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DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY FAVOURITE GODDAMN UNDERRATED SOULMATE AU IS? the one where you’re born with heterochromia but one is your own eye colour and one is your soulmate’s

When Juno was young, he just assumed that his mom’s eyes were naturally mismatched. He and Ben existed so that meant she’d found her soulmate, hadn’t she? He grew out of that dream pretty quickly when he realized how many kids in Oldtown had parents with mismatched eyes. Because of that, he could never really prove which eye belonged to him; well, he wouldn’t have been able to prove it, if it wasn’t for the day Ben came home with an oblivious look on his face and two bright blue eyes. Those eyes weren’t bright for too long. Juno actively does not think about it.

He knew, sort of, that his fiancé wasn’t his soulmate when they met. He knew, sort of, that they weren’t soulmates when they got engaged. He knew for sure that they weren’t soulmates when the wedding fell apart at his feet. After that, he kept a pair of coloured contacts in his house at all times. He couldn’t stand to look at the blue, but all the fancy tech in the world couldn’t quite emulate the brightness of the one in his skull so he settled for a shade of lighter brown that he found on the cheap.

Peter spent hours as a kid staring into a haunted blue eye that he knew couldn’t belong to him – it just wasn’t a colour one found on Brahma. He might have had nothing for all those years on the street, but he didn’t have no one as long as someone else had his eye. There was someone out in the galaxy undeniably tied to him.

They don’t realize it when they meet. Rex Glass is a man with two bright eyes, Juno Steel a man with an exhausted look in his. It’s not uncommon for Dark Matters agents to keep their status a secret, so Juno assumes that both Rex’s eyes are contacts and doesn’t dwell too much on the familiar brightness. He doesn’t realize until he pulls the contacts out blearily the next morning that Peter Nureyev is even more of a pain than he thought. He can live with the blue more than he expected, though. They’re way too old to look anything like Ben’s.

Juno wonders if breaking the heart of your soulmate, if abandoning them, will put their old eye back in your skull. He guesses he’ll never know: there’s a crater where a bright, hopeful eye used to be.