Summary: Emma Swan just wants to be loved for who she is, and not because someone feels obligated to love her. It’s just her luck that she has a soulmate somewhere out there, while she’s already in love with someone else. Rating: M (for moderate sexual content)
This story is my OUAT Positivity Gift Exchange present for @ilerya82! It was so lovely getting to know you this past month, and I love how much we have in common when it comes to our love of OUAT (and gummy candy and fall OMGGG). You mentioned a bunch of tropes you liked, including one of my all-time favorites (friends to lovers) and one I hadn’t taken a stab at before (soulmates). I really hope that you enjoy this story; I had a lot of fun writing it, so I hope it’s at least as fun for you to receive it!
Emma Swan felt like she couldn’t escape soulmates.
There was Mary Margaret, her adoptive sister, who met her soulmate David in college when she was dared to steal something from Regina’s dorm room and accidentally broke into his instead. There was also Regina, whose mother’s classist attitude meant that she didn’t feel comfortable openly dating her soulmate Robin, whom she’d met on the first day of freshman year, until they’d all graduated and she wasn’t dependent on her mother’s money. There was Ruby, who’d joyously slept with virtually every single person she met, and then just as joyously enjoyed monogamy when she met her soulmate Dorothy. There were even Mulan, Aurora, and Phillip, who’d made the news more than once as one of the few examples of polyamorous soulmates willing to go public.
It All Starts With a Dance 