{"id":33182,"date":"2012-10-08T19:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/08\/phone-tag-summer\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:35:55","slug":"phone-tag-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/08\/phone-tag-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Tag (@ Summer)"},"content":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo I have a choice about listening? No, skip that.\u201d Summer rolled her lips together, considering Tony\u2019s body and the thing that wore it like a suit.<\/p>\n

Like Tony wore his suit.<\/p>\n

She flinched away from that thought. \u201cWhat do you want? To give him back? What do I have to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

All gods save her from this temptation \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He scoffed, jet eyes rolling towards the ceiling for a moment.\u00a0 \u201cPlease.\u00a0 That offer isn\u2019t on the table.\u00a0 After all, I had grown so tired of my worn out wardrobe.\u00a0 This new outfit is so refreshing, and so well tailored.\u201d<\/p>\n

He leaned down towards her again, lips ghosting past her ear.\u00a0 \u201cI can taste what it is you seek, and I can give it to you.\u00a0 And I ask so little.\u201d\u00a0 He leaned back enough to look at her properly.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen years.\u00a0 I will give you that.\u00a0 Ten years with perfect control,\u201d he stroked the backs of his fingers along her cheek, \u201cand more than just a pretty face.\u00a0 No more headaches, no more having to fight to keep the clamor out, no more being the puppet to the moods of those around you, no more what ifs and doubts whenever you see yourself in the mirror.\u00a0 Ten years with that?\u00a0 It could be a life time.\u201d\u00a0 He grinned.\u00a0 \u201cAnd maybe I\u2019ll even move on, to a new host somewhere else, since this city holds so few job opportunities for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Ten years ago I’d have taken you up on that offer,” Summer said slowly. “And I’d be dead now, wouldn’t I. I know now how fast that time can fly.” She held still, looking up at what used to be Tony, offering her the fulfillment of her secret desires.<\/p>\n

She kept talking, working through it. “‘No more what ifs and doubts,’ you say, but that runs deeper than just the way I look. The root of it is what I think of myself, and you didn’t offer to change that. I wouldn’t take it if you did. It wouldn’t be real; I \/have\/ to solve that for myself.”<\/p>\n

She rubbed the back of her fingers against her mouth thoughtfully. “Actually, I nearly think you have, not even meaning to. If … whatever you are, with no reason whatsoever to flatter me, says ‘pretty,’ I have to believe it, don’t I? You’ve given me something without even meaning to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: \u201cDo I have a choice about listening? No, skip that.\u201d Summer rolled her lips together, considering Tony\u2019s body and the thing that wore it like a suit. Like Tony wore his suit. She flinched away from that thought. \u201cWhat do you want? To give him back? What do I have to do?\u201d All … Continue reading Phone Tag (@ 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":[10,199,4079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182"}],"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=33182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}