{"id":31610,"date":"2012-12-14T05:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T05:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/14\/awkward-conversation-dummystark-5\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T05:49:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T05:49:26","slug":"awkward-conversation-dummystark-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/14\/awkward-conversation-dummystark-5\/","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’s comprehension of Dummy’s words seemed to take too long, dragging slow, like icicles forming. “You mustn’t!” was the first thing she could get out of her mouth, instinct and knowledge heterodyning to produce the words. “You’ll tear him apart. I won’t be able to put him together after that, I couldn’t even try. Don’t you know what it did to him that you tried at all?” She put her face in her hands, red hair cascading down, moaning. “Oh, gods, Dummy, how can you not know how much he loves you?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 you so I will … 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\/31610"}],"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=31610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}