Chapter 13: Sleep•

Link stared at Zelda sleeping in his bed for the pass few days. She doesn't show any signs of waking or anything, she just sleeps like she hasn't done it in days

"Princess.." He whispered. She didn't respond, only mumbled "I'll be leaving, I'll come back with food" he held her forehead before leaving his house and climbed on Epona. It's been weeks since he's been thinking about her, now it's been days since worrying for her. How did a princess suddenly appear in his life..?

Link did his daily job with gathering the goats back to the barn and went over to Uli's house for a drink "hello there Link" she smiled kindly. Link smiled and sat on the couch. It wasn't unusual to come into this house, Uli was his adopted mother, so he comes so and often for a meal and/or help

"Hey Uli" he sighed and rested on his knees.

"What's wrong honey? Is your friend still asleep..?" He nodded and ran his hand in his hair

"To be honest, I'm not even sure why we ended up friends. I mean, it's not like we knew eachother for that long but I feel like I know her despite her freeing me. Do I sound weird..?" She giggled

"Most definitely! You know how you are. You're not the easiest person to talk to" Link made a face

"Thanks, I can always count on you to give me positive feedback" Uli came to sit next to him, careful with her pregnant stomach. He looked at her stomach before holding it to feel kicking. He can hardly wait to see if it'll be a boy or girl

"I'm just saying, you're not the best at making friends. You're selfish, confusing, lazy when it doesn't come to work, you sleep a lot, you're a total show off, not very bright, you eat a lot, you have anger issues-"

"Uli! You're just straight up insulting me! We're talking about that girl! How did it come up with you insulting me?!" She just giggled

"You didn't let me finish. You are also talented, sweet, positive, caring, confident, brave, charming, not to mention that you won't give up on a certain thing until the task is complete. But, I had never seen this part of you before... You're taking care of someone else besides yourself... You don't normally have your mind so worried about something. You normally get everything done, but this girl... There has to be something about her that is making you this way, so worried that you haven't been focusing much on anything else. I've noticed the way you were riding Epona in the ranch"

"That's what I've been saying... I'm so worried about someone that might be okay, but even that, I don't know her and I want to protect her like... Bad" He frowned and looked at his hands

"What's her name?"

"Zelda, Princess of Hyrule" Uli looked surprised before holding her chin to think "Uli?"

"It feels like I heard of that name before... Deja vu maybe?" Again with the deja vu thing? Everyone is getting Deja vu here. If he ask Colin or the other kids if they heard of Zelda or think they know her, will they? He hasn't told anyone about Zelda except for Ilia and Rusl, who was there when he found her in the woods.

"Don't know... But I think I need some advice before I go and check up on her again"

"Oh well sweetie, you can always bring her here if you don't want to take care of her"

"I'm fine, she doesn't bother me at all... I just don't know exactly what to say to a princess. Of course I'm going to ask she's okay, but-"

"The girl knew you before you knew her" he looked at her confused "Ilia told me" he sighed and stood up "just wait to see what she'll say after you ask how she is, it shouldn't be so bad. She was a regular person before a princess, wasn't she a runaway princess before she came back and rescued you?" He nodded and blushes "are you blushing!?" She squealed. He groaned and stomped to the door "Link is blushing! This is unbelievable! This girl must be your soulmate or something!"

"Uli!" He groaned, blushing even harder

"Okay, okay... Go and check up on your princess. I think you should tell Bo about her so he can help her back to the castle"

"That's not happening" a sassy voice said in his head. He looked around confused "she can't go back. what, You want to get her killed?" Link frowned and looked down. Get her killed..? Who's going to kill her?

"Link?" Uli asked

"Sorry, I got to go. Do you have enough food for the week? Or would you like me to hunt for something" she smiled and pointed at the table, showing a box wrapped in a long clothe for easy carrying. Link picked it up

"Just take your lunch. Hope you like it, if the princess wakes up, you give that to her and I'll make something else for you" he shook his head

"No thanks, I'm not hungry. Thanks though... I'll go buy some milk at Sera's" he gave her a quick kiss before heading out to find Sera sighing, leaning on her counter "hey Sera, what's up?" She sighed again. She seems upset

"...oh. My... It's young Link... Welcome, m'dear"

"You okay?" She sighed again, playing with a bottle of milk in depression

"You... You didn't happen to see my little cat out there, did you?"

"Can't say I have, what happened?"

"He ate the dish we were going to have for supper last night, and I gave him a good scolding... But then he went out and hasn't returned..."

"Awe, well don't worry. He'll turn up. I know animals and I know he loves you enough to come back" she smiled a little

"I'm so fraught with worry for him... I'm exhausted myself..." Ah, it would be cruel to make her work at the moment, the milk can wait. Maybe waiting for the cat could be the best plan, he's too worried about Zelda to look for her cat for her "Link, m'dear... You look worse than I do" Link smiled and waved his hand

"I'm fine, I hope you find your cat. I have to go... I'll be back soon. See yah" he left out the shop and hurried home. He could see the village kids talking from in front of his house

"Link!" He waved to them, hurrying to pass them

"Sorry guys, I think I left my pot in the fire!" He lied to get away from them for the moment. No one can know about Zelda yet. He entered his home and found Ilia squeezing water from a rag from a bucket

"Oh!" She looked at Link "hey there Link!" She smiled before climbing up the ladder towards his bed

"Ilia, what did I say about coming into my house?"

"Oh stop being so grumpy, I'm only here to help miss Zelda" Link sighed and sat on his couch to relax "you've been tense a lot, Link. Why don't you stop worrying so much? She's only sleeping. I bet she's having a nice dream right now"

"I guess..." He sighed and laid down on the couch lazily

"You're so lazy! Come and help me here!"

"She's just sleeping... Isn't she..?" He wonders why she's been sleeping a lot or even had those bruises on her, but he has the biggest headache that he doesn't even want to bother right now

"I think she's waking up" Link snapped and hurried to climb the ladder and towards the bed. Zelda was moving her head from side to side slowly before groaning a little and slowly opened her eyes, making eye contact with Link and Ilia. They both smiled down at her staring at them before she smiled at them gently

"Good morning..." She said softly before looking at Link. He blushed a little with a happy smile on his face

"Morning princess..." She pouted

"My name is Zelda" he chuckled and nodded

"Yes, Pr- Zelda..." She giggled and slowly sat up

"Don't get up yet, you've been asleep for days. Stay in bed while I make something for you" Ilia said

"I brought food earlier, it's on the couch" she nodded and hurried down the steps. Link looked back down at Zelda staring at him. He flinched and looked away shyly while pouting

"You are very silly young hero" she forced herself up. He looked at her confused. She called him a hero again

"Hero?" She sighed, accomplishing her sitting up and smiled at him

"Thank you for saving me... If you weren't there when I needed you, I'm for sure I could had died"

"What..? But you were in the middle of a safe part of the forest. The forest isn't even dangerous. What happened?" She looked at her lap in a frown before crying. He flinched and sat on the bed to hold her "sorry..."

"I'm sorry..." She covered her face "I failed... What was the point of him bringing back my light if I couldn't even use it to help my kingdom..?"

"Zelda..." What was she talking about..? Ilia came back with the box of food Uli put together and placed it on Zelda's lap

"Eat up princess, you need your energy" Zelda smiled and looked up at her

"Thank you Ilia..." Link and Ilia looked at each other 

"How you know my name?" Ilia asked. Zelda whipped her tears away and started eating as slowly and gracefully as possible. Link felt his hand lifting to pet her hair. He didn't mean to do that! This is disrespectful! But he couldn't help but do this. Zelda looked up at him and smiled happily before pinching his cheeks

"Don't be so scared darling, I don't bite" He cleared his throat nervously and looked away. He suddenly expected her to grab his chin with a smirk and... Kiss him. Is that crazy?

"I-I know! It's just kind of hard to believe I'm talking to a real princess" she giggled

"Oh, but I was a regular person before I came back to the castle. I had my own boat rental shop in Zora's domain with my own employee before I gave it to him" Ilia and Link were surprised "I might be a princess, but I'm not like any other" Link smiled and held her hand. He liked hearing her say that. The two stared at each other in the eyes before noticing he was staring and looked down in a blush

"Well, I think I'll leave" Ilia giggled before stepping on the ladder "do you love birds need anything?" Link glared at her. Zelda stared at him

"No! Get out of here!" He snapped, surprising Zelda. Ilia stuck her tongue out before leaving the house. He snapped in front of Zelda, what will she think of him now that she doesn't think of him as a gentlemen he's been trying to be "s-sorry you saw that" he looked at her and flinched when he saw her smirking mischievously. He's seen that smirk in his vision before

"Ah, a little snappy aren't we?" She held his chin and brought his face close to hers "that's really sexy" he flinched before getting a major nose bleed and passed out

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