Saria collapsed onto Zelda's couch with a groan. "Wanna know what sucks?"

"Let me guess...Mother Nature?" Zelda smirked. "I got Midol and...I...Oh, Gods..." Her voice trailed off for a few moments and Saria propped herself up to look through the window into the kitchen where Zelda stood.

"What?"

Zelda dashed over and grabbed her keys. "We need to go to the store, now."

"What?" Saria blinked, rolled off the couch, and stumbled up." Why?"

"I think I might be pregnant." Zelda stared into her friend's eyes and together they made a mad dash for Saria's car... for Zelda only had her motorcycle. On the way to the store, they were pulled over by a cop who questioned them on their reasons for speeding...as it just so happened, he knew who they were, so he let them off after getting an autograph... and yelled at by Saria.

They grabbed one of each test, raced back to the car, and slammed Zelda's door behind them...

Ten tests later, the results were in... Zelda was, indeed, pregnant.

Her violet eyes stared at the plus mark and several emotions were running through her at once. "But...I...was on birth control."

"For how long?"

Zelda frowned. "I've been on it since I was fifteen... severly irregular and what-not." She ran her hands through her hair and shook her head. "I can't be...pregnant."

"Well, we have a week before the boys get back." Saria rested a hand on her friend's shoulder. "We can, um, call the doc and talk to him."

An appointment was made, the tests were confirmed to be true, something about how certain vitamins messed with birth control was explained, and there was lots of crying on the way home.

Saria pulled into Zelda' driveway, rested her on the steering wheel, and sighed. "Should I be saying congratulations, I'm sorry...what?"

"I'll get back to you on that."

Saria drove home that night, relucantly, after Zelda promised to call if she needed her for anything and that meant anything. The Kokiri stressed that if it was just to grab a sock that fell off her dresser than she would be over in five minutes flat. Zelda knew Saria was not lying.

The twenty-five year old stared down at her stomache, in the bed that she and Link had shared for a year, and sighed. "I never imagined that I would have a baby... it...never fit in with my plans." She placed a hand across her womb and bit her lip. "Then again, Fate seems to enjoy putting kinks in my little adventures..." A pause in which violet eyes cast themselves to the ceiling and a heart reached out. "Nayru...Farore...Din, I don't know what to do... I'm afraid... and my hero isn't around to help... I-" There was a warmth that grew beneath her hand, steady and strong, and it filled the woman up to the brim. Her voice came out in a small whisper. "Thank you."

That next Monday Link stumbled into the front door, frowning at the step that tripped him, and into the kitchen. "Hey, Bab-eh." He kissed her on the cheek and squeezed her. "Guess what I gotcha."

Zelda turned with a smirk, rose a brow, and plopped herself up on her countertop after rinsing off the last of her dishes. "I bet my surprise is better."

Link chuckled. "Does yours have a little gold bland with diamonds and sapphires?" A tiny, black box slipped from the front of his pants then was flicked open to reveal a shining engagement ring with a diamond and two sapphires on each side of it. "I'm going to take the picture of this little treasure that I found in my suitcase as a 'yes'."

"Good." Zelda smiled and kissed him as the cool band was slipped about her finger. "I would have hated spelling it out for you."

Link laughed. "No, you wouldn't have." He winked. "Besides, this thing has been on hold for like two weeks now."

"I know." Zelda grinned. "I called the Jeweler and asked him to make sure it was a size four."

He leaned forward and kissed her, slowly. "I love you, you little sneak." Link turned away and opened the fridge. "I have been dying for..." Link faced her and rose a brow. "There isn't any wine in the fridge."

"You can buy wine in Mushroom Kingdom, Link." Zelda slipped from the counter, beamed at her ring, and slipped past her fiance.

"No. I want a cheeriwine... but there is always wine in our fridge." He frowned. "You're a Wino-o for Nayru's sake."

Zelda scowled. "I am not."

"Babe, you totally are." He laughed. "Anyways, what was your surprise?"

A violet eye winked at him. "I bought something I think you're gonna like." Zelda dashed off and her feet was heading up the stairs.

Link grinned and raced after her while the sounds of their bedroom door shutting him teased him. His hand grasped the handle, heart pounding from both his pursuit and his intended prey, then jerked the door open.

A cradle laid at the foot of their bed.

Cobalt eyes revealed confusion on a mass scale while the handsome face that accompanied them frowned. "Zelda..." He called out, ponderously. "Why is there a crib in our room?"

Zelda's hand wrapped around his waist and she laid her head against his back. "Guess."

"I don't want to." Link frowned.

"Do it."

"No." His heart was hammering agianst his chest and pounded faster the more he looked at the furniture before him.

"Yes."

"No."

"Guess what happens when you 'do it'."

He whipped around and took her by the arms. "Please, please, don't tell me that you're pregnant."

Zelda grinned, leaned forward, and kissed the man she had fallen so very in love with. "Okay, I'm not pregnant."

Relief registered in his eyes. "Really?"

"Nope." Zelda laughed, spun around, and sat down behind the cradle where their bed resided. "You're gonna be a daddy."

Link frowned. "You're joking...right?"

"Link," Zelda held out her hands. "I know, how you think that you'll be this really bad dad and all because yours left you but... you'll be great."

"I hate babies, Zelda." He frowned, stepping around the crib. "Toddlers are okay... and I love our nieces but, I hate babies."

Zelda giggled, biting her lip. "Why?"

"They pee and they poop and they cry and they spit up all over you. I remember, Zelda, I had to watch the girls. Babies are a menace. They-"

"Will be ours." His fiance took his hands and kissed each one then smiled up at him from her lovely face which was alight with amusement. "I want to have your kid, Link... you know, in case you and Darunia die during one of your stupid golf cart races."

"Are you really preggers, Zelda?"

"Yep. Puking and everything."