MATT MURDOCK, IN A PAIR OF DRESS PANTS AND A CRUMPLED SHIRT AND UNDONE TIE, WOKE JACKIE UP AT THREE IN THE MORNING TO TELL HER THAT ONCE AGAIN JESSICA JONES HAD BEEN ARRESTED.
"What do you mean Jess was arrested?" Jackie croaked, rubbing her eyes as she slowly sat up in bed.
"I mean Foggy just called-" Jackie sat up confused; how did Foggy Nelson know Jessica Jones?
"What does Foggy have to do with Jess being arrested? Did she beat him up? Did Foggy have her arrested?" Jackie shot off in an accusatory tone. If Jessica had beat Foggy up it was for a good reason. Or he annoyed her. Either way, Jackie felt, on Jessica's behalf, she should probably egg Foggy's newly leased car.
"No," Matt said running his hands through his hair, "His boss asked him to keep an eye on her, he called me when he heard she was being detained."
"Why's she being detained?" Jackie asked.
"She stole evidence in a federal investigation-"
"Jessica," Jackie groaned.
"And there was a body found in her apartment."
"Oh my god!" Jackie gasped, "Is Foggy going to tell the cops she didn't do it?"
"No," Matt told Jackie as she threw her legs over her bed, "I am. Foggy called me to help her." Jackie nodded feeling confident. Jackie had never seen Foggy in a courtroom, but she had witnessed Matt win cases time after time.
"Alright, don't let anything she says bother you. She doesn't mean it. Not really." While Jackie had never been the victim of one of Jessica's verbal slaughters she had heard about them from Malcolm and Trish. Matt smiled reassuringly at Jackie, he had met Jessica a handful of times; enough to know that the dark-haired female said things before actually thinking them or their effect on people through.
"I won't go back to sleep, I just wanted you to know where I was going in case you woke up before I got back." Jackie hummed as she laid back down and brought her stuffed unicorn to her chest.
"Have fun!" Matt laughed, spending time with Jessica Jones was never fun.
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"Jessica Jones," Matt Murdock burst through the interrogation room door, "Stop talking." He threw his briefcase onto the table while trying to push down the slight feeling of happiness he got out of telling Jessica to shut up without having to worry about being hit.
"This is over," Matt told the Detective.
"What what the fuck are you doing here?"
"I'm your attorney." The Detective, with a frustrated sigh and angry click of the jaw, pushed out her chair and left the room. Matt quickly took the Detectives seat.
"I'm not paying you," Jessica told him flatly.
"You don't have to," Matt told her. Jessica leaned back in her chair.
"Why because Hogarth will foot the bill?" Matt nodded,
"And Jackie cares a lot about you-" he shrugged, "Also I'm a Catholic. I have a soft spot for hopeless causes." He flashed her a cheeky smile as he flipped open a red folder.
"So Miss. Jones, can I ask how long have you been a P.I?"
"No," Jessica snorted.
"Jackie said not to take anything you said to heart; hopefully you weren't this mean when you met her." Though he couldn't see it Jessica shot him an angry look.
"You know what, I think I'm going to find my own lawyer."
"Well, in reality, you don't need one," Matt told her, placing his hands on his knees, "After speaking to a detective outside despite the mess you got yourself into the NYPD doesn't actually have anything to hold you on so..."
"I can walk?"
"Yeah, though your home and office is still an active crime scene and you'll also have to make yourself available for questions so in the meantime-"
"Yeah, yeah, don't leave town, I know the drill," Jessica cut him off. It was silent for a moment.
Matt licked his lips and in a low tone, "Jessica, uh, there's no easy way to say this but I've read your file if this has anything to do with Kilgrave-"
"This has nothing to do with him," Jessica snarled.
"Okay great," Matt nodded before continuing on, "I'm just saying legally if there was anything, it'd stay between us if that was... There's nothing ordinary about this case."
"What part of 'I know the drill' did you not understand?" Jessica asked him nicely. "Nothing happened. I'm good."
"Good, then I guess you're free to go." They both stood up. Jessica left the room first and Matt stood there in the interrogation room he heard Jessica call someone named Malcolm and ask what he told the cops.
Maybe it wrong to follow Jessica but Matt needed to be sure that she was telling the truth about this not being about Kilgrave. He'd read the report; that monster had gone after everyone Jessica had cared about, and if that were to happen again Jackie would be in danger. And he couldn't let that happen.
Not after the other night, not after he could have lost her.
So Jackie wasn't his biological daughter, that didn't diminish the fact he thought of her as his own child. And if his father had taught him anything before he'd died it was that you do anything and everything to protect your child. And if that meant following Jessica Jones then so be it.
Why did Jessica Jones always walk right into trouble? Matt Murdock wondered as Jessica Jones walked into Midland Circle, Did it follow her or did she follow it?
He grabbed her and she spun to face him; "Murdock!"
"Listen we need to leave. Now."
"You grab me like that again I'll punch you so hard you see," Jessica snapped. "Why are you following me?"
"You are in serious danger," Matt told her. If she was here the dead man in her apartment had led her here, then Jessica- and Jackie by proxy - was in danger.
"What kind of lawyer are you?" Jessica's eyes narrowed. Jackie had said he cut the whole vigilante shit out so pray tell, what was he talking about?
"This case you took is leading you towards something sinister."
"Okay you are the most full of shit lawyer I have ever met and let's just take a minute to recognize the magnitude of that statement," Jessica scoffed.
"Let's talk about that someone else."
"Let's talk about it never," Jessica snapped. Suddenly the sound of a gunshot rang out in Matt's ears.
"What are you doing?" Jessica sighed as the man pulled away from her.
"Gunshot," Matt whispered.
"Where?" Jessica's eyebrows came together.
"The penthouse. This is exactly what I was trying to avoid," Matt hissed, he grabbed Jessica's scarf, "I need that!" Matt suddenly ran to the stairwell. As he ran up the steps, taking two and three at a time he tied Jessica's scarf around his head.
Just as he reached the penthouse Jessica emerged from the elevator.
"You look like an asshole," she snapped. Matt smiled as he remembered Jackie's words about not taking anything she meant to heart.
"It's your scarf." Suddenly a man tore through the wall. Matt readied himself to fight only for the man to stop in front of them.
"Jessica?"
"Luke."
"How you've been?" The man Luke asked.
"Long story," Jessica told him. A second man bursted past the three of them, "We have to get out of here." Jessica looked at the man and then Luke.
"Who's he?" Jessica wondered.
"Longer story," Luke replied. Matt heard more footsteps but no heartbeat.
"Wait, someone's coming. Something else." A woman with light brown skin, dressed in red and wielding a sword came around the corner.
"Oh shit," Jessica gasped, "We gotta go." The four of them turned around only for their path to the elevator to be blocked by a stampede of men in black suits.
"Uh-ho."
The woman in red attacked Matt. Slashing her sword and trying to land a hit, only to be evaded and blocked at every turn. Matt heard Jessica rapidly press against the elevator buttons, as the woman landed a kick to his midsection, sending him through a wall of glass.
Matt didn't wait until she's on him to jump up. He tried to punch her, only to be blocked by her elbow. She slashed her sword at him, only to hit a desk. As the fight raged on and Matt jumped at each office destroying slash the woman pulled a second sword from her first.
She kicked him agian; sending him into a bookshelf. And it's then, as he laid on the ground that he finally smelled his attacker.
"Elektra?"
so...? tbh i dont actually like Netflixs verson of danny rand. hes bland and whiny and like shut up dude youre a rich white guy. youre a glorifed batman only like 25% as cool
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