Heartbreak caused trauma, and trauma always changed a person's very being.
Jayce had learned this at a young age.
Not only had it been traumatizing to witness his mother's slowly deteriorating health without being able to help stop it, his teenage years also consisted of horrible memories; most of them consisting of Jayce trying to cope with his father's alcohol-induced abusiveness and being left to fend for himself in a neighborhood that wanted to kick his ass.
Knowing he was gay and having a homophobic father was one thing, but experiencing love as a grown man responsible for all his decisions was another.
Jayce's first serious relationship happened only when he had moved to Seattle.
Things with Henry Elliot had started off like all the fantasies Jayce had accumulated whilst gr
