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I tilt my face down and kiss Zelda's hat.

"You know," I say quietly so that Hunter and Nabooru won't hear me, tightening my grip on her waist, "there's an easy way to fix all this."

"Fix all what?" She asks.

"This whole situation," I answer. "To get you back on the throne and kick Aghanim out." Zelda sighs heavily.

"I knew somehow it would come to this," she answers. "I already know what you're going to ask Link, and you already know my answer." I growl into her hat in frustration then pull my face away.

"Why not?" I demand. "Zelda, think about it. If you getting married is all it'll take to get you back in power … then shouldn't we do that? I mean … it's the quickest, easiest way, and it's the one that will probably involve the least amount of bloodshed. Bruiser's already …" I cut myself off and look to the side. It takes me a moment before I can continue. "Look, I just … he's the first but he won't be the last, Zelda." I say quietly. "We need to end this before we've got another war on our hands." Zelda wraps her hand around mine and squeezes.

"I know, Link," she answers. "I know. But you need to understand that it won't end just because I'm back on the throne. And it's not that easy. I can't just … there's so much paperwork, first off, and I don't even have access to the proper forms any more. And on top of it, you're a wanted criminal. And a Gerudo, and the treaty's been nullified. Link, if I married you now I wouldn't be back on the throne, I'd forfeit it for life and then the Kingdom really would be Aghanim's." I continue to frown down at her and she sighs. "Go ahead and ask then," she says. "Go ahead and ask, so I can give you my answer and we can focus on the task at hand if that's what it'll take." I brace myself for the inevitable conclusion.

"Marry me."

"No." I give a morose sigh and bury my face in her hat again. For a moment, neither of us speak. Then:

"That never gets easier to hear, you know," I murmur.

"It never gets easier to say, either, if it makes you feel any better," she murmurs back, still holding my hand.

"Why not?"

"You know why not. We've gone over this a thousand times, Link. Nothing ever changes."

"Hmm." The problem is I do know. And I even half kind of agree. There are a million reasons we can't. There are political reasons of course – Gerudo are still too mistrusted for the nobles to agree to having a Gerudo on the throne of Hyrule, if we do get married Zelda loses almost all of her authority and power almost immediately due to ancient laws that make very little sense considering how many female rulers Hyrule has had, not to mention the sheer number of nobles who just don't like my face. Zelda and I getting married would immediately polarize the political situation in Hyrule which could lead at least to political infighting (more so than usual) among the nobility and at worst to an outright civil war if it went far enough – but these are nothing that with a little luck and a little hard work we couldn't get around in one way or another. I could stop being temperamental with the nobles. That'd be a start. And laws can be changed and edited with enough patience and support, and so on and so forth.

What's really in our way are personal reasons – reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not we love each other, much to my frustration. There's the fact that there's a fifty-fifty chance on any given day that Zelda and I currently aren't speaking to each other. We're both a little too hard-headed and obstinate sometimes for our own good and neither of us really likes to back down and admit we were wrong (let alone apologize). The fights never last for long, but they're still there and until we can learn to deal with each other at our worst then I can't really deny that becoming permanent roommates might not be a good idea. Which isn't to say it's not a risk I'm willing to take, it just means I won't really fight Zelda on it because she's right. Then there's the freedom issue. I like my freedom. I love my freedom. But if I marry Zelda, I won't have that anymore. The right to do what I want, when I want. If I marry Zelda, I become not just King of the Gerudo – who are a people who take care of themselves and as I've pointed out to them time and again they really don't need a King – but King of Hyrule, which is a whole other story. I'm not chained to my throne in the desert, but I'll be chained to the throne of Hyrule, and chained tighter than I am to the Master Sword, which is saying something.

Hyrule needs a ruler who will be there for her whenever there's a need – and there often is. And I just can't be. I can't run two kingdoms at once and be the Hero of Time. Too many conflicting duties. Hyrule's ruler would need to be Hyrule's ruler above and beyond everything else, and I can't. I'm the Hero of Time above and beyond everything else, and being King of Hyrule would just get in the way of that.

Hyrule needs a ruler who wants to be Hyrule's ruler.

And I don't.
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Another snippet from 's fic Reconciliation. It's a sad moment and aweful moment. For me, it really reflected how downhill this story was going to go before it got better (emotional wise anyway. The story is all good, but sometimes it just gets sad.)

Link and Zelda... hopefully Zelda is looking regretful and sad, and Link is pulling one of his sad and disappointed faces.

Shucks.

Link and Zelda belong to nintendo.

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I tilt my face down and kiss Zelda's hat.

"You know," I say quietly so that Hunter and Nabooru won't hear me, tightening my grip on her waist, "there's an easy way to fix all this."

"Fix all what?" She asks.

"This whole situation," I answer. "To get you back on the throne and kick Aghanim out." Zelda sighs heavily.

"I knew somehow it would come to this," she answers. "I already know what you're going to ask Link, and you already know my answer." I growl into her hat in frustration then pull my face away.

"Why not?" I demand. "Zelda, think about it. If you getting married is all it'll take to get you back in power … then shouldn't we do that? I mean … it's the quickest, easiest way, and it's the one that will probably involve the least amount of bloodshed. Bruiser's already …" I cut myself off and look to the side. It takes me a moment before I can continue. "Look, I just … he's the first but he won't be the last, Zelda." I say quietly. "We need to end this before we've got another war on our hands." Zelda wraps her hand around mine and squeezes.

"I know, Link," she answers. "I know. But you need to understand that it won't end just because I'm back on the throne. And it's not that easy. I can't just … there's so much paperwork, first off, and I don't even have access to the proper forms any more. And on top of it, you're a wanted criminal. And a Gerudo, and the treaty's been nullified. Link, if I married you now I wouldn't be back on the throne, I'd forfeit it for life and then the Kingdom really would be Aghanim's." I continue to frown down at her and she sighs. "Go ahead and ask then," she says. "Go ahead and ask, so I can give you my answer and we can focus on the task at hand if that's what it'll take." I brace myself for the inevitable conclusion.

"Marry me."

"No." I give a morose sigh and bury my face in her hat again. For a moment, neither of us speak. Then:

"That never gets easier to hear, you know," I murmur.

"It never gets easier to say, either, if it makes you feel any better," she murmurs back, still holding my hand.

"Why not?"

"You know why not. We've gone over this a thousand times, Link. Nothing ever changes."

"Hmm." The problem is I do know. And I even half kind of agree. There are a million reasons we can't. There are political reasons of course – Gerudo are still too mistrusted for the nobles to agree to having a Gerudo on the throne of Hyrule, if we do get married Zelda loses almost all of her authority and power almost immediately due to ancient laws that make very little sense considering how many female rulers Hyrule has had, not to mention the sheer number of nobles who just don't like my face. Zelda and I getting married would immediately polarize the political situation in Hyrule which could lead at least to political infighting (more so than usual) among the nobility and at worst to an outright civil war if it went far enough – but these are nothing that with a little luck and a little hard work we couldn't get around in one way or another. I could stop being temperamental with the nobles. That'd be a start. And laws can be changed and edited with enough patience and support, and so on and so forth.

What's really in our way are personal reasons – reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not we love each other, much to my frustration. There's the fact that there's a fifty-fifty chance on any given day that Zelda and I currently aren't speaking to each other. We're both a little too hard-headed and obstinate sometimes for our own good and neither of us really likes to back down and admit we were wrong (let alone apologize). The fights never last for long, but they're still there and until we can learn to deal with each other at our worst then I can't really deny that becoming permanent roommates might not be a good idea. Which isn't to say it's not a risk I'm willing to take, it just means I won't really fight Zelda on it because she's right. Then there's the freedom issue. I like my freedom. I love my freedom. But if I marry Zelda, I won't have that anymore. The right to do what I want, when I want. If I marry Zelda, I become not just King of the Gerudo – who are a people who take care of themselves and as I've pointed out to them time and again they really don't need a King – but King of Hyrule, which is a whole other story. I'm not chained to my throne in the desert, but I'll be chained to the throne of Hyrule, and chained tighter than I am to the Master Sword, which is saying something.

Hyrule needs a ruler who will be there for her whenever there's a need – and there often is. And I just can't be. I can't run two kingdoms at once and be the Hero of Time. Too many conflicting duties. Hyrule's ruler would need to be Hyrule's ruler above and beyond everything else, and I can't. I'm the Hero of Time above and beyond everything else, and being King of Hyrule would just get in the way of that.

Hyrule needs a ruler who wants to be Hyrule's ruler.

And I don't.
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Another snippet from 's fic Reconciliation. It's a sad moment and aweful moment. For me, it really reflected how downhill this story was going to go before it got better (emotional wise anyway. The story is all good, but sometimes it just gets sad.)

Link and Zelda... hopefully Zelda is looking regretful and sad, and Link is pulling one of his sad and disappointed faces.

Shucks.

Link and Zelda belong to nintendo.