No more free hero-ing

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Link, several years after Majora's Mask, still isn't totally pleased with his life. After getting sent back after beating Ganon, all the friendships he'd made were basically erased, Navi left him, he couldn't go back to the forest, and he didn't even get a kiss from the fair maiden he had saved, like in the stories he heard growing up. Or anything else, like in the stories he heard around the kingdom, in taverns and such.

So, feeling a bit bitter, but still basically the same person, Link decides he's not quite done with adventuring, or even being a hero, but he's done with the pro-bono stuff. Goes and gets all the gear from the temples, because what good is it doing there? And then just sets himself up as an adventurer and hero-for-hire. He doesn't really need the Rupees, but it gives him something to do, and in other cases he may get other payment.

He patently refuses payment from Malon for anything, as friends and thanks for Epona. She also refuses to let him help without paying him somehow, so anything he does to help usually results in a tumble in the hay. Or just him visiting. Nabooru doesn't even bother with pretenses, she got a look at him when he went after the Mirror Shield, got to know him, and tracks him down occasionally for a fuck, or has him deliver stuff to the Gerudo from the outside. People also hire him to get stuff and people back from the Gerudo. He never charges because it usually ends up getting him laid, so he considers it an even exchange. Ruto gets herself lost again and needs saving, then still somehow winds up considering him her husband, insisting he perform his marital duties. But in reality, if they just paid in Rupees, he'd still do the job.

The one person he decided that he would never accept just money from for anything, though, is Zelda. He knows it isn't really fair to blame this Zelda for the other's actions, but he can't help himself. So if she ever wants anything from him, by the Tri-Force, he's getting his "hero's reward." And one day, something, a monster, an invasion, anything, requires Link. And he sends an answer to her request in no uncertain terms: he will gladly go to work, but he has a demand. One week, he stays in the castle, and she serves him for that entire time. Full on, she waits at his bedside naked except for a collar, he decides he wants to fuck her on the throne and does it, walks her out onto a balcony to fuck her under the sun.

Which is more precious to Zelda, her country or her pride?