And you decided whether you saw beauty or destruction

Out of body experiences

(Soulmates)

This one's for "Full_of_Trash" on ao3

Fate was a bitch.

Now, Evan generally wasn't one for swearing, but he felt it was justified in the current situation.

For a bit of context, Evan had woken up in a room he'd never been in, in the wrong house, in the wrong neighborhood, in a body that wasn't his own. It took him a bit before his mind stopped reeling and he could make sense of what was happening.

Evan Hansen, like anyone else in the universe, had a soulmate, that meant that he would, at some point in his life, wake up in his soulmate's body; he wondered why it was happening now, of all times.

"Wake up asshole!"

Whelp, that was reassuring.

Somehow, he managed to sit up on the stranger's bed, feeling extremely awkward, like everything was a little too long, a little too light, the door of the room burst open revealing a very familiar face.

"Zoe?"
"How high are you?"
"Wait, that means..."

Evan ran to the other door flinging it open, which thankfully lead to a bathroom, and faced the mirror.
"Holly shit"
Sure enough he was staring at the reflection of Connor Murphy, he moved his hands only they weren't really his, and he touched his face only for the mirror to copy him, yep, this was happening.

"He's going to kill me"

Someone coughed and his head whipped in its direction, Zoe stood there staring at him.

"I'm not Connor!"

"Seriously, what did you take?"
"No, no, I'm being serious, I mean, why would I... that is to say, I don't actually know if he took anything, but I really don't think so"

Zoe blinked at him, once, twice, thrice.

"You're his soulmate..."

"I... I think so?"

"Prove it"
"I... what? How?"

"Say something he wouldn't"

"I uhm... I don't know him? How would I know what to say? And wouldn't he... wouldn't he know what to say if you asked that? Sorry, that was- sorry"

"Ok, you're not Connor"

"No"

"How do you know my name?"

"I- we go to the same school, so I... yeah"

"Oh, do I know you, the full you I guess?"
Evan bit his lip and shook his head no, because she definitely didn't; Zoe shrugs.

"This is super weird"
"Yeah, I uh... I'd like to stay and talk, but I should probably go try to find your brother, if he's in my body that is"

"Right, that's probably a good call"

"Great"

"But maybe with some more clothes?"

Evan looks down, Connor slept with just a shirt and his underwear, he feels himself flushing.
"Right, could you...?"

"Oh, sure"

Zoe leaves, closing the door after herself, Evan digs into Connor's clothes for anything clean, he's not used to wearing such dark colors, but he had a feeling Connor would kill him if he wore anything else. He even throws on the hoodie he's seen Connor with so often for good measure.

He wondered, if Connor was really in his body right now, how the other boy was handling it... shit! What would his mom think, oh god, that's not going to turn out fine, is it?

He storms out of the bedroom, and finds Zoe waiting in the hallway; she guides him to the front door, and to a car.

"Do you think he went to school?"
"Not if he can help it"
"Ok, go to [I have no idea how streets work on the US and I'm not gonna pretend I do]"
Zoe doesn't question him; she just nods and pulls away from the driveway, and follows his directions. He hopes Connor is still there.