Not the Fire but the Spark [Supernatural, Destiel, Nc-17]

Not the Fire but the Spark by goldenraeofsun 

Dean refused to look up his soulmate. His parents ran into each other by chance. Karen stopped by Bobby’s garage after her car unexpectedly broke down. Sam got seated next to Eileen on a plane, and he spent two hours miming conversation before she admitted she read lips.

Was it stupid for Dean to hold out for a story like that? Probably.

But he doesn’t regret his decision - not until Castiel Novak wanders into his tattoo parlor, asking about a cover up for his soulmark. 

This is another awesome fic where they actually think about the whole soulmate business. Like, they don't just automatically get their happily ever afters if they are soulmates. Their lives can fall apart and they can become stranges to each other. The most important part is that they have to do the work for the relationship to work and nurish and actually survive.

So basically this is not some fairytale soulmate fic where everyone is just super happy and have their happily ever after. Okay. Maybe some of them do. But the point was that the happily ever after is not given.

The other important part here is that if you are in any asexual spectrum it is okay. There is one aromantic person and she doesn't have a soulmate. And she is fine with that. And thats the norm. She doesn't want a soulmate, she wants to live her life without a lifepartner and is not "forced" to have a soulmate to share it with. Seriously. This is the kind of thinking I love.

Also. They dip into the thing where your soulmate's soulmatetattoo doesn't change even if you change your name. I am not so sure what to think about this, but I kind of like it. The whole thing has this one big question that I would love to have an answer for. Like, lets say you get abandoned as a baby. Your mother/father leaves you at the firestation without a name (so they can't be trased). Basically you kind of have to have a name at that point but then you need a name to live with. So which name is going to be on your soulmate's arm? And how can you be sure that the other is your soulmate if they have the name your bioparents' gave you but even you don't know that name?

I maybe should mention that they have name tattoos in this one. Where your soulmates name is tattood on your arm. Yea. Probably this info should be somewhere in the beginning but I can't be arsed to edit that much of the text.

Anyways. Why can't more soulmate fics be like this? I know this kind of world is getting more popular but still. I would love to read more soulmate fics where there is the possibility of you just being such a jackass that the relationship just doesn't work. So please. Feel free to leave links to similiar fics to the comments and I promise to at least check them out. Thanks.