{"id":27258,"date":"2013-05-30T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/30\/happy-birthday\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:40:04","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/30\/happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

supercilious-pariah<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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

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\u201cThis isn\u2019t helping,\u201d she repeated. She put a hand on his shoulder. \u201cYou\u2019re tearing yourself apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And sensing it was tearing her apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cTony \u2026 \u201d Daring, a little bit. \u201cWill you talk to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And now it was a one.<\/p>\n

He jerked away from the hand on his shoulder, though not so much to stand up. No, that would draw too much attention, and that was not something he needed at the moment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLook<\/em><\/strong>. I appreciate<\/em> what you\u2019re trying to do here, but cut it out<\/strong>. It\u2019s not<\/strong> going to work. And no, I am not<\/strong> going to talk to you about it. Dead men don\u2019t talk<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last part had just slipped out, but it was too late to take it back now. He didn\u2019t look at her, because he knew if he did he\u2019d feel like shit and then he might actually want to talk about it, and that was most definitely not something he needed. His fingers were already beginning to itch and he was in absolutely no mood to have any kind of fit out in the open.<\/p>\n

No. No, he just needed to breathe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mildly, “Ow.”<\/p>\n

Dead men. What?<\/p>\n

That made her angry. What right did he have to wallow, in public no less? \/She\/ wasn’t allowed to wallow. Depression, fine, okay, “Grow \/up\/. You’re in pain. Fine. Are you going to keep acting the child about it, or be an adult and \/do\/ something about it?”<\/p>\n

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She gritted her teeth. “You need to come with me. Mr Stark.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

supercilious-pariah: iamthefirechild: \u201cThis isn\u2019t helping,\u201d she repeated. She put a hand on his shoulder. \u201cYou\u2019re tearing yourself apart.\u201d And sensing it was tearing her apart. \u201cTony \u2026 \u201d Daring, a little bit. \u201cWill you talk to me?\u201d And now it was a one. He jerked away from the hand on his shoulder, though not so … Continue reading Happy Birthday?<\/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":[10,3220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258"}],"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=27258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}