#Jacia is the tag I'm gonna use for anything of acacia and James

[acaciasselfinserts]

(Acacia? Another story today??? Yeah. @anti-jaina. I continued the color soulmate au. It's honestly really fun).

It had been a few months after the Galra's invasion, most of us were stuck in the Garrison, trying to survive and ride this out. I had unfortunately experienced seeing my guardian, Adam, being killed. I don't remember much of what occurred after but Mr. Holt said I yelled at Sanda and stormed off to Peach to fight the fleet myself. I do get nightmares from it quite often, as well as ones about Lotor.

I leaned my head on my hand as I picked at my food. Across from me, Rizavi was chatting with Ina, and Kinkade was busy reading a book on yeast. James was next to me looking over a list on what we had to do that day. He turned to look at me.

"Acacia, the two of us are going to do an inventory check on our medical supplies today," he looked to Rizavi, Ina, and Kinkade, and told them of their job.

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"we have 200 boxes of this pain med." I pointed my stylus at the big box. James nodded.

"Looks like we've checked everything," he smiled.

"Yeah..." I looked down at my hand, it was grey, just like everything else.

"Hey James, are you able to see the world in color?" I ask, putting my hand back down.

He froze, his tablet nearly slipping from his grip. I quickly rush over and catch it before it falls.

"well um...." he rubs the back of his neck nervously, "I can..." he blushes.

"Really? When were you able to?"

"I dunno, years ago. When did you?"

"oh um.... A few deca-phoebs ago. When Lotor rescued me.. However," I could feel tears beginning to form I wiped my eyes and continued, "it went away a while ago.."

James looked at me with concern, he wrapped his arms around me to comfort me. I sniffled and wiped my eyes on his shirt.

"this may not be the best time but.... I started seeing color around the time we met.."

I looked up at him, confused.

"All I remember was I saw you walking by, that pink bow in your hair. At first I didn't even realize... Fast forward a few years later when you stopped being my friend, I still saw color, even when everyone though you were dead. I knew you weren't due to the fact I was still seeing color.." he blushed and buried his head in my neck.

"James... I had no idea.." I put a hand on his head, his hair was soft as I began to pet it.

"No, it's fine Acacia. I'm just so glad you're alive and we've had a chance to rekindle our friendship." he says as he pulls away, with me still in his arms. I smile.

"Yeah, I still feel so bad about how I ended the friendship..." I could feel my ears droop. "I'm truly sorry, I've just been bad at controlling my emotions or anything related to them. Heck, I barely understand them. Like, I get this weird feeling in my gut whenever you hug me and-" I cut off as I noticed something in my vision. I could clearly see the neon yellow star and faded rainbow band of my bracelet. I look up to James's face and touch it. His eyes were a purplish grey color. I never noticed.

"James!"

"Yeah Acacia? You don't need to yell I'm right here." he laughed as he raised an eyebrow.

"Your eyes are purple!" I say gasping.

He gasps as well, before grinning.

"You can see color? What does that mean?"

"I have no clue but it's amazing." I hug him tightly before putting my hands on his cheeks and pressing my lips on his.

I feel him tense up in shock before relaxing. His lips taste kinda fruity, like the toothpaste he's been using for as long as I could remember. I pull away and blush.

"Oh my quiznak... I'm so sorry." I hide my face with my hands, but my glowing marks give away my emotions. He removes my hands gently and holds them in his.

"You don't need to apologize." he's blushing as well.

"I don't?"

"No, I'm just so happy you're finally able to see color once again.."

"I'm still curious as to why. Lotor's... Dead.... As far as I know..." I say, trying to think of why this is happening.

James puts my hands down and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ears.

"Maybe, it's because you have a different soulmate. It happens sometimes. A person may find that special someone and see color again, but the other person may unfortunately die... And it leaves the other heartbroken, and unable to see color. They go on with life and meet someone new and one day color returns..." he moves his hand to my face, and puts his thumb over my marks. I blush.

"what I'm trying to say is..."

"That maybe, Lotor was only gonna be the one I loved temporarily and that maybe you're the one?" I finish his sentence.

He nods.

"yeah..."

He rubs my marks for a second, and then removes his hands.

I pick his hand up and place my hand on his wrist. I concentrate and soon, pale green marks show up. He looks at his wrist in amazement as the marks form into an intricate design.

"This is an Altean tradition.. We give our significant other special marks on their wrist." I hold my wrist up to show the red ones, which were from Lotor. Usually the marks would fade if the person wanted them gone, however, I still wanted them. Just as a sort of reminder of the man I loved once. Next to the red, green ones, like James's, appeared.

"whoa.. That's so cool!" his eyes lit up in excitement. I put my arm down, laughing.

He held up his wrist to examine the marks.

"what are we supposed to tell everyone?"

"I dunno." I shrugged.

"hmm... Maybe I can say you gave me a sweet tattoo?" he gave me a sly smile. I laughed.

"sure."