brought out Navi and laid her next to Saria.

"I'm sorry... to the both of you… I trying to take care of Link like you want me too but… I don't know if he'll make it." he told them before he placed Navi back in his pack, picked up Saria and carried her out of the Sacred Forest Meadow. He finally made it to the Lost Woods before he decided it was better to leave Saria in a place, she knew then where she had died.

After he left her in the woods, knowing she'd be safe, he made his way back to his house in Kakariko. When he arrived in the village, Sheik happened to see a crowd of people all standing around his house.

"What the hell?" he whispered as he made his way through the crowd. When he made it to the front, Sheik saw Link up on the highest point of his house, looking ready to fall. Sheik immediately ran inside, knowing there was only one way up to where he was and that was the stairs, he kept locked behind a door. He ran all the way to the top to see Link standing on the edge.

"Link?" he asked cautiously as he slowly made his way to him. Link either acted like he heard him but didn't move or that he was ignoring him. Either way, Sheik had to make his way to him before Link did something stupid.

"Link? Link, look at me." and finally did he turn to him. What Sheik saw pained his heart. Link had been crying.

"Link please come off the edge." Link made no move to leave the edge, in fact he moved closer towards the edge and that really worried Sheik. Especially, with what Link told him,

"Why?! She's gone! Saria is gone! She was my only friend! The only one I trusted! The only one! Just let me die." then took a step forwards off the roof and was about to fall when suddenly Sheik grabbed him and pulled him back. Link kicked and thrashed around until he just couldn't do that anymore and cried into Sheik.

Sheik sighed in relief as he held him to his chest until Link stopped crying and moving altogether. Sheik immediately moved Link away from his body to see his wound had reopened and siped through the bandage. Sheik lifted Link up as he rushed him back inside and laid him on the bed.

He unwrapped the bandages really carefully after he placed his blade back into the fire. Once the blade was hot enough, Sheik once again straddled Link and cauterized the wound again. He then wrapped Link back up in a fresh bandage. Sheik sat down in his chair that he placed right by the bed to watch over him. Once seated, he looked over the barely moving rising chest of Link as he slept before he turned his eyes to the finally setting sun.

It had been a very long day for both Link and Sheik but mostly for Sheik because he nearly lost Link for a second time. The first being the wound that is on his chest. Sheik was scared for Link and prayed for his recovery but he knew the night was only just beginning. Sheik watched the moon raise a little before he had to turn his eyes to Link, who was thrashing around.

"Link! Calm down. You're ok. You're not in any danger. I have you. You're safe." and that seemed to calm him down for the next few hours. Sheik only rested for only a few minutes at a time just in case Link woke up screaming or in pain or whatever. He once again fell asleep in the chair but on the bed when the bed moved and Sheik woke up with a start.

He saw Link standing by the window, not making a sound just watching the night dwindle away. Sheik walked towards him carefully before he just started to talk like he had heard Sheik move,

"I'm sorry about before but it is… was the truth. Saria was my friend and the only person I trusted. It's not like I don't trust you Sheik because I do but… Now, I have nothing left. She wasn't just my friend, she was my family." Link told Sheik that all while not turning around and Sheik didn't know what to say or do in this situation.

"You know, Saria used to protect me from everything. From bullies or from monsters when I couldn't fight back because I was too little. She was amazing. It's weird talking about her when she was just fine yesterday." Link finally turned from the window to face Sheik with tears running down his face. Sheik's heart ached in pain for Link but he put on a strong face to hide what he was feeling.

"I'm sorry, Link about Saria. I didn't know her but she seemed like an amazing Kokiri. Come on, now let's get yo-" but he never finished his sentence as Link fainted suddenly for the second time only this time it wasn't because of the wound.

"Link?" waited a few seconds, "Link?! Link! Hey! Link, wake up!" but nothing worked and Sheik lifted him up from the floor and placed him on the bed for the third time. He grabbed Link's hand and squeezed it before he whispered,

"You have me now. I'm not going anywhere. I promise. But please wake up." then kissed his forehead again. Then placed his lips again onto Link's pale red lips, hoping that the kiss would wake him up but it didn't. Sheik sat on his chair and continued to hold onto Link's hand as he waited for the sun to rise.

After a terrifying last few hours, the sun finally raise and with it was Sheik's hope for Link to recover and wake up.

"Please wake up, Link. I need to hear your voice. I need you. I love you." he whispered as the sun shined into the window but Link still didn't move.

"Goddesses, please, save him! I need him! I love him!" but nothing had changed and the Goddesses didn't answer Sheik's plea. Sheik cried as he held his hand and as he continued to pray for Link's recovery.

A.N.- Hi again. Poor Sheik and Link. Anyway please leave reviews or pms as I said before I'll take either! Onto chapter 22!