{"id":14066,"date":"2014-02-21T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-21\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T04:23:09","slug":"summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer puts a bakery box on the bar at Carpe Noctem and smiles sweetly at the bartender. &#8220;Send for Vex.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theyrecompletelymesmerized.tumblr.com\/post\/77347082130\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-noctem-and\">theyrecompletelymesmerized<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/77346661010\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-noctem-and\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theyrecompletelymesmerized.tumblr.com\/post\/76747063306\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-noctem-and\">theyrecompletelymesmerized<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theyrecompletelymesmerized.tumblr.com\/post\/76696986039\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe\">theyrecompletelymesmerized<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The bartender raised an eyebrow at the girl as she set a box on the counter of his bar. \u201cYou\u2019re that Summer girl, right?\u201d he asked absently, and then nodded as he stepped away to find his employer. Several minutes later, he returned, \u201cVex\u2019ll be out momentarily.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And several moments later, the Mesmer appeared, walking over to where Summer stood at the bar. He was dressed in his finest. \u201c\u2018Ello, Precious,\u201d he greeted, \u201cYa called?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/0f52323ceecf74b1a57273ca416174b2\/tumblr_inline_n10rcvUd741s1s9is.gif\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Dark Fae blinked in surprise as she presented the gift, but took it without complaint. \u00a0Popping the bakery box open enough to see what was inside, his eyes widened and a pleasant smile formed on his mouth. Red velvet cake. \u201cThank you, Precious,\u201d he said sincerely, setting it on the bar for a moment so that he could lean over and press a kiss to her lips.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The edge of the bar pressed into her breasts, cutting short the kiss. \u201cI\u2019m, um, I\u2019m glad you like it,\u201d she managed, fumbling for words. She gestured at his clothes. \u201cAre you going somewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amusement touched his features as he listened to the girl stumble over her words; it was almost cute. \u00a0He paused though, glancing at his own outfit when she brought it up, \u201cOh\u2014well, it <strong>is<\/strong> Valentines\u2019 Day. I was going to\u2026 you know what, never mind that; why don\u2019t you stick around, and we can go upstairs where it\u2019s a bit quieter?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t want to make you change your plans,&#8221; Summer protested, hands up. &#8220;Are you laughing at me? You are laughing at me! Don&#8217;t laugh at me, Vex, you horrible creature.&#8221; She said the last with laughter in her own voice, shaking an ineffectual fist at him. &#8220;Oh, fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theyrecompletelymesmerized: iamthefirechild: theyrecompletelymesmerized: theyrecompletelymesmerized: The bartender raised an eyebrow at the girl as she set a box on the counter of his bar. \u201cYou\u2019re that Summer girl, right?\u201d he asked absently, and then nodded as he stepped away to find his employer. Several minutes later, he returned, \u201cVex\u2019ll be out momentarily.\u201d\u00a0 And several moments later, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/summer-puts-a-bakery-box-on-the-bar-at-carpe-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer puts a bakery box on the bar at Carpe Noctem and smiles sweetly at the bartender. &#8220;Send for Vex.&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,953,954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066"}],"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=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}