{"id":22926,"date":"2013-10-24T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T02:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:00:42","slug":"summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-2\/","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\/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\/64916299133\/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\/64915941217\/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>She shakes her head, convulsively. \u201cI can\u2019t. I can\u2019t do that. I sent \u2014 I sent to ask if he, if I could see him this morning, and he \u2014 there was no answer. Nothing at all. I can\u2019t \u2014 maybe \u2026 would you \u2014&#160;?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Do you want me to go talk to him?\u00a0<\/em>he half-asks, half-offers. He doesn\u2019t know if he\u2019ll be able to do much, but if that\u2019s what Summer is asking of him, he\u2019s willing to try.<\/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. &#8220;Oh, Merlin, what am I going to do if I&#8217;ve screwed this up? He&#8217;s so &#8230; and the way he smiles &#8230; and his eyes &#8230; &#8221; She buries her face in his shoulder and sobs into his green scarf.<\/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 She shakes her head, convulsively. \u201cI can\u2019t. I can\u2019t do that. I sent \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-2\/\" 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\/22926"}],"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=22926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}