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

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

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“It doesn\u2019t work that way.” The intensity of it all might have changed, but she knows that much. She can\u2019t kill directly; she never could, and it\u2019s not even about her powers, it\u2019s about herself. “I just \u2026 ” One hand lifts, slowly, but she doesn\u2019t touch him, it\u2019s more like tracing the edges of his emotions.<\/p>\n

She just made the shield, but she takes it down, popping the soap bubble of it, to reach into him more deeply. Because this might go \/so\/ wrong, she concentrates on it fiercely, fingertips curling, and\u00a0pushes<\/em> sorrow at him, into him. \u2018Cry,\u2019 she thinks, and \u2018Sadness\u2019 \u2014 only it\u2019s not words exactly, it\u2019s the sense of it, and she pours it into him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Right,” Stiles says, giving in immediately because he doesn\u2019t understand her powers enough to comment all that much, apparently. The teen watches her as she starts to speak, lifting her hand just slightly. It seems like she\u2019s attempting to understand what\u2019s going on, but can\u2019t quite grasp it. Her hand rests near to him, but it doesn\u2019t come in contact with him.<\/small><\/p>\n

It takes a moment, but Stiles feels her reaching into him. It\u2019s a complex matter that he doesn\u2019t exactly understand, find that it feels more weird than anything. He watches her with large amber eyes, but then finds that she\u2019s pressing much more extensive emotions at him. Ones that will make him emotional, sad, the works. Regardless, tears begin to form in his eyes for unknown reasons, and he wants to move away.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She pushes harder. This is her power, this is what she is, what she’s for — she needs him to cry. She needs to know she’s still in control, at least a little, and the consequences of any other emotion she could have put on him wouldn’t’ve been acceptable. It’s harder than she expected, but maybe that’s because of his power.<\/p>\n

“Don’t fight me,” she hisses, hardly aware of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinandfragilebones: iamthefirechild: “It doesn\u2019t work that way.” The intensity of it all might have changed, but she knows that much. She can\u2019t kill directly; she never could, and it\u2019s not even about her powers, it\u2019s about herself. “I just \u2026 ” One hand lifts, slowly, but she doesn\u2019t touch him, it\u2019s more like tracing the … Continue reading starter;; sky high au<\/span> →<\/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\/5209"}],"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=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}