{"id":22924,"date":"2013-10-24T02:13:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T02:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:13:41","slug":"summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer peers around the door, looking for Merlin. &#8220;Merlin, can I sit with you?&#8221; Her eyes are a little red; she seems tired."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/64920761889\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/64919958359\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/64919047751\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/64917507420\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/64905802961\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Merlin shoves his spell book under his pillow in a panic and relaxes as he sees Summer in the doorway. He nods and gestures for her to come in.\u00a0<em>Are you alright? You seem a bit\u2026 off.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Please?&#8221; she says pitifully. &#8220;Tell him I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean to hurt him \u2014 I love him, I do, Merlin, I can\u2019t \u2014 &#8221; She starts to cry in earnest, muffling sobs into her hands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Merlin rubs his hand along her spine in an attempt to comfort her. <em>It\u2019s okay, Summer. This can be fixed. You\u2019ll see.\u00a0<\/em>He smiles reassuringly.\u00a0<em>I\u2019ll tell him that, and I\u2019ll make sure to clear this up.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She nods, rubbing at her face. \u201cOh, Merlin, what am I going to do if I\u2019ve screwed this up? He\u2019s so \u2026 and the way he smiles \u2026 and his eyes \u2026 \u201d She buries her face in his shoulder and sobs into his green scarf.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He wraps his other arm around her and pulls her a bit closer.\u00a0<em>Summer, most people would take the news that the person they love loves them back as good news. I\u2019m assuming Mordred will react similarly, and if he doesn\u2019t, then he should at least try to understand if he feels for you the way you said he does.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He looked so broken,&#8221; she whispers, turning to press her hot face against Merlin&#8217;s throat. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t bear to lose him, Merlin. Please be right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: wordlesswarlock: Merlin shoves his spell book under his pillow in a panic and relaxes as he sees Summer in the doorway. He nods and gestures for her to come in.\u00a0Are you alright? You seem a bit\u2026 off.\u00a0 &#8220;Please?&#8221; she says pitifully. &#8220;Tell him I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean to hurt him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer peers around the door, looking for Merlin. &#8220;Merlin, can I sit with you?&#8221; Her eyes are a little red; she seems tired.<\/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":[10,2351,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924"}],"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=22924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}