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FILL - Lipstick Traces - Darren/Chris - friends-to-soulmates RPF AU (PART 3b)

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"A Scout?" Darren asked, wiping at his mouth with the back of his hand. "You hear stories about them, but I've never actually met one. They're like, unicorn is so cliché, but he's like a fucking unicorn."

She nodded. "A very lonely, very angry unicorn, yes."

Darren shook his head. "How does that even work?"

Ashley finished her drink and gestured for him to pour her another. "They're more common than you think. Some of them are pretty mellow. They're not really against it, they just think the soulmate thing is too easy. All the great classic love stories are about it being tested. True love triumphs over all, you know?"

"Of course it does," Darren said. "But most of those stories were written before the names started to appear."

"Exactly," she said. "They just started appearing a few decades ago, and ours is the first generation that's just assumed to have them. The way some Scouts see it, we could be misunderstanding what they mean. It's too tricky, what with how they show up in different places and at different ages."

"But that's part of what makes it so intriguing," Darren said. "Like, why is yours so tiny? Why is mine so big? What's the difference between hand and leg? Everyone's different. Why shouldn their placement and design be the same?"

"Preaching to the converted, here," Ashley said, holding up a hand. "I'm just telling you what he's told me and what I've seen online."

"You looked it up online?"

She shrugged. "What kind of friend would I be if I didn't try to understand?

Darren sighed. "I guess I just don't understand why anyone would want to think they're anything but the name of the person you're meant to be with. It makes things better, doesn't it? Knowing that even if you haven't met them, there's someone out there just waiting to love you?"

"That's how most people think about it," Ashley said, urging him to pour a heftier amount. "But what if you didn't want that? What if your childhood dream was to be a nun?"

"Then I'd have been pretty shit out of luck," Darren said, capping the bottle. "The Franciscans aren't exactly an equal opportunity employer."

"You know what I mean," she said. "What if Big Romance was never part of your plan? What if you had dreams that didn't fit with the idea of being tied to another person?"

Darren shifted and took another sip. "I don't know. I guess I never thought about it."

"Yeah, me neither."

"So is that it?" Darren asked. "You said he got his heart broken again. That doesn't sound like someone who wants to be alone."