{"id":28488,"date":"2013-04-26T04:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T04:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/26\/starkappeal-iamthefirechild-starkappeal-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T04:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T04:54:41","slug":"starkappeal-iamthefirechild-starkappeal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/26\/starkappeal-iamthefirechild-starkappeal-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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After ordering a drink and a basket of fries to eat while they carry on their conversation Tony quirks a brow at her. \u201cYou were a part of the SAR for that? Not an easy mission to undertake given the location. Don\u2019t think anyone would have found me had I not blasted out of there. Too many nooks and crannies in the mountains to be able to search effectively. On the upside I\u2019m here and not there. You weren\u2019t with the party that picked me up were you? I honestly don\u2019t remember much of the pickup and the transport to the base.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d she admits. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do it; after the first few days there wasn\u2019t enough to differentiate you from most of the rest of the folk in the area \u2014 and there was so much area.\u201d She sighs, closes her eyes. \u201cI\u2019m not the Professor; I can\u2019t get a sense of you from someone else. Sitwell found you.\u201d She sounds a little disappointed. \u201cI should have been able to do more. Anyway, Colonel Rhodes wouldn\u2019t let me come along once they\u2019d located you; said we\u2019d done enough already.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t get a fix. Not without having met you before.\u201d Her eyes open, haunted. \u201cThere are so many pockets of people there, confused, compelled, hurting. I couldn\u2019t pick you out. Not \u2014 I failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With drink set before him Tony wraps his hand around the glass, drawing it towards him as he eyes her across the table. \u201cSo you\u2019re a telepath then? Or akin to that?\u201d He pauses a moment then adds, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing anyone could have done back then; don\u2019t beat yourself up about it. It\u2019s the past and won\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cNot as good as a telepath. I\u2019m just an empath.\u201d She stirs her drink with the straw before chasing one of the condensation droplets with a fingertip. \u201cYou really believe that. That\u2019s \u2026 impressive, really. A couple years on and I can\u2019t forgive myself, but you just \u2014 \u201d She shrugs. \u201cAnyway. That\u2019s the sort of thing I do, that and crowd control. It doesn\u2019t take much to keep panic from overwhelming people.\u201d Hooking the straw to one side with a finger, she takes a long draught of the amaretto.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThing is if you focus on what\u2019s gone wrong rather than moving past it and making certain it doesn\u2019t happen again you get dragged down by the guilt.\u201d Speaking from experience Tony sips at his drink then nods as if considering what she must have gone through searching for him with her abilities. There was a lot of anger and suffering in that area. \u201cCrowd control would be the better gig by far. So now that you\u2019re back home what\u2019re your plans?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Oh, I’ve got a couple open web design contracts to keep the roof over my head, and I hop around wherever I’m needed when little things go wrong. It’s more often than I’d like.” The cruelties of humanity to itself is a constant source of sadness for her. She eyes her drink, toying with the ice again. “Mine is a very quiet life, really. I spend most of my free time at home, reading or playing games or tending the cats. I’m not really,” an uncomfortable shrug, “a social person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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