{I Give You My Heart} Jam AU

Chapter 8 (I Can Show You The Moon)

(Disclaimer:This chapter takes high inspiration from marionetta episode 16 + historical facts!)
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Jake walked in his room, leaving Tom outside confused and flustered like always, the moment he enters his smile fades, he takes a seat on his coffin, his eyes focused on the floor, his mind thinking deeply about the moment him and the new jester had just shared, a deep red blush growing on his face at the memory of His hand sliding down to his waist and how caring he was towards him... And how he had just kissed his cheek, he certainly wasn't falling in love again? Not after getting his heart broken.. He groans.
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Jake:What's the matter with me.. and i thought i had learned my lesson.

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We are brought back to a memory from when Jake was a little boy, a child beaming with life, joy and innocence and everything sweet that can come from a young fella.
His mother had always been disgusted by his presence, and his father not wanting to beef with her always stayed away from him, Jake at the age of 9 was given to serve as a slave for an important family in the roman empire, in rewards of a fortune of resources.
By then his heart had endured so much pain, how his own parents did not hesitate to give him away for resources and being stripped away from his siblings who were the only ones who cared.
When he arrived he served the family very well, he did not try to escape or get rid of them because had he thought of such a thing it could cause him to be trialed and tortured to death.
However there was one of the family members who started finding a certain interest in the young Jake, who by then was about to turn 15, he flirted with the slave every chance he could get, Jake tried to push the man away because of their position in power, but eventually he fell for the guy and the two hooked up.
Not everything had a good ending though, because the man got married soon after and sent Jake away to Egypt.
Heartbroken, Jake went to Egypt, when he arrived he was captured and enslaved once again, he now forced to work even harder then before began to grow cold, emotionless, the once happy and outgoing child with a big heart was now nothing more than a machine, only responding to orders and dead eyes, the light in them was long gone.
Word of the roman empire getting destroyed and the many deaths that came with it, Jake knew that his family was in between those many corpses and remains of what was once a very powerful empire, for the first time he cried, on the floor he cried in despair, he did not care about his family, he cared about how his siblings probably didn't survive either, he couldn't bare the idea of it.
Soon once the pharoah had died he was to be sacrificed to keep serving them in the afterlife.
At that Jake had enough, so he ran, he ran and ran until he could no more, he fell to the ground, sobbing in despair yet again, he looked up in the dark sky, the moon shining upwards, he remembered how he always wanted to see the moon up close, to see more of it with his siblings, he made one last wish, he knew could never be true, he wanted to see the moon, to land on it and dance on it with someone.
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Jake cried, such naive thoughts for a guy who had just turned 19 and was about to be executed, he couldn't believe he was the same one who wished for that to happen, he laid inside his coffin and looked up at the ceiling, his thoughts wondering back to Tom, he got upset thinking about him and how he could never give him the love he deserves because his heart was bruised, beaten, destroyed, he even failed to love Hunter and the emperor, how could he be able to love him?
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Jake:How can i ever love someone like you with a heart like mine.

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The next day Tom arrived at the cafeteria for dinner, he sat down where Gabby was sitting with a group of people, she happily introduced them as Ellie, Dan and Drew, they had a nice talk, but Tom couldn't stop looking around wondering where Jake was, he didn't seem to be anywhere even when he was looking all around the circus for him.
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