A.N.: I've read a couple of the Soulmate stories and really liked the idea of it, so I decided to give it a try. This is the first chapter, and if I get enough good responses back about it, I might continue it. Let me know what you think of it, and constructive reviews I'm open too. Let me know if it is any good and I should continue it or if its shitty and it needs to be dropped.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Marvel Characters or the story lines. I only wish I could own Steve Rogers, but I don't. Life is full of disappointments.
The idea of a soulmate is an old one. A cherished one. It has been portrayed in many books, movies, and legends. The idea that there is someone out in the world that was meant for you, made for you is a comfortable one. It helps the future seem less scary, less unsure. To have someone who would love you unconditionally, no matter what you talk like, look like, and think like. Someone who is your exact match. Someone who would love all the things that you would love, someone you could be yourself with and not be afraid of rejection. This is something that many people support and fight for. But like most things, there are people who hate the idea of soulmates. They think that having someone predestined for you takes all the joy of choosing someone out. They think that having someone decided for them by fate is just one step closer to taking away free will. But those aren't the only two people in the world, those who hate soulmates, and those who love soulmates. There is also people like Aurora….
"We should go out tonight!" Aurora winced and held her phone a further away from her ear. As much as she loved her friend Angel, she didn't want to go deaf from her.
"I Can't" she sighed, as she continued to wash the dishes. "I got to start my essay for school" She heard an aggravated groan from the other end, but didn't pay much attention to it. She was busy trying to scrap off the very stubborn sauce from a pan from last night. She really needed to start rinsing off the dishes right away.
"You literally just finished your junior year at Julliard, how the hell do you have an essay to do already?" Aurora heard a thump from the other end and some very colorful swear words. She is 90% positive that both her and Angel's language was what made them as good friends as they are now. They both could make a sailor blush, and that's not even a joke. They did make one blush at a bar they went to a couple of weeks ago. "I swear all you do is stupid school work. And when you aren't doing that you're at that stupid job of yours! You need a break, to go drink and party with me! All this working that you have been doing is seriously unhealthy Rora."
Aurora sighed deeply through her nose. She did work a lot, but she had a perfectly good reason for working as much as she did. As a matter of fact, she has two good reasons, burnt on the inside of her wrists. She looked down at them now, covered in suds from the dish water. When she first woke up to the burning on her wrists, it was one in the morning. She just got back from a long day at school, and an even longer shift at the restaurant. She was beyond tired and chalked the burning up to just exhaustion. Aurora was told about the burning feeling people get when their soulmate name appears somewhere on their body. The only thing is that most people get theirs when their soulmate was born. Aurora was 21 when they started to appear. Maybe appear is the wrong word. She had marks on her wrists since she was born, the only difference was that they were grey and smudged. The sign that the person was dead. When her parents finally told her what that meant, she spent a week laying in bed and crying. Why would fate be so cruel as to give her two dead soulmates. The one on her left wrist would occasionally come into focus every now and then, just enough for her to make out some of the name. But never it never turned black and came into full focus. It was like that one soulmate was alive, but dead at the same time.
When both names appeared, she was in shock. She stumbled into the bathroom and flipped on the light to make out the names. Aurora stood in shock for at least 10 minutes. She liked to consider herself a bit of a history buff, so she recognized the names right away. The next day when the news came on, the big story was the two dead super soldiers from the forties that were found. Captain America was found in the ice about a month ago, and has been awake for some time. But the other soldier, the winter soldier as he was dubbed, was found by the captain on his first mission awake. He was invading a terrorist strong hold, (that was later found to be a hydra one) when he found a cryogenic freezer tube. And hidden inside was his old friend that had fallen from the train. Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes, with a metal arm and a messed-up mind. The billionaire, Tony Stark had found a way to, in lack of a better word, fix his mind. And the rest of it was history. The news said that they both were awake and fighting for America again. Then when, about a month ago, the aliens appeared and shield came out of the shadows, the big story was that both Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes where now a part of the team called the Avengers, fighting to save the world from the weirder world.
But Aurora didn't care about all of that, she just cared that the two men that were supposed to be dead, where now alive and inscribed on the inside of her wrists. She wanted to go right away and meet them, but then Angel pointed out a very important fact to her. There was a bunch of groupies with fake soul marks were claiming to be the two soldiers' soulmates. She didn't want to be brushed off by the men like all those other foolish looking girls. Aurora decided to wait for the craziness to taper off. But when 1 week of the madness turned into two weeks then into 3 weeks, and Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes got more frustrated and pissed about all the people, Aurora chickened out. She decided to not try and talk to them. If she ran into them and got to meet them, then yeah, maybe she would act on it. But if that never happened, then she would survive, she has this long.
Angel yelling her name of the phone brought her out of her thought and back into the real world. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" Aurora said. She heard a groan from the other end. From the sound of that groan, Rora was almost positive that Angel knew where her thoughts had gone.
"You know if you just talk to them. Tell them your name and set up a date to meet. They won't think that you are a fake if you tell them your full name." Angel sounded almost hesitant while speaking. Like saying those words out loud would break Aurora for hearing them. "They would know that you're the legit thing because you name should be on them somewhere."
"You know that I won't do that. They look happy enough now, they don't need me to mess things up." Aurora defended. She saw the two soldiers all the time on the t.v., or the tabloids. Captain America and the Winter Soldier seem to be some of the favorites on the Avenger team. You couldn't go anywhere without Steve Rogers iconic shield and the Red star off Barnes arm plastered on the back of cars, on sweatshirts, hanging from keychains, or even (and Aurora isn't even joking with this one, she actually saw this) spray painted onto some people's lawns. Although she would be lying if she said that she didn't buy a sweatshirt with the star on the back and the shield on the front. But she only wore it around the house, never in public.
Angel mumbled on the other end of the phone call. "What if they are looking for you right now? What if they are searching high and low for the one that was meant for them, but can't find you. That would be so romantic! And tragic, but mostly romantic!"
"Angel, you and I both know that if they were looking for me, then they would have found me by now. For god's sake they live with Tony Fucking Stark. And he has the world at his fingertips. So obviously they aren't looking. And if they aren't looking them I'm not going to look" Aurora said with finality.
"Fine, I know enough now not to fight with you about this anymore. I'm almost 100% positive that I have you argument against it, memorized by now." Aurora heard shuffling from the other end as she started draining the dirty water from the sink. She left the rest of the dishes in the drying rack to air dry. She was too lazy to dry and put them away tonight. She could do that tomorrow. "Anyways, back to my original topic," Angel continued. "I want to go out tonight to party, there is this new club downtown that just opened up and I want to check it out. You know the one, The Frozen Star, I think it's called. A guy that I work with went there the other night and said it was awesome and the drinks are cheap."
"Angel, you know the line is going to be ridiculously long, right? It wouldn't matter how cheap the drinks are if I have to stand in line for an hour to get in."
"I know the bouncer, and he agreed to get us in right away." Aurora could practically feel the smugness coming from Angel through the phone. "So, there will be no waiting what so ever. What's your next excuse, so I can shoot that down too?"
Aurora sighed through her nose. She knew that once Angel set her mind to something, nothing could change her mind. She looked over at her computer where her 15-page essay was waiting to be written. She really didn't want to do it. And she could always do it tomorrow. She has all the notes and research done already, all she needed to do was type it up. And she could do that in at least an hour. Aurora grumbled. "Fine, I'll go with you, what time did you want to meet up?"
The squeal that Angel gave off was almost deafening. "I'll pick you up at 8:30, wear that nice silver dress and heels that I got you for Christmas last year." The next thing that Aurora heard was the click of the phone hanging up. She put her phone down and checked the time. It was now 4:30, that gave her just enough time to eat something quick, then to hop into the shower and start getting ready. Joy.
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