{"id":23182,"date":"2013-10-21T03:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/21\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-very\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T03:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:24:37","slug":"redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-very","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/21\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-very\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Very quietly, she says, \u201cWhen did that happen? I\u2019ve been trying \u2026 not to \u2026 I\u2019ve liked you since we met, but I didn\u2019t think. I mean.\u201d Summer sighs a little, twisting her hands in her lap. \u201cI don\u2019t think of myself as being someone likable, or important, so I don\u2019t understand. And I\u2019ve been trying \/not\/ to come on to you, or anything like that. That\u2019s what I meant about that one night \u2014 I know I was being horrible, I get flirty when I\u2019m drunk, and you didn\u2019t let me do anything stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Toni shrugs. \u201cConsider it someone drawing from personal experience. You\u2019re forgetting that Tony and I are pretty much the same guy. We\u2019ve been known for our drunken escapades. I remember one time I tried to give Rhodey a blow job on our way to this gala\u2014\u201d Toni breaks off with a small smile before it falls a bit as he coughs from memory. \u201cYeah, well, either way \u2026you\u2019re important to me because you actually give a damn about me. I wasn\u2019t about to let something happen to you, sweetheart. So you were a bit flirtatious,\u201d he shrugs. \u201cNo harm, no foul.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I don’t forget that. You aren’t him, no matter what you think; you just started the same place. You’ve had your jolt a lot earlier — I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he — 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 … of course I give a damn about you. It’s what I do, that’s all I’m good for. You’re someone who — how do I say this? — 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: Very quietly, she says, \u201cWhen did that happen? I\u2019ve been trying \u2026 not to \u2026 I\u2019ve liked you since we met, but I didn\u2019t think. I mean.\u201d Summer sighs a little, twisting her hands in her lap. \u201cI don\u2019t think of myself as being someone likable, or important, so I don\u2019t understand. And … 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":[10,2791,2291,2744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23182"}],"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=23182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}