{"id":30171,"date":"2013-02-19T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/02\/19\/archangelswag-iamthefirechild-archangelswag\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:18:00","slug":"archangelswag-iamthefirechild-archangelswag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/02\/19\/archangelswag-iamthefirechild-archangelswag\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

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He pulls back, his expression quickly turning worried before being covered up by a brittle front of curiosity. \u00a0A hand flits to Summer\u2019s shoulder as the archangel says, \u201cClearly I\u2019ve missed some important things. What happened? Is there someone I need to \u2018have a discussion\u2019 with?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThat would have been nice at the time,\u201d she sighs, \u201cbut it\u2019s a bit late now. It\u2019s a long story.\u201d Taking his hand, she pulls him to sit beside her on the edge of the bed, pausing to offer ear scratches to the little calico curled up in the centre. \u201cI\u2019m dating Tony Stark,\u201d she begins, avoiding his eyes. \u201cAnd \u2026 so was one of his AI robots. Some grey magic gave it a human-android body, I don\u2019t know much about that. But, um, Dummy \u2014 the AI’s name is Dummy \u2014 he asked Tony to marry him. Not long after you disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

She twists her hands together, shoulders tensing up. \u201cTony decided he wanted to keep both of us, and Dummy was \u2026 very not okay with that. He shot himself. Tony was able to save him, and he agreed to try, but even after that he avoided me. And I \u2014 I got impatient, and jealous, and when I went to talk to Dummy, to try to be friends, I did it all wrong. I pushed too hard, and he threatened to kill himself again, and \u2014 \u201d She falters, struggling against tears. \u201cI made him leave,\u201d she whispers finally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His face visibly straining to remain only concerned, and nothing more, the archangel opens his mouth hesitantly to speak. “What others do to themselves is not your fault. You didn’t “make” anyone do anything, and you tried to remedy the situation. If a robot is emotionally unstable, that is not your daddamn fault.” Anger rolls off of Gabriel in waves, his muscles tense as he tries to keep himself under control, tries not to fly off and find this appropriately named robot and turn it into a bouquet of flowers he can give to Summer (after uploading six viruses to its hard drive and watching it break into twitching circuits and scrap metal). He knows that hasty violence will not help anything, but he’s a fucking archangel – protecting people is his Dad-given job. As he tries to calm down, his eyes lose their detail and simply become glowing gold pits above gritted teeth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer flinches under his anger, unconvinced and self-castigating. “I should have been more patient,” she says. “I \/know\/ Tony loves me, even if he doesn’t say it often. I only wanted to be friends …” She buries her face in her hands, shoulders shaking, hot tears sliding down her cheeks. The memories are still painful, reminders of failure and accidental cruelty. Gabriel’s fury is just another burning layer added to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

archangelswag: iamthefirechild: archangelswag: He pulls back, his expression quickly turning worried before being covered up by a brittle front of curiosity. \u00a0A hand flits to Summer\u2019s shoulder as the archangel says, \u201cClearly I\u2019ve missed some important things. What happened? Is there someone I need to \u2018have a discussion\u2019 with?\u201d \u201cThat would have been nice at … 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":[10,385,3556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171"}],"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=30171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}