aurora rising one shots, volume two.

Tattoos [INTERTWINED SPOILERS]

Request from Mezzangelo
Thanks my dudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

INTERTWINED SPOILERS AHEAD.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

So this is a tattoo soulmate AU (awww yeah) where you have a tattoo that symbolises something about your soulmate.

Eg.
You have a really artsy soulmate, so you have a tattoo of paintbrushes or something.

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I've had my tattoo since forever, but I've never truly noticed it until I met her.

Until I met Meridaa.

My tattoo is two wings, arching over my back.

Funnily enough, the wings are white. As white as Meridaa's skin.

And I remember, clear as day what her tattoo was. It was a line of code, lining her ribs.

I remember that it was beautiful.

It took me six and a half years to realise that we were meant to be together, though.

Six and a half years of not realising that part of the code on her ribs had wings inside it.

Six and a half years to realise that some of the feathers in my wings were marked with code.

And it was years of blocking out my feelings for her suppressed me from realising that my soulmate was always her.

And now I won't have the chance to tell her that.

I'm sitting in a sterile white TDF cell, hugging my knees to my chest.

My shirt is off, and my top is covered in bandages from the beating -no, it was torture-, and my chest is covered by a black sports bra.

My legs are covered in bandages, too, with shorts to cover what's needed to be covered.

I didn't realise that I was crying until I see droplets on my legs.

I'll never get to tell her I love her because I'm here on this ship.

"Zila Madran, Princeps wants to see you." A faceless TDF worker says.

I sigh and oblige, putting my wrists up for the Mag Restraints.

They snap onto my hands and I'm dragged out of my cell.

I hear feet marching and growls of authority as they drag me to a nondescript side room.

I'm pushed inside, and I tumble to the floor with a cry.

"Stop! Wait, please don't leave me in here..." I moan as my wounds start to bleed.

It's dark in here.
Dark as the vents in the Janeway.

They give me a cruel, bitter laugh and slam the door shut.

"No, no no no no no NO!" I scream, pounding on the door with a fist.
"DONT LEAVE ME IN HERE!"

I let out a wordless shriek as the tears crash to the floor.

"Please......." I whisper ,"just let me out."

And as I fall asleep on the cold metal floor my final thought is that my tattoo isn't visible underneath the bandages.

~~~

"Zila Madran." A sexless voice says.

I come to, groaning.

"You were a Brain in the Aurora Legion, and was one of the smartest people in the Legion." He states.

"How do you know that?" I say, rising to my feet and clutching my stomach.

My hair falls around my face, framing it in messy, tangled curls.

"I do my research, dear Zila. Now, tell me the whereabouts of Aurora Jie Lin O'Malley."

"I'm not telling you about your daughter, Zhang Ji." I spit.

"Oh, on the contrary," he says, and with a hiss and a click, he takes off his helmet.

It's Meridaa.

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I'm out here writing about couples when I just got my heart brokennnnnn sksskssksksksksk