{"id":11348,"date":"2014-04-25T06:21:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/25\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-60\/"},"modified":"2014-04-25T06:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:21:44","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/25\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-60\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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“You think you\u2019re going to stay benched after \/that\/ game?” Summer is surprised \u2014 what kind of coach would bench a player with that kind of potential? She also isn\u2019t sure she \/believes\/ him. It doesn\u2019t really sound like he\u2019s okay with just being the information pipeline; it sounds more like it\u2019s been that way for so long he doesn\u2019t believe it will change, so he tells himself he\u2019s okay with it.<\/p>\n

“Maybe you just need to practise for a while before the new season starts, and show him how good you really are.” She nods toward his arms, with their clear, streamlined musculature. “You\u2019re already built for it, obviously.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stiles shrugs, his shoulders on different levels given how he\u2019s mostly pinning the melty ice towel to his leg. His jeans leg is starting to get soggy.\u00a0\u201dYeah, I guarantee to you what Coach remembers from that game isn\u2019t that I scored a couple of goals, especially since I wasn\u2019t supposed to even be on the field except basically half our team had been taken off for injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something incredulous in his expression when Summer mentions his\u00a0build<\/em>, and Stiles looks down at his arms as if he\u2019s going to argue her on the matter. He\u2019s wearing a t-shirt, though, and his arms are\u00a0clearly visible,\u00a0<\/em>so instead what he\u00a0actually<\/em> ends up doing is sort of staring at his own left bicep like he can\u2019t figure out how it got to be the shape it is, and maybe it\u00a0betrayed<\/em> him in the process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She can’t help it — he’s looking at his arm like it doesn’t belong to him somehow, and she just loses it so hard Helios is offended on Stiles’ behalf and bounds for the bedroom. “Oh my god, your face, you should have seen your face, did you forget you had muscles?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: “You think you\u2019re going to stay benched after \/that\/ game?” Summer is surprised \u2014 what kind of coach would bench a player with that kind of potential? She also isn\u2019t sure she \/believes\/ him. It doesn\u2019t really sound like he\u2019s okay with just being the information pipeline; it sounds more like it\u2019s been … 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\/11348"}],"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=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}