{"id":35738,"date":"2012-07-24T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/24\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au-2\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T22:57:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:57:41","slug":"the-pulling-tide-closed-au-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/24\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The pulling tide | closed | AU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rightfulprince.tumblr.com\/post\/27938500097\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au\">rightfulprince<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/v-p-potts.tumblr.com\/post\/27937841296\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au\">v-p-potts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rightfulprince.tumblr.com\/post\/27937455880\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au\">rightfulprince<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/v-p-potts.tumblr.com\/post\/27936764041\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au\">v-p-potts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pepper rolled over to sit up, her face gone all pink again. \u00a0\u201dThat was the secret.\u201d \u00a0Her hands twisted together in her lap as she smiled down at her knees. \u00a0Her breathing had gone all funny. \u00a0\u201dSorry, I didn\u2019t mean to interrupt\u2014\u201d and then she did again, glancing over at Loki. \u00a0\u201dReally? \u00a0With my freckles and everything?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Loki leaned forward, feeling as if his mind wasn\u2019t in control of his body. His hand, shaking slightly, touched her cheek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dEspecially the freckles,\u201d he said. To Loki, his voice didn\u2019t sound like himself. He sounded a lot more confident, more calm, than he felt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pepper\u2019s blush deepened, her chin ducking down toward her chest. \u00a0A tremulous smile grew on her face, and when Loki touched her cheek, she closed her eyes and tipped her head against his fingers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The hand slid down to her chin, two fingers resting underneath her jaw. His brain was numb, a ball of cloud inside his head while his body seemed to move on it\u2019s own accord. Loki felt himself lean forward, his face just millimetres away from Pepper\u2019s as he raised her head up. His green eyes took her in, marking the flecks in her eyes, the individual hairs in the loose strand that fell across her temple. With his lips barely hovering over her skin, Loki drew a soft breath through his mouth, almost tasting the sweet smell of her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[omg so fsking cuuuuuuuute. Go Loki!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rightfulprince: v-p-potts: rightfulprince: v-p-potts: Pepper rolled over to sit up, her face gone all pink again. \u00a0\u201dThat was the secret.\u201d \u00a0Her hands twisted together in her lap as she smiled down at her knees. \u00a0Her breathing had gone all funny. \u00a0\u201dSorry, I didn\u2019t mean to interrupt\u2014\u201d and then she did again, glancing over at Loki. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/24\/the-pulling-tide-closed-au-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The pulling tide | closed | AU<\/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":[63,3252,4573,4582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738"}],"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=35738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}