OTP100 Prompt # 64 Fall
Title: Falling Leaves
Word Count: 480
Warnings: I realize I never used their names in this, but I wanted to keep it as a familiar recollection by one character, and so, I never had Zelda mention her own name or Link's.
Characters: Link and Zelda, passing mention of their parents
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I don't own the Legend of Zelda, or any of its inclusive characters or ideas, blah, blah, blah, don't raise litigations on me for this.
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Her hair is whiter now, as white as the snow that fell heavily just a season after she knew he was the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Of course, it had nothing to do with his having saved her from a dangerous fall off of Cuckoo loft in the stables that same day, even if she had still been an impressionable young girl given to flights of fancy about dashing heroes sweeping noble princesses off their feet then. No, it really had more to do with his own laughingly, almost ethereal charm and the way they had become friends shortly after the incident.
They'd known each other all their lives, of course, what with him being the Master of Knights only son, and she being the only child of his mother's best friend, the late queen. His mother had practically raised her, and the two of them had spent much of their childhood getting in each other's hair. When he was ten, however, he received his first haircut and was taken in by the knights as a page, to be properly trained as his father's heir. Because she was also taking lessons in etiquette and politics at the around the same time, the two began seeing less and less of each other until the day he had spared her that more embarrassing than harmful fall.
Little more than six years later, and he was the youngest squire in the history of the kingdom, falling over his own feet at the celebratory ball being thrown for her sixteenth birthday. It had certainly been an embarrassing situation for her now husband, as he had then been not quite a young man and struggling to admit his feelings for her, the princess he had long been friends with. In the end, he had managed to get the words out of his mouth, once she had spared him the public eye by pulling him off by the elbow to get some fresh air in the inner courtyard.
Many seasons later, while both their hair was still golden, he had mustered the courage to ask her to marry him, after a long courtship in which they had both failed somewhat to adhere to traditional conduct. The political fallout of their relationship didn't matter much to them at all, as they loved each other enough not to let the gossip mill get under their hair, and they knew their parents had given blessings to the match early on. It had taken a lot longer, much after their marriage and coronation by Zora's waterfall, for the rest of the kingdom to come around to their marriage and their then new rulers, but as far as her white-haired head was concerned the deal was worth it, because they had always managed to catch each other from every fall either had ever encountered.
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