Disclaimer: Not mine. Story is.
A/N: Takes place immediately after last chapter so read that one first…
If you like Ocarina of Time better, I'm typing up my story "Power, Wisdom and Courage." Meanwhile, this is from Link's Awakening.
*Reads story. * Aaahhhh! What the hell happened here?! Hmmm, much too sappy chapter ahead. And I'm an anti Zelda/Link shipper…yet here's this chapter. Oddness. Well for all of you non-romantic, anti-Link/Zelda shippers, this chapter is relatively short and the next chapter gets better. "…I swear it by the Triforce." Huzzah!
"Link!"
It was Zelda. Her hair was flying out wildly from behind her as she ran as fast as she could trying not to trip over her long, pink dress. She waved her arm quickly as if afraid Link was about to set off at any moment. A grin tugged on Link's mouth automatically and he hopped down from his smallish vessel to greet the desperate princess. Zelda stopped just in front of Link and bent down, hands on her knees, breathing heavily. She gulped down air several times before looking up at Link. He had a hand resting on his hip, as per usual, and was smiling down at her.
"I though, I thought," gasped Zelda, still tired from the rare exercise, "you had left...I came here…to, to say…I'm sorry and goodbye." She blinked up at Link trying desperately not to burst into tears.
He smiled warmly. A smile that only he could have, one that held hidden years and secret lives. And it was thus at this point that Zelda threw herself at him sobbing hard.
"You, you," she sputtered through clenched teeth and tightly shut eyes, "you're…leaving! You're leaving! You're leaving, you're leaving you're-"
"Zelda!" cried Link looking down at the girl that held him in a death grip, "It's all right! I…I'm not going to leave you forever!" He gently pried the blonde princess from his body but held her hands and looked into her sky-blue eyes. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyelashes fluttered wetly.
"I'm sorry, I'm acting so immaturely…"she said mostly to herself, looking down. "You're only 14…" said Link.
"But you and I are much older than that…" she said searching his eyes. She smiled at him as they remembered forbidden pasts together. Link pulled her into a hug and whispered into her ear, "I'm coming back, Zelda."
"But my vision-" she began but was silenced by Link pulling back and holding her firmly by the shoulders, staring into her eyes seriously.
"I will come back, Zelda. I will come back. I swear it," he said.
"To me, Link? To me?" she asked so quietly that Link thought his heart would break. Yes, his Zelda, his princess. He had never known it until now.
"To you, Zelda, I will come back. I swear it by the Triforce," Link frowned at his unexpected promise but was startled even more when Zelda gently touched his lips with hers and pulled back with sweet innocence. Her eyes twinkled with more than sadness. One last look and Link clambered into his ship and pulled the anchor, finally, sailing away and leaving a lonely princess on the shore.