Chapter 7: Who with Who now?
Jessica immediately protested but then decided the blackmail that would come out of this could be handy, as well as hilarious. There wasn't too much protesting other wise and though the others weren't too much for it Danny was too excited to do anything else. Matt guessed he hadn't been to high school or even been to real parties unlike the rest of them. He'd let the kid have his experience.
"I'll start then," Trish said raising a shot. "And you're all about to take a shot. Never have I ever been arrested."
Ever single person took a drink except Matt and Foggy. Karen looked at them both. "What do you mean you haven't been arrested?"
"Blind man," Matt shrugged. "Never got anything evident against me either."
"Lawyer who's friends with a blind man," Foggy agreed. "They've had no reasons to arrest me."
"So what about the rest of you?" Trish asked. "What were you arrested for?"
"False charge of murder," Karen said.
"Teenage vandalism," Misty shrugged.
"Getting in a fight and using a katana," Colleen put in.
"Breaking in, drunken fights and a bunch of other shit," Jessica said taking a large swig.
"Everyone thought I was homeless and crazy saying I was Danny Rand," Danny blushed as he added in. "I might have broken into my old apartment and a few offices too."
"Being a drug addict under Kilgrave's control," Malcolm said.
"Falsely under Stryker's lies and then a bunch of times with Cottonmouth and Mariah as all that went down," Luke told them.
"For helping these guys," Claire agreed. "And Never Have I Ever been shot."
Jessica, Luke, Matt, Danny, Foggy and Misty drank.
"Never Have I Ever used a martial art besides street fighting," Jessica said.
Colleen, Claire, Trish, Matt, Danny and Misty drank.
"Which ones?" Colleen asked.
"A large mix," Matt told her. "Same as you and Danny."
"I'm learning Krav Ma Ga and some others like Jiujitsu," Trish said downing her shot.
"I don't even know what Colleen's been teaching me," Claire said. "But I was mixed up in enough to have to learn some."
"My turn," Claire said looking around her. "Never have I ever had a run in with some toxic waste."
Luke, Jessica and Matt all drank. Then suddenly they met each other's eyes. Luke looked at them. "I thought you were accidents?"
"I thought you were a prison experiment," Matt agreed.
"One where they used toxic waste," Luke said. "But Jess you were in a car crash."
"With a truck carrying toxic waste," Jessica said.
"But that's what happened to Matt!" Foggy cried. "He pulled an old man out of the way of a crashing truck as the barrels of the stuff fell."
"Got all over me," Matt agreed. "Which is why I can do all the stuff I can, and I'm blind."
"That's just too crazy," Malcolm said. "There's no way it's a coincidence."
"I agree," Trish said.
"You said you'd drop it," Jessica reminded her.
"Drop what?" Karen asked.
"Files on who owned the truck that crashed into Jess's family's car," Trish said as Jessica glared at her.
"Mind if I take a look at that?" Karen said as her eye's gleamed.
"Sure," Trish said. "You're articles are great by the way."
"I love Trish Talk too," Karen gushed.
"I've been wanting to take more of an investigative angle with it," Trish admitted.
"You two can scheme after," Foggy said. "I'm going to go. Never Have I Ever lived outside of Hell's Kitchen."
Everyone but Matt drank and Foggy held up his hand for a high five which Matt sighed and complied with.
"Never Have I ever been on television," Malcolm said.
Every single person drank then too except for Colleen and Claire.
"Kilgrave," Jessica said.
"Cottonmouth," Luke agreed.
"I'm a cop," Misty said. "It happens."
"On the Fisk and Punisher cases," Foggy said after thinking. "I think that's it."
"That and being Daredevil," Matt nodded.
"That's Patsy," sighed Trish. She was thankful when no one commented.
Colleen looked at Misty and Claire then donned an evil grin. "Never Have I ever done more than had a conversation with Luke."
"What?" Luke asked looking around.
Jessica, Claire and Misty all reached for the drinks downing them as everyone else laughed.
"Man," Foggy said. "You get around Luke."
"Not really," Luke said.
"You were married once too," Jessica reminded him. "And I met you on a case? Remember?"
"Before you got into bar fights," Luke shot back. "And shot me in the head."
"Mind control," Jessica said. "I was saving you from Mind control."
"That's how I met him," Claire chuckled. "Trying to give him anesthesia so we could help him then taking him out of the hospital to your apartment while we talked so I could help him."
"When was this?" Matt asked.
"Before I moved from Hell's Kitchen and the hand attacked," Claire said. "But I met Luke again when I moved into Harlem."
"Only after I did," Misty told her.
Luke rolled his eyes. "Whatever. You guys are all over that now. I am too. We're all friends."
All the girls glared at him and Luke shrunk back. The others laughed at him and he joined chuckling in. "Fine. Never have I ever had a super hero name, or even thought of one."
Jessica groaned taking a shot as Matt and Danny did too.
"Wasn't my choice," Matt said. "It's what they call me."
"But you have it," Danny said. "What about you Jess? I've only heard you go by Jessica Jones."
"Because Trish is the only one who tried to get me to go by something else and I'll murder anyone who calls me it," Jessica said.
"What was it?" Matt asked curiously.
"Jewel, or Power girl," Trish laughed slightly tipsy.
"Jewel?" Malcolm asked her. "You could seriously see Jessica going by jewel?"
"No," Jessica said. "You can't and none of you will."
Foggy sensed something was about to go bad and spoke up. "Never have I ever dated or hooked up with any one here."
Every single person except Malcolm and Trish took a shot then too. Misty looked around curiously. "We know about Luke now. What about the rest of you?"
"Just Luke," Jessica said.
Karen giggled drunkenly. "You guys are cute. You should come on a double date with me and Matt. That's why I drank by the way."
"We're not dating," both of them said.
"Sure," Danny said.
"Well what about you then Danny?" Jessica challenged.
"I've only dated Colleen."
"Danny's the only thing relevant here too," Colleen agreed.
"Karen," Matt answered. "And Claire."
Everyone turned to Claire. Luke raised an eyebrow at her. She blushed. "Matt's the first person I met here."
"Wait," Trish said. "Just curious. Who besides me hadn't met Claire before the precinct last month? Raise of hands?"
Only Karen raised her hand leaving everyone to stare at Claire again. Claire rolled her eyes. "I get mixed up in this shit. Not my fault a vigilante ended up in my dumpster and made me help him interrogate a Russian mobster for a kid's location so he could save him."
Everyone turned to Matt. "You didn't really protest."
"You wouldn't tell me your name, and told me that I had to hide out because they knew where I lived after," Claire told him. "That was only the first time. I became his official nurse after. Which is how I met Foggy, when he called me when Matt was bleeding out on the floor."
"When was this?" Karen demanded.
"Which time?" Foggy deflected. Karen glared at him and he sighed. "The first and most serious was a guy called Nobu."
"He was an underling of the Hand," Matt nodded. "They were trying to transport one of their possible Black Sky's. Stick killed the kid though. Like Elektra."
Claire nodded. "Yeah. Which is how I got mixed up in this. I was still at Metro General when Jessica brought Luke in. I met Malcolm watching Luke at her apartment. Didn't see either of them after that. Then the Hand came after people at Metro General when they got mixed up in something with Matt. That's when I quit when people I was friends with got killed. Moved back to Harlem, ran into Luke again."
Luke looked at her. "That's why you were living with your mom?"
"Why I am," she corrected. "Still was mixed up in all that shit even when I tried to escape it. Didn't I? Followed you to Georgia and waited for you when you got arrested. Or at least decided to and try and protect myself meanwhile by training with Colleen."
"Which is how you met Danny," Colleen said. "I knew you'd heard of the Hand before. You had said something before we went to China."
"You went to China too?" Matt asked her.
She shrugged. "Wasn't really talking to you to tell you. Was I? Either way when I came back Luke did too soon after and all of this happened."
There was a few moments of silence. Then Malcolm looked at her. "So you meet all these Super powered people and never introduce them?"
"I did," she said.
"She did," Colleen, Luke and Danny agreed.
Luke shook his head. "I was chasing down a lead and Danny and I got in a fight. I mentioned it to Claire and there's only so many people with glowing fists out there."
"Yeah," Danny agreed. "I guess meeting up didn't go so well. We're friends now though. But you never said anything about Matt or Jessica."
"I knew Luke knew Jessica," Claire answered him. "Why did I need to introduce any one else. As for Matt, he was retired… or he said he was. Either way since I met Matt I've pretty much been a superhero nurse. More than even a real one at this point."
"I actually wanted to talk to you guys about that," Colleen said. "The hospital Misty and Matt were in.."
"The one Danny owns?" Misty asked grinning.
"Yeah," Danny nodded. "Well, I own another small hospital. More of a clinic in Hell's kitchen. I was going to ask Claire to run it."
"I'm not really qualified for that," Claire told him.
"You are," Colleen said. "I've looked everything up. I'm sure we can go over the laws with our Lawyer friends here too."
"Either way I was hoping to use it to help people," Danny said. "For free, and now we could use one of the private rooms in the back for Vigilantes or heroes who need help. Seems like you're a nurse for all of us anyway."
"I'll think about it," Claire told him.
"It's a good idea," Luke told Danny. "A free clinic for everyone."
"And G-d knows Matt needs a superhero clinic," Foggy agreed laughing as Matt whacked him lightly on the shin with his cane.
"I also had something for you Misty," Danny said. "Colleen asked about it. It's our fault you can't work right now. But Rand Enterprises has been working with Stark Industries. Medical science is one of the fields both have been focusing on recently. This prosthetic is top of the line."
Misty opened the case that was put on her lap and looked at the flashing bronze and grinned. "Flashy."
"That works?" Malcolm asked.
Danny nodded. He started to talk to Misty about the arm as Claire discussed the legal things about running a superhero clinic with Foggy. Trish and Karen were far into their own talk about investigating this toxic waste mystery and Matt smiled watching before Colleen started to pester him with a few other questions like what he knew about the chaste among other things.
The conversations were flying in all different directions. Soon Malcolm was talking with Claire about all the mental health things a clinic could do and the two of them were deeply engrossed in conversation. Malcolm had approached her shyly but had quickly warmed up to Claire again. Foggy having no part in that conversation was quickly pulled in by Trish who he was talking to about his faux-adoptive sibling who also was an idiot like hers and had no self preservation or human social skills. Matt was talking to Danny about his next plans with Karen and Colleen nearby.
Soon enough it was nearing 2:30 in the morning. Everyone was either drunk, tipsy, similar and having a good time. Matt even had to admit that Danny had a good idea with this party. Danny was laughing wildly at a stupid joke Malcolm had told. "Did you hear that Luke?"
"Luke's not here," Colleen told him.
"I haven't seen him in an hour," agreed Claire.
"Jessica's gone too," Trish said before erupting into mad giggles.
Matt cocked his head and turned a little listening. He looked at the other people. "They're still here. I can hear their heartbeats. The back room. But I wouldn't go—"
It was too late. Danny had opened the door and Jessica and Luke were found making out. Her shirt was pulled off and so was his though they both still had pants on for now. Danny slammed the door yelling. "Why didn't you warn me?"
Matt shrugged. "I tried."
The door opened again with Luke and Jessica fully clothed. Luke looked at Danny. "Really man?"
Danny laughed. "You guys can go back in. Tell me you're at least dating now so we don't have to keep watching you make looks and flirt though."
"They'll keep doing that anyway," Malcolm told him. "You really missed out on high school and everything, didn't you? This party feels like I'm reliving all of that."
"Well are they dating?" Danny demanded.
Luke looked to Jessica for an answer and she shrugged smirking. "Sure.. If you want to call it that."
Trish squealed and ran to hug Jess as Danny started to pound Luke with questions. Luke was sending Claire a look though but she was just grinning at him with a thumbs up. She'd known this would happen long before she chose to broke up with him, hadn't she?
She was just regretting she hadn't brought all of these people together earlier. But these superpowered idiots were a team now dragging along all their friends in the process. As Claire looked around her she smiled, at least they hadn't screwed it up as bad as they could have. That's all they could ask for.
AN: Had this idea watching Defenders. Been following Marvel Netflix since the beginning. Luke and Jessica are Endgame in the comics and though I love Claire she doesn't have the same chemistry with him. She's a strong independent woman who doesn't need a boyfriend. This is a stupid fix-it fic, though the way it went in the real show was awesome too. I just wanted them too all be together with their happily ever afters for a little bit for once and be able to bond over shared experiences and whatnot. I hope you all like this.
