Peter Pan OUAT One-Shots/Imagines

"Watch out for the mermaids!" (x Reader Request, Soulmates AU, Short)

Request by Joanna_Holland234 (Sorry it's so late!)

Inspired by a prompt I saw on Tumblr. Also, I'll update a bit more frequently now. With the COVID-19 shutdown, I'm out of school for a long time and have a lot of free time. 

Warning: Kind of sad? I guess? Tbh, not my best work and not very sad. Mentions of crimes. 

Soulmates are complicated. Everyone romanticizes it in theory, but in real life, it just is what it is. 

And whatever divine sicko decided that the last words your soulmate says to you should be on your wrist was a moron, especially because people say the same stuff all the time. 

Do you know how many people have, "Where do you want to go for dinner?" on their wrists? Or something generic like "Where'd you put my shirt? The one with the Star Wars print on it?" or "Hey," or "Good morning!" or "I love you."

They heard those words all the time and they were scared every single time it happened because what if this is the day they lose their soulmate? 

Sometimes they said something very generic, meaning that they'd never get to know their soulmate. "Do you want fries with that?" or "That'll be $2.99!" 

It's total bullshit. 

Some people get something adorably sad, sure. They're lucky. Their hands say "Oh my God, you're the one" or "Thanks for always being there for me" or "Hey, don't be sad; we had a good run."

Some people end up with the weirdest crap. Stuff like "Dude, did you seriously just shit in my yard?" or "Sorry, I don't know you, but I just needed to give you this cat." 

Those always made zero sense. 

And then there are people with really depressing things. I knew a girl whose hand said, "I've got cancer," a boy whose said, "Take care of Mary, okay?" and another girl whose hand read, "Please help me, I'm hurt and I don't think I'm going to-" before cutting off. 

Those were really sad. But there were scary ones, too. Things like, "Did you hear that?" or "Go, run, hide!" or "Oh, god, they're here!" or "I thought you locked the door!" Those people were always paranoid, installing a bunch of locks on their doors, keeping to themselves, things like that. 

Alternatively, their wrists could say something terrifying, but in a different way. "Please don't hurt me," or "Just take my money and leave me alone," or "Get out of my house or I'll call the police," or "Don't shoot me, I have a daughter!"

Yeah, no one liked those. Getting killed by your soulmate isn't exactly the stuff of romance movies. 

Of course, there were people who had nothing on their wrists, which could mean a number of things. Maybe their soulmate died before they could meet them. Maybe they just never met. Things like that. 

Some people had words in foreign languages. They'd work for years to learn whatever language was on their hand. This included sign language, which would show the gestures their soulmate would make when they met. 

It was traumatic if you had a child and saw that their wrists said something juvenile. Stuff like, "Hey, did you finish your homework?" or "Yeah, my mom's picking me up after practice," or "Dude, we're gonna miss the bus!" Because you knew they'd die young. 

People were mortally afraid of saying what is on their significant other's wrists. I once knew a man whose wife's wrist said, "I'm headed to McDonald's." Due to that, he never said those words. He'd always say, "I'm headed to Ronald McDonald's place." Someday he'll forget, though. 

But not me. My wrist said, "Watch out for the mermaids!" 

I know, right? Mermaids aren't real, which is why it's so confusing. Plus what does that imply? Are mermaids going to kill my soulmate and therefore that's the last thing they'll say to me? Or are a bunch of mermaids going to kill me and so those just happen to be the last words my soulmate will say to me before I die?