{"id":22420,"date":"2013-10-29T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/29\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-18\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:31:17","slug":"hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/29\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-18\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hey, our common friend the coffee monster told me to come and talk with you.&#8221; Clint chuckles and sits down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nestinghawk.tumblr.com\/post\/65387797641\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-to\">nestinghawk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/65383252401\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-to\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nestinghawk.tumblr.com\/post\/65382621497\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-to\">nestinghawk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/65366931680\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh yeah? Were there specifics? Did you leave him with plenty of caffeine?&#8221; Summer glances up from her laptop, grinning. &#8220;Or is this him doing that thing where he\u2019s afraid he\u2019ll screw it up if he tries to \u2026 make his friends be friends?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The assassin looks relieved at not needing to explain it. \u201cThat\u2019s mostly it I think, not sure yet. I went to sleep one night and woke up here. I have never met you before and Tony\u2019s different, that I should know.\u201d He ponders for a while about what to ask before coming up empty. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to ask to be honest. I\u2019m not a friendly nor social being really.\u201d He looks at her a bit awkwardly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Well, why don\u2019t you sit down, and if you come up with something, I\u2019ll be right here, and you can ask.&#8221; Summer pats the couch beside her, giving Clint an appealing look. &#8220;Tony tells me you\u2019ve been getting very close to him,&#8221; she says, implying with her tone what kind of \u2018closeness\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you.&#8221; Clint sits down and leans back on the cushions. &#8220;Well, he\u2019s familiar. I was very close with Tony,&#8221; he responds. &#8220;So, what\u2019s the other me been doing, do you know?&#8221; Is he still working with SHIELD. Should I be hiding again. Those are few what he wants to ask but he does not want to reveal too much yet. &#8220;Is there a problem with me getting close to him? Has he spoken of me?&#8221; he inquires instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer shakes her head. &#8220;I honestly couldn&#8217;t tell you what Agent Barton is doing. Not only is he higher level than I am, but the stuff he does and the stuff I do doesn&#8217;t remotely overlap. The last rumour I heard put him with Agent Romanoff and the Captain, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She studies him, chin in her hands. &#8220;Tony talks about everything,&#8221; she says, deliberately evasive. &#8220;He&#8217;s talked about you before, but so much has happened &#8230; I don&#8217;t mind you getting close to him, but,&#8221; she hesitates. &#8220;You do know who the other member of our little trio is, don&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nestinghawk: iamthefirechild: nestinghawk: iamthefirechild: &#8220;Oh yeah? Were there specifics? Did you leave him with plenty of caffeine?&#8221; Summer glances up from her laptop, grinning. &#8220;Or is this him doing that thing where he\u2019s afraid he\u2019ll screw it up if he tries to \u2026 make his friends be friends?&#8221; The assassin looks relieved at not needing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/29\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hey, our common friend the coffee monster told me to come and talk with you.&#8221; Clint chuckles and sits down.<\/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":[10,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420"}],"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=22420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}