Notes: This chapter is pretty short, and it is the first time I have written in Jessica's point of view, so hopefully it turns out okay. Thank you for reading!

Jessica looked through the photographs she had just taken. Hopefully her client wouldn't take her husband's infidelity as badly as her previous one had. Why did people want her to catch their cheating spouses in the act if they weren't going to accept what she found? Of course, sometimes what they really wanted was proof that they were wrong, that their husband or wife had been faithful to them all along and there was a perfectly reasonable explanation for all the late nights at work and extra business trips. Unfortunately, it was rare that they were wrong. As long as they paid her, it wasn't her problem, except when they decided to come after the messenger.

At least she hadn't had to break the door last time. She had replaced the "Alias Investigations" sign enough. It would be nice to keep it there for awhile.

She was just putting the photos into an envelope when Malcolm barged into the apartment.

"Could you try knocking?"

Malcolm just shrugged and walked over behind her. "What are you working on?"

"Just the usual, some jackass cheating on his wife."

"Well, at least you're getting a lot of work."

"I know, but it's been awhile since I had anything interesting."

"Didn't the last guy take a swing at you? That's pretty interesting."

"I meant, interesting to investigate."

"Anything for me to do?"

Jessica stared at him. "Does it look like I have anything for you to do? Besides, I thought you had a big test to study for."

Malcolm was back to school, working on his social work degree. Jessica had been glad he was able to get his life back together after being Kilgraved. She was still working on that.

Malcolm shrugged. "I think I've got enough studying in for the night."

"Well, you might as well get some more studying in, because I don't have anything that I need help with right now."

"Well, just let me know if you need anything," Malcolm said.

"Will do."

As Malcolm walked out, Jessica looked at the other two cases sitting on her desk. More of the same. She realized that she should probably be grateful there wasn't anything related to The Hand or Kilgrave. As far as she could tell, they were both gone.

She hated thinking about everything that had happened at Midland Circle and those crazy ninjas or whatever they were.

"And people call me a freak," Jessica muttered as she took a sip of her whiskey. "At least I'm not a zombie."

She was just grateful those zombies couldn't control her. Between The Hand and Kilgrave, she had just about had it with crazy crap. At least they both seemed to be gone.

Not without a sacrifice though. She could still see that building crashing down, knowing that Matt was still down there.

She pushed the thoughts out of her mind as she took another sip of her whiskey. She had cases to focus on.

Jessica was starting to look at her next case's Facebook profile when there was a knock on the door.

Probably yet another person wanting her to take photos of a cheating partner. It would be nice to get a different kind of case for once.

Jessica walked up to the door and opened it to find someone she hadn't expected. How crazy to see Karen Page after she had just been thinking about Midland Circle. The last time she had seen her, she had been crying with her friend, the lawyer who worked for Hogarth. Thinking about it brought back the feelings of guilt, even if there wasn't much more she could have done.

"Hi, Jessica Jones? My name is…"

"I know who you are," Jessica said. "The question is, what is a reporter for the Bulletin doing here? I don't do interviews."

"I'm not here to interview you. I was actually hoping to hire you."

Jessica raised an eyebrow. Well, she was looking for something different. Maybe today was her lucky day.