{"id":32769,"date":"2012-10-20T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/20\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-31\/"},"modified":"2012-10-20T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:36:56","slug":"chasing-cars-theironaudi-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/20\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Cars | @theironaudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/33949556735\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/33947354312\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/33947037754\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tony bit his tongue. To him it hurt so much more than telling someone that they weren\u2019t his type. Because he wanted her to be. But he had too many demons, too many bad memories.<\/p>\n<p>And those demons, and his desire, were picking at him as he sat there, forcing one hand to leave the safety of his knee and to find its way to hers. It sat there gently as he tried to decide what to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When his hand covered hers, she jumped. All his pain and fear rang down the touch, and she couldn\u2019t help it anymore; she started to cry. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean to hurt you again. I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m not, I\u2019m not what you say I am, truly. I\u2019m just me, plain ordinary me.\u201d<\/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&#8217;t breathe. Everything was moving too fast. Who was comforting whom here? She thought she was just being a friendly person, and now he was &#8230; he was asking her out? Tony Stark was asking her out, an hour after meeting her, was talking about a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes?&#8221; She said hesitantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theironaudi: iamthefirechild: theironaudi: Tony bit his tongue. To him it hurt so much more than telling someone that they weren\u2019t his type. Because he wanted her to be. But he had too many demons, too many bad memories. And those demons, and his desire, were picking at him as he sat there, forcing one hand &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/20\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-31\/\" 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":[10,3898,3250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769"}],"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=32769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}