{"id":26405,"date":"2013-07-03T04:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/03\/open-iamthefirechild\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T04:07:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:07:27","slug":"open-iamthefirechild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/03\/open-iamthefirechild\/","title":{"rendered":"Open || iamthefirechild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/54485670086\/open-iamthefirechild\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/54484732765\/open-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/54483899347\/open-iamthefirechild\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I\u2019m fine, Summer. Don\u2019t worry about it,\u00a0<\/em><span>he mentally muttered, rubbing at his eyes with one hand. He turned to look out his window, avoiding eye contact with Summer. It would be easier\u2014too easy\u2014to let his guard down in front of her since she knew about his secret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/b776bb3915b8f6cfe92f0d5eda6fbf33\/tumblr_inline_mpcc6yH4Gu1qz4rgp.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;YOU CAN\u2019T LIE TO ME!&#8221; she exploded, slamming her hands down on the bed. Okay, maybe that was an overreaction, but it was severely irritating for him to say \u2018I\u2019m fine\u2019 to \/her\/, of all people. \u201cYou don\u2019t \/want\/ to talk about it, say that, but don\u2019t you fucking \/lie\/ to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/b153031f9b9252f4cb43c58ba9b47857\/tumblr_inline_mpcctw1hNt1qz4rgp.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Merlin responded with a heated glare before turning his head away, closing his eyes, and forcing himself to breathe deeply. He was NOT in the mood to be yelled at. Part of him wanted to talk about it, but a larger part reasoned that it would be pointless. Discussing it wouldn\u2019t fix the problem or make it easier to live with.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry,\u00a0<\/em>he replied grudgingly and with only partial sincerity.\u00a0<em>I\u2019ll be sure not to do it again.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Good.&#8221; She nodded sharply. &#8220;Seriously, Merlin, I can feel you on the other side of town. Tell me what&#8217;s going on.&#8221; She patted the bed. &#8220;Come on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: wordlesswarlock: I\u2019m fine, Summer. Don\u2019t worry about it,\u00a0he mentally muttered, rubbing at his eyes with one hand. He turned to look out his window, avoiding eye contact with Summer. It would be easier\u2014too easy\u2014to let his guard down in front of her since she knew about his secret. &#8220;YOU CAN\u2019T LIE TO ME!&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/03\/open-iamthefirechild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open || iamthefirechild<\/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":[10,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405"}],"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=26405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}