{"id":14606,"date":"2014-02-13T01:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/13\/slumps-over-the-bar-at-carpe-noctem-turning-a-3\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T01:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:02:46","slug":"slumps-over-the-bar-at-carpe-noctem-turning-a-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/13\/slumps-over-the-bar-at-carpe-noctem-turning-a-3\/","title":{"rendered":"*slumps over the bar at Carpe Noctem, turning a half-empty glass*"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

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

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Vex stepped out of the back room and spotted Summer slouched over the bar. \u201c\u2018Ello love,\u201d he greeted as he made his way over to stand on the other side of the bar, a glass of jack and coke in his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He really didn\u2019t believe her, and why would he? She never came to Carpe Noctem for just a drink<\/em>; it was usually more of a visit, but today it was like she wanted him to leave her alone. \u00a0\u201dAre you sure? There\u2019s not anything wrong?\u201d he asked, raising an eyebrow, \u201cYou can come upstairs with me and talk if there\u2019s anything bothering you, love. You know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She jerked up, forgetting she was trying to hide, and her hair tumbled back, revealing a cluster of fingertip-sized bruises on her cheekbone and a black-and-blue mark on her jaw. Her speech was a little slurred from the pain. \u201cI can take care of myself!\u201d Then she flinched and lifted the glass to press it against the bruise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Several emotions played across his face in a flash. First came the shock, but this was quickly replaced by a dense of disgust, and then came the fury. \u201cClearly, you can\u2019t!\u201d he snapped, hands balling into fists at his sides, \u201cWho did this to you?\u201d His voice was little more than a growl, raised but still only really loud enough to be heard by the two of them with the music blasting around their conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She offered him the usual sort of answer: “You should see the other guy.” Putting the glass back down on the bar, she shifted around on the stool until she was facing Vex directly and properly pulled her hair back. Carefully, around the bruise, she said, “I don’t know who it was. They were immune to me, and strong enough to pick me up by my \/face\/.” The last word, spat out, was followed by a swallowed moan of pain. “What difference does it make?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

theyrecompletelymesmerized: iamthefirechild: theyrecompletelymesmerized: theyrecompletelymesmerized: Vex stepped out of the back room and spotted Summer slouched over the bar. \u201c\u2018Ello love,\u201d he greeted as he made his way over to stand on the other side of the bar, a glass of jack and coke in his hand.\u00a0 He really didn\u2019t believe her, and why would he? … Continue reading *slumps over the bar at Carpe Noctem, turning a half-empty glass*<\/span> →<\/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":[10,1471,953,954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606"}],"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=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}