{"id":28353,"date":"2013-05-01T05:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/01\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-80\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T05:46:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T05:46:47","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/01\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-80\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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\u201cHow?\u201d It\u2019s half an anguished sob. \u201cPeople are dead, people are hurting, and I can\u2019t change it. I can\u2019t even save you!\u201d Her shoulders round in, one arm wrapped across her body as if to hold herself in. Or together. \u201cMake it stop. God, please, make it \/stop\/.\u201d The hot water streams down over her face, rinsing away the tears before they have a chance to fall, but the tension in her body is so high now even the heat can\u2019t relax her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need to be saved,\u201d he reminds her.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s one of the things you like about me.\u201d\u00a0 If Summer ever had to pick between Tony and someone else hanging from a ledge, she could be content in the knowledge that he would haul his own ass back up.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re one person, Sunshine.\u00a0 No one\u2019s expecting you to save the world on your own.\u201d\u00a0 He falls quiet then, his hold on her tightening somewhat.\u00a0 What\u2019s he supposed to say?\u00a0 It will be okay?\u00a0 You did your best?\u00a0 It all just rings as trite in his head.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Don’t lie to me, don’t say that.” Another sob hitches through her body as her voice cracks and spikes. “All the things that have happened since I met you, everything — I couldn’t protect you. I couldn’t save you.” She’s barely coherent, knees shaking. Tony might as well be holding her up. “It hurts so much, Tony.”<\/p>\n

Though the pain isn’t less, the effects of it are wearing off, wearing her down. The tears don’t slide down anymore when she blinks, and most of the dried blood has slipped off her skin, though there are still patches at her hairline where she shoved recalcitrant strands out of her eyes with the back of one hand. After a minute, and a long, shaking sigh, Summer turns around. She rests her forehead briefly against the arc reactor before tucking her head into the curve of his shoulder instead.<\/p>\n

“Will you do a thing for me tonight?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: \u201cHow?\u201d It\u2019s half an anguished sob. \u201cPeople are dead, people are hurting, and I can\u2019t change it. I can\u2019t even save you!\u201d Her shoulders round in, one arm wrapped across her body as if to hold herself in. Or together. \u201cMake it stop. God, please, make it \/stop\/.\u201d The hot water streams down … 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":[10,199,3366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353"}],"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=28353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}