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Re: [FILL] He Who Fights Monsters 5c/? (Re: Matt/Wesley - Good!Wesley, Undercover)
(Anonymous) 2015-07-01 09:49 am (UTC)(link)“Then you’ve made your decision?” Wesley says with a soft sigh, his eyes falling closed, and then opening again.
He’s pushed Wesley beyond his limits. Guilt reemerges, unbidden, Matt resists it for all it’s worth.
“You already know what it is,” Matt says, his words taste like defeat. “A partnership, we help each other bring down Fisk.”
Wesley smiles then, an expression so soft it makes Wesley’s heart flip. There’s no duplicity in his expression, no sleazy charm or forced cheer. In his exhausted, injured state there is something about Wesley that feels unguarded, perhaps as close as he will ever get to vulnerability.
Or is he only like this in front of Matt – the only person who knows the truth of who he really is?
His thoughts have drifted to a strange place, and Matt catches himself before they wonder even further from the important things still unaddressed. Why would he for a moment think of Wesley as…
Matt digs into his pocket, pulling out a small piece of folded white paper with a red symbol on top.
“We can start here,” Matt says, tossing it onto the bed by Wesley’s hand, “What can you tell me about this symbol?”
Wesley stares curiously at the scrap of paper, before he picks it up and raises it into the light. His expression shifts into seriousness.
“Why do you want to know?”
“The Chinese’s drug trade, I’m going to put an end to it.”
Wesley’s silent for a moment. “That might not be wise.”
“You said you would help me.”
“I said we would help each other,” Wesley says, “Which means you need to listen to what I have to say before you go chasing after the Chinese.”
Matt holds back a growl, reminding himself he’s decided to work together with the man in front of him, that this isn’t simply Fisk’s right hand man, twisting facts for his own self-interest, no matter what his instincts tell him.
“Alright, I’m listening.”
Wesley sighs, exhaustion lining his features. “Have you ever noticed Hell’s Kitchen’s unusually large blind Chinese population?”
“What are you saying?”
“Ninety-nine percent of them are drug mules,” Wesley regards Matt with a weary glance. “They blinded themselves, from what I was told, and Madame Gao – the head of the Chinese – she pays them a living wage in exchange for their services.”
Matt’s blood turns colder with every word.
“These people, most of them are illegal migrants, and they barely speak any English. If you expose them to the justice system, they will never get out, even if they manage to last given their disabilities.”
Matt understands the truth behind Wesley’s words, understands them too well. Detention centers, jails, people like that disappear into the system and will never find a proper life again.
“It’s part of the reason I never did anything about them back then, and now…”
Wesley drifts off into silence with a sigh of frustration. SHIELD is no more, is that the problem? There is no one who can arrange a better outcome than what the American justice system can deliver.
If he takes down Gao, he condemns dozens of people to a lifetime of poverty and torment. Do the ends justify the means? Matt suddenly wishes he could speak with Father Lantom. There has to be some way… he can’t just stand back.
“Her drugs are killing people, I’m not going to let her continue.”
Wesley nods weakly, his eyes slipping closed. “And organizations from outside will step in to fill the gap, there will be turf wars, poor quality product being sold at a premium. More people die in the crossfire.”
“So you’re saying we just let this continue?”
“I’m explaining, Matthew,” Wesley says, his eyes opening tiredly, “The consequences of your intended actions. The junkies of Hell’s Kitchen won’t… can’t stop just because it’s suddenly harder to get what they want. They’ll just travel further, pay more for worse product, and die faster.”
Matt is silent, wanting, needing a way to refute Wesley’s words but coming up with nothing more than ideology.
“It’s not right.”
“No,” Wesley says, his voice fading, “But if you want to be the cause of the gang wars that will break out as Fisk defends his territory, then by all means.”
Matt's shoulder's sag, with the new weight of a responsibility he had never thought to contemplate. He paces, displeasure and frustration swirling together in a poisonous mix. The only thing he wants is for Hell's Kitchen to become a better, a safer place. Cutting off the flow of drugs may hurt people, but their continuance means that Hell's Kitchen can never start to recover.
Matt can just continue to fight, take a stand against whatever new threats that come.
He remembers then, all those times he's come so close to death, to discovery, in his battle against Fisk. Only Fisk.
“Where are the Chinese?”
“Warehouse 16, Pier 88.”
He can go find the Chinese, Matt thinks. He should go find them, tomorrow night. But Wesley’s words still echo in his mind.
Consequences.
By the time Matt leaves through the window, Wesley is passed out in his bed.
Re: [FILL] He Who Fights Monsters 5c/? (Re: Matt/Wesley - Good!Wesley, Undercover)
(Anonymous) 2015-07-02 06:16 am (UTC)(link)“I’m explaining, Matthew,” Wesley says, his eyes opening tiredly, “The consequences of your intended actions..."
I love how you have just...unh! It's a thing that has always bothered me about the MCU and Daredevil, especially. Collateral damage. Matt...sees, heh...things so black and white and he's a terrible Catholic--he's not nearly guilty enough. He always seems peripherally aware of his collateral damage--like with the junkie that killed Elena, but doesn't really own it but assigns it so easily to Fisk without realizing that he certainly didn't make the situation much better.
The thing about Madame Gao, wow. Now, I'm actually kind of disappointed in Matt about what he did in the show. Yay! He stopped a heroine ring that provided...premium product and allowed for other lesser quality heroine to possibly flood the market. But you know, beating on the dealers will totally deter people looking to buy... o.O?
This is really a good thing that you are making me doubt the outcome of the television series. But I have always felt that Matt, in the series, was remarkably naive and made me wonder whether he took one too many blows to the head.
I love your Wesley so, so much. The voice you give him and his pragmatic views, just uh...
Wesley is playing the long con and I love how you have Matt struggling to understand how that could be better than his instant gratification approach of beat thug A, cops arrest thug A, boss of thug A replaces him with thugs B and C and repeat until he can advance to boss level.
I just love this fill to pieces. You are doing an absolutely wonderful job! I just love it when people play in the shades of grey that is our reality versus the black and white of fantasy. I love this and thank you for sharing it!
Re: [FILL] He Who Fights Monsters 5c/? (Re: Matt/Wesley - Good!Wesley, Undercover)
(Anonymous) 2015-07-03 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)My vision of this Wesley (which I've really yet to delve into), is someone who has embraced chaos perhaps too much, and without SHIELD at his back has completely lost direction. This Wesley is someone who has gradually become so used to justifying his crimes with 'for the greater good' that he's slowly losing sight of what that means. This Wesley, if he honestly reflects upon the decisions he's come to make in this post-SHIELD world, will realise that his standards are nothing like the man he used to be. In part that's why I picked the title.
The true difference between this Wesley and Matt is really that between lawful good and chaotic good, their end goals are the same - to help people and save lives, but their approach and the lines they're willing to cross are radically different. It's a lot of fun to play them against each other and have them test each other's boundaries. Matt needs a reminder of what reality is like - of collateral damage and consequence, just as Wesley needs a reminder of why he held the morals he once did. Perhaps they'd come to teach and temper each other into something more well balanced, or perhaps both will resist and hold on rigidly to their ways.
(And maybe somehow they'd accidentally fall in love in the process? We shall just have to see.)
Re: [FILL] He Who Fights Monsters 5c/? (Re: Matt/Wesley - Good!Wesley, Undercover)
(Anonymous) 2015-07-02 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)Re: [FILL] He Who Fights Monsters 5c/? (Re: Matt/Wesley - Good!Wesley, Undercover)
(Anonymous) 2015-07-03 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)