The week passed by as un-eventfully as you can get with Ducky and Alfred.
A few more fencing matches took place; including a every man for himself with Alfred, Ducky and Link, and the girls were a little shocked to find that Link could handle a sword very well (he won, of course, and they got him to borrow some fencing swords from the fencing club). Start of the year talent show flyers were passed out, and Zelda and Link were signed up (against their will of course, where's the fun in cooperation?) after Ducky herd Link singing to himself (they already knew Zelda was a good singer). The girls, Junior and Little Zelda had started making blueprints for a Rupe Goldburg project, and the following Tuesday, they started their Biology project with no problems.
Link's sanity, however, was slowly going down the drain.
The very teen himself was lying down on the couch (his dorm, obviously), watching Scooby Doo mystery incorporated.
"I feel like we should take him to the nurse or something." Alfred mumbled, shoving a handful of her own popcorn in her mouth. "Goddess, this Scooby Doo is just a mash up of Sherlock and Supernatural!"
"He'll be fine." Zelda replied, not at all believing herself. Link may love Scooby Doo, but never watched the new version. He always said it ruined the old versions for him, too serious.
It was 3 days into their little project, and Link had decided to stick to his dorm as much as possible. He hated having girls follow him around to classes and practice (he's in the fencing club, in case you didn't notice), squealing every time he spoke or fenced or something, scribbling away in their little notebooks.
It was quite annoying, really.
So, he never left the dorm unless it was for classes. Which also meant someone else had to do the grocery shopping, and today just so happened to be Ducky's turn.
Speak of the devil…
Ducky kicked open the door, holding 5 plastic bags of food. Junior and Little Zelda followed her, each holding a brown bag. They looked quite cute like that, really.
"There." Ducky set the bags down with a loud thunk. "Dinner."
"Ooo, what did you get?" She went over to the bags, leaving her popcorn unattended on the kitchen table. She dug through the mound of food, then, before anyone could blink, she went as white as a ghost, shrieked, then flew back against the wall.
"Is there a severed head in there or something?" Zelda asked, moving to the bag. She rummaged around, and then frowned as she pulled out what she was looking for. "Really?"
Ducky shrugged. "I was in a bad mood."
Zelda was holding up a piece of freshly wrapped fish, complete with scales and unblinking eyes.
"Get that-that….monstrosity of a thing out of here!" Alfred screeched, trying to look anywhere but the fish.
Zelda rolled her eyes.
She didn't want to just throw the fish away, it was perfectly good food, but she knew that if she didn't get it out of here quick, Alfred was going to start throwing up.
And she knew very well Link wasn't going to clean it up.
"Look, Alfred, I'm going to stick this in the freezer till I figure out what to do with it, OK?" Zelda asked, making slow steps to the kitchen.
"B-but I keep my ice cream in there!" Alfred whined, slapping a hand to her mouth as Zelda neared. Link shot the blond a look before going back to watching the T.V.
Zelda frowned. OK, so that plan was out.
As she was thinking, she felt something moving in her hand. As she looked down, her face went blank before she screamed.
"That thing is still alive?!" Alfred shrieked. Zelda threw the fish against the wall with a loud thunk, and Ducky backed away, her face a shade paler than normal, Junior and Little Zelda darting to the kitchen. They all watched with horror as the fish flopped around, trying to escape its plastic confidents.
Finally, Link came to the rescue.
"Oh, you people are hopeless." He grumbled, throwing the fuzzy red blanket to the floor. He scooped up the fish, unwrapped the plastic, opened the window, and chucked it into the pond out back. "…I think I'm going to name it Harold." Link then marched back to the couch, pulling the blanket back on his chest.
"D-did he just name that fish?" Ducky's voice was a horse whisper when she asked the question.
Zelda just nodded blankly, still staring at the open window.
"He's lost it." Alfred whispered.
oOo
Zelda made a dinner of pasta and alfredo sauce, with the help of Junior and Little Zelda, and she even added in bacon bits to cheer up Ducky and Alfred.
It worked on Ducky and sorta worked on Alfred.
"Zel…I want popcorn…" Alfred moaned.
"You ate all of it, remember?" Zelda asked, taking Junior and Little Zelda's plates to the sink to be washed.
Alfred moaned again. "Did you buy anymore Ducky?"
"Nope." Ducky replied, scooping out her 4th helping. God that girl loved bacon.
Zelda rolled her eyes at the two, then looked back at Link, who a buried under a mound of blankets he had slowly gathered. "Come on and eat something before Ducky eats all of it."
"Not hungry." Link mumbled.
Zelda frowned. "But you haven't eaten anything all day."
Link didn't say anything, instead pulling the mass up blankets up to his chin. That's when Zelda abandoned the kitchen and made her way over to Link. "Are you sure you're OK?"
"Yeah." Link replied as he shivered. "I'm just really cold."
And that's when Zelda remembered.
Link had skipped classes yesterday. He spent the whole day outside without a coat, not even his blazer. And it had been a really cold day yesterday.
Zelda then placed a hand on Link's forehead, not at all surprised to find it hot to the touch.
"Junior, can you go get me a wet washcloth?" Zelda asked, removing her hand from Link's forehead. Junior nodded then dashed off to the bathroom, returning a few moments later with the washcloth. "Thank you."
"You welcome." Junior gave the washcloth the Zelda, then dashed back off to the kitchen, where Alfred had started up a weird game involving pasta and casino chips.
Zelda, choosing to ignore the weirdness happening in the kitchen, place the washcloth on Link's forehead, pushing his damp bangs out of the way.
"What's this for?" Link asked quietly.
"Just go to sleep." Zelda said quietly, placing a light kiss on his cheek.
" 'kay."
A/N:
So…yeah….
This is more of like a filler chapter than anything, because I didn't really want to jump into anything else to quickly.
And I was in one of those random Zelink moods that pop up every now and then…
Fi is coming in next chapter, and so is Ghirahim…
Duck didn't edit this one either….
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