To Kill A Mockingbird

Prologue: A Blind Date

She applied a faint blush to highlight the cheekbones, a touch of mascara and painted her lips red. Not the delicious Russian Red that she used frequently during the wild days (and nights) at the university but the red she was using the night was lighter but deeper, that gave her full lips a meaningful shade of unquestionable morality behind it, the one that hinted not screamed.

Sighing Adeline checked with her fingertips for both earnings and send another look in a small mirror in her hands.

"Miss, you wanna go somewhere else or what, eh? Cause it's been ten minutes already." The drivers gruff voice was thick with accent. Middle eastern was the best she could place it.

"I had an impression I was paying you for your time. At least that's what the ticking meter tells me. So as long as we have a contract, and that's what you have with every client of yours de facto, you're going to be polite and quiet and will patiently wait while I decide how I want to use this time I'm paying you for." Adeline was always told that her voice was soft and velvet-ry. She wouldn't comment on that but it appeared pretty persuasive when she needed it to be.

The man behind the wheel opened his mouth to say something but decided against it and just huffed under his nose.

Adeline started playing with the golden ring on the point finger of her right hand as her gaze turned to the window. Her fingers grazed little stones on the band as the water smoothes the cliffs. The repeated action had a calming effect on a young woman.

8 hours earlier...

"No."

"Come on, Addie!" Amy's cheerful voice filled the line and Adeline had to involuntarily cringe. "You've been in the city for how long? Three months now and your love life is still non-existent. Tell me you don't see the wrong in it."

"Am, my love life is non-existent as you so eloquently put it because I choose not to date at the moment. I'm focused on my career which may I remind you is in a very good place right now. So I'm sorry if I don't feel like littering my time with disposable relationships."

"Fine." Amy responded after a small pause. "You don't wont relationships. But you can't honestly tell me that you don't miss sex. Just physical straight-forward animal sex. For health."

Adeline took her time to put a strand of her light brown locks behind her ear and smoothed the rest of her hair.

"And the blonde wins. By your silence I conclude that I'm right."

"Not completely." Her friend answered. "Though you are partly right: I certainly miss that part."

"You sound like an ADA." Amy dragged lazily.

"I am an ADA." Adeline confirmed, checking that the door to her office was closed.

"God you're a killjoy sometimes, Mockingbird!"

Adeline chuckled at her friend's slightly childish behavior but bit her lower lip slightly before saying:

"Tell me about the guy."

"Mmmmm, there's my old smokin' shmexy friend..."

"Don't say another word for a couple seconds, Amy. My mind was just blown. Please, I need to regain mental strength to keep listening to you..."

"Told you: a total killjoy." She laughed loudly right into her phone which translated double volume into Adeline's ear. "Anyway, he's a friend of my high school buddy. The guy was a serious weird back when we were in school but apparently he's in law now. Hello, The Good Wife, right? So, we bumped into each other the other day when I was grocery shopping and he was grocery shopping..."

"Where is the part where you tell me about the person you set me on a blind date with?"

"Stop interrupting, will you?" The sounds that were coming from the cell indicated that either Amy put something like popcorn in her mouth or she was being eaten alive by Godzilla. "Where was I? Oh, your guy, right. In the midst of our choosing an octopus he says that he has that single friend and I happen to have a very attractive single friend. Apparently his friend is a lawyer too. Nel showed me the picture and let me tell, he's one fine piece of man..."

"Amy, you're awful." Adeline had to cover her eyes to hide the shame for her friend's comments. And why the hell people talk single friends when they buy seafood was beyond her.

Present time...

She spotted him as soon as she entered the restaurant. In a room full of people he was sitting alone at the table served for two.

Adeline had to admit that he looked almost the way Amy has described him when they talked in the morning: athletic, handsome with pleasant features and though she shouldn't admit it but he did seem like a very...nice man species. And he was a lawyer, hence intelligent at least to certain degree. Apart from a healing gash on the right side of his temple he seemed like a jackpot.

And then a young ADA froze half way to the table. Grading him and trying not to miss any detail that could tell her about his personality she failed to see the most obvious thing. Why was he wearing dark shades inside?... After that she spotted the cane.

It hit her like a wall of bricks:

She was on a blind date with a blind person. Yep, Irony was a bitch.

A\N:

Hey, guys! Welcome, welcome! It's my first Daredevil story so keep it in mind. If you've ever read my stories, you know that I research pretty well when it comes to fanfiction. Most of the time! Well let me assure you, this time I've got a good feeling about the story.

Let me know what you think of the character, Adeline. I'm very impatient to know!

If the story gets positive feedback, promise to post and not keep you waiting!

So good to be here! Can't wait to hear from you. Xo

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