She sat in the cafe window and stared out at the street. Her hair sat lightly on her shoulders. She had dyed it platinum and shaved half of it off so it hung on the right side of her roots of her hair were dyed a royal blue color.

Her T-shirt read, "If you can read this, back off!" in big white letters on black fabric. The skinny jeans she was wearing had tears up and down the front of them. They were dusted with gold paint. Her high tops were a gray color with white soles.

The plugs in her ears that day were black and white. She wore a gold chain around her neck with the word RELENT on it.

This ensemble perfectly showed off her tattoos. Everyone had them, so she wasn't embarrassed. Everyone was born with these tattoos. Everybody's tattoos were unique, except one other person's. If two people had the exact same tattoos, they were soul mates. It didn't matter if the age gap was two years or 20. Gender and race didn't matter either.

The girl's name was A.J. She hadn't found her soul mate yet. To her it seemed like everybody else had. Her older brother, James, found his soul mate when he was 17. A.J. was already 26. Even her best friend, Castiel, had found his soul mate. Cas' soul mate's name was Dean. They've been bound for one year.

A.J. came to see Dean and Cas become bound. She sat with Castiel's family and met most of his brothers and sisters. She remembered Castiel's older sister, Anna, very vividly. A.J. remembered the tattoos that covered Anna's arms. Black lines ran up her arms and met with the ones on her neck. Anna had a small dove on her hand between her thumb and fore finger. The other hand had blue vines growing around her fingers that looked like they grew out of the veins of her wrist.

A.J. also remembered one other person very well. After the binding, Cas told her that it was his older brother named Lucifer. What made A.J. remember him so well was the tattoo that spread across his face. It looked like he had been hit in the side of the face with a water balloon filled with paint. The tattoo streaked his face with a red color that could have easily been mistaken for blood. A.J. had done her best to avoid him. It wasn't just the tattoo that made him look so menacing. It was the fact that Anna told her that Lucifer found his soul mate and became bound to them. Three months after the binding Lucifer's soul mate was found beaten to death in their bedroom.

The police let Lucifer walk on the alibi that he was drunk at a bar and that there were witnesses that could prove this. Ever since then no one in the family fully trusted Lucifer.

A.J. held her iced lemonade in her hands, trying to cool down. It was late July and the hot weather wasn't letting up anytime soon. She watched the people pass by on the sidewalk, cars on the street. She looked down at her hands that were now sitting in her lap.

A.J. had a dusty pink rose on the back of her left hand and a dark blue and black rose on the back of her right hand. The pink rose grew vines that cascaded down her fingers, and were a light green color. The rose on her right hand had black vines with deep red colored thorns on them.

The door to the cafe opened and the small bell rang. A.J. looked to her left and almost fell out of her chair. She saw a man standing there who had golden brown hair and a smirk on his lips. Across his chest and collar bone A.J. could see a tattoo that read BREAK THE CHAINS in a purple ombre coloring and an old English font. She saw the gold tips of eagle wings that stuck out from under his green and white striped wife beater.

A.J. reached up and touched her collar bone. She had the same tattoo. That's how she knew they were eagle wings.

As the man walked to the counter A.J. got a better look at his arms. On the shoulder that A.J. could see was a bone colored skull. The tattoos underneath it looked like lines of orange blood running down his arms to water a silver tree on the outside of his wrist. Above and surrounding the tree was a fading purple and pink sunset. The sky started just before the orange blood could touch it, and ended where his wrist met his hand. A.J.'s eyes flew to look at her left arm and saw the same thing.

When the man walked back from the counter A.J. saw that he had the same tattoos on the other arm. The only difference was that the skull was a aqua marine color and the blood was a bright red. The tree was a gold color and the sky surrounding it was dark purple and blue, and covered in stars. Just like A.J's.

He even had the same blue and black rose, vines, and thorns as A.J.

She watched him go and sit down at a table on the other side of the room. A.J. could just make out the tattoos that covered his ankles. On his right ankle was black and purple colored barbed wire. Where every point stuck into his skin, a small drop of red blood was tattooed on. His left ankle had maroon dusted barbed wire on it. There was no blood on that ankle.

Not wanting to scare the man off, A.J. went back to looking out the window. In her peripheral vision, A.J. watched the door.

When she saw the man leave she got up and followed him. A.J. followed him down the street until he turned the corner and A.J. lost sight of him. She turned into the alley she thought she had seen him walk into.

The blonde haired girl made her way to a turn at the back of the alley. As soon as she rounded the corner someone grabbed her from behind, holding her mouth so no sound could escape. A.J. was pushed face first into the side of the building, and then violently whipped around so she was able to see the face of her attacker.