Markson soulmate AU, pls and thank you 💖
Alright alright, soulmate!au where you get all of the same marks and bruises that your soulmate receives
fencer!jackson and skater!mark
so Jackson always randomly gets these scabs and marks on his knees and elbows
thankfully they’re not to painful when whenever he spars in fencing
mark always finds his chest hurting and will have black and blue marks all over his torso from when jackson was fencing a bit too tough one day
and sometimes jackson and his fencing buddies fight with random objects without any protection
and yea, a $10 plastic lightsaber actually hurts when you get stabbed in the chest with it
jackson knows that quite well
unfortunately, so does mark
the two are actually acquaintances and secretly love each other
which is obviously how they became soulmates
they went to the same school and had a lot of the same classes
but they didn’t hang out too much outside of school?
because jackson was too busy trying to get to the olympics for fencing
and mark was too busy seeing how many flips he could do before either breaking his board or his wrist
so they go throughout middle school and high school totally crushing on each other and being acquaintances
but never really getting to know one another
until one day in senior year when their professor pairs them up for a project
yea he’s an 85 year old dude that’s pretty woke and loves playing matchmaker
so mark offers to open his house to work on the project
and once they work out a time with jackson’s training schedule, the two finally are alone together in a room for the first time ever
and of course it’s terrifying, but mark is chill and jackson is the nicest guy so it’s not awkward at all
the project goes well at the beginning
but then it’s actually mark that notices it first
all the scabs on jackson’s elbows that look way too similar to his own
then of course he casually checks out jackson’s knees and they’re scabbed up as well
at first mark is stunned
because ‘omg is this hot guy my soulmate?”
but then he’s horrified
because ‘omg have i been hurting him this entire time and potentially jeopardizing his fencing career?!’
meanwhile, jackson is still intently focused on the project
so mark casually asks about the scars
and jackson’s a bit confused but says that they sometimes appear out of nowhere but that it’s no big deal
then he causally mentions that they’re not nearly as bad as all the bruises he gets from fencing
which makes mark freeze and then slowly ask if they’re like small black and blue marks all over his chest
then jackson freezes because how did mark just know that
then mark suddenly lifts up his shirt without any warning
and jackson is freaking out
because why is mark lifting his shirt?
and why does his like looking at his chest so much?
and wHY DOES HE HAVE BLACK AND BLUE MARKS TOO?!
so then the realization hits jackson as well and there’s kinda a moment of silence between the two
because it’s not every day that you meet your soulmate
mark’s awkwardly putting his shirt back on when jackson smiles shyly at him
which is totally ooc?
and then asks if mark thinks they’re souldmates too
mark presses his nail onto his own arm and jackson looks down to find a tiny crescent imprint on his own arm
so mark just smiles and says yes
and the two just sit there and smile for a bit before agreeing that they should probably get pizza and talk about stuff
only after the project is finished, of course
and so they go on a date
and then another
and another
and mark goes to as many of jackson’s fencing tournaments as possible
and jackson studies with mark for university entrance exams as much as possible
and even though they both have a lot of marks and scars
at the end of the day there’s nobody they’d rather have as a soulmate
than each other