Mar 1, 2019
🥀 - last time you cried?
Sweet and Pure Asks↳ 🥀 - last time you cried? (also asked by @blades-and-books)
The memory of even doing something so pathetic dredges up memories of regret, and strikes a nerve within Jake. As a result, his answer comes out a bit snappy. “Cried? That’s funny. I don’t do crying.”
Truthful answer: back when he was a kid, being relentlessly broken down by the cruel world he and his father had been thrust into, after the death of Jake’s mother. But that was also when he swore to never shed a tear again. Not after failing so spectacularly at protecting his mom, and others he loved. Jake had no damn right to cry over anything.
But he couldn’t be confident he could uphold that oath, if something ever happened to Meg...