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During a meeting with his 616 counterpart, Matt learns that his dad didn't die until 616!Matt was at Columbia. Cue the emotional fall-out from that discovery. (Has this been written? I hope not.)

+ Matt breaking down to either Foggy about it
++ seriously I just want some overthinking, what-if? angst and comfort

...speaking as someone who already has a series of this going on, I might just write this in. I might. (I mean, it'd take place a little earlier in the series but yeah YEAH I could write this.)

note: this takes place, for the 616 crew (Matt, Foggy and Kirsten), during Secret Wars. basically they think their world is gone.

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There are a few adjustments to be made to Matt's apartment, in light of--well, recent developments is how Matt's been calling it in his head, but Karen's description, while longer, is a lot more frank: that time your alternate universe counterparts and Kirsten crashed on your couch.

They're still crashing in Matt's place, because he's the only one who has the room and silk sheets to boot. Foggy's place is pretty cramped and leaks often, and has a persistent tracksuit problem that Matt's been taking care of for some time now, while Karen's--well, there's a reason why Karen stays late at the office a lot. Not good places for three universe-displaced lawyers to go, and in all honesty, Matt doesn't think his apartment's any better, but it's a temporary arrangement, anyway.

He and the other Matt are fixing up the closet when the other Matt says, quiet, "This is Dad's robe."

"Ah, yeah, that," says Matt, his heart jumping. "I--I kept it. Can't sew like you can, though, so there's a few holes in it."

The other Matt's quiet, and Matt kneels down next to him. He knows, from the rasp of fingers across the embossed letters, that the other Matt's feeling the material of the robe, running his fingers across his father's name, remembering. "I had ringside tickets," he says, at last. "For his last match."

"Lucky you," Matt says. "I had to watch at home, I had a whole pile of homework."

When his older counterpart laughs, it's usually a little bit lighter than his, a little looser, but this one is sad, quiet. "I remember--Foggy was narrating the whole thing to me, you know? But I could hardly hear him over the crowd, even if he was standing next to me--"

"Foggy was there?" Matt asks. "What--When did Dad die, for you?"

"I was in college," says the other Matt, confused. "I'd met Foggy by that time, of course he'd be there. Why?"

Is it possible, Matt wonders, to be jealous of yourself? Apparently yes, because this other Matt--he's had more time, with his father, than Matt did. Jack Murdock saw his boy graduate elementary school, high school, saw his boy get into college, met Foggy, in another universe.

And something in Matt wants to rage, at how it wasn't this universe. A few more years, a few more moments, what he wouldn't give for what this Matt got. What he wouldn't do, to have had his father for just a few years more than he got.

"Dad--" he starts, then stops, because the grief is bubbling up again. "I was nine," he says, at last.

The other Matt says, "Oh," in a quiet and absolutely devastated tone.

How lucky you were, thinks Matt. God, how lucky.

The other Matt bumps his shoulder, offers him a handkerchief. "I'm sorry," he says, quiet, and there is that same grief behind these words, I'm sorry you had to endure that too, I'm sorry you have that weight on your shoulders too, and Matt takes the handkerchief and wipes at his eyes.

"Did he like Foggy?" he asks at last, hesitating.

"They got along like a house on fire," says the other Matt, fondly.

Matt can't help but smile, at that.

;______; Oh, MCU!Matt! *hugs the STUFFING out of him* Lovely, anon - although thanks for wrecking us with this particular contrast. XD Jaaaack!

Although, Jack and Foggy getting along like a house on fire... xD YES. ♥

616!Matt's life is seriously terrible, but like. at least he had that. no wonder MCU!Matt has abandonment issues on top of everything else, jesus.

THEY DID. I mean, it's just a smidgen of interaction in Daredevil: Yellow, but they're on first-name terms and everything. sad noises about 616!Foggy telling MCU!Foggy about Battlin' Jack Murdock now.

*sniff* beautiful

sniffling here but thanks!

AUGH.

no, no, it's okay, i didn't really need my heart... *curls into a ball and weeps*

*drapes blanket over*

Shit, I'm not crying. There's just dust in my eyes. ;_;

yeah, it was really dusty in my room while I was writing this, welp. I feel you.

My heart...

I'm so sorry I swear I am.

this is fine, i didn't need my heart anyway.

I love how naturally it flowed, the revelation. Very quiet and understated. The whole thing was understated, and so, SO painful. I wonder if 616!Matt will be thinking of that for a long time later - that other universe where he was a small kid left alone in the world with all those confusing senses.

I cried at least as hard at this as I did during the actual 'Jack dies' scenes in the show, you jerk.

thank you! looking back I'm kind of linefacing at how I overused a word or two, but I'm glad to hear this. also yeah. yeah he'll be thinking about that for a long while. like at least he had Foggy, then, but MCU!Matt was nine and--and it had been painful, running his hands over his dad's face and not feeling it react, not feeling any warmth, and how much worse was it for his younger counterpart?

Prompt Post #5

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