MY CHAPTER GOT WIPED! I had written chapter 19 and then I pressed delete then save by accident and it was gone! How the f*** that happened I DO NOT KNOW! But it's gone, so if this chapter sucks, blame the computer -_-'
Anyway here's the new chapter, we're VERY near the end and you're already making guesses at the ending, well I'm not telling! Ha!
Anyway I've been on Holiday and stuff and exams so please forgive me for the wait!
Thanks for your reviews everyone, it heartens me to get reviews, thanks for taking the time to write them! Natalie thanks for your very...um...LONG review : D I was hoping no one would notice the plot holes -_-' You think way to hard, even I don't really know how I'm working things ^^;;; although I'm sort of heading along the lines of 'while both links are in a realm, which ever it may be, of living, they will both be alive' or something. Maybe we ought to leave it as a plot hole -_-'
Anyway, last chapter so let's tie things up a bit! We're nearly ending ;_;
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda
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We travelled on to Clock Town the next day, and the day after that. Although it was clear we'd beaten the enemy...granted in a bizarre fashion that didn't make me feel like we'd won at all, and the snow was melting, people didn't feel comfortable talking to me.
I didn't really blame them, after all Link had come out holding the body of Dark Link across his shoulders and I had been covered in his blood. Still was, I was also smelling awfully bad. So Link and I had been made to walk downwind of the rest of the group. Hardly surprising that no one would want to talk to me. I tried to tell myself this was the only reason, but I'm not sure it was.
Lucy and Kafei even kept away from me, which got me upset. Although I had never really talked to Kafei before we got so tragically ripped apart, I was still a little put out he wasn't even speaking to me after all the trouble I'd gone through to rescue him. And with Anju pregnant too! He could show a little more gratitude.
Link and I, in our own group, didn't talk much. We didn't feel there was much to say, so we mostly spent the day in silence.
After my talk with Sao, it took two days to reach Clock Town, the snow obviously melting although the clouds still hung over the landscape, a promise of the coming winter. The temperature rose for a while however and the day seemed to cheer as we came through the field up towards the huge walls of the town.
My adventure was ending once more.
And it felt really like I hadn't gained anything, I felt more as though something was missing.
I looked over my shoulder to where two men were carrying the body of Dark Link, he looked strangely peaceful, being carried like that. It was hard to look at him like that and realise he wasn't going to wake up, although the blood I was drenched in and that he was covered in helped bring it home.
A little while later when we drew through the gates of Clock Town and emerged, with good luck, in the quarter across from the inn, no one seemed to care that Kafei pushed through the crowd to reach the inn ahead of us. I smiled as I saw the door pushed open and slammed shut in his haste to see his wife.
While the tribe walked ahead to the inn, I assumed they were going to stay there till they could find some transportation home, wagons or something, I stopped and looked up at the clock that had given this town it's name. It was large. Very, I hadn't really noticed under its blanket of snow.
Stopping, I looked up at it, maybe I was stalling to let the tribe go ahead of me, Link looked back at me, shrugged and went on to the inn. I didn't mind him going, he had preparations for our journey back to see to so I wasn't really bothered about him going to get organised. I actually was beginning to want to go home. I think I felt that I couldn't really show grief or weakness at the moment.
Someone stopped next to me, and, glancing to my side I was surprised to see that Sao was also looking up at the clock. His jet-black hair glistening in the sun after melting icicles dripped on him. I looked at the inn where he had thrown soup all over me and grinned.
"Seems like an age ago doesn't it"
I looked at Sao and said, "Yeah, well, maybe it doesn't feel that long ago, because the soup was boiling hot after all"
Sao looked at me, it seemed he was thinking hard about something. Then, surprisingly, he lifted his palm and ran his thumb over my cheekbone. I stood still, watching his expression, he seemed confused, but his face cleared as he drew his hand away again.
"I saw Shadow Man's body" Sao said quietly "Underneath the blood I thought I glimpsed something familiar. It runs out he bore the black eye that I had given you" He paused, biting his lip "You didn't kill him, did you?"
"Well...I..."
"I know what I see" he said, not unkindly "Forget it" he looked at me again and smiled softly "What's done is done, and now we are safe"
I was going to say something but he strode off towards the inn purposely and I was left alone in the courtyard once more. I took another look at the clock and went after him.
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Anju had had a healthy baby girl while we were gone, the small bundle only a few days old was still wrinkled. But slept peacefully. Anju hadn't given it a name, she'd been hopeful Kafei would return to name the child.
Anju herself was in bed and after a tearful reunion she had felt strong enough to berate Sao for beating on women on which Link swiftly picked up who he had beaten and also had a go at him. Yet it was all in good faith.
I hadn't actually been present for this though, I was told about it later. For the moment I had entered the inn I'd been shoved into a room, stripped of my clothes and tipped into a bath of steaming water. Apparently people had been complaining about the smell already.
I heard a maid commenting as she carried my clothes at arms length; "Well they really let anybody stay here don't they? Butchers and all"
I giggled and sank down into my bath, which was in a huge communal one for the women staying/working at the inn, trying to pull a wooden comb that had been left through my blood-clotted hair. I gave up, I sighed as the warm bath loosened up all my muscles that hadn't like sleeping on the ground for so many nights.
I heard the door to the bathroom open and Lucy poked her head around nervously. I automatically sank down further into the bath, still not over the embarrassment teenagers get with the age.
"Can I come in?" Lucy asked quietly
"Sure" I smiled and stretched my toes in the bath
Lucy came through the door wrapped in a large fluffy towel and then, while I looked away, sank into the bath. Faintly as the door swung shut behind her I heard a roar of laughter coming from the men's side of the bath which I took to be the men of the tribe taking their time in the bath also.
I heard Lucy suck in her breath as she got into the bath and then said "So, you haven't been talking to me"
Lucy went red, although I couldn't tell whether it was from the hot water or embarrassment "Well...you see"
I started to try the comb in my hair again, wincing as a knot pulled.
"I wasn't sure whether I wanted to talk to you" she said, rubbing her face with soap "You see, we got attacked and I saw you dead, I swore you were dead. So when you turned up again I wasn't sure whether you were just my imagination, and then when you...kissed Link and Sao went on about the betrayal of it and everything I sort of...thought, well you would never do that at home and so it couldn't have been you. But now I understand it wasn't you really. And then you came out with Link and a body and covered in blood it just sort of...sent me into shock. That it had been really you and that I hadn't believed you or been a good friend or anything. And that you'd killed someone too!"
I kept quiet.
"I wasn't ready to talk to someone that I thought was dead, a betrayer, a killer or something. But I understand now what happened and why you killed him, not that he did deserve to be killed or anything...but...I'd like you to forgive me"
I sank further into the water and said "Why not? It was just a misunderstanding"
"Really?" Lucy broke into a very wide grin of relief and sank down also, gasping as the hot water reached her chin "I'm glad..."
"Me too"
We sat in silence for a moment in the steaming water, the wooden walls vibrating with the sound of the apparent glee of the men's side at getting a bath after so long. I couldn't help but smile, they sounded like they were water fighting, and they were all too old for that really.
I thought back on the fact that Link was 30 and married to Zelda again. And, with a brief moment of enlightenment I realised that I didn't mind. I was happy for them, Link wasn't my Knight in Shining Armour apparently anymore. Perhaps it was because for a brief moment I had loved someone else entirely, I didn't really know. And I didn't care.
I was happy for Link and Zelda, and their sons were the image of cuteness when I had met them.
I grinned.
"What are you so happy about?" Lucy asked, rinsing her hair with clean water
"Nothing" I said, still grinning "I'm just happy everything's working out"
"Yeah" Lucy smiled and then said, "When will we go home?"
"Well we'll have to go back to Hyrule first and we'll probably leave tomorrow for there. And then for home...day after probably. Link's probably wanting to see his family anyway"
"Yeah"
"I'm looking forward to my own bed" I said stretching "I can't wait!"
"Me neither. And pizza!"
"Chocolate"
"Broccoli!"
"Eww"
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And it seemed our prediction was correct, the next morning after a GREAT night's sleep Link came and got us out of bed mid morning and said "Come on! Breakfast"
Lucy mumbled something about swimming and turned over. I on the other hand leapt out of bed and pulled wide the curtains, in typical musical style and burst into a chorus of 'The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music' to which Link promptly left and Lucy bolted upright with a yell of "Kill the banshee!"
We got up, washed in a bowl of warm water and dressed into new clothes Anju had lent us, not what we were used to, skirts and shirts made of a weird material that she informed us was 'cow mat'. I didn't really want to enquire further.
Breakfast was wonderful, to thank us for bringing Kafei back to her, she'd prepared a huge amount of food for all of us, all the tribe were sitting at the table when we arrived along with Link, Kafei and also Anju bustling about filling glasses with juice.
It was great, what a breakfast to fill up on, everything you can imagine eating for breakfast as well as things I had never seen before. She'd really pulled out the stops on it. The baby was in a cradle on the floor next to Kafei was distractedly rocking it with a foot and talking to Link about the Anju in Hyrule, with which Anju from Termina swiped at him with a tea towel and carried on.
After breakfast Link passed on to me and Lucy bags full of what seemed to be from our original inn room that Link had smashed up, or what remained of it. Most of the stuff we'd packed was still around.
And the whole tribe filed out with us into the square outside where a warm day was beginning. I hadn't expected them to come and see us off but there they were, Sao, Shigeru and all.
"We'd like to assure you we'll give the body a burial since he does have a connected with the King of Hyrule" Shigeru said, although I think he was talking more to me than anyone else
"Thank you" Link said formally
Sao was standing a little way off, I caught his eye and he smiled and nodded, I grinned and looked back at Shigeru.
"If you're ever passing through you'll always be welcome in our village" he continued, "We're always helpful to friends"
"Thank you" Link said again, gripping wrists with the man almost twice the size of him "But now we'd better be off"
Shigeru nodded and smiled at me and Lucy "Good luck girls, don't go causing anymore trouble"
I went red and mumbled something about how it wasn't always our fault.
"Come on then, let's go" Link said, turning towards the entry way that led to the clock tower
"Ok then, bye!" I yelled to the whole tribe
"Bye!" Lucy chimed in
And we left for the clock tower. It was a nice cool sunny, morning, the clear sky held no memory of the weather that had plagued it only days before. It put a spring in my step and I was happy that I was going home at last. It seemed like only yesterday that I had done this before.
Once more I was leaving a world that had always managed to bring a change in me once I'd returned home. I wondered what would happen when I got home this time. Would Lucy forget it all again? Would I remember?
Glancing up at the Clock Tower which was now only a few steps away, the bustle of early morning market stalls being set up dimmed in my ears and I thought about how this clock seemed to stand alone, apart from its fellow buildings, part of the world and yet not part of the world. I looked at Lucy and wondered if that was how we were also.
"Hey" Link said
We stopped in front of the heavy wooden doors a moment.
"I think, if you take these" he handed over small grey stones that we recognised as those that would help us get back home "When we step through the dimensional tunnel you'll be returned to your world like I'll be returned to Hyrule"
"Right, cool" Lucy pocketed the stone along with her hand into her trousers and I could tell she was keeping a tight grip on her ticket out of here "See you then, it's been fun once more but next time don't call me" she looked at us strangely, then up at the door and said "I'll wait for you inside I think"
Link grinned "Sure" he shook Lucy's hand warmly before she disappeared at a nod from me, then Link turned to me "Well, I guess this'll be the last time I see you…"
He held out a hand for me to shake too. Idiot, as if I'd let him get away with that. I slapped his hand away and wrapped my arms tightly around his neck. I wasn't going to be stingy with farewells this time as I had the last. Drawing back slightly I ran my thumb from his hair down across his cheek, studying his face that had aged so much in such a short time for me. A short sudden realisation of something, that if I had stayed the last time things would have been so different. But it was gone as I remembered things happened for a reason, and I had fallen (for however short a time) in love with Dark Link.
That didn't matter anymore.
Pressing my forehead next to his I said "Maybe, but you never know until it happens, we may just meet again. And if we don't then…don't forget me Link"
He grinned and kissed me lightly on the cheek "I don't think I ever will"
We separated and I stretched "Well, here we go again, you're back to your kids and I'm back to school. Great"
Link laughed and said "Yeah well living with Zelda there's so many rules it may as well be school!"
We stood at the doors to the Clock Tower, ready to enter and leave for our homes again. I drew a breath and placed a hand on one of the wood doors as Link did the same to the other.
"Ready?" Link asked, smiling widely
"Let's go" I replied.
And we walked through the doors.
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The small girl stretched and jumped out the car, running around the other side to let her small friend out as well, the little green clad boy gambolled out and stood up tall, facing the sky.
"Time for me to go I think"
The little girl pouted and looked at the boy's feet, which gradually seemed to disappear. She felt tears prick her eyes and she gave him a big hug, ignoring the exchange of looks that her parents gave her.
The little boy hugged her back, carefully of the new scares on her body from the accident, almost up to his waist was gone now.
"I guess this'll be the last time I see you…" the little girl said, frowning
"Nah" the little boy in green shook his head fiercely, so his locks of blonde hair fell out from his cap "We'll meet again, you can count on it"
"Really?" she asked, grinning
"As sure as I'm standing here" he looked at his fading body and said "Well, you know what I mean"
She smiled and said "See you Fairy Boy"
"Bye" he said, and vanished from view.
Her mother came over, a strange look on her face and brought her little girl around to look in her eyes. Her mother looked concerned.
"Are you alright?" she asked her daughter carefully
Her little girl looked around, smiled, and said "Yeah. Just fine"
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Anyway here's the new chapter, we're VERY near the end and you're already making guesses at the ending, well I'm not telling! Ha!
Anyway I've been on Holiday and stuff and exams so please forgive me for the wait!
Thanks for your reviews everyone, it heartens me to get reviews, thanks for taking the time to write them! Natalie thanks for your very...um...LONG review : D I was hoping no one would notice the plot holes -_-' You think way to hard, even I don't really know how I'm working things ^^;;; although I'm sort of heading along the lines of 'while both links are in a realm, which ever it may be, of living, they will both be alive' or something. Maybe we ought to leave it as a plot hole -_-'
Anyway, last chapter so let's tie things up a bit! We're nearly ending ;_;
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda
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We travelled on to Clock Town the next day, and the day after that. Although it was clear we'd beaten the enemy...granted in a bizarre fashion that didn't make me feel like we'd won at all, and the snow was melting, people didn't feel comfortable talking to me.
I didn't really blame them, after all Link had come out holding the body of Dark Link across his shoulders and I had been covered in his blood. Still was, I was also smelling awfully bad. So Link and I had been made to walk downwind of the rest of the group. Hardly surprising that no one would want to talk to me. I tried to tell myself this was the only reason, but I'm not sure it was.
Lucy and Kafei even kept away from me, which got me upset. Although I had never really talked to Kafei before we got so tragically ripped apart, I was still a little put out he wasn't even speaking to me after all the trouble I'd gone through to rescue him. And with Anju pregnant too! He could show a little more gratitude.
Link and I, in our own group, didn't talk much. We didn't feel there was much to say, so we mostly spent the day in silence.
After my talk with Sao, it took two days to reach Clock Town, the snow obviously melting although the clouds still hung over the landscape, a promise of the coming winter. The temperature rose for a while however and the day seemed to cheer as we came through the field up towards the huge walls of the town.
My adventure was ending once more.
And it felt really like I hadn't gained anything, I felt more as though something was missing.
I looked over my shoulder to where two men were carrying the body of Dark Link, he looked strangely peaceful, being carried like that. It was hard to look at him like that and realise he wasn't going to wake up, although the blood I was drenched in and that he was covered in helped bring it home.
A little while later when we drew through the gates of Clock Town and emerged, with good luck, in the quarter across from the inn, no one seemed to care that Kafei pushed through the crowd to reach the inn ahead of us. I smiled as I saw the door pushed open and slammed shut in his haste to see his wife.
While the tribe walked ahead to the inn, I assumed they were going to stay there till they could find some transportation home, wagons or something, I stopped and looked up at the clock that had given this town it's name. It was large. Very, I hadn't really noticed under its blanket of snow.
Stopping, I looked up at it, maybe I was stalling to let the tribe go ahead of me, Link looked back at me, shrugged and went on to the inn. I didn't mind him going, he had preparations for our journey back to see to so I wasn't really bothered about him going to get organised. I actually was beginning to want to go home. I think I felt that I couldn't really show grief or weakness at the moment.
Someone stopped next to me, and, glancing to my side I was surprised to see that Sao was also looking up at the clock. His jet-black hair glistening in the sun after melting icicles dripped on him. I looked at the inn where he had thrown soup all over me and grinned.
"Seems like an age ago doesn't it"
I looked at Sao and said, "Yeah, well, maybe it doesn't feel that long ago, because the soup was boiling hot after all"
Sao looked at me, it seemed he was thinking hard about something. Then, surprisingly, he lifted his palm and ran his thumb over my cheekbone. I stood still, watching his expression, he seemed confused, but his face cleared as he drew his hand away again.
"I saw Shadow Man's body" Sao said quietly "Underneath the blood I thought I glimpsed something familiar. It runs out he bore the black eye that I had given you" He paused, biting his lip "You didn't kill him, did you?"
"Well...I..."
"I know what I see" he said, not unkindly "Forget it" he looked at me again and smiled softly "What's done is done, and now we are safe"
I was going to say something but he strode off towards the inn purposely and I was left alone in the courtyard once more. I took another look at the clock and went after him.
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Anju had had a healthy baby girl while we were gone, the small bundle only a few days old was still wrinkled. But slept peacefully. Anju hadn't given it a name, she'd been hopeful Kafei would return to name the child.
Anju herself was in bed and after a tearful reunion she had felt strong enough to berate Sao for beating on women on which Link swiftly picked up who he had beaten and also had a go at him. Yet it was all in good faith.
I hadn't actually been present for this though, I was told about it later. For the moment I had entered the inn I'd been shoved into a room, stripped of my clothes and tipped into a bath of steaming water. Apparently people had been complaining about the smell already.
I heard a maid commenting as she carried my clothes at arms length; "Well they really let anybody stay here don't they? Butchers and all"
I giggled and sank down into my bath, which was in a huge communal one for the women staying/working at the inn, trying to pull a wooden comb that had been left through my blood-clotted hair. I gave up, I sighed as the warm bath loosened up all my muscles that hadn't like sleeping on the ground for so many nights.
I heard the door to the bathroom open and Lucy poked her head around nervously. I automatically sank down further into the bath, still not over the embarrassment teenagers get with the age.
"Can I come in?" Lucy asked quietly
"Sure" I smiled and stretched my toes in the bath
Lucy came through the door wrapped in a large fluffy towel and then, while I looked away, sank into the bath. Faintly as the door swung shut behind her I heard a roar of laughter coming from the men's side of the bath which I took to be the men of the tribe taking their time in the bath also.
I heard Lucy suck in her breath as she got into the bath and then said "So, you haven't been talking to me"
Lucy went red, although I couldn't tell whether it was from the hot water or embarrassment "Well...you see"
I started to try the comb in my hair again, wincing as a knot pulled.
"I wasn't sure whether I wanted to talk to you" she said, rubbing her face with soap "You see, we got attacked and I saw you dead, I swore you were dead. So when you turned up again I wasn't sure whether you were just my imagination, and then when you...kissed Link and Sao went on about the betrayal of it and everything I sort of...thought, well you would never do that at home and so it couldn't have been you. But now I understand it wasn't you really. And then you came out with Link and a body and covered in blood it just sort of...sent me into shock. That it had been really you and that I hadn't believed you or been a good friend or anything. And that you'd killed someone too!"
I kept quiet.
"I wasn't ready to talk to someone that I thought was dead, a betrayer, a killer or something. But I understand now what happened and why you killed him, not that he did deserve to be killed or anything...but...I'd like you to forgive me"
I sank further into the water and said "Why not? It was just a misunderstanding"
"Really?" Lucy broke into a very wide grin of relief and sank down also, gasping as the hot water reached her chin "I'm glad..."
"Me too"
We sat in silence for a moment in the steaming water, the wooden walls vibrating with the sound of the apparent glee of the men's side at getting a bath after so long. I couldn't help but smile, they sounded like they were water fighting, and they were all too old for that really.
I thought back on the fact that Link was 30 and married to Zelda again. And, with a brief moment of enlightenment I realised that I didn't mind. I was happy for them, Link wasn't my Knight in Shining Armour apparently anymore. Perhaps it was because for a brief moment I had loved someone else entirely, I didn't really know. And I didn't care.
I was happy for Link and Zelda, and their sons were the image of cuteness when I had met them.
I grinned.
"What are you so happy about?" Lucy asked, rinsing her hair with clean water
"Nothing" I said, still grinning "I'm just happy everything's working out"
"Yeah" Lucy smiled and then said, "When will we go home?"
"Well we'll have to go back to Hyrule first and we'll probably leave tomorrow for there. And then for home...day after probably. Link's probably wanting to see his family anyway"
"Yeah"
"I'm looking forward to my own bed" I said stretching "I can't wait!"
"Me neither. And pizza!"
"Chocolate"
"Broccoli!"
"Eww"
* * *
And it seemed our prediction was correct, the next morning after a GREAT night's sleep Link came and got us out of bed mid morning and said "Come on! Breakfast"
Lucy mumbled something about swimming and turned over. I on the other hand leapt out of bed and pulled wide the curtains, in typical musical style and burst into a chorus of 'The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music' to which Link promptly left and Lucy bolted upright with a yell of "Kill the banshee!"
We got up, washed in a bowl of warm water and dressed into new clothes Anju had lent us, not what we were used to, skirts and shirts made of a weird material that she informed us was 'cow mat'. I didn't really want to enquire further.
Breakfast was wonderful, to thank us for bringing Kafei back to her, she'd prepared a huge amount of food for all of us, all the tribe were sitting at the table when we arrived along with Link, Kafei and also Anju bustling about filling glasses with juice.
It was great, what a breakfast to fill up on, everything you can imagine eating for breakfast as well as things I had never seen before. She'd really pulled out the stops on it. The baby was in a cradle on the floor next to Kafei was distractedly rocking it with a foot and talking to Link about the Anju in Hyrule, with which Anju from Termina swiped at him with a tea towel and carried on.
After breakfast Link passed on to me and Lucy bags full of what seemed to be from our original inn room that Link had smashed up, or what remained of it. Most of the stuff we'd packed was still around.
And the whole tribe filed out with us into the square outside where a warm day was beginning. I hadn't expected them to come and see us off but there they were, Sao, Shigeru and all.
"We'd like to assure you we'll give the body a burial since he does have a connected with the King of Hyrule" Shigeru said, although I think he was talking more to me than anyone else
"Thank you" Link said formally
Sao was standing a little way off, I caught his eye and he smiled and nodded, I grinned and looked back at Shigeru.
"If you're ever passing through you'll always be welcome in our village" he continued, "We're always helpful to friends"
"Thank you" Link said again, gripping wrists with the man almost twice the size of him "But now we'd better be off"
Shigeru nodded and smiled at me and Lucy "Good luck girls, don't go causing anymore trouble"
I went red and mumbled something about how it wasn't always our fault.
"Come on then, let's go" Link said, turning towards the entry way that led to the clock tower
"Ok then, bye!" I yelled to the whole tribe
"Bye!" Lucy chimed in
And we left for the clock tower. It was a nice cool sunny, morning, the clear sky held no memory of the weather that had plagued it only days before. It put a spring in my step and I was happy that I was going home at last. It seemed like only yesterday that I had done this before.
Once more I was leaving a world that had always managed to bring a change in me once I'd returned home. I wondered what would happen when I got home this time. Would Lucy forget it all again? Would I remember?
Glancing up at the Clock Tower which was now only a few steps away, the bustle of early morning market stalls being set up dimmed in my ears and I thought about how this clock seemed to stand alone, apart from its fellow buildings, part of the world and yet not part of the world. I looked at Lucy and wondered if that was how we were also.
"Hey" Link said
We stopped in front of the heavy wooden doors a moment.
"I think, if you take these" he handed over small grey stones that we recognised as those that would help us get back home "When we step through the dimensional tunnel you'll be returned to your world like I'll be returned to Hyrule"
"Right, cool" Lucy pocketed the stone along with her hand into her trousers and I could tell she was keeping a tight grip on her ticket out of here "See you then, it's been fun once more but next time don't call me" she looked at us strangely, then up at the door and said "I'll wait for you inside I think"
Link grinned "Sure" he shook Lucy's hand warmly before she disappeared at a nod from me, then Link turned to me "Well, I guess this'll be the last time I see you…"
He held out a hand for me to shake too. Idiot, as if I'd let him get away with that. I slapped his hand away and wrapped my arms tightly around his neck. I wasn't going to be stingy with farewells this time as I had the last. Drawing back slightly I ran my thumb from his hair down across his cheek, studying his face that had aged so much in such a short time for me. A short sudden realisation of something, that if I had stayed the last time things would have been so different. But it was gone as I remembered things happened for a reason, and I had fallen (for however short a time) in love with Dark Link.
That didn't matter anymore.
Pressing my forehead next to his I said "Maybe, but you never know until it happens, we may just meet again. And if we don't then…don't forget me Link"
He grinned and kissed me lightly on the cheek "I don't think I ever will"
We separated and I stretched "Well, here we go again, you're back to your kids and I'm back to school. Great"
Link laughed and said "Yeah well living with Zelda there's so many rules it may as well be school!"
We stood at the doors to the Clock Tower, ready to enter and leave for our homes again. I drew a breath and placed a hand on one of the wood doors as Link did the same to the other.
"Ready?" Link asked, smiling widely
"Let's go" I replied.
And we walked through the doors.
* * *
The small girl stretched and jumped out the car, running around the other side to let her small friend out as well, the little green clad boy gambolled out and stood up tall, facing the sky.
"Time for me to go I think"
The little girl pouted and looked at the boy's feet, which gradually seemed to disappear. She felt tears prick her eyes and she gave him a big hug, ignoring the exchange of looks that her parents gave her.
The little boy hugged her back, carefully of the new scares on her body from the accident, almost up to his waist was gone now.
"I guess this'll be the last time I see you…" the little girl said, frowning
"Nah" the little boy in green shook his head fiercely, so his locks of blonde hair fell out from his cap "We'll meet again, you can count on it"
"Really?" she asked, grinning
"As sure as I'm standing here" he looked at his fading body and said "Well, you know what I mean"
She smiled and said "See you Fairy Boy"
"Bye" he said, and vanished from view.
Her mother came over, a strange look on her face and brought her little girl around to look in her eyes. Her mother looked concerned.
"Are you alright?" she asked her daughter carefully
Her little girl looked around, smiled, and said "Yeah. Just fine"
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