Sanders Sides Oneshots [All Ships]

[15] - LAMP - The Pain Of Finding Soulmates

That soulmate au where you feel the physical pain your soulmate is in, aka, they stub their toe, you feel the pain, you fall and scrape your elbow, they feel that pain

Warnings: talks of pain but only ones from clumsiness, mentions one physical fight/being punched (because roman), virgil gets a bit anxious but when doesn't he

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The whole soulmate thing, really, was stupid, Virgil thought as pain shot up through his elbow, rubbing it with his hand and sending his boyfriend a half hearted glare. 

"Sorry." Roman said, holding his own elbow after just having hit it on a door handle. Virgil sighed and reached out to hold his boyfriends hand as they navigated through the school corridors, trying to avoid the hallways crowded with students who had just gotten out of class.

They both had social studies now, which was terribly boring in Virgil's opinion. Though he was sure it could be an interesting class if they didn't have a teacher who couldn't make anything interesting for the life of him. Virgil swore his voice was sleep inducing, there was no other way to explain how often he fell asleep in that class.

They got to the classroom which was already unlocked, though empty, and they chose their normal seats in the back, Virgil beginning to mindlessly scroll through tumblr on his phone while Roman was reciting his lines for the script to the next theatre show. His boyfriend was a massive theatre nerd, and a good actor too, great if Virgil was honest.

He glanced at Roman and smiled to himself. 

They'd been dating for near four months, been friends for almost a year before that. It had taken them both surprisingly long to realize, though there had been a few months where Virgil had already figured it out but was too nervous he had actually mistaken himself to say anything. 

It wasn't until Roman had gotten into a fight with a bully that had shouted some gay slurs after them that they had become sure. Honestly they'd both have to have been stupid to not realize when Roman got punched in the face and Virgil was in just as much pain as he was. (And yes, Roman had been the one to go victorious from that fight, after the initial shock of finding out his friend was his soulmate.)

Then after that Roman had been quick to ask him out on a date and make Virgil fall for him. Virgil had already been crushing on him but not allowed himself to think too much about it before knowing who his soulmate was, and once he knew he'd been chanceless. He would never admit it out loud but Roman being romantic and flirty definitely got to him.

Other students began to join them a few minutes later, their teacher being the last one through the door, tastefully late as always. Class started and Virgil put his head in his arms, soon half asleep, only to jerk awake by the feeling of having stubbed his toe. He swore under his breath, glancing at Roman who shook his head.

That must be their other soulmate then.

It had become clear not very far into their relationship that they both had another soulmate, a pretty clumsy one too. They got random pains sometimes when it was clear that neither of the two of them was the cause of it and after talking a little they had decided that it must be that they had another soulmate. It happened sometimes, that some have more than one soulmate, romantic or platonic, Virgil had just never thought he would be one of them.

That other soulmate was definitely partly to blame why it had taken Virgil and Roman so long to realize they were soulmates. Yes, when Roman got hurt Virgil felt it too, but he also felt pain when Roman hadn't gotten hurt and he had at first come to the conclusion that it might just be a coincidence.

But no, turns out there was another one.

"Hey, do you know yet if you can sleep over next weekend?" Roman whispered, holding up his textbook in front of his face not to be noticed by their teacher who would definitely yell at them if he saw that they were talking.