{"id":20497,"date":"2013-11-19T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/19\/summer-and-vex-out-cold-13\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:26:08","slug":"summer-and-vex-out-cold-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/19\/summer-and-vex-out-cold-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer and Vex ~  Out Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theyrecompletelymesmerized.tumblr.com\/post\/67431491320\/summer-and-vex-out-cold\">theyrecompletelymesmerized<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/67431236909\/summer-and-vex-out-cold\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Summer stilled. \u201cThat \u2026 doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d she said softly. \u201cI\u2019m not Fae. My powers aren\u2019t Fae.\u201d She started to go on, and stopped. \u201cI haven\u2019t tried to use my magic, though. Just empathy. Just what\u2019s genetically encoded.\u201d She hesitated. What if it didn\u2019t work?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mesmer nodded in response to her disbelief. \u201cI know that, Summer, but that doesn\u2019t explain why none of the Fae I know can use their powers,\u201d he told her, gulping in worry. He got stressed when he couldn\u2019t feed, and very quickly at that; it was what had led to his drug habit all those years ago. He shook his head, banishing the memories as he told her, \u201cI guess that\u2019s a point.. You\u2019re free to try, Summer, but be careful\u2014you\u2019re not in perfect \u2018ealth right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, hey, no.&#8221; Summer rubbed her thumb against his skin again. &#8220;Whatever it is, we&#8217;ll figure it out. I&#8217;m going to need to know some things, though, so I need you to stay calm.&#8221; It was like a switch was flipped &#8212; there&#8217;s a problem, and someone can use her help. Her emotions, her needs, get shunted away, for later. What matters is the solution. &#8220;Do you know if anything like this has happened before?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theyrecompletelymesmerized: iamthefirechild: Summer stilled. \u201cThat \u2026 doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d she said softly. \u201cI\u2019m not Fae. My powers aren\u2019t Fae.\u201d She started to go on, and stopped. \u201cI haven\u2019t tried to use my magic, though. Just empathy. Just what\u2019s genetically encoded.\u201d She hesitated. What if it didn\u2019t work? The Mesmer nodded in response to her disbelief. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/19\/summer-and-vex-out-cold-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer and Vex ~  Out Cold<\/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":[10,1672,953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497"}],"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=20497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}