Sterek Library (a03 Edition)

Ink Me

By: AsagiStilinski

Derek is never going to find his soulmate, and he's made peace with that

(Well, not really but he pretends to)

Because the fact of the matter is, he's never going to find someone named Mieczyslaw

He isn't sure who in their right mind would really name a child that but he's pretty sure he's never going to meet one

He happens to know that the statistics for tourism in Beacon Hills is horrendously low, and the chances of some guy from Poland (and yes he had thoroughly researched that name and KNOWS it would have to be some guy from Poland) randomly showing up in town are pretty much none

"Oh try to be optimistic honey! You wouldn't have a soulmate that you're never going to meet,"

Derek doubted that, and in fact, he had researched it- there's an entire pocket of people who never meet their soulmates, HAVING a soulmate does not, in fact, gurantee that you'll ever MEET your soulmate

But his mother wasn't especially prepared to listen to that

"You should feel lucky little bro, atleast this way you'll be sure that you never get your soulmate mixed up with someone else's," Laura would say

And she had a point in that, at the very least, he was absolutely certain that he would never meet two guys named Mieczyslaw who's soulmates were named Derek

But that didn't excuse this!

"She"s right you know, I mean, I could toss a dime out the window and HIT somebody named Isaac, who seriously names their kid something that common anymore!?"

And Cora had a point too, atleast he wasn't unlucky enough to be soulmated to somebody who's name annually topped the "Most popular baby names" chart, unlike Cora who was getting ready to gnaw through a chain-link fence in frustration

Naming your kids something unusual, and even making up names, was pretty common these days, or even using a common name with a weird spelling

He had gone to school with a girl named Raychill (pronounced Rachel) and played basketball with a guy named Sterling-Knight for God's sake

He guessed the popularity of that hit when large-span travel started to become common and communities could no longer rely on being small and intimate, once people started going all over the world any assurances about soulmates became suddenly more difficult

(Apparently his parents, who named their first-born child Laura, didn't get the memo)

But all hope was not lost for people with common names atleast, there was apparently an extra failsafe to make sure you end up with your correct soulmate, your soulmarks are always on opposite wrists

That is to say, if your soulmate's name is on your right wrist, your name will be on your soulmate's left wrist, and vice versa

Scientists say this is how hand-holding came to be such a romantic gesture, it mutually concealed a couple's marks and showed in the old days that you had already found your partner

Or something like that

Personally Derek didn't know or for that matter care

All that was certain to him was that he was never going to find his soulmate, because there was no Mieczyslaw in Beacon Hills

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"I hate this new trope they have on TV where everyone goes by nicknames all the time, it makes it so much harder for shippers to figure out who's soulmate is who!"