agentalien:

fandom: check please

relationship: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann (zimbits)

rating: T (canon-typical drug use, etc.)

wordcount: 8.6k

summary:  au where your soulmark doesn’t settle until you’ve met your soulmate. Neither Jack or Eric notice when it happens. 

written for the @omgcp-tropechallenge​ ‘soulmate au’ prompt

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Eric’s mark settles on his first day at Samwell. In his excitement, he doesn’t even notice until he gets back to the dorms late at night. He freezes when he sees it, heart hammering in his chest as he takes in the sight of that still, clear mark on his skin.

He’s been waiting for this day, like all people do. For years, he has been watching his mark shift and change, willing it to settle down with every new person he met. But even so, he just didn’t expect it to happen now – day one of college and he’s already met his soulmate. Eric swoons, falls down on his bed and studies the Soulmark on his wrist.

It doesn’t give much away – it’s a one in simple, clean lines like something he might find on the back of an athlete’s jersey. It makes something in his chest hurt when he thinks about the hockey team he’s about to join and all the other athletes he’s met today (maybe, he thinks, just maybe). Of all the things he’s imagined his mark may settle as, it’s far from anything he’s ever dreamed of.

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