Soul Mate Meme: 10 - Touch AU ~ Jean
Touch AU: Once met, contact with your soul mate is necessary for continued health
When his master touches him for the first time, Marco flinches. When he pulls his hand back, Marco instinctively reaches out and holds his hand in a tight grip.
It’s already bad enough that Marco has been turned into a slave. But when said master is also his soulmate, well. That’s when things get upsetting. With tears threatening to spill over his cheeks, Marco holds Jean’s gaze, Jean’s hand lightly caressing his neck, almost idly. His master’s eyes are a strange color, almost like liquid gold. Under any other circumstances Marco would’ve gushed about how beautiful they are.
As it is, Marco is inclined to hate them, along with everything that Jean is, and everything that led him to become less than human before the man whose touch he cannot survive without.
Jean lets go, and Marco follows—his heart skips a beat and he could’ve sworn Jean was about to turn around and leave, and Marco needs this man’s touch like he needs air, like he needs the sun, even if he hates it, even if Jean will just treat him like an animal, and he wants to scream and tear his hair out and push him away but instead he walks even closer.
"This means nothing," Marco says, quiet or else whatever they have here—not an agreement; but a truce, rather--snaps. I still hate you, he thinks, even as he leans forward and brushes his lips against Jean’s jaw. His heart flutters a little against his will.
Jean catches his lips with his teeth, and for a moment, Marco allows himself to forget.