Chapter 26

Confusion

A long undiluted silence came after I had finished my story. The fire crackled and spat indignantly as the dry desert winds shrieked in the background. I found myself shivering as I watched the red light from the fire dance and play off of Link's facial features. His lips were pursed tightly together in a thin slit that pulled downwards. His gaze did look met mine, but instead, with furrowed eyebrows he stared at the shifting sands beneath our feet.

I stared at my hands awkwardly as my cheeks burned in embarrassment and an almost shame like emotion. I swallowed dryly as the wind whipped my hair about and itchy sand grazed across my open skin. My eyes were dry, I was done crying. I couldn't cry about the subject anymore. I had relived that memory so many times it was now just a part of me that I had learned to live with.

Link gulped in either astonishment or ineptness. "You're lying." He growled between clenched teeth. The reflection of the fire danced about in his eyes dangerously as he grew rigid and tense. My face grew as hot as coals. I felt like spitting on him.

"How can you say I am lying!" I roared even louder than I had anticipated. My hands trembled in anger. I had never told anyone that story in my entire life, and there he was calling me a liar.

"Do you hear yourself talking? Are you fucking delusional?" I flinched; I had never heard him so angry before. "Do you understand the weight of your words? Ganon? The Ganon? And where are you talking me?" his voice sounded off like deafening thunder. I felt stupid by how delusional I had been. We were kidnapping him after all, why had I expected him to not get mad and forgive me for everything.

"T-that's what I was getting at." My voice sounded weak and feeble. He stared at me with such intensity. He was positively furious. His eyes glowered and his chest heaved up and down in quick deep breaths. I was happy he was tied up at that moment.

"You are taking me to him! Is this some kind of sick joke? You've been working for him!" Spit flew from Link's mouth and landed abruptly in the sand. His face turned red and I saw him struggling with the ropes.

"Please don't do this stop. Stop! Listen to me!" I shouted frantically as I tried to decide what to do. I didn't want to keep his hostage like this, but I didn't want Lucy to die either. If I could just explain to Link, than maybe he'd help.

"You were using me! You made me hurt Ilia. I believed you over her." He cried out furiously as he stamped his feet against the sand. Grains flew up in a tornado and pattered back to the ground in lite taps. She told me you were bad news. Why didn't I listen?" he asked rhetorically as he panted and struggled with the ropes that held him together.

"I wasn't using you." I shouted frantically as I watched him flop around like a fish out of water. He looked like a caged animal. His face turned into a ferocious snarl and his eyes blazed with an unknown danger. I was losing him. I had already lost him. There was no going back after this.

"What the fuck is going on here?" Both Link and I stayed frozen in place as footsteps resounded in the background. It was the groveling voice of Trevor. The yelling had woken him from his sleep. He came out of his tent shirtless. His tanned chest looked bronze in the firelight and contrasted greatly with the white hot scars that lay embedded beneath his right peck. A long rugged looking katana was held loosely in his right arm and a cigarette was rolled behind his ear and next to his hair that was slicked back with sweat.

"Go back to bed please." I hissed as I clamped my jaw shut tightly. His presence annoyed me. I couldn't take my mind of the kiss we had shared the other night. I don't know why I hadn't pulled away and was slightly disgusted in myself. Trevor was acting really differently ever since then and I suspected bad things to come in the future. I was in a big of a mess as it was and he was just another problem that didn't need to be added to the pot.

"You're going to set him free aren't you?" Trevor's voice was thick and smoky. He pointed the end of the blade towards my face accusingly and peered at me precariously with an ominous glint in his dark brown eyes.

"I wasn't setting him free, we were just talking." My voice was rushed and sounded scared. Go the fuck away Trevor I muttered indignantly to myself.

"Is this your boyfriend?" Link growled. His voice wasn't nearly as loud as when Trevor had been sleeping. With the blade so close, Link had calmed down significantly and lay limply on the ground. His breath was still heavy and ragged and I could tell that he was furious. His face was contorted in discomfort and he gritted his teeth in the utmost contempt.

I glanced at Trevor nervously as he circled Link like how a vulture might stalk his prey. His pace was a slow steady pace as he dragged his feet and katana in the sand. Link eyed him with hatred and a beast like malice. Trevor smiled smugly and chuckled to himself.

"Yes I am." He said haughtily. His teeth flashed underneath his thin lips and his fangs glinted menacingly. "We caught you." He laughed as I stood frozen in shock. For a moment, Link caught my eye. It only took under a second for him to look away in utter disgust. My heart dropped heavily into my stomach.

"Leave me be Trevor." I felt like steam was going to shoot out of my nose. I was beyond furious. I felt like I was going to faint. I had just gone through a rainbow of emotions in little under ten minutes. I felt light headed and it was hard to believe that all of this was actually happening.

"I am not leaving you alone with anyone. You can't be trusted for shit." He snarled deep within his throat as he kept his eyes on Link. Both of the men were beginning to ignore me. I could see that their eyes were locked together as they assessed one another. They both shared the same revolting stare as their eyes shone with hatred and an indescribable malevolence. The tension in the air was so thick that you had to remember to breathe.

"Trevor! Get out of here!" I shoved all my weight into him in an attempt to break their stare. Trevor barely moved by my shove and looked back at me in only annoyance.

"Shut the fuck up you stupid bitch!" Trevor pushed back with his left arm, catching me off guard. I fell awkwardly onto the scratchy sand. The gesture surprised me more than it at hurt. I gawked at him with my mouth open as I watched Link's face turn red as the fires of Din. Trevor didn't seem to care that he had done anything and only grinned as he watched Link try to fight out of his ropes in a fruitless effort.

"When I get out of this rope you are fucking dead? Do you hear me? You are fucking dead!" Link's voice screamed out into the desert night as he thrashed wildly about in his shackles. His voice echoed into the empty desert night, nobody to hear him except for the moon and the stars. My head spun and I felt nauseous as the weight of the situation began to weigh down on me.

"Sit still you worm!" Trevor thundered as he put the sharp end of the blade directly under Link's adam's apple. Link swallowed and his skin grazed the edge of the blade and made a tiny scraping noise. He stopped thrashing and took slow even breaths as his eyes never lost contact with the katana.

"Ganon wants him alive." I couldn't think of anything else to say. I just knew that Trevor did not want to piss our boss off.

Trevor didn't loosen his grip on his sword or make an attempt to move it out of Link's way. Link was struggling to keep his neck above the sword line. I saw his neck muscles contort and pulse in exertion as his face deepened in color. His eyes flicked to me in utter irritancy and his face darkened.

"He doesn't need this piece of shit anywhere near him." Trevor grumbled. However, he did pull the sword away. Link sighed in relief as he let his shoulders and neck relax once more. The blood came back to his face and he began to lighten back up. I let out a deep breath and felt myself shaking in terror.

"Please, Trevor just stay out of this. I am begging you. Link, he is not my boyfriend I promise." I stammered. Everything was turning into a giant mess. I was ruining everything. Lucy was in trouble, I find a guy I like and I kidnap him, I kissed a terrorist, I'm in deep shit….

"You kissed me you tramp." Trevor beamed from ear to ear as he let the words escape from his mouth. Link looked up at me with a look of such disappoint I didn't know how to quite decipher it.

"I-I-you didn't." I tripped over my own words as I stumbled to say what I really meant. Link looked at me in horror as his eyes flicked from Trevor's smiling face to my shocked one. "You made me!" I cried out in a sudden outburst. Trevor laughed as he dropped the katana. After he was done laughing the quiet sound of the desert filled the vicinity and left all of us speechless.

The silence felt like it had lasted an hour. All three of us just stood there, eying the other. There was a storm cloud of emotion and confusion that surrounded us. A powerful silence resounded for so long that it could bring even the strongest knights to their knees.

"They have Lucy. He wants me to bring you so I can get back Lucy."

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