{"id":11534,"date":"2014-04-22T03:45:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-70\/"},"modified":"2014-04-22T03:45:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:45:23","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-70\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skinnydefenselessheroism.tumblr.com\/post\/83183451632\/iamthefirechild-she-blurts-out-a-laugh\">skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/83162135699\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/8c9ecda3928351d84bbeccda946ec01f\/tumblr_inline_n49c56vnnc1rs8qze.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She blurts out a laugh, hiding it behind one hand. \u201cThat\u2019s me,\u201d Summer says, around the absurdly huge smile on her face. \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to startle you so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helios hears his momma\u2019s voice and bolts across Stiles\u2019 lap to stand with front feet planted on the edge of the window and back feet heavily on Stiles\u2019 crotch. He thrusts his head out toward Summer, whiskers forward in an equally huge kitty smile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he likes you,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/b72eedf6cf0a1b2cd962bc502b8006d7\/tumblr_inline_n49rkjY0lH1sbd3nt.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was going to say something charming and witty, really,\u00a0<em>honestly<\/em>, but then\u00a0<strong><em>cat\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>happens, and Stiles is reaching down with a theatrical wince on his face, trying to pick the poor creature\u2019s back feet up with one hand. \u201cOhh, ohh\u00a0<em>paws<\/em>, ow,\u00a0<em>paws, sharp paws<\/em>, sharp\u00a0<strong>little\u00a0<\/strong>paws, heavy cat, tender area, mayday,\u00a0<em>mayday<\/em>, man down\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lurches to the side just a little, voice still strained. \u201cHe\u2019s\u2026a very nice\u2014<em>heavy, ow, so heavy, ow,<\/em>\u00a0<strong>ow<\/strong>\u2014cat, really, I knew..<em>ow<\/em>, he had to\u2026buddy could you just\u2026move the feet\u2026like\u00a0<em>four inches<\/em>\u2026please\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/ca7fedef231177292469fc21501b3b0c\/tumblr_inline_n4ex2390gA1rs8qze.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From his perspective it almost certainly takes entirely too long for Summer to get over her new fit of the giggles enough to catch Helios under the pawpits and lift him out of the Jeep. &#8220;Helios, you are a very bad, naughty, wicked kitty,&#8221; she scolds. The miscreant looks completely unimpressed and licks his nose complacently.<\/p>\n<p>She looks at Stiles with an exaggeratedly apologetic look on her face. &#8220;Are you okay?&#8221; The question does have some seriousness to it; kitties have sharp toes and Helios is not a \/small\/ cat. &#8220;You better come in the house and, uh, inspect the damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: She blurts out a laugh, hiding it behind one hand. \u201cThat\u2019s me,\u201d Summer says, around the absurdly huge smile on her face. \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to startle you so badly.\u201d Helios hears his momma\u2019s voice and bolts across Stiles\u2019 lap to stand with front feet planted on the edge of the window and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-70\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/11534"}],"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=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}