Septiplier One Shots

Tick Tock [nsfw]

"I'm not sure what we can do," the doctor said to his mother. She was crying, he didn't understand why, "I've never seen this actually happen." 

"You can't give him a new one?" His mother said between sobs. Mark knew what she was referring to, she was talking about him TiMER. He had just turned five and got his timer installed. He knew everyone had one but it looked nothing like his. Everyone he ever saw had their's counting down, when it finished counting down it turned to all zeros and it would chime signaling they had just found their soulmate. Sometimes people had dashes on their's, that means their soulmate didn't get theirs installed yet.

But his was just blank.

"Once a TiMER has been installed you can never install a new one. This is very very rare. A one in a million product malfunction."

Mark is sure he should feel sad but how can you feel sad about someone you never met.

His mother kissed the top of his head before turning to the doctor, "This...this doesn't mean he doesn't have a soulmate correct?"

The doctor nodded grimly, "He does, just like nearly everyone else but his TiMER simple won't ever function."

His mother nodded, "Mark?" Mark finally looked away from his wrist to his mother, "Do you want us to remove the TiMER?"

Mark shook his head and looked back to his wrist, "No. I wanna feel like everyone else."

His mother started crying again.

-

Life, as they say, moves on. And it does for Mark. He never really started thinking about his TiMER until the first couple's TiMER in his classes went off their last year in middle school.

He remembers how everyone clapped and cheered and the teacher smiled and then took the two students down to the office so they could call their parents. The one girl had just moved her from another state and the other girl was crying because she wanted to marry Cinderella.

Mark had looked down at his blank TiMER and felt an emptiness he couldn't name fill his heart.

-

Freshman year of high school was peak time for TiMER to go off. High school was a non-stop buzzing of TiMER's going off.

And while everyone else found their soulmates left and right, Mark had found Jack. He was a loud Irish kid who had moved here to America over the summer. He quickly became his best friend.

They had bonded over the fact that they both had broken TiMER. The odds of them meeting was so small it was near impossible but somehow they did. It's crazy, Mark thinks often. They don't much talk about the fact they will never find someone.

Mark unpacked his lunch as he waited for his friends to find him. Jack came and sat down next to him with Wade and Bob in tow and then later Ken.

"So did you hear about Felix?" Bob said excitedly. Everyone shook their heads, "His TiMER went off second period. You know the new girl? Mariza? It's her."

They exchanged excited words as they saw Felix enter the cafeteria with a girl timidly following behind making their way over to their table.

"Fellas," Felix said, puffing his chest out, "This is Mariza."

They all greeted her as she sat at their table with them.

Felix was the first one of them to find his soulmate.

-

By senior year, everyone in their group had someone. Everyone except Mark and Jack.

"Do you think they'll ever come out with a fix?" Jack said from Mark's bed.