abort // lrh soulmate au

Introduction

Soulmates are a tricky thing. A very, very tricky thing. It's extremely likely that you have met your soulmate before, but had not spent enough time with them and in turn they slipped through your hands.

No, soulmates are not found by a simple touch of their skin, nor a matching tattoo that they formed at a young age - though a part of a persons body does change to match with their soulmate - but they are actually found by odd circumstances.

The only way soulmates can be found is if they go through a certain journey or experience together. No experience has ever been the same as another; soulmates meeting could happen at any time and the people could still not realize they are meant for each other until years later, or they could realize within the first twenty minutes of meeting. One thing has stayed consistent of soulmate meetings; the absolute extremity and absurdity of the situations in which they realize they are soulmates.

One person has cited that he met his soulmate when he almost died. The stranger he was forced to sit next to by the amusement park's workers had held onto him when they both realized the safety belt of his seat on the roller coaster had disconnected as soon as the coaster rocketed on its track. The muscular man had held onto him and pulled him down with all his might when the ride was shooting towards the three loops they were quickly approaching. The boy was merely 18 at the time and knew that if he made it out alive he would owe this person his life.

When they had made it off, seemingly unharmed, all the passengers of their cart told the workers of the death trap and demanded the ride be shut down. Meanwhile, the boy cried into the arms of his savior, blubbering apologies and 'thank you's' repeatedly as the man hugged him.

They stayed that way for ten minutes, the older comforting the younger as he rubbed circles onto his back and whispered in his ear that he was okay. It was only when they pulled back from one another and they gasped in recognition. They were one of the rare cases where the change was more than just surface level.

As they looked at each other they could see every moment from their soulmates lives. Both of them growing up in drastically different homes but still with a loving family. The teen had a younger sister and the man had a step-brother that was the same age as himself. Onlookers stared at the pair with confusion until a woman squealed from the back, and a faint, "Soulmates!" could be heard from her until the crowd shushed her.

The two males stared at each other and simultaneously looked down to their left ring fingers as they felt a certain pinch in the area. And there they saw it, almost like a tan line of a man who had taken his wedding band off to cheat on his significant other in a dingy bar. The teen giggled silently at his thoughts.

But both parties knew that this was no tan line. The man had a small imprint of a thin band and a long oval in the middle and the boy had a simple, thick band on his finger. The boy giggled as he saw his soulmates new tan line and the man stared at him in adoration, "You want a diamond when we get married?"

The man had blushed slightly, clearing his throat as he wrapped his arm around the boys waist, "What can I say? I'm a sucker for pretty things."

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So, soulmates were easy to come by, but hard to recognize.

That's why Sage and Luke believed they weren't soulmates. They had been through so much together already, such as: spontaneously moving to Tokyo together the year they graduated from high school, eventually moving to California together, getting robbed at knifepoint in the shady streets of L.A. only for Sage to pull out all the stops from her judo training she had gotten in Tokyo and "saving Luke's sorry ass" as she phrased when telling the story to her mom.