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The girl grinned. "This is Herbert!"

Barnaby blinked. Their power was a goose? Did they summon animals? Were they trying to give him a pet? He hoped the latter wasn't the case; he really didn't have the time for a pet. And if he did, he had a feeling a goose wouldn't be happy in his apartment.

"Herbert is our goose," the boy said. "He has special powers."

"He'll help you find your soulmate!" the girl said.

Herbert honked.

Barnaby had even more questions now, but the one that came out was, "My...soulmate?"

(Or, in which a goose is going to help Barnaby Brooks Jr. find his soulmate whether he wants it or not.)

This is not the first time I have written the Soulmate Goose of Enforcement, nor will it be the last, because if there's two things I love, it's soulmate AUs and crack, and this particular trope combines them wonderfully.

For those of you who haven't discovered the beautiful hilarity of this AU, it was originally conceived in the Check Please fandom and reads thusly: "Soulmate AU where one person finds a goose who leads them to the other person. The difficulty comes in not being mauled by a goose."