Hello! I have this thing for you to read. It popped into my head while I was playing TP.

Enjoy!

The land was finally free of Ganondorf's presence. The Triforce piece in my hand calming down and fading back into an almost non-existent glow. The Triforce of Power had probably been housed in another now that Ganondorf was dead for good.

The hero would be walking back this way now.

"Hey, you!" I bit my lip. Was I really ready for him to hate me.

"Yes, Hero." I didn't think I had the right to address him by his name now. Not after he found out I was not who I said I was.

"You have some explaining to do. Where is Zelda?" I flinched.

"If you mean the one who you saw when you first escaped the castle, then you are already looking at me." The grass crunched behind me, in the place I knew he would be. It was awful. Ganondorf's evil had been killing it even when he wasn't in this realm.

"That's a load of bull. You aren't the princess." He was so close. If I turned around, I could pull him to me and just sink into his embrace. But he would never allow that.

"I may not be the princess but it has always been me. Acting as her. Acting in her place." I sighed when I heard him snort. "Ask me anything. I can answer all of it."

His voice held a rough tone as he spoke. "When I carried Midna to you when she was injured by pure light, how did you save her?"

"I gave her my light and all the reserves of my magic. By doing so, I broke my disguise and that was why I disappeared from the room." I sighed. When my magic returned, it was too late. I had been unable to fend off Ganondorf or help Link in the first battle. It wasn't until we were out in the field that the ability to create the light arrows came back to me.

"How did you know it would save her?" I held up my hand, the back to him, so he could see the mark slightly glowing even through the layers of wrappings. The Triforce of Wisdom.

"Why would you have that? Zelda was supposed to have it. How... Why..."

I stared out across Hyrule Field. Marveling its beauty. Trying to think of the right words to say. "The princess was not born with the Triforce of Wisdom as foretold. Instead, a lone Sheikah male, his mother dying after giving birth, was blessed with the great gift." I looked down at my covered hands. Ashamed at even being born as I spoke.

"Why were you at the castle?" I shuddered as I remembered my childhood at the castle.

"Word spread to the castle and the king sent off for me. He wanted to somehow move the sacred triangle from the unimportant child to his daughter. But the power refused to move to the host that it was meant to be in. The king was furious and beat me." I clenched my hands into fists and held back tears. "Time after time, the part of the Triforce I held would heal me, but it was never enough. It didn't fix the pain in my heart for being unwanted."

"Why did he do that? You aren't very old... And he died so many years ago..." A warm breeze picked up the hero's whispered words and carried them to my ears. "You must have been so young."

"He hated me for keeping something that belong to her from her. And I hated myself too." I took a deep breath and tried to stop my shaking. "I felt guilty when the princess looked at me, her eyes telling me that she did not understand. Why was her father upset with her because of this boy?"

"Does she... Does Zelda hate you?" My insides twisted, because he didn't know that she was gone.

"The king passed and Zelda took the throne. She started to talk to me and we were good friends as the years went on." I wiped at tears that were caught at the corners of my eyes. Thinking about her hurt. "She cared for me and I finally felt wanted. And then she was... She was murdered."

"What?!" I was spun around and hands held my upper arms in a painful hold.

My throat constricted as I saw the look on his face. Link looked so angry in that moment that I thought he would kill me for even telling him that the princess was dead. I had to convince him that I hadn't wanted it to happen. So, I started to speak and made it come from the heart. "I just... I didn't want this all to happen. I didn't know that by telling Zant that the rumor that the princess held the Triforce was wrong was a bad thing. They wanted the Triforce and I thought I was keeping her safe like I was made to." My head fell forward as I lost the will to keep it up.

The hero pulled me in close and his arms wrapped around me. This was what I had wanted since I first saw him. I had fallen in love from one glance. "You can't blame yourself." His words broke me and I clung to the torn green fabric like a life-line.

"I killed her! I should have just let them think she had it or... or figured out how to give it to her. But I didn't! It is my fault that she is dead! I should have been the one to die!" I tore myself from him, eyes watering to the point that I could not see, and stumbled away. "Me! Not her!"

Then strong arms pulled me into a firm chest again, while gentle hands rubbed down my back. "Shh. Don't cry."

"But I-"

"I don't want to hear you say you want to die. Please... I can't take it." Hands cupped my face and I tried to shy away from that cerulean gaze. "I may be upset that she is gone, but it was never her that I saw. It was you. You were trying to help get this world back even after all it has put you through."

I whimpered and nuzzled into the hero. Perhaps... My hero. Yes, he was my hero.

"Tell me, what is your name?" I looked up into his gaze and felt... safe.

Link gently wiped the remaining tears from under my eyes as I found my voice again. "Sheik."

A tender kiss was placed to my forehead. "Thank you, Sheik. Zelda would be so proud." And I wept in his arms, truly happy for the first time in years.

Poor Sheiky needs love right now! Lots of love!

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Love and Twilight Princess, (T'was a good game.)

~Annoying :)