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Dammit, your enthusiastic responses have spurred me on. Since I'm pressed for time and energy, these will all be dialogue-only, as that's much less taxing and also a fun exercise.

Things You Can Tell
Four conversations Melvin Potter had with a friend of Mr. Daredevil.

1. Claire

"Hello. I don't know this phone number, so that means I don't know who you are. If you are trying to make me buy things, I don't need to buy more things except food and stuff like that. And maybe new needlenose pliers."

"Please look out the peephole and unlock the door."

"What? I don't understand...oh. Oh no. Oh nononono. I'll let you in."

"Thank you so much. Help me get him on the sofa."

"He's not dead, right?"

"No. He's hurt. It isn't too bad, thanks to your work, but he hurt his...how do I explain...uh, he hurt himself in a way that he can't take the armor off himself. I help him when he's hurt, but his armor is new and..."

"I can't tell what he's saying!"

"He's in a lot of pain right now, so he can't talk well. I don't know how to take all the armor off him. Can you help? I can do the parts on his face. Just show me how to get this bit off. And this bit."

"I can help you take them off, but then I'm going to my room until you're done doing doctor things...here's a pillow...because when I see lots of it I throw up. Here's the first part. See the clasp? I know you're going to do doctor things because of your mask. Okay, this has a fastening here, here, here, here. I know he doesn't want me to see his face. Ohhhhhhh I need to go to my room now. Tell me when to come out."

"I will. Thank you again."

Claire and Melvin! I didn't know I wanted to see these two interact, but this was lovely. ~~Matt, stop bleeding everywhere~~

LOVE IT. I never thought about Claire having this particular problem, but it makes total sense, as do Melvin's reactions. I look forward to more.

Foggy

"See, Melvin? Here's the Captain America shield you made me when we were ten. It's really me. I'm a lawyer now, like I said."

"Yes! You still have it! It looks really good. The paint was just acrylic and I didn't know back then about varnish and things..."

"Well, yeah, buddy, you were just a kid. I remember how you fixed my toy truck, too. I thought you were the greatest. I felt bad about not talking to you anymore after we went to different middle schools."

"It's okay. You were nice to me and that was important. I'm sorry I forgot your face and your name. I don't remember faces and I only remember the names of people I see a lot, or that wear the same clothes every time I see them. Like in cartoons."

"Let's agree that we're both awesome and stop apologizing."

"Um, okay?"

"Now that I proved that I'm your friend, like I promised, please come with me. My friends Matt and Karen and I are going to make sure that the police know how wrong they are for thinking you're a criminal."

"Are we walking or taking a cab? I don't like taking cabs for a long time. They're small and the driver gets mad if you forgot your wallet because you were thinking about other stuff."

"We're walking. It's really close."

"I'll get my bag. Should I bring my letter from the Disability Office? Betsy says that if I have to talk to doctors or police or lawyers I should take the letter. I mean, you're my friend so I think you're not a normal lawyer, but there's the other. Um. I'll bring it."

"Sounds good. Do you have Betsy's phone number?"

"Uh huh. Should I call her? She might be busy helping other people like me but she says I can leave a message and she'll call me back in one day or less. She does, too."

"No, it's fine, it's good, we'll call her from the office. Let's go."

"How did you know I needed a lawyer, Foggy? I don't talk to people much if they're not Betsy or Grandma or they want me to make things for them."

"That, uh, Daredevil guy. He told me some people told the police you made things for Fisk, and you needed help explaining to the police that you only worked for Fisk because you were afraid not to."

"I said no and no and no and then they said they were gonna hurt Betsy so I said yes and I didn't want to I really -"

"Hey, it's okay. Stop and breathe. I believe you, and we're going to fix this."

3. Karen

"I brought you some water. You've been busy."

"Thank you, Miss Page. Your printers are very old. I haven't seen a Braille one before. I like it. Hand me the number three screwdriver, please?"

"Sorry, I don't know which one that is."

"Oh. Sorry. It's this one. I call the tools different numbers in my head. I forget other people don't know what the numbers are."

"Foggy keeps getting confused when I ask him about different colors we could paint the walls - I think taupe would be nice, but he doesn't know which is taupe and which is beige. Maybe it's a little like that. Also, please call me Karen."

"Okay. Um. Karen, your printer-for-people-who-see works now, I think. There's some kind of jam in this Braille one. Jam like a thing that's stuck, not like you'd put on toast. That confused me for a long time."

"I don't think traffic jam would taste great."

"No. Thank you for letting me fix the printers and the air conditioning in your office. I know that's a weird thing to say. But Foggy and Matt are talking to police and a judge and I don't want to think about what they're saying right now. If I can make things or fix things, I don't think about things I don't want to think about."

"Melvin, do you like hugs?"

"I like hugs from nice people if they aren't a surprise."

"Can I hug you?"

"Yeah."

4. Matt

"Hi, can I come in?"

"Of course. I thought you'd gone home."

"I did go part of the way. I was going to celebrate by watching TV and having some cake by myself. Some kinds of happy are nice with other people and some kinds of happy are nicer by myself. I'm happy you and Foggy and Karen talked to the police and now I'm not in trouble. But it's tired happy, and that kind of happy is better alone and quiet."

"But you came back."

"Oh, right, sorry. Can I sit? Thank you. I think Foggy and Karen are gone now. If they aren't gone I can whisper."

"They went home. You sound nervous. Are you all right?"

"When the lights go out, you can still tell where everything is, because you can't see anyway."

"Yes."

"I can't remember faces, Matt. I see them when I look at them, but the parts don't put themselves together in my brain. I can see a smile or a frown, or if someone's crying, but the rest is too hard for me. Sometimes I forget what color their eyes or hair are. It doesn't stick. So if I want to tell if a person is someone I know, I have to look at other things, or listen. I don't try as hard with most people because it's tiring, but if someone is very important I look and listen to everything. I want to know them when they're there."

"...Go on."

"When you walk into a room, Matt, you tilt your head the way - the way Mr. Daredevil does, when he walks in a room. When you laugh a small laugh, not a big one, it sounds like how he laughs. When you're tired, you walk the way he does when he's tired. You cough the same and sneeze the same. When you pick up your cane, sometimes you make the little 'urgh' sound a kid does when he doesn't want to wear a seatbelt in a car but his grandma says he has to. Mr. Daredevil made that sound when the lady helping him when he was hurt told him to rest tomorrow. I hope you did rest, because I think you're Mr. Daredevil."

"Um."

"I won't tell anybody. Mr. Daredevil and Mr. Matt Murdock have both helped me, and you both do good things. If you are the same person but it's safer for other people not to know that, I won't tell anybody ever. I bet other people don't think you can do stuff they can't do. All they think about is what you can't do that they can."

"You certainly know how that feels."

"Yeah. You're not mad, right?"

"No, though I think I need your help learning how to be more careful."

"We all need help sometimes. I - I like that you know I can give help too."

the way you write all the characters makes me want to hug every one of them.

Yay there's more! And it is also great. And sweet. I like all these views.

Luv it! This is the first time I've seen Melvin and MATT intereact. I love minor characters like Brett and Melvin

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