The definition of a soul mate is 'A person with whom you have an immediate connection the moment you meet'. When you fall in love with someone who is your soul mate, this fire ignites within you that burns bright and cant be diminished no matter how hard others try to put it out, because your love for each other is so strong that nobody could tear you apart.
Every one thinks soul mates are just a person. You love the person, once they die, then the love in physical form ends, all you have is your emotional connection.
The hint is in the title, a soul mate, its your soul that is in love with that persons soul, the two souls have bonded together to form a bond like no other, a bond which cant be broken easily, if it all.
When my soul mate died, i was distraught. I thought i wouldn't be able to see him ever again, speak to him, hear that goofy laugh of his that he hated yet I loved. All the things that were perfect about him to me, the reasons i loved him to the end of the universe and back, I wouldn't be able see or hear any of them ever again.
Until I realized what a soul mate meant.
Even after death of one of the bodies the soul belongs to, the souls are still bonded, you can still communicate with one and another. Well, as long as the soul in the living body is asleep that it.
That's the annoying thing, it only works when asleep, that's the only time the two souls can reconnect when the soul in the living body departs. This is what everyone calls dreaming. The difference between these dreams and the dreams of those who's soul mate is still living, is instead of your soul wandering and interacting with the other souls who's bodys are still alive, Your soul ends up in a place called the vinculum, in short, its a place where bonded souls can meet again regardless of their physical state.
"Pinch me I'm dreaming" Bucky choked out, It had been 3 days since Steve had been murdered, Bucky still feels the blood between his fingers from when he was sobbing over Steve' still cold form. Steve shouldn't have died, not like that, not by getting shot twice in the chest, one bullet hitting his heart, the other the coronary arteries, he tried all he could to stop the bleeding, but it was in vain, his heart had stopped moments after being hit.
Bucky jerked upright in bed with a gasp, he moved his left arm to touch Steve, like he always did after a nightmare, as his hand brushed empty bed space Bucky drew his knees up to his chest, silent tears turned into ugly sobs as Bucky remembered his best friend, his boyfriend's, death a few days prior.
He grabbed the bear Steve had bought him for his birthday the other week, and held it close to his chest, allowing his tears to leak onto the bears forehead. It was the last thing Steve had given him, The bear itself was nothing remarkable, just a standard light tan teddy bear with curly coat, On his left paw he had a voice box embedded which when pressed would speak "Happy birthday buck, Your my only one" in Steve's voice.
Bucky rocked onto his back, and eventually his side, the bear soaking up the tears and his endless muttering of "I'm sorry Stevie".
It wasn't until the next time he fell asleep a few hours later that he realized that he could speak to Steve in his dreams, That Steve wasn't truly gone forever, just his body, their soul's bonded for eternity.
A/N - (vinculum is latin for bond)