"I'm so happy for you two, really."

"Thanks, Saria." Zelda was glowing with her own happiness and continued to do so as she lifted a box of Link's belongings to take it into her house. "So, does this break mean that you and Dar aren't going to be at Link's 25th?"

"The break won't..."

"But?" Zelda wiped the sweat from her brow and placed the box on the ground near the stairs.

Without the Kokiri even being in front of her, Zelda could picture the woman bouncing off the walls with excitement. "We've got a check up coming up!" Saria broke in before the congratulations could start. "But, don't start congratulating us, yet, cause... we, ya know, don't want to jinx it."

"You've got it, chica." A pause. "Hey, Saria?"

"Why do I feel like there is going to be a sex question coming on?"

Zelda laughed. "I'm sorry, but, I have to ask... how do you two...'get it on'... or how can you even carry the baby?"

"Zelda. Somethings are just none of your business." Saria laughed and then quickly had to hang up to help Darunia try not to kill himself with the blender.

Zelda finished unloading her boyfriend's stuff from her rented truck and trudged back into her house, exhausted. Link and Zelda had only been dating for a few weeks but they had known each other for nearly fifteen years so there was little need to postpone moving in together especially because Link had already been planning on moving out of his apartment.

Their mothers were both joyous and skeptical of the rushed decision but Zelda was quick to tell them that she did not care what anyone else thought. She was happy, really happy, for the first time in a very long time and she gave all the credit to Link.

Zelda smiled at the thought of the man who was currently out grabbing pizza... the man she loved. She gasped at that word. The word "loved" and giggled at herself.

"Whatcha laughin' at, Gorgeous?"

"Myself." Zelda called, slipping from the couch and skipping into the kitchen with her ponytail swinging behind her. Zelda kissed her man on his cheek then grabbed a slice of the steaming "pie".

Link pulled her golden locks from their tie and wrapped his arms around her waist. "No ponytails, Princess."

"Yeah, yeah." Zelda turned and fed him a pepperoni. "So, I finished unloading your stuff."

"You did?" Link stole a bite from her pizza and moved away to see his girlfriend's handiwork. "Wow. I'm impressed, Zee."

"I did the heavy lifting so guess what you get to do." She threw away the crust and smirked.

Link winked. "Give my girlfriend a big ol' kiss cause she's gonna help me unpack all my junk?"

Zelda shook her head and walked past him, running her finger across his back, teasingly. "No. You're gonna unpack all that while I go take a shower."

Link pouted. "Oh, now, you're being mean." He watched her climb the steps and grinned, racing up the few she had ascended to wrap her up in his arms. Link placed a sizzling kiss on her lips and pinched a cheek.

"Ow, Link," She giggled, kissing him softly. "What was that for?"

Link gave her a devilsh smile. "Gives ya something to think about while you're all alone."

Thirty minutes passed in which Zelda did end up take her shower alone and Link unpacked a few of his things.

"So, has Dar told you about the news?" Zelda called down while she wrapped her towel about her head and slipped into her nightgown.

"They've got a check up on my birthday. Crazy, isn't it?" His voice came from just outside the master bedroom and was followed by a soft knock. "Descent, babe?"

"Yep... on, uh, both accounts."

"Anyways, he told me that they couldn't come visit because of it, of course, I was totally cool with it." Link sat on the edge of the bed which he and Zelda had not slept in together, sex or no, though only because both seemed to always be on the run. Magazine interviews, guest work on albums, writing songs, securing tour dates at venues, moving out, moving in, visiting family, meeting with corporations for advertising deals, dealing with their record label, various hotel debts, and all other sorts of mania always had the two on the go... but the last few weeks had opened up a lot of time for the two in the coming days.

Zelda nodded and let the corners of her lips upturn. "So... not to be mean or anything but..."

"Wondering what their baby would look like?"

"...Yes."

Link chuckled, walked into the bathroom, and tugged the towel off his girlfriend's head. "You're secret is safe with me." He ran his fingers through the wet locks and reveled in her laughter.

"I do believe you have a fetish for hair." Zelda flung her head back, spraying him with water, and dodged his attempt at snagging her up.

Link chased after her, swfitly, and grinned like a wild animal. "Just realizing that, huh?"

"I think I've always known." Zelda rolled across her mattress but was caught midway through but not before she snatched a hair tie from her night stand. "Long live the ponytail!" She cried, laughing, and managed a sloppy version of her signature 'do before Link pinned her hands down.

His fingers wriggled up and down her sides, effectively, tickling her. "Oh, ho! So you're still ticklish, are you?"

Zelda struggled, giggling like mad, and poked Link's own side causing him to jerk away with a start. "Ha! I challege you, sir, to a tickle-"

"WAR!" Link pounced her and, limbs flailing, set off a near half an hour war of childish play between the two. Later, Link laid his head on Zelda's chest while her fingers brushed through his hair. "Truth or dare?"

A soft laugh. "Are we reliving our childhood, now?"

Link leaned his head up and looked into her eyes. "Yeah, why not?" He winked. "We had a lot of crazy adventures when we were growing up." Link sat up and placed her leg onto his lap where he proceeded to massage her left foot to the knee. "Remember when we used to sword fight with sticks in the Woods with Saria?"

Zelda grinned. "Or when we caught Shiek making out with Malon because she tricked him into thinking she was Cremina."

That particular memory had Link rolling. "Oh, Gods, I do... She wanted to make me jealous."

"She always wanted to make you jealous... I think she still does." Link rose a brow. "Oh, come on, you didn't see how she was undressing you with her eyes last Solstice?" Zelda felt her face grow warm as Link's hands drifted up to her thigh as he continued his massage.

He winked. "No, I was too busy undressing you... with my eyes."

"Is that what you're trying to do now?"

"Most definatly." Link gave her a sheepish grin and let a finger dance along her skin. "Nervous?"

Zelda blushed. "No."

"Liar." He traced his fingers along the outside of her thigh, flowing up, slowly. "Nervous?" He was half way there.

Zelda bit her lip and closed her eyes. "No." A soft, sharp intake of breath as Link's fingers ghosted the lining of her silk panties.

"Zelda." Link sang her name, softly, and pressed light trail of kisses down her neck. "Are you nervous, yet?"

"No." She breathed the word into his ear as he leaned over and nipped at her skin with his teeth while his hands brushed her nightgown over her hips. Zelda bit her lip and arched her back, slowly, against Link as his fingers stroked the most sensitive part of her body through the silken cloth barrier. "Link..." She moaned his name and felt him smile as she turned to kiss him.

The nightgown slipped over her still damp hair and left her just in her bra and underwear. Link left her mouth and moved his attentions to the newly explose flesh. Zelda's hand slipped through his hair and took hold of the locks at the base of his head. "You're so beatiful, babe." Link sang against her skin as his left hand grew more bold and his right slipped under her bra to squeeze the breast beneath.

It was when his left hand's fingers slipped underneath the rim of Zelda's panties that she stiffened up. Link felt her body grow ridge and kissed her mouth, gently. "Zelda?"

"I'm okay." Her voice said yes but her face was screaming fear.

Everything, it took everything, for Link to pull away from his best friend's near naked body. "You're afraid."

"Link, I'm so sorry, it not you, it's me, and it's stupid of me and, I know, I-"

Link pulled her face to his and kissed her. "Shut up, Princess, and listen to me... We're going to take this slow. As slow as we need to... as you need to." He paused and hated how very frustrated he felt at that moment. "Even if it kills me."

Zelda bit her lip, blushing for the thousandth time, and slid closer to her boyfriend. "Link... you're too good for me." She kissed him, softly, and wrapped her arms around his neck so he knew it was okay to deepen the kiss. When they broke apart he groaned.

"That so did not help." He went to stand up when a crimson Zelda took his hands and held him where he was.

"M...Maybe... Maybe I could..."

Link rose a brow and tilted her face up towards his. "I won't lie, babe, I would really appreciate it." Zelda tangled her arms around his neck and incited a moan from her lover. His tongue flickered across her bottom lip and she allowed him in, instantly... his hands treaded, lightly, before they broke apart, once more.

"You'll... have to...teach me." Zelda bit her lip and trailed herhands down his chest but stopped at the band of his jeans where her blush deepened. Violet eyes stared into cobalt blues while pink lips leaned forward to whisper into a pointed ear. "I want to please you, Link." Her fingers flicked his button open and slid the zipper down, slowly. Zelda's face glowed an unimaginable red when she realized her boyfriend had not worn boxers that day.

Link chuckled, kissing her neck. "Keep talking like that, babe, and you won't have to worry about it." He slipped his hand overtop of hers. "Are you ready?"

"Yes." Their lips met for what seemed the thousandth time that night but still it felt new to the couple. Zelda wrapped one arm around her boyfriend's neck while he should her how to please a man. Link groaned against her mouth and pulled her closer with his own free arm as she pumped him toward his release.

- eleven days later -

"Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday, dear Link!

Happy Birthday to you."

Link leaned up onto his elbow from where he head been asleep, face down, on their bed and smirked, sleepily, at Zelda as she danced her way into their bedroom with a rather large banana nut bread muffin. "What? No candle?" He yawned and rolled over onto his back after which Zelda sat across his lap.

"You're lucky I even got up before you much less remember that you hate icing." Zelda bent down and kissed him, placing the muffin on his chest. She then pulled a hidden candle out from behind her ear and lit it. "Alrighty, lover boy, blow and make a wish."

The twenty-five year old chuckled, shook his head, and then blew. "What's next?"

"You get up and get dressed-" He made an objective noise at that but Zelda continued. "Then we're gonna go to Lake Hylia... and around four we'll call Saria and Darunia about how the check up went."

"Now?"

Zelda smacked his cheek, lightly, and earned a scowl from him. "Yes, now. Chop, chop."

"Do I at least get to eat my muffin?"

The day had flown by for the couple who had taken the three hour trip from their house to Lake Hylia in Link's Impala. The sun had been pleasant and had left Zelda with minimal burns to her pale skin while the two had swam in the cool waters overflowing with the prying eyes of the Zora population. A small visit with Doc was filled with an overflow of memories spent in his home getting bandaged up or causing explosions with supervised play.

Zelda laid atop of the car with a towel on the hood. "I'm gonna call Saria."

"Okay." Link sat by the river, content and happy, with a fishing rod in his hand and a dwindling bait supply.

The phone rang for several moments before the Kokiri answered sounding like she had been crying... the conversation was short and the two hung up after a soft spoken good-bye. "I love you guys too... talk to you later, girl."

Link turned around and frowned. "Something wrong?"

Zelda slipped down and sat next to her best friend, leaning against him. "She's pregnant... but something's wrong with the baby's heart."

"Do they know exactly what's wrong?" Dread crept into Link's heart and he stared at his girlfriend's lovely face.

Zelda sighed, placing her forehead in the palms of her hands. "A hole most likealy. It's nothing really serious but..." Zelda turned and shrugged. "Their baby is... our baby too. Same with our nieces... ya know?"

"Yeah, babe." Link laced his hand into Zelda's and squeezed. "I know."