Chapter One
The Reconnection
Ever since the death of the woman who could ever love him for who he is, to understand him and who could ever make him feel alive. He had loved this woman like no other woman he could ever love and now she is gone out of his life to whom he would leave his life, his city to follow wherever she goes, possibly create a real life with her if it's possible in which he had believed it is possible. Now that those dreams or goals are gone...Mathew Murdock had been trying to get back on his feet because he had been lacking to attend to his friend's business which he had told his friend to build his own business without him. Though if he were to get himself to reconnect...what sort of life is he suppose to do now since now he doesn't have the business with his friend anymore, his on his own now. He didn't just lose his first love and last, but he also lost his best friend since college and the woman he had thought he had loved before Elektra had come back creeping back into his heart. What is he suppose to do now? and what can he do now besides being the so-called "Daredevil"
Mathew woke up with a nightmare of the death of the one woman that made an imprint in his heart and in his mind once again just like the day she had left him during college, but this time, death had taken her away from him permanently. Mathew sat there on his bed panting quite heavily having to see her face as she lay in his arms dying with the tear in her eyes as it trickle down her soft smooth skin of her face up until he last dying breath. He could see that she was finally free from a fight that she didn't want to be a part of anymore but the pain that she didn't want to leave without him.
Mathew continued to sit on his bed pushing back his hair as he let out a heavy sigh and sweat from his forehead. He was just about to climb out of his bed to go and have a shower until he heard a knock at his door. He lifted his head to look towards the direction of the door wondering who it is at his door. He listened in carefully when he realize to whom it is at his door. He got out of bed, slide open his door of his room and headed for the door as he hears another knock and the voice to whom it belongs to.
"M-Mathew...are you there? It's me"
The door had opened and Mathew was still in shorts and bare chested not caring for that fact as his just wanted to see the person he had not seen nor spoken to after the separation of the Nelson and Murdock Lawyer business.
"Karen" he said her name which he did not say for a very long time.
The woman he had helped both as a lawyer and as the Daredevil. Ever since the loss of both woman in his life what more can he lose especially the biggest lose of the woman he had loved leaving a big hollow in his chest. He had told Karen about his secret, in being the Daredevil because he can't take it anymore keeping that secret from the ones that are important to him even if it causes them to leave him which Karen was shocked and angry at the same time for the fact that he had kept this from her especially having to leave her like she wasn't worth trusting with something like that when she had highly supported and backed up the Daredevvil when everyone else degraded the vigilanty.
Karen saw how he isn't fully dressed once he had opened the door. She blinked a couple of times in shock for the fact this is the first time she had ever seen him undressed like this. She shyly look away.
"Ah..Uhm" she stuttered her words having to be speechless.
Mathew realize as to why she is stuttering her words.
"Oh ah one sec..." He said as he headed for his room once more "Do come in" he said as he walked to his room.
He grabbed a pants and a shirt, slipping into them and headed back out and into the living room as Karen had entered inside and stood in the living room. Karen stared at him in silence before she slowly opened her mouth to speak her words out well more like a question.
"Those...scars. They're from all those times you had been injured, lying about your injuries when you were actually out there..."
Mathew heard her question about his scars. Mathew stared at her well of course sort of and looked away from her hearing her heart race with nervousness.
"Yes...they were all scars from the lies I had told you which was actually when I was being..."
"The Daredevil..." Karen had finished his sentences.
Mathew lifted his head again looking towards her again "Yes..." he confirmed it for her "Is that all you had came here for...Because I have other business to take care of..." he said not wanting to linger in the topic that will just have end up being left again.
Mathew hears her footsteps of her heels as she walks a little closer towards him "Matt...Don't push me away. Not this time" she began
"Your the one who had pushed me away and left me when I had told you the biggest secret"
"And I'm sorry for that...But we had promised each other we wouldn't lie to each other or keep secrets. You knew how I hate that" Mathew can sense how she's pouring her heart into the words she speaks.
"Karen..I kept it from you to protect you. Because telling you would have brought you into danger, it already had once before and I didn't..." he paused some "Want someone important as you to be dragged into it"
"But Foggy knew" she brought Foggy into her defense of not being one to be trusted with this secret, feeling like he didn't think she was strong enough to take care of herself with danger when she had already dealt with the bullshit in her life.
"That...was un-avoidable" he said
"How is it not when you had told him and trusted him with this big secret"
"No! No..he had came at the wrong time, a time when I was badly injured in need of help and he just happened to come to be there" Mathew explained to how he had known about his secret.
Karen stared at him as she placed her index finger against her lips as she think about all those times again when he had lied about his injuries. She closed her eyes.
"K-Karen..?" he said she name feeling a little uneasy for the fact that she had gone silent on him.
Karen shook her head and looked back at Mathew "I just...I wanted to take those time to think about everything..." she spoke her reasons for leaving and not having to get back to him until now, well that is what he had felt "But Matt...I had tried to get a hold of you but you seem to have shut yourself away from the world. I got worried, I got worried when I had wanted to speak with you when I was...ready. Did...did something happened?" she asked him
Mathew stayed silent for a few moments as his expression showed pain for the thought of what had caused him to be the way he was and now. He then suddenly felt a gentle touch of a hand which could only mean one thing, it's Karen's hand. Something he hadn't felt for a very long time and it felt...good.
"Please tell me..." Mathew can sense that she's worried about him.
Mathew placed a hand against her own and grabbed it from a few moments before he tilted his head slightly then taking her hand away from his face, holding her hand for a few moments before letting go and walked away, walking to one of the couches.
"Mathew...?"
Mathew closed his eyes and exhaled before he spoke once he found his words to tell her about what happened to him "Do you remember the woman that was with me at that time, the time when you came in to get me for that court with Frank" he asked her if she could still remember that time.
"Yes..."
Mathew placed a hand at the back of his neck "That woman...her name was Elektra. A woman who I fell in love with during my college years and..." he turned his head as if he is to look at her but speak to her directly showing that he is serious "A woman who also was fighting a war that I have been..."
"Someone like you?" she said
"Not quite...but yes. But someone who had a different fate though it had cost her...life" he said as he grip his hands into a fist tightly, trying to be strong "She didn't deserve it...she didn't deserve to have her life ended. I was...I was willing to leave this life behind and g with her, away from here because I believed she could change. We could be together but now that dream and goal is gone" he clenched his teeth together trying not to break but then he found himself being pulled into an embrace, a warm embrace he hadn't felt from her for a long time when they were together dating.
"I'm so sorry Matt..." she said hugging him tightly "I didn't know she was someone from your past...I didn't know" she said to him in his ear as she hugs him close against him. But Mathew can hear her heart and the strain in her voice for the fact that she is hurting from what he had said to her, the possibility when he said he is willing to drop everything to go anywhere and have a life with her.
"I'm sorry I had hurt you all those years..." he said as he slowly pushed her away from him, pulling away from the hug and looked at her.
Karen shook her head "No it's okay. I understand it now...and I should be happy that the person I had been backing up was someone I had known and been close beside all this time" she said with a smile "But Mathew...let me help you be reconnected to the world again..." she said to him.
"I'd appreciate that..." he said
