Fill In My Heart


Almost everyone has a soul mate. You know when you look at your skin. Most commonly it's on the arms, but whenever something marks the skin of your soul mate, it shows up on yours. Same for the reverse, it was almost like a telephone line. It has been the way of this world forever...

Need: Milk, Eggs, Honey.

Aiden stares at the palm of his hand and frowns at the faded ink there, "I'm starting to think my soul-mate is a ditz."

In the dinner booth across from him Lukas laughs, "Maybe they want to humor you."

Aiden's soul-mate had shown up when he was thirteen. The day the marks showed up on your arms were never consistent. Some had them in their late teens, some in their late fifties or up, sometimes even never. Aiden had been a bit on the young side, and it startled and frightened him to look down on his arm one day and see a dinosaur there.

Lukas got lucky in his opinion; his didn't show up until he was sixteen.

Aiden never wrote on his arm, ever. He didn't like the concept that his life was now tied to someone else. There was no privacy on his skin, if anything ended up on there the other would know. Most traditionalists believed you should be with your soul-mate in marriage. This wasn't true for everyone, some soul mates stayed best friends their entire lives, but this was not common practice. To Aiden, it felt like his choice, his life, was no longer his alone.

He hated it.

He wore long sleeves most of the time, mainly because he didn't want to look at his arms. Couldn't do much about his hands though, unless he wanted to wear gloves. But it was too hot for that most of the time, save for winter.

It was strange to him, having art on your skin, or notes, or some random phone number, or if your soul mate was an ass having dicks drawn on your arm.

He knew a few people like that...

His soul mate was very artistic, for lack of a better word. It didn't surprise Aiden to wake up in the morning to have art sprawled over both of his arms. He concluded the other was ambidextrous, because neither side was of lesser quality to the other. The markings varied, from full blown pieces of art -Lukas had taken photos of a few of them - to random pen scratches and shopping notes. The only part that remained constant is there was always a diagonal shepherd's hook on the inside of Aiden's left wrist. He never understood the symbol and looked it up whenever he had the chance.

Nothing.

Aiden knew his 'other half' lived somewhere in town, he recognized some of the addresses the person on the other end wrote down. But he never sought the other out, and as previously stated had yet to write anything on his arm to make contact.

Lukas was scrawling something on his own palm right now.

Aiden sighed, "What are you writing now..."

Lukas grinned sheepishly, "Petra wants to know when we're having lunch tomorrow."

He gave his best friend a look, "You know she has a phone right?"

Two years ago Lukas had finally met his soul mate in person, humorously enough it had been the girl he had a crush on that lived two doors down. Petra. Aiden knew her, like Lukas he practically grew up together with her. It was cute, but the third wheeling was annoying.

"Yeah, but she's out in the woods doing her park ranger job and there is no cell service."

Ah, good ole Petra and her love of nature.

"Sorry I'm late guys!" Jesse slid into the booth next to Lukas, he's flushed, and out of breath, probably from running. In his hand is a coffee from another shop that Aiden is pretty sure shouldn't be in the diner.

Lukas had known Jesse longer that Aiden had. But the male was nice and always polite; Aiden didn't mind having him around. Jesse however, unlike Lukas didn't talk about his soul mate. He wears long sleeves most of the time, and when he doesn't there is never any markings present.

One of their friends asked one day, and Jesse simply shrugged it off, saying there hadn't been any yet. It left the possibility that Jesse might not have one.

Aiden glanced down at his palm, the marks were gone.

"What can I get you boys," It's Magnus the diner owner. Magnus likes to sport his markings, his tattoos he calls them. His wife and soul mate, Ellegaard is an engineer in over fifteen different subjects. Her arms and therefore Magnus's are riddled in mathematical drabble. "Jesse, no outside drink,"

"Sorry," Jesse says blushing.

"I'll let it slide this time. Now what can I get ya..."


Aiden's in class, working on a painting project for the university play. Maya was in drama and somehow bullied him and Gill into working on the sets since the construction class is short students.

That's when everything changed for Aiden.

He was up high, working on painting in red curtains for the theater set - the play was the Phantom of the Opera. He's hot and sticky and goes to flick some sweat off his forehead.

ARE YOU OKAY?

The words are big and bold on the back of his hand. Aiden freezes, lowering paint brush into his bucket. In all his years, his soul mate had never actually talked to him.

He doesn't do anything; just watches as the markings slowly fade.

But they come back, this time in bright green ink.

ARE YOU OKAY?

He thinks for a moment, staring at the words on his hand. They seem so strange and foreign; knowing that someone had wrote this. ...Then to his surprise, Aiden pulls out a sharpie from the back of his pocket and writes under the message.

Yes?

Moments later, the first set of words fade and a new batch takes place of the back of his hand.

You're bleeding.

Confused Aiden looks at his hands, but there is only the red smear of paint, all over his- oh. The faded red does look a little like blood. Along with pen and paint - cuts, wounds and blood is visible to the opposite end of the soul spectrum.

Aiden scribbles on his palm:

It's just paint, sorry to freak you out. I'm working on a theater set.

A few seconds pass:

Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I had to ask, I didn't think there was anyone on the other end. I was a little surprised to see red on my hands.

Well, you've been doodling on me for years. You'll get used to it.

LOL, and you haven't said anything? Sorry about that. I'm glad you answered, and I'm super glad you're okay.

Aiden flushes a little,

Thanks for checking though.

No problem.

Then the messages stop. Aiden stares at his hand.


"So you just started talking?" Lukas asks.

"Yep." Aiden pops the 'p'. "I don't know why- they thought I was bleeding... They said they didn't know anyone was on the other end."

"Well, you've never written on your skin before," Lukas answers, "Maybe they thought they didn't have one."

The statement catches Aiden off guard a little, he hadn't thought of that before. How many people have gone through their life without the other end responding?

He looks down at his forearm; his partner is feeling artistic today. Aiden gets to sport a really cool but temporary dragon tattoo.

He actually smiles at it for a change.


Hello? Aiden finally tests.

Yep?

Aiden blinks surprised that the other is responding. How are you today?

Ugh, college, if you know what I mean? It sucks to be nearly twenty.

Aiden laughs, also relieved to know that his 'soul mate' is a similar age to him: Yeah I do. What are you majoring in?

Photography, I want to travel the world. You?

Architecture. But I'm also getting an English Major on the side; I really want to be a writer.

Go for it.

The words make him happy. It's unnatural. Trying not to get too excited, he smears away his old message, Why travel?

My dad and mom used to travel a lot. Until we settled down here in Buildsburg.I miss going places, but this place is cool.

Aiden smirks, It's a nice town.

...Wait do you live here?

Yep.

O.M.G. That is super cool. I'm glad you're not on the other side of the world, haha, maybe one day I'll meet you.

Maybe. =)


"Gah! It's freezing!" Jesse stamps his feet into the snow.

Late summer and autumn have past, it is now winter break.

Aiden looks at his phone, "Well, Lukas just canceled.

"What?!"

Aiden stuffs his phone back into his pocket and quickly yanks on his glove, "He says he and Petra got snowed in at the cabin. They can't get out."

"I hope they get eaten by a wendigo," Jesse mumbles.

Aiden laughs.

"Well, at least he's with Petra... They'll have fun I'm sure," he states with a wiggle of his eyebrows, then, "You said Gill and Maya couldn't make it?"

"No, what about Olivia and Axel?"

"They at Axels' parent's beach house in Florida."

"Bummer," Aiden sighs, "Whelp, I guess I better head then."

"Wait," Jesse says.

Aiden pauses.

Jesse shifts in the snow, "It kinda just hit me that you and I have never really...well, hung out together. We've always been bridged with someone we knew."

Aiden thinks on that, and yeah, it's true. He's only really hung out with Jesse in a group setting. "You're right."

"Do you wanna hang out right now? I mean," Jesse gestures around, "We're already at the mall, might as well not waste the trip - I'm sorry that sounded rude - I'm not sure what we could do? We could still catch the movie."

"Get a little revenge on Lukas and Petra?" Aiden suggests, "We can watch the new Avenger's movie they really wanted to see. I think there is one airing in about an hour."

Jesse nods, knowing just as well the missing pair liked the super heroes movies, "Who wants to go through on that stupid dare anyway."

Aiden laughs. "We can catch Fifty Shades of Grey first then watch the obviously better movie. We collect the dare money later, it's a win win."

The brunet is grinning, "Let's do it," he whispers.


"I can't believe she thought we were dating!"

"Did you see her expression?!"

"I know! It was hilarious!"

They're at Jesse's apartment. Gill and Maya were borrowing Aiden's wheels, and Jesse's was in the shop. So they had been walking all over town, and it was much closer to Jesse's place then it was Aiden's dorm room. So he pit stopped at his fellow youths place just to warm up.

Jesse drops onto the couch across from Aiden, "Avengers was awesome man, but that girl who sat next to us in Fifty Shades, almost made the movie tickets worth it."

"I think she was expecting us to make out," Aiden laughed. He was happy, almost blissfully so. He hadn't this much fun in a long time, and it made him regret not hanging out with Jesse sooner. After the double feature, they had hit the mall and most of the outlying shops. Attacked the arcade for a bit, and even got some Christmas gifts for their friends. It had been a blast.

"We should have." Jesse teased.

"I'd out kiss you I think."

Jesse snorts but doesn't try to contradict him. He grabs the TV remote, briefly turning on the news. "Ugh, blizzard warning."

"I guess that's my cue then," The weather report dampens Aiden's mood a little. He gets up, "It's been fun Jesse, but I better get going. I have a long way to walk."

"It's less than twenty degrees out." Jesse states.

"I know."

"Dude," Jesse leans back on the couch, "Just crash here."

Aiden pauses, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I have a guest bedroom. It's mostly my office room, but there is a spare bed in there. You can sleep here tonight. No point in me turning on the news in the morning and hearing about a frozen college student two blocks from the university."

` "I don't want to intrude..."

"I have an original Nintendo." Jesse hums.

Aiden blinks, "Yeah okay."

They ended up getting nearly zero sleep. There was a Mario Kart battle, and a pillow fort contest involving a popcorn war. Aiden was almost reluctant to leave the following morning.

Luckily, Jesse asks him to hang out a lot more after that.


Do you like anyone?

Aiden taps his pen on his wrist for a moment, Yeah, I think I do. You?

There is someone yeah.

Hot?

Oh yeah. What about yours.

Aiden thinks about it, thinking about that certain someone and the antics at the ice rink earlier that day. Yep. Pretty funny too.

Perfect combo!

What about yours?

Oh very funny, and polite, we get into all sorts of shenanigans and...

Aiden watches the ink travel down his arm, a whole forearms worth of descriptions. His heart hurts suddenly. He realizes why people think you should marry your soul mate. There is this special, unearthly connection. It makes him happy to talk to this person, someone he's never met, someone he doesn't even know the name of. He wants to met them, wants to see the face behind the pen-

Jesse.

He realized a week ago - after months of hanging out -that he had a thing for Jesse. While it made him giddy to be around the other male, there was always that lingering thought...

What about the soul mate?

You still there? I haven't killed you in boredom yet have it?

Nope keep talking.

Are you okay with me wanting someone else? I mean, we ARE soul mates.

Who says we have to be together? I'm not going to force you to be with me just because we can see writing on our arms.

Lol, same goes to you.

So we cool?

Cool Beans and Coolorama!


"It's half a heart," Olivia says one day.

Aiden lowers his glass, "What?"

She leans across the booth, "The hook on your wrist, I think it's half a heart."

Aiden stares at the shepherd's hook, "Are you sure?"

Olivia takes her pen and fills in the other half with a matching cane, sure enough, a perfect heart. "Yep, pretty sure."

Aiden wipes it off hopefully before his soul mate notices.


"I had a lot of fun today," Jesse says, pulling off his dripping wet shirt.

There was water balloon fight. Aiden schooled everyone.

It's summer now. School is out for everyone.

Aiden looks at the floor, "Yeah me too."

"Aiden?"

"Hmmm?" he looks up.

Jesse is scarlet, staring hard, posture stiff, Aiden is immediately nervous.

"Dude," he tries to laugh it off, "Are you sun burnt?"

Except Jesse doesn't burn, Jesse tans. Not like Aiden took the time notice that no way. But the suggestion is weak all the same.

"Aiden I-" Jesse turns a deeper shade of red, "Do you...want...Tohavedinnerwithmeandmyparentsthisweekend? It'sLaborDayandwe'rehavinghamburgersandstuffanddoyouwannajoin?"

Aiden's heart skips a beat, but he plays it off cool and raises an eyebrow, "You get enough oxygen there sport." The other male however is still stressing, so Aiden laughs, "I'd like that."

Jesse exhales, "Oh good."

Aiden hits him with a water balloon, all the while looking at the mark on his wrist.


"I like you're tattoo,"

Jesse's parents, long story short, are awesome.

Aiden sits at the patio table, with the dad, probably having the subtle talk that every parent has to go through when their kid brings someone home for Labor Day.

The dad looks at his wrist, a simple bold heart, "Actually it's only half of one. But thank you."

The youth stares at the complete heart, confused, "Half?"

"My wife has the other half tattooed on her wrist."

Aiden glances at the kitchen window, where Jesse playfully splashes his mother with dish water, "Other half? So she's-"

"The Mrs, is my soul mate," the other male confirms. "Together our marks make a whole heart." he rubs his wrist fondly on the print, "It fades when we travel away from each other. But it always gets bolder when we get close. It's nice to know when I'm not far away. We got it as a promise. Because I love her so much there is no one in the world I'd rather be with. Call me a traditionalist, but a soul mate, is a very special thing, I can't imagine being with anyone else."

Aiden looks at his half on his own wrist and feels his heart throb.


I want to meet you.

Aiden writes back a shaky response, Are you sure? I thought we like the mystery.

I do, it's just, I really like talking to you. But I want to see the face behind the ink, you know?

Before Aiden can respond another, message quickly scrawls out.

We don't have to do this.

No I want to.

Have you heard of TNT Diner?

Aiden laughs, Magnus's place? Yeah I know it.

Great! Saturday at 1?

Sounds good.

Aiden's phone goes off then, he flips it open, reading the text in the bright light.

It's Jesse: Hey! Miss you! Having a blast down at the lake but wish you were here! Hope you're Acing your finals !.

Aiden stares at the two different prints in either hand and groans. He spends the rest of the night studying if it is possible to separate from your life partner. There is only one way-

Death.


"Aiden!" Aiden stops short of the diner and nearly jumps out of his skin.

"Jesse?!"

His friend runs up, and pecks him on the cheek in that playful stupid way that always embarrasses Aiden. Eyes sparkling in delight, "I thought you had to run errands today?"

"I do."

Jesse smiles, "Well it's almost lunch time do you want to-"

"Can't," Aiden blurts out. What would Jesse think if he saw Aiden with his soul mate? They were so close by this point. Almost dating according to Petra. It would crush him. "I really got to keep going Jesse."

The brunet looks hurt, "Oh, okay. See you around?"

"Yep," Aiden's already walking away from the diner. "See you around." He tries to ignoring the heavy feeling in his chest, and rounds the corner. He yanks out a pen and quickly scratches out onto his hand. I'm sorry I can't make it.

The response comes a few minutes later.

Oh, okay. Another time then.

The messages dwindle after that day.

So do Jesse's texts.


He does talk to him at a party later on that weekend. But that's when everything goes south.

"Are you okay?" Jesse had pulled him aside, "You seem to be a bit dodgy lately,"

"I'm fine," Aiden mumbles out, "Don't worry." He's been asked that question multiple times so far this week, now he's on auto mode.

"Are you sure?" Jesse presses, "Did I say something or-"

"No it's not you." Then it slips. "I'm just trying to figure out things with my soul mate and-" It is in this moment, Aiden truly realizes who he is talking to.

"Soul mate?!"

Too late.

He looks at Jesse and sees the shock and hurt in his eyes, "Wait hold on."

Jesse is pink in the cheeks, just a bit, but he's covering it well, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you had one, you never talked about them."

"We just started talking," Aiden sputtered out, "But you never talk out about yours-"

"I have one," He says defensively, surprising Aiden, "But we've both made an agreement not to drop everything in our lives just to be with each other. Which is why I thought..."He hesitated, "Never mind it's not important now. I didn't realize you were working things out."

"Jesse wait-"

Jesse cut off, "I'm sorry, excuse me," he turns and returns to the party. But the youth's mood has gone down, and Aiden knows it's his fault.

He stands there and lets him leave, because Aiden doesn't know what to do.


Aiden is stuck, connected with one person and in love with another. The later, he now knows loved him back except he has now crushed him heart and soul.

Great.

"You gotta tell him" Ivor says, the only professor at the school Aiden is comfortable enough to discuss this subject with. "Talk to Jesse first, explain everything to him. He's an understanding boy; maybe he'll help you work things over with your soul mate."

Aiden groans and drops his head on his desk.

Jesse shares the same class as him today and is usually early, Aiden could talk to him then. But Jesse shows and doesn't seem to feel like talking. He smiles politely then crosses to the other end of the room, flips open his book and starts studying. It crushes Aiden, realizing with all the dodging he's done and the conversation at the party, he's probably destroyed both of his relationships. Class starts before he can work up the nerve to talk to him.

Halfway through class however, he notice's something. Jesse isn't wearing the bracelet's he usually wears on his left wrist. He always does but today he must have forgot to wear them, the skin is bear. Well...almost blank anyway. As the other male lifts his book to turn a page, Aiden see's it-

A shepherd's hook, on the inside of the wrist.

Could it be?

He never actually talked to his soul mate while he was with Jesse. He never wanted to seem rude. But now...Aiden does a little doodle on his hand then, a large star on the back of his right palm, he looks up and sure enough.

A large star is on Jesse's palm

Jesse is his soul mate.

Jesse...is his soul mate.

Aiden goes back to his books, but he can't stop grinning.


"Gotta date?"

"Maybe," Aiden looks up from his seat in the booth, "Do you two always eat here?"

Petra elbows Lukas, "More than we'd like to admit eh handsome?"

The blond laughs, "Seriously though, what are you doing here by yourself?"

"Meeting Jesse," Aiden responds, he decided earlier the best place to break the new was someplace comfortable to the both of them. It took a bit of coaxing, Jesse had been reluctant to be alone with him as of late, but he finally managed.

Lukas raises and eyebrow, "Oh really? Can we join you?"

"Till he gets here yes,"

Thankfully his best friend gets the message, and he smiles, "Sounds cool."

Petra and Lukas join him, and it's a half hour of idle chatter before Aiden notices that Jesse is late for even Jesse. He tries not to stress, but it's hard. Lukas notices and tries to ease the tension but it does little to sooth.

"You know Jesse," he laughs uneasily.

"Yeah..."

Was Jesse so mad at him to stand him up?

His arms hurt, and so does most of his body. Aiden decides its tension.

"Are you okay?" Lukas asks, it's been an hour now, "You look pale."

"Just a little sore." He's sweaty too, but he doesn't say. He reaches for the chrome napkin holder at the side of the booth, hoping to at least ease the stickiness at the back of his neck.

"Why are you sore?"

"I don't really-" Aiden pauses, eyeing his warbled reflection in the silver metal of the napkin holder. Red, there is a dark irritated streak of red, just underneath his jaw line.

What the...

His wrist has it too, now that he's noticing things. There are angry jagged lines running up his wrists, and they are getting brighter.

Petra spots them, "Aiden what is wrong with you hand?"

"I don't-"

The wail of a siren catches their attention, and the trio looks up just in time to see an ambulance race by the diner. For a split second, Aiden's soreness escalates to an unbearable pain, he actually cries out from it. It grows and then as soon as the ambulance passes it quickly begins to recede.

Lukas is worried now ,"Aiden what's wrong?!"

Aiden stares at his hand, the marks already fading out. Oh, no, oh no, oh, NO! He shoves off the booth, "Jesse!"

Something has happened to Jesse!

"What's wrong? What do you mean Jesse?! Aiden!"

Aiden's already out the door, he doesn't bother to go for his car, he left the keys on the booth. He just starts running, following the wail of the sirens.


He burst into the ER, lungs screaming, he's gasping for air, eyes probably wild and hair most likely a mess. But he blends in, with all the other panicking people in the room. He spots a brief glimpse of Jesse's tousled hair just before they wheel him beyond the doors.

Aiden goes to follow after only to be stopped by a nurse, "Hold on a sec young man!"

"I'm here to see Jesse-"

"Family only!"

"I'm his soul mate!" Aiden doesn't feel the slightest bit guilty playing that card. Law has it so that soul mates have just as much priority as immediate family members. It's no secret that soul mates are close and care very deeply for each other, situations such as this can be very stressful. It's not a lie to Aiden, his is the soul mate, and he cares...a lot.

"Something to identify?" The nurse says the question she must always ask that Aiden must pass.

He hesitates, but only for a second, "He has a shepherds hook on the inside of his left wrist. He rolls up his sleeve, showing her his copy of the mark. He tries not to panic at the sight of faded blood on his skin as well.

The nurse leaves, and it is an agonizing five minutes of waiting. Then, "I'm sorry sweetie you can't see him." Her voice is much more gentle this time.

Terror flares, "But I-"

"Your marks match, but he's in operation right now. You have to wait."

Wait.

Aiden waits, and it nearly kills him. Lukas calls at one point and Aiden spills out everything to him. He and Petra come by later, to give Aiden his car, his wallet, and a change of clothes. The hospital gives him Jesse's phone, he pulls the parent's number and calls them. They were on vacation across the country. They'll be in by afternoon the following day.

Aiden learns it was a hit by a drunk driver. Jesse had been walking across the crosswalk when... ... ...Three people had been hit in total. One had died before the medical teams could get there, the other was stable. Jesse, Jesse wasn't.. ...Aiden prays cause that's all he can do, he can do nothing else.

Now he waits.


"Ouch,"

Aiden's eyes shoot open; it had been along sleepless night of staying in the world's most uncomfortable chairs. The surgeons had gotten Jesse stabilized, and Aiden was finally able to be in the room. It was just more waiting though, waiting for him to wake up.

Aiden glances at the clock, it was only 10:30, he had fallen asleep finally about twenty minutes ago, shortly after Jesse's Dad called saying they were almost there.

Had he dreamed Jesse was up-

"Fuck."

Now he's fully awake, cause Jesse would never curse. He leans forward shooting towards the bed, "Jesse?"

The young man is struggling to get up, "Aiden? Where am I what-"

"Stay down; you'll tear your stitches."

"S...stitches?" he relents to laying back down on the pillow, "I feel like I've been hit by a truck."

"It was a Prius actually." Aiden says softly. "You were hit by a drunk driver. You suffered internal bleeding and you were in operation for over four hours. The doctors finally got you stabilized. You're parents will be here soon."

"They let you in?"

Aiden pauses, "I...pulled some strings," he says gently, deciding that Jesse need to go through simpler information at this point in time.

Jesse goes quiet; he stares at the ceiling for a moment, processing the information, then, "I'm sorry."

"What? For what?"

"Being an ass," Jesse says weakly, he looks like he might cry, the drugs and pain have messed with his body big time, "You were figuring things out, and I was such a-"

"Shhh it's okay, I'm not mad," Aiden sooths, "I should have told you about my soul mate."

"It wasn't your obligation," Jesse hisses out, "I shouldn't have reacted the way I did."

"Dude, the drugs have you so messed up right now," Aiden says, "We don't have to talk about this."

"Yes we do, because I could have died, and I would have died, and you would have always thought that I-" Jesse chokes, "That I- that I didn't want to talk with you anymore, that I didn't like you and that's not it. I really do like being with you Aiden, I need you to know that right now."

"I like being with you too."

"No you don't understand, I-"

Aiden presses a gentle kiss on Jesse forehead, "More than you know actually."

Jesse groans, " As much as I want to cry in delight right now, it's not fair to you, you have a soul mate and I just need to step out of the picture-"

"Jesse," Aiden says smiling, he lays a wrist on Jesse's hands, "How in the world do you think I got in here?"

Jesse stares at the half a heart on Aiden's wrist, "I didn't know you had a tattoo," he managed to slur out.

Aiden tries not to laugh and turns Jesse's own wrist upward, revealing Jesse's mark. "No, but you do."

"Wha?" he mumbles.

Aiden pulls out a sharpie and quickly fills in the other half on his wrist, watching as an identical match forms slowly on his partner's.

Jesse look at it a moment, then with the best he could muster under drugs, "You filled in my heart."

"Yep."

He squints still trying to figure it out, "Oh...OH." Jesse looks at Aiden, "You're my-"

"Soul mate? Yep! Ever since I was thirteen, imagine my surprise one day when I looked at my arm and there was a dinosaur drawing on it."

"Oh. My. God." He leans into Aiden's shoulder, "I have been drawing on my arms for years, why didn't you say anything?"

"I just found out it was you a few days ago."

"Is that why you wanted me to meet you at Magnus's?"

"Yeah,"

Jesse sighs, "Wow," he's smiling, "I can die happy now. You're my soul mate, I don't believe this."

"What about that arrangement you had?" Aiden teases, "The one where you won't drop everything to be with your mystical partner."

"Screw that, it's you." Jesse rubs his thumb on Aiden's wrist, "They say strange things happen when you meet your soul mate. Shame mine had to be figured out by getting hit by a car. God, now I feel really stupid, we were talking to each other when were weren't talking to each other. Man, wait till my parents find out..."

"Fascinating isn't it? But hey, it's cool now, because now we know."

Jesse yawns, leaning into Aiden a bit more, "I love you." he says sleepily, "There finally said it."

"You're on drugs,"

"But I mean it."

Aiden softly laughs, "Yeah," he kisses Jesse's head, "I love you too."

Jesse falls asleep and Aiden is content to stare at their wrists, finally whole, finally complete. Aiden smiles and runs a finger across Jesse's mark. Jesse is right, his friend, his partner, his soulmate, he couldn't be happier.

His heart has been filled.


Milo Requested:

I would like to see a m!Jesse x Aiden if you would?

Author's Section:

I just kinda kept writing and writing and the next thing you know, this 'one-shot' is over five thousand words long. haha sorry bout that. Hope everyone enjoys, and I hope you see this Milo!

At the Anon who asked this: Hi! i really like your oneshots!
I also follow you on tumblr and noticed you like Dragon Age
Do you do requests for them? Sorry didn't know how else to ask

Contact me on tumblr I'm sure we can work on something.

At NellyWelly: *Whispers back* I'm working on IC as we speak, just working on a little road bump in the plotline. hahah

Anyway enjoy everyone!