Our Family Part Five

By GreatAngemon

"So, how was your steak?" Link asked Zelda, holding her hand as they walked through the park.

"It was perfect," Zelda said. She leaned her head on Link's shoulder and sighed. "It's nice to get away from the kids once in a while, isn't it?"

"Yeah," Link said. He looked down at his watch and said, "The movie's about to start. We should get to the theatre."

"Yeah," Zelda said. She looked up at Link, and said, "I'm really proud of you for how you're taking the whole Tetra and Sheik thing."

"I've realized that I don't have much of a say in it," Link said. He looked at the sky and said, "I'm okay with it. I wasn't, but I am now."

"Good," Zelda said. She smiled.

At the mall

Sheik was holding Tetra's hand as they walked past all of the shops on the lower floor. "I remember when Link and Zel went there on their first official date," Tetra said after a while. She was pointing at a small restaurant across from the arcade.

"Yeah," Sheik laughed. "Zelda was freaking out, she was so nervous."

"Nervous, Zelda?" Tetra asked, "That doesn't sound like the Zel I know."

"That wasn't the Zel you know," Sheik said. He looked around and said, "Let's get a bite to eat."

"We were just out with Link and Zelda," Tetra said, giggling. "And we just had a huge dinner."

"Fine," Sheik said, "Let's browse stores until you want ice cream." He pulled her around and she laughed.

"Sheik, can we go to the jewelry store?" Tetra asked, looking longingly at a set of earrings.

"Sure," Sheik said. They walked in and Tetra started looking at all of the cases.

"Hey," Sheik said, picking something up. "Look at this."

Tetra turned around and gasped. Sheik was on one knee with a small velvet box in his hands.

"Will you marry me?" he asked, smiling nervously.

Tetra looked at him, dumbfounded. Sheik looked even more nervous. "Will you answer me?"

She smiled. Sitting down on his knee, she started kissing him. When she broke away, she said, "Of course I'll marry you, stupid." Sheik grinned and kissed her.

The people in the shop started clapping as Sheik slipped the ring on her finger. "Good," he said. "If you'd said no, I wouldn't have been able to return the ring. It's specially made."

Tetra looked surprised. "You could afford something like that?"

"I've got a good job," Sheik said. Let's go back to the house. I'm sure Zelda will want to hear about this."

"Link won't," Tetra giggled. Sheik helped her stand, before getting to his feet.

"Yeah." Sheik smiled.

Twenty Minutes Later

"Hi," Tetra said airily, opening the front door and seeing Link and Zelda sitting on the couch.

"Hi," Zelda said, looking curious. "What's up?"

"Nothing," Tetra said. "You want to help me get some ice cream?"

"Sure," Zelda said. She stood up and walked to the kitchen with Tetra. Sheik sat down on the chair across from Link.

In the kitchen Zelda was talking to Tetra. "So, what's got you so giggly?" she asked shrewdly.

"Sheik," Tetra said. She held her hand up for Zelda to see, and Zelda looked.

"Oh my goddesses," she whispered. "Is that… did he… when?"

"Yes, it is, yes, he did, and when we were at the mall," Tetra giggled. She smiled. "I'm so excited."

Just then they heard a cry from upstairs. "I'll see who it is," Zelda said. She grabbed Tetra's hand and pulled her up the stairs.

"So, you wanted to talk to me about something?" Link asked, turning the T.V down and looked at his friend.

"Yeah," Sheik said, "It's about when Tet and I were at the mall."

"What happened?" Link asked.

"I sort of proposed."

Link was dumbfounded. "You what?" he asked.

"I proposed," Sheik said. He was talking tentatively, as though waiting for an explosion.

Zelda came back down the stairs, carrying Aryll on one hip and Zill on the other. "What did I miss?" she asked.

"Did you know that Sheik proposed to my sister?" Link asked quietly.

Zelda froze. "Yeah," she said after a moment. "Yeah, Tetra told me before we went upstairs."

Tetra came down holding Joel, and she froze when she saw everyone looking at her "Is something wrong?"

"No," Link said, moving forward and taking Joel from her. "How about you go to bed. Zelda and I can look after the kids."

Tetra looked confused, but Sheik nodded, and she went up the stairs. "I'll see you tomorrow," Sheik said, hurrying up after her.

"What are you thinking?" Zelda asked. Link shook his head.

"I don't know," he said. "I don't know what to think." Aryll looked up at him sleepily.

"Daddy," she said, reaching her arms over to him. He moved to take her from Zelda, and she smiled. "Hi daddy."

"Hi sweetie," he said, kissing her forehead. "What woke you up?"

"I had a bad dweam," she said blearily. "I don't want go back to bed. My dweam will come back."

"No it won't," Link said, laughing. "Bad dreams don't hang around for very long."

"I not go back to bed," Aryll said resolutely. "No no no."

Link smiled. "Okay, you can stay up with daddy and mommy."

"Just daddy actually," Zelda said, taking Joel from Link. "I'm going to talk to Tetra and Sheik and then go to bed."

"Well, it's just you and me then," Link said, setting Aryll down on the couch. "Let me lay down here, okay?"

He laid down on the couch, and Aryll curled up next to him. "What are we doing daddy?" Aryll asked, shivering.

"Well first I'm going to put this blanket over us," Link said pulling a blanket off of the back of the couch. "And now I'm going to turn on the T.V."

He pulled the remote off of the coffee table and turned on the T.V. "What do you want to watch?" Link asked, flipping through the channels.

"Wind Waker," Aryll said, referring to her favorite movie. "We watch Wind Waker."

"Okay," Link said. He pushed a button, switching the channel to the D.V.D station, and the movie turned on.

Link turned the T.V off about two hours later, after Aryll had fallen asleep. He carried her up the stairs to her room. He put her in her bed and covered her up. Just as he shut her door he heard one of the twins crying.

He hurried into the room directly across the hall. He saw Joel standing up in his crib, crying.

"What's wrong buddy?" Link asked, picking him up and rocking him in his arms. Joel's tears seemed to slow, and Link saw that there were little specks of white on his gums. "Oh," Link said, sighing. "I get it."

He carried Joel down the stairs and into the kitchen. Setting Joel in his highchair, Link walked over to the freezer. "This'll make you feel better Joel." He pulled a frozen waffle out of the freezer and stuck it in Joel's mouth.

Joel grabbed the waffle and held it in his mouth. "That helps, doesn't it?" Link said, rubbing the top of Joel's head. Link sat down in the chair next to Joel, and leaned back in his seat. Soon he found himself being shaken awake.

"Link, you need to wake up," Tetra said, taking her hand off of his shoulder. His eyes snapped open, and he shot up.

"Where's Joel?" he asked, looking around.

"I took him upstairs," Tetra said. "You fell asleep while he was sucking on the waffle."

"Oh," Link said, slumping back down in his chair.

"You look tired," Tetra said. "What time were you up till?

"Well, after you went to sleep Aryll and I watched The Wind Waker for two hours," Link said. "I took her upstairs, and then I had to bring Joel down here because he was teething."

"That explains why he was sucking on the waffle," Tetra said. She put her hand on Link's, sitting down. "You need to go upstairs and get some sleep."

"Yeah," Link said. "I'll do that tonight, but now I need to take a shower and go to work."

"Guys are so stupid," Tetra said. "You're going to kill yourself if you don't get enough sleep."

"I'll be fine." Link stood up and walked up the stairs, where he found Zelda waiting for him.

"I was waiting for you last night," she said, wrapping her arms around him and nuzzling into his chest.

"The kids were bent on me not getting to sleep," Link said, hugging her. "Aryll wanted to watch The Wind Waker twice, and then Joel was teething, so I had to take him downstairs and watch him."

"My little baby's teething?" Zelda asked. Link nodded.

"I'm going to go take a shower," Link said, stepping away from his wife. "You can go check on the boys."

"Okay," Zelda said. "See you when you come downstairs."

I thought making the Wind Waker a cartoon movie for kids was pretty clever. Please review.