{"id":31506,"date":"2012-12-28T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/28\/charity-ball-shoottothrillindustries-3\/"},"modified":"2012-12-28T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T02:45:13","slug":"charity-ball-shoottothrillindustries-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/28\/charity-ball-shoottothrillindustries-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Ball | @shoottothrillindustries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI\u2019m not sure this qualifies as you taking me out for drinks,\u201d Summer commented, lifting her glass to him before taking a sip. \u201cThough the question stands, in a different form. What changed?\u201d She made interlocking rings on the countertop with the glass, not looking at him. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that something did. And I\u2019m sure it\u2019s nothing to do with me. I expect you\u2019d\u2019ve picked up some girl at the party anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony made a cynical face at himself, \u201cNo, I\u2019m sure it doesn\u2019t but I could be doing worse, right? If the \u2018out\u2019 bit means that much, we could go back out on the landing pad?\u201d<\/p>\n

He managed a small chuckle there, and rearranged a row of glasses. After a moment\u2019s thought, he started mixing something for himself, talking smoothly again. \u201cHell if I know! \u2014 I got bored? Bored leads to thinking, and science, and cars, and wasting time\u2026 and lots of drinking. I\u2019m trying to avoid most of that\u2026 the thinking bit, at least.\u201d<\/p>\n

His head was already getting sore, as if to prove his point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer lifted her drink, starting to laugh. \u201cAll right, all right. I can take a hint. No more questions. How can I help you stop thinking, Mr. Stark?\u201d She tried her best to look seductive, feeling very awkward. \u201cAfter all, you dragged me away from the dancing, the least you can do is make use of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Tony looked up from the glass now on his hand and paused. Logically, he knew Summer was still across the bar from him, but it suddenly felt like that distance was much shorter. His pulse did a surprised double take. He swallowed half his drink in one go and set it down on the counter.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause\u2026 you looked like you were enjoying the dancing so much,\u201d he replied sarcastically. It came out a bit late.<\/p>\n

He circled the bar to her side, mulling her words over. Summer certainly was beautiful. If this was the least he could do\u2026 Tony brushed his fingers over her hair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Nobody asked me,” she riposted. “I’d’ve enjoyed it more if someone had bothered to ask me to dance.” Then he was right \/there\/, right beside her, charming and handsome and touching her braids, and her pulse felt like it was choking her. The stool was tall enough to let her look him in the eyes. And maybe she was a little drunk, maybe she was giving in to the taste of him in her mind, maybe this would be a disaster after.<\/p>\n

Carefully she set her glass down, proud that the hammering of her heart didn’t make her hand tremble. Green eyes locked to whiskey-amber, she reached up to pull a rhinestone hairpin from under his hand, and another. Another, until the braids slipped from their coil around her head and down her back. “What would you like to do with me?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

shoottothrillindustries: iamthefirechild: shoottothrillindustries: iamthefirechild: \u201cI\u2019m not sure this qualifies as you taking me out for drinks,\u201d Summer commented, lifting her glass to him before taking a sip. \u201cThough the question stands, in a different form. What changed?\u201d She made interlocking rings on the countertop with the glass, not looking at him. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that something … Continue reading Charity Ball | @shoottothrillindustries<\/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":[10,3737,3577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506"}],"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=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}