8If you asked Mindy Park what she thought her soul mate would be like based on the words lettered on her ankle, she'd tell you they were probably laid back, even cool maybe?
Privately though, she thinks her soul mate might just be completely unoriginal and maybe even kind of lame.
Which really is probably prematurely judgey of her, but she's prepared to do right by her soul mate even if they turn out to be some snap back wearing Dude-Bro or maybe a woman who was really into the 70's.
If she ever meets them. She's part of the unlucky group whose soul mark consists of mundane words that are thrown around everyday.
She's also part of the unlucky few whose soul marks are undeniably lame.
When she does meet her soul mate, she's pretty sure the first words out of her mouth will probably be "What the hell,dude?" and her soul mate having to grow up with those words marked somewhere on their body is pretty decent revenge.
This, like many of Mindy's plans, does not happen.
She's barely awake with a cup of coffee in hand in the Satcon break room when Annie Montrose materializes in front of her.
"Uhm?" Mindy manages to get out. How Annie manages to look like she's about to take over the world in this time of day is beyond Mindy's coffee run mortal mind at the moment.
"Here," Annie hands her a brown envelope. "Take a look at this."
Obediently, because Annie was really cool but also really scary sometimes, Mindy takes the envelope from her and looks at whatever it is inside.
"Holy shit." Mindy says because well, holy shit.
Her brain is definitely awake now as she stares at the picture in her hands. It's a picture of Mars. A picture of an astronaut on mars, well a picture of an astronaut stuck on Mars.
It's a picture of astronaut Mark Watney, stuck on Mars holding up a sign with words that match the ones lined on her ankle. The number of letters in the 'Aaaay!' on the sign match the ones on her perfectly.
"Holy shit is right. " Annie agrees.
"This has gotta be some sort of coincidence." Mindy says, wide awake now. "There's just no way."
"I know the mark on your ankle," Annie says as she points to the picture in Mindy's hands "matches this one perfectly. "
"How do you know that?" She doesn't exactly flaunt her ankle around.
"Mindy Park, I know everything. " Annie tells her with one perfect brow raised and yeah Mindy can totally believe that. "I'm also not willing to take chances so let's go to your office and plan this out."
They decide the best course of action is to keep it between themselves because really whatever could come out of people knowing she may be soul mates with the guy stuck on mars is not anything she wants to deal with, at all.
"I'm not going to act like this changes anything. " Mindy says as she runs a hand through her hair. " I'm not exactly sure he even is my soul mate, do you know how many people have spoken those words to me in my lifetime?"
"That's unfortunate." Annie says and Mindy is sure she's thinking about lame high school boys.
"Does it even count when he's not even talking to me exactly?" Mindy asks. " isn't this picture adressing the Earth in general. "
"In today's information age, it's not unusual for some soul mates to have meetings that aren't face to face. " Annie tells her.
"Mars to Earth though?" Mindy asks dubiously.
"Well, you are part of Earth." Annie tells her as she makes her way out of Mindy's office. "I'll be checking up on you every now and then, make sure you're working right."
"If you wanted to hang out, you could have just told me." Mindy calls back as Annie leaves her office because her brain is kind of out of it with this new information.
Annie snorts but Mindy thinks it's in the category of amused snorts so, yay.
She tries to get back to work after that but she can't help it when her eyes trail over to the picture Annie left at her desk.
"What the hell, dude?"