millie’s long list of malex fics | touching you I start to bloom by manesalex / @manesalex
For the first ten years of his life, he’s just like Max and Isobel. Feeling his soulmate’s skinned knees and broken bones. He relishes it in an odd way. Proof that the connection is there, that it’s real. The rest of the time, they’re still there, a pleasant hum in the back of Michael’s mind, reminding him he’s not alone, but it’s nothing tangible.
Things are perfectly normal until he’s ten years old and he wakes up screaming in pain, the sharp sting across his back, one after another, so fast and hard he can’t catch his breath. There won’t be a mark there, he knows. That’s what his soulmate will suffer. That’s what his soulmate is suffering.
When the war between Earth and Antar is over, Earth sends Captain Alex Manes to Antar to marry a member of the Antaran royal family and help solidify the peace.
comment: molly periodically makes me tear up with her fics so when she started posting a soulmate au... you can imagine how emotional i was. she’s combined the soulmate trope with a space royalty au, which is always delicious. i adore the way that alex and michael’s relationship develops, almost as much as i love the reason it starts. it’s a smart fic, a lovely fic, and another in a long list of molly’s wonderful creations.
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