{"id":32735,"date":"2012-10-21T03:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/21\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-29\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T03:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T03:38:16","slug":"chasing-cars-theironaudi-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/21\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Cars | @theironaudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/34003909887\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/34001869411\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/33990307997\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/33958306265\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/33949556735\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo, hey. It\u2019s all right,\u201d he murmured, his brows pulling together. He moved his hand to wipe a few tears away from her face. \u201cIt\u2019s okay. I\u2019m just a mess all around, but I am trying to work on it. It\u2019s not your fault.\u201d He sighed, tilting his head to the side. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can convince me otherwise, really\u2026 But maybe, maybe we could try to make it work? If you want? I just don\u2019t want to hurt you. I\u2019m not exactly known to have successful relationships\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She couldn\u2019t breathe. Everything was moving too fast. Who was comforting whom here? She thought she was just being a friendly person, and now he was \u2026 he was asking her out? Tony Stark was asking her out, an hour after meeting her, was talking about a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes?\u201d She said hesitantly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He pulled his hand back almost as soon as he realized what he\u2019d said, and how she was hesitating. \u201cSorry, god, that was incredibly forward of me. All this\u2026 I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t really know what\u2019s come over me\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer flinched again, harder. She scrabbled for the door-handle, half-blinded by falling tears, and tried not to sob aloud. Tearing the clip from her hair, she cast it passionately to the ground, and that was the end of that bout of energy. Bracing her arms on the trunk of the car, fallen hair hiding her face, she gave over control and just tried to breathe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tony sighed heavily. \u201cLook what you did, Stark,\u201d he whispered to himself, letting his forehead fall to the steering wheel.<em> You push everyone away, this proves it. You hurt her and you hurt yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tony&#8217;s self-hatred slashed through her mind like a hail of darts, cutting and cold. It felt like she was shouting, but it couldn&#8217;t have been much over a normal tone, just laden with intensity. &#8220;Stop it!&#8221; Her arms were shaking. &#8220;Stop thinking that!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theironaudi: iamthefirechild: theironaudi: iamthefirechild: theironaudi: \u201cNo, hey. It\u2019s all right,\u201d he murmured, his brows pulling together. He moved his hand to wipe a few tears away from her face. \u201cIt\u2019s okay. I\u2019m just a mess all around, but I am trying to work on it. It\u2019s not your fault.\u201d He sighed, tilting his head to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/21\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-29\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasing Cars | @theironaudi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10,140,3898,3250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32735"}],"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=32735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}