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Girl!Matt AU, where Stick got her pregnant before abandoning her.

After the events of season 1, a young adult (maybe twenty years old) shows up at Nelson & Murdock, saying that Mattie is their biological mom. Cue the incredibly awkward moment where Karen, Foggy and the kid realize that Mattie got pregnant when she was about thirteen, and she's currently trying very hard to pretend she's not still traumatized from it.

The pregnancy was hell. Not only was Mattie still trying to process everything Stick had done to her, people shamed her for getting pregnant, her senses made the physical symptoms of pregnancy worse, and she maybe had medical complications from being so young. By the end of it, St. Agnes arranged for some nice young couple to adopt the baby and Mattie has tried to forget the kid ever since.

And Mattie knows on a rational level that the kid isn't to blame, but being around them is really, really difficult.

Hmm...intriguing.

Does Stick know about the baby? I assume that he raped little!Mattie, but how did Mattie rationalize it later? Was it "for training?" How did it affect her later attitude towards sex and relationships? (Like, is she embarrassed about getting questions about her stretch marks?)

Is the reason that she didn't get an abortion *handwaves* Catholicism? Like, were the nuns very no-no on the subject? Did Mattie even know that abortions existed before she got pregnant?

Hmm...so many questions! Good prompt.

OP here: Yeah, there are a lot of variables in this prompt, so I'm fine with any author coming up with whatever solution they think is best. :D You've raised a lot of interesting possibilities.

Stick might or might not know, I could see it going either way. I think in canon he kept tabs on Matt, so I can see him finding out eventually.

I assume that he raped little!Mattie, but how did Mattie rationalize it later? Was it "for training?"

I think there could be several options: it could have been "training" or a punishment, or she could have thought Stick being sexually attracted to her meant that he cared about her. Her rationalization of his abuse would probably be different, depending on whether he physically forced her or manipulated her into it.

(Like, is she embarrassed about getting questions about her stretch marks?)

I hadn't thought of that, but it does seem likely. D:

As for why she didn't get an abortion, I was thinking the nuns might not have allowed her to, though I'm not actually sure if that actually matches up with New York law at the time (the 1990s). Even if they legally weren't able to forbid her, I guess they could have kept that information from her. I think her not knowing about abortions (like you said) would be likely.

Also, I could see her thinking the pregnancy was a punishment she deserved (for "letting" Stick rape her, for making Stick leave her, for having the devil in her, for getting her dad killed, etc). If the nuns were really awful, they might have even told her that.

"My name is Stephanie." She was young, her heart erratic and smelled of nervous sweat under a layer of coiling overly sweet perfume that young women liked.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Stephanie." Matt replied. "I'm Mattea Murdock, this is my partner, Foggy Nelson. Now how can we help you?"

She was silent. "Stephanie, this is a free consultation. There's no need to feel worried about what you tell us. We're not here to judge you. We're here to see if we're the right people to help you." Foggy said. His voice range in the tone he took around their more inexperienced clients, youths caught in the wrong place and time, caught in the wrong life.

"I-I...it's..."

"Foggy's right." Matt said. "We can help you. If you've committed a crime, we can help build a defense before any charges are brought up."

"You're my mom!" Stephanie blurted out. Matt froze. "I know it's you. My name is Stephanie Abrhams. My parents are-"

"Get out." Matt hissed.

"Please. I just need to see-"

"GET OUT." Matt screamed. Her voice ringing in the small room like a sound from hell.

"Matt!" Foggy called. Matt didn't care. Memories of pain, so much pain and why-why-why-why was the Devil in her? A baby's cry and Mattie's own tears as men touched her there to stop the bleeding. Matt grabbed the table and flipped it over.

"GET OUT! I don't want you anywhere near here." She seethed. The terror she induced as Daredevil coming to full force in this thing. "I don't want you to come back." It left the room.

Foggy ran after her. Matt didn't stop them. She slid down the floor her anger at Stick resurfacing. Weak, weak, weak. She took a breath. The Murdock boys had the devil in them. The Murdock girls gave birth to them. She thought half hysterical. She focused on her breathing. Outside the room she could hear a woman crying. Foggy and Karen were trying to comfort her.

Time passed.

She exited. The woman was still there. Matt could feel the stares. The glances and she knew they realized how old she had to have been. "I gave you up because I didn't have a choice." Matt replied. Calm and collected. "Catholicism and nuns don't leave many options, even if I had known." She doesn't know if she would have followed through, an abortion but Matt never thought it was a sin once she realized what it was.

"I never gave you a name. I just called you Stone, since you reminded me of your father."

"Matt- You mean-"

"Yes, Foggy."

"Shit."

"Now, you will leave. If you need legal advice you will have to go to one of our competitors. You will not contact me." She smiled. "Just know that you have the devil in you. We Murdock's always will. But not even the Devil will save you if you meet your father, he will kill you." Stephanie ran out of the room.

She turned toward Foggy and Karen. "When's our next client?"

The room was silent. Matt kept smiling.

Note: I can't see Jack Murdock raising his daughter alone and calling her Mattie when he was a boxer. I feel he would have raised a tomboy and thus Matt, instead of Mattie. The name is simple, Mattea is the feminine form of Matthew. :) Hope this is okay, OP.

Holy shit. Reading this gave me the same shocked flinch I had when I first saw Fisk flip the table onscreen.
Your addition to the devil phrase was perfect. So creepy
You didn't fuck around at all. You got everything from the prompt in like what, two pages including spacing? A very precise one two punch to the feelings.

Thank you! I'm glad this was exhibiting the right response (is saying enjoy it wrong given he subject matter?) I hoped to capture the tone of the prompt, glad I managed to do that.

crossposted: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4608159

OP here: Oh man, this is so good and so painful. D: My heart broke for Matt and Stephanie. Matt's fury is chilling, but it makes so much sense for her character and what she's been through. I really liked the line about how baby Stephanie reminded her of Stick.

I don't mind the name at all! Having her still go by Matt hadn't really occurred to me, but now that I've read it I really like it. I definitely see Jack's daughter being a tomboy.

Thanks for the awesome fill.

This is a great fill, thank you.

(I really don't think Foggy is going to let Stephanie go. He's going to keep in touch. And Matt is not going to like it when she finds out...)

I'm stuck in a nun argument with jaded older nuns being like 'holy shit we'll be shut down if anyone finds out we fucked up this bad. God can make exceptions on the abortion thing'. While the younger, naive ones are all 'I thought every sperm is sacred'

Idk having a hard time justifying letting the very noticeable living evidence of your child neglect walk around being noticed for 8 months

Maybe they could pull her out of school and keep her hidden for the duration of the pregnancy?

I still don't know how they got away with letting Stick train Matt, so maybe CPS doesn't keep a very close eye on St. Agnes.

Yeah, usually in medieval books the convent is where you send your daughter to have her shame pregnancy. I guess having her there already saves them an extra trip and she can live in the nun quarters or something.

I get the feeling that there would be a certain blame the victim rationalization.

DA

Also, I could see Matt not wanting to admit that Stick was the father, and letting people believe she got impregnated by some boy her age.

I didn't think of that.
We also didn't see how Matt got along with others at the orphanage. If she was getting in fights, throwing things when angry, and attracting attention as she went through puberty, I can see her being labeled a lost cause. Especially if the devil thing is widely known

"You have the devil in you, Mattie. We told you to fight it, but it must have gotten out. Satan made Stick sin. You can't erase your sins. We try so hard to love you anyway, Mattie, but there's only so much we can do if you're determined to take this path in life." Like that??

'Nun Argument' anon
I just remembered that Carrie the musical exists.
So rn I have keeping her sequestered + And Eve Was Weak/How Those Boys Could Dance + 'We have too many orphans to keep track of' = possible way to pull this clusterfuck off

*muffled screaming*
I'm so close to filling this. I sent it to my beta
So if you're waiting for a surreal body-horror take on the pregnancy, it will (hopefully) soon be dragged, kicking and screaming, into this thread.

OP here: Surreal body horror is totally my jam. Bless you, nonnie.

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