daredevilkink | Daredevil Prompt Post #11

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It was late, so Vanessa waited until the morning. When Matthew didn’t show for breakfast – not that he was obligated to; there was a whole kitchen downstairs – she waited until he was most certainly awake and done with his own meal to knock on his door. “It’s me.”

“Come in,” Matthew said with resignation; he had to know what this was going to be at about. He had a little desk in his room where he’d set up his computer. The laptop screen was scratched to the point of being almost unreadable, but there was no reason that that would bother him. He worked from the external keyboard with a braille attachment. He pulled off the heavy headphones and stood as she entered. “Would you, um, like some tea or something?” There was an electric kettle on the counter.

“No, but thank you.” There was good furniture, even in the room was technically designed to also be a cell, because Wilson had taste.
Matthew got the jump on her. “She won’t be back. I emailed Foggy. After she hits bottom like that she sort of ...,” he said as he made a swooping gesture, “goes away.”

“She almost attacked you.”

He sat back and crossed his arms. “But she didn’t. And if she did, it wouldn’t have been personal.” Everything about his tone and posture said, I don’t want to talk about this.

“If someone threatens you –“

“She wasn’t threatening me.”

She revised her statement. “If it looks to us like someone is threatening you, it is very hard for us not take action.”

“I can take care of myself.”

“Like you were taking care of yourself when Wilson found you?”

“That’s not – “ But he couldn’t finish the sentence. It took him a while. She gave him the time. His voice trembled with rage. “This is different. And it’s my business, not yours.”

“Matthew,” she said very carefully, “If you tell me, and settle it in my mind, I won’t give Wilson any specifics, and he’ll forgive her more easily.”

Matthew chewed on that for a while. He fidgeted a lot – with the fabric on the arm of the chair, and with the wires of his headphones. “My law partner and I had a falling out after the Castle case. It was my fault. I gave him a chance to cut me loose, and I thought he did. But now he’s changed his mind. He didn’t send Jones. She came because she’s concerned about him, even though I did talk to him, told him I was okay. He didn’t believe me. But, why would he?” As he talked his hands went still as his concentration increased. “Do you know how the love of your life got me to come? He sent pictures of Karen and Foggy. Just – ordinary pictures, them meeting at a bar, with a label I could read. He didn’t even have to say anything because I knew exactly what he meant by it, and you must know. You know how he gets to people. How he tugs on their strings and gets them to dance. He doesn’t do it with you but ... you might be the only one.”
Nothing she could say would convince him that Wilson could be a good man, even a great man, when he didn’t feel threatened himself, so Vanessa didn’t try. She tried a different tack. “You gave yourself up because you didn’t want him to hurt your friends, even if, as you say, they weren’t your friends anymore.”

“Yes.”

“You would die for them.” She added, “That’s not a threat. But it’s true, isn’t it?”

“Of course it is.”

“Then maybe you can understand how they might feel a similar way about you,” she said. “When people suffer they always feel alone in their suffering, even the people closest to them are experiencing the exact same thing. You don’t know what lengths your friends would go to for you because you haven’t asked, but to send a dangerous woman against us, they must be very great.”

“I – I don’t want them to get involved. That’s the point of all this.”

“Clearly, they do not agree with you.”

Matt sighed. He was still housing a quiet fury, but wasn’t necessarily directed at her. And he was keeping it as much in check as he could. “What do you want me to do? Talk to Foggy? Tell him that he’s safe?”
“He’s your friend. He’s reaching out to you. Act according to your conscience, Matthew.”

This elicited a snort from him. “Usually when I act on my conscience, it doesn’t work out for people like Fisk.”

“Well, this time can be different.”

He didn’t really have a response. Not at first. “I’m not your project.”

“Please. I have many ways to amuse myself.” She walked over to him and ran her fingers along his face, where his hair and beard were still overgrown, if more neatly trimmed. He flinched, but he didn’t duck out of the way entirely. Fear was not his body’s only response. “Watching someone suffer is not something I enjoy. Especially when I have no cause.”

“And Fisk?”

“He’s a complicated person, but surely you’ve realized by now that he is not the ghoulish monster you imagined him to be,” she said. “I didn’t exactly have to talk him into taking care of you. He did that before I even arrived.”

Matthew was trying to glare at her – the glasses helped – but it was because he couldn’t contradict her. His jaw tightened as he searched for words. “Did you mean what you said – you won’t tell him about this conversation?”

“I’ll tell him about it,” she said. “We love each other. We share our lives. But no, he does not need every detail. I will be good to my word, Matthew, so long as you are good to yours.” Despite the trauma his body had recently experienced, his hair was still soft and silky, and looked adorable when she ran her hands through it and messed it up. He didn’t encourage it but he didn’t exactly stop her. “Despite what you may believe, we do want to see you get better. And not just your physical self.” She leaned over and kissed him on the top of the head. “Take care of your whole self, Matthew. That’s all we ask.”

She left before he could respond.

i continue to really love all these character interactions! (and also the moral ambiguity of the situation...)

Daredevil Prompt Post #11

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