ZeLink: Au Revoir

Fifteen - Dear Link

                                                                           ~  1st of March ~

"It's been a few months now, hasn't it? Yet it feels like it was only yesterday that you left so suddenly." Zelda gazed at a gravestone that was on top of a small hill. Surrounded by Silent Princess' it was slowly getting covered up in moss.

"My dear Link, you always wrapped me tenderly in your arms, whispering sweet nothings in my ear, sweet words that were so sincere they touched me in the deepest part of my soul, made me feel loved and protected.. Like a true woman." She sat down to the mossy ground.

"It was really something I didn't know I needed, but I did ever so desperately and only you could have awakened that in me." She let the evening wind blow through her open golden hair. "But we got ripped from that, didn't we? We were torn apart so violently that even to this day my mind can barely wrap itself around the fact that you aren't coming back. I miss you so much, my love. I miss your smile, that sweet laugh, those beautiful blue eyes I could've spent hours just staring into, the warmth of your skin and the strenght of your arms wrapping themselves around me."

She looked at the stone. There Link was, resting quietly under the shade of a single, large tree. "It hurts a bit less now, love, but I still miss you."

She sighed, she noticed how all the flowers growing around the stone cross were blossoming even more than before. "You loved these flowers, didn't you? I think you had a penchant for white and blue." She smiled slightly. "Oh but, I'm so very sorry, my dearest, I'm rambling once again. I must admit, even though your replies are always quiet, I feel so at ease talking to you. I feel like I can tell you anything, it's always been that way, and it'll always be that way, even if you're not here with me.."

She then thought for a while. "Ah, but that's not entirely true, now is it?" She traced his name carved into the stone with her finger, "to everyone else it may seem like you've left me all alone, and for a time.. I felt like that too. But you didn't... not entirely at last." Her hand lovingly traveled around the curves and edges of the stone as if it was Link's handsome face she was touching.

"You left me a part of you no one can take away. It's a beautiful feeling, Link- knowing that I carry a part of you with me, the most perfect proof of our deep love, my most precious treasure." She shed a tear, or two. "I know you must be staring at me right now. I don't usually cry about these kinds of things things, but I must admit you had your own way in the end and you stirred something within me." She laughed silently.

"So you must understand what this means to me. You are not gone! Part of you is still here, with me. I still have you with me in a small but very significant way and every time I think about it my heart flutters with elation. This is so unlike me, I know, but so much has changed lately." She inhaled and exhaled slowly.

"After you fell, I left everything behind and retired. Since I was in no condition to do anything anymore. I felt like I couldn't go on without you. Things were just so different, I didn't know if I could take life without you by my side. So.. I left everything, uncertain of what I'd do now, that you were not here. Needless to say, I wanted to join you in your slumber."

"I'm getting off track again, but I think you must know by now where I'm getting at with all of this." She smiled gently.

"Forgive me, my dearest, but could you please wait a little longer for me? I cannot join you for a while... There's two little very important persons that need me more right now, so it may be some time before I can see you again. I'm sure you understand." She wiped her tears off her eyes.

She felt couple of very powerful kicks in her swollen stomach. "Oh, there they are again. They know I'm talking about you. They know I'm talking about their father."

She smiled. "I know you can see how much they've been growing up ever since you left, their kicks are so strong too! They are going to be big boys. I'll raise them to be great, honest men, like you were. I'll love them throughly for the both of us, I promise you'll be proud of them."

She slowly stood up and held her hand behind her lower back to stand up properly. "Well, I must get going now. I'm going to the hospital tomorrow. But don't worry, I'll come visit you very soon again. With the boys. I promise the next time I visit, you'll meet them, your sons, and they'll meet you, their ever so loving father."

She took a few step backwards and turned around. She then looked over her shoulder. "I love you, Link."