Chapter 4

Imagination

(Next Morning- 8am)

It's the next morning at 8am. Yesterday had been many mixed emotions had been happening especially seeing his long-time friend whom he had not seen many years since he had fallen and since their friendship had gone downhill. Not to mention the sudden event that happened on that same day last night the thing with Karen. It was unexpected but somehow it felt nice and he doesn't feel any regret by doing it...

Mathew woke up, laying there still as he stares towards the ceiling looking uneasy on his face as if something is troubling him, not for the fact of having sexual intercourse with Karen last night but something else that happened on that same night while they had been asleep. Mathew couldn't put his finger on it but it was as if those troubling feelings were familiar but confused. Mathew pulled himself away from Karen who just turned when he had slipped from Karen, coming to a sitting position on the bed leaning forward resting his forearms down against his thighs thinking about those feelings.

Mathew groaned in annoyance and rubbed the back of his head then rub the back of his neck letting out a sigh.

"Hey, are you all right?" Mathew hears Karen as she moved over to get closer to him and gently placed her hand on his bare back then slowly slides her hand up to his shoulder stroking her thumb over his shoulder.

Mathew lifted his head taking his hand away from his neck and turned his attention towards Karen sensing her worries or concerns for him. Mathew just gave a small smile placing his hand against hers, grabbing a hold of it in his. Looking away from Karen really hoping not to worry the woman with his troubled mind especially when it could just be his imagination from what he had thought to have sensed during the night he was asleep. His senses aren't all that great once he had given up all hope and his life as Daredevil after what happened with 'her'...and the regrets he had felt for his friends.

"Nothing is wrong. I was just thinking...about yesterday hoping that it's a start of a new friendship again" he said which of course isn't entirely true to what is troubling his mind.

"I'm sure it will be all right. It will just take time to repair those bonds" Karen tried to reassure him.

As much as it is sweet and cute of her to try to reassure him about the situation which is another thing that troubles him and hope what she says is true where time is everything in repairing old wounds...old wounds like his own.

He nodded with her reassurance turning his attention towards her again with a small gentle smile pushing back those troubled thoughts of his to think about the moment that is happening right now between himself and Karen. Those thoughts of his will just have to wait until later.

"So uhm...about last night" she brought up what happened last night between the two of them figuring she would want to talk about it. Knowing she would want to know where they stand together.

Mathew looked away from her, the smile faded from his face, and let go of her hand. It had become awkward now between the two of them which Mathew wished it hadn't been brought up to the discussion to talk about after last night. Mathew pushed himself up off the bed and grabbed his underwear slipping into them then slide open the door to enter the living room.

"Mathew?" she tried to push forward wanting to talk about it.

"Please...let us not ruin what happened last night that was really nice" Mathew responded to her as he walks into the living room.

Karen's heart started racing in many questions to herself whether if she had made the right choice having to get or the thought of being with him again. Fear that all that had happened in their life and the possibility they are able to get back together despite what had happened or has it been all her imagination. Karen tilted her head not knowing what she should say now to break the awkwardness between the two of them. Just hoping nothing bad will come out of it and still holding on to the hope to make amends for the past.

"Would you like anything to drink?" Mathew asked her trying to break the awkward silence knowing how she must feel for the fact he didn't want to talk about what had happened last night not yet...

"Ah" she lifted her head to look towards Mathew "N-No thanks" she said and then turned her head to see what the time "Oh! I have to go" she said pushing herself up from the bed and off the bed. She grabbed the clothes she had worn last night, slipping into them and grabbing everything she thought she had brought in a hurry.

"Work?" he asked.

After getting changed back into her clothes she grabbed her shoes making her way out of the bedroom and into the living room hurrying to put on her shoes. After getting her shoes on and having everything she thinks she has she looked at him in the distance seeing him lean against the counter in the kitchen.

"Yes" She responded.

"I see..."

Karen tilted her head making her way to Mathew feeling a little nervous and shy at the same time, and placed her hand on his shoulder looking at him.

"We can talk later...whenever you are ready to talk about...what happened" she said to him leaning over to him and implanted a kiss on the corner of his lip before taking her to leave to go to work. She left the apartment closing the door behind her.

Mathew just stood there thinking about what he could have done or handled a lot better than what just had ended. Mathew groaned in disgusted at how he must have made Karen feel after what had happened between the two of them last night, sure it had ended roughly with Foggy but at the end of the night...after so long having to not feel like that for a long time, it felt nice. He clenched his hands into a fist wondering what has gotten to him...could it have been what he had thought he imagined what he felt during the night while they were asleep how he thought he had felt a familiarity that was not of Karen who had been sleeping beside him but someone like.

"No...She's dead...she's gone!" he tells him that but for some reason, his heart thinks otherwise "It's all in my head...my imagination for something I can no longer have"

(Noon- 1pm-6pm)

Mathew had been brooding over what happened and thought hard and long about what he should do about Karen...and how he should move about it. He just hopes Karen would forgive him for not having to talk about it just a lot of mixed feelings had been happening and he didn't want to bring her more pain and worries. He thought he should take a walk to clear more of his mind and hopefully be able to come up with something to make it up with a woman...a woman who is well alive, a woman who could love him and was willing to try and help him also a woman he can hold in his arms again like they once were before someone had come back into his life.

Mathew got up from the couch he was laying on as he had been in his thoughts. He walked to his room and grabbed a change of clean clothes, slipped into them, and then puts on his leather shoes. Mathew grabbed his walking cane before he starts to leave his apartment. He made his way down and exit the building into the footpath. It's always nice to take a walk to clear one's mind.

After a long time of walking around the streets of Hell's kitchen, he had placed himself sitting down on a bench chair and waiting, waiting for a moment. While he sits there and waits he tried to play many scenarios of how he should go about wanting to ask Karen out finally and be able to discuss what happened between them last night, giving her what she wants to discuss.

"Mathew?" Karen's voice he heard.

Causing Mathew to lift his head up straight away and look towards where her voice coming from which was on his left.

"Yeah, uhm Karen I wanted to ask you something..." Mathew stood up from where he sat and looks at her but at the same time as much as he would like to do things smoothly hoping it would, just the nervousness of not having to ask someone out for it had been a very long time since he had asked anyone out and so he hope it will go well.

"What is it you would like to ask me?" she asked him curious and clueless.

"Well, you see...Uhm I wonder if you would like to go out on a date" he looked at her placing a hand on the back of his neck waiting for her answer to his question or offer.

It had grown a little silence between them, but she soon answered him.

"Yes, of course, I would like to" she responded which sounded like she was hoping for him to have asked her out. At the same time, he himself is relieved for the fact of her response and agrees to go on a date with him.

"Perfect" he said lowering his hand down from his neck "Well I have the perfect place where we can have dinner at" he said to her "Our usual spot well more like our first date"

He gestured for Karen to start walking but Karen had hooked her arm around his. It did cause him to be a little surprised but at the same time happy that she was not trying to pull away from him or even reject him for what had happened between them earlier in the morning. Soon they made it to the restaurant to eat dinner. They entered the restaurant together, soon taking their seats and ordering their food from the menu. Spending the night talking about things about their lives well mostly Karen's life she had built while he had dropped the face of the earth after what had happened to him...

"I want to talk about what happened between us...I know it wasn't what you had wanted it to turn out when you had asked about it and wanted to talk about it earlier today" he paused some before he spoke again this time taking her hand in his "I had a long day walking and clearing my head with thoughts about us"

"And what is us? What does this mean for us?" Karen asked.

"I want to try...I want to try for us" he said to her looking at her as he takes off his glasses to look her in the eyes even though be hard for the case, he is blind but at least he is showing that he is serious.

"I've...I've been waiting to hear that all day" she said as she gripped his hand a little tightly showing how much it means to her to hear what he had said

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