#roblink

Robbie came into the room and stood in front of Link. The only reason they could make out it was Robbie was due to his hair still being up.

Link clearly signed something, but it was too sloppy and filled with tiredness for Robbie to decipher.

“Hey babe. Hylia, you look out of it. I’ve got you a quilt, are you cold?” Link’s brain couldn’t comprehend the words being said but enjoyed the thick southern drawl that came with their boyfriend’s voice. They we’re hoping he’d talk more.

“Link. You with me Hylian?” They found Robbie’s voice comforting. Link felt like they were about to fall asleep.

“Hon-“

“Maybe if they listened to me in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this fucking situation.” Robbie muttered under his breath as he positioned Link on top of his quilt.

“Don’t slag of your partner while their unconscious, asshole” The voice of a presence came from the kitchen. Robbie rolled his eyes.

“Could you come and help? Link is a buff knight and I ain’t particularly strong.”

“Awwh, don’t undersell yourself.” Sarcasm dripped through Purah’s voice. She came over and laid the quilt flat against their sofa for Robbie to put Link down on. He put them on their side (something his dad taught him to do if he was scared someone may be sick) and grabbed a pillow to lie their head on. The sides on the blanket wrapped around Link and tucked together at their chest. They looked adorable, being wrapped up like this. Though their ghost white face made Robbie more concerned them smitten.

After getting a glass of water (just in case), Robbie sat next to Link’s head. He noticed how uncomfortable they looked straight away. He had laid their head down in such a way that the pillow looked like a mountain for their neck to climb. Even though the researcher realised this as soon as he sat, he left them as they were.

Although the problem soon arose again

“Seriously?” Purah walked into the living room, taken aback at how Robbie had laid down his partner.

“What, they’re fine!” Robbie got on the defensive all to quick for her to believe it.

Purah was a smart woman, not particularly keen sensed but smart. And when it came to Robbie, she was the smartest in all of Hyrule. Everything about his body language screamed awkward. His feet laid flat on the ground with his legs together. His arms, which usually took up half of the sofa’s headrest, balled up near his chest. Purah knew exactly why Robbie hadn’t made his partner more comfortable.

“Are you seriously too nervous to put their head on your lap?”

Robbie was taken aback by the guess, “How the hell did you know?”

A look of smugness is all he got in return, but it was enough.

Neither of them said a word as the guardian expert looked down to his knight.

“You’re a pussy.”

Robbie looked to her, “and you’re a bitch, what about it?”

The woman sighed, “Firstly – She put up her middle finger – secondly, why are you so nervous? What do you think’s gonna happen?”

Robbie thought on it. He had an answer, a clear and concise one. It was just putting it into words that was the problem.

“I… Purah I really don’t wanna fuck things up with Link. At all. It’s why I’m so careful around them. I don’t wanna do anything wrong.

“You’re different, y’know? You’re my best friend and you ain’t getting rid of me. If I piss you off, you forgive me. If you piss me off, I forgive you. It’s how we work.

“Link doesn’t need to forgive me. They don’t need to just accept my idiocy like you. If they don’t like me or something I do, they’ll leave. And I really don’t want them to leave.”

Purah smiled sympathetically to her partner in crime, “You’re selfish.”

“Fuckin’ what?”

Purah laughed. She truly was blessed with the dumbest man in Hyrule.

“You’re gonna hate me for saying this, so ‘sorry’ in advance. If Link doesn’t like you for you? Fuck them.”

Robbie looked at her, his eyes seething with disapproval.

“But do you know what?”

“What?”

“They do. You’re just too dense to realise because you’re so wrapped up in not being yourself. Case in point ‘selfish’.” Purah ended her statement accusingly pointing towards Robbie.

“How do you know they do?”

“Because you do shit like supress your accent to try and sound smarter, which is dumb in of itself you’re a fucking genius, but I know for a fact Link loves you’re accent. They’ve told me. And I know for a fact they love when you tell them about guardians. They’ve told me. And I know for a fact they love your wildly inappropriate jokes. They’ve told me.”

“Have they?” Robbie didn’t believe her; she’s lied to keep him happy before. He looked down to Link, their neck was still crocked.

“Baby, what do you think me and Link talk about when we go to Gerudo Town? Cause it’s not the latest political statement the Queen’s made. It can be about my job, sure. And Link’s latest battles. But a lot of the time, it’s you. You are our common ground. We both love you more than most things in Hyrule, talking about you is what we enjoy.”

Robbie was touched. He was sure his heart grew ten times bigger with love. “How much of that talking is berating me?”

“85%, but that’s not the point. We love you. And you gotta get stronger for Link, put away your fears. Because I can assure you to Hylia above, you, the true authentic hopelessly romantic dumbass you, is all that Link needs from you.

“Now take that pillow from under their head, for goddess’ sake.”

Link woke up a couple hours later, their neck feeling sore. They drew it to illness, however they felt less dead now, which was nice. What was nicer though was the hands that played with their hair. Soft touches massaged their scalp. They wanted to move to see the face of the ever-so handsome barer of these hands, but they didn’t want him to stop, It was a tough choice. However, the barer was the master at noticing the little things. Link’s breathing had changed.

“You awake?” Robbie’s voice was gentle, as not to wake the knight up if he was wrong.

“Barely.” The scientist smiled at the voice, which was hoarser than normal due to grogginess.

Robbie moved his hands from Link’s head, which caused Link to make a sickly groan.

“Carry on.” It was a request that made Robbie’s heart jolt. He was so scared of doing stuff like this in case it made Link panic. He was scared that he may never be forgiven. But he was being asked to. He couldn’t say no, not so something like this.

But to double check, “You sure?”

Link rolled their head ever so slightly so Robbie could see their questioning eyes. They nodded before turning back to their head back to the ES.

Okay. This was okay. He brought his hands back to Link’s head and continues playing with their golden hair.

“Good to see you master Robbie.” The man the other side smiled politely.

“You too my good horsey friend.” This nickname made Link grin as they knew exactly why it existed.

‘Hi Walter’ They signed, giving Robbie the reminder that he needed.

Robbie in thanks nudged Link with his hand a little, “Walter, my pal, were just here to dock Links steed.”

Link dealt with the signings of paper and bid their horse farewell, before turning to Robbie with a look of loving determination on their face. It was those looks which made Robbie go soft. He knew Link held their relationship to the same importance that they did their work, but that look was always different. Protecting the princess? That was a job, everyone knew it. This, now? This was a time that Link could relax, and Robbie felt so damn lucky so see it.

‘ready?’ They signed