{"id":8053,"date":"2014-07-03T21:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/03\/everyone-has-secrets-29\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T21:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:56:39","slug":"everyone-has-secrets-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/03\/everyone-has-secrets-29\/","title":{"rendered":"everyone has secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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She started to answer him, but then another wave of the seizure hit her, bowing her spine, and all she could do was clutch at the covers and try not to cry. It wasn\u2019t exactly pain, although it made her ache like after a workout, so much as it was the lack of control that hurt. Helios jumped onto the bed and licked her hand, bathing the fingers assiduously, and she managed a tremulous smile. \u201cGood boy,\u201d she whispered, through gritted teeth. \u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d The roughness of his kitty tongue gave her something else to focus on, something that didn\u2019t simply feed back in.<\/p>\n

Finally it began to let her go, leaving only intermittent jitters in her arms and legs, and she leaned back against the pillows and sighed, eyes closed. \u201cSorry,\u201d she murmured. \u201cI didn\u2019t want you to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Isaac had reached out to squeeze her shoulder before suddenly she was thrashing and contorting unnaturally, and it was all he could do to gaze at her with pure horror, eyes filling with tears of fear. \u201cS-Summer?\u201d He stammered out hoarsely, too afraid to touch her in case he exacerbated the effects, but aching not to be able to help.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As she looked over at him, he gazed at her with wide, terrified eyes and shook his head in incomprehension, a twisted frown on his face. \u201cWhat just happened? And don\u2019t you dare say it wasn\u2019t anything!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“It has to do with what I am,” she murmured. She kept her eyes closed, not wanting the sensory input. It was so hard to put shields up after an overflow attack, but it was just him. Just Isaac. That would be okay, right? Still quiet, voice wobbling slightly, she said, “I’m an empath.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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