{"id":35072,"date":"2012-08-10T01:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/10\/loki-and-the-firechild-3\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T01:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:08:58","slug":"loki-and-the-firechild-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/10\/loki-and-the-firechild-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Loki and the firechild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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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

“This is perfect.” 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. “You’re free now,” she said. “Why are you still tangled? I thought you would be happy now.” One hand reached toward him, fingers spread. “But … that’s despair, and self-hatred, anxiety, desire … and fear.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 kiss \u2026 … 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":[10,4360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072"}],"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=35072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}