{"id":9213,"date":"2014-06-12T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/12\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T00:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T00:54:03","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/12\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Summer is content to wait until the stars come out before setting up the telescope, but Stiles seems to feel differently. She watches him, eyes adjusting to the shadows. When he\u2019s not thinking about it so hard, there\u2019s much less twitch to his motions. He knows what he\u2019s doing with the telescope, and it\u2019s very pleasant to watch him in his competence.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s so absorbed in watching him, long limbs and elegant fingers and lithe motions, it surprises her a little when she glances up through the trees and sees the first stars. Pulling out her phone, she finds the sky map app and orients herself. \u201cThere. Polaris.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He\u2019s focused.<\/p>\n

This is remarkable in and of itself; focus is rarely a\u00a0thing<\/em> for Stiles, even with his medication. Every once in a while he hits a bubble of it, though, almost\u00a0extreme<\/em> focus, and he\u00a0kind<\/em> of wishes he could bottle those moments up and put them aside for sometime useful. He can\u2019t, so he takes advantage of them when they come, even when it\u2019s setting up a telescope in the woods and seemingly inconsequential.<\/p>\n

“Huh?” Stiles looks up from his task when she speaks, and he frowns briefly, looking up. He squints at the North Star and then pivots, muttering to himself about the star placement. “Then\u2026Ursa Major<\/em>, and\u00a0Ursa Minor<\/em>, and..Canis\u2026means that\u2026Oh, no, not visible yet, darn\u2014hey. What\u2019s your zodiac?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Leo. Leo sun, Scorpio moon. Why?” She tries to think if she wants to explain her theory about astrology to Stiles. He would probably poke all kind of holes in it, and some of them would even make sense. Summer pushes up on one elbow to frown slightly at him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: Summer is content to wait until the stars come out before setting up the telescope, but Stiles seems to feel differently. She watches him, eyes adjusting to the shadows. When he\u2019s not thinking about it so hard, there\u2019s much less twitch to his motions. He knows what he\u2019s doing with the telescope, and … Continue reading <\/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":[10,868,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213"}],"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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}