Say Say Say What You Want [Peter/Winston]

Title: Say Say Say What You Want
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: G
Spoilers: none
Warnings: soulmate au; Peter Venkman/Winston Zeddemore
Prompt/Fill: none
Word Count: 2000
Summary: People who have soulmates have Soul-Marks that consist of the first words their soulmate will say to them. The more unique the phrase, the easier it can be to find your soulmate.
Peter and Winston should be so lucky! (They aren't.)

originally posted to Archive of Our Own

Say Say Say What You Want

Peter Venkman remembers being eleven years old and noticing the faint, incomplete lines of his Soul-Mark beginning to shimmer into existence on his inner right forearm. He'd been so excited, remembering his grandmother's stories of how she and her soulmate, his grandfather, had met.

His parents weren't soulmates, and Peter had a front row seat to how that just didn't work out. When they'd divorced, he vowed that such a thing wouldn't happen to him. He would find his soulmate, and not settle before then.

Peter checked on the developing Soul-Mark every morning, so he knew immediately when it completed.

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"Where's the rest?" young Winston Zeddemore asked his mother plaintively, holding up his right arm. Mrs. Zeddemore glanced down at her son's Soul-Mark. The golden letters shone on his dark skin, having only recently become clear and legible. His Mark was as beautiful as any of them, but the letters formed just a single word.

"Win, honey," she said gently, "you know that a Soul-Mark is the first thing your soulmate is gonna say to you."

"But... people say this all the time!" Winston exclaimed. "How will I know when it's my soulmate who says it?"

"You'll know. I promise."

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