{"id":34352,"date":"2012-08-31T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/31\/confidante-mischief-mistress\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T03:00:51","slug":"confidante-mischief-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/31\/confidante-mischief-mistress\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidante | @mischief-mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mischief-mistress.tumblr.com\/post\/30493136272\/confidante-mischief-mistress\">mischief-mistress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/30492134774\/confidante-mischief-mistress\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMaking holes in peoples\u2019 memories is usually more trouble than it\u2019s worth,\u201d Summer commented dryly. \u201cYou\u2019ve gotta find him a reason to live. Or at least a reason not to go chasing those shadows.\u201d She shoved herself up to her feet, watching Lex. \u201cHaving been down that far myself, I assure you it is not going to be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back to her own past, she added, \u201cSometimes you have to hammer at them for years before things change. Do \u2026 you want my help?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI know, but\u2026 I could fill his head with, let\u2019s say\u2026 \u2018fake\u2019 memories, he wouldn\u2019t even know that they didn\u2019t really happen. He\u2019d live his life just like he did before everything went down. I won\u2019t do it if he doesn\u2019t agree, and I don\u2019t like that option either, because I\u2019d probably have to stay away from him\u2026 but\u2026\u201d Lex buried her face in her arms for a moment, before looking up to Summer again when she heard her words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA reason to live? How? I cannot\u2026 I don\u2019t have the time! He said four days!\u201d Lex\u2019s eyes were swimming in tears again. \u201cHow would you help me?\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If he agreed to put it off even once, it&#8217;s that much easier to coax him to do it again. But I &#8230; &#8221; Summer hesitated. It was, always, one thing to listen to someone&#8217;s heart passively, even to go into it and listen. Active alteration &#8230; active alteration was risky.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide was final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; &#8230; I can go in, with his knowledge, and lock up his emotions, block out what he&#8217;s feeling that&#8217;s driving the suicidal impulse, long enough for you to speak sense with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mischief-mistress: iamthefirechild: \u201cMaking holes in peoples\u2019 memories is usually more trouble than it\u2019s worth,\u201d Summer commented dryly. \u201cYou\u2019ve gotta find him a reason to live. Or at least a reason not to go chasing those shadows.\u201d She shoved herself up to her feet, watching Lex. \u201cHaving been down that far myself, I assure you it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/31\/confidante-mischief-mistress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confidante | @mischief-mistress<\/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":[10,3890,4230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352"}],"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=34352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}