Thank you to Link Fangirl01, Otaku Pickles, HyruleHearts1123, and Moonlight Raven Grave for the reviews and to
savannahamminga for favoriting. It really makes me happy that you guys love this story so much. I might do two squeal stories. One might be one-shot like stories where Linebeck, Link, and Tetra wake up on the boat at the end. The other would be Linebeck wakes up on his original ship and how him being in Link's life would effect Wind Waker. What do you guys think?

He hadn't even been asleep for a half hour before he was jostled awake. Link suddenly lurched up and reached for the bucket. After a long series of dry heaving and loosing stomach acid, the boy pushed the bucket away. Exhausted with the sudden onslaught, the boy wearily laid back down on the bed. He pressed himself back up against his father and drifted off to sleep. Link would continue to wake up every five to twenty minutes, get sick, and go back to sleep. The cycle continued well into the night. After about six hours of this, it eventually worked up to about a quarter hour to an hour break in between Link jolting awake to get sick. Needless to say, it was a long night for the both of them.

Morning soon came and the morning light woke up the sick boy. Link sat up, not because he was going to get sick - for once. Linebeck was so in tune with Link sitting up and getting sick, that he also jolted awake at this action. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked at the child. Link just sat there, with no signs of nausea. The sailor sat up and placed a hand on his son's forehead. It was still really warm but it looked like he had powered through the worst of his fever during the night.

"How are you feeling?" Linebeck asked as he sat up.

Link rubbed at his eyes and quietly replied, "Okay, I guess. I'm kinda hungry though."

Linebeck stood up and messed with his son's hair before replying, "Alright. I'm going to get you something light. I'm not sure your still over your stomach bug yet."

The blond nodded and scooted back down into bed as the older man left the room. Chilly air kissed his cheeks as the captain went outside. He made his way downstairs and turned the stove back on to reheat the soup. As the soup started to warm up he grabbed out another set of crackers and a bit of bread. The older man's stomach grumbled. He was so busy taking care of Link that he hadn't eaten since before they visited the frozen island. He grabbed out a chunk of beef jerky and plopped a piece in his mouth. His attention was turned towards the soup, which had now began to boil. He snacked on another piece of jerky as he walked back over to the stove. Linebeck turned off the stove and poured a small bowl of soup for Link. He set everything on a tray and headed back up stairs.

Link eagerly downed his soup, but took enough time as not to upset his uneasy stomach. The boy nibbled on his bread as the sailor stoked the fire. The boy had fallen asleep by the time the fire was roaring. Exhaustion now began to weigh down on the older man as he felt the effects of a horrible night's sleep. He stood up and laid back down beside his sick child. His eyes fell shut once again as he let sleep take him. An hour had hardly passed before Link jolting up shook him awake. Linebeck inwardly sighed as he sat up. At least it the time between Link getting sick was getting longer. His hands comfortingly rubbed the ill child's back as he got sick. Link sighed and laid back down once he stopped getting sick.

"I'd rather have cucco pox again than this." Link mumbled miserably.

Linebeck chuckled and thought for a moment, "An oatmeal bath might help you feel better. Would you want one?"

Link nodded and reached for a glass of water. The boy took a sip as his father stood up. His brown eyes slipped shut at Linebeck left the room. He was woken up a little bit later by a gentle shake by his father.

"Bath's ready." Linebeck said warmly.

The boy rubbed his eyes and yawned as he sat up. The sailor wrapped his son up in a warm blanket and picked him up. He made his way as fast as possible to the bathroom to make sure Link stayed out of the cold as much as possible. After setting his son down by the bath he left to give him some privacy. Icy wind engulfed him as he walked back into his room. He grabbed the dishes that were beginning to collect in his room and made his way back into the kitchen. Might as well get the dishes done while he had the time. Just as he was finishing up drying the dishes, he heard his son walk in behind him.

"How was it?" Linebeck asked as he finished drying off the last of the dishes.

"It was good. Thanks." Link said as he yawned.

"No problem. Do you want anything to eat?" Linebeck asked as turned towards his son.

"Yeah." the blond nodded as he sat down at the kitchen table.

Linebeck went to work reheating the soup. He cut off a slice of bread and offered it to the sick boy. Link eagerly took and slowly munched on it as his soup warmed up. As the boy finished his soup, his brown eyes started to droop. Linebeck went into the other room and grabbed the blanket. He wrapped up the sleepy boy and carried him back up stairs. Link passed out the instant his head hit the pillow. Linebeck placed a hand on the blond's forehead. Thankfully, his fever was starting to go away, slowly, but surely. It wouldn't be too much longer before Link would be fighting monsters and saving the world.

About two hours had passed before Link woke up from his nap. He sat up and stretched his arms up to the ceiling. Link had enough of sleeping, he was bored and wanted to get up and do something. He was just about to get out of bed when he felt his father grab his arm lightly push him back into bed.

"Where do you think you're going?" Linebeck asked, as he looked up from a book.

"I'm bored." Link sighed as he crossed his arms in defeat, "I'm tired of just laying in bed and getting sick."

"Well," Linebeck said as he put his book down, "we can play a card game if you're up for it."

A smile flashed across the young hero's face, "You're gonna loose again."

Linebeck messed with Link's hair as he grabbed out the deck of cards, "I wouldn't be to sure about that. Besides, we're gonna play a new game."

Link's eyebrows raised, "Really? What game is that?"

Linebeck thought for a minute for replying, "It's called something not appropriate for a twelve year old to say, so we'll call it, 'I doubt it'."

"How does it work?" Link asked.

"Well, since there's only two players, we're changing it up a bit. Here pull out a few cards, but don't look." Linebeck instructed as he fanned out the deck of cards.

Link pulled out several cards and handed them to his father. Linebeck set the cards down on another table and reshuffled the deck.

"Alright, so the game goes like this: I deal out the cards between the two of us. The ultimate goal is to discard all of your cards. Now, how you do that is by us working our way up through the deck. You start with getting rid of your aces, then I get rid of twos, then you get rid of your threes. This continues until we are out of cards."

"That's it?" Link asked, sounding disappointed.

"Oh, not at all. You see, when you discard them you have to announce how many of that card you are putting down. Then you put the cards face down. Say it's my turn. I say 'I'm putting down four fours'. You look at your cards and see that you have a four. You can say 'I doubt it." I then have to flip my cards up to prove if I'm lying or not. If I lied, the entire stack of discarded cards goes to me. However, if you are wrong, the stack goes to you. Make sense?" Linebeck asked.

His son nodded as he divided up the remaining cards.

"I had you take out a few cards to make it easier to bluff. Normally you play with multiple people, but with two people, it's easy to call a bluff, since you have the rest of the cards in your hand." the sailor explained.

"Ready for me to beat you?" Link asked.

Linebeck playfully scoffed, "In your dreams kid. Now let's play. You go first."