{"id":15482,"date":"2014-01-30T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/30\/been-gone-a-long-while-9\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T00:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T00:41:02","slug":"been-gone-a-long-while-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/30\/been-gone-a-long-while-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Been Gone A Long While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamvictor-roth.tumblr.com\/post\/74809873285\/been-gone-a-long-while\">iamvictor-roth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/74563697070\/been-gone-a-long-while\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>&#8220;You aren\u2019t a bad person, Victor, that\u2019s not what I meant at all!&#8221; Summer burst out. &#8220;Do you really think \/I\/ of all people would have anything at all to do with you if you were \/bad\/? I\u2019m just \u2026 terrified to lose you. To someone else\u2019s badness.&#8221; Oh, gods, he\u2019d been gone so long, and miraculously come home, and this was what they fought about? She blinked hard and more hot tears ran down her face.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ok love, I\u2019ll\u2026I\u2019ll take less jobs yeah? Jus\u2019 enough so tha\u2019 I can feed. An\u2019 the ones I\u2019ll take will be quick an\u2019 easy jobs where I wouldn\u2019t be gone more than a day. Otherwise I\u2019ll stay here with you an\u2019 we can jus\u2019 be together.&#8221; He gave a small smile as he kissed her tears away, holding her close to him. &#8220;Is tha\u2019 alright love? Can we work with tha\u2019 for now an\u2019 figure it out as we go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Being this conflicted was exhausting. Summer curled herself over into Victor&#8217;s body, clinging to him. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. Yes. Okay.&#8221; She didn&#8217;t even know what might be enough; she didn&#8217;t want him to change and yet she couldn&#8217;t face the thought of dealing with a repeat of the past six months, either. Almost helplessly, hating herself a little bit for it, she turned away from the tangle and to something she understood, seeking and catching his mouth in a passionate kiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: &#8220;You aren\u2019t a bad person, Victor, that\u2019s not what I meant at all!&#8221; Summer burst out. &#8220;Do you really think \/I\/ of all people would have anything at all to do with you if you were \/bad\/? I\u2019m just \u2026 terrified to lose you. To someone else\u2019s badness.&#8221; Oh, gods, he\u2019d been gone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/30\/been-gone-a-long-while-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Been Gone A Long While<\/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":[10,1052,1434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482"}],"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=15482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}