Prologue

Soulmates were nothing to joke about. Everyone had one, someone planned to be their partner for life, someone they would forever cherish.

It was a liability for their Asset, and HYDRA did everything in their power to prevent it from happening. Still, they couldn't erase or hide away the words inked into his skin, the words which had appeared mysteriously one day.

The first one was odd.

I'm sorry, what?

Still, he had no problem with it. It suggested that he was simply going to confuse his soulmate. It wasn't bad. The problem was that it changed.

It often did. Sometimes, he would see the first words on his skin, and sometimes, when he wasn't that much of a puppet of HYDRA, he would see another.

If you're going to kill me, kill me. Don't stand there and dawdle.

The Soldier had always been horrified at the words on his wrist. They could mean only one thing: he would be sent to kill her. He didn't know whether the bond would be strong enough to overcome his programming, or if there would even be one.

'What if I kill her?' he often thought. If he did, he could never live with himself. If he did, the pain and the regret which would follow… how could he do that to himself? To her?

He dreaded every mission, thinking that maybe one day, he'd come back to his senses to see the words crossed out. He hoped that he would never encounter her, that he could be lucky enough to break it before it forms.

He wasn't.

Author's Note:

Hey! Thanks for reading the prologue. This is my first time writing a Soulmate AU, so I'm sorry for any mistakes I may have made. I'll do my best to make them better.

If you haven't noticed, this work is different from my other one in the sense that it is shorter in regards to words per chapter and has more fluff (in the future, of course). Read my other one, Cold Hearted, if you want, but my writing style there is much more different from my writing style here.

If you have any requests you want me to write, feel free to PM me! I'm always open to writing things, if I know what I'm writing, that is.

Have an awesome day!