{"id":22938,"date":"2013-10-24T00:56:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-5\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T00:56:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:56:44","slug":"summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer peers around the door, looking for Merlin. “Merlin, can I sit with you?” Her eyes are a little red; she seems tired."},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She plops down on the end of the bed and puts her face in her hands. \u201cRemember a while ago \u2026 I \u2014 you were telling me someone would come along who would see me and \u2026\u201d She trails off.<\/p>\n

“Do you know a knight named Mordred?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He raises an eyebrow, unsure of what she\u2019s getting at based on the small bit she says.\u00a0The Mordred I know is a young boy still, but I know that he\u2019s a knight in some other worlds. Why, did something happen with him?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She blinks at him, puzzled. \u201cOther w \u2014 ?\u201d Then she shakes her head, dismissing it. Looking down at her hands, she swallows hard, and says, \u201cI\u2019m \u2014 I think I\u2019m in love with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nevermind,\u00a0<\/em>he waves it off, making a mental note to explain some other day.\u00a0Okay. Do you know if he feels the same way about you or not?\u00a0<\/em>he asks softly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Twisting her hands together, shoulders hunched around her ears, she nods. “He said it, and I — oh god — I didn’t know what to say, I just stared at him, because I just — I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I knew it, I knew he meant it, but I — and then he just … he said his feelings weren’t returned and walked away and I … ” Her voice chokes off, and she sniffs. “I don’t know what to do,” she says, very small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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