{"id":26632,"date":"2013-06-25T04:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/06\/25\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-13\/"},"modified":"2013-06-25T04:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:56:26","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/06\/25\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-13\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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\u201cTony?\u201d It\u2019s dim, and she can hardly see him. \u201cAre you \u2026 where are you? What \/happened\/?\u201d His fear is infecting her voice, which shakes. \u201cIs everything okay?\u201d It\u2019s a \/stupid\/ question, but she can\u2019t help herself. There\u2019s no one else in the room except the two of them, there\u2019s nothing but him and her and an emotionless computer and she can\u2019t see anything at all that might have inspired such a fantastic spike of fear.<\/p>\n

She still wants to throw up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One hand uncurls, so he can lift his arm off of the worktop, signalling to her where he is, followed by a muffled, largely unintelligible, \u201cOver here.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all he says for a long moment, his hand falling back to the worktop with a quiet thump.\u00a0 The dreadful moment passed, but he still finds himself hearing the laughter and thinking of black eyes, and another shiver races down his back.<\/p>\n

Finally, he manages a still muffled, \u201cNot really,\u201d followed by a short, sharp laugh, rather self-deprecating and entirely humorless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She winds her way over to him and drapes herself over his back, his fear and her fear still entangled in her mind. “What happened?” she repeats, hands closing over his. “Everything was fine, and then it \/wasn’t\/.” She buries her cold nose in the nape of his neck, shoving aside haphazard curls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: \u201cTony?\u201d It\u2019s dim, and she can hardly see him. \u201cAre you \u2026 where are you? What \/happened\/?\u201d His fear is infecting her voice, which shakes. \u201cIs everything okay?\u201d It\u2019s a \/stupid\/ question, but she can\u2019t help herself. There\u2019s no one else in the room except the two of them, there\u2019s nothing but him … 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\/26632"}],"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=26632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}