{"id":35071,"date":"2012-08-10T01:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/10\/loki-and-the-firechild-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T01:40:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:40:56","slug":"loki-and-the-firechild-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/10\/loki-and-the-firechild-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Loki and the firechild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Surprise jolted new energy into Summer\u2019s blood. The kiss itself wasn\u2019t entirely unexpected; the god of mischief and lies would surely manipulate by attraction. He\u2019d already tried it on her, just before Thanos\u2019 first attack, after all.<\/p>\n

No, the surprise came from his motivation.<\/p>\n

The adrenaline, the touch, the kiss \u2026 it all heterodyned in a dizzying surge of desire. She hummed softly, low in her throat, and looped an arm about Loki\u2019s shoulders. One kiss stolen, one kiss given \u2014 when he tried to pull away, she pushed upward and kissed him, with no caution at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Loki fought back a surge of panic when he felt himself giving into her embrace. \u00a0Why would she think she still owed him anything? \u00a0It was wrong to take so much. \u00a0He felt wrong. \u00a0But he could not stop himself gathering her up to him, deepening the kiss. \u00a0She felt like fire spreading through him, warm and uncontrollable. \u00a0When his hands slid under her shirt and made contact with smooth skin, he pulled back as if he had really been burned.<\/p>\n

He drew in a sharp intake of breath, battling himself. \u00a0Too many battles for one evening, he thought bitterly. \u00a0Trying desperately to focus on her eyes, all he could see, suddenly, was the life leaving Thanos as he twisted the spear in his heart. \u00a0The blood. \u00a0The look of utter torture on Summer\u2019s face as she saved his life\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot\u2026I cannot make you do this\u2026\u201d he muttered, scrambling to his feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer gaped as Loki backed away in haste. Too many responses crowded her mouth, jostling for escape. All she managed was a pitiful \u201caah?\u201d<\/p>\n

Staring up at the ceiling, lost in shadows, she tried to breathe, tried not to curl around the hurt. Rejected, again. No matter what she did, no matter what she said. Swallowing past the lump of incipient tears in her throat, she rolled over on her side, trying to hide her face, and murmured, carefully, \u201cWould it be too much trouble for me to ask for something to eat?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYes. \u00a0No! \u00a0No, of course. \u00a0Yes of course.\u201d<\/p>\n

What kind of babbling idiot have I become?<\/p>\n

Loki scrambled from the room and through the palace corridors until he got to the kitchen. \u00a0As he scooped up an armful of bread and cheese, he asked himself over and over what was the matter. \u00a0Somehow the only thought his mind seemed capable of processing was \u201cmake sure Summer is alright.\u201d \u00a0He wanted her to be happy. \u00a0To be well.<\/p>\n

To be his.<\/p>\n

He also wished he had any kind of skill at cooking, because perhaps he could have brought something better. \u00a0What a spoiled childhood he had had. \u00a0He burst back into the room and was suddenly terrified at the mere sight of Summer\u2019s hands twirled through her hair as she lay on the bed. \u00a0He definitely needed to do something about the way his senses were betraying him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere you are. \u00a0I\u2019m sorry, it isn\u2019t much\u2026\u201d he lay the basket down beside her and tried to focus his eyes somewhere else. \u00a0He studied the curtains shuddering in the breeze from the cracked open window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis is perfect.\u201d Summer tried to sit up and fell back, yanked down by her own hair trapped under her body. It provoked a little giggle as she wrested the long strands free, finally managing to get to an upright position. One hand came up with bread and the other cheese, and she alternated between the two for a moment.<\/p>\n

Immediate hunger and energy-loss satisfied, Summer cast a glance at Loki. \u201cYou\u2019re free now,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy are you still tangled? I thought you would be happy now.\u201d One hand reached toward him, fingers spread. \u201cBut \u2026 that\u2019s despair, and self-hatred, anxiety, desire \u2026 and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He looked back at her, eyes bright and pained. \u00a0\u201dWould you stop that?\u201d he managed a light laugh. \u00a0He caught her fingers and twined them with his own. \u00a0\u201dJust for a moment, be fooled by my facades.\u201d<\/p>\n

He waited until she had eaten her fill and then put the basket away. \u00a0\u201dI must\u2026I am going to rest, now.\u201d<\/p>\n

You are free now.<\/em><\/p>\n

He moved towards his own bed, around a corner, and could not stop himself from glancing back at her, trying to read her gaze. \u00a0And then he lay down and curled up on himself, shaking with confliction in the darkened room.<\/p>\n

Why are you still tangled?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She watched him out of sight, and a blink sent cold tears rolling down her cheeks. Angrily she wiped them away, hating herself. Every time, every time<\/em>, she deceived herself, fooling herself into believing it would be different. She’d warned him, but failed to heed her own words.\u00a0Can you care for someone who will always know if you truly do or not?<\/em><\/p>\n

Be fooled by my facades<\/em>. How could she? Knowing what lay underneath, that great, scarred heart … oh, he tried to ward it with ice, just as she did her own with fire, but she’d always be someone he couldn’t fool, and that was its own sort of pain.<\/p>\n

The tears wouldn’t stop falling, blurring her vision and choking her throat, and finally she gave up trying to stop crying and just tried not to make any noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: Surprise jolted new energy into Summer\u2019s blood. The kiss itself wasn\u2019t entirely unexpected; the god of mischief and lies would surely manipulate by attraction. He\u2019d already tried it on her, just before Thanos\u2019 first attack, after all. No, the surprise came from his motivation. The adrenaline, the touch, the … Continue reading Loki and the firechild<\/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":[10,4359,4360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35071"}],"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=35071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}