Featuring Link x Zelda from Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Brrr. It certainly did get cold beneath the clouds!
Zelda drew her cloak around her ever tighter. Even in the house with the fire crackling the cold of the outside had found its way in. Where was Link in this weather? He had said he would be back a half hour ago. What was he thinking of doing in the cold, anyway? She shivered again and snuggled deeper into her cloak. She thought wistfully of the sky for a brief moment, and its mild winters that were more like prolonged autumns than actual winters. But she let go of the thoughts almost immediately. It was far better down here, cold and snow and all.
"Zelda!" Link's voice wafted through the door. "Zelda, come out for a second and look at this."
"Come out? In the cold?" she called back, but she was half joking as she was already standing up.
The door popped open and Link's goofy, smiling face appeared, a dusting of snow on his floppy green hat.
"I promise it's worth it, just for a second!"
"It had better be worth it," Zelda said with a smile.
Link held his hand out to her as she approached the door and she took it with a smile, letting him draw her across the threshold and making sure to brush just a little too close to him than was entirely necessary.
"Okay, now turn around," Link said, putting his hands on her shoulders.
She did so. And let out a soft, wondrous gasp.
There were little spheres of light hanging from the edges of their roof. They came in various colors, soft gold, pale blue-green, light magenta.
"Oh, Link," she breathed. "What are they? Where did you get them?"
"The Kikwis showed them to me," Link said. "They're called glowfruit. They're not edible, and they only produce fruit in the middle of winter and only glow at night. But don't you think it's worth it?"
"Yes," Zelda said, her voice breathy as it let off a trail of steam. "Oh, it definitely is."
She leaned back against Link, and his arms slid around her waist. They stood there, just for a few moments, in the silence and cold, staring up at the softly glowing fruit that made their home a beacon in the middle of the small settlement.
"You're too romantic for your own good," Zelda whispered.
Link smiled down at her. He gave her a quick kiss on the head.
"Does that mean I get a kiss later?" he said.
"You might just get more than a kiss if we go back to the fire now," Zelda said, raising her eyebrows and smiling.
They took each other's hands, looked up at the fruit one more time, then smiled at each other, and returned to the warmth of their home.