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How Jack came to be
Once, long ago, there were two boys around the age of 20. They were both tall and handsome. One of the boys, Jacob who liked to be called Jack, had black hair, green eyes and always wore black and orange. The other, Edmund who prefered to be called 'Ed', had brown hair and brown eyes and dressed to impress. These boys had a secret they hid from the world. Gaia, back in those days, was a much less tolerating place, and if anybody found out they were lovers, they would be doomed.
It was a week before Halloween, and Ed and Jack were sitting on a bench next to the fountain in Barton town. All around people were decorating for the holiday. Everybody was happy and there were a few people who were celebrating early and getting drunk. Ed laughed as a drunken man in nothing but a nitemare scarf staggered by. Jack joined Eds laughter as the drunk man started doing the chicken dance. The man finally stopped and went to frighten some children only to land flat on his face. Jack chuckled and looked over at Ed. He leaned over and whispered something in his lovers ear. Ed blushed and smiled.
"Come on." Said Jack. He got up and lead Ed behind the new shop called Barton Botique. Jack pushed Ed up against the wall and started kissing him. Ed closed his eyes and eagerly returned the kisses. They didn't even hear people walk up behind them.
"Hey!" said an angry voice. Ed opened his eyes and Jack turned his head. Three men stood with angry and disgusted looks on their faces. The one in front had spiked blue hair and wore a black trench coat and ripped up jeans. He held a demonic pitchfork and looked alittle drunk. The others behind him looked similar, different hair color and no pitchfork. Jack turned all the way around.
"What do you want?" Jack asked. Mister 'I have a pitchfork' sneered and knocked Jack over.
"Jack!" cried Ed. The other two men in trenchcoats pinned him against the wall. It took all of their strength to hold him. The guy attacking Jack had raised his oversized fork and stabbed it into Jack's stomach. Jack gasped and coughed up blood.
"JACK!" Ed screamed but was quickly silenced when something sliced into his cheek twice. The guys that had pinned him to the wall threw him at his dying love. They laughed and ran off. Ed was crying and crawled closer to Jack. His tears stung the fresh cut on his face. Jack looked at Ed a smiled weakly at him and passed out. Ed started to panic. He tried to think of somebody that could help without exposing their secret. Then it came to him. Johnny. He picked Jack up and ran to Isle de Gambino.
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A young Johnny Gambino was sitting in his room reading Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven. It fit with the mood of the holiday. He heard knocking and jumped alittle. The story was getting to him. He got up to answer the door himself because the servents were out celebrating. Johnny opened the front door and didn't see anybody. Well, he saw someone but it was just a drunken idiot in a nitemare scarf. He heard the knocking again and realised it was coming from the backdoor. He closed the front door and headed to th back of the house. Why would they be at the back? He opened the back door and saw Edmund holding a bloodied up Jack.
"Johnny.....help, please." Ed pleaded. Johnny stood wide eyed and moved to the side to let Ed in. Ed walked through the house to one of the spare bedrooms. He knew his way around this place just like he knew the back of his hand. He and Johnny were best friends so he had learned every square inch of the mansion. He had known Johnny before all on the money and was his only true friend.
Ed laid Jack down on a soft bed and watched as blood dripped out of the large flesh wound. He sat next to the bed and buried his face in his hands, causing his cut to bleed quicker. Johnny was standing in the door way of the room. He moved silently next to his friend side.
"There is a way....we can save him." said Johnny. Ed looked up, teary eyed and asked
"How?" Johnny bit his lip. And wondered if he should really be doing this. He sighed.
"G-Corp has been working on a project for self healing. It works, but there are side effects."
"So? If we can save Jack then we should do it!"
"Its not that simple. We performed an experiment on a wounded man during the Easter holidays and he grew rabbit ears and turned pastel pink!" said Johnny. Ed was looking at the ground in silence. He looked at Johnny again.
"Do it." Ed had not asked, he had comanded it. Johnny sighed and ran his fingers through his blonde hair.
"Fine." It was agreed. Johnny called up some LabTechs that came and took Jack away on a stretcher. One stayed behind to clean up Ed's cut.
-= One week later =-
Ed walked up to Gambino mansion and rung the doorbell. The sound could be heard echoing thoughout the enormous building. The door creaked open and a young lady in a maids dress greeted him.
"Master Johnny will be down in a moment." She said. She looked at the healing cross cut on his face oddly and left him standing in frony of the staricase leading to the second floor. A few minutes later Johnny came down smiling and caught Ed in a bone crushing hug. They talked for alittle when Eds reason for coming came up.
"Is he ready?" Ed asked. Johnny's smile dropped.
"Yes, but you won't like what you'll see." Johnny said and walked up to a life size picture of Johnny's grandfather on the wall behind Edmund. He took the picture off the wall revealing a door with a keypad next to it. Johnny pressed a couple of numbers and the door opened. He walked though the new passage and into a small room the size of a closet. Johnny turned and motioned for Ed to do the same. Ed cautiously walked next to Johnny and stood in the small space with him. The door closed and the room began to move down.
When the door opened again they were looking at a large room filled with glass tubes that could hold a human. A few of them were occupied. Ed looked at Johnny and raised a questioning eyebrow. Johnny coughed into his hand and walked past the tubes and stopped at a plain white door. Ed walked up next to him and was about to say something but stopped when Johhny opened the door.
Inside was a steel table and lying on the table was the creature that would appear every Halloween on Gaia, trading items for candy and striking fear into the hearts of many. Eds true love, Jack.
-= Halloween, 2005 =-
Edmund stood in the doorway of his shop. Most of Gaia was asleep, dreaming peacefully. Edmund was waiting. He heard something jump on the roof, and he looked up. Jack. Edmund smiled. Jack jumped from the roof to the ground in front of Edmund. He stood and faced man. Tears threatened to spill from Edmunds eyes. Jack's hand passed over the scar on Eds face.
"I love you." Jack said and he left. He jumped from building to building as always.
"I love you too, Jack." The tears in Edmunds eyes finally spilled over. They had done this every year and Edmund always cried.
The End
 Miss. Peanut-Butter · Thu Nov 03, 2005 @ 07:07pm · 1 Comments |
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