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FILL What All This Time Was For (5/?)
(Anonymous) 2015-08-06 04:04 am (UTC)(link)“We weren't working,” Foggy says, rolling his eyes at Meg and finally managing to twist his way away from Matt's hand to shake hands with the friend she's standing with, a girl he thinks he recognizes from Meg's birthday parties. Jeff is a few feet away, leaning on the bar and staring off into space, probably thinking about engineering. Or murdering Joey, who Foggy hasn't seen yet. “We got distracted and then we have been waylaid several times by people suffering from nostalgia.”
“I'm not sure how I feel about your graduating class,” says Matt, frowning like he hasn't already made that clear.
“Yes you are, you hate them,” says Foggy, and makes an apologetic grimace at Meg's friend. Beth, maybe? She has her name tag on her purse, which isn't facing him directly, there's no help there. “Be nice anyway, you're getting weird about things.”
“Am I—”
Matt stops when Meg clears her throat. “If you two need to have a private conversation, have it privately. Beth and I aren't going anywhere, this is where the alcohol is.”
At least Foggy's right about her name being Beth. That's small comfort when Matt is looking at him with the worried notch between his eyebrows, so Foggy sighs and grabs Matt's arm. “We will be right back. Apparently. Come on, Matt.”
Matt follows, and it's the normal way this time, just connected arm to arm, until Foggy finds a fairly empty wall and pulls them to stop. “I'm sorry,” Matt says immediately, low and serious. “I'm making you uncomfortable.”
“I'm not sure what you're doing. I mean, pretending to be my boyfriend, I get that, I just don't know where that came from because I'm pretty sure we didn't discuss it.”
“When Stephanie assumed, her breathing changed. I think she was backing off. It might make your night easier.”
Foggy sighs. “So you are pretending to date me to make my night easier? I think that sums out exactly how pitiful my high school experience was.”
Matt makes an upset noise and shakes his head. “I'm not pitying you. I just … none of them seems to realize how good you are, and they should. If it helps to lie a little so they understand, I don't mind.”
It takes Foggy way too long to collect himself to answer that, because it's such Matt logic. “Fuck them, Matt, honestly. I appreciate that you want them to understand my awesome, but you don't have to do this.”
“I'll stop if you want, but it's the assumption they're making. Do you think explaining me away for the whole night is going to get old?”
Foggy would say yes, if Karen was the one offering. And if he were less in love with Matt, he probably would have asked him the second Matt offered to come with him. As it is, Matt is being very nice, and Foggy is going to end this night miserable after pretending to date him instead of actually dating him. That doesn't mean he's going to say no, though. Foggy's self-preservation instincts are not great around Matt. “Honestly I'm kind of honored that everyone thinks you're in my league. Though maybe they think I suckered you into it because you're blind?”
It's a joke, and Matt's got to know that, but his expression goes stormy anyway. “If anyone implies it, I'll correct them.”
“Our plan is to get out of this night without you being charged for assault and without me having any traumatic high school-related flashbacks. Don't correct them with your fists. Promise.”
Matt frowns. “I promise. I wouldn't make a scene. I'm here for you.”
“Okay. That's … not totally the same as promising not to punch people, but we'll go with it. Honestly, I need to get you a leash. But if there are no fists and as long as you don't overplay it, we just won't correct people's assumptions.”
Once again, Matt frowns, but this isn't one of the dangerous ones. “I won't overplay it.”
“Please. You're lucky the courtroom and certain other things you do are at least fifty percent theatrics, because you always overplay things. Now, let's go talk to Meg and Jeff and Beth until I gear up my courage to make the duty round.”
Matt's hand returns to his back, which makes a lot more sense now that Foggy realizes what his game is. “Fine. Just warn me before I'm introduced to Benny Rosenbaum, I can stop or I can play it up depending.”
“You are actually the worst,” says Foggy, but he starts walking back to the bar. If nothing else, a beer or two is really going to make this whole pretending to date Matt thing much easier to deal with.
“Okay,” Foggy says when he's halfway down his second bottle of beer and he's tired of feeling like a third wheel in Meg's conversation. “Matt and I are going to wander and see if there's anyone bearable around. Text me if you need Joey-related rescue.”
“I will punch him,” says Beth, a few drinks farther than he is and heartwarmingly defensive of Meg. At least some people from high school don't suck.
“Great, Meg probably has one of my business cards, let us know if you need legal representation,” Foggy says, and tows Matt away. He can really only worry about so much potential violence tonight, and Matt's the bigger risk. Jeff waves him off from where he's still standing sentinel, and Foggy turns away from them and lowers his voice when he leans into Matt. “Keep an ear out for some guy harassing Meg, because murder may be done. Hearing anything else interesting?”
“Two women were trying to figure out if I was an escort,” Matt offers. “I think one of them was Kelly, it was hard to pick out at that distance.”
Foggy grits his teeth and reminds himself that he's keeping a sense of humor about this, so help him God. “I think I've seen that movie.”
“I can't believe they treated you so badly.”
“Matt. I was chubby and awkward and mouthy and fairly poor and bisexual. I can't believe I survived.” Matt's hand tightens on his jacket again. So much ironing. “You said it was rough for you, and I am just as annoyed, but there really isn't anything to do about that anymore. We're here to rub my success in their faces tonight, not get mad about how they treated me then.”
“Foggy Nelson!” says another almost-stranger, and Foggy is really glad to be interrupted by someone he probably hates. The name tag says Jake Fiore—one of the wrestling guys, friends with Conrad Whittier, who's probably the closest thing to a nemesis Foggy had in high school. “Man, it's good to see you, I was afraid you weren't coming.”
That is a really weird thing to say, especially since he seems completely sincere. “Jake, hi. It's … good to see you too.”
Jake just laughs and shakes his head. “Probably it's not, but thanks. I kind of kept tabs—Facebook and shit, you know? You're still in the city? Last I heard you were doing law school.”
“Still in the city. We have our own practice. Speaking of which.” He gestures at Matt. “Matt, Jake Fiore, Jake, this is Matt Murdock, he's my partner, and he's … I've got no clue. Sorry, Jake. What are you up to these days?”
“Got out of the army just in time to avoid having to hunt down SHIELD fugitives, and I've been working at my mom's store.” Jake shrugs. “Nothing too exciting. Glad you're doing good, though! Your own practice, that's pretty impressive.”
“He's very impressive,” says Matt, but it isn't pointed like it was with Kelly. He looks as baffled as Foggy feels, which is good. Foggy feels a little like he's in the Twilight Zone, with Jake Fiore being nice to him. “Were you two friends?”
Jake actually laughs. “Nah, I was an asshole of a kid and probably would have deserved it if Foggy punched me in the nose when I said hello. Thanks for that, by the way. I like my nose.”
There, right on cue, is Matt's hand clenching again. Foggy is going to buy him so many stress balls. “It's a very fine nose, I'm sure. Are you still friends with Conrad and them?”
“Not really. Mostly they didn't take it so hot when I came out.” He gives Foggy a sideways look and Matt twitches and Foggy has no idea what to do with any of that. “But they're around tonight, or most of them are. I think Danny Jasperson brought an escort, between you and me.”
Foggy laughs, because it's that or actually ask what's going on and if anyone is possessed by aliens, because it's a whole new world and that's probably possible. “I will try really hard not to run into him, then. Look, Matt and I are on a duty round, but … it's good to see you, I guess? Thanks for checking in. Look up Nelson and Murdock in the directory if you ever need legal assistance.”
Jake laughs again and holds out his hand to shake, waiting while Foggy disentangles himself from Matt to shake it. “Maybe I will. Find a business card for me, hand it over if I see you again tonight, I'll look you up.”
“Great.”
“Yeah.” Jake jerks a nod at Matt, who has been very quiet for this whole conversation and doesn't even look like he wants to kill anyone. “I'm glad things worked out for you, Foggy. That you've got the lawyer thing and—sorry, everyone's names. Matt, right?”
“Right,” says Matt. “He certainly deserves everything good.”
“Oh, hey, I think I see Jasperson, so I'm going to be anywhere but where he is,” blurts Foggy, because he has no clue what to do with any of this and fleeing the field of battle seems like the best option. People who were assholes to him in high school being nice and subtly coming out to him are way weirder than people who still hate him.
Jake waves them off, so Foggy tows Matt away and searches for a free space in the crowd. It's getting bigger—he and Matt clearly weren't the last people to arrive, no matter how annoyed Meg was. She's just always early to everything.
“He's attracted to you,” Matt hisses when they're a few yards away, sounding accusatory.
“Believe it or not, I did not need freaky heartbeat senses to figure that out. This kind of thing does not happen to people.”
“He bullied you in high school and he's attracted to you,” Matt says, and now he sounds like he wants to kill someone again. It's strangely soothing. Foggy is going to have to work out the psychological ramifications of finding Matt's murderous impulses charming later, this is not the time or the place. “I don't … and you don't mind. Should I have told him we aren't together?”
Foggy stumbles, which means Matt stumbles, and then Foggy is staring Matt and Matt's face is tilted down at the floor like he's expecting to be scolded. “Okay, first of all, I am not going to date Jake Fiore, are you kidding me? I haven't spoken to him in ten years and I am fine with that, even if he's been thinking of me fondly. Which he totally should, it's a little bit nice that he's been feeling guilty on my behalf. And second of all, kids are dicks. I understand that. Probably half the people here who ignored me or whatever are not objectively awful people. Teenagers are just terrible.”
“You weren't.”
Foggy laughs. “Come on, buddy, you know that's not true. My mom showed you my growing-up scrapbooks. I was an asshole. I just didn't have the social credit to take it out on other people.”
Matt's still frowning and definitely doesn't agree, and Foggy suspects he's going to be subjected to at least one speech in the next week about how Foggy was definitely less of an asshole than these people, but he doesn't argue, just tilts his head. “They're refreshing the appetizers. Let's go get some before they're all gone.”
“I knew you're good for something,” says Foggy, putting Matt's hand in the crook of his arm in hopes of saving his suit from permanent creases, and walks them over to the refreshment tables.
Re: FILL What All This Time Was For (5/?)
(Anonymous) 2015-08-06 04:15 am (UTC)(link)Re: FILL What All This Time Was For (5/?)
(Anonymous) 2015-08-06 04:49 am (UTC)(link)Must be kind of weird that your old highshool bully comes and flirt with you years later.
Re: FILL What All This Time Was For (5/?)
(Anonymous) 2015-08-06 06:11 am (UTC)(link)Ooooh I love the curveball with Jake and Matt stressing out about it.
Everything is amazingly tense. I just keep thinking that this reunion would be a nightmare scenario for someone with social anxiety. I personally hate conflict and tension so I would be like Maaatttt stahp don't poke the bear.
This new part is great aand I still love the writing style
Re: FILL What All This Time Was For (5/?)
(Anonymous) 2015-08-06 08:49 am (UTC)(link)“Okay. That's … not totally the same as promising not to punch people, but we'll go with it.
*hysterical giggles* This is the best. THE BEST.
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(Anonymous) 2015-08-06 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)Re: FILL What All This Time Was For (5/?)
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