{"id":16401,"date":"2014-01-19T03:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/19\/been-gone-a-long-while-22\/"},"modified":"2014-01-19T03:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T03:47:27","slug":"been-gone-a-long-while-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/19\/been-gone-a-long-while-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Been Gone A Long While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamvictor-roth.tumblr.com\/post\/73789474090\/been-gone-a-long-while\">iamvictor-roth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/73659443733\/been-gone-a-long-while\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamvictor-roth.tumblr.com\/post\/73594049638\/been-gone-a-long-while\">iamvictor-roth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>&#8220;I missed you too Summer. I swear I came t\u2019 you as soon as I could. I didn\u2019t even bother t\u2019 hunt. I wouldn\u2019t even dream about putting an end t\u2019 us. T\u2019 be honest, the thought of you reinforced my will t\u2019 not give in t\u2019 Xander.&#8221; Victor held her tighter. &#8220;The weather wasn\u2019t my fault though an\u2019 definitely not planned, love. You can be mad, distraught or whichever but I\u2019ll always make my way back t\u2019 you so long as you let me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His grip was starting to hurt, but she didn\u2019t care. He was real, he was there, so she held on tighter. Maybe later, maybe tomorrow she would yell at him; the backlash of six months of absence would spill over into their relationship \u2014 whatever that was.<\/p>\n<p>Into his shoulder, she muttered, \u201cCan I kill him? I\u2019m tired of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Victor eased his grip on her a little, not wanting to crush her. He knew he was far from forgiven and everything was far from over. He expected nothing else. \u201cI could try t\u2019 kill him, I jus\u2019 wouldn\u2019t be able t\u2019 count on my vampiric strength. If you want t\u2019 give it a shot then go ahead, love.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re sure he&#8217;s not going to unexpectedly turn up on my doorstep tonight?&#8221; Summer pulled back enough to look up into his eyes. &#8220;I could really wish that whole &#8216;invitation-only&#8217; mythology were true.&#8221; She led her head fall back enough to thunk on the wall gently, briefly, before pushing herself away from it. &#8220;I found you some clothes. You should probably sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: iamvictor-roth: &#8220;I missed you too Summer. I swear I came t\u2019 you as soon as I could. I didn\u2019t even bother t\u2019 hunt. I wouldn\u2019t even dream about putting an end t\u2019 us. T\u2019 be honest, the thought of you reinforced my will t\u2019 not give in t\u2019 Xander.&#8221; Victor held her tighter. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/19\/been-gone-a-long-while-22\/\" 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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16401"}],"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=16401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}