So, instead of Stick abandoning young Matt and basically throwing all his effort away, Stick sticks around and trains Matt to be a full member read soldier of The Chaste. Fast forward, the Chaste and the Hand are doing their secret war thing in the middle of Hell's Kitchen, while Fisk uses the resulting chaos to pull his plans behind the scenes. Foggy still became a lawyer, who tries to find evidence on Fisk/high members of the Chaste and the Hand so that they can finally stop wreaking New York. All the while Matt might now be a full member of the Chaste, but refuses to kill anyone (angering the other Chaste members very much) and struggles to combine the clan's rules and ways with his own moral consciousness. One day he is tasked with spying on a lawyer named Nelson, to determine how much he knows and if he poses a threat to The Chaste and has to be eliminated. Matt finds out that he indeed knows a lot - too much in fact, the information Foggy has gathered so far being enough that the Chaste would immediately put a kill order on him should they know. But instead of turning the lawyer in, Matt lies to his superior's faces and then starts smuggling little bits of information to Foggy, who at first is very distrusting and quite scared of his masked informant, but over the time the two grow closer and start to trust each other. It all comes crashing down when Foggy finds out that Matt has been a member of The Chaster all this time.
(I know, it's long, but here's to hoping someone might be inspired! I'd write it myself, but I'm still sitting at two giant fanfics and I really don't have the time to add a third to that)
AU where Stick kept Matt and he became a member of The Chaster who later meets lawyer!Foggy
All the while Matt might now be a full member of the Chaste, but refuses to kill anyone (angering the other Chaste members very much) and struggles to combine the clan's rules and ways with his own moral consciousness.
One day he is tasked with spying on a lawyer named Nelson, to determine how much he knows and if he poses a threat to The Chaste and has to be eliminated.
Matt finds out that he indeed knows a lot - too much in fact, the information Foggy has gathered so far being enough that the Chaste would immediately put a kill order on him should they know.
But instead of turning the lawyer in, Matt lies to his superior's faces and then starts smuggling little bits of information to Foggy, who at first is very distrusting and quite scared of his masked informant, but over the time the two grow closer and start to trust each other.
It all comes crashing down when Foggy finds out that Matt has been a member of The Chaster all this time.
(I know, it's long, but here's to hoping someone might be inspired! I'd write it myself, but I'm still sitting at two giant fanfics and I really don't have the time to add a third to that)