{"id":3181,"date":"2014-09-15T03:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/pride-and-obligation-56\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T03:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:03:32","slug":"pride-and-obligation-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/pride-and-obligation-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smokebombsandmirrors.tumblr.com\/post\/97517977030\/pride-and-obligation\">smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/8b17e5a1511ffa0ad24da0461d60f3ef\/tumblr_inline_nbwzx9FyrF1t0zuqd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You don\u2019t have to look so horrified \u2026.I just \u2026.&rdquo; He started as the shocked expression came across Hakuba\u2019s face then shook his head. The was no point in saying what he wanted to say. What he had been wanting to say for a while now. Hakuba wouldn\u2019t understand nor accept it. He was still human and needed people but his need for Hakuba seemed to be so much stronger than what he had ever felt before. The other balanced him out and provided a great foundation for him. Hakuba kept him from slipping so many times before with just the little acts of\u00a0persistence.<\/p>\n<p>Kaito sighed and started to head back up stairs with his hand on the railing to take his weight off his thigh which was starting to throb painfully. \u201cCome on up and I\u2019ll show you the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/88847ae6feaadf771f6c850c88a97730\/tumblr_inline_nbx9t9NuU41rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Horrified? Had he looked\u00a0<em>horrified?<\/em> It wasn&rsquo;t what Hakuba had intended, but he supposed he could imagine. Grimacing at his own foolishness, he followed up the stairs without comment &ndash; at least for the first few steps. But once Kaito was on the main level, he hefted a sigh.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kuroba-kun&hellip; I&rsquo;m sorry; I didn&rsquo;t mean for you to think that I felt\u00a0<em>burdened<\/em> or anything. Honestly, I&hellip; I&rsquo;m touched that you called me. That you asked for\u00a0<em>my<\/em> help.&rdquo; \u00a0He continued up, holding onto the handrail to support his fatigued body. &ldquo;It means a great deal to me. I&hellip; I always hoped I&rsquo;d be of service to you one day&hellip;&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smokebombsandmirrors: &ldquo;You don\u2019t have to look so horrified \u2026.I just \u2026.&rdquo; He started as the shocked expression came across Hakuba\u2019s face then shook his head. The was no point in saying what he wanted to say. What he had been wanting to say for a while now. Hakuba wouldn\u2019t understand nor accept it. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,2253,75,234,77],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-pride-and-obligation","tag-rp","tag-smokebombsandmirrors","tag-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}