{"id":33308,"date":"2012-10-04T03:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/04\/harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild-7\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T03:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:08:51","slug":"harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/04\/harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild-7\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/harry--monmouth.tumblr.com\/post\/32826152930\/lokisdottir-harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild\">harry&#8212;monmouth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/32781217573\/harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/harry--monmouth.tumblr.com\/post\/32780570879\/lokisdottir-harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild\">harry&#8212;monmouth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/32774011282\/harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/harry--monmouth.tumblr.com\/post\/32730243660\/lokisdottir-harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild\">harry&#8212;monmouth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/32699770148\/harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild\"> iamthefirechild:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll still be gone. Your acquiescence to this makes no difference to that.&#8221; Kris shrugged, green eyes flicking downward. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got this one night, this one day, here. When my time is up, it&#8217;s up, and I&#8217;ll not be here ever again. &#8216;Tis nothing to do with you, my leaving.&#8221; He looked back up at Hal, face bleak. &#8220;I thought perhaps it would be easier, knowing there&#8217;d be no one around to &#8230; ruin your reputation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Henry frowned slightly, averting himself as he thought. One night, just to leave so abruptly? &#8216;Twas strange, he had thought, having a person to be with for one day simply leave at the next moment..&#8221;This is not to be about my reputation..&#8221; He replied, turning back to Kris.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh? Then what is it about? Because I was certain sure that was what you said before. Say what you mean, Harry, say it clear, don&#8217;t dress it up in pretty words.&#8221; Kris&#8217; frustration came through clearly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I do not know. Simply, and there. I know not.&#8221; He had a hold of Kris&#8217; hands tightly in his grip, though not meaning to hurt him and had no intention of it. He was not sure whom he had to listen to; there were standards to live by, if not, he was not so sure of it. Uncertainty and disowning had frightened the prince, he looked to the other carefully.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Harry.&#8221; Kris spoke softly, moderating his tone. &#8220;Hal. You&#8217;re hurting me. This isn&#8217;t supposed to be about pain. Why are you afraid?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He shook his head, keeping Kris&#8217; hands in his, lowering his head in confusion. &#8220;I do not know, I have told you this. I am lost, I am sure you can see that clearly enough..&#8221; Henry frowned, gritting his teeth at the annoyance of not being able just to make one decision of his own without thinking of something proper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harry&#8217;s tangled emotions were driving Kris mad. If this was the twelfth century, he wanted none of it &#8212; save this one piece, for just a tiny slice of time. Losing patience, he locked his own fingers in with Harry&#8217;s and pulled until they were practically nose-to-nose. &#8220;Your worries were fewer amongst the tavern folk, who are lower by far to you than I ever could be. So just shut up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just to make sure Harry did, Kris kissed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>harry&#8212;monmouth: iamthefirechild: harry&#8212;monmouth: iamthefirechild: harry&#8212;monmouth: iamthefirechild: &#8220;I&#8217;ll still be gone. Your acquiescence to this makes no difference to that.&#8221; Kris shrugged, green eyes flicking downward. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got this one night, this one day, here. When my time is up, it&#8217;s up, and I&#8217;ll not be here ever again. &#8216;Tis nothing to do with you, my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/04\/harry-monmouth-iamthefirechild-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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":[10,3860,3859],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308"}],"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=33308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}