{"id":29334,"date":"2013-03-23T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/03\/23\/assassins-tango-36\/"},"modified":"2013-03-23T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:51:57","slug":"assassins-tango-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/03\/23\/assassins-tango-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Tango"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victor was suddenly flustered, \u201cI-well\u2026I mean, I would\u2019ve told you I had a job, y\u2019know? I guess I\u2019m just sort of used to going solo on jobs, no matter how dangerous it is.\u201d He turned so that he was facing her a bit more. \u201cIf you really want to come\u2026.I\u2019d worry something would happen, but I won\u2019t stop you, love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Still muffled, she shook her head a little bit. \u201cThat\u2019s not even the point. The point is that you might die, on one of these jobs, and I know almost nothing. You mostly just \u2026 vanish. And, you know, if you\u2019re claiming me, then I have a right to be worried. Or maybe not, because neither of us has any real measure at all of the other one\u2019s combat ability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victor scrubbed his face, \u201cYou\u2019re right, an\u2019 I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s like I said, I\u2019m not used t\u2019 havin\u2019 someone t\u2019 worry like that. Tha\u2019s a good point though, love, we\u2019ve never seen th\u2019 other fight. If you come with though, we\u2019re goin\u2019 back t\u2019 my place an\u2019 I\u2019m giving you some o\u2019 my gear.\u201d He cocked his head for a moment before asking, \u201cHave you ever gone after one o\u2019 my kind before love?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer dropped her hands to give him a very flat look. \u201cI have my own gear, Victor. I don\u2019t need your weaponry.\u201d She brushed her hands through her hair, then stood up. \u201cYou forget what I am, I think. Same as I forget what you are.\u201d She lit one finger like a torch, then made the fire spread down over her hand and arm before she dismissed it. \u201cI\u2019ll meet you at your house in an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victor was momentarily shocked by the sudden fire, having, just as Summer said, forgotten exactly what she was.<\/p>\n

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Victor was downstairs in his armory when he checked the monitor displaying the various closed circuit cameras around his house, it was close to an hour since he and Summer had parted at the park and she should be arriving any moment. He pulled out his phone, pulled Summer up in his contacts and shot her a text.<\/p>\n

[text] Hey love, there\u2019s a key taped to the inside of the door frame. Jus finishing some things up.<\/p>\n

Then he continued packing his gear and weapons, waiting for Summer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It took a minute of searching, but she finally managed to find the key. Stepping inside, she called, “Victor?” Her boots clunked on the floor.<\/p>\n

Her red-and-gold cuirass was bulletproof, flameproof, and conductive to electricity. Spaulders and brassarts warded her arms, leaving forearms and elbows protected only by heavy cloth. Matching bulletproof leg guards bound to heavy cloth pants protected her legs, tucked into her knee-high boots, all of it designed matching her cuirass.<\/span><\/p>\n

The armour gave her the full freedom of movement she needed to use both her fire and her martial arts, while protecting the most important areas. With luck, they would face this rogue vampire in an open area, where she could also take advantage of flight, but she thought it unlikely.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Victor?”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: iamvictor-roth: Victor was suddenly flustered, \u201cI-well\u2026I mean, I would\u2019ve told you I had a job, y\u2019know? I guess I\u2019m just sort of used to going solo on jobs, no matter how dangerous it is.\u201d He turned so that he was facing her a bit more. \u201cIf you really want to come\u2026.I\u2019d … Continue reading Assassin’s Tango<\/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":[10,1052,3115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334"}],"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=29334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}