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By the time they get downstairs, the hotel's conference room is full of familiar faces, streamers, balloons, and the omnipresent smell of alcohol. Meg is nowhere to be seen, but she's been there for at least fifteen minutes, so she's probably pretty swallowed by the crowd.

Unfortunately, the first person he sees is Stephanie Wallis, who is indeed startlingly dark-haired and also still unfairly pretty, and possibly pregnant, which means there's got to be a trophy husband around somewhere. Foggy is not off to a great start, and it doesn't improve much when she immediately says “Oh, it's Foggy! I guess you probably go by Franklin now.”

There's a table full of picked-over name tags, complete with everyone's terrible senior yearbook photos, and sure enough, his says Franklin. He's not even going to think about the picture. “No, I don't, as I am not yet anyone's grandfather. Still Foggy. Hi, Stephanie.”

“Hm.” Stephanie looks over his shoulder and immediately perks up. “Hello, didn't see you there. I'm afraid I don't remember you.”

“You wouldn't,” says Matt, stepping up and resting his hand on Foggy's shoulder while Foggy puts on his own name tag and finds the one that says MATTHEW MURDOCK: I didn't go here! on it to hand him. “I'm here with Foggy.” His hand slips down between Foggy's shoulder blades and Foggy tries very hard not to freeze. That's not normal guiding-around behavior. “And we should go find his cousin, I'm told it could be a matter of life or death.”

Stephanie looks at them with the same pursed lips Foggy remembers from sophomore bio when they got assigned as lab partners. He thinks his teacher was trying to do some sort of social experiment with popular kids and unpopular ones, but it mostly ended up being awkward and uncomfortable. “Of course. Meg and her husband got here about half an hour ago. She said you'd come together.”

“We were in our room,” says Matt, and when Foggy gives him a sideways look he's wearing a mild smile that makes him look like he wants to punch something or like he's coming up with some kind of terrible plan. The latter becomes significantly more likely when he turns to Foggy and starts “I don't think you've mentioned—”

“Thanks, Stephanie, hope you get to enjoy the party,” Foggy blurts before Matt can continue, and drags him through the door. “Do I need to make you conversation cards? Do not brag about me unless it's already clear I'm winning, do not emotionally destroy people unless they give you good reason.”

Matt frowns at him. “I don't like her. You don't like her.”

“And after tonight I will never see her again. I'm trying to be zen. I hate that you force me to be zen when you start getting your hackles up.”

Now Matt just looks sorry, and it occurs to Foggy that his hand is still on Foggy's back, which continues to not be their usual leading arrangement. “I'm sorry. I should be more supportive, but I don't … I'll be better.”

Foggy wants to ask about that cut-off sentence, but they're about four feet away from a vaguely familiar woman with a huge toothy smile and a really impressive dress. She looks like a news anchor, and she says “Foggy Nelson!” in tones of great triumph after a few seconds of squinting at his name tag. “Look at you!”

It takes Foggy a second to get a discreet look at her name tag. “Kelly,” he says, a lot more lukewarm, and feels Matt's hand tighten around the cloth of his suit. He's going to have some really weird wrinkles to iron out.

“You look like you've done pretty well for yourself.” That's some really unflattering surprise, and Foggy has to hide a sigh when her eyebrows go up at the sight of Matt right there in his personal space. “Very well for yourself. Your boyfriend?”

“Partner,” Matt corrects, and he's got the bad smile on his face again, the one he gets right before he suckers someone into losing. “Sorry, I'm having trouble placing you. Should I know who you are?” He turns to Foggy, head tilted. “Foggy, have you mentioned her?”

Matt knows very well that he has not, because Foggy has talked more about high school since he got his invitation than he has since they met. “I don't think so. We had AP Bio together.” And she cheated off his test answers and tried to tell the teacher he was the one who copied her until their seats got moved, and after she got in trouble she and all her friends glared at him whenever they saw him. “Anyway, Kelly, what are you doing these days?”

“Working in the news in Connecticut,” she tells him, straightening up and smiling the toothpaste-ad smile. He was definitely right about the first assumption. “And my fiance is around here somewhere, I think he went to get drinks.”

“Foggy and I are lawyers,” Matt says, and his hand is still steady on Foggy's back. “If you work in the news and you follow stories from the city at all, you might have heard about him. Our firm was involved in Wilson Fisk being put behind bars.”

“Oh.” Kelly looks taken aback. “I didn't realize. I thought you were … God, what even was it. The butcher thing! I thought you were doing that.”

Matt leans into him even more, and he's still smiling. “He would have been wasted as a butcher. I knew that the first time I heard him debate in law school.”

Foggy tries not to look too surprised about that. Matt's a pretty terrible liar (if a great omitter), and that sounded sincere. Which it probably is, Matt wouldn't be his partner if he didn't think he's a good lawyer, but the first time Foggy debated in one of their shared classes was about two weeks in, with a professor who liked throwing first-years into uncomfortable situations, and it was against Matt. “He says that because I beat him, so I have to be great to allow his ego to remain large enough to sustain him.”

“He beat everyone.” Matt's smile is less dangerous and more fond now. Which is its own kind of dangerous, really. “So I'm very glad he decided against being a butcher after all. I never would have met him.”

Kelly now has the same expression on her face that most people get when people start taking out pictures of their grandchildren and cats. “Well, that's very sweet. Good for you, Foggy. I'll have to remember you're a lawyer if I ever need legal counsel in New York. Ha.”

“Just looks us up, we're Nelson and Murdock, it should be easy to find us,” says Matt. “Pleasure to meet you, Kelly. Foggy, should we go find Meg?”

“Yes, we definitely should.” Keeping Matt away from everyone but Meg and Jeff is rapidly becoming a priority. Foggy is pretty sure his ears are pink and that Kelly has completely the wrong idea. “Nice to see you again, Kelly.”

“You too,” she says, blatantly insincere, and Foggy leads Matt away.

There's a little gap in the crowd around them, and it's enough space to let Foggy recollect himself, figure out what the hell Matt's deal is. It's probably got something to do with making people think Foggy's won the reunion, but he's still acting way more affectionate than usual. And he said “partner,” but he didn't say “business.”

Foggy can put two and two together, and in this case “four” is Matt pretending they're together because he thinks it will make Foggy's former classmates think he's cooler. Depressingly, he's probably right, but that doesn't mean Foggy is relishing the thought of being on a pity date with his best friend. He sighs. “Matt, are you ...”

Matt tilts his head. He's still in Foggy's space, hand still steady on him, barely using his cane at all, and he's just in the right place that if they were actually together Foggy would barely have to lean at all to kiss him. “Hm?”

“Never mind. Let's go find Meg, or she'll text me until she sees me.”

“Of course,” says Matt, and slides his hand down to the small of Foggy's back.

*

Hahaha, Matt's so sly. I love it!

OP:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

This is so amazing.

The dialogue is great.

I love slightly jealous protective Matt. (A high school crush could never compete with you, Matty ;_; ).

slightly grumpy and very protective Matt is my favourite Matt

God and he's wearing the date shirt, how long has Matt been planning this??

THIS CONTINUES TO BE DELIGHTFUL! <3

omg, Matt, you little shit

I can't blame Foggy for just wanting to get to Jeff and Meg, I would too if Matt would not stop bragging and antagonizing the worst that high school had to offer.

Your dialogue is spot on. I -love- how Foggy knows the mild smile means trouble.

It's like you can see Matt deciding he's going to cut every single one of them into tiny pieces

this is so brilliant. your OCs are great and your characterisations of matt and foggy are so spot on. ughh i just want everyone to realise how awesome foggy is!!!

also matt's hand on foggy's back is doing things to me, dammit.

I'm dying, I love this so much. Matt's sexy vengeance plan is so simultaneously terrible and sweet and so very MATT.

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