{"id":9952,"date":"2014-05-26T21:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/26\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-17\/"},"modified":"2014-05-26T21:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T21:49:01","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/26\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-17\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Summer just stands there, in the rowan gap, arms wrapped around Helios, looking slightly bemused. She waits patiently for the laughter to subside again, at least to the point where she can be heard. Then, \u201cI can call a cab,\u201d she says mildly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost certainly one of those injokes that would lose greatly in the retelling. But that\u2019s fine; she just wants to get Helios back home where he can run off and sulk properly at the way he\u2019s been mistreated (his concept, not hers). She buries her nose in his fur and watches the two boys over his ears, patiently waiting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eventually, the boys get themselves under control. Stiles straightens up, managing to hold himself on his own two feet again, and uses one hand to wipe tears from his eyes while the other stays wrapped around his middle, like maybe he needs the support.<\/p>\n

“Are you sure?” He manages to\u00a0speak<\/em> a few moments later, expression suspended between concern and residual amusement. \u201cIt\u2019s not a big deal, I could drive you guys, I mean I\u2019m right here and I don\u2019t charge fare.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If Stiles had bothered to actually examine the expression on her face, she wouldn\u2019t\u2019ve needed to ask the question; it\u2019s clear she\u2019s teasing lightly, reminding him she\u2019s here and trying to be unobtrusive about it. So she simply says, \u201cI only didn\u2019t want to interrupt your time with Scott. Whenever you\u2019re ready.\u201d The motion might be a little bit pointed when she sits down in one of the chairs and bends her head over Helios\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: Summer just stands there, in the rowan gap, arms wrapped around Helios, looking slightly bemused. She waits patiently for the laughter to subside again, at least to the point where she can be heard. Then, \u201cI can call a cab,\u201d she says mildly. It\u2019s almost certainly one of those injokes that would lose … 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":[10,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952"}],"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=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}