{"id":35086,"date":"2012-08-09T21:25:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/09\/loki-and-the-firechild-4\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:25:55","slug":"loki-and-the-firechild-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/09\/loki-and-the-firechild-4\/","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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He curled long fingers around hers and dropped her hand back down, sternly. \u00a0\u201dI am no fool,\u201d he murmured low, and began working at the buckles of her armour. \u00a0\u201dWhat you did for me was beyond anything\u2026\u201d he unlaced her boots, slipping them off delicately. \u201cNo one has ever been so strong at my side\u2026.\u201d \u00a0He slipped off her bracers, one by one. \u00a0\u201dI am not sure why I even asked you to come with me. \u00a0And yet I knew that you would. \u00a0I hardly know you, Summer, yet I knew, somehow\u2026\u201d he gently lifted her up as he took off her chest piece and lay her back down under him. \u00a0He felt his blood rushing through his veins and it was unnerving.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would you do that for me? \u00a0Did you expect a grand reward, perhaps?\u201d he slid his fingers through a piece of her hair, toying with her to lessen the heaviness of the moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou asked.\u201d Her smile was simple and sweet, unclouded by any other thing. \u201cYou showed me your pain, and you asked for help.\u201d She snuggled a bit deeper into the blankets, letting her arms flop wide. \u201cIt\u2019s what I do, Loki.\u201d With a quick touch of fingers on his, she let him feel what she was feeling. \u201cI care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really powerful or anything, I just \u2026 care. About people. About their hurting. You\u2019re free now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThat is a powerful thing. \u00a0It is also dangerous, you know,\u201d he said, and ghosted his fingers over her cheek. \u00a0\u201dYou know this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was mesmerized then by how her eyes seemed to glow faintly, as if backlit. \u00a0The room was dim and she was a flame even so. \u00a0To have someone care for him\u2026to fight for him, beside him, by his command\u2026it was more than humbling. \u00a0It was crippling. \u00a0He had no idea how to handle it. \u00a0How could he ever thank her for caring?<\/p>\n

Leaning down to her lips, he stole a small, careful kiss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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 “aah?”<\/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, “Would it be too much trouble for me to ask for something to eat?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: lokilaufeyyson: He curled long fingers around hers and dropped her hand back down, sternly. \u00a0\u201dI am no fool,\u201d he murmured low, and began working at the buckles of her armour. \u00a0\u201dWhat you did for me was beyond anything\u2026\u201d he unlaced her boots, slipping them off delicately. \u201cNo one has ever been … 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":[10,4362,4360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086"}],"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=35086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}