#soulmate au shawn

[paperprinc3]

Shawn and Gus are soulmates. Lassiter is skeptical.

[noahtally-famous]

I usually don’t lean heavily on soulmate/soulmark aus, especially for td, but the random thought of a dashawn soulmark/soulmate au that's also sorta compliant with canon popped into my head and it’s got ahold of me simply bc of how utterly wack it is--plus a side dose of angst and obliviousness

(blaming shark with his "destiny brought them together and keeps them apart" line /lh)

[thegroundhogdidit]

wait hey come back tell me more

that soulmate au where the first words to each other are tattooed on each other's wrists except it's shawngus and they were both so young when they first spoke to each other that neither of them even remember it so they're both waiting for a soulmate that they already have

[oldwritingm]

💜- Headcanons

💙- Oneshots

🩵- Blurbs/drabbles

ALL

Ninjas (+ Pixal) Reacting to Your Outfit in Prime Empire - 💜

Elemental Masters' Rocky Relationship With a Little Sister - 💜

Making Breakfast for the Ninjas - 💜

The Ninjas When You Get Brainwashed - 💜

The Ninjas When You Get Mad - 💜

Unintentionally Becoming the Ninjas' Little Sibling - 💜

Being the Ninjas' Little Witch Sister - 💜

How the Ninjas Act When You Get Captured - 💜

Ninjas With an Older Brother Figure - 💜

Cuddling With the Ninjas (+ Pixal) - 💜

Ninjas When You (Their Little Sibling) Are Taken - 💜

Ninjas When You Have Cold Urticaria (Cold Allergy) - 💜

Ninjas Finding You in Their Clothes - 💜

Ninjas Having a Nightmare Where You Die - 💜

Ninjas When You're Being Protective -💜

Ninjas (+ Pixal) With an Artist s/o - 💜

Ninjas With a Touch-Starved Partner - 💜

Ninjas With an s/o Who Gets Flirted With a Lot - 💜

Ninjas With a Sensitive Little Sibling - 💜

Kai, Cole, and Jay With an s/o That Can Turn Invisible - 💜

Ninjas With a Portugese s/o - 💜

Their Favorite Place to Kiss You - 💜

Ninjas When Your Parent is Ex-Military - 💜

LLOYD

(Movie) Comforting (Transforming) Oni Lloyd - 💙

Cuddling With Oni Lloyd - 💙

Lloyd With a Good Oni Reader - 💙

Lloyd With a Serpentine Hybrid Princess Reader - 💙

Lloyd and the Dragon Princess at a Ball - 💙

Lloyd Comforting You During a Thunderstorm - 💙

Lloyd Finding Out You're a Dragon-Oni Hybrid - 💙

Arguing With Your Brother Lloyd - 💙

Your Wedding Day With Lloyd - 💙

Being Lloyd’s Best Friend (?) ;) - 💜/🩵

Soulmate AU With Oni Lloyd - 💙

Lloyd With a Tall Girlfriend - 💜

Being Lloyd's Younger Twin After the Tomorrow's Tea Incident - 💙

Being Lloyd's Younger Twin After the Tomorrow's Tea Incident Part II - 💙

Giving the Green Ninja Advice to Ask His Crush (You) Out - 💙

Cheering Up Lloyd After a Bad Day - 💙

Lloyd Proposes to You - 💙

"Come here. Let me hold you." and "Your hands are warm." With Lloyd - 💙

"Come here. Let me hold you." and "You're safe with me." With Lloyd - 💙

"You're Beautiful." and "You have no idea how cute you are." With Lloyd - 💙

"I'm yours. I'll always be yours." and "You're beautiful." With Lloyd - 💙

Lloyd With a Winged s/o - 💜/🩵

Lunch? - 💙

Mercy (Shawn Mendes songfic) - 💙

Daddy Issues (The Neighborhood songfic) - 💙

COLE

Cole Adopts a Mystery Baby (You) - 💙

Cole Adopts a Mystery Baby (You) Part II - 💙

Cole Loving the Colors of Your Voice - 💙

Dating Cole Brookstone - 💜

"Please don't go." and "You're safe with me." With Cole - 💙

Hold On (Chord Overstreet songfic) - 💙

JAY

Comforting Part-Serpentine Jay - 💙

Jay Comes Home to Find You Sick - 💙

Kissing Jay Under the Mistletoe - 💙

Jay Finds Your Scars - 💙

Dating Jay Walker - 💜

Best Friend (Rex Orange County songfic) - 💙

KAI

Falling for the Mysterious Red Ninja - 💙

Comforting Kai After Seabound - 💙

Lloyd Sets You Up With Kai - 💙

Kai Sees You Get Hurt - 💙

Kai With an s/o Who's Health-Anxious - 💙

ZANE

(Movie) Zane With a More Human-Like Nindroid - 💙

Zane Patches You Up - 💙

Zane Finding Out You Have a Birthmark - 💙

"Please don't go." and "Whatever happens, I'll be here." With Zane - 💙

"I don't know how much longer I can do this." and "Please don't go." With Zane - 💙

"I don't know what I'd do without you." and "Your hair looks so soft." With Zane - 💙

NYA

Nya With an Oni Spy - 💙

Nya's Upper Body Strength - 🩵

PIXAL

Dating Pixal - 💜

Reading With Pixal - 💙

MORRO

Waiting For Your Morro - 💙

Waiting For Your Morro Part II - 💙

GARMADON

Being Garmadon's Pupil Before and After He Was Evil - 💜

(divider by saradika)

[superkickme]

Title: Beautiful Disaster: The Legacy Era & The Dashing Era Reality Show/Kayfabe AU Art: Legacy Era: nsfw cropped version here | extra nsfw uncropped version here | Dashing Era: John and Cody Rating: E Pairings: Randy Orton/Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase Jr/Cody Rhodes, John Cena/Cody Rhodes, Drew McIntyre/Cody Rhodes, Mentions of Past Shawn Spears/Cody Rhodes, Mentions of Past Triple H/Randy Orton Tags: not rpf, meet ugly, hurt/comfort, kayfabe compliant, angst, character study, alternate universe - reality show, kayfabe as reality, canon companion, emotional slow burn, soulmates, domestic fluff, masturbation, phone sex, power dynamics, self-discovery, anal sex, unprotected sex, everyone needs a hug, everyone is trying their best, eventual happy ending Warnings: unhealthy relationships, emotional manipulation, canon-typical violence, discussion of intimate partner/domestic violence, infidelity (kind of), drunk sex, sexual dysfunction, unhealthy sex, self confidence issues, negative self-image, anxiety attacks Chapters: Legacy Era: 23/23 | Dashing Era: 10/? Current Word Count: Legacy Era: 152k | Dashing Era: 59k

"Wrestling is a love story” - Cody Rhodes, Apr 2, 2022

Legacy Era: Cody Rhodes gets the chance to live his life long dream of being a WWE Superstar at the young age of twenty-two but right from the start it's not all he hoped it would be. When he gets swept up in the magnetic Randy Orton's plan for revenge against his former mentor, Cody's life changes forever. Sex, violence, manipulation, love, nearly two years of his life is spent in service of the man he's devoted to but will he get the happy ending he's worked so hard for?

Dashing Era: Cody Rhodes struggles with his identity after the devasting end to his relationship with the man he thought was the love of his life. When he's granted a new beginning on SmackDown, he's right back down on the bottom of the ladder where he started nearly three years ago, but he finds solace in new friends and old enemies. As he tries to move on and find himself again, new relationships arise while an old one continues to haunt him. Will he escape his past and find the happiness he's been so desperate for?

A canon based exploration of Cody Rhodes' character through his life and career, and the relationships he has. Complete with sources for you to check out as you read along!

[this will eventually cover different relationships in Cody's life with people like Drew McIntyre, Damien Sandow, and Seth Rollins, with a special focus on Cody/Randy and Cody/Seth, but we'll see where the story goes after WrestleMania 40 ♡]

[loveandmurders]

I just needed to say this to someone, and I figured I could do that with you. Because let's be honest, nobody else could understand this type of imagination but us. I just listened to a couple of old songs, for nostalgia sake. Until I remembered Shawn mendes and camila cabello's song, Senorita. I listened to it, and the more I let the lyrics sink in. The more I imagined Bo meeting or seeing Y/n outside of Ambrose, how both of them get to know each other for a bit, feeling this strange connection towards each other, wich eventually leads to them having this need for wanting to see each other over and over again. Until one of them just confesses one day, and they become a couple. And now I can’t stop imagining the possibility of this scenario being a Soulmate AU either. Or their first meeting leading to them having a one night stand, because that’s what the music video suggested. I can’t stop thinking about it, have I gone mad!?

OMG I love this so much!! I'm so happy you shared this with me because YES!!! 🥰

They know they are made to be together, they know they want each other and thus they have sex right away. It's like if they always knew about one another their whole life.

But reader thinks that Bo is a guy who doesn't want any kind of commitment and because of his way of life, he sometimes misses dates and it's clear he hides something. Reader is heartbroken, they think of leaving him behind because they can't stand the situation anymore. They are about to go, and Bo doesn't know what to do until he confesses his love for them.

And they become that power couple who flirt, argue and kill together. 🔥

[moonbugs9058]

A list of stuff I've written

Because I'm having trouble finding my own shit sometimes so it'll be nice to have it all in one space, also, shameless a03 plug: MoonBugs9058 on AO3

From my "Tales Of Empty Cups" series (Magnus Chase):

Cost of Living -> Mostly blitzstone, follows the plots of SoS and HoT, ~27k words

Tales From The Five And A Half (six if you round up) -> One shot collection with loosely connected plots (not in chronological order), connected to Cost of Living, currently ~16k words

From my "In Vertumna And Time" series (Exocolonist):

Prince Charming -> Focuses on the Tammy/Cal relationship but also has Cal/Sol in it, ~2k words

Spider Web of Guilt -> Focuses on Sol (it's also in second person), ~2k words

Don't Call It Abuse (i can't handle another tragedy) -> Focuses on Anemone/Vace, ~3k words

Love is hard to unlearn -> Focuses on the Tammy/Cal relationship but also has Tammy/Sol in it (companion piece to Prince Charming), ~3k words

Without All The Nuance -> Focuses on Sol's deterioration and has a little bit of everything in it, pretty angsty though, ~47k words

From my "Tales of the Lonely (Kinich&Ajaw fics)" (Genshin Impact):

The Ultimate Fool-Proof Guide to Humans by K'uhul Ajaw -> Genshin fandom, focuses on Ajaw and Kinich and the frenemy relationship they have going on, aroace Kinich and Mualani, pretty cool if i do say so myself, 20k words.

O Scion, lonely Scion -> Genshin fandom, focuses on Ajaw and Kinch (who would have guessed) except this time its about Kinich's death and how Ajaw handles it. (Spoiler alert, he does it poorly) Somewhere between angst and heavy angst, 2.6k words. The Cursed Scion and the Ancient Dragon -> Genshin fandom, focuses on Ajaw and Kinich yet again, soulmate au (platonic), is currently a sneak peek while I finish the rest of the fic, estimated to be longer than the ultimate fool-proof guide so do what you will with that info

Other works not in a series (Psych)

Two In A Million, Twice In A Lifetime -> Psych fandom, is a bit of a relationship/character study for Shawn and Abigail and follows them through different parts of their relationship up until S4 E16: Mr. Yin Presents, and a little bit after that, ~4.5k words.

Happy reading! I have a chapter come up for Tales Of Empty Cups (the long-awaited SOTD chapter except I've kinda hit a wall with that so we'll see how long it takes.)

This post updates as I write more stuff!

[ilariyalavorowrites]

To be started list

I have more than a few stories waiting to be started in the pipeline. I'm sharing the list with you guys. Some have titles and summaries, others don't, so suggestions are welcome. I will likely start with my Bridgerton story.

Once (9-1-1)

Pairing: Eddie Diaz x reader x Evan Buckley

It was only meant to be a one time mistake but then why did it keep happening over and over again. Maybe it was time to discover what this truly was.

What would neighbours think (Downton Abbey)

Pairing: Cora Crawley x Reader x Robert Crawley

Imagine: O’Brien misinterprets you, a housemaid training to be Lady Edith’s Lady's maid returning in the wee small hours as an attempt after her job. A few well-placed threatening words when she catches you alone, one evening whilst staying at Crawley House in London results in your disappearance which is soon noted.

Poly CM Beyond Borders

Pairing: Jack Garrett x Reader x Karen Garrett

Over the Horizon Epilogue

Pairings: Shawn Michaels x reader x Chris Jericho

Scorching - Poly Chicago Med

Pairings: Connor Rhodes x Reader x Ethan Choi

Imagine: Imagine after a series of heated nights together, what you thought was becoming something more seems to fade as Ethan and Connor distract themselves from you. Only for you to walk head first into a dangerous situation when a patient turns hostile.

Delirious Happy Endings Epilogue

Pairing: Connor Rhodes x Reader

Time enough for Love (Bridgerton Poly)

Pairings: Kate Sharma x Reader x Anthony Bridgerton

Imagine: A mission to ensure Kate and Anthony find each other during the social season of 1814. Time travels into the past to ensure that crucial moments occur. However, you find yourself falling in love with the pair. It breaks your heart when it comes to leaving and returning to the future.

Sweet Enough (Fated to you sequel)

Pairings: Elliot Stabler x Reader

Imagine a soulmate AU where newly divorced Elliot Stabler has a soul mark wrapped around his wrist and finds out that it’s the newest member of the SVU team, before awkwardly asking you to go get a coffee with him

In the cold harsh light of day (CAOS poly)

Pairing: Nick Scratch x Sabrina Spellman X Fae!Reader

Imagine: Imagine being a member of the face court, living in the mortal realm where you find yourself in a poly triad with Nick and Sabrina. With the threat of void on the horizon, your family wishes to return to the forest but you wish to remain. Unhappy with this choice, you are tricked into returning at the bequest of your Fae King and Queen. Only to be shackled whilst the events of Season 4 play out until Death presents itself to you with a new choice. A way out or salvation?

Lone Rider (9-1-1 Lone Star)

Pairings: Owen Strand x Reader

Imagine: Imagine crushing on your boss Owen Strand since starting at the firehouse. Never having the courage to admit your feelings. Until you wake up one morning to find yourself in bed with him. In a panic, you make yourself scarce. No awkward conversation follows in the days after but every decision has consequences.

Crossing that line - (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)

Pairing: Tommy Oliver x Reader

Summary: After a strange encounter with one of the victims of Mesogog’s most recent monsters. You find yourself alone with Dr Oliver as you both begin to experience strange symptoms. Not knowing that this monster whose DNA was combined with an aphrodisiac plant. Buried and denied feelings rise to the surface.

If anyone wants to be tagged for any of the above. Please let me know either comment or message me

[backwaterscum]

🚢 (beth and shawn pls!)

shipping sheet.

BETH.

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between ( i'm super into darylbeth and want his hands on her, but daryl is Terrible at admitting his feelings and will definitely take a lot of time to work up to it. THAT SAID, i'm more than happy to thread things set in the future where they're ~dating whilst also threading stuff where they're still in the platonic friendship stage. i'm not picky about doing stuff in chronological order! )

what now?: let's plot something | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: fortunately you already know that i like to write daryl as a soft dom top w/ possessive-obsessive tendencies, so i don't think i need to warn for this if we do end up writing smut with these two, haha! i don't think he's the type to hold beth back in life, necessarily, but whenever she comes back home to him (or vice-versa) he'll have to claim her again, as one does... (although that said, i don't NEED smut, so please don't feel pressured to write it!)

i'm really open to ideas, both in main TWD-verse and in AUs. :] i italicised stuff like long distance and online relationships in case we wanna try doing that in a non-apoc AU or something-- fake dating and such, too, just because i feel like if beth put out an ad on the internet for a fake date or something to join her somewhere daryl would do it for a couple dollars... or maybe because merle tells him to do it. XD the only forbidden love thing i couldn't do would be daryl being a teacher in school w/ student beth just 'cause i don't think he'd be willing to do it, but stuff like princess/lowborn or supernatural monsters being involved in any way (i have a wolf shifter daryl AU! and am thinking about AUs with him as a vampire or a divine being) would be neat too. i'm not bothered by the age gap at all though, in general. heh.

he's a loyal dog and will love her endlessly, forever. 😔 in most worlds i don't think daryl could be a toxic boyfriend, especially because beth means so much to him and is so special in his heart he'd never wanna hurt her, but um. i left that italicised just in case we manage to finagle an AU somehow because i do like writing toxic boyfriends. bahaha!

SHAWN.

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between ( same as outlined above-- daryl's so slow to figure out his romantic feelings, and then even slower to admit to them, so it'll be a while! if ever you wanna write stuff out of chronological order with these two, i'd be down. )

what now?: let's plot something | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: so shawn is INTERESTING... with beth daryl's more likely to be soft, but shawn doesn't go through 4.12 still with daryl. which means he's more willing to go into physical-only-no-feelings-allowed arrangements if shawn needed that release somehow, and wouldn't need to be dating him to feel "ok" with it. shawn trusting him would be enough for daryl to jerk him off in the darkness of his tent or something equally dirty. LMAO. and the benefit of this happening maybe in the season 2 era would be that he gets the more immature version of daryl, who could be extra possessive...

daryl's incapable of things Staying physical-only, though, and will certainly fall in love if they were fucking with no strings attached just because that shit is intimate as hell. sorry he is like this. he's a hopeless romantic in his own way, and would definitely be the type to yearn for shawn one-sidedly. 🥹

i also don't know how old shawn is meant to be ngl, so i italicised childhood/high school sweetheart stuff 'cause if you wanna do AUs like that i'd certainly be open to it! (or make it so that daryl knew shawn from school even in their mainverse... or maybe they were friends before daryl's mother burned their house down and daryl had to move away and back then they only knew each other by first name? WHO KNOWS.)

anyway, u have blanket permission to have any AU daryl you want for shawn as well. he's cute...

[unapxlogeticme]

kayfabe / non-kayfabe / au portrayal of dominik mysterio. open for plots. any romantic connections not accepted since in this portrayal he is married and in love.

NAME: dominik oscar grey-gutierrez RINGNAME: dominik mysterio OCCUPATION: pro wrestler BIRTHDATE: april 5th, 1997 ZODIAC: aries SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual HOMETOWN: san diego, california

Dominik, son of Rey Mysterio, grew up in the business. From a young age he wasn't entirely sure if wrestling was what he wanted to do. He did spots like football in high school, but he realized that it wasn't for him. Neither was any sport of going to college. With his dad's career and money, Dom didn't need to really have a job or an education. What he did want was to find something that was his own. That probably meant school which he tried and realized it wasn't for him.

He thought he could get away with not working. Dominik became bored after high school and not attending college. So he asked his dad to start taking him around the locker rooms. He told him that he was finally ready to do something he should've trained for from a young age. This lead to Dominik being involved with a storyline between his dad and big star at the time. He was scared shitless, but taking a Suplex City finisher before he actually debuted was a sign that maybe he actually enjoy it and wanted to chase after the wrestling dream. And he did. 2020 was a hard year, but it's when he debuted without a crowd and had a fun first storyline with The Messiah. Sure he got hit with a kendo sticks more times than he can count, but it was all worth it. It was then that he realized he made the right choice by following in his father's legacy.

Three years later and a heel turn, he's one of the top stars of WWE. Maybe not a top star, but at least he's top heel. He's in a position that he's very grateful for. He could've had no reaction after betraying his father. Thankfully everyone is pissed he hit the legendary Luchador and remind him every time he dares to speak with boos. Hey at least they're reacting! It could have gone the way he anticipated, no reaction at all. Since his debut, he has been Smackdown tag team champions with his deadbeat dad and two time NXT North American Champion. He does own half the credit of his success to the Judgement Day. Without them, Dominik isn't sure if he would have been as successful as he has been or even the MVP Shawn Michaels have recently called him. He can act as assholy as he wants on screen or says he dislikes him as much as does, but Dominik knows his dad taught him well and to appreciate all that he gets in life.

Connections;

Rhea Ripley: Best friend & soulmate.

Isaac Grey: Husband

[hcdcsbcbydcll]

Current list of things I am craving

as always, there will be triggering content under the cut, proceed at your own risk

general

mafia

vampires

omegaverse

soulmates

poly

hybrids

royalty au's

size kink

specific

The Harvest is a government-issued bidding game hosted on every harvest moon, where Omegas are auctioned off to the highest bidding high-society Alpha or Beta, to ensure every Omega is given a secure and wealthy home where they can be assured the proper care and protection. Taking part in the auction is unavoidable to newly detected Omegas, however, per the rules of the game, they're given a chance to fight for their own claim in what is now known as The Run. This additional rule to the otherwise strictly mandatory bidding game is based on prior Omegas succeeding in their escape, thus proving their own self-worth and their own means to take care of themselves. Omegas who choose to take part in The Run are given a full minute’s head-start, however, by choosing to take part in The Run Omegas give up their position as bidding prizes, therefore no longer under the protection laws of The Harvest, and are thus free-game to any Alpha or Beta who would choose to hunt them down.

siren!ángel. can do a more human look or a more monsterfucking kind of look.

lia wants to tease and then be put in her place. maybe coupled with her being a mafia princess who thinks she can get away with anything.

give her a (step)brother(s) too

adrian as a rockstar bothering his manager and making her life hell bc he is a bully and wants her all to himself

free use in a group of friends setting

i picked up a dog/cat ( both ) who was hurt in the street and wanted to take care of them until they were well. but now it’s the next day and why the fuck is there an attractive person in their place?! what do you mean you’re a shifter and you were that animal????

some of the faces i would love to have thrown at me:

dove cameron, abigail cowen, sydney sweeney, emeraude toubia, lana condor, olivia holt, danielle campbell, natalya dyer song kang, woo do hwan, dominic sherwood, chris evans, shawn mendes, matthew daddario, noah centineo, mackenyu arata

[danifesting]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

tagged by @yekoc! Thank you for the tag!

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

72, with the largest number in hockey rpf (59)

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

646,636

3. What fandoms do you write for? Currently: F1 rpf and hockey rpf, I have also written for Marvel and The Mortal Instruments fandoms in the past

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Most of my most kudosed are F1 fics despite my half decade in hockey fandom. I wrote a lot of rarepairs there or ships that became popular but were just getting off the ground. By kudos:

live in five (which honestly surprised me a little since it's about a nonbinary character) (Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen)

we're dancing in this world alone (Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick)

maybe we did something right (Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen)

pegging and other adventures (Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen)

got suckered in (Carter Hart/Travis Konecny)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I didn't used to reply to comments for a long time but over the last like 2-3 years I respond to every comment I get. I tend to do it as soon as I get the ao3 email so I won't forget to do it. I like responding to comments now that I do and I enjoy engaging with the readers of my fics.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't write angsty endings. All of my fics end happily.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I think most of them are equally happily but I think the two most hard earned ones are play til you win (in which Daniel is an alcoholic who has to quit drinking and go to therapy to get there) and unchained melody (which is set in the 1950s and involves a lot of depression and self denial and immense heartbreak before they get there). I think to me the most hard fought victories are the happiest, especially when you have to overcome great odds to get there like in these two fics.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

So, when I wrote regret (Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick, regency omegaverse) I made a person a villain and got like 30 harassing comments from the same person about making him the villain. He deserved to be the villain.

I also got some not so nice comments on maybe we did something right because Max says of course a lot which honestly, if anything, I undersold it compared to real life.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes! I think at least half if not more of my fics contain smut. I actually enjoy the challenge of writing it. I've written a lot of different kinds but largely it's pretty vanilla. My favorite smut to write is definitely f/f though since it's the kind I obviously know that most about.

10. Do you write crossovers?

I once wrote a Mitch Marner/Shawn Mendes fic for a dear friend who was going through a hard time. It's very cute.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, no

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Another one where if I have, I don't know about it. People are totally welcome to translate my fic though! I would be quite flattered.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes! I co-wrote a rather long soulmate trope subversion fic with a friend for hockey big bang one year and I think we did a great job marrying our writing styles. The fic is where the light went (Nico Hischier/Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? In F1, it's far and away Maxiel. For hockey rpf it's a 3-way tie between TK/Nolan, Jack/Nico, and Mitch/Dylan. I'm Marvel, easily Stucky.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Sadly, my Nico/Nolan college gymnastics au. I only have the first couple of pages written and I think the idea is brilliant (it's rule 63 and in it Nolan missed out on Olympic gold in a tie break scenario like Raisman and Mustafina) but I think it's never going to happen, especially now that I'm writing hockey less than I used to.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Strong research, and setting a time and place that is very grounded when I write AUs (particularly those that are set in the past)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I think I don't always keep to the fandom general consensus of characterization very well but I'm not sure that's truly a weakness.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Absolutely not. I only speak English really at all and Google is a very poor translator. I don't want to get another language wrong and I don't really think it serves to move the story along if the other party wouldn't understand it anyway.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

A long deleted Welcome to Nightvale fic that was only 800 words long and was deleted 6 months after I posted it on ao3 because it wasn't very good.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

It is 100% unchained melody. I think it's lush and beautiful and rich storytelling that's very grounded in the time and place (late 1950s, Winnipeg) it's written and I don't think I will ever write anything as wonderful as that. A close second though is play til you win which I think has some similar qualities in terms of groundedness in time and place (mid 2000s, central New Jersey).

Tagging: @thewindowatkirkland @fourmula1 @33max and @nobrakesdown

[lorecatchup]

This was all to gather lore for a character study/kayfabe fic I'm working on:

Title: Beautiful Disaster: The Legacy Era & The Dashing Era Reality Show/Kayfabe AU Art: Legacy Era: nsfw cropped version here | extra nsfw uncropped version here | Dashing Era: Cody and John Rating: E Pairings: Randy Orton/Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase Jr/Cody Rhodes, John Cena/Cody Rhodes, Drew McIntyre/Cody Rhodes, Mentions of Past Shawn Spears/Cody Rhodes, Mentions of Past Triple H/Randy Orton Tags: not rpf, meet ugly, hurt/comfort, kayfabe compliant, angst, character study, alternate universe - reality show, kayfabe as reality, canon companion, emotional slow burn, soulmates, domestic fluff, masturbation, phone sex, power dynamics, self-discovery, anal sex, unprotected sex, prone masturbation, everyone needs a hug, everyone is trying their best, eventual happy ending Warnings: unhealthy relationships, emotional manipulation, canon-typical violence, discussion of intimate partner/domestic violence, infidelity (kind of), drunk sex, sexual dysfunction, unhealthy sex, self confidence issues, negative self-image, anxiety attacks Chapters: Legacy Era: 23/23 | Dashing Era: 10/? Current Word Count: Legacy Era: 152k | Dashing Era: 59k

"Wrestling is a love story” - Cody Rhodes, Apr 2, 2022

Legacy Era: Cody Rhodes gets the chance to live his life long dream of being a WWE Superstar at the young age of twenty-two but right from the start it's not all he hoped it would be. When he gets swept up in the magnetic Randy Orton's plan for revenge against his former mentor, Cody's life changes forever. Sex, violence, manipulation, love, nearly two years of his life is spent in service of the man he's devoted to but will he get the happy ending he's worked so hard for?

Dashing Era: Cody Rhodes struggles with his identity after the devasting end to his relationship with the man he thought was the love of his life. When he's granted a new beginning on SmackDown, he's right back down on the bottom of the ladder where he started nearly three years ago, but he finds solace in new friends and old enemies. As he tries to move on and find himself again, new relationships arise while an old one continues to haunt him. Will he escape his past and find the happiness he's been so desperate for?

A canon based exploration of Cody Rhodes' character through his life and career, and the relationships he has. Complete with sources for you to check out as you read along!

[this will eventually cover different relationships in Cody's life with people like Drew McIntyre, Damien Sandow, and Seth Rollins, with a special focus on Cody/Randy and Cody/Seth, but we'll see where the story goes after WrestleMania 40 ♡]

If you're interested in doing your own lore catch up, here are my lists of episode dates and times by year:

Posts by year:

[princecharmingmendes]

Heartstrings | Chapter VIII | Shawn Mendes

“ ‘It’s like a best friend, but more. It’s the one person in the world that knows you better than anyone else. It’s someone who makes you a better person, well, actually they don’t make you a better person… you do that yourself because they inspire you. A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It’s the one person who knew you, and accepted you, and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would. And no matter what happens..you’ll always love them.’ - unknown”

“Shawn was a huge believer that the ‘soulmates’ situation’ was the most stupid thing on the planet, specially since it was such a rare thing to find someone with the same mark as you. He would do anything he could to prevent the so called 'destiny’ from happening, but could he?”

hi, here i am with another chapter and i hope you like it, and please give me some feedback. 

                                                    *masterpost*

*Word Count: 3.5K+.

*Warnings: cursing and I guess that's it!

*Posted: April 30th, 2020.

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The whole unofficial detention thing with Shawn wasn’t that bad as I thought it was going to be. Okay, maybe the first two days were pretty awkward, but as the week moved forward we actually were able to talk normally and even have some fun in the middle of a bunch of books. I was starting to feel as if things were slowly going back to normal and I was actually pretty pleased by that. It’s not like the old times where we’re inseparable, but it was something, and I actually missed that a lot and it felt good to have, at least some part of it back. He still had his whole bad boy exterior and was the same heartbreaker, but he always played the cold hearted person anyway, so this was his ‘normal’ to people who didn’t know him for real. Which was not my case. I still had his jacket on my room, waiting for the day he would come upstairs or remind me to give it back to him.

The library thing was over and I was afraid things with him would change since we weren’t forced to be on the same room every night for at least two hours. Even though I was pissed for having to do that, it was still nice to spend some time with him. Mel was so sure things were normal again and that we’re going to get married or something, and people say I’m the hopeless romantic. But I won’t lie that when I unlocked my phone on my way to my class in the morning and saw a text from him saying that he wanted to talk to me after my last class today, my body didn’t tingle. Oh well, he’s going to make me go mad someday.

Today was being a pretty boring day and classes were actually not even catching my attention. I just felt a little bit lightheaded, and when Tyler sat beside me on my last class it was a bit harder to concentrate. To be honest, who said economics was important? Well, maybe a few people, but right now, I couldn’t care less. It got worse when I felt his eyes burning holes on my face, making me fake interest on the teacher even more, writing down random stuff on my notebook. But I simply couldn’t pretend I didn’t felt his fingers brushing my forearm lightly, so I just sighed softly, turning my head on his direction to see if it was a mistake or something like that. But Tyler actually grinned at me and whisper a quick ‘need to talk to you later’ to which I just nodded and got back to look at the teacher.

If I couldn’t concentrate before, now I was a lost case.

I had already pictured at least a thousand different reasons to why he would want to talk to me. Did I do something stupid? Does he need help with this subject? Does he want Mel’s number? Well, I hope not, that would crush my heart and she was pretty serious with Mike since the party. Okay, maybe Shawn was right when he said I get sort of attached. As the possible scenarios played on my head, nothing prepared me to the class being dismissed and everybody leaving. So I got up and started to get my things ready to go meet Shawn outside the building. I was so engrossed with the possibilities of what Tyler would want with me that I almost forgot that for me to find out, I was supposed to stay and talk to him. I just noticed that when I was almost out of the building and I felt someone holding my arm, which made me turn almost instantaneously and met his confused frown.

“Oh, hi, Tyler, I’m sorry, forgot you wanted to ask me something”

“Oh, it’s okay, you’re not busy or late for something, right?” he asked with a breathtaking smile playing on his lips.

I turned around to see if Shawn’s jeep was parked outside or if he was there already, but I didn’t see anything, so I just turned back to Tyler.

“No, not really, just waiting for a friend”

“Oh, great... so I just wanted to ask you, actually I was meant to ask this earlier this week but... well, we don’t have many classes i common so...”

“Ask me what?”

“I saw you leaving the library late this week a few times”

“Oh, yeah, some sort of punishment or whatever”

“In college?”

“Yeah, I guess”

“Damn, you and Shawn must have done something really bad to end up in detention”

“Me and...? Oh... no! We didn’t do anything wrong together, he was already doing that when I was told to do the same, for totally different reasons”

“Ooh, that makes more sense, even though I never pictured you to be the one to get in trouble, Y/N” he said with a light chuckle and I just shrugged.

“I guess you’ll never know, right?”

“Yeah, like you and Shawn, everyone’s wondering what’s happening”

“Me and Shawn?!”

“Well, everyone knows you two know each other for very long and stuff, but you two seemed pretty cozy at Brian’s party and the library dates or whatever”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, I saw him dropping you off at your dorm room a few times recently, you went upstairs with him and you were wearing his jacket... not to seem weird, I haven’t been following you, it’s just I have a friend that lives on your dorm and I happened to see you two a few times”

“Oh...”

“So... Is there something serious going on or you two just... I don’t know, friends, I guess...?” he asked and mumbled a low “if he’s even able to do that”

“Shawn have always been an amazing friend and we’re...”

“Hey, honey” the guy we’re just taking about said from behind me, making me turn around to face him and I felt my face heating up “oh, hey, dude”

“Shawn” Tyler said nodding his head to him as Shawn grabbed my backpack from me and swung it over his shoulder.

“Hi” I said quietly, watching them both closely and I swear I was completely lost.

Shawn smiles softly at me and I did the same in return.

“Hi, you ready to go? Oh... I didn’t interrupt anything, right?”

“Actually...”

“No, hm, yeah, we can go” I said cutting Tyler off and I could feel his gaze on me.

“Great, let’s go, honey, nice to see ya, dude” Shawn said with a cocky grin on his lips as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder and started walking me to his car.

“Bye, Tyler” I said turning my face to wave at him as he did the same with a frown on his face.

“So, I need to ask you...”

“Hey, not cool, Shawn” I said hugging my books tighter to my chest as soon as we were far enough from the building so Tyler couldn’t hear us.

“What?” he feigned a innocence that didn’t match his personality and his boyish grin.

“You know what I’m talking about, that little show over there, I know you don’t like the dude, but I do and I was actually talking to him”

“First, it was about me, so I deserved to know and second, he’s just trying to get in your pants”

“Maybe I want him to” I murmured crossing my arms as I sat on the passenger seat on his car and he just looked at me crossing his arms before he closed the door that he sweetly opened for me.

“Y/N, we both know that’s not the wisest idea when it comes to a guy like him”

“You’re not my father to tell me what to do”

“I know that-“ he said closing his door and entering on his side “-but that doesn’t mean I don’t know you and that I can’t give you advice”

“Fair enough... and hey... did you listen to it?”

“A bit, yeah, the last part, I was actually looking for you when I heard my name”

“Well, isn’t it crazy? He thinks we’re together! I need to tell him we’re not!”

“Why? I think that’s brilliant”

“Are you insane?! I kind of want to kiss the dude, him thinking I’m with you doesn’t help me!”

“Actually, it does, and you should thank me for stopping you from saying we’re not” he said starting the engine and pulling off.

“You lost your last brain cel?”

“Hey, not cool”

“How does that help me?”

“Well, he actually has been paying more attention to you to find out if we’re together, second of all, he actually came to talk to you about something non school related and he might want to prove to you that he’s better than me”

“That’s ridiculous!”

“That’s Tyler, the guy hates me”

“Why?”

“I’m just better than him”

“Shawn...”

“I’m not saying this to be cocky or whatever, it’s the truth, but please tell me all I said didn’t make any sense”

“Well, I guess I lost my last brain cel”

“Why?”

“Cause you might be right” I said and he laughed.

“I’m hurt but at the same time a bit happy... is that possible?”

“I guess, if you didn’t have an ego the size of this car it wouldn’t have hurt you so...”

“Fuck you” he said and I giggled, making him smile.

“What did you want to ask me?”

“To help on a project”

“Oh no... which one?”

“Mr. Blanchet’s class”

“No way, I already did mine and it sucked”

“I know, but if you don’t help me I’ll fail”

“Have you tried studying before?”

“I can’t get what the man says!”

“Try harder!”

“Please, Y/N, pretty please, I could play your fake boyfriend in return, just help me out, I would even do all your work for the class you just left, please, baby?” he practically begged and I took a deep breath.

“I really don’t want to...”

“But you will?”

“Can we discuss what I would get in return a bit better and in more detail?”

“Yes! We can go back to my place and I will even order sushi for you, the guys aren’t there anyway”

“You’ll pay?”

“Of course” he said with pleading eyes.

God, he has to be desperate.

“Okay”

“Oh my God, thank you so much”

“I didn’t agree to it yet”

“But you agreed to listen, which is a start”

“You’re right”

“Thank you” he said grabbing my hand and placing a kiss on the back of it.

It was weird, but it felt good and I wasn’t going to be the one to bring it up when he was clearly happy that I would be helping him.

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“So... What exactly I’m gonna have in return for helping you with that damn project?” I said as I sat down on his huge white couch that was really comfy.

“Whatever you want, really”

“Desperate, aren’t we?”

“A bit, to be honest” he said chuckling and running his hand through his curls “but I remember how much you complained about it and I tried to start it, but I don’t even understand his subject”

“Well, I guess no one does”

“How did he even become a teacher?” he asked as he placed my backpack by the door and took off his boots.

“I have no ideia”

“Okay, first of all, I guess I promised you sushi”

“You did”

“But it’s like five now, so we could find something in the kitchen and then order”

“That’s okay” I agreed getting up to meet him on the counter of the kitchen.

“Great, I don’t know what we have”

“Probably nothing, I don’t even know how you guys survived”

“Mum comes here from time to time to cook something and freeze it, and we also go grocery shopping”

“So what do you have, smart pants?”

“This” he smiled triumphantly holding up a bag of chips.

“How are you even alive?!”

“Dunno” he said going through his fridge “what do you want to drink?”

“Nothing”

“Really?”

“Yeah”

“Fine, I was thinking, besides playing your fake boyfriend or whatever, that I can do your works from your economy class, and you can suggest something”

“I’ll think of something as we go”

“So you’re up?”

“Yeah, whatever, how would you be my fake boyfriend again?”

“Well... we could hangout around campus and do couple-ish things?”

“Like...?”

“Maybe we could work on my project on places people could see us, I could hold your hand or whatever, people already think we’re together anyway”

“But what about your hookups?”

“I guess they would have to stop for a while...? Like, this wouldn’t last that long, it’s just until you get his attention, right?”

“Are we in high school again? Detention and trying to make the boy jealous by being all over another?”

“I just suggested, you seemed interested”

“That’s fair”

“Are you in or not?”

“I’m not kissing you, by the way”

“What?! What kind of couple we’d be?”

“There are couples who don’t kiss, dummy”

“I know that, but I guess everyone saw me kissing someone and you dated a guy before and kissed him in public!”

“Not kissing you”

“Fine, I guess we’d have to work this out somehow”

“You said yourself that people already think we’re together and we never kissed-“ I started and he stared at me with hooded eyes “-in public, we were teenagers and it was a game!”

“But we kissed”

“Shawn, I was fifteen!”

“We still kissed”

“Whatever” I said feeling my face heating up and he chuckled.

“You’re cute, but okay, we can work this out” he said like it was the most obvious thing on the planet and my heart almost stopped.

“Fine”

“Pick your order, I’m going to change into some sweats” he said handing me his phone unlocked and climbed up the stairs.

As I was going through the options on the menu he received a text from Melissa, which was weird, but since I didn’t want to be nosy, I didn’t want to open it and I didn’t, but I couldn’t stop myself from reading the beginning of the text which was something like ‘did you tell her? dude, she deserves to know’. And I swear I never wanted more to open their chat and see what the whole conversation was about, but I stopped myself before I could go through his messages, cause that was obviously wrong. But I can’t deny I was extremely curious to why my roommate and former maybe still best friend are talking about, and else, since when they’re that close?!

“Hey, were you able to decide it yet?”

“Mmhm” I mumbled looking up from his phone to be met with a very good looking Shawn.

He was hearing some sweatpants and a thin white T-shirt, that was hanging a little tighter than usual on his trained torso. And he’s your friend and you shouldn’t be staring at him, so before he could notice, I looked down at his phone.

“Your usual?”

“Yeah, well, I can’t make any mistakes if I order my favorite”

“True” he said grabbing his phone and ordering “where do you want to sit?”

“The living room is fine, can I take a look at the subject first? Just so I could remember a bit of it?”

“Yeah, I got my textbook and a few notes I took”

“Great” I said going to the living room and sitting on the floor by his coffee table.

“What do I do?”

“Just wait a second, I just need to situate myself”

“Sure” he said laying down on the couch and starting to scroll through his phone as I looked through his notes.

I completely lost track of time as I was reading through his notes and the textbook of the subject, I only noticed it took me a while to understand everything when he got up to grab our dinner, I must have been reading for at least an hour. He got back inside and said he was just going to grab stuff so we could eat on the living room. So I cleared the coffee table for us to be able to eat in peace and not ruin any book. He sat down beside me with the containers and turned on the TV on a random show. We were eating and chatting as the show played on the background when Brian finally arrived, being the noisy person he is, he almost gave a heart attack.

“Hey, du- hey, Y/N! What are you doing here? How are you?” he asked throwing his stuff on the couch “you ordered sushi!”

“Shawn did, actually, and hi, Bri, I’m helping him with an assignment” I corrected him as Shawn just waved at him from beside me.

“You’re too good” he said giggling “I’m going to take a shower, talk to you guys later”

“Okay”

I turned back to Shawn as I heard Brian climbing up the stairs and offered to explain the main parts of the subject and get what he wanted to do with his project. He just agreed and started listening as I was explaining, and we were both taking the stuff to the kitchen to get rid of the garbage and get everything in place at the same time. He was patiently listening as I kept on talking, interrupting me every once in a while to ask me a few things that still weren’t clear to him. Once everything was ready we got back to the living room and I sat down on the couch, getting rid of my shoes. Shawn placed his head on my lap as he started to say what were the directions for his paper and what the teacher expected.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him to get up, and he wasn’t bothering me by laying on my lap, so I just let it go. He kept on explaining and I zoned out a bit, ignoring his words, focusing only on his voice and his curls that were pretty inviting, and I didn’t even noticed I started playing with them till he stopped talking to look up at me. I gave him a sheepish and he just kept on talking, so I forced myself to pay attention to the words that were actually leaving his mouth and they made sense. So we kept on discussing a bit until I was too tired to think and I just let my head fall back on the cushions.

“Okay, time to get you home” he said getting up and offering me his hand.

“But we didn’t decide anything”

“I know, but I got the subject and what I should come up with for our next meeting, that could be tomorrow on a lunch date” he said pulling me to my feet.

“Okay” I agreed defeated, rubbing my eyes to keep myself awake.

“I’ll just grab my wallet and my shoes upstairs, it’ll take a second” he warned me as I pulled my sneakers on.

Before I could reply he went upstairs. As Shawn was going through his room, Brian leaned on his doorframe with a smirk on his lips.

“She still here?”

“Yeah, I’m taking her home now, where are the other guys?”

“Practice and girlfriend’s place”

“Oh, okay” Shawn said as he put on the first pair of shoes he found and grabbed his wallet.

“So... you two?”

“What about us?”

“Weren’t you trying to keep her away or something?”

“Yeah, that was a bad idea”

“So you’re dating?”

“No, she’s helping me with a project and I’m helping her with Tyler”

“What?! Are you insane?! He’s the biggest idiot!”

“I know” Shawn sighed “but I’ll just... be around, I guess”

“Did you tell her?”

“Tell her what?!”

“How you feel about her”

“And how do I feel?”

“You fell for her and you don’t want to admit it”

“I didn’t”

“Shawn... I saw you two downstairs, you’re looking at her like she was an angel, she was playing with your hair and you two were just like a couple, when are you going to believe you two are fucking soulmates?”

“Brian... dude, that doesn’t even exist, so what? We have the same birthmark”

“The exact same!”

“This means nothing”

“Stop lying to yourself and embrace it, that’s rare and you got lucky!”

“You are way too close to Melissa to believe in this bullshit”

“You are way too far up your ass to not believe”

“I gotta go, need to take her home” Shawn said getting up and going downstairs to meet her by the door.

“Hi” I said looking up from my phone “what?”

“You just look tired”

“I am, but I’ll sleep as soon as I get home”

“Sorry for keeping you up”

“It’s okay, you bought me sushi”

“Then let’s get you home so you can rest, honey” Shawn said offering me his hand and I took it without even thinking about it.

“Tell Brian I said bye”

“I will” Shawn said closing the door behind us.

Little did I know the red haired boy was just at the top of the stairs watching the little interaction with a smile plastered on his face.

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[5-seconds-of-bucky]

Secret

A/N: Hello, hello! Not much to say about this one other than Allison made me do it (2021 is amazing but angsty and I needed some serious fluff so I wrote it myself smh) Anyways, enjoy :)

Summery: AU in which once you meet your soulmate, you can hear them talking to themselves. You’re Shawn’s personal assistant and soulmate but you have to keep your relationship a secret, until one day . . .

Word count: 6.5k+

Warnings: Swearing, and little angst towards the end (but only a little) 

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This wasn’t how it was supposed to happen.

Nobody knew. Nobody. Not your parents, not Andrew, not even Brian knew. You never told anyone about it. But now the whole world knew about your relationship.

The whole world knew and you sure as hell were going to lose your job.

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You wouldn’t say you knew you were soulmates right away, but it didn’t take long to figure it out. Well, it didn’t take long for Shawn to figure it out and tell you. In fact, it only took him about six hours after meeting you to realize you were the one destined for him.

He knew the moment he met you that there was something about you that was just different. Not different like “I’m not like other girls” different. Different as in someone that gave him a feeling he’d never had before.

“Shawn, this is Y/N Y/L/N, your new personal assistant. Y/N, this is Shawn.” You smiled nervously as Andrew introduced you to your new boss, giving him a small wave before realizing how unprofessional it looked.

You stuck your hand out for a handshake. “Nice to meet you, Mr. Mendes.”

“Oh, please,” he chuckled as he shook your hand. “Call me Shawn. Mr. Mendes is way too formal.”

You let out a small laugh as well, dropping his hand. There was an awkward pause that made you worry you’d already made the wrong impression. Too weak of a handshake? A wavering voice? What made this go downhill so fast?

“If you’ll excuse me, I need to use the restroom.” You nodded at the two men before heading over to the bathroom in the hotel lobby.

“She seemed nervous,” Shawn mentioned once you were out of earshot.

“I think she’s going to be a good fit. She’s a year younger than you and her application was great. Give her a chance. She was meeting the Shawn Mendes, her boss, after all.

Get it together, Y/N.

The words muttered in his head were in her voice, not his own. He frowned, sure that his mind was simply playing tricks on him.

Meanwhile, you were in the bathroom, cursing yourself for already making the wrong impression.

“You said ten words to the man and he probably already thinks you’re a moron,” you muttered as you paced in front of the sinks. “Take a deep breath and get back out there.”

“You okay?” Andrew asked, referring to the distant look that had overtaken Shawn’s face.

“Hmm? . . . Oh, yeah. Zoned out for a second.” Am I hearing my soulmate’s voice?

“Play nice with Y/N. I really think you’re going to like her.”

You exited the bathroom and put a pleasant look on your face as you approached the group. That was your job now: look and make everyone happy.

“Y/N, I’ll show you to your room so you can get settled,” Andrew said, gesturing for you to lead the way towards the elevator.

“Wait, Y/N.” Shawn reached out to gently grab your shoulder. “Do you wanna meet up before dinner for a smoothie or something? You know, to get to know each other?” His soft smile was something you couldn’t say no to, even if you’d only known him for three minutes.

Thirty minutes later, Shawn was knocking on your hotel door and taking you out for a smoothie shop across the street.

“What do you think you’re gonna get?” he asked once you were standing in line, taking his wallet out of his pocket.

“Trying to decide between strawberry-banana and berry blast.”

“This is the best smoothie shop around and you want strawberry-banana?”

“Or berry blast.” You’d just met him but the banter came easily. “Besides, if they’re that good at making smoothies, then the strawberry-banana will knock me off my feet with how good it is.”

“I don’t know if I can work with such a basic person as an assistant.” He playfully nudged you a step away from him.

“Oh, is this a test? Because you haven’t even seen me actually work yet.” You stepped in front of him, deciding on strawberry-banana.

“Yeah, but I could fire you for any reason at any time so really-”

“You’re not gonna fire me.” You turned around and gave him a smirk.

“But I could.” He stepped unreasonably close just as you stepped up to order. You pushed his face back with the back of your hand. He’s acting awfully friendly.

“I’ll take a strawberry-banana smoothie please,” you smiled at the cashier, pulling out some money.

“And I’ll get blueberry and avocado smoothie,” Shawn said as he pushed down your hand with the money and held out his card to the cashier. You glared at him playfully and lightly elbowed him in the stomach. “What? It’s good for your skin.”

“You guys are cute,” the cashier giggled after announcing the total and swiping Shawn’s card.

“Oh, we barely know each other.” Your words were a lost cause as Shawn dragged you aside so the next person could order.

“Shh, she doesn’t know that. Make her think there’s a world where a person with a basic smoothie order and a person with a good smoothie order can be soulmates.”

“I haven’t overheard you talking to yourself yet so I don’t think that’s possible.”

“But imagine.” He led you over to a table and plopped down on a seat. You turned around to hang your purse over the back of the chair as you sat down.

“Wait, how much do I owe you?” You pulled the purse back over the chair and dug through it to find the money you haphazardly stuck in there just a minute before.

“Nothing. It’s on me,” he said, like it was the obvious answer.

“But I feel bad making you pay for it.”

“You’re not making me pay for it, I wanted to. Consider it a ‘welcome to the team’ present.”

“That’s very kind of you.”

He liked how nervous he was making you. Whether it was because he was your boss or because he was devilishly handsome, he wasn’t entirely sure. But, he did know that you made him a little nervous too, especially since he was 95 percent sure you were his soulmate.

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“You know what?” you said to yourself in your hotel room that night. “This is going to be really good for me. A fresh start and a chance to see the world. It doesn’t get much better than that.”

Shawn was distracted from his own thoughts once he heard your voice in his head. Shawn Mendes is my fucking boss. Not only that, but he’s an awesome dude. He smiled, not entirely sure he should be listening into this conversation. To be fair though, he couldn’t help it. Your voice was in his head.

“Damn,” he said as he put on a clean shirt for the night. “That girl was real cute.” He heard something fall in the other room followed by absolute silence, leading him to believe that you heard him. “She had a basic-ass smoothie order though.”

Was that my soulmate? He couldn’t help but laugh, trying to stay quiet as he figured out how to surprise you. Who did I meet today? You started to list the numerous people you met at dinner that night as Shawn shuffled over to the door that connected your hotel rooms.

“Hey, soulmate,” he quipped as he swung the door open. You let out a yelp, arms holding a shirt over your chest as you fell back onto the bed. “Oh, sorry!”

You threw the shirt over your head and glanced at the mirror on the wall to make sure you looked presentable. “You can come back in now,” you said once you were decent. Shawn reentered with a hand over his eyes, softly closing the door behind him. “You can look,” you giggled. “I have a shirt on now.”

Shawn put his hand down and smiled sheepishly at you. You wanted to swoon at how cute he looked with his rosy cheeks and messy curls.

“Hi.” He leaned against the wall, watching your feet get closer and closer to him until your sock clad toes were almost touching his.

“Hey.” He slowly looked up to meet your gaze. You gave him a shy smile and wave, to which he could only smile back. He’s been dreaming of the moment he met his soulmate for all these years yet he found himself at a loss of words.

“So . . . how much of that did you hear?”

“Oh, I heard the whole shabang. I’m glad you think so highly of me.” You groaned and leaned into his chest.

“You weren’t supposed to hear any of that.”

“That’s part of the whole soulmate thing. Can’t help it.”

“We’re actually soulmates?” You lifted your head so your chin was resting on his chest.

“Yeah,” He wrapped his arms around you. “I think we are.”

You brought your hands up so they were resting on his shoulders. “That moment would be a lot more romantic if I wasn’t staring up your nose.”

Shawn threw his head back, body shaking with laughter. You buried your face into his chest as you laughed along with him.

There was a comfortable pause before either of you dared to break the moment. “I’d day we should stay up all night and talk about our deepest fears and hopes for the future but we both look dead tired so we should probably call it a night.”

“Probably should. Night, Shawn.”

“Night, Y/N.” He squeezed you for a second longer before opening the door and stepping back into his room, sending you a wink before he shut it all the way.

“Shawn Mendes is my soulmate,” you whispered to yourself. “Shawn Mendes is my fucking soulmate!”

“Uh huh,” Shawn chuckled from the other room. “We’re definitely soulmates.”

---

It was a year of bliss full of sneaking kisses behind closed doors and holding hands under tables. You agreed at the start to keep your relationship a secret. With you settling into the new job and the two of you wanting to explore the relationship, it was best to keep everything under wraps. Hard as you tried, people had their suspicions for one reason or another.

It started with Andrew about a month after you realized you were soulmates. Shawn knew he could trust Andrew but he also knew that Andrew could be kind of harsh when it came to professionalism. The man didn’t expect the two of you to refer to each other strictly by last name, but he did expect that you abide by the rules and not cross the line between platonic and romantic.

So Shawn thought it would be best to find out what would happen if you were to announce that you were together. You know, in a hypothetical situation.

“Andrew, Shawn is looking for you,” you said as you peeked your head around the doorway of the green room. “He’s in his dressing room.”

Andrew’s head perked up at the calling of his name and nodded, standing up and following you to Shawn’s dressing room. You let him go in by himself, telling him that you had some other things to attend to. Once he shut the door though, you put your ear to it in hopes that you would be able to overhear what he had to say about Shawn’s “hypothetical” situation.

“Y/N said you needed me?” Andrew said once the door was closed.

“Yeah, I just had a quick question.” Shawn picked at the skin on the side of his thumb. “I just thought of this random situation and I was wondering what would happen if it actually happened.”

Andrew nodded for him to go on, still confused as to why Shawn made him come all the way down there for this.

“So say, my assistant was my soulmate. What would happen? Would they be able to keep their job or . . .?” He could see the gears turning in Andrew’s head at the mention of a soulmate and he wasn’t quite sure how he was going to answer.

“Is this about Y/N?”

“No, no. Just in some alternate universe. What would happen?”

“It depends. You obviously have a soulmate, we can’t stop that from happening, but I’d rather it not be someone you worked with,” Andrew started. “When I hire any team member, no matter what their job is, they agree that there is to be no romantic involvement with you. It keeps things professional and could prevent things from going haywire with the media. Things never look good when a star gets involved with someone on their team. I just don’t want to deal with all the bad publicity that could come out of that kind of situation. I don’t know if I would fire them but it would likely be on the table.” He leaned back against the wall and crossed his arms. “But that’s not happening with you and Y/N, right?”

Your face dropped. You were expecting that sort of answer, but it still hurt to hear.

“What? Pfft, of course not. I was just curious,” Shawn replied, walking over to the door and pushing it open. You stumbled back, suddenly realizing that you were supposed to be attending “other things.”

“That was all. Thanks, Andrew.” Andrew gave Shawn a look that said he knew something was up, but Shawn laughed it off.

Okay?” He stepped out into the hallway, bumping into you. “Oops, sorry, Y/N.”

“Haha, no problem,” you waved him off. “Shawn, they need you on stage for soundcheck.”

“Soundcheck doesn’t start for another half hour,” Andrew said.

“They wanted to start early. Something about having trouble with stuff in the past so they wanted to get a head start.”

Shawn shot you a discrete thumbs up, eyes silently thanking you for the save.

“Okay then? I’ll let you do what you need to do.”

You let out a breath you didn’t know you were holding in once he turned around and started making his way back down the hallway.

“Do they actually need me?”

“No, but I needed to look like I wasn’t eavesdropping.”

Shawn looked down the hallway to make sure no one was there before pulling you into a hug behind the open door and pressing a kiss to the top of your head. “I love you.”

“Love you too, big guy. Can we go to stage so it doesn’t look like I was lying?” You pulled away and took hold of his hand, tugging him in the direction of the stage.

Shawn rolled his eyes. “The things I do for you.”

“Thank youuu.” He followed you down the long hallway, checking every so often to make sure no one was behind you.

“Nice shoes,” he smirked, glancing down at the tie dye Crocs you were wearing.

“My heel broke and I didn’t have another pair of shoes on me.”

“But you had rainbow Crocs?”

“It’s fashion and comfort all in one shoe. You expect me to carry another pair of heels around when I could be wearing these bad boys?”

“I mean, they go wonderfully with the blouse and slacks. I kinda want a pair now.”

“Guess I know what to get you for Christmas.”

The sound of footsteps coming towards you stopped your conversation. You ripped your hand out of Shawn’s and he found himself missing the warmth of it.

“Hey, just talked to stage crew,” Andrew said once he popped around the corner you were just about to turn. “They’re not starting yet. They’re actually on track to be starting late. Don’t know who told you they needed him.”

“That’s weird,” you said, attempting to subtly put some more space between Shawn and yourself. “Guess we have some time. You guys need me to get anything for you?” The men both shook their heads no.

“Nice shoes, by the way.” He was gone as quickly as he appeared.

You looked over to see Shawn doubled over, body shaking with laughter. “Shut up, he almost caught us.”

“Yeah, but he saw the shoes!”

“How did the universe put us together?”

“Oh stop.” He wrapped you in his arms once again. “You know you love me.”

---

Brian was the next to get curious about your relationship.

A knock on the door that connected you and Shawn’s hotel room made Shawn look up from his phone for the first time in a while. He was met with your sheepish smile and what he now affectionately called the “Y/N wants something wave.”  

He narrowed his eyes at you. “What do you want?”

“Can I borrow one of your shirts? All of mine are dirty.”

“You have like 1,000 shirts.”

“Well 995 of them are dressy shirts for my job and I’m out of comfy shirts to sleep in. Would you be willing to sacrifice one of yours so I may bask in its comfort?”

“I guess so,” he sighed, leaning over the side of his bed to grab a shirt.

“Thank you.” You smiled wider as he came towards you and threw the shirt over your face. “Ooh, it smells like you.”

“That could be because I wear it a lot.”

“Is it your favorite shirt?”

“Maybe.”

“Ooh, I feel special.”

“Go put a shirt on, weirdo.”

You disappeared behind the door for a second and slipped the shirt on. You stepped back into Shawn’s room without a second thought and suddenly, Shawn couldn’t take his eyes off of you.

The silence and his stare made you feel self conscious for a moment. Does he not want me to wear it?

“I actually have a clean shirt if you don’t want me to wear-”

“No, keep it on. It looks good on you.” Two months into your secret relationship and he was head over heels in love with you.

“Thanks . . .” Completely uncharted territory. Neither of you had any idea what to do from here.

“Do you wanna, uh, sleep here tonight?” He scratched the back of his neck.

“Yeah . . . I’d like that.”

He held his arm out for you to enter and closed the door behind you.

“I, uh, need to use the bathroom real quick.”

You stepped into the bathroom and braced yourself on the counter. “It’s no big deal, Y/N. He’s your soulmate. No need to get nervous.”

Shawn melted as the words played in his head. Now go out there and be the best damn soulmate there is.

You emerged from the bathroom like nothing happened, leaning on the doorway with your arms crossed. “Sup?”

“You didn’t flush the toilet.”

“Oh please, we both know I wasn’t actually going to the bathroom.”

Shawn held his hands up in defense, extending them out as you shuffled over to the bed and flopped down on it.

“I’m going to steal this shirt, by the way,” you said matter of factly.

“You should. It looks good on you.” He tugged you onto his chest so your head was laying over his heart.

“You’re gonna let me steal your favorite shirt, just like that?” You flipped over so your chin was resting on his shoulder. He nodded. “Damn, that was easy. You really do love me.”

You spent the next hour and a half talking about the random thoughts that crossed your mind. Minute by minute, your eyes got droopier and droopier, until you were fast asleep on top of Shawn. It was everything he wanted in life, right there in his arms.

He was almost asleep himself when there was a sharp knock on the door. He got up, careful not to move you too much and wake you up before opening the door.

“Hey, can I borrow some toothpaste?” a tired looking Brian asked, a yawn escaping his mouth in the fluorescent hotel hallway.

“Uh, yeah.” Shawn let Brian step inside, completely forgetting in his sleepy state that you were laying on the bed. He came out of the bathroom a second later to hand the toothpaste to Brian, who seemed completely shocked out of the daze he was in earlier. “What?”

“Is that Y/N?”

“Oh, yeah, she had a rough day so she came over here to vent. Ended up falling asleep before she went back to her own room.” He was getting better at coming up with these coverups.

“Really? She seemed like she was having a great day when I saw her earlier. I think the tie dye Crocs put her in a good mood.”

“I don’t know,” Shawn shrugged. “Maybe something went wrong after you saw her?”

“Maybe,” Brian nodded slowly, already putting the pieces together. “She’s not your soulmate, is she?”

“No, of course not. Just good friends.” The response came quick. Almost too quick.

“Okay, sure.” Brian took the toothpaste from Shawn with a skeptical look. “Thanks. I’ll give it back tomorrow morning.”

Shawn gave him a thumbs up and closed the door. He looked back to your sleeping form and couldn’t help but grin. He loved everything about you. How bad would it actually be if someone found out about you?

---

“Wanna ditch and get milkshakes?” You were standing in the corner of some celebrity’s mansion when Shawn asked the question. The Grammys afterparty wasn’t all that appealing to you, but it was part of the job and Shawn wanted you to go as his plus one since you were, as he claimed, his “best friend in the whole entire universe.”

“Hell yeah.” You pushed yourself off the wall, brushing off the back of your dress. “Where’re we going?”

“I dunno. What’s open this late?” He reached out to grab your hand, which you almost took before realizing where you were. His face dropped the slightest bit, wanting nothing more than to hold your hand and let the whole world know that he’d found his soulmate.

“I’m sure there’s something close by.” You nodded for him to follow you. “Wait, I have to ‘convince’ you to stay so I can say I tried to keep you here and Andrew doesn’t get mad at me.”

Shawn crossed his arms and nodded. “Can we ditch and get milkshakes?”

“No, we have to stay so you don’t seem rude.”

“But this party's boring and we could have a lot more fun somewhere else.”

“Shawn.”

“I could fire you . . .”

“Nice,” you said, grabbing his wrist and making your way through the crowd.

The cool air of the night was a relief from how hot it was inside but you found yourself pressing yourself into Shawn’s side anyways. He threw his arm over your shoulder as the two of you made your way to the edge of the driveway. The noise from the party faded into the background and neither of you said anything, enjoying one of the rare quiet moments you got together.

“Where to, m’lady?”

“You’re the one who wanted to leave.”

“Don’t act like you wanted to be there,” he teased, pulling away to grab your hand and twirl you under his arm.

“Well, I’m indecisive so you have the honors of picking the place.”

“I guess let’s go into the city and go to the first place that’s open.”

“Sounds good to me.” Your smile could light up the streets better than the streetlamps and he never wanted to see it go away.

“Take this, by the way.” Shawn shook his suit jacket off and put it over your shoulders. The red cloth was a little too big but he thought you looked stunning nonetheless.

“I’m not cold though.” You pulled your arms through the sleeves anyways.

“Let me do the boyfriend thing,” he pleaded as he rolled his shirt sleeves up.

“Fine. Only because you look really hot with your shirt sleeves rolled up.”

He smirked, making a mental note for the future.

You walked for a while before you stumbled across a McDonald’s, mumbling a might as well before opening the door for Shawn.

“Hey, I’m supposed to do that.”

“Oh, please. Let me be nice.”

The restaurant was empty, the only other person in there being the cashier who sleepily appeared from the kitchen as you looked at the menu. Shawn stepped up and ordered a milkshake before you stepped up and ordered a shake and fries. You whipped out your card and paid for it before Shawn could, to which he playfully glared at you.

“You pay for stuff all the time. Let me pay seven dollars this one time.”

He huffed, letting you know that you’d won. You smiled triumphantly as you sat down at a table and patted the space across from you. Shawn sat down and propped his elbow on the table to rest his head on his hand.  

“Why are you so pretty?” you mumbled as you admired him. Seven billion people in the world and you somehow were lucky enough to have Shawn Mendes as your soulmate. Who would’ve thought?

“Why are you so pretty?” He reached across the table to grab your hand.

“I asked first.” You intertwined your fingers with his.

Your order number was called before he could respond, causing him to let go of your hand and go up to the counter. He grabbed the food and turned around to catch you checking him out. “What’re you looking at?”

“I can’t help it! Do you have any idea how hot it is when you roll the sleeves of a button up all the way up to your elbows?”

He laughed as he pressed a kiss to the top of your head. “Would’ve done this a lot more often if I knew how much you liked it,” he said as he popped a fry into his mouth.

“Well, it’s super hot so please do it more often.” You took a sip of your milkshake. “And be more careful. Someone might see us.,” you said, referring to the act of affection he did moments before.

“We’re fine. The poor kid’s so tired they’re falling asleep back there.”

“Still. We’re in public and I really don’t want to lose my job.”

“Andrew won’t fire you. He just wants to scare us,” Shawn insisted, reaching over to tuck a piece of hair behind your ear. “Besides, if word does get out we can finally move forward with our lives. Get married? Really start our future together?” It had only been eight months but Shawn knew without a single doubt that he wanted to be with you. (The soulmate part helped a little bit too.)

“You really want to do that?”

“You’re my soulmate and the most amazing person I’ve ever met. Of course I want to get married! That is, as long as you want to.”

“I’d like that.”

The sound of your phone ringing ruined the moment, and you quickly fumbled to get it out of your pocket.

“Andrew, hey,” you said, watching Shawn’s face change from lovey-dovey to concerned and a little scared.

“Where are you guys?” Andrew’s voice came through the phone, slightly drowned out by the loud music playing in the background.

“I . . . uh . . .”

“It sounds really quiet over there. Did you guys sneak back to the hotel?” You cringed at what sounded like a disappointed tone as you tried to come up with an answer that wouldn’t get you fired.

“Shawn wanted milkshakes so we’re at McDonalds,” you finally admitted.

“Dude!” Shawn whisper yelled.

“I tried to make him stay but he was insistent!”

“Can you put Shawn on the phone?”

“Sure,” you said, passing the phone to Shawn.

“Andrew, hi,” Shawn said in a voice that did not at all match the look on his face. You couldn’t hear what Andrew was saying but based on the intermittent “I know” and “yeah” you assumed he was getting lectured about ditching the party.

“We will. See you there.” He hung up with a sigh. “Our romantic time at McDonald’s is going to have to come to an end, my dear.”

“What’d he say?” You took your phone from his hand and stood up.

“Come back to the hotel or you’re gonna get it.” He took his milkshake in one hand and your hand in the other, letting you take the last few fries and throw out the cardboard.

“You’re going to get me fired one of these days.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

“It is a bad thing! I like my job, thank you very much.”

“I kid, I kid.”

His smile was all you needed in life. Job or not, you would always have Shawn, right?

---

“Here’s your boarding pass,” you said through a yawn, handing Shawn the slip of paper as you walked into the airport.

The pass you handed him had your name printed on it and he laughed to himself. He took the pass you had in your hand and switched it with the one he gave you.

“What’re you-”

“You gave me your pass.” He placed his hand on your lower back, subtly trying to speed you up so you could catch up to the rest of the group.

“Oh, sorry,” you muttered softly. “I’ve gotten three hours of sleep in the past two days. I’m so ready to get on the plane and take a freaking nap.”

“We gotta get on the plane first, sleepyhead.” You were dressed in leggings, an oversized t-shirt, and your tie dye Crocs. It was one of the few times he ever saw you dressed down on the job and he was loving it.

“Watch your hand, there’s people all around.”

“It’s really hard to take you seriously when you look like you’re about to pass out in my arms.”

“Shawn!”

“I’m helping out my tired best friend. Besides, it’s four in the morning, nobody’s around.” He didn’t move his arm, even as you got closer to the group. It was like he wanted to get caught. “And, if you really wanted me to move, you would’ve shaken my arm off by now.”

He knew you too well.

He kept his arm there as you checked your luggage and went through security, only letting go when absolutely necessary. It earned some strange looks from a couple team members but you were too tired to care. All you wanted to do was take a year long nap.

You ended sitting in the terminal with half the team while the other half went to get coffee. Shawn sat next to you, occasionally glancing around to see if he could steal a kiss from you when no one was looking.

It was another 30 minutes until you were supposed to board but you weren’t sure you would be able to keep your eyes open for much longer. Shawn noticed your bobbing head and drooping eyes and wrapped his arm around your shoulders, pushing your head so it was resting on his shoulder.

“I’ll wake you up when it’s time to board.”

“Thanks, babe,” you whispered, pressing a subtle kiss to his shoulder as your eyes fluttered closed.

“What are you guys gonna do when you find your real soulmates?” Brian asked casually, not even looking up from his phone. Shawn’s head snapped up at the mention of “soulmates” and Brian snickered. “You two act like you’re soulmates all the freaking time. What’s gonna happen when you find the actual one for you?”

“What if we are soulmates and we just didn’t tell anyone?” It was a stupid answer but he wasn’t sure what else to say. Was he really about to expose your relationship after keeping it a secret for all this time?

“You wouldn’t be able to keep that from me.” While Brian wasn’t entirely convinced his two friends weren’t soulmates, he didn’t have the proof to say definitively that they were.

“Fair enough.”

The conversation stopped there but Shawn couldn’t stop thinking about it. Eleven months together and you somehow managed to keep it a secret from everyone. It meant that you couldn’t progress your relationship as far as you wanted to though. Was it even worth it to keep it a secret anymore?

Your boarding group was called before he could dwell on it too long and Shawn was forced to wake you up. As much as he wanted to keep you asleep, he knew there was no getting you on the plane otherwise.

“Wake up, pretty girl,” he muttered as he pressed his face to the top of your head and rubbed his hand up and down your arm. You sighed and snuggled deeper into him, craving his warmth. “You can go back to sleep soon but we gotta get on the plane.”

You lifted your head slowly, blinking at the bright lights of the terminal. Shawn helped you stand up and grabbed your carry on and helped you stand up.

“I’m supposed to take your stuff. That’s my actual job,” you said, reaching for your backpack that he was holding.

“You’re tired, honey. Let me carry your bag.”

You complied, too tired and wanting nothing more than to knock out for the five hour flight. You put your head back on Shawn’s shoulder the second he sat down next to you on the plane, out cold for the entire ride.

---

Shawn Mendes Found His Soulmate? Everything You Need to Know About the New Couple.

What You Need to Know About Shawn Mendes’ Post Last Night.

Shawn Mendes Gets Cozy With His PA in Recent Instagram Post.

The headlines seemed to be never ending as they appeared on your phone. You could hear Shawn pacing in the other room and trying to explain to Andew what was happening. It was inevitable, you knew. But did it have to happen like this?

“Andrew, I don’t know what to tell you. It was an accident!” Shawn insisted, running a hand through his hair for the millionth time since the call started.

“Do you have any idea how bad this is, Shawn?” Andrew sighed on the other side of the line. “This is exactly what I told you was going to happen!”

Texts were blowing up your phone like crazy. All your friends were wondering since when Shawn Mendes was your soulmate and why you didn’t tell them earlier. That didn’t matter so much through as you realized that you were about to lose your job, and possibly Shawn.

“We’re soulmates, Andrew! What were we supposed to do? You said that she’d be fired if she was my soulmate. Y/N loves this job and she’s amazing at it. I didn’t want to lose her!”

You felt like you were going to throw up.

From what you could hear, the rest of the conversation didn’t go too well. Shawn sounded frustrated beyond belief as he tried to save your job and relationship, leaving you wondering if you would have either of those after today. You were so lost in thought that you didn’t hear him enter the living room and sit down next to you.

“Andrew wants to have a meeting in an hour,” he sighed. You bit your lip, trying to hold back tears as you stared at the ground.

“I’m getting fired, aren’t I?” you asked.

“I have no idea, honestly. I’m not sure how much authority I have over that.” He put his head in his hands. The uncertainty of the future was killing both of you.

“Should we just break up?”

Your voice was so quiet but Shawn heard the words loud and clear.

“What!?”

“We’re obviously going to get in a ton of trouble for this. What if Andrew says we have to end it? If this ends, I want it to be on my terms, not someone else’s.”

“Y/N, he can’t make us break up.”

“But what if this destroys your career? I wouldn’t be able to live with the fact that I was the reason you had to stop doing what you loved.”

“Y/N, you’re spiraling. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that I love more than you.”

“I just want you to be happy.” A single tear slipped down your face and Shawn wished he wasn’t the reason for it.

“You make me happy.”

You stared at each other for a moment before you threw yourself into his arms, latching on tight as sobs rang through your body. Shawn tucked his head into your neck, holding you tight and letting a few tears soak into your shirt.

“No matter what happens,” He pulled back to look directly into your eyes. “I will always love you. Nobody can make us end our relationship, okay? I don’t care if it ends my career, I will never want anything more than you.”

You nodded, not sure what else to say.

“Now, lets get yelled at by Andrew and tell him that this isn’t going to end.”

---

“Alright, let’s talk about this.” Andrew sat down across from you and Shawn, sounding calmer than he did an hour ago over the phone.

“Before you say anything, we’re not breaking up. I just wanna make that clear.” Shawn said, his thumb caressing your hand under the table.

“I’m not gonna make you break up. I just want to know why you didn’t tell me earlier.” His voice sounded strained, like he couldn’t believe that you would hide something like this from him for so long. “We could’ve prevented this whole squabble if you just told me earlier.”

“I didn’t want to lose my job,” you said. “I agreed that I wouldn’t be romantically involved with Shawn when you hired me and I broke that agreement on the first day.”

“The first day?” Andrew leaned forward in his seat.

“Yeah, we uh . . . we found out that night.”

“If I’m being honest, I’ve pretty much known for a while,” Andrew confessed. “I was waiting for one of you to tell me though. I didn’t want to pressure you.”

“But you said she could get fired-”

“I said that firing her could possibly be on the table, depending on the situation. Y/N’s a great team member and I know your relationship isn’t going to get in the way of her doing her job. I figured that if you were trying to keep it a secret for so long, you didn’t want anyone to know.”

“You knew the whole time?” Shawn leaned back in his chair, feeling a lot more relaxed now that he knew your job was safe.

“You guys were subtle but you weren’t that subtle. I pieced it together pretty quickly.”

“So I’m not getting fired?”

“No, I’m not going to fire you.”

You breathed a sigh of relief. Everything was a-okay. “Thank you, Andrew. Really, thank you, thank you, thank you!”

“No need to thank me. Your work speaks for itself.” Andrew smiled and for the first time in a long time, you felt at ease. You didn’t have to hide anything anymore. “However, we do have to deal with this situation you two have created.”

---

“Ready?” Shawn asked, his thumb hovering over the “post” button.

“Ready as I’ll ever be,” you smiled. A year of hiding your relationship from everyone you knew and you were finally going to share it with the world.

“Let’s do this.” He pressed the button and just like that, the picture was up.

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Fluff #7, Shules!

Okay so this maybe isn't super fluffy but I got this idea and just went with it. Thank you for this great prompt!!!

Set during 6x01. Soulmate AU where soulmates can hear each other's thoughts depending on how close they are in proximity. Juliet figured it out shortly after they first met but Shawn still hasn't.

Shules - Fluff #7 + “I think you might be my soulmate.”

Shawn's known Juliet for almost six years now and he still can't figure out why he can literally sense an aura around her. He also can't figure out why he seems to have more intrusive thoughts whenever he's around her, mostly having to do with paperwork or annoyance at the station's coffee quality. It's just another layer added onto the mystery of Juliet O'Hara, one that he is slowly unraveling each day, and one that is unraveling much faster now that they've started dating.

He's loved getting to know her even better in the last few months, loved learning little things like how she likes her eggs or what shampoo she uses. They've gotten much closer these past four months, and the fact that their relationship has been a secret really helped. They haven't really had to worry about what other people might think or how their careers may be affected and that avoided stress meant a lot more time to just be together.

But now Lassiter knows and possibly both the Chief and his dad. And to make matters worse, Lassiter is accusing him of crashing a dignitaries party-- something he did actually do-- and hooking him up to a lie detector and Shawn can't figure out if it's out of spite or if Lassie is actually doing this for justice.

He's highly suspicious that it's the former.

This is why, as Lassie makes a checkmark on the paper that the lie detector is producing, he interjects. "Look, Lassie, we both know what this is about. This is about me and Juliet."

"Answer only my questions, please." Comes Lassiter's annoyed voice but Shawn's never been one to listen to him.

"Yes, we're together. You hate it. I get it."

"Spencer-" Lassie tries to interject, staring at him with hard blue eyes.

Shawn keeps talking, the words spilling out of him faster than he can think. He knows how this is killing Jules, he can practically feel her sadness every time Lassie gives her the cold shoulder, so if he can say anything to change the detective's mind, or at least make him be okay with their relationship, then he's going to very well try. "I can't help it, man. I've been fighting this thing for years."

"Spencer, stop."

"It's not just gonna go away."

Lassiter throws a hand up, practically shouting. "Stop."

"You're gonna have to deal with the fact that I love her, okay?"

The admission escapes him faster than he can realize but as soon as he does, his stomach lurches. He hadn't meant to say that now. He wasn't ready to stay that now. Especially not in front of Lassie, the Chief, and his dad. (Gus, on the other hand, was a different story. He'd be fine if his best friend was there for all of his major life moments.) And what would Juliet think? What if she doesn't feel the same way? Or what if she's thrown off by him saying it too early? He can almost feel her shock and it does little to still his anxieties.

But then something breaks through his mind, a thought so loud, it practically drowns out all of his other thoughts. Though it doesn't feel like one of his own.

"I love you too."

Everything clicks. The aura sensing, the intrusive thoughts, the fact that whenever he's around Juliet, he doesn't feel like his brain is fully his. How she knew he wasn't psychic before he even told her.

His head snaps towards her, eyes blown wide, his heart thudding loudly in his chest. When he meets her eyes, he knows that she already knows what he's thinking but it doesn't stop the words from spilling out.

“I think you might be my soulmate.”