Tattoos (Words Written on my Skin)

Darcy & Sean Cassidy

By: Hogwartswonderland


A/N: Darcy Lewis did not travel back in time for this. For this prompt she has been inserted into the X-Men 1st Class universe but will remain the same loveable Darcy that we know, but with a twist! Please feel free to leave a review and Happy reading!


"Well that's a shame. I happen to like fish."

Normally on a rainy, dreary day Darcy Lewis liked to cuddle up with her cat, Fish, and blast her favorite records as loud as possible. Yet, Darcy finds herself strolling around the local aquarium soaked to the bone with her cousin. While Darcy has always had an odd fascination with aquatic life this is not what she had in mind for her 18th birthday. Some cake and a slumber party with her closest friends? Yes. Being forced to escort her snooty cousin, Colleen, around as their parents caught up with each other? Not so much.

Regardless of how it has come to happen Darcy is now wondering around the halls aimlessly, sometimes stopping to view various fish and sea critters in their tanks. Currently she was observing the hammerhead shark as he (or is it she? How could one tell?) swam around the confines of its tank as she attempted to ignore whatever idle gossip her vapid cousin was going on about.

"I don't understand why my parents are making me hang out with you today," Colleen complained. "Aquarium's are so boring. I wish I was out shopping with my friends."

Darcy simply rolled her eyes and continued watching the hammerhead shark swim. Colleen had been complaining for the past hour, so Darcy has heard all this before. It has come to a point that Darcy was beginning to fantasize about 'accidentally' tripping the tall, blonde girl into a tank in hopes of shutting her up. Unfortunately, Darcy mused, the younger girl would immediately tattle which would result in her being grounded for the remainder of the summer.

"Are you even listening to me?" Colleen screeched once she realized that the older girl was staring into the water daydreaming. "Ugh! This is the worst day ever!" With that parting message she stomped off to the other side of the room to look at the floor-to-ceiling tank filled with technicolor fish, finally leaving Darcy with some peace in quiet for the first time all day.

With Colleen now out of the way Darcy was free to find the nearest telephone to call her parents. It was nearing one o'clock and the busty brunette figured that their parents must be done talking by now and would allow the girls to return to the Lewis household. Normally Darcy's parents were very strict and preferred to keep her close to their side in hopes that it would negate the brunette's ability to find (and cause) trouble, but she always found a way to end up in the craziest situations. It wasn't as if Darcy actively tried to end up in protest rallies, stuck in the lion enclosure at the zoo, or wonder onto the stage in the middle of a play. These things just happened. Darcy shook her head to try and quell her thoughts. She needed to focus on getting back home and away from her cousin before she did something that would get her in trouble.

Darcy went to retrieve Colleen but paused when she noticed a teenaged boy- most likely around 18 or 19- with bright, carrot colored hair walked casually to Colleen's side, hands stuffed in the pockets of his jeans, as he most likely attempted to ask Colleen out. The idea of carrot top making a move on the vapid blonde caused Darcy to smirk. Her cousins type usually leaned towards built blondes with an IQ lower than the size of their pecs, so she knew that this encounter wouldn't end well for him.

She was almost tempted to save him the trouble of being rejected when she caught sight of his adorable lopsided smirk and decided to see how the situation played out. It wasn't often that she got to see first-hand how harshly her younger cousin rejected the poor souls that asked her out but didn't fit her criteria.

"It's funny," he said with a slight Irish lilt, making he seems even more attractive to Darcy. "You like fish, I like fish, so why don't we get a bite to eat and talk about it?" It took everything in Darcy to not burst out laughing. That was easily the cheesiest (yet most original) pick-up line she has ever heard. In fact, it was so bad that if Darcy was on the receiving end, it might have actually worked.

"No thanks," Colleen said with disgust evident in her tone. "I would rather swim with the fish." Before he could say anything more, Colleen strutted away with a flip of her hair. But before she could get away completely, the most unusual thing happened. The boy leaned close to the glass and let out a low scream that caused the water to ripple and the fish to scatter, leaving the tank empty. It was highly suspicious, yet it left Darcy wanting to know more.

"Do you mean these fish?" The red head coyly called out with a smirk of his lips. Annoyed, Colleen turned around to see what he meant, only to be met with the sight of an empty tank. Freaked out by the encounter Colleen quickly spun around to walk away. As she passed Darcy, Colleen rolled her eyes and told her that she would be waiting in the car. Darcy grinned and jauntily waved her cousin goodbye. The girl can wait all she wants in the cold car, for Darcy had no intentions of leaving the perfect opportunity to flirt with the cute Irishman to waste.

Said Irishman was whistling merrily as he continued to stand by the tank unaware that Darcy just witnessed everything and was silently walking up to stand beside him. It wasn't until she opened her mouth to speak that he realized that the brunette teenager was next to him.

"Well, that a shame. I happened to like fish." Darcy flashed him a wide smile as he looked at her bewilderedly. In a split second his face when to looking like a fish out of water to like a cat that ate a canary. If it wasn't for the positive vibes he emitted, then Darcy would have thought he was crazy.

"I knew that pick-up line would work eventually!"

Holy crap on a cracker! The cute Irishman said her soul words! "You had to. I gave you the idea of the pick-up line, didn't I?" She jested as she bumped his shoulder with hers.

"You did," he said with that lopsided smile of his. "It seems as if we make a pretty great team. Care to grab a bite to eat and see what other great things we can come up with?"

"I'd like that, Carrots. But first you have to tell me two things: your name and how you made the fish scatter when you yelled."

For a split second he appeared scared, but as he looked at Darcy's smiling face, he realized his soulmate was someone that could handle weirdness well.

"Sean Cassidy, at your service Milady. As for that, let's just say that I can get pretty loud."

"Well Sean Cassidy, my name is Darcy and I'm sure I can be much louder and much crazier than you. Think you can handle that?"

"Oh, I can more than handle that," Sean tells Darcy as he grabs her hand and starts leading her to the aquarium's food court. "In fact, I welcome it."

Little did the two new soulmates know that two figures were watching them after having observed the trading of their soul words, marveling at their luck for not just finding one, but two mutants in the same place. Luckily by finding each other Fate has prepared them for the craziness that would become known as the X-men.