Just my luck! I swear, this computer only exists to thwart my plans to deliver you all an epilogue. The day I was going to post it, it decided to gain a grand total of 400 viruses. Pfft. But anyway, last chappie is here, and I shall continue with what I was originally going to say.

Uh… wow?

Man, you reviewers are legends, seriously. All of you deserve medals for being so awesome. –HUGS– I was only aiming for five more, and to be honest I didn't think I was going to get even that, but yay! I was even threatened with murder if I didn't put the epilogue up… for some reason that makes me happy. This is my first fic ever and I was bombarded with good stuff. Ngah, I love it P I'm only worried my next one will let you down… agh.

Well here you have it, the very last chapter of Everyone Has A Dark Side. I know epilogues are meant to be short, but eh. The mood has changed a lot in this one, but that's because now all the threats are gone, Dark Link isn't having a shit of a time convincing Link he likes boys (-giggle-), and Link has finally come to terms with himself. So this is a light-hearted chapter about how they get found out.

Sorry in advance (if I haven't said this already) but I don't write lemons… just make-out scenes ) But hope you enjoy it anyway and that I don't let you down if you were expecting something more along lines of –coughHOTSWEATYROMPINTHEBEDROOMcough-

Yeah, so I'll shut up now and leave you to it. Yay! Oh, I don't own the Zeldaverse, sadly.

WY.

EPILOGUE

The town found out in due time, as was bound to happen, but so what? I was happy, he was happy, and we pissed each other off even more than we used to. Brilliant. I stuck to my word and hadn't controlled him once in the last six months – well, unless you count that time where we were having quite a heavy make-out session in my room at the ranch and a hay bale nearly fell on top of him. It was out of politeness that I made him roll out of the way, dragging me along with him.

Zelda was a little shocked at first, but being the perfect princess that she is, she accepted it fast enough. Although her initial shock might have just been the way she found out… But Saria promised to be his friend no matter who he was shagging (well, something to that effect, anyway), and Queen Fish-Face (I don't know how a wretch like that became queen) was shocked, jealous, slightly pissed off and incredibly upset. Pah, no big loss. It was quite funny how she found us out, really. I still chuckle about it now.

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"And I thought what you did to me for all that time was torture!" Link huffed as he flopped down onto the bed. I dimly registered how convenient it was that there was only a single bed in the room, due to the fact that no one knew about me. We were staying in the Zora's Domain for the duration of the princess's coronation, but as far as they knew, Link had a room to himself. Well, what they knew about the boy didn't amount to much – the fact that he had a resident demon for a lover included. We only had one more night in this water hole, and I'd lost count of the amount of times Fish-Face had given Link her totally ineffective 'come hither' look. She knew the boy's orientation (who didn't?) yet she still tried, poor thing.

I had just become Brin again after a full day of wallowing in Link's mind and keeping him as sane as someone with a demon in his head could be as he fended off Fishy's attempts, and I sat down on the end of the bed. I rolled my eyes in exasperation as he glared at the roof.

"Trust me, the coronation ceremonies a thousand years ago were much worse."

"Yes, well I haven't had the privilege of attending one of those yet, so to me that one was awful."

I crawled on my hands and knees up the bed until I laid flush against the blonde boy, delighting in how perfectly our bodies fit together, and rested my head on his chest. I breathed deeply as his fingers tangled themselves in my dark hair, and wriggled in closer. I put on a goofy smile and tilted my head up so I could look him in the eye.

I noted his expression and read it easily. It was his you're-thinking-something-and-I'm-sure-as-hell-not-gonna-like-it-…-unless-it-involves-no-clothes look. It just made me grin wider.

"You know what would be funny?"

"Your definition of 'funny' differs greatly from mine."

I ignored the subtle jibe and shifted so that I was half on top of him and looking him squarely in the eye. "What if you told Fish Queen you were madly in love with her?"

His face ran through a series of emotions at once – confusion, shock, barely hidden hysteria, consideration, then finally settling on terror.

"No."

I pouted in a way that I knew would make his heart melt, and widened my eyes. "Why not? It would be hilarious!"

"Hilarious for you, not for me. I might just end up having to marry her, and you know that the king has plans for Zelda and I."

My face darkened at the thought, but I shrugged it off. I already knew that Link and I couldn't have a real future together, but I wanted it to last as long as possible.

"Oh, come on… I might –"

"No you won't. You promised me you wouldn't and I don't care if you're a demon, I know you won't break it."

Dammit, the kid knew me too well. Ah, but that definitely came in handy in other situations… I shook myself back into the present and smirked, moving swiftly so that I was straddling his hips and mimicked his voice perfectly, just as I had Malon's so long ago.

"Princess Ruto, may I have a word?" I switched to Fishy's, complete with the appalling 'come hither' face. "Yes, my handsome hero, of course." As I switched back to Link's deeper voice, I sensed someone arrive at the door, listening intently to every word I said. I recognised who they were and smirked a little on the inside as I continued.

"My dear Ruto, I just have to tell you that I have been in love with you since the tender age of seven, and that I can think of nothing better than to spend the rest of my life with you. You are truly beautiful, more beautiful that Lake Hylia at sunset. My heart skips a beat when you walk by, and when my eyes meet yours I feel a sense of true happiness that I can never hope to feel when you are not around. I have asked for your father's blessing on this matter already, and… and I ask for your hand in marriage, if you are willing to give it."

I grinned at Link's thoroughly disturbed expression, and wiped it off his face with a long, slow kiss, nibbling at his bottom lip gently as he moaned into my mouth. I heightened my hearing and noted a small contented sigh coming from the other side of the door, and grinned against Link's mouth as the door almost silently clicked open. I pulled back before the kiss got too heated, and raised an eyebrow at the boy beneath me, still completely oblivious to the intruder.

He looked slightly annoyed, and said, "I have no idea how you would find it amusing to lie to someone like that, when I am clearly, totally and utterly in love with someone else."

"What?!"

Hah. Perfect timing, love.

Link turned his beautiful blue eyes, now wide with shock, to the newly made queen standing at the door, a pale blue hand held to her mouth in horror. He looked from the fish to me and back again, speechless as said fish stamped her foot on the ground, temper getting the better of her.

"What is the meaning of this? I demand an explanation!"

Link was clearly unable to string a coherent sentence together, so I mimicked him again and spoke for him.

"Queen Ruto, how delightful of you to drop in. Yes, I was just telling my partner here how much I –" I was cut short as Link clamped a strong hand to my mouth, refusing to let go.

"R-Ruto," he stammered as I struggled against him. Of course I could have broken free, but doing so might have made the fish think I was a little more than human. The queen's face was darkening by the second, and I knew she was about to go into rant mode. "I'm sorry if you misunderstood that, I just… Oh, Din."

Fish-Queen opened her mouth to speak and I winced as Link's hold in my mouth tightened instinctively. But he interrupted her with a last resort.

"Listen, Ruto, I apologise a thousand times if you got the wrong impression of me, but you see, I'm sort of seeing someone –"

I wrenched my mouth away and spluttered indignantly. "Sort of?!"

He shrugged sheepishly. "Okay, I am seeing someone, and have been for quite some time now. I am aware that what you feel towards me is of a more-than-friendly nature –" he ignored my snort, "- and I'm sorry, but I cannot return your feelings."

She opened and closed her mouth, quite literally a fish out of water, and whispered, "But… but what you said… just then?"

Link shook his head sadly and jabbed a finger in my direction by way of explanation. I smiled sweetly at her, fully aware that I was still straddling Link's hips despite the both of us sitting upright now. She turned her frosty gaze on me, and I smiled wider. Come on, what kind of demon would I be if I was afraid of her?

"And who are you?"

"Link's partner. It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty." I nodded my head by way of mock respect, and she looked highly affronted.

"Why are you here? How did you get in here? Why were you talking about me? How long have you been together? Why does he love you and not me?"

I held up a hand to stem the flow of questions, and answered them one by one.

"Okay, I'm here because wherever Link goes, I go. If I told you how I got in here, I might just have to kill you, and we can't have that now, can we? I was talking about you before because I was thinking how amusing it would be if Link strung you along and told you he loved you. I get kicks out of things like that. We've been together, in every sense of the word, for many years now and many, many times." I laughed a little on the inside at Link and Ruto's equally intense blushes. "And he loves me because I am a) male, b) incredibly handsome, c) a bundle of fun, and d) not a fish. Does that answer everything for you?"

All right, maybe that was a little harsh, and she would take so much more offence to it because she thought I was a mere farmer's boy and not an incredibly fierce demon with the power to eliminate her entire existence in the blink of an eye, but still… it was worth the look of utmost horror and rage on her scaly face as she stormed out of the room with a "You disgust me!" thrown over her shoulder and a violent slam of the door.

I turned back to Link with a triumphant grin, and he furrowed his brows at me.

"You could have been a little nicer, you know."

"Oh, I know, but where would the fun be in that?"

I saw he was about to tell me off by that little glint in his eye and the slight downwards angle at the corners of his lips, so I wriggled my hips just so, and was rewarded with a barely bitten back moan.

Aha, where's all the anger gone now, kid?

He growled and wrenched me forward in a fierce kiss, biting at my lips and pushing hard against me.

I'll take it out on you another way.

I shivered in anticipation.

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After that little episode, the scaly queen ignored Link for a good two months. Being the gossip she was, I was astounded that the entire population of Hyrule hadn't found out within the week. Well, Zelda did, but that was by no way fault of Ruto, and it was a few months after that that we figured there was no point hiding it. If a princess and a queen knew, then it wouldn't be long before everyone else heard of it or figured it out. But really, Zelda was very good about it…

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We stumbled into the room, our lips locked together and trying but failing to be quiet. I heard his breath hitch in his throat as I nuzzled into his neck, inhaling his scent. Despite how long it had been since he'd lived in the forest, he still smelt like the trees and the clear forest air. He still smelt beautiful.

I bit down, marking him as my own for the hundredth time, and smirked against his skin as he cried out in a mixture of pleasure and pain. His hands ventured underneath my shirt and tugged it over my head just as I felt my calves nudge the edge of the bed. I turned our positions around and pushed him back against the pillows, crawling on top of him with a cheeky lopsided grin. This sure as hell beat the roof, that's for sure. He looked at me nervously as I leant in closer.

"What are you grinning at?" He asked warily.

"Oh, never you mind."

He was about to answer back when I shut him up with a swift kiss to the lips, delighting in the way his body relaxed and tensed at the same time. He opened his mouth willingly to me, and I ventured into that familiar territory, encouraged by his now more frequent moans. I felt a hand flit across my stomach, and I shivered under his touch. One of the many advantages of being a demon was that we did not absolutely have to breathe, but Link was still a human, and had to come up for air occasionally.

I gave him an opportunity to catch his breath while I tugged his shirt off to get better access, and left a trail of kisses from his lips, along his jaw, down to his neck and all across his chest. My hands flew across his skin, feather-light, and I glanced up at him with one eyebrow raised in question as they reached the hem of his pants. I didn't wait for an answer, but kept my gaze locked on his as slowly, painstakingly slowly, I undid the buttons one by one. But then he shook his head.

Wha –? Ah!

He grinned down at me, having suddenly switched out positions, and I whispered, "Well, if you must."

While I preferred to be the dominant one, I certainly had no objections as kisses were planted all the way down my chest, with nips and licks placed intermittently. I tangled my hands in his hair and pulled him back up to my lips, emitting a low moan as his tongue swept my mouth. God, this kid was good.

We heard a knock at the door and both froze, reluctantly separating out mouths.

Who is it? Link asked, not bothering to speak.

I adjusted my vision and saw it was Zelda. I forgot to breathe as she opened the door and just stood there, mouth hanging wide open in a very un-princess-like fashion. I imagined what a sight we were – Link, without a shirt, in (well, on) bed, on top of a complete stranger – a guy – who was also missing a shirt, several love-bites already appearing, hair all tangled, pants half-undone and his hands dangerously close to giving mine the same treatment – and fought the urge to laugh. Link, however, couldn't hold it back as Zelda continued to stand there, despite the awkwardness of our situation, opening and closing her mouth and unable to speak.

It started out as a soundless chuckle, a giggle, a snort, then full-blown hysteria. Zelda and I looked at him blankly, then a smile crept along my own face and I soon joined in. When we finally calmed down, Zelda was still standing there, a fierce blush on her cheeks.

"Well, that … that certainly was a surprise."

Link snorted again and I slapped at his shoulder playfully.

"I came up here to ask you something, but… but it seems you're – er – a bit… busy… yes. Well, I'll have to tell father to rethink the betrothal plans… right."

With that she closed the door and hurried down the steps, shoes slapping loudly against her heels. I glanced at Link, now lying alongside me and still wearing a small grin, and for a moment I forgot about breathing for an entirely different reason to having someone clamped to my mouth.

"You know something?" I whispered.

He took my hand and intertwined our fingers, admiring how well they fit together before saying, "What?"

I leaned up and kissed his cheek softly. "You're beautiful."

I smiled as he blushed and said, "You're not so bad yourself."

My dreamy smile changed to my infamous mischievous grin, and I shifted so I was above him once more, quirking an eyebrow. "And you know what else?"

He raised an eyebrow of his own. "Please, enlighten me."

"You are so not going to be able to walk tomorrow."

He yanked me down for a searing kiss and whispered against my mouth, "I think I can handle that."

Oh, you love it, Link.

So there it is! Thank you again for sticking with this story and for all your happy-making reviews, they really did help. –mucho love-.

WY