Whumptober Day 26
alternate prompt 8: comfort
kingdom come - corrupt!zelda au part 6
warnings: didn’t see anything that could be triggering so read with caution
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By the time Link found Zelda half asleep in the Sanctum, he could hardly walk. He was shaking too hard, the nightmare chilling him to his core, and even if this was not his Zelda, even if he hated her and didn’t hate her at all, the idea of losing her again in the way he had when that chasm swallowed her was enough to have him in tears. He was almost hysterical, and he couldn’t tell if it was the fever or the dream that had his skin so uncomfortably heated. He stumbled before he could even reach her, his knees hitting the floor, and his whimper was what made her look up. She’d been sitting on the throne with the light from the windows hugging her like a golden shawl, and she’d looked so exhausted, but she raced down the steps and to his side in hardly any time at all.
“Link, why are you up?!” she exclaimed, but that surprise and frustration melted away when he grabbed for her and buried his face in her shoulder. “You’re burning…”
“I had a nightmare,” he mumbled out, feeling so akin to a child, but it was muffled by her night dress. Maybe she heard him anyway, because he felt her fingertips bury into his hair, scratching gently at his scalp. His shoulders dropped, the tension leaving his body now that he could hold her, solid and present and real. His Zelda, who was still so strong and passionate that sometimes, he could be fooled into loving her, too.