The Soulmate AU

Changes in life

It has taken a long time to get over everything, although with the support Dust became to you, this eventually happened.

To think he had killed your ex-boyfriend, and you couldn't even find the strength to blame him for this. If most, after the deed done, he alone had succeeded in calming you down, without lots of words, although he never let you get to see what he really did.

Judging from how visibly shaken he was of his own work, you dreaded what he had done.

For a while, nightmares from this moment haunted you at night, to the point the skeleton had to sleep with you to make them a little more easier to cope with. The fears you used to seal inside also came back full force, turning you into the paranoiac mess you hated yourself to be. Luckily in this, the police never got to you, probably thanks to your Soulmate's mysterious work, so you didn't have to worry of being interrogated at all. Yet, you mind loved to play tricks on you for a while, making you believe your ex could come back to life again.

The ghost of his brother, Papyrus, who you got to meet properly shortly after the terrifying day, somehow found a way to ensure this wasn't the case.

How you could see him though, remained a mystery for a while, until you guessed your bond as Soulmates probably allowed that.

Still, for weeks, perhaps more, lots of things had to change in order to help you get better, and the very first of them was the introduction of Dust to the rest of your Gaming Team.

Technically it wasn't supposed to happen the way it did. For your best friend, Light, barged in after getting too worried about your well-being, and your skeleton believed she was a threat. Only once you had succeeded in calming the two and explain at least the most important informations, both got to discuss, then your best friend, of course had to ask if you were a couple.

Perhaps, after all you went through, this was the thing that embarrassed you more but also got your mind wondering a lot. The rest followed in the blink of an eye, and your Soulmate soon got accepted as your official gaming partner.

As long as you trained him that was.

This deal had the most positive impact possible on your life. With him by your side, you turned out to be indeed more stronger than you ever were, mainly strategically speaking, while caring for the mental wounds you've never succeeded in healing in the past. Ultimately, you ended up accepting to change. Getting yourself rid of the many shackles retaining you from the real future you sought, supported by the ones who truly loved you as who you were.

You completely dropped your studies to focus of our career, and got the guts to move to your inherited grandmother's house, although you succeeded as well to say loud and clear Dust would live alongside you. With red cheeks though.

An offer that sounded more like a decision, or an order for that matter. But he took it incredibly great, if not really happily, and managed to make you blush for the first time by implying you should also go one step further... And that was how you came to be a real couple. Even if it was completely different and weirder than what you were used to. You had to take a lot of time for things to settle down, though it was worth it.

Like the cherry on top of the cake, the release of "Tales of Ash and Dust" was an absolute success, and you had the golden opportunity to cover up the complete event, followed with a full gameplay and the authorization of a guide management. After the premiere, this was just perfect.

Needless to say you were slowly surfing on gold right now. Never your talent have gained so much attention, nor you had so much fun playing.

Because of this positive outcome, you had now a big stability to enjoy with Dust, giving you time to grow more closer each passing days, which led him to reveal a bit more of his genuine affection, hidden behind a veil of sadism. As old habits couldn't die either though, pranks, puns, pick-up lines and tricks were too part of the list of all the things he could and would do, and you could hardly come up with any payback.