{"id":26442,"date":"2013-07-02T18:08:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/02\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-she-12\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T18:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:08:01","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-she-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/02\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-she-12\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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She bites her lip, holding in the temptation to ask, \u201cWhere did the bad shadow touch you?” Instead she relaxes her weight onto him even more, breathing deeply. \u201cShhh,” she soothes, \u201cYou\u2019re safe. There\u2019s nobody here but us, I promise. Whatever it was, it\u2019s gone.” She wants to cheat, but that\u2019s only going to make him annoyed instead of terrified. \u201cCome back upstairs with me and try not to think about it?”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Because I can just magically forget it happened,” he snarks dryly, but he does at least lift his head off of the worktop.\u00a0 One hand comes up to pinch the bridge of his nose as he mumbles, \u201cNeed to find some advil.”\u00a0 He drags his hand through his hair, as if he didn\u2019t look disheveled enough at that point.\u00a0 After a moment, he points out, \u201cFor someone who wants me upright, you\u2019re remarkably on top of me.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She slides off his back, reluctantly, because he’s warm, panic notwithstanding. “I just want you to feel safe. I can take the headache away, if you’d rather.” And if she’s \/doing\/ something to help, then the leftover nausea will go away — she hopes. “There, look, I am no longer on top of you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: She bites her lip, holding in the temptation to ask, \u201cWhere did the bad shadow touch you?” Instead she relaxes her weight onto him even more, breathing deeply. \u201cShhh,” she soothes, \u201cYou\u2019re safe. There\u2019s nobody here but us, I promise. Whatever it was, it\u2019s gone.” She wants to cheat, but that\u2019s only going … 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":[10,199,3188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442"}],"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=26442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}