{"id":5284,"date":"2014-08-30T01:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/30\/starter-sky-high-au-62\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T01:10:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:10:55","slug":"starter-sky-high-au-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/30\/starter-sky-high-au-62\/","title":{"rendered":"starter;; sky high au"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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“That\u2019s not quite what I meant, but okay. Okay. I\u2019m not projecting.” Experimentally, just to see if she even \/can\/ at this point, really, she tries projecting calm on him. What bits of her are out of control? Is it just her shields, the ones that protect her from everyone else\u2019s emotions? Or is she going to be lashing the people around her with her emotions, or worse, forcing them to feel random things?<\/p>\n

She picks at the zipper on her backpack, not looking at Stiles. \u201cIt\u2019s okay,\u201d she says softly, listening to the rapid spin of his emotions. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to stay here with me.\u201d After all, she knows why he was the only one to say anything. It\u2019s rare for an empath to be in the Hero track; most of the other students don\u2019t know what to do with her. And what she\u2019d done to Jackson, sophomore year, had left a lasting memory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Then what did you mean?” Stiles asks, looking at her in curiosity. Then he catches what she says and he finds that she\u2019s not projecting. He would\u2019ve felt a rushing wave of emotion of his body, unnaturally there if she was doing so. He licks his lips absently before he scratches his fingers through his hair, understanding the situation at the moment now. “Shit\u2026you really aren\u2019t projecting.”<\/small><\/p>\n

He notes how her anxious matters occur, her fingers messing around with the zipper on her backpack. Honestly, Stiles does something similar, only he decides to mess with his nails instead. It\u2019s a much better solution. \u201cI want to stay here, I wouldn\u2019t even be here in the first place if I didn\u2019t want to,\u201d Stiles admits, the compassion in his heart showing on the surface. For someone who was a Hero and not a Sidekick, that was a rather rare occurrence. Honestly, he was sure that was practically unheard of at this point in time.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer swallows hard when he acknowledges that she’s not projecting, even when she’s trying to. It doesn’t help; her throat tightens and her eyes burn, and the next blink sends hot drops rolling down her cheeks. She keeps her face turned away from him, so maybe he won’t see, but her voice is high when she speaks.<\/p>\n

“Why do you want to?” At least, if she’s shielded enough to keep herself from projecting deliberately, she should be able to keep herself from projecting accidentally. Assuming she doesn’t lose them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinandfragilebones: iamthefirechild: “That\u2019s not quite what I meant, but okay. Okay. I\u2019m not projecting.” Experimentally, just to see if she even \/can\/ at this point, really, she tries projecting calm on him. What bits of her are out of control? Is it just her shields, the ones that protect her from everyone else\u2019s emotions? Or … 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\/5284"}],"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=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}