{"id":27842,"date":"2013-05-16T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/16\/starkroads-iamthefirechild-you-cant\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:55:00","slug":"starkroads-iamthefirechild-you-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/16\/starkroads-iamthefirechild-you-cant\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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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

“Don’t call me that!” She didn’t mean to say that out loud, but something about this space seemed to share her thoughts even as she was thinking them. “You don’t like who you were, so you’re going to give yourself over to someone worse? That’s stupid. He — that — the demon can’t save you. Only you can save yourself. And you’ve given up trying.”<\/p>\n

If you’re going to bring him up, my gadgeteer — he never gives up trying to be better. No matter what, he doesn’t — and you just — you’d rather just lie down and let this thing destroy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 missing the … 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":[10,3320,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842"}],"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=27842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}