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5.

It’s Marci who gives Foggy the idea. Matt’s away for the weekend, and she shows up on Friday with a bottle of vodka, a manicure kit, and half a box of condoms; which in sum pretty much keep them busy until midday Sunday.

Foggy’s sprawled out in bed, admiring his newly turquoise toenails, when Marci pipes up from across the room, “What the hell is this?”

Foggy drags himself up and looks over to Matt’s desk, where she’s holding up Matt’s slate.

“It’s a braille thing,” Foggy tells her. “Do you want to get donuts? I kind of want to get donuts, but I also really don’t want to put on pants.”

Marci pokes the slate. “How’s it work?”

“You lock it around the paper, and then you use a stylus--that’s the pointy thing--to make the dots,” Foggy tells her. “It’s kind of weirdly violent. And you have to do it backwards. Donuts, though?”

Marci settles back down on the bed next to him “Pants, though.” She holds up the slate and peers at Foggy through the holes. “Do you know braille?

Foggy shakes his head. “Little bit. I’m super bad at it.” He can sort of stumble along in Grade 1, but he hasn’t managed to wrap his head around the jump to Grade 2.

“Aw,” says Marci. “Do you and Matt send each other secret notes? I bet you totally do.”

Foggy sticks out his tongue “We most certainly do not, because we are dignified adult man people.”

Marci giggles. “You’re a pair of twelve-year-old girls, and you know it.”

“That’s it,” Foggy tells her. “I’m taking back my Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper.” Which is about the point where it turns into mostly-fake wrestling, and that’s the rest of the afternoon gone.

After Marci leaves, Foggy pulls the skeins of wool out from under his bed and stares at them, trying to will them into a plan. The slate is still on the bed, a grid of tiny rectangles, like a lace pattern.

Secret notes, he thinks.

He grids the damn thing out half a dozen times before it finally works. The bumps are slight but clearly tangible, and Foggy is pretty sure the spacing makes sense; but of course, there's no way to be sure until he gives it to Matt.

6.

For Dorm Christmas, Foggy finds every half-decent holiday playlist on the ‘net and bakes his mom’s pumpkin pie in the dorm kitchen--store-bought crust, but she doesn’t need to know that part. Matt contributes two pairs of reindeer-antler headbands with little jingle bells, a coffee pot full of spiked cocoa, and a box of horrific fruit-flavored candy canes. Foggy improvises audio description for the Muppet Christmas Carol, and Matt grudgingly admits that Whitmire is a passable Kermit, which Foggy proclaims the first official Dorm Christmas Miracle.

“Okay,” says Foggy, once they’ve finished off the last of the pie. “Presents!”

Matt digs a package out from under the bed and pushes it over, and holy shit, is he actually blushing?

“The wrapping’s kind of crap,” he says, with a shrug, “But I’m told the paper is adorable enough to make up for it. Penguins?”

“Super adorable,” Foggy tells him. “They’re sledding. In little hats and scarves. It’s almost a shame to rip into it, but in these desperate times, desperate measures must be taken.”

Inside is an impossibly soft scarf and a matching hat. Foggy’s pretty sure he recognizes one of the worsteds he liked best on their last trip to the yarn shop. “This is gorgeous. It’s like--Matt! There are stripes! How did you do stripes? And a hat, what the hell, Murdock? I didn’t make you a hat. Damnit.” He knows Matt’s faster, but still.

“It’s just keeping track of which strand is where,” says Matt. “The hat’s not--I had extra, so. Are the colors okay? Marci picked them.”

“The colors are best,” says Foggy. They are, too: a dark, warm olive with maroon stripes. And yeah--that’s definitely the worsted from the shop, which means Matt was keeping track of Foggy’s picks at the same time Foggy was teasing out Matt’s. “They’re all--warm? I dunno. I fucking love them, man.” He pulls the hat down over his hair and wraps the scarf around his neck, admiring the stripes. Matt’s stitching is insane, like something out of a machine.

“I wish I could see them on you,” Matt says, and then rushes to add, “I mean, I assume my handiwork is spectacular.”

Foggy laughs. “Flawless. I still don’t know how the hell you do that, buddy.” He hands Matt his own package. “Fair warning: this is not gonna be up to your impossible standards.”

Matt tears the paper away, and his face lights up the moment his hands come in contact with the wool. “The yarn! I thought that was for your mom. Foggy, I--”

“It’s, um, dark blue,” says Foggy. “I know you usually stick to grayscale, but I figure this’ll go with any of that, and you need something with actual color.”

Matt nods. “Yeah. Dark blue. Good call.” He’s running his hands along the length of the scarf, feeling the narrow rib knit. He pauses when he hits the change, and his brow furrows. Foggy watches and tries not to hold his breath.

“So, um, I wanted to--I’m not sure if it worked, but--”

The moment Matt recognizes what he’s touching, his face changes so fast Foggy can almost hear the bulb click on above his head. “Oh, my god,” he says, and Foggy swears his voice actually cracks. Matt shifts the scarf so it’s flat, and runs his fingertips across the text. “Foggy. This is--”

And then Matt bursts into tears.

Foggy doesn’t know what the hell to do. He’s never seen Matt cry. Matt doesn’t cry. Foggy’s the one who cries, and Matt--oh, shit, what the hell has Foggy done?

“Hey,” he says to Matt. “Hey. Buddy. Are you okay? Is it--I didn’t mean--”

Matt cuts him off by throwing his arms around Foggy’s neck and fucking clinging, scarf crushed between them. “No, Foggy,” he says, muffled, into Foggy’s shoulder. “It’s perfect.”

*melts*

i love how foggy gets the idea for the braille at the end of the scarf, and then the ending is just perfect. <3

This was perfect.

THIS IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING

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