{"id":23181,"date":"2013-10-21T03:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/21\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-i-dont\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T03:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:53:43","slug":"redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/21\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-i-dont\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“I don\u2019t forget that. You aren\u2019t him, no matter what you think; you just started the same place. You\u2019ve had your jolt a lot earlier \u2014 I can\u2019t help but wonder what would have happened if he \u2014 if Tony had been jolted out of that self-absorption sooner, like you.” Summer twists a ring on her hand around her finger a couple of times, staring out the window at the traffic. “Anyway \u2026 of course I give a damn about you. It\u2019s what I do, that\u2019s all I\u2019m good for. You\u2019re someone who \u2014 how do I say this? \u2014 there are a lot of people around you that are only interested in what you can do for them. In making you feel good, controlling you, giving you what you want. Someone has to be the person who cares about the real you, and I guess that person is me.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Chaos, I\u2019m sure,” he chuckles, trying to not show how much the words actually impacted him. It\u2019s nice for someone actually to not see him as the kid that\u2019s Tony Stark, but not, but the kid who was Tony Stark, but didn\u2019t let his future self define him. Reaching over he grabs her hand gently, to place a small kiss on her knuckles. “Sometimes I wonder what would\u2019ve happened if Tony succeeded in sending me back. If the world I was going back to was going to feel the same after everything I saw here. And, yeah, I\u2019m not going to lie: sometimes I hate waking up here \u2026but I\u2019m glad I met you, Summer. Throughout everything, you\u2019ve stuck by me. Thank you.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She flushes again. “I’m not really doing anything special,” she mumbles, “but you’re welcome all the same.” His gratitude is so powerful, she puts up another shield just to keep her thoughts from drowning in it; it’s like seeing the world through a haze for a second. She keeps hold of his hand, uncaring of how her arm is awkwardly bent. “You never answered my question,” she says, quietly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: “I don\u2019t forget that. You aren\u2019t him, no matter what you think; you just started the same place. You\u2019ve had your jolt a lot earlier \u2014 I can\u2019t help but wonder what would have happened if he \u2014 if Tony had been jolted out of that self-absorption sooner, like you.” Summer twists a … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/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":[10,2291,2744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23181"}],"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=23181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}