{"id":31626,"date":"2012-12-11T04:36:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T04:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/11\/a-friend-in-need-summer-6\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T04:36:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T04:36:47","slug":"a-friend-in-need-summer-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/11\/a-friend-in-need-summer-6\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend in Need (@Summer)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cOh, darling, darling,\u201d Summer crooned, pressing a kiss to the crown of his head. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to carry it all alone, you don\u2019t.\u201d She cupped her hand around the back of his head, stroking gently, holding with all the love she could find. \u201cJust let it all go. I can hold it, I\u2019ll help you. I\u2019m here, I love you. Please cry, darling.\u201d It hurt, carrying his pain, but better her than anyone else. And she resolved to seek out Dummy at the first opportunity after she\u2019d settled Tony.<\/p>\n

Which might be a while, but that was fine. That was just fine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony shook his head quickly, though it wasn\u2019t clear if he was even listening to anything she was saying at that point.\u00a0 His hold on her tightened, one arm still around her shoulders, his other hand fisted tightly against his knee.\u00a0 For a few more moments, he tried to keep himself in check, drawn taut and trembling, before something finally gave.\u00a0 His shoulders slumped, and he made a small noise, something like a gasp, and he leaned against her as he finally cracked entirely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer sucked in a breath as she sensed the dam give way. Her own eyes slipped closed, tears dropping from under the closed lids. Slowly, she rocked Tony back and forth, kissing every part of him that she could reach, humming lightly. \u201cThere, there, shhh darling \u2026 \u201d Without forcing a change of emotion in any way, she let him feel how much she cared, how loved he was, wrapped him around in warmth and sympathy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He was quiet through his catharsis.\u00a0 Some things wouldn\u2019t change, and the bleaker his feelings got, the quieter he kept them.\u00a0 But he released them, at least, which was a rarity.\u00a0 Used Summer as a life line, and let them go.<\/p>\n

Eventually, he calmed.\u00a0 He leaned away from her slowly, staring down at his hands as they fell to his lap.\u00a0 He cast a quick glance at her, before looking down again with some embarrassment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“No, Tony,” she told him, leaning to catch his eyes. “It’s fine. Don’t start that.” Unwinding herself from the floor, she stretched, bones and tendons crackling from tension released. “Come on,” Summer said, holding a hand down. She held the other hand behind her, balancing a flame on it. She didn’t have time to have convulsions right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: \u201cOh, darling, darling,\u201d Summer crooned, pressing a kiss to the crown of his head. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to carry it all alone, you don\u2019t.\u201d She cupped her hand around the back of his head, stroking gently, holding with all the love she could find. \u201cJust let it all go. I can … Continue reading A Friend in Need (@Summer)<\/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":[10,3785,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31626"}],"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=31626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}