Just a real quick hello! I'm gonna go play Skyrim now.

Enjoy!

51. Troubling Thoughts

"Come on, Link. One foot in front of the other." My hand rests gently on Link's back, fingers caressing.

"Maybe if I could focus..." He looked to me and I could see the lust underlying the sarcasm. It caused me to blush.

"What could be causing you not to focus?" I almost snickered at my teasing tone.

"What do you think?" My hand drifted down his back and squeezed lightly at my boyfriend's backside. "Sheik!"

I giggled, but stepped away. "I'll reward you if you can cross the room today." Determined blue eyes.

"You're on." I watched in mild surprise as Link reached the opposite wall. He gasped for air at the effort needed to even walk. "There... Gimme... reward..."

"But you happen to be across the room. And I'm awfully lazy." I used the excuse he had been using for the past few days. The guy had a couple good steps and suddenly becomes as useless as a like-like. I sat down and patted the seat next to me on the couch, expression smug. "Join me?"

"Gods, you are an arse." Link hobbled over and flopped down. "What a workout."

Then it got quiet. Too quiet. Link was never quiet.

"Something wrong?" I turned to find a very flustered Link, his hand in his pocket.

"Well... I umm..." I jumped a little when my wrist was grabbed. Link seemed to notice how hard he did and relaxed. "Sorry."

My hand was turned palm up and cool metal was placed into it. I blinked in surprise. A ring? Link let go of me and looked around the room nervously. Eyes never landing on me. The ring was brought up and examined. It stunned me. Ancient Sheikah. He had known I had an interest in my people's culture, but I didn't think he went so far as to learn it. I realized this was the ring I always saw Link glaring at when I wasn't in the room. Truth be told, he left his door cracked often and I would watch him. But if it was the same one then he had, had this for quite some time. The words themselves almost floored me. Not 'I love you.' or 'Be mine'. No. This was so much more.

For your heart, I yearn.

I couldn't breath. Was that normal? Probably not. I didn't really care. Link made me breathless often. I was snapped out of my thoughts by the voice of the man I love.

"So... What do you think?" A shy smile found its way onto my lips.

"You give me your heart and I take it with such a gluttony that the gods will strike me down." I could feel Link freeze. For whatever reason. Words flowing from my mouth as if another put them there. "I devour your love and it is like a drug that I can never get my fill of."

"W-What did you say?" He was shaking.

"Link, is something wrong? Did I say the wro-"

"No. I... I expected nothing l-less from you, Sheik." Suddenly, Link pulled me to him. I could feel the tears in my hair and the sobs taking his body. I didn't know what caused this, but that didn't matter. Link was hurting. The one I was in love with was hurting. So I wrapped my arms around him and cooed softly into his ear. We stayed like that for sometime. Finally, Link pulled away.

"Better?" He nodded. His eyes were red-rimmed and tears still fell, but Link was so beautiful in that moment. His hand came up to cup my cheek and his thumb brushed away tears I did not know were there. I had cried for him. Link's customary crooked grin was sent my way and I ducked my head.

"Thank you." A breathless laugh left me and Link pulled me into a tender kiss. "For everything, Sheik."

Fingertips ran up and down my back. Link's calloused fingertips. They made me shiver and demanded my full attention. Yet, I couldn't give them that. Link's breakdown on my mind. Link must have sensed this as he sat up on the bed and pulled me into his lap.

"Waking up and realizing that the past year was a lie... It shocked me." I kept quiet as he talked, afraid that if I did he would stop. "If I hadn't woken up and found that you really did love me, I think I would have been broken beyond repair. Loving you and touching you in my dreams could never stand up to this." Link tightened his hold on me for a moment. "But I didn't know that then."

I looked up at him and smiled. A light kiss pressed to his lips. Letting the love of my life know that I would never leave him. I was about to question him, but Link spoke up again.

"Those were the same words you... well, dream you... said when I gave you the ring that time. It terrified me. I don't want to go back to sleep and miss another year of our life together." He seemed to close up and curled around me. "I love you too much for that."

I could feel them. His tears falling on my shoulder and neck. So I combed my fingers through Link's hair. "I love you, Link. Even in your dreams, I will always love you." My hand was much smaller than Link's and I noticed this as I took his in mine. Crimson eyes of lust reflected back at me in his never ending sea of love. Ready to show him that I would love him til I die.

And far longer.

51. Amused

Zelda was amused when she turned a corner to find a blushing Sheikah storming off and a smug Hylian on the floor.

I apologize for the shortness of my authoress note, but my hand hurts.

Love and cuteness,

~Annoying :)