{"id":33203,"date":"2012-10-08T02:36:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/08\/phone-tag-summer-4\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T02:36:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:36:03","slug":"phone-tag-summer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/08\/phone-tag-summer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Tag (@ Summer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gadgeteerphilanthropist.tumblr.com\/post\/33128486999\/phone-tag-summer\">gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/33100193379\/phone-tag-summer\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She dropped onto the landing pad, half-consciously mirroring Tony\u2019s favourite landing pose. Setting fingertips to the door, Summer squared her shoulders and steeled herself. \u2018I\u2019m annoyed with him,\u2019 she reminded herself, before pushing the door open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfternoon,\u201d he greeted, and then knocked back the last of his drink.\u00a0 \u201cDo please contain your enthusiasm,\u201d he added wryly.<\/p>\n<p>He gave her a quick once-over, assessing what he had to work with.\u00a0 Pretty woman, with the predictable desire to be more so.\u00a0 And something deeper, as well.\u00a0 Something that felt like spiraling, a need for control and power, to keep other minds out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter all, not like I forced you to show up,\u201d he pointed out, with a cheerfully casual, \u201cGet a taste of undercooked brain today?\u201d along the same lines as \u2018someone piss in your Cheerios?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer sighed, folding her arms. &#8220;I have to admit, I was hoping that when you had something to say to me next it would be a little more &#8230;&#8221; she flicked a hand, looking for a word, &#8220;informative than &#8216;kinda miss you&#8217;. But apparently I&#8217;m a sucker and can&#8217;t stay away from you. And you&#8217;re being more than usually weird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crossing the room, she dropped herself heavily into the sofa and looked at Tony upside down. &#8220;So. You missed me, kinda.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: She dropped onto the landing pad, half-consciously mirroring Tony\u2019s favourite landing pose. Setting fingertips to the door, Summer squared her shoulders and steeled herself. \u2018I\u2019m annoyed with him,\u2019 she reminded herself, before pushing the door open. \u201cHey.\u201d \u201cAfternoon,\u201d he greeted, and then knocked back the last of his drink.\u00a0 \u201cDo please contain your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/08\/phone-tag-summer-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phone Tag (@ Summer)<\/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":[10,199,4079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33203"}],"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=33203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}