{"id":28512,"date":"2013-04-25T06:51:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T06:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/25\/running-iamthefirechild-8\/"},"modified":"2013-04-25T06:51:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T06:51:55","slug":"running-iamthefirechild-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/25\/running-iamthefirechild-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Running || iamthefirechild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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She snorted a laugh. \u201cThat\u2019s a secret you couldn\u2019t keep if you wanted to.\u201d Her arms relaxed into a twined clasp, fingers wound together, and she regarded him seriously again. \u201cI think you are no worse, in that way, than growing up without shields in a small town. If I can survive that \u2026 \u201d She shrugged, carelessly. \u201cAnd as I said \u2014 you\u2019re needed. In the face of that, what matter my small wants? Besides,\u201d a small smile curved her mouth, lighting her eyes, \u201cyou\u2019re enjoying this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now that had him laughing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell shoot, and I thought I hid it so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cGuess you have me figured out more than I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

He arched his eyebrow at her mention of growing up without shields. He wondered if she knew just how close to home that comment was for him as well.<\/p>\n

It stung a little. He let it go.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeeded or not, pretty sure at the moment I have no choice but to hang around. At least for a little while yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She flicked her eyebrow, in return. “Now what did I say? Strange little reaction, that, to my little life history. Is that another secret? Are you one of the Professor’s kind as well, all hidden under technology?”<\/p>\n

It had seemed like a reaction to her remark about shielding. But that made no sense. If he was another empath, she’d surely be able to tell; if a telepath … well, she could tell the Professor, even at this distance, so surely she’d be able to tell that too. And who else would need mental shields?<\/p>\n

“You are quite the little bundle of puzzles, Mr Stark.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

supercilious-pariah: iamthefirechild: She snorted a laugh. \u201cThat\u2019s a secret you couldn\u2019t keep if you wanted to.\u201d Her arms relaxed into a twined clasp, fingers wound together, and she regarded him seriously again. \u201cI think you are no worse, in that way, than growing up without shields in a small town. If I can survive that … Continue reading Running || iamthefirechild<\/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":[10,3221,3220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512"}],"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=28512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}