{"id":23550,"date":"2013-10-17T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/17\/whatsfitzwithoutsimmons-iamthefirechild-4\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:12:09","slug":"whatsfitzwithoutsimmons-iamthefirechild-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/17\/whatsfitzwithoutsimmons-iamthefirechild-4\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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“Then you\u2019d rather go get those earplugs?” Summer cocked her head at him. “Stop trying to lie to me, just stop talking about it. Or if you \/must\/ talk about it now, I\u2019ll go get a clearance from Agent Coulson. He\u2019ll probably be relieved.” She chewed on her lip. “If you\u2019re suddenly doing fieldwork, I expect someone should be monitoring you anyway. It might as well be me.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He cleared his throat, lowering his voice and hiding his mouth behind his hand. \u201cMy lab is\u2026 technically\u2026 classified\u2026 now.\u201d More than any other part of his job, Fitz hated the lying, the cryptic details, the inability to communicate things with people below his rank. He missed being level four. Level four was nice. It was average. \u201cIt\u2019s technological assistance on field work. I\u2014I go in with agents to do the sweeps. Collect samples. It\u2019s\u2026 streamlined approach to productivity. They weren\u2019t doing a good enough job. And when we get dropped in hot, well, there are guns. Lots of guns. Unexpected guns. It\u2019s nothing. And, anyway, Simmons monitors me. Makes sure I\u2019m all there. Ship-shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mildly, Summer said, “Jenna Simmons is not an empath. She’s a biochemist. A very good biochemist, but still not an empath.” She shrugged, letting her hands fall to her sides. “It’s fine if you say no.” It wasn’t fine; Fitz was intriguing and she was curious, but pushing would get her nowhere.<\/p>\n

He really should have those earplugs, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

whatsfitzwithoutsimmons: iamthefirechild: “Then you\u2019d rather go get those earplugs?” Summer cocked her head at him. “Stop trying to lie to me, just stop talking about it. Or if you \/must\/ talk about it now, I\u2019ll go get a clearance from Agent Coulson. He\u2019ll probably be relieved.” She chewed on her lip. “If you\u2019re suddenly doing … 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":[10,2810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550"}],"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=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}