{"id":31608,"date":"2012-12-14T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/14\/awkward-conversation-dummystark-3\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:12:56","slug":"awkward-conversation-dummystark-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/14\/awkward-conversation-dummystark-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Awkward Conversation | @dummystark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"image\"<\/a><\/strong> iamthefirechild<\/a><\/strong> replied to your post<\/a><\/strong>:<\/span> *taps at Dummy\u2019s door*<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m Summer. You might have seen me around the Tower sometimes.\u201d Summer offered a slight smile, hopeful, friendly, unassuming.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dummy\u2019s brow wrinkled as he thought. \u201cI\u2019m not sure if I have. But if you\u2019re here Tony trusts you so I will too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI hope to think he does,\u201d Summer smiled. \u201cHe lets me cook for him, anyway. Will you come and sit with me? I \u2026 want to talk to you. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dummy looked even more confused and he nodded. \u201cOk, sure?\u201d He said, unsure now. What would this woman whom he\u2019s never seen before have to talk to him about? He followed her out and sat across from her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSo \u2026 Tony tells me that you asked him to marry you.\u201d She couldn\u2019t find a smooth way to ease into this. And Tony would likely take some of it out of her hide, later. She would deserve it, probably. Could she read androids? Now was the time to try. Carefully, she lowered her shields, trying to listen.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, um, that you weren\u2019t comfortable with some of the things he wants.\u201d Her green gaze flickered up, then down. She forced her hands to stay still. \u201cHe said you tried to kill yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dummy sighed and shook his head. \u201cNo. I asked if he would ever think about marrying me for real some time. We\u2019ve been married three or four times now, but for a couple weeks at a time at most.\u201d He shifted slightly and bit the side of his lip. \u201cNo, I\u2019m not. All I\u2019ve ever wanted is Tony. All I\u2019ve ever loved is Tony. I don\u2019t understand why he\u2019s enough for me, but I\u2019m not enough for him. That he has to have someone else as well. Yes. And if it doesn\u2019t work out I\u2019m going to make it permanent. Damned bullet didn\u2019t work right last time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer\u2019s comprehension of Dummy\u2019s words seemed to take too long, dragging slow, like icicles forming. \u201cYou mustn\u2019t!\u201d was the first thing she could get out of her mouth, instinct and knowledge heterodyning to produce the words. \u201cYou\u2019ll tear him apart. I won\u2019t be able to put him together after that, I couldn\u2019t even try. Don\u2019t you know what it did to him that you tried at all?\u201d She put her face in her hands, red hair cascading down, moaning. \u201cOh, gods, Dummy, how can you not know how much he loves you?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\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

“What the actual fuck was that?!” Summer exploded. She bounced up off the couch, striding after Dummy. She jerked at the handle, and when it wouldn’t move, she ground her teeth. “Dummy, if you don’t 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’m willing to love you both, even if you aren’t, but not like this!” she shouted, bracing one fist against the wall. “Open the damned door!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

dummystark: iamthefirechild: dummystark: iamthefirechild: dummystark: iamthefirechild: dummystark: iamthefirechild: dummystark: iamthefirechild replied to your post: *taps at Dummy\u2019s door* \u201cI\u2019m Summer. You might have seen me around the Tower sometimes.\u201d Summer offered a slight smile, hopeful, friendly, unassuming. Dummy\u2019s brow wrinkled as he thought. \u201cI\u2019m not sure if I have. But if you\u2019re here Tony trusts … 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\/31608"}],"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=31608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}