{"id":31329,"date":"2013-01-03T04:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/03\/valley-of-the-shadow-iamvictor-roth-28\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T04:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T04:44:31","slug":"valley-of-the-shadow-iamvictor-roth-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/03\/valley-of-the-shadow-iamvictor-roth-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley of the Shadow | @iamvictor-roth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cBuddy. William Edward Rainault, Jr.\u201d Summer settled herself back into Victor\u2019s arm, needing the warmth of him \u2014 why was he warm, as a vampire, the part of her mind trying to just run away wondered \u2014 and stared at the wine in her glass. \u201cI don\u2019t know where Buddy came from, but I know why it stuck, because it was just the most literally perfect description of his personality. He was everyone\u2019s buddy. I never saw him angry. I almost never even saw him not smiling \u2014 I couldn\u2019t look, at the viewing, because they\u2019d made his face without that little smile, that crinkled the corners of his eyes. It wasn\u2019t him, there.\u201d Abruptly she drank half the glass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He was a little concerned by the way she had downed half the glass and rubbed his thumb in circles on her shoulder. \u201cThey should\u2019ve made him with that smile of his since that\u2019s how he was in life. He sounds like he was a very nice person though, it\u2019s always hard when someone like that moves on from our lives.\u201d Victor paused a moment then twisted his body so that he was facing her a bit more. \u201cCheers, to Buddy and may he find more happiness wherever he is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTo Buddy,\u201d Summer echoed, draining her glass. She didn\u2019t even ordinarily drink much, but nothing was as bitter as the taste of her sorrow, of the family\u2019s sorrow that she could already feel leaching into her. The bonds of family were unlike other empathic bonds, but they still carried emotion, and she carried it all. She curled over, around the empty space where her sense of her grandfather had lived, and rocked silently. \u201cI\u2019ll have to go down there tomorrow,\u201d she murmured into her knees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victor realized that the amount of sadness and pain she was experiencing was exponentially more than anyone would ever feel. He put his glass down and pulled her to him so that she was sitting on his lap, kissing her head and neck tenderly. \u201cWhy do you have to go back there love?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer sighed. “I haven’t been home in months, Victor darling. I’ve got to go down for the funeral, though. The funeral, the wake, the viewing, god. The only way I’m going to survive it is drugs.” This sigh was bitter, and she blinked another tear away. “Tell me you love me, Victor,” she whispered. “Tell me how much you love me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: \u201cBuddy. William Edward Rainault, Jr.\u201d Summer settled herself back into Victor\u2019s arm, needing the warmth of him \u2014 why was he warm, as a vampire, the part of her mind trying to just run away wondered \u2014 and stared at the wine in her glass. \u201cI don\u2019t know where Buddy came … Continue reading Valley of the Shadow | @iamvictor-roth<\/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":[10,1052,3228,3670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31329"}],"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=31329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}