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Loving Memories
"What did Pergie want?" Zelda asked as Link closed the door.
The blond hero was half soaked because Epona decided to knock him into the spring when he wasn't paying attention and thus was dripping all over the floor.
"Turns out Epona and Nightlock thought it would be a good idea to 'get it on' while Impa and I visited Impaz a while back," Link explained as he pulled off his sopping clothes. "She also thought soaking me through would be funny."
"You've endured worse and as for Epona, I told you she was getting fat and that you might want to get her looked at, but you insisted that she was fine," Zelda gloated as she grabbed a towel and started to pat Link dry. She had done this without thinking and blushed furiously upon realizing she rubbing her hands all over her half naked companion. "Oh my goodness! I- uh... HERE!"
Link blinked in surprise as the queen roughly shoved the towel in his face in her panic.
"I haven't the slightest idea as to why I did that," She said, her voice unusually high as she hid her face in her hands.
"I-it's okay. I didn't mind," Link informed her, blushing himself.
Zelda timidly peeked at him through her fingers and snickered.
"What?"
"You look like a frustrated tomato."
"I-Wha? L-look who's talking!"
The two hylians stared at each other before they burst into laughter. After they both calmed down, Link smiled sweetly at Zelda.
"What?" She questioned, looking up at him.
"Nothing," He lied, still smiling.
This type of behavior wasn't new to the queen, but it never failed to catch her of guard when the hero acted this way. Unsure of how to respond, she smiled back.
Link turned around and started digging through his dresser and after examining and shoving several articles of clothing back into the drawer, he smiled triumphantly as he fished out a worn out pair of pajama bottoms.
"No shirt?" Zelda asked as he tightened the strings to his pants and knotted them.
"It's too hot in here," he complained as he grabbed an apple off the table and bit into it, humming happily as he chewed.
Zelda found herself mentally tracing all the scars that littered the young hero's body. She stopped when she came across a thin long one that wrapped around his left bicep.
"I gave you that one when I was possessed by Ganon," She mumbled, frowning.
"I batted magic at you with my sword. I think we're even," Link assured her.
"I suppose you have a point."
"Obviously."
"Link."
"That's my Zelda," Link grinned. He absolutely could not stand to she her depressed, so he had unconsciously made a habit of taunting her into cheering up. Though it sometimes resulted in her throwing stuff at his head.
"Oh hush," She smiled.
Link held his apple out towards her. "Want a bite?"
"You know I only like the yellow ones," She responded, shriveling her nose.
"Never hurts to ask."
Link took a final bite and tossed the remainder of the apple in the trash. He then started up the ladder leading to loft, pausing halfway up to see if Zelda was gonna follow him.
"I'm coming. I'm coming," She drawled as she climbed after him.
Link sighed joyously as he flopped onto their pallet. He glanced at Zelda when she sat next to him and let out a not so joyous sigh.
"I wonder if I'll ever be able to go home,"She whispered, folding her hands neatly in her lap.
Link stared at her worriedly before sitting up and wrapping his arms around her. He mentally winced as the queen's composure fell away and she burst into tears.
"It's okay, Zel. You're gonna get your castle back. I promise," he whispered, rubbing her back, "I'll contact Impa tomorrow so that we can come up with plan."
"I can't keep breaking down like this," She sniffed, "It's selfish and demeaning."
"It's okay to be selfish sometimes."
"Not when you're a queen. A good ruler has to think about everyone, not just their self," Zelda argued, furiously wiping her eyes with her sleeve.
"If you only think of others and never about yourself, you'll go mad," Link argued back. He suppressed the urge to grin when he saw her wearing her 'I know you're right, but there's no way in hell I'm going to admit it' face.
Zelda dropped her gaze and lowered herself onto the pallet before turning on her side facing away from Link. The hero sighed upon noticing she was still wearing her boots and said nothing as he unlaced them and tossed them over the railing. Zelda flinched when she heard them land in the kitchen. She let out a small smile when she felt Link lie down beside her, his head resting between her shoulder blades.
"I'm sorry," Zelda whispered into her pillow.
"You've nothing to apologize for," Link told her.
Every time he blinked, his eyelashes would brush against the back of her neck, causing electricity to race across her skin. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensation. She smiled as she recalled how it felt for him to kiss her there...
Wait... What? That wasn't right. That wasn't right at all.
Zelda shot up like a rocket, her face scarlet, and stared at Link dubiously.
"L-Link? C-can I ask you something weird?"
Link sat up and gave her a strange look. "Sure?"
"Do you ever remember things that you know for a fact didn't happen?"
Link thought about it for a good minute before slowly nodding. "Yeah, actually... I called Midna Navi by mistake once, but the weird part was that I was expecting to see a blue fairy instead of her. I was so freaking confused."
"It was like you remembered someone you had never met?" Zelda asked.
"Basically. I tried to explain it to Midna, but she just looked at me weird and told me that I needed to sleep more, that running around fighting on practically no sleep was starting to effect my brain," He explained, rubbing the back of his neck. "Why the sudden urge to ask, though?"
"Well..."
"You've been doing it too."
"Mhmnn..." Zelda stared at her hands as she fidgeted with the hem of her dress. "I almost never do it when I'm awake, so I went most of my life thinking they were just dreams, but I'm not so sure that's what they are anymore. They're just too..." She couldn't find the right word to describe it.
"Vivid," Link finished for her.
"Yeah..."
"The light spirits once told me that I'm the reincarnation of a great hero, so I think that's why it's happening to me, but..." Link trailed off as his gaze drifted up towards the ceiling. There was a massive moth fluttering about and couldn't decide if he wanted to kill it or leave it be. "It's not hurting anyone."
"What?"
"The moth. It's not hurting anyone."
"What are you...? Why are we talking about a moth?" Zelda deadpanned. "And as for the whole 'memories that are there, but don't belong there' thing, your hero lineage only explains why it's happening to you. I still haven't the slightest clue as to why it's happening to me. I'm supposed to have visions, not inappropriate flashbacks!"
"Inappropriate? The hell did you remember?"
"Nothing of any importance... Can we just forgot about that last comment?"
"Fine..."
They sat in silence for a while before Link spoke up again.
"Maybe you're the reincarnation of someone great, too," he suggested.
In that very moment Zelda's dream popped into her head. "Goddesses, Link! In my dreams you never called me Zelda, only Hylia!"
"Hylia... That name sounds so familiar..."
"Indeed it does, but I can't connect it to anything," Zelda stated, frowning.
"We can check with Shad. He's been hording ancient documents that are as old as Hyrule itself. There's bound to be something about Hylia in there somewhere," Link said.
"And what makes you think Shad will let us look at them? I don't know about you, but if I had documents that old, I sure as hell wouldn't let people rummage through them."
"We wont be rummaging, we'll be..."
"Rummaging," Zelda stated, smirking.
"Okay, so we will be rummaging, but I'm sure he'll allow it if we offer to translate some of them," Link said, his attention once again being drawn to mothzilla.
"That's right. I forgot he can't read ancient hylian as well as we do," Zelda replied. She followed Link's gaze and shuttered. "I see why you keep staring at it. It's huge!"
"It's not big-big."
"Big-big?" Zelda questioned, raising her eyebrow at his choice of words. "And yes it is! It's body alone looks to be the same size as my fist!"
"Killing it will be a hassle. I'll just leave the window open so it can fly out on it's own."
"After it kills us in our sleep..."
"You're overreacting," Link laughed.
"Well, excuse me if I don't enjoy the idea of a hairy bug with wings flying around my head, spreading it's poison everywhere as I sleep," She fussed, crossing her arms.
"You'll be perfectly fine unless you plan eating it... Please tell me you're not planning on eating it, Zel," Link joked, resulting in Zelda fussing about how it wasn't funny after she attacked him with a pillow.
Before long, the two hylian youths were sprawled across the pallet, snoring lightly. The moth stared at them a moment longer before it flew out the window and headed towards Hyrule field. It landed in a woman's hand and she grinned wickedly as it's memories left it and joined her own. Her grin quickly turned into a scowl.
"I told him she survived, but nooo. 'The fire was too big. There's no way she could've survived,'" She said, mocking Alfred's voice. "Not that it matters. I'll take care of her majesty." She chuckled as the moth turned into dust and returned to the velvet pouch hanging on her hip. "And while I'm at it, I'll get rid of that mutt of her's, too."
A/N: CLIFF HANGER! Yeah, I know my chapters aren't very long and that I'm dragging out the Ordon part of the story a tad too much, but I promise that things will pick up and get actiony (I know that's not a real word, but I could care less) in the next couple of chapters.
And I'd like to once again point out that I head-cannon Link being a warrior god name Terius in a past life and that he was created to serve as a protector and companion to Hylia. I feel it's important to bring this up again b/c the next chapter is going to bring up said topic.
Anyhoo...
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