{"id":28531,"date":"2013-04-24T01:12:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/24\/starkappeal-iamthefirechild-starkappeal-4\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T01:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:12:50","slug":"starkappeal-iamthefirechild-starkappeal-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/24\/starkappeal-iamthefirechild-starkappeal-4\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

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

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She shakes her head. \u201cI\u2019m not an agent. I\u2019m like you.\u201d She taps at the card. \u201cSee? Consultant. Freelancer. I don\u2019t take orders. I really do just want to look at the Tower.\u201d She twists her hands in her lap, flushing faintly and obviously embarrassed, she goes on, \u201cI only said one untrue thing. I \u2014 I was helping some people, during the lightup. Or I would have been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhat sort of work do you do for SHIELD? My consulting for them has been hit or miss for awhile now. Fury and I never see eye to eye.\u201d Tony pulls out a menu from the other end of the table to glance over. \u201cAt least you made it back, and have your home. There will be other times to help out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI\u2019m SAR. And crowd control.\u201d She fiddles the card between her fingers. \u201cI \u2014 I helped look for you, when you were kidnapped.\u201d For something, anything to do with her hands, she puts the ID card away and pulls out her driver\u2019s license, to show the waiter when he comes, so she can order amaretto and coke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

“I couldn’t get a fix. Not without having met you before.” Her eyes open, haunted. “There are so many pockets of people there, confused, compelled, hurting. I couldn’t pick you out. Not — I failed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

starkappeal: iamthefirechild: starkappeal: iamthefirechild: She shakes her head. \u201cI\u2019m not an agent. I\u2019m like you.\u201d She taps at the card. \u201cSee? Consultant. Freelancer. I don\u2019t take orders. I really do just want to look at the Tower.\u201d She twists her hands in her lap, flushing faintly and obviously embarrassed, she goes on, \u201cI only said … 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":[3387,3362,3363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531"}],"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=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}