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Daredevil Prompt Post #11
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Fill: Batdevil 1/?
(Anonymous) 2016-08-19 05:09 am (UTC)(link)Matt's animosity toward benefactors is based on personal experience. Donating to worthy causes is great and you should feel great. Demanding a photo op with two particular children and having a mini-tantrum (as a 55 year old man) when a third child wants to beam for your photo op leaves me feeling rather uncharitable about a charitable donation.
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Matt had been prepared to hate the latest cause for the Sad Blind Orphan Show. Rich person shows up, rich person wants to meet one of the Unfortunate Worthy Children their money would benefit, some unlucky orphan got stuck with the overbearing rich person convinced that their check would change everyone’s lives in some more dramatic way than paying to fix the leaking roof.
Matt had been sitting the back of history class fuming and pretending that he didn’t realize that Mr. Henderson had given him the exact same set of worksheets three times before. Fuming that his name had already been mentioned to the rich guy downstairs was a good distraction. The other times the worksheet mix-up had happened, Sister Margaret had chided that Mr. Henderson should label the curriculum in pen so that he’d be sure to give Matt the correct sheets or that Matt should just have the entire history set so he could work at his own pace. Both of those times Mr. Henderson had read the instructions to the next packet out loud like Matt was a baby in front of the whole class before loudly announcing he’d get back to his students who could see the board.
Mr. Henderson preferred to teach history through a long series of illustrations on the chalkboard. He was a good storyteller, and he did know a lot of history, but he seemed frustrated that Matt had no benefit from some kind of emphatic pointing or the pictures. Mr. Henderson was one of many well-intentioned people that thought that as soon as a kid couldn’t see there was no use in putting much work into a defective student. He couldn’t imagine living without his sight and he couldn’t think of any careers that would take an education and no sight, so he didn’t even pay enough attention to notice that Matt turned in duplicate answers for the duplicate history assignments. During the history lectures that didn’t make sense without the chalkboard, like the current long explanation about how the borders of the thirteen colonies had been sorted out, Matt caught up on his math homework. Sister Margaret taught math and said (honestly) that she liked the intellectual challenge of trying to find better ways to explain geometry.
The man downstairs talking to Sister Agnes should have been as annoying as Mr. Henderson. He’d shown up in a really nice car and with his own driver. The driver was British and actually stood completely still without fidgeting while other people talked. As far as Matt could tell, the British man hadn’t moved the entire time that Bruce Wayne and Sister Agnes were talking about Matt’s trust fund.
Matt wasn’t supposed to know about the trust fund. He also wasn’t supposed to know that Stick was drawing out of it or that a few days after Stick left Bruce Wayne had left a message on the answering machine that had all of the sisters talking with Father Fitzpatrick for two hours. Bruce Wayne had decided to show up to the orphanage in person and he was having a serious talk with Sister Agnes about setting up college scholarships for every single person there through the Wayne Foundation just because it was nice to be a billionaire and solve everything through money. He just got out his checkbook and that was it.
Matt tucked his math worksheets away just in time. Sister Agnes didn’t know much Braille but she would recognize Sister Margaret’s notes on top of the packet. The clear, firm penstrokes were deep enough Matt thought he could understand what she’d written. He was pretty sure it was precisely what she’d put in Braille underneath.
Just as he set the history packet on top, there was a single rap on the door before it opened. “I’m sure you won’t mind if I borrow Matthew, Mr. Henderson,” Sister Agnes said calmly. Just as always, her voice was polite and even, but Mr. Henderson still stuttered as if she had treated him like a baby in front of everybody. Matt hid his smile as he tucked his work into his bookbag. “I believe that I’ll keep him for the rest of this period, actually, Carry on.”
Halfway down the staircase, Sister Agnes turned toward him. He knew that she was smiling. She liked him and said in the sisters-only meetings that some of the teachers weren’t giving him half enough credit. “We have a benefactor that would like to have a word with you, Matthew.”
Matthew nodded. This was part of why he was ready to really dislike Mr. Wayne. Most benefactors wanted fawning thanks and hand-written letters and pictures of themselves with poor orphaned children to show their friends later. Matt had done more than his share of pictures and in-person meetings. The poor orphan blind kid always made the benefactors happy that they were helping a Worthy Child, whatever they thought that meant, and he hadn’t punched a benefactor yet.
Sister Agnes led them to the smaller conference room. If he’d been paying attention, he would have noticed that they used the smaller room. It had the tiny air conditioner that rattled when it was plugged in even when it wasn’t turned on. Almost every rich benefactor wanted the large conference room, instead, with the huge windows that pointed toward the playground.
“Here’s Matthew,” Sister Agnes said to the two men. She had her hand resting on his shoulder. “Matthew, these gentlemen are Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth.”
“Pleased to meet you,” Matt said automatically, holding his hand toward the recognizable rich man.
“Likewise,” Bruce replied with a firm handshake. He stepped back to let the other man shake, too, instead of leaving the group to flail. “Would you please take a seat? There’s an open chair four feet to your left. Thank you, Sister,” he added as Sister Agnes left.
Matt felt for the promised chair and decided maybe Wayne wasn’t all bad. Sister Agnes had left, which she never did when she had a single idea she didn’t like the donor, and Wayne had been right on with where the chair was. Some people forgot even when he had his cane.
“A friend of mine told me about Stick,” Wayne said bluntly when all three had taken a seat. “She’s actually furious that she didn’t realize while he was training you and sends her apologies. Stick and his like belong to a splinter group that left her organization. She still feels responsible for many of the actions that they take.”
Matt blinked. “May I ask who your friend is?” he asked cautiously. He didn’t expect an answer, really, but he wasn’t sure how else to respond to that beginning.
“Talia al Ghul,” Bruce replied. His heartbeat was steady. His driver wasn’t at all shocked that he’d just told a kid that his teacher used to kind of work for the daughter of the Demon’s Head. “Friend is perhaps over-generous, but on occasion we have the same goal,” he amended.
“People don’t just tell kids that,” Matt said, head tilted.
He had thought the challenge would annoy the man. Instead Bruce seemed pleased. “You’re the one that kept Stick’s attention for a near-record streak,” he said mildly. “In any case, being very honest now will save a lot of trouble later. From Stick’s presence alone I know that you are incredibly gifted. Your grades did not suffer even with very… immersive lessons.”
Matt couldn’t figure out how the pieces fit together. Bruce seemed to be implying that the two of them would keep having a relationship or something, and that wasn’t usual donor behavior, but if he had something nasty in mind Matt couldn’t sense it and Sister Agnes had left them alone. Besides, Bruce was leaving him time to think it through, which wasn’t what he would try if he wanted a thank-you for the check. He hadn’t even mentioned the trust fund or the scholarships. Just Stick. “You want to teach me?” he blurted.
Bruce sounded very pleased when he replied. “Yes, I do,” he said. “I was a high-energy young man myself and Alfred quickly realized that having some spare time for martial arts kept me from improvising them on my own. Alfred is the man who raised me after my parents died.”
Matt had forgotten that. Bruce Wayne was an orphan. His parents had been shot right in front of him when he was a kid. “I don’t think I want to get adopted,” he said, lips pressed together. “And more just for learning. Stick was helping me figure out how to get around even though I’m blind. My dad didn’t want me to fight.”
“If you’d prefer, we can stay with non-contact,” Bruce replied. “I prefer to offer so that you don’t have this outlet cut away abruptly. The sisters don’t have the space or people to manage a gym on site.”
Matt nodded slowly. If they had even a punching bag, the older kids would always hog it and probably break it long before anyone thought to let the blind kid have his turn.
“I imagine the two of you will do nicely,” Alfred said kindly. “Knowing how to defend yourself is also important, Mr. Murdock. Sister Agnes mentioned that you have some interest in law. My background is in theater. You may think these are unrelated but I assure you there is no small amount of theater in managing a case in a courtroom. I would be pleased to offer tips about this if your interest continues.”
“It’s your choice,” Bruce said gently. “I have a son around your age, actually, also an orphan. He’ll be pestering me by the end of the day that he’d like to meet you.”
Matt already knew what his answer was going to be. There was still a part of him that hurt from Stick leaving like that. Those doubts were a little easier to silence with just the idea that a billionaire wanted to do a martial arts club with him. Plus, if it didn’t go well, Sister Agnes and Sister Margaret would kick out the bishop if that’s what it took for the kids to be safe. Plus Bruce still hadn’t mentioned the money. He’d talk about Stick and being friends with Talia al Ghul but he didn’t think money mattered all that much. The benefactors he disliked most wanted to hear all about how their money would help.
“I’d like that,” Matt said. Plus, if a couple of the other kids knew that Matt had even talked to Bruce Wayne, they’d want to hear something and for once Matt might have something to say. “When can we start?”
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(Anonymous) 2016-08-26 12:22 am (UTC)(link)So glad that you liked it! Daredevil is already red Batman without the money (or an Alfred, sadly) so it feels very natural for the two of them to be close.