{"id":33372,"date":"2012-10-03T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/03\/checking-in-summer-charles-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:17:08","slug":"checking-in-summer-charles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/03\/checking-in-summer-charles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking In (Summer\/Charles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

tea-with-mutants<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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

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\u201cNever on ungifted people. Not the fire, anyway. It\u2019s simple enough to be \u2026 keeping an ear on my surroundings, and most ordinary thugs are not going to bother with someone who even looks like they will fight back.\u201d This sigh is long, and weary, and she looks at her open hands like maybe they betrayed her. \u201cI\u2019ve killed with it, in self-defence. A few weeks ago, some folk kidnapped me. They\u2019re called the Midnighters. It\u2019s a quiet group, but they take people who have magic, or gifts related to magic, so that they can steal those powers. I \u2026 some friends broke me out, after the Midnighters drugged me nearly insensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMidnighters..?\u201d He furrows his brows. \u201cI haven\u2019t heard of this group before. It sounds\u2014 dangerous for our kind.\u201d He needs to keep them in mind, perhaps they knew of him. \u201cHow did they find you? Do they keep a list of\u2014 people who possess abilities they consider magic?\u201d He doesn\u2019t want to risk his, or his friends safety. If people like the Midnighters were out to hunt people like them he needs to be more careful than before. He already had the CIA after him but now.. He had been worried of organizations like these, mostly of antimutant organizations but this was something completely different. \u201cDo you know what drugs they used? Did they get a chance to actually try stealing your powers?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“If they had a list, it’s gone now. We didn’t leave much behind.” Summer folds her arms behind her back and starts to pace in small circles. “I’m pretty sure they found me because I don’t keep a low profile, and I was heavily involved in cleaning up after that Manhattan incident. With the aliens.” Her face is bleak and her voice goes sort of toneless as she talks through the memory.<\/p>\n

“I had a meeting that day with som—with my sister. I think she wanted to warn me about them, but they got to me first. Broke into my apartment while my roommate was gone, drugged me. I don’t know what it was, but it was an injection, and it took effect very fast. I remember it made me feel like all my senses were wrapped in cotton. I couldn’t feel. Not my own emotions, not anyone else’s.<\/p>\n

“They forgot, or didn’t know how soon they had to redose me, and I was able to get a cry out very briefly. My friends tracked me down that night. They didn’t have me very long.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

tea-with-mutants: iamthefirechild: \u201cNever on ungifted people. Not the fire, anyway. It\u2019s simple enough to be \u2026 keeping an ear on my surroundings, and most ordinary thugs are not going to bother with someone who even looks like they will fight back.\u201d This sigh is long, and weary, and she looks at her open hands like … Continue reading Checking In (Summer\/Charles)<\/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":[10,4091,140,4090],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372"}],"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=33372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}