{"id":15454,"date":"2014-01-30T03:09:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/30\/how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you-32\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T03:09:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T03:09:25","slug":"how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/30\/how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you-32\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How could I ever love anybody like you?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/damonpsychopathsalvatore.tumblr.com\/post\/75008670257\/how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you\">damonpsychopathsalvatore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/75008155001\/how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/walk-right-through-me.tumblr.com\/post\/74895198284\/how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you\">walk-right-through-me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Anybody like me? Oh, you mean psychopathic vampire who doesn\u2019t give a damn about human life?&#8221; he asked, smirking. &#8220;Well the good news is that you don\u2019t have to love me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/c757fd9253d03a37fa6028c82b50a116\/tumblr_inline_n054c3fntT1stemrz.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, but I promised I wouldn\u2019t, remember?&#8221; Summer touched his face, and the fire didn\u2019t leap from her fingers. It burned there, flaring and flickering, on her fingertips, sheathing her whole hand, and didn\u2019t devour the new fuel. &#8220;Answer the question, Damon. You sought me out, and now you shove me away. Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Damon sighed, flinching at the touch and grimacing. \u201cThen I\u2019ll bite you and you\u2019ll have all the permission you need to kill me,\u201d he said, smirking before rolling his eyes. \u201cThings have changed. I made enemies with the wrong werewolf. A very\u00a0<em>vengeful<\/em> one at that. I killed one of theirs, and now I\u2019m afraid he may come after you,\u201d he said, narrowing his eyes. \u201cSo take it from me and stay safe. Forget everything you ever had to do with me, and you should be fine. I\u2019ve kept you a pretty decent secret, so you should be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She stared at him for a long moment before starting to laugh. &#8220;All of this. All of this,&#8221; she lifted her fingers and splayed them before his eyes, and the fire went out, leaving pristine skin, &#8220;and you still don&#8217;t believe I can protect myself. You think I&#8217;m \/fragile\/,&#8221; spitting the word out, &#8220;helpless. It that because of my mortality? Because I can die, I must be protected?&#8221; The hand clenched into a fist. &#8220;You utter, chauvinistic, brainless, pig of a man!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then she hit him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>damonpsychopathsalvatore: iamthefirechild: walk-right-through-me: &#8220;Anybody like me? Oh, you mean psychopathic vampire who doesn\u2019t give a damn about human life?&#8221; he asked, smirking. &#8220;Well the good news is that you don\u2019t have to love me.&#8221; &#8220;Ah, but I promised I wouldn\u2019t, remember?&#8221; Summer touched his face, and the fire didn\u2019t leap from her fingers. It burned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/30\/how-could-i-ever-love-anybody-like-you-32\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;How could I ever love anybody like you?&#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":[10,1513,1548,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454"}],"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=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}