{"id":30080,"date":"2013-02-22T06:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/02\/22\/valentines-evening-iamthefirechild-45\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T06:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:25:17","slug":"valentines-evening-iamthefirechild-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/02\/22\/valentines-evening-iamthefirechild-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Evening || iamthefirechild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgeteerphilanthropist.tumblr.com\/post\/43707457048\/valentines-evening-iamthefirechild\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/43663555217\/valentines-evening-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>She made a disgusted face at him. \u201cIf I wanted you to just hang around, I would ask, like you told me to. I would at least ask to borrow some space in the workshop. But no. Real work.\u201d Putting her elbows on the table, all serious intent and earnestness, she propped her chin in her hands. \u201cI want to learn how to take care of her. Change the oil, the spark plugs, the filters. How to tune her engine. How to interpret all the car codes. I, um,\u201d she flushed, \u201ckinda threw a rod real hard once because the engine overheated and boiled the oil, and I didn\u2019t know enough to notice. And I want to basically redo her entire electricals, put in seat heaters and automatic locks. I thought about automating the roof, but it\u2019s kind of fun to take it off myself.\u201d She grinned. \u201cI like to see who thinks I struggle with it and offers to help. I was going to ask Jarvis to guide me through the simpler stuff and not bother you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He shrugged and folded his arms loosely on top of the table.\u201dI don\u2019t mind helping,\u201d Tony replied.\u00a0 He grinned.\u00a0 \u201cUnless you don\u2019t want me to, I suppose.\u00a0 I know what you have with Jarvis is <em>special<\/em>, so I guess I could let you two have some bonding time,\u201d he added, cheeky and feigning innocence.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019d probably be more helpful in the garage than in the kitchen, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to kick you,&#8221; she threatened, laughing. &#8220;I would always rather have you than Jarvis; I can&#8217;t coax Jarvis into giving me kisses, grease-smeared and bare-shouldered and completely sexy, if I get something right. I don&#8217;t know how fast a learner I&#8217;ll be, though.&#8221; She sipped her drink. &#8220;Please teach me about cars, Tony,&#8221; she wheedled, matching his innocent look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: She made a disgusted face at him. \u201cIf I wanted you to just hang around, I would ask, like you told me to. I would at least ask to borrow some space in the workshop. But no. Real work.\u201d Putting her elbows on the table, all serious intent and earnestness, she propped her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/02\/22\/valentines-evening-iamthefirechild-45\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valentine&#8217;s Evening || iamthefirechild<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10,199,3147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080"}],"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=30080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}