My Midnight Angel

Chapter Seven

(Link's P.O.V.)

All evening I had been lying on that huge feathery bed, thinking, wondering about the events of my life that were being played out before me. Now it was midnight, and I was trying desperately to get to sleep. Just a measly few seconds had passed since my eyes had closed, when I my ears perked up at the sound of a light tapping on my door. At first, I was frustrated and annoyed with the fact that I couldn't get any sleep, but when the simple fact that it was most likely Zelda at the door had occurred to me, I relaxed. Maybe not getting any sleep tonight wouldn't be a bad thing… We could stay up all night and- I snapped out of my thoughts when another tapping came from the door.

Sighing, I sat up in the bed and ran my fingers through my messy hair and across my face to fully wake myself up. I slid out of bed in nothing but my underwear, and strode across the room to open the door, praying silently that it would be Zelda and not her pissed father carrying some sort of deadly weapon.

The wooden door creaked as it swung open, revealing Zelda's figure clothed only in a short, silk nightgown that accentuated every curve of her body. Her golden hair fell down neatly over her shoulders and her sapphire eyes sparkled in the moonlight that glowed as it came through the window and translucent curtains behind us. I leaned my elbow up against the doorway and tried to make my voice sound as deep and sexy as possible seeing as I figured that she had come to my room for some 'fun'.

"Hey baby-umph." I was interrupted when her hand clamped over my mouth and she pushed me inside the room and shut and locked the door behind us. She let go of my mouth a moment later and I smiled mischievously at her. "A little eager, are we?-umph." Her hand cut my speech off again.

I thought maybe she was just messing around with me, but she looked serious. She whispered while not taking her hand off of my mouth again. "Link, shhh. Be quiet, you're going to wake someone up."

When she removed her hand once more, I spoke immediately. "Zel-" I must have still been talking too loudly because I instantaneously got another 'shhh' from her. The next words from my mouth were almost so quiet that even I could barely hear them myself. "Zelda, why are you acting so strangely What's going on?"

"Link, listen. On my way down here to see you I heard my father and Arwin talking."

She was already confusing me. "But what does that have to do with us?"

"I heard my father say that the only reason that he sent you out on those little 'errands' of his was because he had hoped something bad would happen to you."

"I don't understand. What could have possibly happened?"

"He wanted you to die out there, Link."

"W-what? What do you mean?"

"His whole plan was for you to go on those 'missions' and die so that you wouldn't come back, he would appear totally innocent, and I would have no other choice but to marry Arwin. My father and Arwin are in this together. Daddy wants to get rid of you so I would marry a prince, and Arwin wants to have me for his wife, so they came to an agreement in which they could both get what they want. They've been plotting against us together!"

Suddenly I was rendered completely speechless. I knew that something was up when he allowed me a chance to stay here with Zelda, but I would never have expected anything like this.

Zelda sighed and continued to speak while I tried to wrap my mind around this whole ordeal. "Now I don't know what to do. I would have expected something like this from Arwin, but not from my own father. How could he do something like this? Why would he try to kill the only man I've ever loved? Doesn't he care about what I want; what I need?"

I stopped thinking about the hopelessness of the situation when I heard Zelda begin to cry. I wrapped my arms around her and held her tightly against my torso, her head resting under my chin. The last thing I wanted was for her to get upset about this, but even in my embrace a few warm tears escaped from her eyes and streamed down her cheeks and onto my bare chest.

In the silence, I finally became aware of just how exhausted I really was, so I lifted her off the ground and walked over to the bed. I lay down on my back and she hugged herself to my body, sobbing quiet, hopeless tears. She had been doing a lot of this lately, too much, and I needed to change it. Somehow, someway, I just had to make everything all right for her.

I knew that I should probably get her back to her room before someone noticed that she was missing, but I just didn't have the heart to tell her that she needed to leave. What was I supposed to do? She came into my room to tell me about what she heard, and now she was in tears. I couldn't just tell her to go back to her room, even if I knew that if her father walked in on us lying on the bed together, he would tear my head off.

Just a few moments after we had been lying on the bed while I was thinking, Zelda's tears ceased, and her breathing distinctly slowed as she drifted off into a peaceful sleep in my arms. The feeling of her sleeping on quietly on my chest, in addition to my weariness soon got the best of me. My eyes shut slowly but willingly as I took a deep yawn, and I joined the sleeping woman lying next to me in a much-needed slumber.

(A.N.) Another short chappie, dang it. I really meant for this one to be longer like the first one, but yet again, it didn't turn out the way I had planned. Anyway, this chappie is pretty boring, but I guess it explains some stuff that is to come in the future. Oh well… Criticize me if you must. I'll try my best to make the next chappie way more interesting that this one. Until then,

-Punkiemonkie-