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This post is for people who want to play more general roleplays, I'm leaving this unstructured, to play please comment with who you play (even if you think it should be obvious from your icon/username) and what sort of interaction you're looking for.
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This post is for people who want to play more general roleplays, I'm leaving this unstructured, to play please comment with who you play (even if you think it should be obvious from your icon/username) and what sort of interaction you're looking for.
If someone wants more structure/to take over handling general roleplays please ask and I'll be happy to add at least one mod for this.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-24 04:24 pm (UTC)Matt sighs, crosses his arms and sits back in his chair.
“You know why I have to keep my distance, right?”
“No, Mike, I don’t. You can do anything. You don’t need Stick and his rules.”
“And do what?”
Matt shrugs. “Anything.” He closes his laptop. “You could study here at Columbia, with me.”
Mike shakes his head. “No, Matty, school isn’t my strong suit.” His words echo their father’s, and he says them so similarly, Matt feels a pang in his gut.
Matt smiles sadly. “No, you’re just as capable as I am. In fact, you’re probably smarter than I am, because you had less time to study, yet we both know what your class standing was. It was right next to mine. Columbia would let you in.”
Mike shakes his head, knowing his brother can tell. “I just can’t, Matty.”
“Foggy is looking for his missing text books. Know anything about that?”
Mike reaches to take off his sunglasses, folds them, and places them in his breast pocket of his floral patterned shirt.
“It’s not going to happen. Leave it alone.” Mike moves closer and pulls out the chair next to Matt and sits down. “There are things you don’t know and I can’t tell you.”
Matt huffs and balls his hands into fists. “You don’t have to protect me.”
“Yes, I do.” Mike leans in towards Matt. “You shouldn’t have to get mixed up in my world. You deserve so much better. I want you to have a normal life with normal friends and none of my messed-up shit to deal with.”
Matt laughs. “I’ve already been dealing with your messed-up shit.”
“That’s not what I mean.” Mike moves to stand up. “Maybe you shouldn’t have to deal with that, either.”
“Mike! Stay.” Matt takes off his glasses and focuses on trying to get his eyes to line up with where he thinks Mike’s might be. “I want you in my life. Messed-up shit and all.” He reaches out for Mike's hand. "I miss you too much when you're gone. So much it actually hurts, Mike."
Matt feels a surge of panic, realizing what words just came out of his mouth. His admission could drive his brother away!
"Okay, Matty." Mike says, his voice sounding a bit wet. He covers Matt's hand with his own. "We'll see how it goes."
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-24 07:55 pm (UTC)For a moment, Matt is too stunned to speak. They sit like that, neither daring to move, to be the one that breaks the contact. Finally, Matt smiles awkwardly and plus his hand free. "Thanks. Thank you, Mike. Really. You don't know how much I've missed this."
"No?"
It doesn't occur to Matt until that moment that Mike might feel the same way. It makes sense, of course. Why else would he be here, inserting himself into Matt's life, infiltrating the dorm room, getting to know his friends, his field of study. His wardrobe. He grits his teeth a little. "Mike, you've got to stop it with the clothes," he said. "Stop messing with my stuff."
Matt hears the ghost of a laugh. "Come on, Matty, don't spoil my fun."
He keeps the glasses off for now, keeps his gaze level, somewhere in Mike's direction, he knows the effect his uncovered eyes can have on people, and although Mike has always been immune, it won't hurt to try.
Mike shifts a little in his chair. "Don't think I don't know what you're doing," he says. "Trying to do, anyway. Remember that time in school when you used that trick to get me out of detention when I didn't do my homework?"
He did. It had been a few months after Stick had dropped Matt and decided to carry on training Mike. That had hurt, though not as much as the fact that Mike had disappeared for two weeks not long afterward. When he returned, school had seemed less important to him. He still went, he still did what he needed to, and he still aced every class, but it was like he was just going through the motions, biding his time until he could be done with it. On that particular day, he had been training until late at night, and the homework had been forgotten.
Mike laughs and raises the pitch of his voice slightly “‘Oh please, Mrs Teacher, give him another day. Its not his fault, he was helping me across the street all night.’”
Matt puts his glasses back on and folds his arms. “That was not what I said!”
"Honestly, the words aren’t as important as the puppy dog eyes.”
“Stop changing the subject. Just please stop pretending to be me. Come and meet Foggy, let me introduce you like a normal person.”
Mike doesn’t say anything, doesn’t move. His heart beat remains completely steady and Matt can’t gauge his reaction at all. “You’re the normal one, Matt.” he says eventually. "Didn’t we just establish that?”
“Well, according to Foggy, I’m delusional one, and you don’t exist.”
Mike laughs out loud at that. He gets to his feet, pats Matt on the back and makes to leave. “I’ll think about it, okay?”
“Where are you going?” Matt asks, suddenly gripped by a panic that Mike might be about do disappear from his life again after all.
Mike puts on his own sunglasses and Matt hears the unmistakable sound of a cane being unfolded. “Don’t worry, Matt,” he says. “You’ve invited me in now. You’re stuck with me."
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-26 05:34 am (UTC)Matt stands up from his seat. “That’s one of my spare canes… You’re still pretending to be me.”
“Yes, Matty, I am.”
“Why?!”
“I’m not leaving you. I swear. I’m just not in a place in my life where I can do normal right now.”
“What?”
“You trust me, right?”
“Yes. Of course.”
“Well, then, study up, and I’ll see you later.”
Matt cocks his head to the side, listening for signs that they were being watched. “Alright. I don’t understand it, but I’m going to hold you to it.”
Mike smiles and waves as he turns to leave. As he takes his first steps forward, he sweeps Matt’s cane in a wide arch, in the exact, practiced manner that Matt does. Matt listens, somewhat astonished. His brother appears to move just like he would. If he didn’t already know why, he’d wonder why Mike was so practiced.
Matt is baffled by his brother’s behavior. It’s as if he is afraid of living his own life? Or at least, afraid to allow himself anything that might be construed as normal. Matt knows from experience that Stick did not want them to have relationships, friends, or to surround themselves with “soft” things. For that very reason he doesn’t feel bad about allowing himself the indulgence of silk sheets on his twin bed.
What is Mike up to? He’s tempted to follow, but… He doesn’t want to wait another six months to talk to his brother again.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-28 07:47 pm (UTC)Foggy sighs deeply as he drops down the the floor and reaches under his bed, arm swinging left and right like a pendulum in the small space, searching for his missing books. His hand locates an old sock and an unopened bag of chips. He throws the sock into his laundry hamper, then lays down on the bed to open the bag of chips.
He hasn’t seen Matt since he left that morning, and he tries not to worry about that. It isn’t that he is actually worried about Matt himself, he knows his roommate can take care of himself just fine, but their argument plays on a loop in his head and he can’t help but worry that he has damaged their friendship irreparably.
Not that it was entirely his fault, of course. Matt’s sudden and inexplicable story about an identical twin that he just hadn’t mentioned until now… Foggy finishes the last of the chips, dabs up the crumbs and salt from the bottom of the bag with a finger, and drops it in the trash just as the door opens and Matt walks in.
“Hey,” he says. He leaves his cane leaning against the wall by the door and makes his way to his desk.
Foggy glances up to answer and finds himself doing a double take. Matt has changed his clothes again, and the shirt he has chosen is easily the most hideous thing that Foggy has ever seen. “Uh, hey,” he replies.
Matt shifts uncomfortably. “About this morning…” he says.
“Forget it,” Foggy tells him. “We’ll just not mention it ever again, okay?”
Matt smiles and nods his agreement, and Foggy relaxes.
“I thought you had a class now,” he says.
“Canceled,” Matt explains. He sits down at the desk, which is when Foggy notices that he isn’t carrying his laptop bag with him. The desk is empty, and the bag doesn’t appear to be anywhere in the room.
Foggy eyes the hideous blue shirt with the pink flowers suspiciously. Matt hadn’t been wearing that when he had left that morning. Foggy remembered specifically, because he had refused to tell him what color his shirt was. He felt bad about that now, even if it was Matt’s own fault.
“Matt, are you okay?” he asks. “Did something happen?”
Matt frowns. “Like what?”
“You don’t have your laptop, and that shirt… I mean, no human being would voluntarily wear that shirt. You didn’t have some kind of an accident, break your computer, have to buy some new clothes from a store with the world’s most dishonest salesman?”
“The laptop’s fine,” Matt assures him. He brushes a hand over the shirt and shakes his head. “And I like this shirt,” he adds.
Foggy chews on his bottom lip. “Okay,” he says. “So, I figure there’s about a 50% chance you’re screwing with me for not answering you about the color of your shirt. That’s fine, it was an dick move, but that means there’s a 50% chance you’re serious. So next time you go shopping, I’m going with you, okay?”
Matt frowns. “He doesn’t… I don’t need help with…”
“Yeah, I know. But humor me, okay? It’s self preservation more than anything. I hang around with a guy wearing that, no girl is ever going to talk to me again. I hang around with a blind guy wearing that, and I’m also the asshole who didn’t tell him.”
Matt laughs. It is sudden and loud and full of humor, and it sounds different somehow from his usual laugh in a way Foggy can’t quite put his finger on. “Okay,” he says. “Sounds fair.” He swivels a full 360 on his chair. “Want to get a drink tonight?” he asks. “I know a place that almost never asks for ID.”
Foggy frowns and wonders again whether Matt is okay. Maybe this is Mike, his brain supplies. Foggy shakes the ridiculous thought away. Sounds good,” he says. “On one condition.”
“I’ll change the shirt,” Matt tells him.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-30 11:09 pm (UTC)Foggy turns his chair around to give Matt some privacy. This joke Matt had been playing had gone too far. It’s really been starting to really get to him. He’s noticing himself analyzing everything Matt says and does. That is so not cool. But… It also wasn’t like his buddy to play tricks on him. Not like this. Or, at least it hadn’t been. Maybe… Maybe this isn’t about him. Maybe he was on the right track earlier and this is some sort of coping mechanism.
Matt wasn’t like this last semester. Come to think of it… Well, maybe there were a few signs. And he had just ignored them, because they didn’t fit.
What changed this semester? What is he missing? What if Matt is really some sort of psycho who can only pretend to be normal for so long? What if, like in the movies, he’s going to become some sort of psycho killer? (Or his twin is a crazy psycho killer?) No. No. No. It’s time to get off this crazy train. Besides. It’s Matt. Right? Foggy shakes his head. Ridiculous.
“Foggy?”
“Hm?” Foggy spins back the other way in his chair. “Sorry. Just thinking about that, um, reflective essay. Not really looking forward to writing it.”
Matt lets out the breath he had been holding. “Me neither. My growth over time as a writer? Boring. And, it’s only second semester.”
“Hey, were you able to get that book you were trying to track down?”
“King Lear? Yeah. It’s just getting the Arden version of the notes that’s been tricky. Professor Trentham thinks she might be able to help me get a copy in time in a format I can use, though.”
Matt walks around to the other side of the bed, pats it with his fingers and sits down by his nightstand. He reaches out, feeling for the handle and then pulls it open. He fingers a rosary and moves it aside before pulling out a simple men’s necklace made of small black beads. The entire time, he’s not looking down. His posture is almost as if he were sitting in a darkened room. What little Foggy sees of his eyes, they do not appear to be tracking anything specific at all. How he’s navigating the world seems pretty normal for Matthew Murdock.
Matt was blinded in an accident. If he were going to go with the twin thing – which he’s not… Hypothetically, if Matt did have a twin, the twin would most likely be sighted. There would be no reason for them both to be blind. This must be Matt. No one sighted could fake blindness this well. Besides… There. Is. No. Twin. Enough is enough. They are going to go out and have a good time tonight.
“You ready to go, buddy?”
Matt grins and stands up. “Yeah, let me just get my cane.”
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-01 11:41 pm (UTC)“So… where is this place you mentioned. It’s not too far is it?”
Matt walks a few steps ahead of him with an enthusiastic bounce in his step that Foggy has only seen a few times before. His cane swings a little faster than usual to compensate for his slightly quicker pace, and Foggy finds himself jogging a few steps to keep up.
“Hey, wait up,” he says.
Matt slows a little, turns slightly in Foggy’s direction and smiles. “Sorry,” he says.
“S’okay. Not like I don’t need the exercise.”
Matt’s smile morphs into a smirk. “Well, I wasn’t going to say anything when you took that sixth slice of pizza, but now you mention it..”
Foggy glowers at him. “You know, I almost wish you were telling the truth about the identical twin thing,” he says, “Because the glare I’m aiming in your direction right now defies description. If you were the other twin, you’d be able to see it.”
Matt slows further, almost to a stop, and Foggy’s heart sinks. He hadn’t been thinking. He hadn’t meant to bring it up.
“Sorry,” Matt says, before Foggy can say the same. Foggy can’t work out whether it is for the insult, or the lie abut his twin. He decides not to ask.
They exit the campus and out onto the street beyond. Out of the environment he knows well, Foggy can’t help but notice Matt’s speed doesn’t get back up again. He turns left and continues along the street. Foggy steps in front of him and nudges his elbow against Matt’s arm. Matt accepts the offer. “We need to get a cab,” he says.
“Really? It’s that far? Where are we going?”
Matt smiles. “Hell’s Kitchen,” he says.
Even before he reaches the door to their dorm room, Matt can tell that Foggy isn’t home. Disappointed, he opens the door, leans his cane against the wall and shrugs off his jacket. It isn’t particularly late, but Foggy would normally be here by now. His absence implies that he is still angry.
Matt opens his laptop bag, pulls out his computer and sets it up on the desk, relieved to find his Braille display right where he left it. He opens his book at the page he had marked earlier, opens the word document with his notes, and began to read the next chapter.
He can’t concentrate. His mind keeps taking him back to the library and his conversation with Mike, and he wants to speak to him again. After so long apart, he had almost forgotten what it was like to have his brother around. A taste of it left him craving more.
He wonders where Mike is. He wonders where Foggy is. A worrying thought begins to occur to him.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-02 04:07 am (UTC)I found the approximate rates and how long their trip takes: https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Columbia-University/Hell-s-Kitchen
Taxi ride is 5 minutes. Walking & the subway together 20 minutes.
After looking at this map, it looks like I might have taken this route without even knowing it! lol. Well, by a combination of walking and subway. (I had a prof. cert exam and my closest testing location was on Columbia University's campus a few years ago. My SO and I made a day trip out of it. After my exam we went to Times Square for dinner and shopping. Then, later, we went to Grand Central Station to take the train back home. It was a really good day.)
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-02 01:32 pm (UTC)That sounds nice. I've never been to New York (or anywhere in America for that matter) it's definitely on my list of places to go. I like cities, most of my friends would rather go to a beach, which is nice, but they're all pretty much the same. Different cities have different characters.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-03 12:44 am (UTC)It was. It's funny - you want to to here, my SO and I have been planning for years to go out in your general direction. lol. Ireland - we keep talking about it, but now that I'm back in school it needs to wait. (We joke about my SO exploring his Irish roots - he's actually Indian. LOL. He's always wanted to go. Me, I have a lot of Irish on both sides - some of it came with the potato famine - Boston Irish. My Nana and Grandpa would go a lot, and I have some her stuff they brought back - glassware, knickknacks and stuff. I even hang her St. Bridget's cross. One of these days...)
NYC - it's very liberating not to need a car. Hopefully we'll find time to go again sometime this year. Lots of stuff to do. :)
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-03 05:21 pm (UTC)It's cool you know about your family history like that. I know very little about mine. I know there's Irish there somewhere because our last name is O'Brien, I think someone came over during the potato famine too, and settled in the East End of London. That's where my grandad was from. But beyond that I have no info.
Sorry to be later than usual replying. It's been a crazy busy day. I'm just heading out to the cinema now to see Civil War, but I'll look at your other posts on the way or when I get home :)
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-04 12:41 am (UTC)That's cool that you've been to Europe. :) The furthest I've traveled is California. LOL. I guess, it's far, mileage-wise, but it's still the US. Well, I have been to Canada. *shrugs*
I can't wait to see Civil War! Have fun!!
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-03 05:11 am (UTC)Matt laughs. “You’re not going to let go of that, are you?”
Foggy shakes his head. “I shook my head at you, buddy.” He turns to look at Matt. “Hey, are you sure they won’t card us?”
Matt nods. “Pretty sure.” He pauses for a moment and Foggy stops. “I was going to save these for later, but…” Matt reaches into his pocket and pulls out his wallet. “Hopefully, these are what I think they are. It’s not like I can see them to verify…” Matt pulls out two plastic cards and hands them to Foggy.
Foggy examines them. They look like state issued IDs with their names and faces. On the back, there are braille label stickers, like the ones Matt uses for his things in the dorm. “Where’d you get these? They’re pretty convincing.”
Matt smiles and says with a slight New York accent, “I know a guy.” He shrugs. Foggy hands him back his fake ID and pockets his own.
“Wow.” Foggy’s brow furrows and he takes a step towards Matt. “Are you sure you’re not your ‘identical’ twin?”
Matt hangs his head. “What I did - it really got to you, didn’t it?” He takes in a breath and lets it out. “I’m really sorry, Foggy, I didn’t mean it to go that far. I don’t know what got into me.”
“It’s just so unlike you. Or, what I thought I knew of you. Funny. I’ve only known you since September, but it feels like forever.”
“Same here.”
“We good?”
“Let’s just forget about it for now.” Foggy nudges Matt’s arm and Matt takes it. “It’s going to take me a while to let go of it, but let’s just have fun tonight, OK?”
Matt grins.
***
Matt gets up from his desk and takes a bottled water and an orange from the mini-fridge, then sits back down on the bed. No… Mike wouldn’t have…. Would he?
Matt speaks to an empty room. “It’s pretty absurd, right?”
Of all things, even with all he can hear, it’s too quiet. Matt decides that it’s about time he just called Foggy to make sure Mike hadn’t gotten to him first.
He gets up from the bed to check his laptop bag for his cellular phone. It’s not there.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-03 10:47 pm (UTC)Question, are we going to have Matt find them this time, or will that be later? I'm just thinking he would have no idea where to look and no way of tracking them down, so he could maybe follow them next time they go?
I think I'm going to cut to them arriving at the bar, as I have zero knowledge of NY subway system, is that cool?
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-04 12:03 am (UTC)Yeah, can't have that happening! Matt calling Foggy while he's out with... Matt?? LOL.
I don't think Matt would know where they are, either. That, and, Mike took his wallet and his phone. So... Even if he did know about Josie's, he'd have to walk, which would take a long, long time. LOL. Following next time sounds good. :)
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Date: 2016-05-04 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-04 10:14 am (UTC)I bet Matt memorizes people's numbers, he'd be able to borrow someone else's phone to call Foggy, or use a payphone if he can find one and has some change in his pocket. Or he could even call Mike on his own number and yell at him while Mike pretends to Foggy that it's a sales call or something :-D
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Date: 2016-05-04 10:15 am (UTC)Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-04 11:35 am (UTC)(This is the past, right? What year do we want this to be? '08? '07? Just realized, they're probably not carrying smartphones.)
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Date: 2016-05-04 11:43 am (UTC)That'd be an interesting 'sales' call. LOL.
I wonder how pissed Foggy's going to be when, after all the apologizing, Matt's still doing the twin thing... LOL Would he ever start to take it as a joke? Like start to think it's this thing that they're doing?
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Date: 2016-05-05 07:34 pm (UTC)An uneasy feeling begins to stir in his stomach. His wallet should have been in his bag too, and he doesn’t remember touching it when he checked for the phone.
He wouldn’t. He thinks again.
Who is he trying to kid? Of course he would.
He sits back down at his desk, drums his fingers on the desk and and tries not to care. There is nothing he can do, Mike has seen to that; he can’t call Foggy and he doesn't know where Mike might have taken him. All he can do is wait for him to return. He doesn’t even actually know that he is with Mike. He is sure that he is, but he doesn’t know it.
No. He can’t do it. he can’t just sit there writing an essay while his brother is messing around with his life. With his friend.
He gets to his feet again. He has Foggy’s number memorized, and somewhere in the building he will be able find someone willing to lend him a phone. He has to warn Foggy. If he is with Mike, getting a call from Matt will prove once and for all that he isn’t delusional. It might be the only chance he gets.
***
“Wow,” Foggy says, coming to a complete stop outside the bar. “You sure this is the right place?”
Matt shrugs. “Does it say Josie’s in the window?”
“Yeah…”
“Then it’s the right place.”
Foggy looks the bar up and down. Beyond the lit up sign in the window, it appears dimly lit. The door is a sturdy metal affair, designed to take a battering. Pieces of a broken glass bottle lay on the ground outside.
“I’m not sure about this, Matt. It looks kind of…” he breaks off, floundering for words. “Okay, don’t think I’m some kind of snob, because I’m really not, but you know how some places just give off this really bad vibe?”
Matt laughs, apparently unconcerned, and clasps him on the shoulder. “It’ll be fine, c’mon.”
Matt releases his grip on Foggy’s elbow and steps around to the front. He grabs Foggy by the sleeve of his jacket and tugs him in the direction of the door. Foggy sighs. “Fine, but I want it on the record that you’re only okay with this because you don't know what it looks like.”
“Noted,” Matt smiles.
Foggy slips a hand into his back pocket and touches his wallet defensively as he opens the door. He offers Matt his elbow again and they walk inside.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-07 01:41 am (UTC)They walk up to the bar and each take a stool. The bartender approaches and Foggy smiles, but her eyes are on Matt.
“You’re…” She looks at Matt like he’s a puzzle she’s trying to figure out.
Matt smiles and holds out his hand in her direction. “Matt Murdock. Are you…?” The woman hesitates before taking his hand.
“I’m Josie.” She smirks. “The last time I saw you was with your Dad. Another Murdock, eh? Your grandmother always used to say be careful of those Murdock boys… They got the devil in ‘em.”
Matt laughs. “She wasn’t wrong.” Matt gestures towards Foggy. “Josie, I’d like you to meet my best friend, Foggy Nelson.” Josie nods at Foggy, but doesn’t offer her hand and neither does Foggy.
Josie turns and pours two beers. “These two are on the house.” She smiles. “Enjoy them – this is the only time it’s ever going to happen.”
***
Matt, the real Matt, knocks on door of room 314. He hears his neighbor, Jimmy call out, “Just a sec, man!” before setting down his marijuana cigarette and getting up from his desk chair and putting on a pair of pants. Matt waits outside, fiddling with his cane, trying to ignore the smell.
The door opens and the stench of the weed gets stronger. “Hey… Matt, right?”
“Yeah. Hey, Jimmy. Can I borrow your phone?”
“Sure, come on in. Love your threads, by the way.”
Matt grins self-consciously and reaches for the door frame with his fingers as he passes through. "Yeah? Mind telling me what color they are?"
***
Matt takes a long drink and grins. “I got one: A blind man walks into a bar." He pauses for dramatic effect while Foggy takes another swig of his beer. "And a table... And a chair...”
Foggy chokes on his beer as he tries not to laugh. “Not fair, buddy.” He winces and coughs. “That almost came out my nose.”
“Oh yeah? Ready for another?” Matt doesn’t wait for Foggy’s response. “How do you spot the blind guy in a nudist colony?”
Foggy shakes his head and wipes his eye. “Um, yeah. I just shook my head. No clue.”
“It’s not hard.”
“What? Oh.” Foggy snickers, looking mildly horrified as it becomes near hysterical laughter. “Oh, my God…”
Matt chuckles. “Hey, at least I didn’t wait until you’d already taken another swig.”
“You’re just so proud of yourself, aren’t you, Murdock?” Matt continues to chuckle as Foggy reaches over and playfully punches Matt’s shoulder. “I’m so going to hell, aren’t I?”
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-09 10:59 pm (UTC)Jimmy picks up the joint and takes a long drag on it. He holds his breath a little longer than is natural, then breathes out slowly. “You want?” he asks.
The movement of the air and smoke in the room indicate that he is offering the joint to Matt. He shakes his head. “Just your phone,” he says. “If you don’t mind.”
“Sure, sure…” Jimmy rummages around his desk until he retrieves the phone and hands it over. “You’re not calling long distance, are you? My folks pay the bill and if it looks like I’ve been calling Peru again, I think they will actually murder me. Or make me pay it myself. I’m not sure which would be worse.”
“I’m not calling Peru,” Matt assures him as he takes the offered phone. Only, is it a phone? He turns the object over in his hands, frowning as he runs his fingers over the smooth surface. He is holding a piece of glass, smooth to the touch on both sides, rounded edges, a round button on one side, a few rectangular ones at the sides. Nothing that he recognized as a keypad. He turns the thing in his hands again. “Jimmy, what is this?” he asked.
Jimmy hesitates and Matt can hear his confusion in his suddenly elevated heartbeat. “Phone?” he says. “You said you wanted… you did say phone, didn't you?”
Matt sighs. “Yes,” he says, “but…”
“Oh, good. For a minute there I thought I was the one getting confused. Okay, no long distance though.”
Matt holds the phone up for Jimmy to see. “Where are the buttons?”
“It’s an iPhone,” his neighbor explains, as though that explains everything. “You know, brand new, state of the art.” Matt could hear the proud grin in his voice. “Touchscreen.” He hears an electronic click coming from the device. “You just touch the little green phone down here, and…oh.” Jimmy’s voice tails off as he realizes the problem.
The silence stretches on a little longer than is comfortable. Matt deliberately allows it to hang in the air between them. It isn’t Jimmy’s fault he can’t use the phone, but it’s frustrating and unexpected, and he feels the need to take it out on someone.
“Want me to dial it for you?” Jimmy suggests.
“Yeah,” Matt says, and Jimmy relaxes noticeably. “That’d be good, thanks.”
***
Matt listens to the ringing at the other end of the line, counting each one subconsciously until the voicemail kicks in. If he had his own phone, or was able to use this one, he would hang up call back. On the touchscreen, he has no idea how to do either. He shakes his head and hands the phone back to Jimmy. “Can you hang up for me?” he says. He hates that he has to ask.
His acute hearing picks up Foggy’s voicemail message being cut short before it starts to record.
“No answer?” Jimmy asks.
Matt shakes his head. Foggy has a bad habit of switching his phone to silent for class, and forgetting to put the sound back on. Without Matt there to hear the sound of the vibrations and warn him that he was missing a call, he probably had no chance of hearing it if he was anywhere but the library.
“Thanks anyway,” Matt tells him, and turns to leave. Before he reaches the door, he stops and turns back. “Actually, would you mind making one more call for me?”
“Sure, long as…”
“It isn’t long distance,” Matt assures him.
“What’s the number?” Matt listens again the the electronic clicking sound of the phone unlocking, then tells Jimmy his own number, the number of the phone currently in Mike’s possession.
Jimmy hands him the smooth piece of glass just as the phone at the other end of the call begins to ring.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-14 02:29 pm (UTC)Foggy shrugs. “I just shrugged. I dunno, it seems like it’s the proper terminology. I finally get up the guts to ask her out and… She just wants to be friends.”
“I don’t like that word. It irks me.” Mike shakes his head. “Besides, it’s not what you want, right?”
Foggy sighs and looks down at his beer before taking a long gulp. “We can’t all be wounded-handsome-ducks like you, Matt. Some of us get turned down by pretty women.”
“Oh, I get turned down sometimes.” Mike shrugs. “That, and I’m sure you’ve noticed they never seem to last... I mean, yeah, some of it’s me breaking things off, or it’s mutual, but you know I’ve been dumped, too.” Mike smiles in Foggy’s general direction. “Anyway, man, just say ‘no’ to the friend zone, ok? It’s not what you want, so… It’s also not fair to her.” He takes another sip. “Time to move on.”
Foggy sighs. “Yeah… I guess you’re right.”
Matt’s phone begins to ring in his pocket. Damn. He forgot to turn it off. He decides to ignore it.
“Matt, you can get that.” Mike shrugs. “Hey, it might be that girl from last weekend.”
Damn. Mike smiles and answers the phone. “Hello?”
“Mike, what’s going on? Is Foggy with you?” Of course. It’s Matt, frantic and wondering why the hell he’s hijacking his best friend for the evening.
“Hey, Angela, how are you?”
“Mike… Come on, this isn’t funny.”
“Yeah, same as usual. Out with Foggy right now.” Foggy grins, watching him. He gives him the thumbs up, even though he knows Matt wouldn’t be able to see it.
“Mike, don’t do this. It’s ok if you like hanging out with my friends. I honestly don’t mind, so long as you do it, as you, not me. Otherwise, when the truth comes out, Foggy may have a hard time forgiving you... I know you like him. It’s ok to be friends with him.” Matt sucks in a deep breath. “You want to stop by later? Maybe tomorrow morning? We could get coffee?”
Mike sits back in his chair and thinks for a moment. What’s really stopping him? He could probably be there before Foggy even gets up. He needs to drop off Matt’s wallet and phone at the very least. “Ok, yeah, that sounds nice. I’ll see you later.” He ends the call and shoves the phone back in his pocket.
“You couldn’t see it, buddy, but I totally gave you the thumbs up.” Mike grins. “She is so hot. How do you do that? You’re like, a sexual Rain Man or something.”
Mike chuckles. “You did not just call me a sexual Rain Man, Foggy….!”
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-16 08:09 pm (UTC)Matt grabs him before he lands, one hand on each shoulder, supporting him and pushing him back into an upright position.
“Wha..?” Foggy frowns and tries to make sense of what has just happened. “How did you..?”
“What?” Matt asks, sounding confused.
Foggy shakes his head. The inside of the taxi tips to the left and he decides that the drink must have made him misinterpret what was happening. He closes his eye again - he doesn’t remember opening it - and sits back in his seat. The world is still spinning.
The taxi driver eyes him suspiciously in the rearview mirror. “Is he gonna be okay?” he asks, directing the question to Matt.
Two identical Matts grin as they slowly rotate next to him. Two Matt’s, or Matt and his twin? A giggle forces its way up through Foggy’s throat. “Hey Mike,” he mutters. “Hey Matt and Mike.”
For a moment, he thinks he sees panic flicker across the two Matts’ faces, but it is gone before he has the chance to look closer. He closes one eye again, and Mike disappears, leaving only Matt.
“Yeah, he’s fine,” Matt assures the driver.
He shrugs, looking unconvinced. “Fifty bucks cleanup fee if he pukes,” he says.
Foggy forces himself to sit up a little straighter in his seat. He tugs his shirt down and runs a hand through his hair. “I’m fine,” he repeats, really hoping it is true. He doesn’t have the money if he’s wrong.
***
Foggy adds his half of the taxi fare to Matt’s, and Matt hands it to the driver as Foggy climbs carefully out and takes a deep breath of cool air. As the taxi drives away, Foggy throws an arm around Matt’s shoulders and leans on him heavily.
“What are you doing?” Matt asks him.
“Sorry, buddy, no way I’m making it up those stairs without help, and as the more sober one, that falls to you. I’ll trade you though, you keep me from falling over, I’ll keep you from walking into a wall, deal?”
Matt frowns then laughs as he nods his agreement. Foggy starts to walk in the direction of the dorm, leaning on Matt, partly for support and partly because it just feels good to be close to his friend.
They make it up the stairs and part of the way to the dorm room before Matt stops and steps away.
“Hey,” Foggy complains.
“Sorry,” Matt tells him. “I just remembered I leant Dave something, I need to go get it back before he goes to bed. Will you be okay getting back to the room on your own?”
Foggy leans back against the wall and thinks about it. He shrugs. “Probably, but I can’t guarantee I won’t be a sleeping trip hazard in the middle of the floor when you get back,” he says.
Matt grins. “Then I’ll be sure to use my cane.”
He turns and walks in the other direction. Foggy watches him go, then staggers back to the room alone.
As he opens the door and switches on the light, he is baffled to find Matt already there, asleep in bed. “That was quick,” he says, before laying down on the bed fully clothed and falling instantly to sleep.
Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-05-18 05:35 am (UTC)Foggy took the medicine and drank half the glass of water before laying back down again with his back to the window. He’d had the oddest dream. There were two of them. Two Matts. One spoke with a slight New York accent. They had a brief whispered argument by the door before ducking out this morning.
In the dream, the Matt who had been sleeping in the other bed had been insisting that the other Matt was going to have to help him fix the mess he’d made out of his clothes. He also wanted to know what the hell he was wearing this morning and how bad the damage was.
The mess-making Matt grinned before reaching out and roughing up roomie-Matt’s hair. “Don’t worry, you’re still handsome as me, Matty.” Roomie-Matt swats his hand away and insists that mess-making Matt is buying breakfast. “Sure, Matty, I’ll just wait until after I pay to give you back your wallet…” And with that, they wandered away.
Weird. He had also dreamed that there had been two Matts at the bar last night. Preposterous. Foggy pulls the covers back up over his head and drifts back to sleep.
***
Mike decided to take Matt to the local waffle house by St. Agnes. Their father used to bring them there after church sometimes. He offered to read the menu to Matt, but his brother waved him off with a smile.
“This is nice, Mike.”
His brother has been grinning from ear-to-ear, for all he knows that Matty has some good reasons to be angry with him. Mike feels the guilt hit him hard, like a knife twisting in his gut.
“Yeah. It’s funny. I can picture Dad here. Like he’s just gone to the can or went up to the counter to talk to the waitress or something.” He sighs. “Sorry.”
“What, no… It’s the same way for me. I like it.”
“He’d be proud of you. At least one of his sons learned to use his head and not his fists.”
“Mike… He’d be proud of you, too. Honestly, of the two of us, you probably take after him more.”
Mike looks down at his hands and grips his coffee cup. “Maybe.”
“Don’t be so hard on yourself. You deserve happiness, Mike. Really.”
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