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Valicer Polyship Week, Day Six: Drabble(s) (Soulmate AU)

Day Six of Valicer Polyship Week, courtesy of @polyshipweek, and we’re up to the day where I had the most trouble picking a prompt. Most of the others had something that immediately stood out to me, but Day Six’s prompts were “Identity Porn” (a term I was unfamiliar with -- it was later clarified as “stories about dealing with multiple identities,” i.e., Superman dealing with being both Superman and Clark Kent, and I don’t really have anything like that for the Valicer trio), “Mythology AU” (while I have a fairy version of Smiler, I tend to go for generic fantasy AUs over specific mythologies), “Drabble(s)” (you know, keeping it short -- which, if you’re familiar with my fics, you know is not something I’m always good at), and the visual prompt of “Big Comfy Couch” (a “draw the squad” picture of a bunch of people on a couch, which could have worked but I felt something like that was more suited to a bigger polycule, and I was trying to focus on just Valicer for this week). As you can see, I ended up going with “Drabble(s),” as the post expanding on the prompts indicated that multiples of 100 were acceptable so long as you kept it short! And once I had THAT sorted, I decided that the best way to handle it was to use my Soulmate AU and write about the fact that, when the soulmate bond(s) first form, you have a symbolic dream relating to your new soulmate(s). My original idea was to do a separate drabble for each dream, but that didn’t work out great, so I instead did a triple-drabble (300 words) of them describing the dreams to each other. Which ended up being one of the easiest fics to write in the end -- perhaps I should try keeping it to 300 words more often. XD Enjoy!

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“So – what was yours?”

“Pardon?”

“Your dream,” Smiler pressed. “What was it?”

“Oh.” Alice cast her mind back to the fateful night when the universe had inextricably tied her soul to Victor’s and Smiler’s. “I was sailing in a paper boat across an ink sea, under a purple sky filled with spiraling yellow clouds. At the time, I thought I’d just stumbled across some forgotten bit of Wonderland – a hypothesis disproved when I truly arrived back there and no one knew what I was talking about.” She looked between her soulmates. “Yours?”

“I was sitting in the roots of a glowing tree, with spiral branches and multicolored leaves,” Victor told her with a smile. “I felt so – so safe there, so warm and cherished, I was almost sad to wake up. But I was also thrilled, because – because it felt like my soulmate would really love me, if that was my dream.”

“I was chasing blue butterflies across a path of dominoes in the sky,” Smiler reported. “To the tune of the most beautiful piano music I’d ever heard. I was pretty high up, but I wasn’t scared of falling – in fact, I felt more free than I had in a long time. It gave me hope that I had a future better than Kelman’s little ‘sanctuary.’”

Alice nodded slowly. “For me, it felt like I’d finally come home when I ended up in that boat,” she said, voice soft. “Like I’d regained something I’d thought lost forever. A single moment of clarity and peace inside the hellhole that was Rutledge.” She reached for their hands. “I’m so glad you two were the ones to give it to me.”

Victor and Smiler beamed back, fingers both delicate and callused twining with hers. “We’re happy it was you for us too.”

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