"Jack ... I'm scared."
FEAR is such a peculiar emotion.
To a stranger, they’ll simply want your cries of anguish to CEASE and let things run the way things used to, so long as FRIGHT doesn't hover ovee them, no one will care. To your enemies, it will be nothing but their GREATEST amusement to see your form tremble. To your friends, it is a sight that urges them to REACH OUT && you and tell you everything is okay, that you’re okay, that NOTHING is wrong in the world.
To family, or maybe just to someone like JACKSON, things run much deeper than that.
When the NIGHTMARES started back when they were left to their own devices, they have always had each other for a source of SOLACE. Almost every night, until the present day, they find one another locked in an EMBRACE in hopes to drive away the shadows that haunt their past, run away from the visions of their heartless FATHER...
And to tune out the cries of their sister.
There are days when they can still get away with a few more WINKS of sleep. There are days when the nightmares strike and leave them numb with nothing else but despair. Then there are the nightmares that wreck their stability entirely.
To Jackson’s endless heartache, tonight’s round of torment has broken Jakke to the CORE. In between the albino’s incoherent mutterings, he pieces together what has torn his brother APART, and it breaks the brunet’s heart.
Tonight, the nightmares visits with a dream of Jackson six feet under.
For the briefest moment, he’s LIVID at everything that breathes, beings who are not and could NEVER be Jakke, because no one deserves more happiness than his dear sibling. But he doesn’t let these THOUGHTS bother him for too long. His twin is still distraught, and the older twin can’t BEAR to see Jakke like this.
Not when the boy has just admitted that he’s scared.
❝ Jakke, I'm here... I'm HERE. ❞ Words simply fall on deaf ears, and a frown firmly fixates itself on Jack's lips. ❝ Nothing's happened to me, and nothing ever WILL. ❞
It's a promise he can't keep, with time and UNPREDICTABILITY as their enemies, && fates have never favored, these unfortunate pair of twins, but God will he TRY.
If Jakke ever asked him to, Jackson would even try TAKING the world in his hands and hand it to his brother, because there's nothing he wouldn't do for him.
❝ It's a nightmare... just a NIGHTMARE. ❞ The rest of the night involves Jackson consoling his twin && firmly assure the younger boy of his presence. ❝ I'll always be here, if it's for YOU. ❞
