{"id":5293,"date":"2014-08-29T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/29\/starter-sky-high-au-63\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:03:12","slug":"starter-sky-high-au-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/29\/starter-sky-high-au-63\/","title":{"rendered":"starter;; sky high au"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skinandfragilebones.tumblr.com\/post\/96089522037\/starter-sky-high-au\">skinandfragilebones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/96053459454\/starter-sky-high-au\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Are you feeling anything that seems out of the ordinary for you right now? Something you wouldn\u2019t normally be feeling in this situation?&#8221; It actually does help that he\u2019s asking sensible questions, instead of freaking out. \/She\u2019s\/ freaking out. She clamps her hands over her temples, imagining the impenetrable soap bubble wall that\u2019s always meant shielding before.<\/p>\n<p>She can taste Stiles, but he\u2019s right \/there\/. Everyone else becomes dimmer, softer, like the sounds from the neighbour\u2019s yard instead of right there in her ear. Or her mind, as the case may be. She really doesn\u2019t want to know this much about what is going on inside him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rude. She hates being that kind of rude.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/193278e92dc103dfb5dc0727cfac126a\/tumblr_inline_nb1rvuhluV1rs8qze.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/240f930582cc798ad46b11ba084d2430\/tumblr_inline_nb2e90NSBN1sjadpq.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>He makes an odd movement with his mouth at the question, absently looking around at the other students surrounding them. It\u2019s more or less to distract the time away from her questions, but he knows he\u2019ll have to answer them. \u201cI mean, <em>no<\/em>? I\u2019m not feeling problems with my brain, no strain like before, it\u2019s controlled like I always have it.\u201d He blabbers these things out, just not sure how he has to say it.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>There\u2019s obvious frustration on her face, the girl obviously not understanding why she couldn\u2019t control her gift. Stiles would be the same, not really looking forward to going back to the pain-striking headaches and the irritation of not being able to control his mind correctly. He couldn\u2019t fully understand though, could he?<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not quite what I meant, but okay. Okay. I&#8217;m not projecting.&#8221; 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&#8217;s 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<p>She picks at the zipper on her backpack, not looking at Stiles. &#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; she says softly, listening to the rapid spin of his emotions. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to stay here with me.&#8221; After all, she knows why he was the only one to say anything. It&#8217;s rare for an empath to be in the Hero track; most of the other students don&#8217;t know what to do with her. And what she&#8217;d done to Jackson, sophomore year, had left a lasting memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skinandfragilebones: iamthefirechild: &#8220;Are you feeling anything that seems out of the ordinary for you right now? Something you wouldn\u2019t normally be feeling in this situation?&#8221; It actually does help that he\u2019s asking sensible questions, instead of freaking out. \/She\u2019s\/ freaking out. She clamps her hands over her temples, imagining the impenetrable soap bubble wall that\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/29\/starter-sky-high-au-63\/\" 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\/5293"}],"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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}