{"id":28614,"date":"2013-04-20T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/20\/starkroads-iamthefirechild-it-wasnt-the-way\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T05:15:00","slug":"starkroads-iamthefirechild-it-wasnt-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/20\/starkroads-iamthefirechild-it-wasnt-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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It wasn\u2019t the way his hand looked that brought her to flinch back; it was the sheer cruel joy he so clearly took in showing her. It literally shaded the air about him. Swallowing hard, she said, \u201cWell, now that he\u2019s gone, you could get it repaired, or I suppose build yourself a new one. It should be easier than the arc, yes?\u201d She didn\u2019t like the way he held on to the knife, either. \u201cPlease, I\u2019m no threat to you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony shrugged easily, as if this was normal, casual.\u00a0 \u201cNot much point to it,\u201d he replied.\u00a0 \u201cLike I said, it doesn\u2019t bother him, what with whatever voodoo he uses to keep it functional, and I doubt he\u2019ll be gone long enough for it to really get to me too much.\u201d\u00a0 His tone was so conversational, as if he was just discussing plans for dinner.\u00a0 Like it was all a given, that his head wouldn\u2019t be his own place for long, and he was entirely alright with that.\u00a0 He tossed the knife up and caught it.\u00a0 \u201cWhat do you want, Summer?\u00a0 To feel like you tried, where no one asked you to?\u00a0 Congrats.\u00a0 Run along.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“You can’t possibly want him to stay!” she exclaimed. “It’s your life, your very body he’s taken! Damn near your soul!” She stepped forward, hands outstretched. “I want you to be able to be the man you were before he came along.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

starkroads: iamthefirechild: It wasn\u2019t the way his hand looked that brought her to flinch back; it was the sheer cruel joy he so clearly took in showing her. It literally shaded the air about him. Swallowing hard, she said, \u201cWell, now that he\u2019s gone, you could get it repaired, or I suppose build yourself a … 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\/28614"}],"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=28614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}