Zemblanity

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CS AU Week
Day 3: Beloved Tropes – Soulmates

This is a very belated birthday gift for the wonderful @lifeinahole27. I’ve been working on this soulmates fic for a while now and I’m excited that is finally finished. Many many thanks to the lovely @sambethe for looking over at this over and over and to @wingedlioness that somehow talked me out of my writer’s block and helped with the smut.

Word Count – 7k
Rated: M 
Summary: 

William Boyd coined the term zemblanity to mean somewhat the opposite of serendipity: “making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries occurring by design”. A zemblanity is, effectively, an “unpleasant unsurprise”. It derives from Novaya Zemlya (or Nova Zembla), a cold, barren land with many features opposite to the lush Sri Lanka (Serendip).
Soulmates gone wrong AU
Ao3 – FF.net

Zemblanity

It has been scripted since the beginning of time. Not for all, but
there’s always been a subset of them destined for one another. Dark and light
fated to find each other, fall for each other and merge into one another, to
restore order in the universe. Centuries have passed and the practices have
been long forgotten, nothing but folk tales narrated over and over again, the
constant iteration of the words erasing their meaning until they are nothing
but a background noise.

The only thing that remains is the sound of one soul calling for the
other.

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Emma was lazing on the couch, a mindless reality tv show playing on the
television as she sipped her hot chocolate and relaxed after a gruesome shift.
Her body ached for a good night sleep and she was almost dozing off when she
felt it. She groaned in frustration.

Killian Jones. She really didn’t have the energy for this. For him. Killian bloody Jones, leader of The Pirates, agitator extraordinaire,
rebel with a somewhat fair cause, and black leather aficionado.

Killian Jones. Her fucking
soulmate.

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