{"id":5207,"date":"2014-09-01T00:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/01\/starter-sky-high-au-55\/"},"modified":"2014-09-01T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:32:38","slug":"starter-sky-high-au-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/01\/starter-sky-high-au-55\/","title":{"rendered":"starter;; sky high au"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skinandfragilebones.tumblr.com\/post\/96303700385\/starter-sky-high-au\">skinandfragilebones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/96303078904\/starter-sky-high-au\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She pushes harder. This is her power, this is what she is, what she\u2019s for \u2014 she needs him to cry. She needs to know she\u2019s still in control, at least a little, and the consequences of any other emotion she could have put on him wouldn\u2019t\u2019ve been acceptable. It\u2019s harder than she expected, but maybe that\u2019s because of his power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t fight me,&#8221; she hisses, hardly aware of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/7fb0fafa51df1b4f8a692396f3341efd\/tumblr_inline_nb714nu1ZX1sjadpq.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>She continues pressing, pushing, and Stiles is irritated that she picked this emotion of all things. She had so many to pick from and yet she chose sadness. Regardless, the teen stops fighting her and licks his lips softly, letting the tears overflow from his eyelids and run down his cheeks. He hated crying, he always felt terrible afterward. At this point, he wanted it to be over with, finding it rather obvious that her powers were working.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There. There it is, the reaction she wants. She lets go immediately, breathing a little shaky, pulse pounding. The way he fought &#8212; maybe she should have picked something else. Someone else. She presses her lips together, looks down and away, then back up. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; she says softly. &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t have &#8212; I&#8217;m sorry. I couldn&#8217;t think what &#8212; you &#8230; &#8221; She straggles off, drags in a deep breath, and finishes, &#8220;You should use yours on me, now. Turnabout is fair play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skinandfragilebones: iamthefirechild: She pushes harder. This is her power, this is what she is, what she\u2019s for \u2014 she needs him to cry. She needs to know she\u2019s still in control, at least a little, and the consequences of any other emotion she could have put on him wouldn\u2019t\u2019ve been acceptable. It\u2019s harder than she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/01\/starter-sky-high-au-55\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">starter;; sky high au<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,501,339,500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207"}],"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=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}