A/N-This is my entry for the Reverse Bang. Since I got so many readers here, I thought eh, why not upload it here as well? This is a Fantasy AU, where mutants are called "Gifted". The Xavier School is transmutated to Heaven and Erik's Brotherhood is Hell. Literally, I kid thou not!
My entry for the XMRB, based on keire-ke's amazing, *le mind-boggling* art. I have no words to explain how fortunate I feel working with keire_ke and her affinity to angels. I found my lost soul-sister, I'm telling ya all.
Also, a truck full of gratitude to afrocurl, (and I've already offered my soul to her, sorry,) for betaing this. I swear I'd have been lost without you!
I do not own any pictures I used in the banners; the credits are given at the end of each chapter. I actually put the links from where I downloaded the pictures; if any proper credits are missing, please inform!
I hope everyone enjoys reading this as much as I did writing.


They say soulmates are meant to be together. No matter what obstacles they face, how perilous the journey is, or how heart-breaking the turns are. In the end, they always find each other. They will recognize each other and they will end up together.

Fate has spun so many legends on this celestial topic. Elders say an invisible red ribbon connects two soulmates together. Writers say the first letter of your soulmate's name is etched on the creases of your thumb-there to stay, always. Poets say time stops the first time you look into the eyes of your soulmate- no matter whatever be the color of their eyes, you find yourself drowning in the ocean depths. Painters never found anything as beautiful, as perfect as the smile of your one true love. Musicians describe the tinkle of their laughter as the loveliest sound to the ear, like lavenders gently dancing in the wind, like the sound of the first drop of dew collecting at the edge of a leaf and falling to the forest floor, gently caressing the dirt

But Faith has her own share of irony. Sometimes, it takes longer than a first meeting to recognize each other.

But they always do. Because they fit together like little puzzle pieces; they might not share the same interests, but they share the same passion. And most important of all- they understand each other.

Isn't that what every soul is looking for? Someone who understands them, someone to whom they don't have to justify their actions, someone, who accepts them for who they are? Because that someone, is their soulmate, their other half, their true companion. All other feelings, love, compassion, attraction, come next.

But what happens, when the soulmates live in different worlds? When they are bred to destroy the other? When they are taught to think and work for just the opposite causes? When they have different faiths?

What happens when soulmates are bound by duties and responsibilities, by honor and reputation? What happens when the Worlds see them as enemies? Can they betray their own people for their love? Is their love a force strong enough for them to abandon the ones depending on them?

But the most bothering question of all, would their own hearts accept that they are meant to be? That underneath all the hatred, their blood pulse in the same rhythm, yearning for each other? That just for once, they should listen to their hearts and not their brains?