can't get the idea of an off season soulmate colour au (you see grey until the first time you touch your soulmate) out of my mind so here's some rambles because jiishfdj
• two of em snarking at each other as per
• both convinced they must've touched each other by now and relieved that haha clearly we're not soulmates! thank god! i can't stand him/her! *nervous laughter*
• john and angel don't touch until after john is shot (this is canon hehe)
• the bullet hitting john
• john's blood hitting angel
• there being a flicker of something when the blood touches her
• catching john before he hits the ground
• both of them thrown into a colourful world so suddenly
• the first colour they experience together is red
• red pouring from john's side and red coating angel's hands
• she'd give anything to go back to grey in that moment
• dragging john to safety across green (green!) grass and leaving red in their wake
• they don't have time to discuss it- john is delirious with bloodloss as it is, and angel's idiot dad is waving a fucking gun around what the fu-
• escaping to France whilst navigating this world of colour that's too much and too perfect and too scary and too everything and god, John is going to die before they discover any of it together
• making it to the hotel and there's that red again but it's okay now. there's less of it. they can breathe
• john passing her amber whisky in the amber light of the room and fuck if his eyes don't match the liquid he's pressing into her hand exactly
• passing him an amber cigarette and god angel is sure she knows what her favourite colour is now, and john is staring at her so intently she might drown
• and everything is amber and orange and yellow and so godam beautiful and john is there in front of her and he's alive and the red on their skin is pink and so is the sky and everything is perfect
















