REUNITED.

Link smiled. "I knew something would bring you back," he said, putting her hand down and moving his back into the cell. She felt a desire to take his hand again, but ignored it.

"How is this possible?" she breathed. "You're supposed to be—"

"Dead?" Link finished for her. She nodded and he scowled. "Vaati cloned me. He killed the clone, put it in the graveyard and locked me up in here." He added quickly, "But remember, he must be defeated by the next full moon. That's tomorrow night!"

She nodded. She stood and touched his cell's lock. Sparks flew from her finger into the keyhole and it opened. Link stood as she yanked the cell door open. She ran at him and flung her arms around him tightly in a hug. "I missed you," she admitted wholeheartedly.

He hugged her back and whispered in her ear, "I missed you, too."

An enormous longing to kiss him washed over her, and she wondered where the feeling came from. They pulled away from each other and she traced a finger over his wounds. "Let me heal these," she said. Without a reply, she felt coolness in her finger as she continued tracing the wounds. They healed at her touch and vanished.

"Thank you, Zelda," he said.

"Your welcome." She felt extraordinarily guilty and showed him her wedding ring. "He made me," she explained, tears welling in her eyes. "I was under a spell."

"I know," he said, wrapping his arms around her in a brotherly hug. "It's fine."

"But it's not," she insisted. No matter how much she wanted the tears to stay in her eyes, they still began to fall. She brought her hands up to her face, balled up in fists, and weeped into Link's chest. She was ashamed to cry in front of him, much less on him.

"Go ahead, Zelda," he said as if he read her thoughts. "You can cry."

She sobbed heavily for what seemed like forever. Finally she stopped and pulled away from him. He wiped the remaining tears out of her eyes. "Do you feel better?" he asked. She nodded slightly.

"A little bit." He smiled. She took his hand. "Come on. Let's get out of here." They ran out of the cell and to the door, but when Zelda opened it, she let go of Link's hand and gasped.

"So, I see you've learned the truth, eh, love?" Vaati asked Zelda coolly.

She stood in front of Link protectively—which would've felt weird since it was usually the other way around, but it didn't this time—and said, "I am not your love."

He chuckled. "But you are my queen," he said. "And I can't let you see Link here anymore. I don't want my wife deceiving me behind my back..."

"We're just friends," she said firmly.

"Of course you are. And that's the closest you'll get, my dear, as your friend here has an appointment."

"With who!"

Vaati grinned. "DEATH!" he answered, laughing evilly.

Zelda gasped. Link was not going to die, not when she had spent near to a month mourning over his supposed death and then found him. But what good would words do? Vaati was an all-powerful sorcerer. But I'm an all-powerful Sage, she told herself. "You'll never get away with this! I'll murder you!"

"Ah, but you can be sure that you won't, my love," he said, shoving her aside and immobilizing Link. "You wouldn't want your friend to get hurt, would you?" He vanished, taking Link with him.

"Link, no!" she screamed. She clenched her fists and grit her teeth together in rage.

Vaati's voice sounded through the room. "If you want to keep Link alive, I'll meet you on the roof," he said, laughing.

Without any hesitation whatsoever, she bolted up to the roof.