{"id":26444,"date":"2013-07-02T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/02\/starkroads-iamthefirechild-starkroads\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:00:35","slug":"starkroads-iamthefirechild-starkroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/02\/starkroads-iamthefirechild-starkroads\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou can\u2019t possibly want him to stay!\u201d she exclaimed. \u201cIt\u2019s your life, your very body he\u2019s taken! Damn near your soul!\u201d She stepped forward, hands outstretched. \u201cI want you to be able to be the man you were before he came along.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cNo, my soul is still mine,\u201d Tony replied, deliberately missing the point.\u00a0 He took two steps back, once again pointing the knife at her, his arm steadier now than when he had first pulled the blade out.\u00a0 \u201cSee, I don\u2019t really like that man.\u00a0 Maybe you do, but that\u2019s why you have your own.\u00a0 I belong to someone else, Sunshine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t call me that!\u201d She didn\u2019t mean to say that out loud, but something about this space seemed to share her thoughts even as she was thinking them. \u201cYou don\u2019t like who you were, so you\u2019re going to give yourself over to someone worse? That\u2019s stupid. He \u2014 that \u2014 the demon can\u2019t save you. Only you can save yourself. And you\u2019ve given up trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to bring him up, my gadgeteer \u2014 he never gives up trying to be better. No matter what, he doesn\u2019t \u2014 and you just \u2014 you\u2019d rather just lie down and let this thing destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony shrugged dispassionately, as if he had gotten bored with this discussion of morals and ethics.\u00a0 \u201cMaybe you\u2019ve got a point,” he offered, though it wasn\u2019t much of a concession.\u00a0 \u201cBut I\u2019m still not your gadgeteer, and while my demon won\u2019t save me, he\u2019s never claimed he would.”<\/p>\n

The knife lowered, though he didn\u2019t close it yet.\u00a0 \u201cBesides, he makes me feel better, and I\u2019m willing to settle for that.”\u00a0 He smiled, an unexpectedly soft expression for a moment.\u00a0 \u201cWhat can I say?”\u00a0 The expression shifted, just slightly, as if he thought his next words might do something horrible and he couldn\u2019t wait to see what.\u00a0 \u201cI love him.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer staggered back a step, unconsciously. “You can’t,” she blurted, despite every sense confirming his words. “You can’t. There’s nothing \/to\/ love. You’re lost, you’re blinded, it’s okay. It’s Stockholm syndrome, that’s all.” Once again, words were spilling out of her mouth that she would have managed not to say in the real world, but this weird space seemed to strip out any filters.<\/p>\n

“What has he done to you?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

starkroads: iamthefirechild: starkroads: iamthefirechild: \u201cYou can\u2019t possibly want him to stay!\u201d she exclaimed. \u201cIt\u2019s your life, your very body he\u2019s taken! Damn near your soul!\u201d She stepped forward, hands outstretched. \u201cI want you to be able to be the man you were before he came along.\u201d \u201cNo, my soul is still mine,\u201d Tony replied, deliberately … 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":[10,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444"}],"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=26444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}