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To Meet Again
Prologue

Life at her father's old ranch was peaceful, a great break from the modern world. Malon, 19, loved it there, she often spent her free time there with her long time love, Link.

However, this day with Link, would probably not be very peaceful, calm and passionate. She had to tell him, the one thing she'd been hiding for way too long . . .

"Hey, Mal." Link said, with his usual crooked grin. Though what Malon didn't see, was the fear and unsureness behind that grin.

"Hey . . . Link, um . . ." Malon said, nervously. 'Arg! I'm too scared!'

Link furrowed his brows in confusion, something was definitely wrong. "What's bothering you?"

"Link, I . . ." She could continue no more, as she broke into tears.

He held her in a tight embrace. "Come on, Malon . . . tell me what's wrong." He said in a calm and soothing voice, but something was off about him. Though, to be fair, Malon was acting rather strange too.

'Link . . .' She thought, 'He's so sweet and understanding . . . maybe he'll be happy?' She wondered.

Malon took a deep breath. 'Okay, Now is the time . . . I have to tell him . . .'

"Link I . . . I'm . . . well, I'm . . . I'm . . . you, see, I'm . . . "

"Just spit it out Mal!" Link said, getting quite concerned. 'Does she . . . know?'

"I'm . . ." She sighed deeply. "I'm pregnant . . . with our baby . . ."

Link let her go. "you're pregnant . . ." 'Shit.' Was what ran through his mind. 'This . . . this ruins everything . . . I can't . . .'

"Yes." She said, her voice barely above a whisper.

"You're pregnant . . . with our, yours and mine, baby . . ." To be honest, the thought was almost exciting to Link.

She gave him a small smile . . . He was happy?

His face was blank for a moment. It twisted into a look of unexplainable anguish and fury. "You're pregnant?!" He roared.

Malon gasped; why was he so mad. "I-I thought you w-were happy!" She choked.

"I'm twenty-one, and now I have to take responsibility and be a god-damn father to your fucking kid?!" He said, an alarming amount of anger, evident on his voice. He knew this was wrong, but he couldn't help it. The past events triggered this anger.

"Hey!" She cried out defensively. "I'm also nineteen! And its our baby! Last time I checked, it takes two people to create a child!"

"Well, why don't go ahead and uncreate it?!" He shouted.

"A-are you suggesting that I-" She started, bu was cut off by her supposed caring love.

"Abort the sorry bastard? Yes!" 'I . . .'

Tears streamed down Malon's face. "Link . . . how could you say such a thing!"

Link sighed. "Because Mal, because I don't want to be a father! I just want to live my happy carefree life." He said this, but she could not understand. She knew Link well, didn't she?

Malon stayed silent.

"So," He began, "The baby goes . . . or I do."

She let out a horrified gasp. "What?!"

"You be with me, the man that cares for you to no end, or keep that . . . that mistake!"

"If . . . If you actually cared about me . . . you'd care about this mistake because . . . it's a part of me." She hoarsely whispered.

"C'mon, Mal! Are you really telling me that you want to be a parent . . . now?!" Link asked, dumbfounded.

"Well, I can't just get rid of it like it's no big deal!" She said between sobs.

Sighing heavily, he asked once more.

"Me or the baby?"

Malon stood motionless and let her warm tears slide down onto the moist grass.

Tears burned his eyes, too. He wanted to hold on to her and tell her it was all right, that he was just kidding and he really was happy to be a father, but he couldn't. There was no use to lying to her and himself.

Slowly, he turned, exited the ranch, hopped into his car and was off, never seen by Malon again . . . because she sold her late father's ranch and moved to a secluded area in Castle Town with her mother.

She was never heard from or seen by Link again . . .

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Yeah, I just wanted to revise a couple of things . . . So the future chapters make more sense ;) Very minor changes, but one was very important: Link is supposed to be two years older than Malon (in this fic at least) but in the unrevised version, they're the same! le Gasp! But it's all good now, I think! Hope you enjoyed! Also, added a disclaimer in this one, Ha.

~Smasheh
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