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

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

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“Lacrosse!” She bolts upright, eyeing him with a suddenly intent gaze. “That was you?! Last year! The championship game! You scored the winning goals! I \/knew\/ I knew that name from somewhere!” Helios lays back his ears at her, and she glares mildly.\u00a0“Don\u2019t look at me in that tone of ears, Mr Escapee. I do not need you to bring me friends.”<\/p>\n

Insolently he licks his nose at her, and she glances back up at Stiles. \u201cYou see how I am abused here, taken advantage of. He did that to you too, obviously.\u201d She tilts her head a little to the side. \u201cWho\u2019s your best friend?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stiles smiles, almost\u00a0sheepishly<\/em>, ducking his head as Summer suddenly realizes who he is. He didn\u2019t even realize there was a\u00a0thing<\/em> for him to be recognized\u00a0for<\/em>, but there it is. \u201cYeah,\u00a0yeah<\/em>, that\u2019s me, number twenty- four for Beacon Hills. The championship game was\u2014somehow like\u2026I don\u2019t know, it was a\u00a0fluke<\/em>.\u201d And he\u2019d been\u00a0terribly assaulted<\/em> after that, but Stiles left that bit out. Discretion and the better form of valor.<\/p>\n

“I hear that\u2019s a thing cats do. I\u2019m probably gonna insult him, here, but always kind of more of a dog person, me.” He\u2019s still rubbing Helios\u2019 ears, if the cat\u2019s in reach, his other hand still holding the ice to his knee. “My\u2014oh. Scott McCall. Number eleven if you pay attention to the Lacrosse team.\u00a0Co-Captain<\/em>. Or\u2026maybe he\u2019s just\u00a0captain<\/em> now that Jackson moved to London, I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s blurting out agreement, excuses, names, and information in a steady stream she can hardly keep up with, mostly because her mind is going in at least two different directions at the moment: lacrosse team and animal clinic. It takes a second before she can match the name to the face — the dark, Latino-looking boy in the clinic, the one who has an inexplicable edge of wildness to her other senses.<\/p>\n

“Seems like that would be determined when the new season starts,” she ventures. Helios has ignored Stiles’ assertion of being a dog person, and is catfully attempting to turn him into a cat lover, purring hard enough to vibrate his guard hairs and whiskers and occasionally licking the petting hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: “Lacrosse!” She bolts upright, eyeing him with a suddenly intent gaze. “That was you?! Last year! The championship game! You scored the winning goals! I \/knew\/ I knew that name from somewhere!” Helios lays back his ears at her, and she glares mildly.\u00a0“Don\u2019t look at me in that tone of ears, Mr Escapee. … 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\/11364"}],"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=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}