Candlelight | A Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom ZeLink Modern AU

Chapter 48 : Two friends, nothing more

« Zel ! », I exclaimed, now feeling her lightweight body in my arms.

I had a look at her, making sure she was perfectly healthy, perfectly safe and no one hurt her. At first sight, she seemed calm, appeased, and not hurt at all. I didn't see any drop of blood or blood stain on her clothes, and it helped me relax a lot.

« Oh Hylia, where were you ? »

She looked at the street behind her as if she was a bit lost, or followed. I couldn't help but get nervous again, wondering if she had been harassed in the street by some pathetic guys.

If so, I will find them and I will kill them.

I knew all too well how men used to talk to her or make a disgusting remark about her body. It annoyed me and I had a blurry memory of a day at Biron Snowshelf when a guy 'flirted' with her - which meant : asked her to come with him in his hotel room - and I nearly got involved into a fight.

How could I let him say such things about her ? Him, the one who wanted to fuck her just becasue she was pretty to his eyes, not even trying to know her, to meet her and to realize how incredible she was. Him, who considered her as a stupid piece of meat. Him, who didn't believe her when she said I was her boyfriend.

I should have smashed his fucking face.

Happily Zel knew how to calm me down. Because except for her safety, nothing mattered. Not the crowd around us. Not my reputation. Not my career. Not his shitty smiling face that was about to become bloody.

And if someone did it to you too, I would finally smash him the way that other guy deserved to be.

« I was just... uh... », she hesitantly said.

Zel...?

But once again she looked at the street around us. Nervous.

« Is Malon gone ? », she asked.

« Uh... yeah. She had something to do tonight, so she left us early. », I simply explained.

« Oh. Sorry. », she apologized, looking at the crowded road again.

« Do you wanna go back home ? »

« Yes, please. », she said, and nervously looked over her shoulder again.

By Hylia, what scares you that much ?

« Alright, let's go. », I said, putting my arm around her shoulders.

I couldn't help but look at the street, again. Because if someone scared her, then, I had to find who that motherfucker was and give him a lesson he would never forget.

No one will hurt you anymore.

But no one seemed strange. Not in the main street, nor in the other streets, or the parking lot. And Zelda was still pretty nervous, touching her little package over and over.

« Are you sure everything's okay ? », I asked as soon as I unlocked the car's doors.

« Yes, of course. », she smiled at me, climbing in her car.

« You don't seem fine, Zel. », I persisted.

« No, don't worry, everything is okay. », she simply said, fastening her seatbelt.

Okay, I think I won't have any other information...

But she kept touching her package nervously. She kept looking at the landscape and she didn't say any other word. She didn't even sing when Ariana Grande was singing out of the speakers.