{"id":35088,"date":"2012-08-09T08:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/09\/loki-and-the-firechild-5\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:12:47","slug":"loki-and-the-firechild-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/09\/loki-and-the-firechild-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Loki and the firechild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Half-aware of being carried, Summer roused enough to blink at Loki as they entered his rooms. \u201cWhere \u2026 ?\u201d she managed, trying to look around. \u201cThis \u2026 \u201d She flailed a hand loosely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAh, you\u2019re awake,\u201d he tried to sound nonchalant, laying her on the guest bed. \u00a0The room was luxuriously furnished and decorated with a sort of organized chaos; papers and books everywhere, a small pile of rune stones on a desk, a tall window with heavy drapes blocking out any view, some sort of tangle of device parts in one corner, as if Loki worked as an inventor in his spare time. \u00a0He paid no attention to the clutter as he shoved random objects aside as he lay her down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not know where you lived, so I brought you here. \u00a0And I insist you stay until you have recovered.\u201d \u00a0His voice was catching. \u00a0He wasn\u2019t sure what was the matter with him. \u00a0He suddenly wanted to be rid of her, to be alone with his guilt, drown in his own selfishness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The old lemonade taste of remorse washed through her mind. Summer managed a grimace, and raised a hand to Loki\u2019s face. \u201cLoki? I\u2019m okay. Promise.\u201d The hand trembled a little. \u201cIt\u2019s a sugar crash, okay? What I do takes energy, that\u2019s all. Shh, darlin\u2019.\u201d A little smile curled her lips. Here she was, shaking with lack of energy, and trying to comfort him. How funny.<\/p>\n

How familiar.<\/p>\n

A little stroke of his cheek, and she let her hand fall. \u201cCan you \u2026 help me out a bit? Out of my armour, at least?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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’s blood. The kiss itself wasn’t entirely unexpected; the god of mischief and lies would surely manipulate by attraction. He’d already tried it on her, just before Thanos’ first attack, after all.<\/p>\n

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

The adrenaline, the touch, the kiss … it all heterodyned in a dizzying surge of desire. She hummed softly, low in her throat, and looped an arm about Loki’s shoulders. One kiss stolen, one kiss given — when he tried to pull away, she pushed upward and kissed him, with no caution at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: lokilaufeyyson: iamthefirechild: Half-aware of being carried, Summer roused enough to blink at Loki as they entered his rooms. \u201cWhere \u2026 ?\u201d she managed, trying to look around. \u201cThis \u2026 \u201d She flailed a hand loosely. \u201cAh, you\u2019re awake,\u201d he tried to sound nonchalant, laying her on the guest bed. \u00a0The room was … 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\/35088"}],"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=35088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}