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I live! And also I return from trip. I...kind of smushed different parts of the prompt together, hope that's cool.

Matt heard a second set of footprints, another heartbeat, behind Foggy even before the dorm door swung open. "Oh! Sorry Matt, didn't think you'd be here." Matt pulled out an earbud and swiveled around on the bed to face the door.

"Class was canceled," Matt said. "Teacher never showed."

"Oh awesome. Actually, this is great! Jared's with me. I've been meaning to introduce you guys. Jared?" The second heartbeat stepped further into the room, next to Foggy. "This is Matt, my friend and roomie --I said that with an totally awesome flourish Matt- and Matt, this is Jared."

Matt stood up and walked forward a step or two, holding out his hand. "Nice to meet you," he said with a smile. "Foggy's been singing your praises all week."

A warm laugh, and then a warm hand clasping his own to shake. "I could sing them right back," Jared said. "Good to finally meet the infamous Matt." Deep voice, nice, smooth. Heartbeat a little fast, arousal fast, but--he'd been talking about Foggy.

Also, presumably they'd come here to have sex. Probably he should make a polite and strategic retreat.

"Infamous?" Matt raised an eyebrow.

"Like you're not," Foggy said.

Matt shrugged. "Did you want the room? I was just about to head to the library anyway." He hadn't been, had just gotten comfortable with his notes spread out, but.

Foggy snorted. "You totally were not. Lemme just grab a couple things. That okay with you Jared?"

"Fine," Jared said. "I can get all the inside info about you from Matt. All the favorites, everything."

"I can do that," Matt said, grinning. He liked that Jared liked Foggy. Everyone should like Foggy. "Should I start with food, or activities?"

"Food sounds good," Jared said, sitting down next to Matt. Kind of close, their legs touching, but Jared didn't seem to think that was weird. Probably he was just touchy-feely, like Foggy was. "

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"I'm sorry about Jared," Matt blurted out. It was late Friday evening, and Foggy was over at Matt's apartment. They were both at the kitchen counter pouring over old files for a case ("a paying client, Matt!"), planning to work late into the night since at least they'd be able to sleep in tomorrow. Matt had already set a folded pile of his own sheets next to the couch, for when he inevitably forced Foggy to take the bed.

Foggy jerked up. "I'm quirking my brow at you," he said. "Quirking so hard. Jared? What the hell?"

Matt swallowed. "In college--" Foggy waved a hand.

"No, no, yeah. I mean. Matt. I know you're sorry. You said you were sorry. He was into you, you went for it, I didn't talk to you for like a week, it's over. Way over. Like years over." His heartbeat was just a little fast, but not lie fast. More just confused. He didn't know why Matt was bringing up Jared now. "Where did that even come from?"

Matt shrugged one shoulder. "I just--we agreed no more lies. About--what I can do. And I was thinking about him." He loathed to admit it, but he thought about Jared a lot. "So I wanted to say that I'm sorry again, now that you know."

"What the--now that I know what?"

"About me," Matt said, waving a hand at himself.

"Okay--what--" Foggy moved his hands around, trying to formulate a reply to that. Eventually he settled on sighing and, "Matt, what do your weird super ninja powers have to do with Jared cheating on me with you? Like at all. Because color me confused, buddy."

Matt wet his lips. He'd been thinking about this a lot recently--

("No more lies, Matt. Not about this. I can't--I'd leave. I'd have to."

"I won't, I promise, please, I promise, ask me anything--")

--and all lies about the devil, had to be confessed.

"I'm sorry because I could've stopped him. I--you know I could've. But I didn't. I didn't, even though I could've, and I'm sorry."

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"Matt? Hey!"

Matt fumbled with his book, turning his head towards the voice. He focused, picking out Jared's smell combination of detergent and skin lotion.

"Oh, hi Jared?"

"Mind if I sit?" Jared asked. Matt shook his head, and shortly felt Jared plop down right next to him on the bench. "Great day, right? You just out enjoying?"

"Yep," Matt said. "Just reading a book." he waved to it open on his lap.

"Oh yeah? Which one?" Before Matt could answer, Jared had put a hand on his shoulder and was leaning into and over him, a warm press against Matt's entire side. "Oh. Wow, okay, braille, yeah, I should've figured." He leaned back a little, no longer trying to read over Matt's shoulder, but otherwise stayed where he was. Matt shifted, not sure what to do. Was this normal? It had to be--Foggy did it, once in a while, some of the girls he studied with. But the latter usually--

Oh.

No, no it was pretty clear that Jared was into Foggy. Matt was just--wrong. He misinterpreted things all the time. This was just like that.

"Could I feel it?" Jared asked. "The only braille I've ever seen was the stuff on like, elevators." He--sounded genuinely interested. Yeah, Matt was just wrong.

"Sure," Matt said. He was about to hand over the book when Jared curled an arm around Matt's shoulder to scoot in even closer, the other arm dropping down to the pages spread out in Matt's lap. Matt swallowed, uncomfortable, but Jared seemed oblivious.

"This is really cool," Jared said, voice much closer, Matt could feel his breath as he exhaled, smell the mocha latte with a dash of caramel, but an undertone of spoiled milk. He swallowed again, blinking hard. No, that--didn't make sense. He tried to reign in his senses and almost missed Jared's, "What book is it?"

"Um, it's--" Jared's arm was gently squeezing Matt's shoulder, and it felt like it could be friendly, but Matt wasn't sure if he wanted it there. "It's The Handmaid's Tale. I'm writing a paper on the politics within the story and the ways they could and couldn't be exploited to potentially heal the society."

"That's awesome!" Jared said, giving Matt's shoulder another squeeze. Just friendly. And right, Jared was an English major, it made sense that he'd get excited about books. This was normal and it was fine. "What've you got so far? If I'm not bothering you."

There was no polite way to ask Jared to please stop--being himself, probably. And Foggy liked him. And he liked Foggy. And he was a nice guy, Matt just wasn't used to him without Foggy as a buffer. That's all. He managed a weak smile. "Well uh, my main point is that ruling an entire and vital branch of a population by fear is never going to end well--"

Jared really got into the discussion, and Matt actually found himself enjoying it.

He still breathed a sigh of relief when Jared said his goodbyes and slid off of the bench.

Ohhhhh god. I'm so here for this. Really good start anon omg

Eee, this is fantastic. Jared is such a creeper, but he's that kind who's subtle enough to make you doubt your own instincts. Poor Matt. Can't wait to see Foggy's reaction once everything is explained.

Oh GODS. The fact that we know the outcome - Foggy didn't speak to Matt for a week, but they got over it, and this kind of takes place post-Season 1 - only makes me more interested. It's like watching a feels trainwreck while knowing it'll only get WORSE. Because it WILL. Not only has Matt suffered a trauma and then had his best friend be angry at him, he also suffered through his best friend kindly 'forgiving' him and now Foggy knows the truth? SHIT.

I hope Foggy decides to hunt Jared down in whatever hole he's been in since Columbia and murder him.

OP: Ahhhh my god, this is fantastically well-written, first-off. Your dialogue flows so well and I love all the little details about Matt's senses. And Jared is an incredibly well-formed creep. He's insidious, but Matt's discomfort and doubts about him - his rationalization that he's probably just misinterpreting things, Jared's a good guy, he doesn't want to make a scene - is devastatingly realistic. And the fact that all this happened in college, and Matt has literally been living with it for years - the trauma of his assault and his misplaced guilt and Foggy blaming him and having absolutely no support - is just killing me. "He thought about Jared a lot." Ohhhhhhh, Matt. Breaking my heart. And Matt's whole thing about not wanting to lie and his issues about the devil? Oh man. I can't wait to see the fall-out of Foggy parsing what "I could've stopped him" really means and how he reacts and what happens next. Anyway this is excellent! Thank you for writing it.

Author!anon: Thank you for your detailed comment! I'm glad that you're liking my take on the fill.

I feel like I've read this story before somewhere.

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