By the age of ten, everybody had heard of the Pull. It was a feeling everyone had, very small and slight, that something was telling you to go somewhere. Zack had quite suddenly felt it at the age of two, and he had gotten separated from his parents and horribly lost, heading vaguely northward in the direction the Pull was tugging him.
His father found him late at night, and brought him home, and the next morning explained that what he was feeling was a good thing, and it would someday lead him to his soulmate, just the same way the Pull had lead him to Zack’s mother.
“Somewhere out there is a girl who’s feeling that same Pull, and it’s leading her towards you. And someday you two will meet one another and it will be wonderful. But you have to wait until you’re older to go after her.”
So Zack waited until he was fourteen and the Pull was calling him inevitably towards Midgar, and decided to enlist in Shinra’s army so that he would be able to go find the girl he was being guided towards sooner.
Midgar was awfully big and awfully busy. Zack hoped for free time to look for his soulmate, but Shinra duties kept him hopping so that he never really had a chance, and once he made SOLDIER 3rd he was deployed to Wutai, which quite soundly defeated his original purpose. He spent over a year there, never with enough time to come home and find the one who was calling to him. It wasn’t until after the war that he returned to Midgar, and took a fateful tumble through the floor of the sector five reactor.
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Zack felt fuzzy, not unlike when he’d been sparring with Angeal and the man had given him a solid rap on the head with the hilt of his sword. Something smelled nice, and whatever he was lying on was very comfortable… he could just nap here a while, but something wasn’t letting him.
“Hellooo?”
Open your eyes! The Pull was almost like a voice. Open your eyes! NOW!
Zack opened his eyes, and saw stunning green.
What did you say when you finally met the person you had been looking for all your life? Zack stared for a moment, then smiled.
“I always hoped you’d be cute.”
—————— TBC
What if people really did have soulmates?
My dearest ~QueenSnake and I are making yet another FFVII AU!! My baby’s creation is called “Soulmates” featuring Zack x Aerith and Sephiroth x Cloud, of course!