{"id":28616,"date":"2013-04-20T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/20\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-81\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:50:17","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/20\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-81\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Having him at her back helps. \u201cWhy?\u201d she mutters. It doesn\u2019t even matter if he can actually hear her. The word burns in her throat, hammers with her pulse. \u201cIt\u2019s never enough. Why can\u2019t I protect them?\u201d She clenches her fists under the water, holding them up like they\u2019ve failed her. \u201cI can hear them hurting. Always, always. I can \/hear\/ it.\u201d Her voice breaks in the middle. \u201cWhy can\u2019t I make it better?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI wish I could tell you,\u201d he replies, just as quietly, his chin resting against her hair.\u00a0 \u201cGod knows I\u2019ve wondered it enough times myself.\u201d\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t that the entire point of Iron Man?\u00a0 Fix what his company fucked up; make amends for all the innocent blood he\u2019d inadvertently spilled.\u00a0 \u201cI dunno if it makes you feel better, but you aren\u2019t the only one trying to help.\u00a0 And you do<\/em> help; you do make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“How?” It’s half an anguished sob. “People are dead, people are hurting, and I can’t change it. I can’t even save you!” Her shoulders round in, one arm wrapped across her body as if to hold herself in. Or together. “Make it stop. God, please, make it \/stop\/.” 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’t relax her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: Having him at her back helps. \u201cWhy?\u201d she mutters. It doesn\u2019t even matter if he can actually hear her. The word burns in her throat, hammers with her pulse. \u201cIt\u2019s never enough. Why can\u2019t I protect them?\u201d She clenches her fists under the water, holding them up like they\u2019ve failed her. \u201cI can … 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\/28616"}],"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=28616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}