{"id":31607,"date":"2012-12-14T06:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/14\/awkward-conversation-dummystark-2\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T06:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:29:12","slug":"awkward-conversation-dummystark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/14\/awkward-conversation-dummystark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Awkward Conversation | @dummystark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter.\u201d He said softly, drawing his legs to his chest. \u201cI\u2019m not enough. I\u2019m going to try, but I don\u2019t know if I can make it. I love him. He\u2019s my everything, my only, but I\u2019m not that for him. And he doesn\u2019t know what that does to me. Not really.\u201d He explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe hell you say,\u201d she shot back, feeling anger start to flare. \u201cTony\u2019s not stupid, you know. You tried to kill yourself.<\/em> Did you not hear me? It will destroy him if you try again, far less succeed.\u201d \u2018How can you say you love him, if this is your reaction to his true nature?\u2019 she wanted to say, wanted to shout. \u2018Love doesn\u2019t demand change!\u2019 But she bit her tongue, hard. Even she was unsure if those thoughts came from long experience, long empathy, or simple ugly jealousy. Summer reached out to take Dummy\u2019s hand. \u201cThere are others who will miss you too, if you kill yourself. Happy, and Pepper, for starters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t need me, he has someone else.\u201d He pulled away from her as he stood up. \u201cNo, they wouldn\u2019t. Happy doesn\u2019t know me, Pepper doesn\u2019t even visit me anymore. \u00a0No one would care if I were gone.\u201d he said, walking back to his room and locking himself back in his room.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhat the actual fuck was that?!\u201d Summer exploded. She bounced up off the couch, striding after Dummy. She jerked at the handle, and when it wouldn\u2019t move, she ground her teeth. \u201cDummy, if you don\u2019t open up this door right now, I am going to take it off the fucking hinges. You are not allowed to run away from this, you selfish little child. You promised to try! I\u2019m willing to love you both, even if you aren\u2019t, but not like this!\u201d she shouted, bracing one fist against the wall. \u201cOpen the damned door!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dummy slowly opened the door, his gaze icy cold. \u201cYou\u2019re the other one. No. Stay away from me. I never want to see you again,\u201d he said, his voice dead even before he closed his door again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“How selfish can you possibly be, to place your own desires above those of the person you supposedly love, to the point of willingly, deliberately hurting them?!” Summer abandoned the last edges of control. “Are you really so selfish, so jealous, that you’ll abandon the chance to be loved by more than one person, by anyone else, because this one person you want doesn’t return your affections the way you want? You told Tony you would try this.<\/em> This is not trying. What kind of person does that make you, anyway?” She hammered on the door. “I am going to give you one more chance to act like the person Tony tells me he loves, before I melt this door right off its hinges.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

dummystark: \u201cDoesn\u2019t matter.\u201d He said softly, drawing his legs to his chest. \u201cI\u2019m not enough. I\u2019m going to try, but I don\u2019t know if I can make it. I love him. He\u2019s my everything, my only, but I\u2019m not that for him. And he doesn\u2019t know what that does to me. Not really.\u201d He explained.\u00a0 … Continue reading Awkward Conversation | @dummystark<\/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":[10,3781,3691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31607"}],"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=31607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}