{"id":10666,"date":"2014-05-03T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/03\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-42\/"},"modified":"2014-05-03T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T23:07:12","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/03\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-42\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“No, you didn\u2019t say anything wrong.” She shakes her head, loose tendrils flying around her face. “I\u2019m just waiting for whatever you decide to ask.” She changes Beth\u2019s name to Dazzler, tongue sticking out the side of her mouth in concentration, and then fiddles with the end of her braid. “Seriously, you can ask me anything.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be something ordinary anyway; he doesn\u2019t even have the knowledge to ask the sort of questions she might actually not want to answer. Well, ordinary by her standards \u2014 even questions about her hair or the pentacle charm she wears are pretty ordinary at this point. Although if she hears one more person on campus sing the Wicked Witch\u2019s theme from the Wizard of Oz she might scream.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I dunno, I\u2019m not really the kind of person who like\u2026stores questions up. I have this\u00a0problem<\/em> where I basically have no filter between my brain and my mouth, I just say what\u2019s on my mind whenever it\u2019s on my mind.\u201d Stiles shrugs, his shoulders exaggerating the motion from his position. He\u2019s looking at the end of Summer\u2019s braid when she fusses with it with his eyebrows slowly furrowing faintly.<\/p>\n

“\u2026so you\u2019ve been here in Beacon Hills a couple of years, right? Where did you live before that? I\u2019ve always lived here, so\u2026”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“North Carolina,” she answers. “A little tiny town in the middle of North Carolina, full of hicks and rednecks and churches. Or soldiers. Sometimes soldiers. Fort Bragg was half an hour down the road.” She combs her fingers through the red hair, sorting out tiny tangles. “I could have gone to Duke, I suppose, but I wanted to get away from all that. Away from all the expectations, you know?”<\/p>\n

Summer looks out at the lane, gaze a little distant. “I wanted to figure out who I was, and it’s really hard to do that under all that pressure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: “No, you didn\u2019t say anything wrong.” She shakes her head, loose tendrils flying around her face. “I\u2019m just waiting for whatever you decide to ask.” She changes Beth\u2019s name to Dazzler, tongue sticking out the side of her mouth in concentration, and then fiddles with the end of her braid. “Seriously, you can … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}