Soulmates - Johnlock

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Color Me Your Color, Baby by milou407, 1.5 k, teen. Magical realism. Such a cool take on finding soul mates – when you touch people, they leave their color on you. Soulmates leave deep and permanent markings. When John and Sherlock finally touch, they just know. Lovely.

Inscriptions series by IronicNarwhal (orphan account), 2 works, teen. Everyone is born with a name on their finger of their soulmate. Sherlock has met 24 Johns, and none of them are his.

The Matchmaker's meeting by PaperPrince, 1 K, teen. Kidlock/teenlock. In a world where the names of people’s soulmates appear on their hands, Sherlock is a Finder in training, one who serves as a matchmaker. One day little Sherlock meets an interesting older boy at the local library.

The Words We Wear by FrauKatzen, 4 k, teen. Soulmates AU. Sherlock Holmes did not want nor need a soulmate. If Sherlock never heard the words on his arm spoken aloud, he would be a very happy man. “Well, bit different from my day.” What rubbish.

In Your Patience Possess by Violsva, 4 k, gen. OT3, Johnlockary. People are born with their soulmate’s name on their arm. How strange that Watson and Holmes feel drawn to each other when they are not each other’s match. Sweet.

Alphas Protect by Dayja, 24 k, unrated. Omegaverse. Everyone in the world starts their lives as betas. It takes meeting one's soulmate to spark the change into alpha or omega. Sherlock is a beta. He expects to live his entire life that way. After all, he doesn't have a soulmate, right? But if he did have a soulmate, he knew he'd turn out to be the alpha. And Sherlock is never wrong. Right?

Colors by Quesarasara, 140 k, explicit. Everyone on earth is born with eyes that see in black, white, and an endless series of greys. When you meet your soulmate, you finally see the world in color. We're all searching for the person who brings color to our lives. John and Sherlock are no exception.

Panthera Pardus by Ismira_Daugene, 54 k, mature. Sherlock and John have met before... long before John was sent home from the war. Little did John know that black panther he was attacked by under the hot Afghani sun was going to be his future flatmate. AU where Sherlock is a shapeshifting black panther and John tries to come to terms with a flatmate who wants to mate with him.

Time Enough by airynothing, 1 k, gen. John refused to believe that Sherlock, of all people, could have simply missed his soulmate.

Biology by lookupkate, 4 k, explicit. When you meet your soulmate your biology changes. It takes Sherlock a while to figure it out. It takes John even longer. Idiots.

Just a Scribble on your Wrist by statesofuncertainty, 13 k, mature. Sherlock entered the flat first, Adrenaline still flooding his system from the running he threw his coat on to the rack before suddenly finding himself pressed up against the closed door with John's lips on his own. This was new. Very new. An AU where everyone has their soulmates name written on their wrist. Unfortunately it looks like an unreadable scribble and only your soulmate can read their own name on your wrist.

Keeping the Same Time by what_alchemy, 4 k, teen. "When Sherlock Holmes brought Dr. John Watson, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps, back to life with a chase through London streets and some Indonesian takeaway, John put away, once and for all, any thoughts of finding the person whose name he wore beneath his left breast.”

Soulmate by farawisa, 5 k, teen. I imagine an AU where everybody walks along in pairs. Like, everybody has a soul mate they meet and early in life and they just know it's the right person because once they touch, they can immediately feel each other's feelings and hear each other's thoughts. Everybody except Sherlock.

Vain Head and Double Heart by HerHighness, 7 k, teen. John Watson has a problem: he hasn't met his soul mate. Moreover, his TiMER hasn't even activated yet. Somehow he still finds himself falling deeply in love with his nutter of a flat mate. Meanwhile, the emotionally oblivious Sherlock investigates a case.

What I Forgot To Tell You by azriona, 9 k, mature. On average, a person will have ten soulmates throughout their lifetime. But that’s the funny thing about averages. There’s always those for whom they don’t apply.

Written On The Wrist by sheerrloockk, 5 k, teen. The thing about the Mate Mark was that it didn’t mean you’d find your soul mate. It just meant you had one.

The Waiting is the Worst Part by loyalnerdwp, 4k, not rated. “If a clock could count down to the moment you meet your soul mate, would you want to know?”

These Inconvenient Fireworks by KaleidoscopeKreation, 3k, teen. Set in a universe in which every human child is born with an incorporeal guardian animal - a daemon - their constant companion until they meet their intended. Soulmates/Philip Pullman mashup.

In Words, Like Weeds by You_Light_The_Sky, 5 k, teen. John decides to name the man (the character, the person in his head) Sherlock.

The Vision by cloud_wolfbane, 37 k, mature. In this world, most of the population has a soul mate. A Vision, usually given around puberty, helps mates find each other. Sherlock and John are old enough that statistics tell them their soul mate must be dead. Statistics were wrong.

Fringe by i_am_deaded, 5 k, gen. "Ever since John was little, people would look at him funny. Or more specifically, at his hair."AU where you have a streak of your soulmate's hair colour and type in your own fringe. But not everyone has a soulmate.

Shared by orphan_account, 2 k, mature. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes have absolutely nothing in common except for one small detail. They unknowingly share thoughts with one another.

A Breach of Red by littlegreyfish, 6 k, teen. A red string connects you to your intended something that has always fascinated John. When he comes back wounded from Afghanistan, he hardly cares about it anymore. Who’d want a broken ex-army doctor anyway?

The Adventure of the Blackened Band by RosiePaw, 30 k, mature. John remembered how Sherlock’s head tucked down to hold his instrument, how the sleeve of his bow arm drew up just a bit, just enough to reveal the band of black pigmentation encircling his wrist... In which John and Sherlock may or may not be soulmates, and this may or may not matter.

The Beauty of it (extended edition) by JohnLockDivision, 16 k, not rated. Everyone has a 'Soulname' etched onto their wrist, the name of their soulmate. This has always frustrated Sherlock, as John is such a common name. But what exactly does John's Soulname say?

what’s in a name by flight815kitsune, 1 k, not rated. There were some things you just knew. The name, if you were lucky enough to get one, was one of those things.

The Beauty of it (extended edition) by JohnLockDivision, 16 k, not rated. Everyone has a 'Soulname' etched onto their wrist, the name of their soulmate. This has always frustrated Sherlock, as John is such a common name. But what exactly does John's Soulname say?

Keeping the Same Time by what_alchemy, 4 k, teen."When Sherlock Holmes brought Dr. John Watson, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps, back to life with a chase through London streets and some Indonesian takeaway, John put away, once and for all, any thoughts of finding the person whose name he wore beneath his left breast.”

Bound By Their Wrists by sonicmekhanlock,  8 k, teen. What if there was a world where everyone was born with a name on their wrist, indicating who their soulmate was? And what if John and Sherlock ended up having each other's names? Except the catch would be: only Sherlock knows his real name.

Return to Innocence by Madophelia, 10 k, mature. Sherlock Homes has a Kismet Mark. That’s when the name of your soulmate is written on your wrist for the world to see, but that’s okay, Sherlock’s is written in code. A story of childhood to adulthood and how Sherlock deals with the knowledge that some things are just inevitable, however much you try.

I need the Touch of your Hand (to know that You need Me) by StarkPanda, 2 k, gen. Set in a world where most people have found their soul mates by the time they're in their early twenties, two men have given up on finding their other half. So when Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meet, they're in for quite a shock.

Bashert (Destiny) by badwolfofbakerstreet, 21 k, mature. Soul mates, to him it was just a myth. Two halves of one whole desperately searching for one another. It was an effort put forth by the tellers long ago to give people purpose. He wouldn't fall victim to its false hope and sense of such purpose in life. He was Sherlock Holmes, he didn't need a mate.

Silver Cord by Lalaith_Quetzalli, 6 k, teen. Matches still exist among those with magic in their veins, its signaled by a cord connecting both partners, which becomes visible to both the first time their eyes connect. They are supposed to be perfect matches... except for when one half chooses to reject the bond...

Walking Together by SailorChibi, 101 k, teen. AU where everyone has one soul mate that they usually meet early in life. Sherlock Holmes never had a soul mate and never wanted one... until he met John Watson.

Just a touch by Lokiof221B, 24 k, gen. Soulmate AU. John Watson is a very unlucky guy, he has met 12 potential soulmates and not one of them is the right one. What happens when he meets number 13, unlucky for some right?

Your name, sacred to my lips by Salambo06 1 k, mature. Based on this prompt: "Okay so like one of those soulmate AUs where fem Sherlock grows up with the word 'John' on her wrist, and she's 100% sure she's a lesbian so she resents it with a burning passion. Every time she meets a man named John she immediately shuts him down as harshly as she can, horrified at the idea of being his soulmate. Then one day fem John Watson walks into St Barts and the second she introduces herself Sherlock immediately knows"

With Your Crooked Heart by positivelymeteoric, 6 k, teen. The words that appear on your wrist after birth lead you to your soulmate, so it should be no surprise to John that Sherlock's are blank, or that his own lead him to Sherlock.

Simple Gifts by orithea, 1. 8 k, teen. Every person is born with one innate talent. They are also born with one soulmate, and the full potential of their talent is not realized until they've found that person.

Conductor of Light by Dreadfort, 8 k, teen. Wingfic. Everyone has a manu meridiem; bioluminescence in the palm of your hand. The colour of this is supposed to help you to find ... not quite your soul mate, though some call them that - rather, your Potential.

A Different Kind of Complication by Atisenia, 8 k, teen. When John started getting letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever.

Millennia by augustbird, 2 k, mature.  “How do you keep finding me?” John asks. Sherlock bends his head so that his lips are close to John’s. He has John’s wrists pinned up over his head and his whispered breath seeps into John’s open mouth. “How do you keep forgetting?”

NOMINO by numberthescars, 22 k, teen. In a world where everyone is born with a name inscribed on his or her hand, finding your soulmate should be easy. And for John, it sort of is. It's what happens after he finds Sherlock that causes all the problems.

Part of everything I do by JohnLockDivision, 2 k, gen. AU where you wake up on your 18th birthday with the first words your soulmate will say to you tattooed on your body so you’ll know them when you meet them' and this sort of...happened. John's words circled his shoulder, where one day a bullet would leave a scar. Sherlock's sat above his heart, reminding him that he had one.

A Strange Meeting by heartbreakholmes, 2 k, gen. In a world where each person is born with their soulmate's name inscribed upon their wrist, John Watson, tattoo artist, often finds himself covering them up for people. However, it seems cruel that one rather beautiful customer has not found his other half, yet still wants the word erased from his skin.

Soulbound by catinahat, 5 k, teen. Wherever his soulmate was he was hurting, lonely, desperate. John felt hauntingly lonely. Where are you? He thought desperately. Haven’t I waited long enough? John's Soulmark is unique, as unique as the man whose heart he carries on his wrist.

Written On The Wrist by sheerrloockk, 5 k, teen. The thing about the Mate Mark was that it didn’t mean you’d find your soul mate. It just meant you had one.

Blue Veins by lbmisscharlie, 1 k, gen. Everyone has a timer on their wrist that counts down until they meet their soulmate. The numbers can’t guarantee happiness, reciprocity, or even fidelity. They’re just a fact of life. In a world where everyone hides their numbers, John Watson meets a man with bare wrists.

When the penny drops by Yesilian, 5 k, gen. Every person on Earth has a soul mate, but only about one in forty meets theirs. And some find theirs more than once before it sticks.

A Variation of Meanings by turtlelaces, 1 k, teen. John had been born with the word “Oh” written in fancy cursive in the color of his freckles on the inside of his left arm, near his elbow. He wonders all the time who his soulmate is. This is the story of how John met Sherlock, and his journey before the introduction.

Journals by WaywardSpark, 34 k, teen. On a person's sixteenth birthday, they receive a small, black, leather-bound, government-issued journal in which they can write to their soulmate.

Find Me by inkinmyheartandonthepage, 16 k, not rated. “Do you know how many people are named ‘John’, Mycroft?” Sherlock glared. “Do you honestly think ‘Greg’ is any easier to find?” Or Sherlock and Mycroft struggle to find their soul mates when they both have common names.

The Common Name by earnestdesire, 25 k, explicit. John Watson has grown up with a rich man’s name on his hand. Sherlock Holmes has a name so common, it’s practically useless. Follow their lives—step by step—as they both discover how hard Destiny will work to draw true soulmates together.

Searching Under Leaves At Midnight by intotheruins, 1 k, gen. When he was a child, Sherlock searched for souls. When he gave up on magic, he found one.