4 in the fucking MORNING. Dammit. And I have school tomorrow... Oh well. I did this to myself. This chapter just wanted to come out so I let it. Will talk more at the end.

The week that had passed at the temple had been bearable at first. However, by the third day, Vega and Link began to get antsy. After all, the courtyard of the temple wasn't really 'outside'. Zelda was opposite. In fact, she had stayed very quiet and distant. She seemed to be avoiding any company, not even saying hello to Rauru whenever the old preacher passed. The only one who had any sort of idea what was going on with her was Vega, and he said it was causing him chronic migraines.

So Link took it upon himself to try and talk to her. She often sat at the first bench of the temple, staring at the mural of the Goddesses. He carefully sat down next to her, but he didn't say anything for a moment. He was sure that she knew he was there, but he gave her a bit just in case.

"Princess," she flinched at being addressed as such, but he continued, "You haven't been looking well lately. Is something wrong?"

The witch's brow furrowed but she said nothing.

"Princess?"

Still nothing.

"Please, princess-"

"I'm not a princess." She said firmly. Her gaze was still focused on the mural, but she really did mean what she said.

"But you are. I mean, you're the daughter of the king so that makes you the princess."

She stood up and stared at him angrily. "I'm not the princess! Being the daughter of a king doesn't automatically make me a princess!" The page opened his mouth to say something, but it was then that something snapped within the witch. "I always wished for a family but I never thought finding would make me a princess! I don't want that! So stop calling me princess!"

"But… you are a princess." Link blurted out, not understanding at all why she was angry.

Zelda slapped him. "Idiot!" She screeched. Her eyes watery, as if she was about to cry. "Don't you even know what that means?!"

Ka-thunk!

Both looked to the back of the temple to see what made the sound. It was Vega. The star was on the floor, shaking violently and foaming at the mouth. Link and Zelda forgot their fight. Link immediately went to get the star while Zelda went to fetch Rauru.

What on earth had happened to Vega?

He'd never felt so much pain before in his life. It was as if someone had stabbed him in the head a thousand times with an acid-tipped blade. Zelda had been screaming at Link… and then he had just fallen. It was her emotions. No… it was one emotion. The one that gave him such bad headaches. And even now in the darkness it still pained him.

"Hey, do you remember? Under the tree on the hill?" A voice sang. It was such a familiar voice… A voice that took all the pain away. "The memories of that summer? How much time has passed since that day?"

His eyes shot pen and he sat up. "Estrella!"

The place he was in was the exact opposite of the Abyss. Instead of blackness, there was whiteness. Almost undistinguishable from the whiteness, sitting on her knees, was his sister. She was a female version of Vega except with blue eyes. Standing, they would've been the same height, even if she was older than him. She smiled gently at him, which sent his heart soaring. "Vega."

"Estrella…" he said again; still amazed to be able to see her. But where was he? He wasn't in heaven or in the temple. "Am I dead…?"

"No. That would mean I'd be dead too." Said Estrella.

"Then how can I be seeing you?" He asked, completely confused and almost desperate. He hadn't realized how much he had missed her…

She inched towards him and pulled him closer to her in an embrace. "Ah, my blinkered brother… You should know you can never get away from me, no matter how far you go."

For a moment, the embrace was warm and kind. The next moment, Estrella had grabbed him by the hair and was pulling him to his feet as he yowled in pain. "You daft, cheeky, little git!" She snapped angrily at him. "Idiot of a boy!"

"ARGH! Let me go you old hag!"

"Old hag?! Ugh, and you were so happy to see me earlier…" She said angrily as she tightened her grip on his shortened hair. "Why'd you have to cut it? It's so much harder to pound your head in when your hair is so short!"

"Let me go!" He cried.

"Fine." She said haughtily, throwing him aside as if he were a rag.

After skidding on his side, he got up, slightly angered. "What was that for?"

"That was for being exactly what I called you earlier" Said his sister angrily. "Blinkered, daft, cheeky! You always were, you little git."

One of his eyebrows twitched in irritation but he said nothing.

"Do you have any idea how you treat those two humans?" She asked him.

Was that was this was about? What did they have to do with this? Reading his expression, his sister growled, "You treat them exactly how the others treated you."

The words had to process in his brain for a moment before the rage blew up. "Do not compare me to that lot!"

"Oh I will compare you to them because you are acting like them!" Estrella hissed, her blue eyes narrowed into slits. "Look at you, insulting them and degrading them every chance you get! Disgusting! All you're doing is taking out thirty0two years frustration on them! And that girl… she made a mistake, yes, but she's sorry you know! She even wants to be your friend, yet you dismiss it completely!"

"I can't help it if they're idiots!" Vega growled.

"Say what you will, idiot brother. The fact remains that even now, when your physical being in such a horrid state, those two are taking care of you. That's what friends are, you know. People who take care of you in tough times."

"They are not-"

She cut him off. "Think about how you end that sentence carefully, Vega. Think of any tough times you've been through with them. What did they do?"

The younger star opened his mouth but closed it when he couldn't say anything to that. Staring at his boots and grinding his teeth, he realized something. He'd been through peril with Link and Zelda. The monster in the forest… they had all worked together to defeat it; they had rescued him from the Gerudo prison; gone through the Abyss together; fought the creatures of the Abyss together… But that was all because they wanted a wish! Right…?

"Humans aren't like us, Vega." Estrella spoke tiredly. "They can do something of convenience for them and come out with something completely different. I bet they'd always thought they were your friends until you brought their original intentions to mind."

He said nothing. His sister sighed and then hugged him again. Vega tensed for a moment, thinking she might yank his hair again, but she didn't. "You turned into your brothers and sisters, but you can change that… And do try to see things from their point of view, and explain to them things they can't understand about us. They're your friends, whether you like to admit or not."

He blushed slightly. But even a slight blush made his pale face redder than he would've liked. "You never told me how this is all happening."

She let go but still held his shoulders. "You said it yourself: I'm an old hag."

And then he woke up; his eyes opening to his small little room in the temple. He tried to sit up but immediately found himself dizzy, so he lay back down on his pillow. From his peripheral vision, he could see bowl of what smelled like cold beef stew. He let himself lie there and stare at the ceiling, mulling over his strange experience with his sister. It made him feel like crap. He really had been just like the ones who threw him down here. And so, during the time he was alone, he began thinking of what he was going to say when he next saw the two… Would they accept an apology from him? Especially with all the horrible things he'd said to them before?

What felt like hours was really only minutes. The door opened and Zelda came in.

"You're awake!" She said happily, quickly walking over to his bedside.

Sitting himself up slowly, the star noticed that Link was in the doorway. Zelda began to jabber on about how worried everyone was, and Vega just kept rehearsing lines in his head.

"…Sorry…" He mumbled.

"Huh? What did you say?" Asked Zelda.

Taking a deep breath, Vega said it louder. "I said, I'm sorry."

"For what?" She asked, obliviously.

The star forked an eyebrow. "You can't be serio- I mean… I've been an enormous prat!"

"If prat means 'dick', then you're right." Link said, now looking at the star suspiciously.

"I mean it!" Vega snapped in his direction. He cursed loudly at the snap. "Sorry! This is just the way I am!"

Link forked an eyebrow.

"Look at this way, ben-gi… Link. I'm a star being. What do star beings do? We hang about in the sky and watch humans from the heavens. We look down on you, in both senses of the phrase… And that's a bit presumptuous and… we're all like this, just to differing degrees…"

The page rolled his eyes. "Whatever." And he walked away.

"I know you meant it." Zelda said heartily.

"Of course you would know I meant it." He said, trying keep the irritation level from rising. Why was apologizing so damned hard?

"But what happened? You just had a seizure all of a sudden. Do you know why?" She asked.

He looked at her. "You did what I told you not to do." He said it calmly enough.

She was confused. "What do you mean."

"Back in the forest, I told you never to fall in love with the git because there were some things stars couldn't feel."

She blushed. "I am not-"

"Yes, yes, you're going to deny it, but really it's the only reason I can think of as to why I seized." Vega said simply.

Zelda was a bit taken aback. "I don't… What are you saying?"

"Stars can't feel love." Said the silvertop plainly.

"How can you not be able to feel love?" She asked blankly.

Vega leaned back against the backboard of his small bed. "Well, it's inaccurate to say we can't feel it. We used to be able to but…"

"But…?"

"Being selfish, stuck-up, jerks tends to harden a race's heart." Said Vega almost sadly. "Earlier I said that stars look down on humans. We really do… but we also look down on everyone else. We're selfish, superficial beings. Once upon a time we were able to love but we grew too vain and eventually killed off the feeling of love. It's foreign to us now. But not all kinds of love. Love for friends and our parent, for example, still remain."

"Wow…" she said softly. Then she blushed as she remembered the implications of what he said. "B-but that doesn't mean-"

"Oh, don't deny it, Ducky. You're in love with him." He said with possibly the first true smile she'd ever seen him make.

"But what about-"

"Don't worry about me." he said, rolling his wrist in the air in dismissal. "In fact, I think it won't be a problem for me anymore."

The witch coked her head to the side, puzzled. "Huh?"

"I think that seizure was the best thing that happened to me. I'm not saying I want another one, mind you but… I think that the pain of a super intense paroxysm broke my brain a bit. I may be in love, myself." He said.

Zelda brightened and her eyes glimmered. "Really? Do we know her?"

"No, but I've known the old hag my whole life." He said it plainly as if he was speaking of the weather, but Zelda could tell he was slightly embarrassed about it. "But enough about that!"

She grinned evilly but didn't push it.

"So… What was with your big outburst of love earlier?" He asked.

Zelda forgot that was how the conversation originally started. "I… I…"

"Stupid question. I heard the conversation before I seized." Vega said. "You don't want to be a princess if it means you're separated from Link, right?"

Her face went redder than spring-ripe tomato, but she let herself nod a bit. She began to stare at her skirt.

Vega cocked his head to the side and then said. "But there's more to it than that."

Her face went redder.

"Go ahead, talk. If you keep it bottled up it's going to lash out." Said the star.

"B-but…"

"I'm your friend." Vega said, wishing his skin wasn't so pale. The blood beneath his cheeks was burning him…

Perhaps that was the phrase she needed to hear, because she spoke. "I mean… I like Link a lot… But I hate it when he calls me princess… and not just because I… I… It's just that… My mother obviously had some sort of affair with the king that conceived me… But was it really so horrible that she had to be exiled… That I had to be abandoned?!" She said, speaking the words she was so afraid to speak. Because saying those words meant that she did accept that she an illegitimate child. "I mean… did he care for my mother at all if he cast her out so readily? Did he use her and throw her out when he found out about me? I don't know and… I'm not sure I want to find out! It's scary… especially since if everyone finds out about me, they're all going to expect me to take the king's place… And I don't even know where to begin…" her eyes burned form the tears that she held back but could be held back no longer. "I don't know what's going on."

"Perhaps we understand each other more than I first thought." Vega said softly.

And somewhere during this conversation, Link had come back and eavesdropped on the two. He didn't think he had ever felt more envy in his life.

Hokay, first things first. I know some of you may be thinking "INCEST! GASP! EBIL!" Personally, I don't think incest is that much of an issue unless there's a generation gap. However, I do recognize that society finds it disgusting. In this case, it isn't really so. All stars are brothers and sisters since they all have the same parent. Their mother/father is the moon. And stars can't reproduce since they're completely sterile. However, as Vega said earlier, at one point in time, most were capable of falling love before they all turned into huge jerkfaces. But for the most part, that love was platonic and involved little to no sex since they have no sex drive.

So yes, Vega has a crush on his own sister. Get over it. If it makes you feel better, it's unrequited. And that's not a spoiler because I never will get into his relationship with his sister.

Kay... sleepytime nao...