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Im bored, more soulmate au!
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‘either the joker is popular again or I walked into a horror movie’
Those were the words written on Jeff’s arm since birth, it was an odd set of words, it confused the hell out of his parents. Such odd words for a soulmate to say upon first meeting the other. Jeff didn’t mind; they were funny! He thought that maybe he would meet them on Halloween, since-when else would he look like the joker?
Life then knocked him flat on his face, pointed at him, and laughed. At the young age of 13, he was still just a kid; he was humiliated and burned, turning his skin white and his hair black, by all logic he should’ve either been dead or-looked very different. But-he wasn’t exactly complaining about how he looked, he thought he looked cool.
Then one day as he was getting dressed, he glanced between his words and his face, popping his lips in realization as he stared at his cut smile. “joker…uhhuh” Jeff chuckled, his soulmate would be very casual then, to react like that to his face. He still thought that they would meet on Halloween, since that would give more of a reason not to freak out.
And then came that Halloween, he was 21, freshly into adult life; he hadn’t thought about his soulmate for a long while, his arm constantly covered by his hoodie or a bandage; monsters like him didn’t look for their soulmates, both to protect themselves and to protect their soulmate. It just wasn’t worth the risk.
But then again, you can’t avoid them forever.
He and his ‘buddies’ decided to go into a neighborhood haunted house, mostly to see what they did and get some kicks. Jeff wasn’t exactly impressed, sub-par makeup, cheap animatronics, and some of the actors were more freaked out by them then the other way around. “lame” Jeff muttered, spinning on his heel as he and his ‘buddies’ walked out onto the street “let’s go steal some candy” Ben whooped, his body just barely glitching under the streetlight, they passed through several groups, Ben and EJ skillfully snatching some candy from them and pouring it into Sally’s bag, which got heavy enough for her to make Masky carry it.
Sally skipped ahead of them as the boys walked behind her, Ben looking down at his handheld console as Jeff looked around, sucking on his teeth as he did “this is boring” Jeff muttered, he still couldn’t believe he got put on babysitting duty, in fact-all five of them were. Him, Ben, EJ, Hoodie, and Masky; slender made all of them take sally out for Halloween. Easily just one of them would’ve sufficed, but noooo all of them had to go with her.
“either the joker is popular again or I walked into a horror movie” Jeff whirled around at that sentence, seeing a girl dressed in a vampire-esque outfit, her face bloody and teeth all fanged out, looking back at him with a smirk “and 2010 emo’s called, they want their fashion back” Jeff snapped back, feeling the words on his arm tingle as the girl’s eyes widened “What in the shit did you just say?” the girl said in a wavering voice, her hand going to cup her left arm; where her words were.
That’s when it hit Jeff, and he pointed at the girl “you! Holy shit!” Masky burst out into laughter, stumbling away from the group as Jeff stared wide-eyed at the girl, whose first words to Jeff were printed on his arm. Jeff pulled his sleeve up, just as the girl did and they compared words, Jeff laughing airily “holy shit, I thought I’d never find you” he muttered, the girl nodding in agreement.
“Also, this is not-emo~.” The girl teased, stepping back and gesturing to her outfit “this is goth-modern chic; get it right.” Jeff laughed loudly, full head tilt and all. “im sorry, please do forgive me for my egregious mistake” Jeff chuckled out, giving a mocking bow to his soulmate who just rolled her eyes. His friends all shared a look, and walked off with Sally, Jeff continuing to talk to his soulmate; who gave him her name a moment later.
“im (y/n)” she said with a light smile, one that made Jeff want to get to his knees and stare at it. He was fucked to all hells if he was this bad for her this quickly. “im Jeff” he took her hand, shaking it as her friends giggled behind her, telling her they would be heading to the party without her.
“you know the drill” one of them whispered, because while yes Jeff was her soulmate. He was still a stranger and they didn’t know his intentions. Smart. Jeff rolled his eyes; he had no intentions to harm his soulmate though; he had been practically dreaming of finally meeting the person who put the words on his arm. “that isn’t makeup, is it?” (y/n) asked, tilting her head at Jeff’s face.
He flushed, rubbing the back of his neck “…no?” Jeff said in a pitched tone, worried he would scare (y/n) off. (y/n) just stared at him, then smiled “holy shit my soulmate’s a fuckin’ serial killer…kinda hot” Jeff felt completely flush now, he could imagine steam coming from his ears. “you-you know who I am?” Jeff asked quietly, chuckling as (y/n) just smirked at him “okay yeah, stupid question…you-you’re not scared? I mean-“
(y/n) just shrugged “you’re my soulmate, pretty sure there’s a whole biological magic thing that prevents you from hurting me, and besides, I’ve been ready for death” Jeff sputtered, laughing at (y/n)’s oh-so casual wording. He then held out his hand, nodding down the street “come on, I’ve waited long enough”
(y/n) smiled, taking his hand, and it was a funny sight. A joker-looking mf and a vampire queen…what a match eh?
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Not long but cute~ fluff bby~ imma make another jtk one soon, not soulmate but just a cute one with maybe some protective jeffy? Idk but ye