Ruby sat in the bathroom of their dorm, staring at her side in disgust. She lifted her hand and ran it across the marking that had been permanently etched onto her skin. She felt the urge to scratch at it…to make it so deformed that nobody would be able to tell what it was. a slight knock on the bathroom door caused her to jump.

She looked over at the opening door and panicked, quickly covering the mark with her hand. She sighed in slight relief as she saw it was just her sister staring at her. Her hand fell from her side and she stared at Yang, tears welling in her silver eyes.

A warmth covered her body as her sister hugged her. She began to cry on the shoulder of this girl, snuggling to the warmth of the blonde while she stroked her hair.

"Why can't I be normal? Why couldn't I have a normal soulmate?"

Yang paused, but quickly sighed and continued comforting her sister."I don't know… but I'm here for you no matter what."

Ruby clutched onto her sisters' shirt as if it was a lifeline. "How do I tell Blake and Weiss?"

Yang hugged her closer. "You don't have to tell them anything yet, Ruby."

Ruby closed her eyes and choked back a sob. She wondered what would have happened if soulmarks didn't appear at birth… If her sister wasn't as accepting, how would she have made it this far? It wasn't fair.

She remembered when she found out who her marking belonged to… She and her sister were watching the news after she had been accepted into Beacon. Yang squealed in excitement as a picture of Ruby flashed onto the screen… but their excitement turned to horror when the emblem of the man she had stopped flashed on the screen right after.

The same one etched onto her side.

She let go of her sisters' shirt to place a shaking hand on top of the mark. An orange mark of a jack-o-lantern smile.


Torchwick was annoyed. He had decided to read up on the thorn in his side and to his dismay found the emblem of the kid very familiar.

He quickly compared the emblem to the mark on his side and groaned. "You have got to be kidding me."

When he started calling her the thorn in his side he was joking, fate.

He threw on a shirt and opened the door loudly, causing Neo to look at him with a raised eyebrow. She went to sign but stopped when he held up a hand. He tossed the picture of a red burning rose emblem at the woman, watching as her face went from confused to amused.

'You're soulmated with a dumb kid?' She signed out, trailing off into silent giggles at his nod.

"Neo, if you would kindly stop laughing and help me figure out how to unfuck my life that would be very appreciated."

Neo nodded and walked over to magazine, ripping something out and handing it to him. He growled as he read it over, realizing it was an advertisement for a bounce house kiddie playground. He crumbled it up and tossed it at the laughing assassin.

He really hated his life.


I'm still kinda playing around with the idea of turning this into a whole story, but for now have this oneshot! :)