{"id":32599,"date":"2012-10-24T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/24\/curiosity-kills-14\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:51:53","slug":"curiosity-kills-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/24\/curiosity-kills-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou wanted proof of my empathy. There you are,\u201d Summer spread her hands, \u201cirrefutable proof. Things I have told you about yourself that I should not know. You can call it a lucky guess if it will make you feel better, but that sort of lie never works well. I should know. Aught else?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The scientist shook his head, as if no longer interested, \u201cNope. That\u2019ll be all.\u201d His seeming disinterest soon faded, however, as he asked, \u201cHow are you even able to do that? I mean, how is it that you became an \u2018empath\u2019, as you claim?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a mutation. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve worked with the X-Men before. In short, I was born this way.\u201d Summer gave a twisted smirk. \u201cThat\u2019s not all I can do.\u201d Lightly, she projected friendliness at him, then changed it to terror, then dropped the projection altogether in favour of calling a little flame into her cupped hands. \u201cStill curious?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYeah. I did a little wor-\u201d Cut short, the strangest feeling of comfortable ease washed over him, only to be quickly replaced with inexplicable terror. It crawled icily down his spine, but disappeared soon after, as if it never happened. His eyes fell to her cupped hands where she held a small flame. \u201cThat\u2019s\u2026impressive,\u201d the scientist said simply. Tony\u2019s brown eyes studied her carefully. \u201cCurious? Why don\u2019t you tell me if I am?\u201d He arched an eyebrow with a cocky smirk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Oh, sure, you are, but that does take all the fun out of it.” Her smile nearly matched his. “Very detached curiosity, that. Like I’m a specimen. I don’t think I like that.” Summer’s green eyes held more than a hint of challenge now. “You’ve seen all my flashy tricks, Mr Stark. Anything else you’d like to see?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

philanthropistplayboybillionaire: iamthefirechild: philanthropistplayboybillionaire: iamthefirechild: \u201cYou wanted proof of my empathy. There you are,\u201d Summer spread her hands, \u201cirrefutable proof. Things I have told you about yourself that I should not know. You can call it a lucky guess if it will make you feel better, but that sort of lie never works well. I should … Continue reading Curiosity kills<\/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":[10,140,3776,3784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599"}],"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=32599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}