#because i love a reincarnated soulmates spanning centuries type situation

[tangledstarlight]

ok so ive been thinking a lot about reincarnation and how easily julie and luke connected with each other. like. he’d known her for less then a day and was giving her a song, which yknow. big deal for a boy who’s heart is music. and i’m fully on board the soulmate train but!!! the idea of them meeting once, centuries ago and falling in love and making music together and living a long happy life together and promising to find each other again and again??? and they do!! but they also keep missing each other!! and it never quite works out the way it should!! 

in their first lives they’re just julie and luke and they meet and fall in love. and maybe they don’t do anything extraordinary because it’s like. the 1700s and just surviving a harsh winter is enough, but julie sings while she works and luke pulls out the 1700′s equivalent to a six string at night and they’re happy and that’s all that matters. there’s a bold declaration when they’re younger thats like ‘if there’s a life after death i’ll find you there, i’ll find you in any life’ and we all know julie is magic so it accidently sticks. 

so then it’s the 1800′s and julie’s this semi-famous opera singer and luke hears while she’s rehearsing one day and he’s suddenly hit by the knowledge that he knows that voice. and he tries so hard to find out who she is and it’s not until one of his friends drags him to the opera that he hears her sing again and sees her and suddenly he remembers. then he waits around, trying to find her/meet her and catches her just as she’s leaving and all he says is her name and julie turns to see him and she knows too. but then she’s being whisked away and their chance has gone.

then sometimes they meet at the wrong time. it’s 1941 and the night before he’s due to ship out to to france so he’s having a last night of fun with his friends, singing and drinking and he stumbles into julie. and it’s not love at first sight and no memories resurface at first. but he convinces her to let him buy her a drink and they spend the night talking and in the early hours of the morning, when neither of them have slept and he’s due on a bus in 2 hours, luke grabs her hands and says something like ‘if i make i make it back, will you go out with me?’ and julie says something like ‘when you make it back, i’ll consider it.’ and he kisses her cheek and she waves him off. and by the time the war ends julie’s already known for 3 years that he’s been dead because she remembered, but she remembered too late to tell him.

and there’s times when they meet too late or too early. when their reborn doesn’t always quite line up with each other. so sometimes juile will meet luke when she’s already married with kids and he’s only just born. or luke will see her in some black and white film and vaguely know she’s important, but she’s super famous and they’ll never meet. and sometimes they do meet at the right time, at the right place, and they’re almost happy before something tragic happens. and there’s some lives where one of them will remember but the other doesn’t and it’s kills them to keep it a secret. and they start to wonder if maybe they’re just cursed to be so close but never actually get to keep each other again.

or it’s 1995 and luke’s alive and he’s got all these big big dreams and doesn’t know that he’s missing someone. and he eats a bad hotdog and dies and some greater power shoves them into a black room for 25 years and then he’s back as a ghost and there’s this girl who feels to familiar to him but he doesn’t know why and it drives him a little mad. but he hears her sing and he knows that she’s important to him, even if he doesn’t know why. and julie doesn’t know either, but she knows that when she writes or sings with him it’s like something she hadn’t known was missing has found its way home. 

and maybe it’s not until the moment they hug that they both realise they’ve done this before, but also never done this before. because luke is dead and julie is alive and maybe fate keeps bringing them together but something always seems to be trying to tear them apart too. and it’s heartbreak after heartbreak and there’s a moment. just a single moment, in the near-future where juile knows the boys are about to cross over and she’s going to loose him again, that she hates whatever it is that keeps doing this to them and wishes they’d stop. but she takes it back and the moment is over because she loves him and he loves her and they say goodbye, again, and luke promises they’ll get it right next time. 

a couple of decades pass and julie lives a long happy life and dies peacefully in her sleep and then there’s these two little kids who meet on the first day of school and they don’t know each other, but they sit together anyway because it feels right. 

and they become best friends and grow up together and it’s not until maybe they’re teenagers again that luke remembers but julie doesn’t and for a moment he’s terrified. because he knows what she’d wished last time, that she hated the pain, and that maybe it had worked, maybe that was their last life together. but then a week later as they’re writing a song together juile just looks up at him suddenly, eyes all wide and a little awed and luke knows she’s remembered and he’d promised they’d get it right this time and by god is he going to mean it

#julie and the phantoms #julie molina #luke patterson #jatp #this has been in my head and in my drafts for months and i honestly dont know what to do with it #this also might be niche too me #because i love a reincarnated soulmates spanning centuries type situation #even though they're normally kinda sad #*