chansoo(kai) for the soulmates au challenge!! this is only the short first scene bc my idea has run away from me and even at 10k it's not close to being finished. but soon! hopefully! so just have this for now? and eventually it will be a complete chankaisoo polyamory!soulmates au :D

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The burning hot sensation on the inside of his wrist is something Chanyeol has only felt once before, about three years ago. Like then, it wakes him up early in the morning in the middle of July; the sky is still dark outside and the clock on the table on Chanyeol’s left reads 4:15AM. He groggily rolls over onto his side, trying to fight the weird feeling away and return to sleep, but the heat only grows, uncomfortable, until Chanyeol can’t do anything but submit to it.

He reaches across the bed to tug on the lamp beside the alarm, blinking a few time as his eyes adjust to the brightness. On his left, Kyungsoo makes a soft, grumbling sound, brows furrowing as he curls up in bed. Chanyeol watches him fondly for a moment, until he remembers why he’s awake in the first place, and he lifts his right hand up to his face.

There, etched on the inside of his wrist is a name that definitely didn’t exist when he went to bed. “W-What?” he breathes, feeling suddenly like he’s been doused in ice cold water. His wrist keeps burning hot despite it.

He rubs at the name a few times with his fingers, as if to check if it’s real and Kyungsoo isn’t playing some kind of trick on him, to make him <i>think</i> that he has--

The name doesn’t come off. It doesn’t smudge. It sits there, in perfect, precise letters, and stares up at him as if wondering why Chanyeol won’t believe it.

“Kyungsoo,” he breathes again, reaching out to shake his boyfriend away. His <i>soulmate</i>. Because he already has one. Kyungsoo. Whose name is written on Chanyeol’s left wrist and has been there for almost three years. “Kyungsoo, wake up. Wake the fuck up.”

“<i>What</i>,” Kyungsoo snaps tiredly, pulling the blankets down so he can glare up at Chanyeol, and even then, with his ridiculous bed hair and tired eyes, Chanyeol thinks he looks too cute to actually be menacing at all.

“<i>Look</i>,” he says, focusing back on the issue at hand, as he thrusts his wrist into Kyungsoo’s face.

Kyungsoo, clearly taken aback, leans away slightly and squints at his skin. It takes him a moment, because Kyungsoo’s eyesight is terrible and he’s only just woken up anyway, but then realization dawns on his face, eyes widening as he lowers Chanyeol’s hand and looks at him.

“Oh,” he says, sounding small. Kyungsoo never sounds small. Chanyeol’s heart sinks slowly to his stomach as he looks down at the new name on his wrist. His new soulmate, <i>Jongin Kim</i>.

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